Privacy policy.
Your privacy is important to National Preps, (“we”, “our”, or “us”), and we are committed to the protection of your personal information. Our Privacy Policy exists to help you understand what information National Preps collects, how we collect and use it, and what choices you have. To make sure your personal information is secure, we communicate our privacy and security guidelines to National Preps employees and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within the company. Please read this Privacy Policy before visiting our websites, accessing or using our services or products (including our websites, platforms, mobile applications, software and other services) or providing any personal information to National Preps. If you do not wish to have your information used and disclosed as provided in this Privacy Policy, please refrain from providing your information and/or delete the information you may have submitted in the past. In doing so, please understand that your access to information, services and other benefits may be substantially limited. Further assistance is available via email to [email protected].
If you use National Preps products or services, further information may also be provided in your contract with us. If you are an employee, worker or contractor of National Preps, the information about how we handle your personal information is available in the National Preps Handbook. We do not collect social security or equivalent national tax ID numbers, except for employment purposes. If you are a prospective employee or job applicant of National Preps, we will provide you with information about how we handle your personal information for recruitment purposes. This will be provided to you if you commence any of our recruitment initiatives.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
Personal information is data relating to a person that can be used to help uniquely identify them, either directly or indirectly. We may collect personal information from and about you, including information that you provide, automatically collected information, and information from other sources. You may be asked to provide personal information when in contact with National Preps. If you do not provide us with certain requested personal information, we may not be able to provide you with some or all of National Preps products and services.
National Preps may use your personal information to provide and customize our products and services, to process your transactions when you place an order through our products or services, to provide customer support, to communicate with you, to administer and improve our products and services, to maintain security and prevent fraud, to meet our legal obligations, or otherwise where you direct us or give us consent to use your personal information. National Preps may send you periodic marketing and promotional emails, push notifications, or text messages to your mobile device (about National Preps products or services or third party products or services), and we will obtain your consent to do so, where required by law. If you no longer wish to receive our marketing and promotional communications, you may opt out of receiving them by following the opt-out instructions included in any communication that you receive from us or by contacting [email protected]. Please note that even if you opt out of receiving marketing and promotional communications from us, we may still send you administrative and transactional messages from which you cannot opt out.
We may use your personal information for purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve National Preps products, services, and customer communications. National Preps and its partners may share your personal information and use it as described in this Privacy Policy. Such information may be combined with other information to provide and improve products, services, content, and advertising. This Privacy Policy does not cover and is not intended to restrict what we do with information that is aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized, so it is no longer associated with an individually identifiable user. Please note that we may combine personal information that we collect (as described above) with information from other sources and use the combined information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Personal Information We Collect
When you visit our website(s), download or install a software application, use one of our services, create a registered user account, purchase or register a product (including our National Preps manufactured devices), complete a survey, enter a sweepstakes, participate in a promotion, attend an event of ours, or download a software update, we may collect personal information, including but not limited to: name, mailing address, phone number, email address, relationship to athlete (for family members), athlete profile information (as described in a Section below), contact preferences, health information, purchase history, viewing information for National Preps Fans, credit card information and payment history.
We may also collect such information when you contact us in person (for example, at showcases, conferences, workshops, seminars and other events) or via telephone, fax, or email or within our services. When you send us an email, that address will be recorded automatically for purposes of replying to your email.
We may receive and store certain types of website usage information when you visit our websites. Website usage information helps us determine how visitors arrive, what type of content is most popular and which visitors are interested in particular content and advertising. We may collect the page visited, the time, the source of the request, the type of browser making the request, the preceding page view and other information about your engagement with our site and services. We may also collect your IP address and your Device Identifier. A Device Identifier is a number automatically assigned to the computer, cell phone or tablet used to access the Internet. We may associate your Device Identifier with the personal information you provide.
When you browse our website(s), we may collect information about you, regardless of whether you have created a registered user account. However, if you choose to access our websites anonymously, we may not be able to provide you with particular products or services. We collect and store personal information if you provide any such personal information, register as a user, provide details at an event, complete a survey or supply personal details through any other form of correspondence. National Preps uses this information to provide products and services, as well as for billing, identification, authentication, products and services improvement, contact and research purposes. This information may include: date, time, computer identity, crash data, device type and setting, operating system, language, region, log preferences, registration key, license level, license code, license code status, code registration date, last validation date, Ethernet address, IP address, MAC address, licensed software name and version, OS version, and any other information about user actions required to improve, support and maintain our software.
In some cases, you may provide information to us about other people, such as employees, students, team members, family members and athletes. For example, if you fill out an Athlete Profile Page (described below) or upload or capture game video.
We may receive personal information about you from third parties, including from licensors of game video, our customers who create user-generated content (including Athlete Profile Page information, messages, comments, photographs, livestreams, audio recordings, videos and text that users of our products and services choose to create or capture with or upload to our products and services), our payment processors, our partners who assist us in fraud prevention or in connection with claims or disputes, our partners with whom we work for advertising measurement, attribution, and analytics and from publicly available sources, among other sources. When you pay for products and services of ours using a credit card or other payment method, your credit card or other payment information is collected and processed by our third-party payment processors. For example, if you pay with a credit card, the payment information that you provide through our services is transmitted directly to our payment processor. We may receive limited information about your payment card from our payment processors. Our payment processors will collect the financial information necessary to process your payments in accordance with the payment processor’s respective services agreement and privacy policy.
Athlete Profile Pages
These pages may contain and therefore collect: name, home and email addresses, phone number, school (name, city and state), graduation year, GPA, ACT/SAT scores, transcripts, parent/guardian information (name, relation, email and phone), age, birth date, photograph, height, weight, jersey number, Twitter handle, sports position, performance scores (40-yard dash, agility shuffle, power ball, vertical jump), speed and strength information, sports awards, sports videos featuring the athlete, and other athlete profile information, as may be updated from time to time. This information can be accessed by the athlete, coaches and team administrators. The general public may have limited access to athlete profile information based on administrator selected privacy settings. Home and email addresses, phone number, GPA, ACT/SAT scores, transcripts, parent/guardian information (name, relation, email and phone), age, birth date, graduation year and sports awards are not available to the general public by default.
Data Storage
National Preps uses third-party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage and related technology required to run the National Preps website, and such third-party vendors may collect and store your data on behalf of National Preps. National Preps owns the code, databases and all rights therein. National Preps incorporates reasonable safeguards to help protect and secure your personal information. However, no data transmission over the Internet, wireless transmission, or electronic storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that National Preps cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit via its websites and/or products, and you do so at your own risk. The websites are general audience websites.
Disclosures to Third Parties
There are circumstances where we may wish to disclose or are compelled to disclose your personal information to third parties. We may disclose your personal information to the categories of recipients (and for the purposes) listed below.
Our affiliates, subsidiaries, branches, and associated offices. We may disclose your personal information to our affiliates, subsidiaries, branches, and associated offices and other companies under common control and ownership for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy and other business and operational purposes.
Our agents, representatives, distributors, and independent contractors. We may disclose your personal information to such third parties where related to their functions and services.
Our service providers and third-party partners. We may disclose your personal information to third parties that provide services to us or provide features as part of our products or services, including: cloud storage services; system hosting services; research partners; data security services; fraud prevention; payment processing services; delivery services; analytics services; legal services; professional services; and other services.
Our organization customers. We may disclose your personal information to our third-party organization customers offering streaming and archived content and tickets to National Preps Fans as described in this Privacy Policy. You can tell when a third party is involved, and we share your personal information related to those transactions and involvement with that third party.
Our licensees. We may disclose your personal information to licensees of content where you, our customer’s or others have given us permission to share such content.
Our marketing and advertising partners. We may disclose your personal information to our marketing and advertising partners, including social media platforms, third-party advertising networks, and other parties to assist in serving and measuring our or their advertisements, in compliance with applicable law.
Other users of our products and services. We may disclose your personal information to other users of our products and services if you choose to make such information public or you select sharing features on our products or services. For example, if you share highlights publicly on the National Preps website, such highlights will be viewable by website visitors.
In connection with legal matters. We may share your personal information when we believe that the disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or legal requests.
In connection with potential illegal activity, misuse, threats, or other situations. We may share your personal information when we believe that the disclosure is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our National Preps Site Terms or Acceptable Use Policy, or as otherwise required by law.
Third parties in connection with a sale or business transaction. We may disclose your personal information in the course of following transactions involving one or more National Preps entity: joint venture, collaboration, financing, sale of assets, merger, reorganization, change of legal form, other sale or purchase of assets during the normal course of business on a temporary or permanent basis, dissolution, or similar event. If another entity acquires us (or any subsidiary or affiliated entity) or any of our (or such subsidiary’s or affiliate’s) assets, personal information that we have collected may be transferred to such entity and its advisors leading up to and following the transaction, including as part of due diligence and upon closing of the transaction. In addition, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, personal information that we hold may be considered an asset of ours and may be sold or transferred to third parties.
Other third parties. We may disclose your personal information to other parties at your direction or with your consent. We may also disclose your personal information to other parties if we believe it necessary or appropriate either: (a) under applicable law; (b) to protect our operations and those of any of our affiliates; (c) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and those of others; or (d) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit damages that we may sustain.
We may disclose your personal information for other reasons that we will describe at the time of information collection or prior to sharing your information. Any disclosure to third parties will only take place in accordance with the applicable law and for the purposes listed. Except as otherwise provided by applicable law, National Preps is not responsible for the privacy practices of any third parties.
Cookies
A “cookie” is a small amount of data that often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive. When you access this website, cookies may be sent to your web browser and stored on your computer or mobile device. We use cookies to record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor our websites to your interests. Information supplied by cookies can help us to understand the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. It also helps us to recognize when you are signed in to your National Preps account and to provide a more personalized experience. Additionally, National Preps uses cookies to serve some targeted advertising. To help promote National Preps teams and athletes, we sometimes embed content from social media and other third-party websites. These may include Hudl, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. As a result, when you visit a page containing such content, you may be presented with cookies from these websites and these third-party cookies may track your use of the National Preps website. National Preps does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party's website for more information.
Tracking
Some browsers have a “do not track” feature that lets you tell websites you do not want to have your online activities tracked. We respond to “do not track” signals as required by applicable law.
Third Party Websites
Some links on the National Preps websites may redirect you to third-party websites and services that we do not operate. We may also offer social sharing tools that let you share actions on the National Preps website with other websites and vice versa. The privacy practices of these websites and services will be governed by their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review and understand their privacy policies before disclosing any personal information to them.
Retention of Personal Information
We keep personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we have collected it as set out in this Privacy Policy, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, unless longer retention is required by applicable law. We also retain information when necessary to comply with contractual and legal obligations, when we have a legitimate business interest to do so (such as improving and developing our products and services, and enhancing their safety, security and stability), and for the exercise or defense of legal claims. We will not retain any of your personal information beyond this period and the retention of your personal information will be subject to periodic review.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal information; the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the personal information; the purposes for which we use the personal information; whether we can achieve those purposes through other means; and the applicable laws that require us to retain information for regulatory purposes or permit us to retain the information to preserve our legal rights.
We may keep an anonymized form of your personal information, which will no longer refer to you, for statistical purposes without time limits, to the extent that we have a legitimate and lawful interest in doing so.
Confidentiality and Security
National Preps is committed to seeking to safeguard all personal information that you provide to us; seeking to ensure that it remains confidential and secure; and taking all reasonable steps to ensure that personal privacy is respected. All our data is stored in written or electronic form on our servers and computers and in various physical locations. We maintain reasonable physical, technical and administrative safeguards to protect your personal information from misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, and loss or corruption by computer viruses and other sources of harm. We limit access to personal information to those staff members, joint venture partners, subsidiary companies and third parties who need to know that information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
Compliance with Privacy Laws
National Preps complies with the data protection and privacy laws to which it is subject. You should satisfy yourself that you are familiar with those laws, including any exceptions which may apply under them. You should also be aware that privacy laws in various jurisdictions may change from time to time. Except to the extent expressly stated otherwise in this Privacy Policy, National Preps accepts no obligations with respect to the handling of personal information other than those mandated by law in the country which has or countries which have jurisdiction over National Preps in any given circumstances.
Grounds for Processing in the UK/EEA
If you are in the United Kingdom and/or European Economic Area, to process your data lawfully we need to rely on one or more valid legal grounds. The grounds we may rely upon include: (1) your consent to particular processing activities. For example, where you have consented to us using your information for marketing purposes; (2) our legitimate interests as a business (except where your interests or fundamental rights override these). For example, it is within our legitimate interests to use your data to send you our electronic newsletter and product updates if you represent a corporate entity (unless you have unsubscribed); (3) our compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject. For example, we have a duty to investigate and respond to complaints made against us and may need to process your personal information as part of such investigation; or (4) if you are a customer, or are representing a customer, because processing your personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract.
Your European Data Protection Rights
Please contact us at [email protected] any time to exercise any of your data protection rights. Data protection law applicable to individuals in Europe provides individuals with certain rights, including the right to access, rectify, withdraw consent, erase, restrict, transport, and object to the processing of their personal information. Individuals also have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant information protection authority if they believe that their personal information is not being processed in accordance with the law. Further information about your rights is set out below:
Right to obtain a copy of your personal information. You may have the right to obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
Right to rectification. You may request that we rectify any inaccurate and/or complete any incomplete personal information. If we disagree and believe the information to be accurate and complete, we will advise you and include a notation on the record that you dispute the information’s accuracy. We will respond to your request to correct or supplement your personal information within a reasonable time period and, in any event, within any time period specified in relevant laws.
Right to withdraw consent. You may, as permitted by law, withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information at any time. Such withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your previous consent. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, you may not be able to benefit from certain service features for which the processing of your personal information is essential.
Right to object to processing. You may, as permitted by law, request that we stop processing your personal information. You also have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.
Right to erasure. You may request that we erase your personal information and we will comply, unless there is a lawful reason for not doing so.
Your right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authorityWe suggest that you contact us about any questions or if you have a complaint in relation to how we process your personal information. However, you do have the right to contact the relevant supervisory authority in the relevant country directly.
Individuals in the European Union and the UK should be aware that National Preps may transfer your personal data to a third party in countries outside the EU or the UK for further processing in accordance with the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. In particular, your personal data may be transferred throughout the National Preps group and to our outsourced service providers located abroad. In these circumstances, we will, as required by applicable law, ensure that your privacy rights are adequately protected by appropriate technical, organization, contractual or other lawful means.
All data that National Preps sends out of the EU/EEA/UK is sent to countries with an EU or UK adequacy status, as applicable, or to organisations with signed EU Standard Contract Clauses or UK Standard Contractual Clauses. National Preps transfers data between its group of companies, for which the international transfers of EU/EEA/UK data are detailed within National Preps Intra-Group Data Transfer Agreement, which itself includes the required EU Standard Contract Clauses and UK Standard Contractual Clauses.
All National Preps data transfers to the US are TLS encrypted and generally consist of insensitive personal data. National Preps therefore believes the risk of government surveillance to the privacy of transferred personal data to be very low. Additionally, National Preps will only provide personal data to applicable law enforcement authorities when under strict legal compulsion. When permitted by applicable law, law enforcement and exigencies of time, National Preps will notify its customers of any such legal requests involving their personal data.
Individuals in the UK, European Economic Area, Switzerland or Singapore with inquiries or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy should first contact National Preps at [email protected].
National Preps may periodically update this Privacy Policy. The most current version of the Privacy Policy will govern our use of your information and will always be available at http://www.nationalpreps.io/privacy. By using our websites, services, and products, you acknowledge your agreement to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We will notify you about material changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the email address specified in your membership account or by placing a prominent notice on our website.