We are a social network and online platform for current and former collegiate athletes whose mission is to advocate for athletes' voice and ownership, and provide renewed visibility for support. People use our Services to find and be found for business opportunities, to connect with others, and find information. Our Privacy Policy applies to any Member or Visitor to our Services.
Our registered users (“Members”) share their personal and professional identities, engage with their network, exchange knowledge and professional insights, provide links to relevant content, and find business and career opportunities. Content and data on some of our Services is viewable to non-members (“Visitors”).
Services
This Privacy Policy, including our Cookie Policy applies to your use of our Services.
This Privacy Policy applies to wearerivalry.com, communications, and services (“Services”), but excluding services that state that they are offered under a different privacy policy.
Data Controllers and Contracting Parties
Rivalry University LLC (a limited liability company registered in Alabama, USA) will be the controller of your personal data provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with our Services.
As a Visitor or Member of our Services, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy and other documents referenced in this Privacy Policy, as well as updates.
Changes
Changes to the Privacy Policy apply to your use of our Services after the “effective date.”
Rivalry University LLC (“we” or “us”) can modify this Privacy Policy, and if we make material changes to it, we will provide notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. If you object to any changes, you may close your account by notifying us at “Connect with Rivalry University.”
You acknowledge that your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy means that the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to the updated Privacy Policy, as of its effective date.
1. Data We Collect
1.1 Data You Provide To Us
You provide data to create an account with us.
Registration
To create an account under “Athlete Signup,” you need to provide data including your name, email address and/or mobile number, and a password.
You create your profile (a complete profile helps you get the most from our Services).
Profile
You have choices about the information on your profile, such as, but not limited to, your education, sports history, work experience, skills, photo, state or geographic area, social media profiles, and footage displaying your name, image, or likeness. You do not have to provide additional information on your profile; however, profile information helps you to get more from our Services, including helping Visitors, potential clients and customers, job recruiters, business opportunities, and other Members find you. It is your choice whether to include sensitive information on your profile and to make that sensitive information public. Please do not post or add personal data to your profile that you would not want to be publicly available.
Posting and Uploading
We collect personal data from you when you submit information about your products and/or services to be featured in the Rivalry Store. You have choices about the information listed with your products and services, such as, but not limited to, your name, sports history, skills, representative product or service photo, product or service name, state or geographic area, prices, and third-party site address from which Members and Visitors can view and purchase your products or services.
You do not have to provide this information and have your products or services featured in the Rivalry Store. However, submitting this information helps you to get more from our Services, including helping Visitors, potential clients and customers, business opportunities, and other Members find your products and services. It is your choice whether to include sensitive information with your listings and to make that sensitive information public. Please do not add personal data to your product or services listings that you would not want to be publicly available.
1.2 Data From Others
Others may post or write about you.
Content and News
We, or other entities with whom we may partner, may post content that includes information about you (as part of articles, posts, comments, videos) on our Services. We also may collect public information about you, such as professional-related news and accomplishments, and make it available as part of our Services.
1.3 Service Use
We log your visits and use of our Services.
We log usage data when you visit or otherwise use our Services, including our website and platform technology, such as when you view or click on content or ads (on or off our website), perform a search, or share articles. We use log-ins, cookies, device information and internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to identify you and log your use.
1.4 Cookies and Similar Technologies
We collect data through cookies and similar technologies.
We use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., pixels and ad tags) to collect data (e.g., device IDs) to recognize you and your device(s) on, off, and across different services and devices where you have engaged with our Services. If you are outside the Designated Countries (countries in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland) we also collect (or rely on others who collect) information about your device where you have not engaged with our Services (e.g., ad ID, IP address, operating system and browser information) so we can provide our Members with relevant ads and better understand their effectiveness.
What are these technologies used for?
We use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our Services. By continuing to visit or use our Services, you are agreeing to the use of cookies and similar technologies for the purposes described in this policy.
If you’re signed into your registered account as a Member, these technologies help us show you the right information and personalize your experience in line with your settings. For example, cookies enable us to identify you and verify your account.
We use cookies and similar technologies to make your interactions with our Services faster and more secure. For example, we use cookies to enable and support our security features, keep your account safe and to help us detect malicious activity and violations of our User Agreement.
We use cookies and similar technologies to enable the functionality of our Services, such as helping you to fill out forms on our Services more easily and providing you with features, insights and customized content in conjunction with our plugins. We also use these technologies to remember information about your browser and your preferences. We may also use local storage to speed up site functionality.
We use cookies and similar technologies to customize your experience on our Services. For example, we may use cookies to remember previous searches so that when you return to our services, we can offer additional information that relates to your previous search.
We use cookies and similar technologies to enable our plugins both on and off the wearerivalry.com site. Our plugins use cookies and other technologies to provide analytics and recognize you on wearerivalry.com and third-party sites. If you interact with a plugin, the plugin will use cookies to identify you and initiate your request.
Cookies and similar technologies help us show relevant advertising to you more effectively, both on and off our Services and to measure the performance of such ads. We use these technologies to learn whether content has been shown to you or whether someone who was presented with an ad later came back and took an action (e.g., made a purchase) on another site. Similarly, our partners or service providers may use these technologies to determine whether we've shown an ad or a post and how it performed or provide us with information about how you interact with ads.
We may also work with our customers and partners to show you an ad on or off wearerivalry.com, such as after you’ve visited a customer’s or partner’s site or application. These technologies help us provide aggregated information to our customers and partners.
Cookies and similar technologies help us learn more about how well our Services and plugins perform in different locations.
We or our service providers also use these technologies to understand, improve, and research products, features and services, including as you navigate through our sites or when you access wearerivalry.com from other sites, applications or devices. We or our service providers, use these technologies to determine and measure the performance of ads or posts on and off wearerivalry.com and to learn whether you have interacted with our websites, content or emails and provide analytics based on those interactions.
We also use these technologies to provide aggregated information to our customers and partners as part of our Services.
If you are a Member but logged out of your account on a browser, we may still continue to log your interaction with our Services on that browser until the expiration of the cookie in order to generate usage analytics for our Services. We may share these analytics in aggregate form with our customers.
1.5 Your Device and Location
We receive data through cookies and similar technologies.
When you visit or leave our Services (including some plugins and our cookies or similar technology on the sites of others), we receive the URL of both the site you came from and the one you go to and the time of your visit. We also get information about your network and device (e.g., IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser and add-ons, device identifier and features, cookie IDs and/or ISP, or your mobile carrier). If you use our Services from a mobile device, that device will send us data about your location based on your phone settings.
1.6 Sites and Services of Others
We get data when you visit sites that include our ads, cookies, some of our plugins, or similar technologies.
1.7 Other
We are improving our Services, which means we get new data and create new ways to use data.
Our Services are dynamic, and we often introduce new features, which may require the collection of new information. If we collect materially different personal data or materially change how we collect, use or share your data, we will notify you and may also modify this Privacy Policy.
2. How We Use Your Data
We use your data to provide, support, personalize and develop our Services.
How we use your personal data will depend on which Services you use, how you use those Services and the choices you make when personalizing your profile at “Athlete Signup” or submitting your products or services for the Rivalry Store. We use the data that we have about you to provide and personalize our Services, including with the help of automated systems and inferences we make, so that our Services (including ads) can be more relevant and useful to you and others.
2.1 Services
Our Services help you connect with others, and find and found for social, work, and business opportunities.
We use your data to authorize access to our Services.
Connect
Our services allow current and former collegiate athletes to register and create a profile as Members, with information about their education, sports history, work experience, skills, photo, state or geographic area, social media profiles, and footage displaying their name, image, or likeness. Our services allow Members to submit information and have their products or services featured in the Rivalry Store, with direct links to their respective third-party websites.
Posting and Uploading
We collect personal data from you when you submit information about your products and/or services to be featured in the Rivalry Store. You have choices about the information listed with your products and services, such as, but not limited to, your name, sports history, skills, representative product or service photo, product or service name, state or geographic area, prices, and third-party site address from which Members and Visitors can view and purchase your products or services.
You do not have to provide this information and have your products or services featured in the Rivalry Store. However, submitting this information helps you to get more from our Services, including helping Visitors, potential clients and customers, business opportunities, and other Members find your products and services. It is your choice whether to include sensitive information with your listings and to make that sensitive information public. Please do not add personal data to your product or services listings that you would not want to be publicly available.
2.2 Communications
We may contact you through email, notices posted on our website, or direct messaging platforms on social media pages you provide to us. We will send you messages about the availability of our Services, security, or other service-related issues. We also send messages about how to use our Services, updates, reminders, and promotional messages from us and our partners. You may opt out of such communications by request via the “Connect with Rivalry University” feature on our website. Please be aware that you cannot opt out of receiving service messages from us, including security and legal notices.
2.3 Advertising
We may serve you tailored ads both on and off our Services.
We target (and measure the performance of) ads to Members, Visitors and others both on and off our Services directly or through a variety of partners, using the following data, whether separately or combined:
• Data from advertising technologies on and off our Services, pixels, ad tags, cookies, and device identifiers;
• Member-provided information;
• Data from your use of our Services
• Information from advertising partners; and
• Information inferred from data described above.
Info to Ad Providers
We do not share your personal data with any third-party advertisers or ad networks except for: (i) hashed IDs or device identifiers (to the extent they are personal data in some countries); (ii) with your separate permission or (iii) data already visible to any users of the Services (e.g., profile). However, if you view or click on an ad on or off our Services, the ad provider will get a signal that someone visited the page that displayed the ad, and they may, through the use of mechanisms such as cookies, determine it is you. Advertising partners can associate personal data collected by the advertiser directly from you with hashed IDs or device identifiers received from us. In such instances, we seek to contractually require such advertising partners to obtain your explicit, opt-in consent before doing so.
2.4 Marketing
We promote our Services to you and others.
In addition to advertising our Services, we use Members’ data and content for invitations and communications promoting membership and network growth, engagement and our Services, such as by showing your connections that you have used a feature on our Services.
2.5 Developing Services and Research
We develop our Services and conduct research.
Service Development
We use data, including public feedback, to conduct research and development for our Services in order to provide you and others with a better, more intuitive and personalized experience, drive membership growth and engagement on our Services, and help connect professionals to each other and to economic opportunity.
2.6 Customer Support
We use data to help you and fix problems.
We use data (which can include your communications) to investigate, respond to and resolve complaints and for Service issues (e.g., bugs).
2.7 Insights That Do Not Identify You
We use data to generate insights that do not identify you.
We use your data to produce and share insights that do not identify you. For example, we may use your data to generate statistics about our members, their profession or industry, to calculate ad impressions served or clicked on, or to publish visitor demographics for a Service or create demographic workforce insights.
2.8 Security and Investigations
We use data for security, fraud prevention and investigations.
We use your data (including your communications) for security purposes or to prevent or investigate possible fraud or other violations of our Terms and Conditions and/or attempts to harm our Members, Visitors or others.
3. How We Share Information
3.1 Our Services
Any data that you include on your profile will be seen by others.
Profile
Your profile is fully visible to all Members and customers of our Services. It can also be visible to others on or off of our Services (e.g., Visitors to our Services or users of third- party search engines).
3.2 Related Services
We share your data across our different Services and affiliated entities.
We will share your personal data with our affiliates to provide and develop our Services. We may combine information internally across the different Services covered by this Privacy Policy to help our Services be more relevant and useful to you and others.
3.3 Service Providers
We may use others to help us with our Services.
We use others to help us provide our Services (e.g., maintenance, analysis, audit, payments, fraud detection, marketing and development). They will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes.
3.4 Legal Disclosures
We may need to share your data when we believe it’s required by law or to help protect the rights and safety of you, us or others.
It is possible that we will need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (2) enforce our agreements with you; (3) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; (4) protect the security or integrity of our Services (such as by sharing with companies facing similar threats); or (5) exercise or protect the rights and safety of Rivalry University LLC, our Members, personnel or others. We attempt to notify Members about legal demands for their personal data when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.
3.5 Change in Control or Sale
We may share your data when our business is sold to others, but it must continue to be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We can also share your personal data as part of a sale, merger or change in control, or in preparation for any of these events. Any other entity which buys us or part of our business will have the right to continue to use your data, but only in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy unless you agree otherwise.
4. Your Choices & Obligations
4.1 Data Retention
We keep most of your personal data for as long as your profile is active.
We generally retain your personal data as long as you keep your profile active or as needed to provide you Services. This includes data you or others provided to us and data generated or inferred from your use of our Services. In some cases we choose to retain certain information (e.g., insights about Services use) in a depersonalized or aggregated form.
4.2 Rights to Access and Control Your Personal Data
You can access or delete your personal data.
For personal data that we have about you, you can:
• Delete Data: You can ask us to erase or delete all or some of your personal data (e.g., if it is no longer necessary to provide Services to you).
• Change or Correct Data: You can edit some of your personal data through your account. You can also ask us to change, update or fix your data in certain cases, particularly if it’s inaccurate.
• Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data: You can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data (e.g., if we have no legal right to keep using it) or to limit our use of it (e.g., if your personal data is inaccurate or unlawfully held).
• Right to Access and/or Take Your Data: You can ask us for a copy of your personal data and can ask for a copy of personal data you provided in machine readable form.
4.3 Account Closure
We keep some of your data even after you close your account.
If you choose to close your account/ make your profile inactive, your personal data will generally stop being visible to others on our Services within 24 hours. We generally delete closed account information within 30 days of account closure, except as noted below.
We retain your personal data even after you have closed your account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our Terms and Conditions, or fulfill your request to "unsubscribe" from further messages from us. We will retain de-personalized information after your account has been closed.
Your profile may continue to be displayed in the services of others (e.g., search engine results) until they refresh their cache.
5. Other Important Information
5.1. Security
We monitor for and try to prevent security breaches.
We implement security safeguards designed to protect your data, such as HTTPS. We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. However, we cannot warrant the security of any information that you send us. There is no guarantee that data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
5.2. Cross-Border Data Transfers
We store and use your data outside your country.
We process data both inside and outside of the United States and rely on legally-provided mechanisms to lawfully transfer data across borders. Countries where we process data may have laws which are different from, and potentially not as protective as, the laws of your own country.
5.3 Lawful Bases for Processing
We have lawful bases to collect, use and share data about you. You have choices about our use of your data. At any time, you can contact us through the “Connect with Rivalry University” feature on our website.
We will only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful bases. Lawful bases include consent (where you have given consent), contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you), and “legitimate interests.”
Where we rely on your consent to process personal data, you have the right to withdraw or decline your consent at any time and where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object.
5.4 Contact Information
You can contact us via the Connect with Rivalry University on our website feature or use other options to resolve any complaints.