Sportsmo Foundation, a Texas nonprofit corporation (together with its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, representatives, consultants, employees, officers, and directors – collectively, “Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) sources donations for universities and university foundations by bringing people together through a unique, gamified social media interface. We do not offer gambling or condone gambling that is not permitted under applicable law. We provide a platform to bring people together to raise money for universities.
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you access or use the Company’s applications, including any content, products, functionality, and services offered therein or on or through the foregoing or through www.sportsmo.org (collectively the “Sportsmo Interfaces”), whether as a guest, consumer, or a registered user, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing such information. This policy is intended to help you understand what information we may collect, how we intend to use that information, and the legal basis for doing so. We also outline choices that you have regarding your information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
It does not apply to information collected by:
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree to the terms of this policy, you must not access or use any of the Sportsmo Interfaces and further agree to delete any copies or instances thereof immediately. By accessing, using, or downloading any of the Sportsmo Interfaces, you agree to this privacy policy and further agree to be bound by the terms incorporated herein. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy Section below). Your continued use of the Sportsmo Interfaces after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. Terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Terms of Use, found on one or more of the Sportsmo Interfaces websites or applications and incorporated herein as if fully set forth.
The Sportsmo Interfaces are offered and available to users who are 18 years of age or older and reside in the United States or any of its territories and are not offered or available to children under the age of 18 without parental or guardian consent and supervision. In order to create an account through any of the Sportsmo Interfaces, you must be 18 years of age or older. Our Sportsmo Interfaces are not intended for persons under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to the Company or on or through the Sportsmo Interfaces. We do not knowingly collect personal information from persons under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on or through the Sportsmo Interfaces or through any of its features, register on the Sportsmo Interfaces, use any of the interactive or public features of the Sportsmo Interfaces that may be available from time to time, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from anyone under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete such information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a person under 18, please contact us at the contact information provided below in the Contact Information Section herein. If any information collected by us at any time is governed by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“Coppa”), a U.S. law designed to protect the online privacy of children under the age of 13, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to fully comply with Coppa before asking for any personal information of a minor unless such information falls under an exception to Coppa. We do not intentionally collect any personal information relating to a minor at any time, for any reason, nor do we enable children to create accounts with our Sportsmo Interfaces or permit access thereto without parental consent. Parents may contact us at the contact information provided below in the Contact Information Section if a parent believes we possess any personal information belonging to or related to their child and we will review, update, or delete any such information within a reasonable time following such request.
In order for you to use our Sportsmo Interfaces effectively, we need to collect and process certain information about you. We strive to provide a great user experience without requiring you to submit any more information than is necessary to use the Sportsmo Interfaces effectively. We collect several types of information from and about users of our Sportsmo Interfaces, including when you contact us. When we ask you for information to, for instance, participate in an activity, set up an account or a fundraising campaign, or make a donation, we will not require anyone to disclose more information than we believe is reasonably necessary to participate in the activity. Depending on your use of Sportsmo Interfaces and which particular product or service you use, the information we collect and process may include:
We collect this information:
The information we collect on or through our Sportsmo Interfaces may include:
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Sportsmo Interfaces that may be created from time to time or transmitted to other users of the Sportsmo Interfaces or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions may be posted on and/or transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to user accounts, preferences, and transactions, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Sportsmo Interfaces with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
As you navigate through and interact with our Sportsmo Interfaces, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Sportsmo Interfaces are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Sportsmo Interfaces. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
Notwithstanding any terms to the contrary herein, the Company may choose to electronically deliver communications to you through email, posting messages through the Sportsmo Interfaces, updating this privacy policy or other policies on one or more of the Sportsmo Interfaces, or through other reasonable methods. If the Company chooses to electronically deliver messages directly to you, you understand these messages may contain, transmit, or convey information about action taken either on your request or by or through your account. You agree to do business with the Company electronically through any of the above means and further agree to electronically receive notices, disclosures, communications, and information which the parties hereto stipulate shall satisfy any legal requirement to communicate in writing. An electronic notice will be deemed to have been received by you if sent via email upon sending by us. If you disagree with receiving electronic communications, you must immediately stop using the Sportsmo Interfaces. You can unsubscribe from any marketing or promotional communications at any time. If you do not want to receive messages from us, please contact us at the information in the Contact Information section below and let us know. Unsubscribing from marketing or promotional communications will not remove your information from our contact list in the event we need to contact you for other purposes.
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights Section below for more information.
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Sportsmo Interfaces and visiting your account profile page. You may also send us an email at the email address provided in the contact information below to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not be able to delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. Please keep in mind that we will only comply with this obligation to the extent and in such frequency as required by applicable law. Before we grant you rights to access, correct, or delete personal information, we must verify your identity and, if we are unable to do so, we may restrict your rights to access, correct, or delete personal information. We agree to use commercially reasonable efforts to fulfill your request within 30 days, however, we reserve the right to extend this timeframe as necessary.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Sportsmo Interfaces, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Sportsmo Interfaces users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Sportsmo Interfaces, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use found on our Sportsmo Interfaces, incorporated herein as if fully set forth.
We do not currently sell your sensitive personal information; however, you may have certain rights under applicable privacy laws to limit both the use of and sale of your personal information. In order to exercise these rights, to the extent applicable, please contact us at the contact information provided below.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under any applicable privacy law, expressly including denying you goods or services, charging you different prices or rates, providing you with different levels or qualities of goods or services, or suggesting you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services.
Further we are not required to and will not, give access to personal information to the extent that:
If we refuse access to the information or correcting such information, written notice will be provided to you setting out:
This policy is drafted for individuals residing in the United States. If you live outside of the United States, you may have certain other privacy rights and we agree to abide by all applicable laws regarding such privacy. Please contact us to understand our policies specifically aligned with your rights if you are a resident outside of the United States.
State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information. These state consumer privacy laws may or may not be currently active and may or may not be applicable to our business, endeavors, programs, or our Sportsmo Interfaces, however, we will provide appropriate links to the current state laws to inform you of your potential rights. To learn more about consumer privacy rights in these states, including how to exercise such rights, visit the appropriate hyperlink below:
As this list is updated from time to time, and as these laws change, are modified, amended, or supplemented, or as new jurisdictions are added to this list, you may have certain rights and we remain committed to using commercially reasonable efforts to comply with. To exercise any of your rights available to you under your applicable state privacy rights law, please contact us at the contact information provided below.
All persons using our Sportsmo Interfaces have the right to make requests regarding their information, however, the State of California requires an additional disclosure for their residents. We are committed to providing the same freedoms, protections, and rights for all individuals, regardless of state of resident, however, we are providing the following for compliance purposes:
California specific policy provisions:
The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) allows California residents to make certain requests regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise them.
California’s Shine the Light Law: Subject to certain conditions and limitations, California residents may ask the Company to provide them with a list of certain categories of personal data collected by us that we have disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes during the previous calendar year prior to such request and also to identify those third parties. You may make this request once per calendar year. In order to make this request, simply contact us at the contact information provided in this Policy, affirm that you are a California resident, provide us with a California address for our response, and ensure your request complies with the rights afforded to you. Please allow us up to thirty (30) days to reply. We reserve the right not to respond to such requests submitted to us in any manner other than as provided herein or for certain other reasons, as more fully described herein.
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months (the “right to know”). You also have the right to request we provide you with a copy of your personal information that we collected, sold, shared, or disclosed not more than two (2) times per calendar year. Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will disclose to you:
We do not provide a right to know or data portability disclosure for B2B personal information.
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions (the “right to delete”). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will review your request to see if an exception allowing us to retain the information applies. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
We will delete or deidentify personal information not subject to one of these exceptions from our records and will direct our service providers to take similar action.
We do not provide these deletion rights for B2B personal information.
If you are age 16 or older, you have the right to direct us not to sell your personal information at any time (the “right to opt-out”). We do not sell the personal information of consumers we actually know are less than 16 years old. Consumers who opt-in to personal information sales may opt-out of future sales at any time. Once you make an opt-out request, we will wait at least twelve (12) months before asking you to reauthorize personal information sales. However, you may change your mind and opt back in to personal information sales at any time by contacting us via the contact information provided below. You do not need to create an account with us to exercise your opt-out rights. We will only use personal information provided in an opt-out request to review and comply with the request.
You have the right to correct personal information we maintain that you believe is incorrect.
You have the right to be free from discrimination and the right to equal service.
You have the right to request we limit the use and disclosure of your personal information to uses / disclosures that are reasonably necessary to provide our services to you in order to ensure security and integrity, prevent fraud, for physical safety, for short-term transient use, to perform services on behalf of the business, and to verity or maintain quality and safety of a device owned, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and/or to improve the foregoing. We do not collect, sell, or share sensitive personal information for any purpose other than as reasonably necessary, as more fully set forth herein.
To exercise your rights set forth above, please submit a request by either:
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request to exercise the rights set forth above, including requests to know or delete related to your personal information. You may also make a request to on behalf of your child by contacting us and providing reasonable information to enable us to identify you and your authority over such child. You may only submit a request to know twice within a 12-month period and all other requests not more than once during a 12-month period unless provided for otherwise by applicable law. Your request(s) to us must:
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. You do not need to create an account with us to submit a request to know or delete. We will only use personal information provided in the request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make it.
We will confirm receipt of your request within the time requirements under applicable law, but in no case later than thirty (30) days. If you do not receive confirmation within the 30-day timeframe, please contact us at chaitan@sportsmo.org.
We endeavor to substantively respond to a verifiable consumer request within thirty (30) days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding our receipt of your request. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt-in consent, which you may revoke at any time.
We keep the categories of personal information described above for as long as is necessary for the purposes described in this Policy or otherwise authorized by law. For information about our retention policies, contact us using the contact information set forth below.
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to chaitan@sportsmo.org.
We may retain your personal information for up to seven (7) years after the last time you access your account, following such time we will automatically delete it from our systems unless we have a legal obligation to keep it longer. If you would like us to delete your information, please contact us at the contact information provided below. Notwithstanding the foregoing, your information may be anonymized and kept for a longer period of time.
We have implemented commercially reasonable measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We will endeavor to ensure our service providers have protection for electronic technology systems and other necessary restrictions when accessing the Sportsmo Interfaces and data contained therein. We will endeavor to ensure our staff are trained with respect to security of personal information and logically restrict such data where appropriate. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, we will endeavor to destroy and de-identify personal information once it is no longer required. In the event we hold any personal information that is unsolicited, or we were not permitted to collect it, such information will be destroyed as soon as practicable.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Sportsmo Interfaces, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Sportsmo Interfaces that may exist from time to time, like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Sportsmo Interfaces. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to or through our Sportsmo Interfaces. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Sportsmo Interfaces.
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes from our privacy policies as to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email, through a notice on the Sportsmo Interfaces home page, or by posting an updated policy and bringing such updated policy to your attention using reasonable means and methods. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Sportsmo Interfaces and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, to request an export of any data we may have on you or your account, to delete your data, or to exercise any additional rights you may have, please contact us at chaitan@sportsmo.org.