Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to Protégés, Inc. (“we,” “our,” “us”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share the personal information that we gather on the Protégés application as well as the subdomains and websites on proteges.io (the “Sites”) or through your use of our services. By continuing to use our Sites, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
1. Introduction
2. What Types of Personal Information Do We Collect?
Protégés is a platform to connect content creators (“Experts”) with their fans (“Fans”) through Video Call (“Protégés Video Call”). The use of “you” and “your” throughout this Privacy Policy will, depending on the context, refer to a Fan, Expert, or Visitor, further defined below.
Information You Give Us. You may give us information by signing up for a Protégés account, entering information through forms or surveys on our Sites or application, or contacting us by phone or email for information or customer service.
The categories of information include:
3. How Do We Use Personal Information?
We use your personal information as follows:
4. How Do We Use Personal Information?
To Fans or the Public. If you are an Expert, we may share your name, present or former job titles, images, or short Video Call introductions publicly as part of your Expert profile. Any Protégés Video Calls recorded in response to a Fan question will be shared with the Fans.
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Customer.io
Wix
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Bugsnag
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Twilio
FullContact
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Slack
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ipapi.com
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Cloudinary
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Firebase (Google)
5. How Do We Respond to ‘Do Not Track’ Signals?
Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. DNT is a way for users to inform websites and services that they do not want certain information about their webpage visits collected over time and across websites or online services. We do not recognize or respond to browser-initiated DNT signals, as the Internet industry is currently still working toward defining exactly what DNT means, what it means to comply with DNT, and a common approach to responding to DNT.
6. Cookies
To make our Sites and services work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, shopping cart, or other preferences) over a period of time, so you do not have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. To learn more, please see our Cookie Policy.
7. Your Privacy Choices
If you believe that your copyrights have been infringed let us know. If you infringe someone else's copy rights you will lose access to our Services.
8. Legal Bases for Processing (EEA and UK Individuals)
If you are from the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, our legal bases for collecting and using your Personal Information is as follows:
9. EEA or UK Individuals’ Rights
If you are from the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, you have the right, under certain circumstances, to:
10. International Transfers of Data
Any data that you provide to us may be accessed, shared or processed by our offices, located in the United States, and service providers located in the United States, if such data transfer is necessary for the specific purpose for which you submitted your data (such as the provision of goods or services under a written contract).
11. Children’s Privacy
The Sites are not directed at individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided in the “Contact Information” section below. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information.
12. Change of Control
Personal information may be transferred to a third party as a result of a sale, acquisition, merger, reorganization or other change in control. If we sell, merge or transfer any part of the business, part of the sale may include your personal information.
13. How Do We Protect Personal Information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. For example, when possible, we use encryption to transfer and store data. We further limit access to this data using access controls and confidentiality commitments.
However, no website, application, or transmission can guarantee security. Thus, while we have established and maintain what we believe to be reasonable procedures to protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of personal information obtained through the Sites, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.
14. Policy Changes
We may change our Privacy Policy at any time. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to ensure you are familiar with the most current version.
15. Contact Information
If you wish to contact us or have any questions about or complaints in relation to this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the following contact details:
Protégés, Inc.
77 Sands St,
Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States
Or at the following e-mail: contact@proteges.io
Fans: You intend to use Protégés to ask questions of Experts.
Expert: You intend to use Protégés to answer questions from Fans.
Visitors: You are browsing our Sites, using the Protégés application, or have applied for a job at Protégés.
These categories are not exclusive. For instance, a person who has signed up to be an Expert may also ask questions of other Experts and become the Fans for that specific interaction. Additionally, all Fans and Experts are Visitors, and the sections designated for Visitors will apply to both Fans, Experts, and Visitors.
If you are a Fan and you provide additional personal information to an Expert in a Protégés Video Call, this Privacy Policy does not apply to any of the Experts’ practices other than those practices expressly disclosed below. Experts are under agreement to only contact Fans through Protégés and to keep Protégés Video Calls private.
Fans
Contact information, such as name, email, and telephone number
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Online account identifiers, such as username, and password
Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information, such as Protégés Video Calls
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Financial information, such as credit card information, for paid accounts
Experts
Information You Give Us. You may give us information by signing up for a Protégés account, entering information through forms or surveys on our Sites or application, or contacting us by phone or email for information or customer service.
Contact information, such as name, address, email, and telephone number
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Online account identifiers, such as username, and password
Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information, such as Protégés Video Calls or headshots and other profile images
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Professional, employment, or education information, such as copies of your resume or CV and any other information required to verify your qualifications, for talent verification purposes
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Financial information, such as bank account, ACH, or checking information, for payment purposes
Visitors
Information We Automatically Collect. Like many website operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website.
This includes Log Data, such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Sites that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics, and whether you reached our page via a social media or email campaign. This information may be collected via several technologies, including cookies, web beacons, clear GIFs, canvas fingerprinting and other means, such as Facebook Pixel.
You can control cookies in your browser to enable or disable them. Learn more in our Cookie Policy.
Information We Collect From Third Parties. If you access our Sites through third parties (e.g., Facebook or Google), or if you share content from our Sites to a third-party social media service, the third-party service will send us certain information about you if the third-party service and your account settings allow such sharing. The information we receive will depend on the policies and your account settings with the third-party service.
To provide you with the services on our platform, which involves facilitating communications between Experts and Fans
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With respect to Protégés Videos, to assist with or troubleshoot technical errors
To receive payment for processing a Fans question
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Professional, employment, or education information, such as copies of your resume or CV and any other information required to verify your qualifications, for talent verification purposes
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Financial information, such as bank account, ACH, or checking information, for payment purposes
To provide you with the services on our platform, which involves facilitating communications between Experts and Fans
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With respect to Protégés Videos, to assist with or troubleshoot technical errors
To receive payment for processing a Fans question
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To pay a Expert any fees owed for answering a Fans question
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With respect to website cookies, to share with third-party marketing partners to provide tailored advertising on our Sites and other websites that you may visit
To provide you with the services on our platform, which involves facilitating communications between Experts and Fans
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With respect to Protégés Video Calls, to assist with or troubleshoot technical errors
To receive payment for processing a Fan Video Call booking
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To pay an Expert any fees owed for conducting a video call with a Fan
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To market our products and/or services to you
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With respect to website cookies, to share with third-party marketing partners to provide tailored advertising on our Sites and other websites that you may visit
To analyze Sites usage and improve the services offered
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For market research, project planning, troubleshooting problems
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For detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other criminal activity
To Experts. If you are a Fan, we may share your name and Protégés Video Call message with the Expert. Experts are under agreement to only contact Fans through Protégés and to keep Protégés Video Calls private.
Affiliates and Service Providers. If you are an Expert, Fans, or Visitor, we share your information with our third-party service providers and any subcontractors as required to offer you our services. For example, we use Customer.io and Sendgrid to manage our text or email marketing campaigns, and BugSnag for error monitoring. The full list of service providers is below.
Third Party Marketing and Advertising Organizations. With respect to website cookies, if you are a Visitor, we share your information with third party marketing and advertising partners to market our Services on our Sites and other websites that you may visit. Learn more in our Cookie Policy.
Third Party Links and Websites. Our Sites may contain links to and from the websites of third parties. If you are a Visitor and follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any data to these websites.
Disclosures Required by Law. We may be required to disclose your data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet law enforcement requirements. We may be under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation, to enforce or apply our terms and conditions and other agreements, to protect our rights, property, or safety, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.
Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this site. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy for more information. You may also choose to download the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
Facebook Pixel. We also use Facebook Pixel to deliver tailored advertising on our Sites and other websites that you may visit. You can learn more about how to control advertising cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative’s Consumer Opt-Out link, the DAA’s Consumer Opt-Out link for browsers, or the DAA’s opt-out link for mobile devices. Please note that electing to opt-out will not stop advertising from appearing in your browser or applications and may make the ads you see less relevant to your interests.
Marketing Opt Out: We may use your personal information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in any email we send, or you can contact us using the contact details provided in the “Contact Information” section below. You will still continue to receive service-related messages concerning products and services you have purchased (unless we have indicated otherwise).
Exercising Your Privacy Rights. We have listed the privacy rights for several jurisdictions below, but we understand you may have additional rights in your jurisdiction. You may contact us directly at any time about exercising your data protection rights. We will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws.
California Privacy Rights
If you are a California consumer, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA):
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The right to know what personal information is being collected about you.
The right to know whether your personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom.
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The right to say no to the sale of personal information.
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The right to access your personal information.
The right, in certain circumstances, to delete the information you have provided to us.
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The right to equal service and price, even if you exercise your privacy rights.
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Request for Information and Deletion (CCPA). California consumers have the right to request, up to twice in a 12-month period, that a business that collects personal information about the consumer disclose to the consumer the information listed below for the preceding 12 months. We have the right to request verification of your identity for all requests for information.
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The categories of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.
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The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
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The categories of third parties with whom the business shares personal information.
The categories of personal information that the business sold about the consumer and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, by category or categories of personal information for each third party to whom the personal information was sold.
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The categories of personal information that the business disclosed about the consumer for a business purpose.
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The specific pieces of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
To make such a request, please email us at contact@proteges.io.
Third Party Marketing. California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of your personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes.
To make such a request, please contact us using the contact details provided in the “Contact” section below.
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The performance of your contract or to enter into the contract and to take action on your requests. For example, the processing of your Protégés account registration, providing information on your interactions, and facilitating communications with Experts or Fanss through the platform.
Our legitimate business interests. For example, fraud prevention, maintaining the security of our network and services, direct marketing to you, and improvement of our services.
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Compliance with a mandatory legal obligation. For example, accounting and tax requirements, which are subject to mandatory retention periods. We may also collect your Personal Information to record your requests to exercise your rights and to verify your identity for such requests.
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Consent you provide where we do not rely on another legal basis. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.
In some limited cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect Personal Information from you, in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet law enforcement requirements, as described above in “How Do We Share Personal Information?”
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If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your Personal Information, please contact us using the contact details provided in the "Contact Information" section below.
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Access your Personal Information;
Correct inaccurate Personal Information;
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Request erasure of your Personal Information without undue delay;
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Request the restricted processing of your Personal Information;
Request portability of the Personal Information that you have given us; and
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To object to the processing of your Personal Information.
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If you are from the European Economic Area, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, under certain circumstances.
You may contact us using the contact details provided in the “Contact Information” section below for more information or to exercise your rights.
This may entail a transfer of your personal information across international borders. The data protections standards may differ and be lower than the standards enforced in your jurisdiction. We maintain appropriate safeguards as required by applicable law for any personal information transferred internationally, and as required by applicable law, will seek your consent prior to such transfers.