Last Modified May 2021
Welcome to the digital services offered by Myownspotlight, LLC (“MOS,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). MOS respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy tells you how we will use the information entrusted to us when you visit https://www.myownspotlight.com and any other online site, mobile application, service, or product that accessed or purchased through us.(collectively, the “Site”). Unless otherwise stated in a separate agreement between you and MOS that governs your use of the Site, this Privacy Policy also applies to the content that customers store on our system, including any personal information. This Privacy Policy describes your privacy rights regarding our collection, use, storage, sharing, and protection of your personal information.
Collection of Information
We collect or receive the following general types of information when you use the Site:
Information You Provide Directly. You may provide information directly to us through the Site in several different ways. For example, you may respond to specific questions, communicate with us via email or feedback forms, complete online registration forms or questionnaires, and subscribe to email newsletters or other similar communications. The types of information you may provide directly include the following as applicable:
- Name;
- Street address;
- Email address;
- Telephone number;
- Date of birth/age;
- Height/weight;
- Gender;
- Handedness;
- Photograph;
- Videos;
- Athletic information (e.g., spot and position);
- School;
- Graduation year;
- Academic information (e.g., GPA, SAT/ACT score, awards/honors, and extracurricular activities);
- User ID;
- Password; and
- Other relevant information.
Information We Collect Automatically. We collect certain information about you and your computer automatically when you use the Site. Automatically collected information may include the following:
- The type of web browser and operating system you have used to access the Site;
- Your IP address (which is a number automatically assigned to your computer when you access the Internet and can be used to derive your general geographic location);
- Your device information (which may include information about the mobile device you use to access our Site including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, and network information);
- The website you visited before you came to the Site; and
- Information about the content and webpages you view, clickstream patterns, dates, and times that the Site is accessed, and features you access on the Site that we collect using cookies, Web beacons, and similar technologies.
Social Networking Information. If applicable, you may log into the Site through a social networking account (e.g., Facebook), we may collect information about you from that social networking account, including your name, email address, birthday, profile photograph, and other information associated with you social networking account.
Use of Information
We use information we collect and receive for the following general purposes:
- To provide you with the Site, products, and information you request and with legal notices or information about changes to this Privacy Policy or our Terms and Conditions of Use;
- To perform analytics to continually improve the Site and enhance your experience with the Site;
- To provide you (and enable our partners to provide you) with promotional materials, relevant content and advertisements, surveys, newsletters, questionnaires, and other materials;
- To provide a personalized experience and implement your preferences.
- To provide you with location-specific options, functionalities, and offers.
- To comply with our policies and obligations, including, but not limited to, disclosures and responses in response to any requests from law enforcement authorities and/or regulators in accordance with any applicable law, rule, regulation, judicial or governmental order, regulatory authority of competent jurisdiction, discovery request or similar legal process.
- To resolve disputes, collect fees, or troubleshoot problems.
- To provide customer service to you or otherwise communicate with you
- To offer you information regarding certain products and services of our partners, sponsors, advertisers, and affiliates;
- To respond to your requests, questions, and comments;
- As we believe is necessary to protect our rights and the rights of others, including by enforcing our Terms and Conditions of Use; and
- For any other purpose disclosed to you at the time we collect your information, or pursuant to your consent.
You may “opt out” of receiving promotional communications from MOS by contracting us at the email address shown at the end of this Privacy Policy. Please note that changing your information through your user profile settings, or otherwise opting out of receipt of communications from MOS, will only change or delete the data for purposes of future activities on the Site and for managing future communications from MOS.
Sharing of Information
We may share your information with the following entities:
Other Users of the Service. The Site may also provide opportunities for you and other users to connect with each other socially and to view each other’s profiles. To achieve this, certain information you provide may be shared with other users of the Site.
Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates (companies that control, are controlled by, or are under the common control with MOS). These entities may use your information to make predictions about your interests and may provide you with offers, promotional materials, advertisements, and other materials.
Partners. We may share your information with partners who provide products or services that may be of interest to you or student-athletes, including: (i) educational products and services (e.g. colleges, student loans, financial aid, college admissions and tutorial services, and extra-curricula enrichment and recognition programs); (ii) career, employment, and military opportunities; (iii) products of consumer focused companies; (iv) sports related activities; and (v) other relevant products and services. These partners may use your information to make predictions about your interests and may provide you with offers, promotional materials, advertisements, and other materials.
Service Providers. We may also share your information with entities that provide services to us, including companies that provide payment processing, shipping, web analytics, data processing, web hosting, technical support, advertising, email distribution, and other services.
Other Parties When Required by Law or as Necessary to Protect Our Services. There may be instances when we disclose your information to other parties in order to:
- protect the legal rights of MOS, its affiliates, and of the other users of the Site;
- protect the safety and security of users of the Site;
- prevent fraud or for risk management purposes; or
- comply with or respond to the law or legal process or a request for cooperation by a government entity, whether or not legally required.
Other Parties in Aggregated Form. We may also share your information with third parties in aggregated, anonymized, or non-personally identifiable form. For the avoidance of doubt, information shared in under this clause shall be incapable of identifying you specifically.
Other Parties in Connection with a Transfer of Assets. If we make a sale of transfer of assets, or are otherwise involved in a merger, divestiture, acquisition, liquidation, or transfer, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy, we may transfer your information to one or more third parties as part of that transaction.
Other Parties with Your Consent. In addition to the sharing described in this Privacy Policy, we may share information about you with other third parties when you consent to such sharing.
If you do not want your information shared with any third party who may use such information for direct marketing purposes, then you may opt out of such disclosures by sending an email to us at info@myownspotlight.com.
Third Party Functionality
Some of the functionality of the Site may be provided by third parties that are not affiliated with MOS. These entities may collect or receive certain information about your use of the Site, including through the use of cookies, Web beacons, and similar technologies. MOS is not responsible for the privacy practices of these entities.
Storage and Protection of Information
We use reasonable physical and technical measures to safeguard information in our possession against loss, theft, and unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification. Please note, however, that no data transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be hundred percent (100%) secure. As a result, while we strive to protect the information we maintain, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to us. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password to access certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask that you not share your password with anyone.
We retain information as long as it is necessary and relevant for our operations or as required by applicable law. Typically, we retain personal information from closed accounts to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigation, enforce our Terms and Conditions of Use and take other actions permitted by law.
Children’s Information
The Site is neither intended nor directed at children younger than 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or store personal information about children under the age of 13 without verified parental consent. If we learn that we have collected information, including Personal Data, from an individual under 13 years of age without parental consent, we will delete that information immediately.
EEA Addendum
The following disclosures apply to, and are intended exclusively for, individuals who reside within the European Economic Area (EEA).
Data Controller
The controller for your Personal Data is MOS.
Legal Bases for Processing Personal Data
- To the extent we use Personal Data to perform contractual obligations or requests made by you in connection with a contract, Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is the legal basis for our data processing.
- To the extent we use Personal Data to comply with a legal obligation under EU or Member State law, Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR is the legal basis for our data processing.
- To the extent we use Personal Data to protect the vital interests of individuals, Article 6(1)(d) of the GDPR is the legal basis for our data processing.
- To the extent we use Personal Data in pursuit of our legitimate business interests, Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR is the legal basis for our data processing. A list of our legitimate business interests is in the above section titled “Use of Information”.
European Data Protection Rights
European law provides you with certain rights with respect to your Personal Data, including:
- The right to request access to and rectification of your Personal Data.
- The right to request that MOS delete certain Personal Data relating to you.
- The right to data portability, which includes the right to request that certain Personal Data you have provided to us be transferred from us to another data controller.
- The right to withdraw any consent you have provided to MOS to collect, use, or share your data at any time. Please note that withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of MOS processing your Personal Data before your withdrawal.
- The right to object to Mattus Fine Art’s processing of your Personal Data, based on grounds specific to your particular situation.
- The right to request that MOS restrict the processing of your Personal Data if certain statutory conditions for restriction are met.
- The right to lodge a complaint with a European supervisory authority.
Please note that applicable law may provide exceptions to any of these rights, permit MOS to decline your request, or permit MOS to extend the period in which it can act on your request. MOS may also contact you to verify your identity, as permitted by law, prior to acting on your request. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us as set forth in the below section titled “Questions and Contact Information”.
International Transfers
We may transfer Personal Data relating to EEA residents to countries that have not been found by the European Commission to provide adequate protection, including the United States. For any such transfers, MOS implements safeguards designed to ensure that your Personal Data receives an adequate level of protection. If you are located in the EEA, MOS will only transfer your Personal Data if: the country to which the Personal Data will be transferred has been granted a European Commission adequacy decision; the recipient of the Personal Data is located in the United States and has certified to the US-EU Privacy Shield Framework; MOS has put in place appropriate safeguards in respect of the transfer, for example by entering into EU Standard Contractual Clauses with the recipient, or; an applicable statutory exception to the GDPR general transfer prohibition applies. To obtain a copy of the mechanisms that MOS has executed to support its transfers of personal data outside the EEA, contact us as set forth in the below section titled “Questions and Contact Information”.
Changing or Deleting Your Personal Information
We wish to maintain accurate personal information. If you have submitted personal information through the Site and set-up an account, then you can (i) access and update your personal information by logging into your online account and making the appropriate changes or (ii) delete your account by emailing us at info@myownspotlight.com. Please note that if you delete your account, we may continue to retain your information on our serves for archival purposes. If you have forgotten your login credentials, you can retrieve those via our automated password retrieval system.
Cookies, Web Beacons, and Similar Technologies
MOS, as well as certain third parties that provide content and other functionality on the Site, may use a variety of technologies to learn more about how people use the Site and the Internet. This section provides more information about some of those technologies and how they work.
Cookies. Cookies are small text files that websites and other online services use to store information about users on the users’ own computers. For example, cookies can be used to store your sign-in credentials so that you do not have to enter the, each time you return to a website. Cookies also may be used to store a unique identification number tied to your computer so that a website can recognize you as the same user across different visits to the website. You can configure your Internet browser to warn you each time a cookie is being sent or to refuse cookies completely. MOS and the third parties that provide content or functionality on the Site may use cookies to:
- Collect information about your browsing activities in order to provide you with more relevant content and ads off the Site;
- Relate the information automatically collected when you use the Site to information we obtain from you directly.
Other Local Storage. We, along with third-party partners, may use other kinds of local storage, such as Local Shared Objects (also referred to as “Flash cookies”) and HTML5 local storage, in connection with the Site. These technologies are similar to the cookies discussed above in that they are stored on your computer and can be used to store certain information about your activities and preferences. These objects are stored in different parts of your computer from ordinary browser cookies, however. Many Internet browsers allow you to disable HTML5 local storage or delete information contained in HTML5 local storage using browser controls.
Web Beacons. We, along with our third party partners, may also use technologies called web beacons that communicate information from your Internet browser to a web server. Web beacons can be embedded in web pages, videos, or emails, and can allow a web served to read certain types of information from your browser, check whether you have viewed a particular web page or email message, and determine, among other things, the time and date on which you viewed the web beacon, the IP address of your computer, and the URL of the web page from which the web beacon was viewed. We and our partners use web beacons for a variety of purposes, including analyzing the use of the Site and in conjunction with cookies to provide content and ads that are more relevant to you.
Monitoring User Activity
We may monitor user activity on our Site in connection with user compliance with our Terms and Conditions of Use, supporting users, and developing and improving the Site.
Your California Privacy Rights
A California resident who has provided personal data to a business with whom he or she has established a business relationship for personal, family, or household purposes (a “California User”) may request information about whether the business has disclosed personal information to any third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. In general, if the business has made such a disclosure of personal data, upon receipt of a request by a California User, the business is required to provide a list of all third parties to whom personal data was disclosed in the preceding calendar year, as well as a list of the categories of personal data that were disclosed. California Users may request further information about our compliance with this law by e-mailing the address specified below. Please note that we are required to respond to requests made by means other than through this e-mail address. If you are an eligible California user, included in these rights are:
- “Right to Know” — You have the right to request to know more about the categories and specific pieces of personal information that we have collected about you and access a copy of your personal information.
- “Right to Deletion” — You have the right to request deletion of personal information that we have collected about you.
- “Right to Non-Discrimination” — If you choose to exercise any of your rights under CCPA, MOS will treat you like all other users. In other words, there is no penalty for exercising your rights under CCPA.
- “Right to Opt-Out” – You have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information.
S.B. 568 titled “Privacy Rights for California Minors in the Digital World” allows California minors a right to delete content that they posted to a website, social media profile, or online service while under the age of 18.
If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request to:
ATTN: Privacy
Myownspotlight, LLC
10810 Boyette Rd # 931
Riverview, FL 33569-8000
Email: info@myownspotlight.com
In addition, California residents who are registered users of the Site and are under the age of 18 are entitled, in accordance with California law, to request an obtain removal of content and information that they themselves post as user content on the Site. You may request such removal by emailing us at info@myownspotlight.com. Please note that your request does not ensure the complete or comprehensive removal of the material.
Do Not Track Signal
Some web browsers may transmit a “do not track” signals to the websites with which the user communicates. We do not currently take action in response to those signals. If an industry standard on responding to such signals is established and accepted, we may reassess how to respond to those signals.
User Generated Content
The Site enables users to submit their own content for use in contests, forums, videos, message boards, and other functions. Publication of User Content on the Site is subject to our Terms and Conditions of Use. Please remember that any information you disclose becomes public information and exercise caution when choosing to disclose your contact, financial, and other personal information in a submission. We cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate this Privacy Policy, the law, or your personal privacy and safety. You should also be aware that we may also engage a third party to provide some of the services associated with the message boards and similar functions. This third party will collect and host the information that you submit to the Site but will not use any of this information for purposes other than providing the service.
Third Party Websites and Services
Please note that the Site may contain links to other websites and services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites, and we recommend that you review the privacy policies of each website that you visit. When you select a link to a third party website from the Site, you will be leaving the Site. Any information that you disclose on the third party website will be governed by that website’s privacy policy.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices and offerings. If we modify our Privacy Policy, we will update the “Last Modified Date” and such changes will be effective upon posting. If we make any material changes in the way we use your information, we will notify you by email through the email address you most recently provided to us or by prominently posting a prominent notice of the changes on the Site. By continuing to use the Site after we make changes, you indicate your consent to these changes.
Questions and Contact Information
We want to assure you that we are dedicated to protecting your privacy. If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact use at:
ATTN: Privacy
Myownspotlight, LLC
10810 Boyette Rd # 931
Riverview, FL 33569-8000
Email: info@myownspotlight.com