Privacy Policy

(Last modified February 8, 2018)

This Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") covers the SYPartners LLC family of sites (including any feeds and mobile applications) now or in the future owned or operated by SYPartners LLC and our other affiliates (collectively, "SYPartners", "us", "we", or "our") including, without limitation, http://www.syp-and.com/ (collectively, our "Digital Tools"). This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of our other Digital Tools that contain a separate privacy policy. We will maintain your data that we collect through our Digital Tools as described in this Privacy Policy. Your privacy and the security of your Personally Identifiable Information (as defined below) are important to us. To demonstrate our commitment to our users' privacy, we provide the following Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information collected from you during your use of our Digital Tools. This Privacy Policy is an integral part of our Digital Tools and cannot, in any way, be separated from the Terms & Conditions of Use posted on our Digital Tools ("Terms & Conditions"). By using our Digital Tools or any of our products, services, offerings, features, tools, or resources that we provide on our Digital Tools, including our mobile applications and other products or offerings for handheld or mobile devices, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the respective meanings ascribed to them in the Terms & Conditions.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, as specified in the "Changes to this Privacy Policy" section below. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at info@syp-and.com.

Please remember that this Privacy Policy applies only to information (i) collected by our Digital Tools and/or (ii) communicated to us or our service providers in connection with the use of our services. We are not responsible for the privacy of any information you reveal or post in any public forum (e. g., message board, blog, personal page, chat-room, messaging service, or any other Community Area (as defined by the Terms & Conditions)) or through the "Public Profile" feature available on our Digital Tools, or for the privacy practices of websites that are operated or owned by third parties.

Information we Collect

We may collect personal data (including, without limitation, image and/or likeness, name, age, birthdate, address, email address, zip code, phone number, LinkedIn account information, geo location information, social media profile links, links to personal websites, resumes, and professional skills and experience) from you. Such information is referred to as "Personally Identifiable Information". We may collect Personally Identifiable Information in a variety of ways, including, without limitation, in the following circumstances: (i) registering for an account, (ii) participating in surveys, sweepstakes, contests, and promotions ("Surveys and Promotions"), (iii) contacting us, (iv) visiting and browsing our Digital Tools, (v) registering for our products and services, and (vi) using our online products and services.

Registration

Our Digital Tools may require you to register with us or a third party partner in order to use our products or services or access certain features of our Digital Tools. Information collected during the registration process may include Personally Identifiable Information as well as other information and data, including without limitation, your company name, company address and Digital Tools username and account password. We may also collect your IP address when you register and use our Digital Tools.

Surveys & Promotions

We may also collect certain information about you and your web browsing sessions if you participate in Surveys and Promotions, which allows us to coordinate the marketing support that allows us to continue to share our knowledge, insights, and opinions. Participation in Surveys and Promotions is optional. Should you choose to participate, the information we collect for Surveys and Promotions may include, without limitation, your name, phone number, address, zip code, e-mail address, IP address, the website that referred you to our Digital Tools, and other data.

Contacting Us

You may contact us by sending us an e-mail to info@syp-and.com. When you contact us, your full name and email address are transmitted to us. Any other information you choose to include in your e-mail you submit would also be transferred to and stored on our servers.

Anonymous Information

We also collect "Anonymous Information", such as demographic information (like profession, age, gender), traffic statistics and general usage patterns (through Google Analytics and Woopra) regarding page views and activity, dates and times you use our Digital Tools, the website that referred you to our Digital Tools, and the method by which you accessed our Digital Tools, files accessed through our Digital Tools, responses sent to the browser, the length of data sent to the browser, and other data used in the communication between browser and our Digital Tools. Except as provided elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, it is optional for you to provide demographic information (such as age, and gender), but providing this information is encouraged so we can provide a more personalized experience on our Digital Tools. We may also collect information regarding data and personal anecdotes that you input on our Digital Tools or that you share with us in connection with your use of our services and/or products, which may include, among other things, your name, phone number, address, zip code, e-mail address, the name(s) of your former employer(s) and/or client(s), and other Personally Identifiable Information.

Information from other sources

We may also supplement the information we collect with information from other sources, such as Google Analytics and Woopra, to assist us in evaluating and improving our Digital Tools and services to determine your preferences so that we can tailor our Digital Tools and services to your needs, and/or to study behavioral questions in general.

Tracking Technologies

Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by SYPartners and our marketing partners, affiliates, or analytics or service providers. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the Digital Tools, tracking users’ movements around the Digital Tools and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.

We use cookies to remember users’ settings (for example, log-in state and language preference). Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our Digital Tools, but your ability to use some features or areas of our Digital Tools may be limited.

Log Files. As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include but is not limited to Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data. We do link this automatically collected data to other information we collect about you. We do this to improve the services we offer you and ensure proper site functionality.

Local Storage (HTML 5). We use Local Storage, such as HTML5, to store content information and preferences. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our Digital Tools use Local Storage such as HTML 5 to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5.

Online Services

We collect information, some of which may be Personally Identifiable Information, that you voluntarily provide to us when you choose to use some of our online services (available either for free or on a subscription basis) such as the Community Areas, or use our products or services.

How We Use the Information We Collect

We use your Personally Identifiable Information to provide our services and products and to communicate with you regarding such services and products. We may also use your Personally Identifiable Information on an anonymous and/or aggregated basis for any purposes related to SYPartners' business, products or services, including without limitation, any commercial purpose. In addition, we may use your Personally Identifiable Information to provide information you have requested, to resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems. We also may use and/or share your Personally Identifiable Information: (i) to respond to specific inquiries made by you; (ii) to provide our services and products; and (iii) to customize, measure, and improve our products, services, content, and layout. In addition, we may analyze and use your Personally Identifiable Information and supplement it with other information we obtain to notify you and target advertising to you regarding special offers, products, services, and information that we think may be of interest to you, and to measure the advertising effectiveness of advertisements on our Digital Tools.

We use your Anonymous Information for the purposes of system administration, providing certain site functionality and content, site tracking, and collecting and reporting aggregate usage information. We may combine Anonymous Information with your Personally Identifiable information to notify you of special offers and target advertising and other content to you.

Affiliates

We may disclose information (including Personally Identifiable Information) about you to our affiliates. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "affiliate" means any person or entity which directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control with SYPartners, whether by ownership or otherwise. Any Personally Identifiable Information relating to you that we collect through our Digital Tools and provide to our affiliates will be treated by those affiliates in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Phishing

We do not and will not, at any time, request your credit card information, your username, login password, or national identification numbers in a non-secure or unsolicited e-mail or telephone communication. Identity theft and the practice currently known as "phishing" are of great concern to us. Safeguarding information to help protect you from identity theft is our top priority. For more information about phishing, you may want to visit the Federal Trade Commission's website here.

Opt-in Emails and Offers

By registering as a user of our Digital Tools, you automatically grant us permission to contact you at your e-mail address. If you are not a registered user of our Digital Tools, you may elect to receive updates from us about special offers, new services, and other noteworthy news items by contacting us at info@syp-and.com. If you have opted-in to receive e-mails from us through either of the foregoing methods, to stop receiving e-mails from us, please see our opt-out policy described below. We will never sell, rent, or share your Personally Identifiable Information, including your email or phone number with any third parties for marketing purposes without your express permission. We may share your Personally Identifiable Information with our service providers for the purpose of delivering our products, services and/or e-mails to you or as required by law.

Choice/opt-out

Our users are given the opportunity to opt-out of emails to which they have previously opted-in, either through registering as a user of our Digital Tools or contacting us at info@syp-and.com as described in the "Opt-in Emails and Offers" section above. This does not apply to emails that relate to our Digital Tools information, Terms & Conditions, your account and purchases or that are automatically generated by the system (registration confirmation emails). For example, even if you have unsubscribed from our promotional email messages, we will still send you confirmations when you purchase any of our services. Users who no longer wish to receive our promotional communications may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking on the Unsubscribe link provided in emails.

Information Sharing

Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we will not share your Personally Identifiable Information with third parties.

Posting

Any information voluntarily disclosed by users and posted on our Digital Tools (including without limitation on the "Public Profile" feature available on our Digital Tools), any Community Area, or other third party tools and services (including without limitation tools provided by Slack Technologies, Inc. ("Slack")) may be viewed and used by others. Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, rent, trade, or give away any of your Personally Identifiable Information including your last name and your email address. If you post Personally Identifiable Information that is accessible to the public online, you do so at your own risk. Be aware that you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties as a result. We are not responsible or liable for any such unsolicited messages. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.

Third Party Service Providers

We engage certain third parties to perform various functions and provide services to us (for example, web hosting services, messaging services, maintenance services and data collection services). These third parties may have access to some of your Personally Identifiable Information and/or your activity on our Digital Tools or Community Areas, but only to the extent necessary to perform these functions and provide such services, and only pursuant to contractual obligations requiring such third parties to maintain the privacy and security of your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Additionally, in using our Digital Tools, you may utilize services provided by other third parties, such as Slack, which may have access to some of your Personally Identifiable Information. We are not responsible for the privacy of any information you reveal or post through Slack, or for the privacy practices of Slack. To learn how Slack uses your information, please see their privacy policy here.

Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement

We may choose to disclose some or all of your Personally Identifiable Information if required by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonable necessary to comply with legal process, enforce this Privacy Policy and/or our Terms and Conditions or other terms and conditions applicable to our services or products, or protect the rights, property or safety of SYPartners, any third party, or the public, or to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally questionable activity. Although we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may be required by law to disclose information you have provided in obtaining our services or using our Digital Tools. We may also disclose information to law enforcement personnel regarding anyone who poses a threat to our interests (such as customer fraud) or whose activities could bring harm to others.

Changes in Corporate Ownership

If any or all of our assets are acquired by, or merged with, another entity, we will share some or all of your Personally Identifiable Information with that entity. You will be notified via email and/or a notice on our Digital Tools of any change in ownership, as well as any choices you may have regarding your Personally Identifiable Information.

Accessing and Changing Your Information

If you are a registered user of our Digital Tools, you may always access and modify your Personally Identifiable Information you provide by visiting the "sign in" area at the home page. To delete your information, contact us at info@syp-and.com. You may or may not be able to modify the Personally Identifiable Information you provide through other parts of our Digital Tools.

Such updates, corrections, changes, and deletions will not have an effect on other information that we maintain, or information that we have provided to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy prior to such update, correction, change, or deletion.

You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to us from our systems. The need to back-up our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your Personally Identifiable Information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. We promise that promptly after receiving your request, all Personally Identifiable Information stored in databases we actively use and other readily searchable media will be updated, corrected, changed, or deleted, as appropriate, as soon as reasonably practicable.

We will retain your Personally Identifiable Information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services or to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Security

We place great importance on the safety and security of your Personally Identifiable Information. We employ certain physical, procedural, and technological measures in an attempt to protect your Personally Identifiable Information from unauthorized access and use. Although we do attempt to keep your Personally Identifiable Information secure, no security measures are perfect; there is always a possibility that a security breach could occur, resulting in the release of Personally Identifiable Information.

Links to Other Sites

Our Digital Tools may contain links to other websites, in several places. In addition, through our Digital Tools, you may be given the opportunity to purchase (or to obtain more information regarding) certain content, products, or services which are sold through a person or company other than us. We will attempt to make it clear to you when you are dealing with a third party by opening a new browser or otherwise notifying you that you are leaving our Digital Tools. For example, if you see a phrase such as "powered by" or "brought to you by" followed by the name of a person or company other than SYPartners or any of its affiliates, then you are likely on, or about to enter, a website hosted or operated by a person or company other than us. You should pay particular attention to which website you are visiting when submitting any Personally Identifiable Information to these websites. This Privacy Policy addresses the use and disclosure of only that information that we collect from you through our Digital Tools. Different rules may apply to information you submit to other websites, and we encourage you to review the privacy policies of those websites.

Third-Party Authorization

The first time you log in to our Digital Tools, you are required to use Sign in with LinkedIn. This service will authenticate your identity and will share certain Personally Identifiable Information with us such as your name, profile photo and email address to pre-populate our sign-up form. Services like Sign in with LinkedIn give you the option to post information about your activities on our Digital Tools to your profile page to share with others within your network. We are not responsible for any Personally Identifiable Information provided to or collected by LinkedIn. For information regarding how LinkedIn may collect or use your Personally Identifiable Information, please see their privacy policy here.

Our Policy re Children; Parental or Guardian Permission

Our Digital Tools are not directed toward persons under 13 years of age. The content on our Digital Tools may not be appropriate for children. CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13 ARE NOT PERMITTED TO USE OUR DIGITAL TOOLS, and we require that children between the ages of 13 and 18 obtain their parent's or guardian's consent before viewing our Digital Tools.

If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with Personally Identifiable Information without their consent, he or she should contact us at info@syp-and.com. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with Personally Identifiable Information, we will remove such information from our files.

California Privacy Rights

California Do Not Track Notice: Because there are not yet common, industry accepted "do not track" standards and systems, our Digital Tools do not respond to Do Not Track signals. In addition, we may allow third party service providers to collect personal data from your activity on or use of our Digital Tools, as described in the "Third Party Service Providers" section above.

California Disclosure Information: Under California Law, California residents have the right to request in writing from businesses with whom they have an established business relationship, (1) a list of the categories of Personally Identifiable Information, such as name, address, e-mail address, and the type of services provided to the customer, that a business has disclosed to third parties (including affiliates that are separate legal entities) during the immediately preceding calendar year for the third parties' direct marketing purposes, and (2) the names and addresses of all such third parties. To request the above information, please e-mail us at: info@syp-and.com, or write to us at: SYPartners LLC, attn: SYPand, 475 Brannan Street, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, with a reference to California Disclosure Information.

We will respond to such written requests within 30 days following receipt at the e-mail or mailing address stated above. If we receive your request at a different e-mail or mailing address, we will respond within a reasonable period of time, but not to exceed 150 days from the date received. Please note that we are only required to respond to each customer once per calendar year.

If you are a California resident and do not want your personal data to be shared with third parties for direct marketing by such third parties, please contact us at info@syp-and.com to unsubscribe from future communications and information from such third parties. Opting out of receiving communications and information from our third party partners is not the same as opting out of our newsletter or other communications. To stop receiving communications from SYPartners, please see our opt-out policy described above.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: info@syp-and.com.

SYP Holdings LLC

395 Hudson St., 8th Floor

New York, NY 10014

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be revised from time to time for any reason. If this Privacy Policy changes, the revised policy will include a revised "last modified" date, and we will notify you of any material changes by posting the new policy on this page and highlighting the material changes prior to such material changes becoming effective. Any such changes will automatically apply to all uses of our Digital Tools and collection and use of your Personally Identifiable Information, on or after such effective date (until such time as this Privacy Policy is subsequently revised). If you don't want us to use your Personally Identifiable Information according to the terms of the new policy, you can opt-out by contacting us at info@syp-and.com. Be sure to check the Privacy Policy whenever you submit Personally Identifiable Information or use our Digital Tools.

SYPand is a trademark of SYPartners LLC.