Privacy Policy
Loper, Inc. (“Loper,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) has prepared this Privacy Policy to explain what personal information we collect, how we use and share that information, and your choices regarding how we use your personal information in connection with our mobile application (the“App”) and our website getloper.com(the “Site”, collectively the “Service”). This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and forms part of our Terms of Service.
Before using the Service or submitting any personal information to Loper, please review this Privacy Policy carefully and contact us if you have any questions. By using the Service, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Site or otherwise use the Service.
1. Personal Information Collection
Personal Information You Provide: We collect the following categories of personal information from you:
· Identification Information: We may collect your name, email address, phone number, and/or addresses when you sign up for the Service.
· Parent or Guardian information. We may collect your parent or guardian’s name, email address, phone number, or other contract information if you choose to provide that as part of using the Service.
· Demographic, Interest and Preference Information: We collect various demographic, interest and preference information that you provide to us regarding the universities and postsecondary schools are interested in.
· Communication Information: We may collect information when you contact us with questions or concerns and when you voluntarily respond to questionnaires, surveys or requests for market research seeking your opinion and feedback. Providing communication information is optional to you.
· Usage information: We may collect usage analytics, such as information about how you use the Services and interact with us, including information associated with any content you upload to the websites or otherwise submit to us, and information you provide when you use any interactive features of the Services.
Where you provide us with the personal information of third parties, such as your parent or guardian, it is your responsibility to inform them about the processing of their personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and to confirm that they have given their permission.
Information Collected From Third Party Sources: We may combine personal information we receive from you with personal information we obtain from other sources. We may maintain pages on social media platforms, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and other third-party platforms. When you visitor interact with our pages on those platforms, the platform provider’s privacy policy will apply to your interactions and their collection, use and processing of your personal information. You or the platforms may provide us with personal information through the platform, and we will treat such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We may obtain your personal information from other third parties, such as marketing partners, publicly-available sources and data providers.
Internet Activity Information: When you visit, use, and interact with the Service, the following information may be created and automatically logged in our systems:
· Device Information: The manufacturer and model, operating system, IP address, and unique identifiers ofthe device, as well as the browser you use to access the Service. The information we collect may vary based on your device type and settings.
· Usage Information: Information about how you use our Service, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, and the time, frequency, and duration of your activities. We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”)to help collect and analyze Usage Information. For more information on how Google uses this information, click here.
The following technologies may be used to collect Internet Activity Information:
· Cookies, which are text files stored on your device to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings in the browser to help you navigate between pages efficiently, remember your preferences, enable functionality, help us understand user activity and patterns, and facilitate online advertising.
· Local storage technologies, like HTML5, that provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data, including on your device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications.
· Web beacons, also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs, which are used to demonstrate that a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was viewed or clicked.
2. Personal Information Use
Your personal information is used for the following purposes:
Service Delivery, including to:
· Provide, operate, maintain, secure and improve the Service;
· Create, maintain, and authenticate your account;
Communicating with You:
· to send you updates about administrative matters such as changes to our terms or policies,
· provide user support, and respond to your requests, questions and feedback.
Service Improvement, including to:
· improve the Service and create new features;
· personalize your experience; and
· create and derive insights from de-identified and aggregated information.
Marketing and Advertising: We and our advertising partners may use your personal information for marketing and advertising purposes, including:
· Direct Marketing: To send you direct marketing communications as permitted by law, including, but not limited to, notifying you of items we believe to be of interest to you via postal mail, email, telephone, text message, and other means.
· Interest-Based Advertising: We engage advertising partners, including third party advertising companies and social media companies, to display ads on the Service and other online services. These companies may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your interaction over time across the Service, our communications, and other online services, and use that information to serve online ads that they think will interest you. This is called interest-based advertising. We may also share information about our users with these companies to facilitate interest-based advertising to our or similar users (known as a “lookalike audience”) on other online platforms. You can learn more about your choices for limiting interest-based advertising in the Online Tracking opt-out section below.
Compliance and Protection, including to:
· Comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities;
· Protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims);
· Audit our compliance with legal and contractual requirements and internal policies; and
· Prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.
3. Personal Information Sharing
Our Sharing: We may share the categories of personal information described above without further notice to you, unless required by the law, with the following categories of third parties:
· Service Providers: To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may share personal information with service providers, including hosting services, cloud services, and other information technology services, email communication software and email newsletter services, advertising and marketing services, payment processors, customer relationship management and customer support services, and analytics services. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store personal information in the course of performing their duties to us. We take commercially reasonable steps to ensure our service providers adhere to the security standards we apply to your personal information.
· Educational Partners: If you direct us to do so by opting-in to data sharing, we may provide your personal information, preferences, and interests to universities or other postsecondary schools, the school you currently attend, educational partners and companies, including, but not limited to, educational entities that provide instructional services to individuals or education-related services to individuals and other educational institutions. You may opt-out from this sharing by changing your sharing preferences in the settings section of the App.
· Parent or Guardian: If you have provided us with the information of your parent or guardian, we may send them information relating to opportunities that may be of interest to you. For example, we may send an email notifying them of programs offered by our educational partners. Your parent or guardian can opt-out by following the instructions in the communications they receive from us or by contacting us as described in the “Data Subject Rights” section.
· Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, dissolution, sale of all or a portion of our assets, or transition of service to another provider(collectively a “Transaction”), your personal information may be shared in the diligence process with counterparties and others assisting with the Transaction and transferred to a successor or affiliate as part of or following that Transaction along with other assets.
· Legal Requirements: We do not volunteer your personal information to government authorities or regulators, but we may disclose your personal information where required todo so for the Compliance and Protection purposes described above.
· Affiliates: We may share personal information with our current and future affiliates, meaning an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with Loper. Our affiliates may use the personal information we share in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
4. Personal Information Retention
We keep personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, while we have a business need to do so, or as required by law (e.g. for tax, legal, accounting, or other purposes), whichever is longer.
5. Children
Our Service is not directed to children who are under the age of 13. Loper does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that a child under the age of 13 provided personal information to Loper please contact us and we will delete that information.
6. Links To Other Websites
The Service may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by Loper, including social media services (“Third Party Sites”). The information that you share with Third Party Sites will be governed by the specific privacy policies and terms of service of the Third Party Sites and not by this Privacy Policy. By providing these links we do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed these sites. Please contact the Third Party Sites directly for information on their privacy practices and policies.
7. Security
We employ a number of technical, organizational and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, no security measures are failsafe and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. You use the Service at your own risk.
8. Your Choices
Access or update your information. If you have registered for an account with us, you may review and update certain personal information in your account profile by logging into the account.
Opt out of marketing communications. You may opt out of marketing-related emails by changing your communications preferences on your account management page or following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email. You may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.
Online tracking opt-out. There are a number of ways to opt out of having your online activity and device data collected through our Services, which we have summarized below:
· Blocking cookies in your browser. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies, including cookies used for interest-based advertising. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
· Blocking advertising ID use in your mobile settings. Your mobile device settings may provide functionality to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.
· Using privacy plug-ins or browsers. You can block our Services from setting cookies used for interest-based ads by using a browser with privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins like Privacy Badger, DuckDuckGo, Ghostery or uBlockOrigin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.
· Platform opt-outs. The following advertising partners offer opt-out features that let you opt out of use of your information for interest-based advertising:
· Google: https://adssettings.google.com
· Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/about/ads
· Twitter: https://twitter.com/settings/account/personalization?lang=en
· Advertising industry opt-out tools. You can also use these opt-out options to limit use of your information for interest-based advertising by participating companies:
· Digital Advertising Alliance: http://optout.aboutads.info
· Network Advertising Initiative: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1
Note that because these opt-out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised, you will need to opt out on every browser and device that you use.
Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
9. Data Subject Rights
We offer you choices that affect how we handle your personal information. Depending on your location and the nature of your interactions with our Services, you may request the following in relation to personal information:
· Information about how we have collected and used personal information. We have made this information available to you without having to request it by including it in this Privacy Policy.
· Access to a copy of the personal information that we have collected about you. Where applicable, we will provide the information in a portable, machine-readable, readily usable format.
· Deletion of personal information that we no longer need to provide the Services or for other lawful purposes.
· Correction of personal information that is inaccurate or out of date.
· Opt out of the sale of your personal information or sharing of your personal information for interest-based advertising. By default, we do not sell or share your personal information for interest-based advertising.
· Opt out of “profiling” in connection with decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. By default, we do not engage in profiling in connection with decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
· Appeal our denial of your personal information request by contacting us as set out in the “Contact Us” section below.
You are entitled to exercise the rights described above free from discrimination.
Here is how you can submit requests:
· To request access to or deletion of personal information collected via the Services, please email us at hello@getloper.com.
· To verify your identity prior to responding to your requests, we may ask you to confirm information that we have on file about you or your interactions with us. Where we ask for additional personal information to verify your identity, we will only use it to verify your identity or your authority to make the request on behalf of another consumer.
· Authorized agents. Depending on your location, you can empower an “authorized agent” to submit requests on their behalf.
In some instances, your choices maybe limited, such as where fulfilling your request would impair the rights ofothers, our ability to provide a service you have requested, or our ability tocomply with our legal obligations and enforce our legal rights. If you are notsatisfied with how we address your request, you may submit a complaint bycontacting us as provided in the “Contact Us” section below.
10. Changes To The Privacy Policy
The Service and our business may change from time to time. As a result we may change this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do we will post an updated version on this page, unless another type of notice is required by applicable law. By continuing to use our Service or providing us with personal information after we have posted an updated Privacy Policy, or notified you by other means if applicable, you consent to the revised Privacy Policy and the practices described in it.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or information practices, please feel free to contact us at our designated request address: hello@loper.com
