CampusThrift Privacy Policy
(Last Updated 02/05/2023)
At CampusThrift, your privacy is a top priority. We always keep your
privacy in mind when we design and build the services and products you
know and love, so that you can fully trust them and focus on building
meaningful connections.
We appreciate that you put your trust in us when you provide us with
your information, and we do not take this lightly.
There are no compromises when it comes to your privacy. We design all of our products and services with your privacy in
mind. We involve experts from various fields, including legal,
security, engineering, product design and others to make sure that no
decision is taken without respect for your privacy.
We strive to be transparent in the way we process your data. We have written our Privacy Policy and related documents in
plain language, without overly complicated language and with
sufficient information. We actually want you to read our
policies and understand our privacy practices!
We work hard to keep your information secure. We have teams dedicated to keeping your data safe and secure.
We constantly update our security practices and invest in our security
efforts to enhance the safety of your information.
Welcome to CampusThrift’s Privacy Policy.
Thank you for taking the time to read it.
We appreciate that you trust us with your personal information, and
so we do our part to always keep that trust. This starts with making
sure that you understand the information we collect, why we collect
it, how it is used and your choices regarding your information. This
policy describes our privacy practices in plain language, keeping
legal and technical jargon to a minimum.
Please see our California Privacy Statement to learn about California privacy rights.
The company that is responsible for your information under this
Privacy Policy is:
Stancil Ventures
14106 Rocksprings Ct.
Dallas, TX 75254
This Privacy Policy applies to websites, apps, events, and other
services operated by CampusThrift. For simplicity, we refer to all of
these as our 'services' in this Privacy Policy. To make it extra
clear, we’ve added links to this Privacy Policy on all applicable
services.
Some services may require their own unique privacy policy. If a
particular service has its own privacy policy, then that policy - not
this Privacy Policy - applies.
It goes without saying, we can’t help you develop meaningful
connections without some information about you, such as basic profile
details and the types of people you’d like to meet. If you want
additional info, we go into more detail below.
Information you give us
You choose to give us certain information when using our services.
This includes:
·
When you create an account, you provide us with at least your login
credentials, as well as some basic details necessary for the service
to work, such as your contact information and university.
·
To add a profile picture, you may allow us to access your camera or
photo album. Some of the information you choose to provide us may be
considered 'special' or 'sensitive' in certain jurisdictions. By
choosing to provide this information, you consent to our processing of
that information.
When you participate in surveys or focus groups, you give us your
insights into our products and services, responses to our questions
and testimonials.
·
If you contact our Support Team (support@mycampusthrift.com), we
collect the information you give us during the interaction. Sometimes,
we monitor or record these interactions for training purposes and to
ensure a high quality of service.
Information collected when you use our services
When you use our services, we collect information about which
features you’ve used, how you’ve used them and the devices you use to
access our services. See below for more details:
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Usage information
We collect information about your activity on our services, for
instance how you use them (e.g. date and time you logged in, features
you’ve been using, searches, clicks and pages which have been shown to
you, referring webpage address) and how you interact with other users
(e.g. users you connect and interact with, time and date of your
exchanges, number of messages you send and receive).
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Device information
We collect information from and about the device(s) you use to access
our services, including:
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hardware and software information such as IP address, device ID and
type, device-specific and apps settings and characteristics, app
crashes, advertising IDs (such as Google’s AAID and Apple's IDFA, both
of which are randomly generated numbers that you can reset by going
into your device settings), browser type, version and language,
operating system, time zones, identifiers associated with cookies or
other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser
(e.g. IMEI/UDID and MAC address);
·
information on your wireless and mobile network connection, like your
service provider and signal strength;
·
information on device sensors such as accelerometers, gyroscopes and
compasses.
·
Other information with your consent
Similarly, if you consent, we may collect your photos to post a
listing. We may also collect the contacts on your phone (for instance,
if you want us to reach out to your friends to invite them to
CampusThrift).
We use and may allow others to use cookies and similar technologies
(e.g. web beacons, pixels) to recognize you and/or your device(s). You
may read our Cookie Policy for more information on why we use them (such as authenticating
you, remembering your preferences and settings, analyzing site traffic
and trends, delivering and measuring the effectiveness of advertising
campaigns, allowing you to use social features) and how you can better
control their use, through your browser settings and other tools.
Some web browsers (including Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox and
Chrome) have a 'Do Not Track' ('DNT') feature that tells a website
that a user does not want to have his or her online activity tracked.
If a website that responds to a DNT signal receives a DNT signal, the
browser can block that website from collecting certain information
about the browser’s user. Not all browsers offer a DNT option and DNT
signals are not yet uniform. For this reason, many businesses,
including CampusThrift, do not currently respond to DNT signals.
The main reason we use your information is to deliver and improve our
services.
To administer your account and provide our services to you
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Create and manage your account
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Provide you with customer support and respond to your requests
To help you connect with other users
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Analyze your profile and that of other users to recommend
listings
·
Show users’ profiles to one another
To ensure a consistent experience across your devices
·
Link the various devices you use so that you can enjoy a consistent
experience of our services on all of them. We do this by linking
devices and browser data, such as when you log into your account on
different devices or by using partial or full IP address, browser
version and similar data about your devices to help identify and link
them.
To improve our services and develop new ones
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Conduct research and analysis of users’ behavior to improve our
services and content (for instance, we may decide to change the look
and feel or even substantially modify a given feature based on users’
behavior)
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Develop new features and services (for example, we may decide to
build a new interests-based feature further to requests received from
users).
To prevent, detect and fight fraud or other illegal or
unauthorized activities
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Address ongoing or alleged misbehavior on and off-platform
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Perform data analysis to better understand and design countermeasures
against these activities
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Retain data related to fraudulent activities to prevent against
recurrences
To ensure legal compliance
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Comply with legal requirements
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Assist law enforcement
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Enforce or exercise our rights, for example the ones laid out in our
Terms
To process your information as described above, we rely on the
following legal bases:
·
Provide our service to you: Most of the time, the reason we process your information is to
perform the contract that you have with us. For instance, as you go
about using our service to build meaningful connections, we use your
information to maintain your account and your profile, to make it
viewable to other users and recommend other users to you.
·
Legitimate interests: We may use your information where we have legitimate interests to
do so. For instance, we analyze users’ behavior on our services to
continuously improve our offerings, we suggest offers we think might
interest you, and we process information for administrative, fraud
detection and other legal purposes.
·
Consent: From time to time, we may ask for your consent to use your
information for certain specific reasons. You may withdraw your
consent at any time by contacting us at the address provided at the
end of this Privacy Policy.
Since our goal is to help you make meaningful connections, the main
sharing of users’ information is, of course, with other users. We also
share some users’ information with service providers and partners who
assist us in operating the services and, in some cases, legal
authorities. Read on for more details about how your information is
shared with others.
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With other users
You share information with other users when you voluntarily disclose
information on the service (including your public profile). Please be
careful with your information and make sure that the content you share
is stuff that you’re comfortable being publicly viewable. Neither you
nor we can control what others do with your publicly viewable
content.
We may transfer your information if we are involved, whether in whole
or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture,
restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy or other change
of ownership or control.
·
When required by law
We may disclose your information if reasonably necessary: (i) to comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or
search warrant, government / law enforcement investigation or other
legal requirements; (ii) to assist in the prevention or detection of
crime (subject in each case to applicable law); or (iii) to protect
the safety of any person.
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To enforce legal rights
We may also share information: (i) if
disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened
lawsuit; (ii) as necessary to protect our legal rights and legal
rights of our users, business partners or other interested parties;
(iii) to enforce our agreements with you; and (iv) to investigate,
prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected
fraud or other wrongdoing.
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With your consent or at your request
We may ask for your consent to share your information with third
parties. In any such case, we will make it clear why we want to share
the information.
We may use and share non-personal information (meaning information
that, by itself, does not identify who you are such as device
information, general demographics, general behavioral data,
geolocation in de-identified form), as well as personal information in
hashed, non-human readable form, under any of the above circumstances.
We may also share this information with third parties (notably
advertisers) to develop and deliver targeted advertising on our
services and on websites or applications of third parties, and to
analyze and report on advertising you see. We may combine this
information with additional non-personal information or personal
information in hashed, non-human readable form collected from other
sources. More information on our use of cookies and similar
technologies can be found in our Cookie Policy.
them to protect the privacy and security of your data.
We want you to be in control of your information, so we have provided
you with the following tools:
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Access / Update tools in the service.
Tools and account settings that help you to access, rectify or delete
information that you provided to us and that’s associated with your
account directly within the service. If you have any question on those
tools and settings, please contact our Support Team
·
Device permissions.
Mobile platforms have permission systems for specific types of device
data and notifications, such as phone book and location services as
well as push notifications. You can change your settings on your
device to either consent or oppose the collection of the corresponding
information or the display of the corresponding notifications. Of
course, if you do that, certain services may lose full
functionality.
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Deletion.
You can delete your account by emailing our support team at support@mycampusthrift.com
We want you to be aware of your privacy rights. Here are a few key
points to remember:
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Reviewing your information.
Applicable privacy laws may give you the right to review the personal
information we keep about you (depending on the jurisdiction, this may
be called right of access, right of portability or variations of those
terms). You can request a copy of your personal information by
emailing support@mycampusthrift.com.
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Updating your information.
If you believe that the information we hold about you is inaccurate
or that we are no longer entitled to use it and want to request its
rectification, deletion or object to its processing, please email us
at support@mycampusthrift.com.
For your protection and the protection of all of our users, we may
ask you to provide proof of identity before we can answer the above
requests.
Keep in mind, we may reject requests for certain reasons, including
if the request is unlawful or if it may infringe on trade secrets or
intellectual property or the privacy of another user. If you wish to
receive information relating to another user, such as a copy of any
messages you received from them through our service, the other user
will have to contact our Privacy Officer to provide their written
consent before the information is released.
Also, we may not be able to accommodate certain requests to object to
the processing of personal information, notably where such requests
would not allow us to provide our service to you anymore.
Uninstall.
You can stop all information collection by an app by uninstalling it
using the standard uninstall process for your device. If you uninstall
the app from your mobile device, the unique identifier associated with
your device will continue to be stored. If you re-install the
application on the same mobile device, we will be able to re-associate
this identifier to your previous transactions and activities.
If you are a California resident, you can request a notice disclosing
the categories of personal information about you that we have shared
with third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the
preceding calendar year. To request this notice, please email support@mycampusthrift.com. Please allow 30 days for a response. For your protection and the
protection of all of our users, we may ask you to provide proof of
identity before we can answer such a request.
We work hard to protect you from unauthorized access to or
alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information. As
with all technology companies, although we take steps to secure your
information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your
personal information will always remain secure.
We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and
attacks and regularly review our information collection, storage and
processing practices to update our physical, technical and
organizational security measures.
We may suspend your use of all or part of the services without notice
if we suspect or detect any breach of security. If you believe that
your account or information is no longer secure, please notify us
immediately at support@mycampusthrift.com
We keep your personal information only as long as we need it for
legitimate business purposes (as laid out in Section 5) and as
permitted by applicable law. To protect the safety and security of our
users on and off our services, we implement a safety retention window
of three months following account deletion. During this period,
account information will be retained although the account will of
course not be visible on the services anymore.
In practice, we delete or anonymize your information upon deletion of
your account (following the safety retention window) or after two
years of continuous inactivity, unless:
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we must keep it to comply with applicable law (for instance, some
'traffic data' is kept for one year to comply with statutory data
retention obligations)
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we must keep it to evidence our compliance with applicable law (for
instance, records of consents to our Terms, Privacy Policy and other
similar consents are kept for five years)
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there is an outstanding issue, claim or dispute requiring us to keep
the relevant information until it is resolved; or
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the information must be kept for our legitimate business interests,
such as fraud prevention and enhancing users' safety and security. For
example, information may need to be kept in order to prevent a user
who was banned for unsafe behavior or security incidents from opening
a new account.
Keep in mind that even though our systems are designed to carry out
data deletion processes according to the above guidelines, we cannot
promise that all data will be deleted within a specific time frame due
to technical constraints.
Our services are restricted to users who are 18 years of age or
older. We do not permit users under the age of 18 on our platform and
we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the
age of 18. If you suspect that a user is under the age of 18, please
use the 'Report abuse' option available through the service.
Because we’re always looking for new and innovative ways to help you
connect with your campus community, this policy may change over time.
We will notify you before any material changes take effect so that you
have time to review the changes.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, here’s how you can
reach us:
Online:
support@mycampusthrift.com