Welcome to the SquareOffs privacy policy ("Privacy Policy"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, maintain, disclose and protect the information collected from you via the SquareOffs.com website, software, application or platform (collectively, the "Service"). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing and using our Service, you acknowledge that you have read, understand and agree to be bound to all of the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these terms, please exit our site immediately and do not use our service. We will provide notification of any material changes to this Privacy Policy through the Service at least thirty (30) days prior to the change taking effect. You understand that you have the affirmative obligation to check this Privacy Policy periodically for changes, and you hereby agree to periodically review this Privacy Policy for such changes. Your continued use of the Service following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of those changes.
If you do not agree with anything in this policy, your only option is to stop using our Service.
We may collect personally identifiable information from users in a variety of ways.
When you create an account with SquareOffs, we collect some personal information to help offer our services and make our Service available to you. Among that information is your name, username, profile picture, password, email address, and phone number. This information allows us to address you by name and helps us know which kinds of SquareOffs you may like. Just so you know, we do not collect or store your street address. We also may allow you to create an account through an alternate means, such as by connecting your Facebook, Google, Apple, or X account to SquareOffs. We collect similar basic information in this case from third-party platforms such as Facebook, Google, Apple, and X.
We collect some information about usage on our Service, such as which SquareOffs are being viewed, shared, and created. These can help us determine which SquareOffs our users like and which ones they don't. We may collect location and time data for these events as well to help us understand how, where and when our community likes to use our Service. Along those same lines, we may collect your IP address, browser and operating system information so that we know which technology platforms we should focus on the most to deliver the best experience to our community.
If you communicate with us by email or otherwise (you post messages to any feedback forums or otherwise interact with or use the features on the Service), any information provided in such communications may be collected by us.
We do not intentionally market to or allow children under 13 to use our Service. As such, we do not intentionally or knowingly collect or maintain information for children under 13. If we discover that a particular user is under 13, we will take steps to remove that user's information permanently from our Service.
We do not sell, trade, lease or share your personal information for marketing purposes unless you give us specific permission allowing us to do so. In general, we use information collected and generated through our Service to provide you and others within our community a better overall user experience, and to help our Publishers (the businesses who embed SquareOffs on their sites) understand their readers. We may use information collected through the Service for the specific purposes for which the information was collected, to process services offered via the Service, to contact users regarding products and services offered by us, our Publishers, and other related companies and our trusted affiliates, independent contractors and business partners, and otherwise to enhance users' experience with us and our Publishers, affiliates, independent contractors and business partners. We may also use information collected through the Service for research regarding the effectiveness of the Service and our business planning, marketing, advertising and sales efforts, and those of our trusted affiliates, independent contractors and business partners.
If your account is setup to allow us to do so, or if you manually request us to do so, we may share some of your SquareOffs activities (such as when you vote on or create a SquareOff) with your social networks. You can always opt out of this type of sharing by changing your settings or choosing not to use the manual sharing options.
We may provide information to third parties to help us deliver our Service; however these third party partners are bound by terms at least as restrictive as this Privacy Policy, and we only provide them the information they need to help us deliver our Service, nothing more. We may also disclose aggregate, anonymous data based on information collected from users to investors and potential partners. Finally, we may disclose or transfer personally identifiable information collected from users in connection with or in contemplation of a sale of its assets or business or a merger, consolidation or other reorganization of its business.
We may provide options to allow you to opt out of specific instances where we need to share your information. By choosing to opt out, you can keep your information from being shared in that instance.
If we are subpoenaed or required to by law, we will disclose only the information required to the appropriate authorities. We may also disclose information in order to protect the rights, property or safety of a user or any other person. We may disclose information to investigate or prevent a violation by user of any contractual or other relationship with us or the perpetration of any illegal or harmful activity.
Our Privacy Policy does not apply to any third party sites that we may link to, so if you visit those sites, you need to review their privacy policies before submitting anything to them. Unless they are a trusted third-party as specified above, we do not disclose your information to them. Having a link to a third-party site does not necessarily mean we endorse them - we may just provide this link for convenience or that party may have provided the link on their own accord.
At SquareOffs, we're committed to protecting your personal information, and we use industry standard security procedures and technologies to do so. Despite that, it is impossible to eliminate all possible security risks. By accessing our Service or providing information to us, you acknowledge that some risk still exists. We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures relating to the Service by any users or third parties.
We are based, and this Service is hosted, in the United States of America. If you are from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, and you are registering an account on the Service, visiting the Service, accessing services from us or our Service, or otherwise using the Service in any manner, please note that any personally identifiable information that you provides to us will be transferred to the United States. Any such personally identifiable information provided will be processed and stored in the United States by us or a service provider acting on our behalf. By providing your personally identifiable information, you hereby specifically and expressly consent to such transfer and processing and the uses and disclosures set forth herein.
SquareOffs complies with applicable data protection laws, including the GDPR and CCPA, to protect user privacy. Our commitments include:
Data Collection and Usage: Personal data is collected and used solely for the purposes outlined in this agreement, such as user authentication, engagement analysis, and content personalization. SquareOffs will not sell or share personal data except as necessary for service delivery or required by law.
Rights of Data Subjects: SquareOffs honors users’ rights under GDPR and CCPA, including rights to access, correct, delete, and restrict processing. Users may contact us for data-related requests as per applicable law.
Data Security: We implement technical and organizational measures, such as encryption, access controls, and regular security audits to ensure data security.
Data Breach Notification: In the event of a data breach affecting Publisher or end-user data, SquareOffs will notify affected parties and regulatory authorities as required.
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer wish to receive non-account-specific information from us, we provide a way to correct, update, and/or remove previously provided personal data. You can submit requests to correct, access, or delete information by emailing us at info@squareoffs.com or by completing the SquareOffs Privacy & Data Requests Form.
Under GDPR and CCPA, you may have additional rights related to personal data, including the right to restrict processing and data portability. SquareOffs will respond to data access requests and other applicable rights in accordance with relevant data protection laws. Please note that in certain circumstances, we may not be able to fully delete information if it is required for legitimate business purposes, fraud prevention, account recovery, legal compliance, or where retained in our data backup or archive systems. All retained personal data will continue to be subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Questions? Contact us at info@squareoffs.com.
This Policy was first published and made effective on December 5, 2012.
