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This Privacy Policy explains how and why Boostt collects, uses, and shares personal information when you interact with or use our Site or Service. It also includes any information Boostt collects offline in connection with the Service, which we may combine with information from the Site and Service.
When we say “Boostt,” we mean Boostt Inc., and any of its affiliates, including Stripe. When we say “Site,” we mean www.Boostt.org, and when we say “Service,” we mean the Site plus any websites, features, applications, widgets, or online services owned or controlled by Boostt.
As part of the Service, Boostt provides a marketplace which results in platform information pertaining to different parties to an interaction. Users of the Service may be Customers, Service Providers, Agencies, or Site Visitors (as each is defined in the User Agreement). This Privacy Policy applies to Boostt’s processing of personal information of Users where Boostt determines the purposes and means of processing. It does not apply to processing of information by Users themselves, who may be controllers of the personal information they access through the Service. For information about how Users process your personal information, please contact them directly.
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a. Information You Provide to Us
When you use the Service, you may provide us with information about you. This may include your name and contact information, financial information to make or receive payment for services obtained through the Boostt platform, or information to help us fill out tax forms. When you use the Service, we may also collect information related to your use of the Service and aggregate this with information about other users. This helps us improve our Services for you. You may also provide us with information about your contacts or friends if, for example, you’d like to add those contacts to a message room. Agencies may also provide us with information about Service Providers associated with the Agency. Depending upon our relationship with you, we may collect the following categories and types of personal information from and about you:
| Categories of Personal Information We Collect | Examples of Personal Information Collected | Categories of Sources of Personal Information | Business Purpose for Collection of Personal Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identifiers | Name, Date of Birth, Social Media Account Information, Profile Data, IP Address | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | Developing, Improving, and Providing the Service, Identification, Communications, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Contact / Account Profile Information | Email Address, Home Address, Billing Address, Phone Number | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | Developing, Improving, and Providing the Service, Identification, Communicating with You, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Sensitive Personal Information / Government Issued Identification Numbers | Social Security Number, Driver’s License, State Identification or Passport Number, VAT Identification Number, Tax Identification Number, Immigration Status, Citizenship Information | Directly from You | Improving and Providing the Service, Verifying Your Identity and Detecting Fraud, Identity Theft, or Other Misuse of Your Account, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Commercial Information | Transaction Data including services offered, considered, or purchased | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | Developing, Improving, and Providing the Service, Identification, Communications, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Financial Data/Payment Information | Credit card or other financial account information | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | Improving and Providing the Service, Identification, Communications, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Internet or Other Network or Device Activities Including Information from Cookies | Unique device and app identifiers, browsing history or other usage data, the browser and operating system you are using, the URL or advertisement that referred you to the Service, the search terms you entered into a search engine that led you to the Service, areas within the Service that you visited, which links you clicked on, which pages or content you viewed and for how long, other similar information and statistics about your interactions, such as content response times, download errors and length of visits to certain pages and other information commonly shared when browsers communicate with websites | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | Developing, Improving, and Providing the Service, Identification, Communications, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Approximate Geolocation Information | Your approximate location | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | Developing, Improving, and Providing the Service, Identification, Communications, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Sensory Information | Audio recordings if you call our customer service, video recording (if you provide permission). | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Service Providers; Third Parties (such as affiliates) | Providing and Improving the Service, Identification, Communications, Marketing, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Platform Communications | Communication Information (e.g., your name, contact information, and the contents of any messages you send) | Directly from You, Your use of the Service, and Users with whom you communicate |
Providing the Service, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. With your consent, the contents of any messages you send may be used to Develop and Improve the Service. |
| Professional Information | Previous place(s) of employment, position(s), work history, earnings, resume | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Service Providers; Third Parties (such as other users) | Developing, Improving, and Providing the Service, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Other information that identifies or can be reasonably associated with you | User-generated content (e.g., community posts, feedback, ratings and job postings), photographs, examples of your work, information on work previously performed via the Service and outside the Service, skills, tests taken, test scores, hourly pay rates, and earnings information. | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Service Providers; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, and other users) | Developing, Improving, and Providing the Service, Identification, Communications, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
We use Stripe for identity document verification. Stripe collects identity document images, facial images, ID numbers and addresses as well as advanced fraud signals and information about the devices that connect to its services.
Stripe shares this information with us and also uses this information to operate and improve the services it provides, including for fraud detection.
You may also choose to allow Stripe to use your data to improve Stripe’s biometric verification technology. You can learn more about Stripe and read its privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy
Non-Identifying Information/Usernames: We also may collect other information that does not identify you directly, such as zip codes, demographic data, information about your use of the Service, and general project-related data (“Non-Identifying Information”). We may combine information collected from Boostt users, whether they are registered or not (“Boostt Users”). In some cases, we may render Personal Information (generally, email address) into a form of Non-Identifying Information referred to in this Privacy Policy as “Hashed Information.” This is typically accomplished using a mathematical process (commonly known as a hash function) to convert information into a code. While the code does not identify you directly, it may be used by Boostt’s partners to connect your activity and interests.
Combination of Personal and Non-Identifying Information: We may combine your Personal Information with Non-Identifying Information, but Boostt will treat the combined information as Personal Information.
De-Identified Information: We may also de-identify or aggregate information and convert it into non-personal information so that it can no longer reasonably be used to identify you (“De-Identified Information”). We may use De-Identified Information for any of the purposes described in the “We Use Information We Collect” section below. We will maintain and use De-Identified Information in de-identified form and will not attempt to reidentify the information, except to confirm our de-identification processes or unless required by law.
Like other online companies, we receive technical information when you use our Services. We use these technologies to analyze how people use the Service, to improve how our Site functions, to save your log-in information for future sessions, and to serve you with advertisements that may interest you.
Boostt and its partners use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movement around the website, the desktop app, and the mobile app, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The technology used to collect information automatically from Boostt Users may include cookies, web beacons, and embedded scripts. In addition, we and our marketing partners, affiliates, analytics, and service providers may use a variety of other technologies (such as tags) that collect similar information for security and fraud detection purposes and we may use third parties to perform these services on our behalf.
For further information on cookies and how they are used for the Service, please visit our Cookie Policy.
With your permission, we collect information about a Service Provider’s work for a Customer, including automatically collected information about work on a particular project. If a Service Provider enables Work Diaries, we will share Work Diaries with the relevant Customer and Agency. We tell Service Providers when we are capturing information for the Work Diary and allow Service Providers to block such data sharing.
As part of the Service, when enabled by a Service Provider, we collect information about a Service Provider’s work on a project for a Customer, including information that may be considered personal information.
This feature is known as Work Diary. Work Diaries include information provided by the Service Provider, such as a memo, as well as automatically gathered information about work on a project, such as number of mouse clicks and keyboard strokes and regularly taken screenshots (which may include a webcam picture of you if you have enabled this feature in your settings). In order to use Work Diaries, you must download and install the Boostt Team App software from www.Boostt.org.
We will share information contained in Work Diaries with the relevant Customer and with any manager or administrator of any applicable Service Provider Agency. We inform Service Providers each time we capture information for Work Diary. As set forth in our Terms of Service, End User License Agreement, and help pages on the Site, a Service Provider may choose to block or delete the screen shot and associated data for a recorded work interval, but then the Service Provider may not be paid for that work interval.
We may work with advertising agencies and vendors who use technology to help us understand how people use our Site. These vendors may use technologies to serve you advertisements that may interest you. You can choose to opt out of receiving certain interest-based advertising.
Boostt works with ad networks, ad agencies, analytics service providers and other vendors to provide us with information regarding traffic on the Service, including pages viewed and the actions taken when visiting the Service; to serve our advertisements on other websites, within mobile apps and elsewhere online; and to provide us with information regarding the use of the Service and the effectiveness of our advertisements.
Our service providers may collect certain information about your visits to and activity on the Service as well as other websites or services, they may set and access their own tracking technologies on your device (including cookies and web beacons), and may use that information to show you targeted advertisements. Some of these parties may collect Personal Information when you visit the Service or other online websites and services.
We may also share certain Non-Identifying Information with these parties, including Hashed Information, in connection with the services they provide to us. If you wish to opt out of interest-based advertising from participating companies, click here (or if located in the European Union, click here). You must opt out on each device and each browser where you want your choice to apply. If you choose to opt out, please note you will continue to receive advertisements, but they may be less relevant to you.
While we may use a variety of service providers to perform advertising services, some of these companies are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) or the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising. You may want to visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp, which provides information regarding targeted advertising and the “opt-out” procedures of NAI members. You may also want to visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, which provides information regarding targeted advertising and offers an “opt-out” by participating companies in the DAA Self-Regulatory Program.
Please note that your browser setting may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to websites and online services you visit. Boostt does not generally alter its practices when it receives a “Do Not Track” signal from a visitor’s browser. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
Global Privacy Control (GPC) is a technical specification that you can use to inform websites of your privacy preferences regarding ad trackers. If you do choose to set up GPC, it may impact the functionality of the Site, but we honor the GPC signal on a per-browser basis automatically in your cookie preferences.
The Service is general audience and intended for users 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from anyone younger than age 18. If we become aware that a child younger than 18 has provided us with Personal Information, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete such information from our files.
If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child younger than age 18 and believe that Boostt has collected Personal Information from your child, please contact us at: legalnotices@Boostt.com.
We use information collected through the Service to provide and improve the Service, develop new Services and products, process your requests, prevent fraud, provide you with information and advertising that may interest you, comply with the law, and as otherwise permitted with your consent.
Much of our processing of Personal Information is to meet our contractual obligations to our investors, or to take steps at Users' request in anticipation of entering into a contract with them.
In many cases, we handle Personal Information on the grounds that it furthers our legitimate interests in commercial activities, such as the following, in ways that are not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the affected individuals:
We need to use and disclose Personal Information in certain ways to comply with our legal obligations.
We do not sell your Personal Information for monetary consideration, and we do not share your Personal Information with third parties for those third parties’ marketing purposes unless we first provide you with the opportunity to opt-in to or opt-out of such sharing.However, we may use technologies on our Site for the purposes of advertising or marketing to you and understanding how you interact with our ads. This may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information for targeted advertising under applicable data protection laws. We may also share information we have collected about you, including Personal Information, as disclosed at the time you provide your information, with your consent, as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, or for the following business or commercial purposes:
We do not sell your Personal Information for monetary consideration, and we do not share your Personal Information with third parties for those third parties’ marketing purposes unless we first provide you with the opportunity to opt-in to or opt-out of such sharing...
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Boostt Users |
For Service Providers who have entered into a contract with a Customer, we may share their information with Customers, Agencies, and Boostt affiliates. For Service Providers who choose to view a job post or submit a proposal via the Service, we may share their information with the applicable Customer(s). For Service Providers who have made their profiles publicly visible, we may share their information with Customers, Agencies, Partners, and Developers. Note that if a Service Provider is suspended from the Boostt Service, we may share that information with Customers for whom that Service Provider has worked or submitted proposals for work. We may also share information with Agencies to whom Service Providers are associated for a particular work project. |
| Service Providers |
We may employ service providers and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services (e.g., without limitation, maintenance services, database management, web analytics and online advertising, payment processing, fraud detection and improvement of Boostt’s features) or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These Service Providers may include analytics companies, advertising partners, payment processors, identity verification companies, security companies, generative AI partners, or other merchants. These third parties may have access to your Personal Information in order to perform these tasks on our behalf. |
| Generative AI Partners |
We provide certain features of our Service by integrating trusted generative AI service providers. We may share the information you provide while using these features with these generative AI service providers, as well as additional information necessary to utilize the feature. Where Boostt uses this information to power features, we leverage certain treatments of the data appropriate for the feature, including but not limited to, first removing personal information and only using public data. The Service includes a two-sided marketplace, which results in platform information pertaining to both parties on either side of an interaction. For example, a Customer’s review is inherently about a Service Provider, a Customer job post is work history for a Service Provider, and Customer spend is part of earning history for a Service Provider. Thus, if a Customer or Service Provider chooses to use our generative AI features, the platform information associated with that user’s account – including information described above – may be used to power those features. |
| Legal and Investigative Purposes |
Boostt will share information with government agencies as required by law including (without limitation) in response to lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements and in connection with reporting earnings. We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (including but not limited to subpoenas), or, at the request of governmental authorities or other third parties conducting an investigation where we determine in our sole discretion the disclosure is necessary to (a) protect the property and rights of Boostt or a third party, (b) protect the safety of the public or any person, or (c) prevent or stop activity we may consider to be, or pose a risk of being, illegal, fraudulent, unethical or legally actionable activity. |
| Internal and Business Transfers |
Boostt may share information, including Personal Information, with its parent company Boostt Inc., and any current or future subsidiaries or affiliates, primarily for business and operational purposes, including activities such as IT management, for them to provide services to you, or support and supplement the Services we provide. We may sell, transfer, or otherwise share some or all of our assets, including your Personal Information, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets (including, in each case, as part of the due-diligence process with any potential acquiring entity) or in the event of bankruptcy. |
| Boostt Foundation Initiative |
If you choose to participate in The Boostt Foundation Initiative as a Service Provider, we may share information relevant to your participation in the program with partners of Boostt who provide support to Service Providers through that program. |
| Sweepstakes, Contests, and Promotions |
We may offer sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions (any, a “Promotion”) that may require registration. |
| Non-Identifying Information and De-Identified Information | We may share aggregated Non-Identifying Information and we may otherwise disclose Non-Identifying Information (including, without limitation, Hashed Information) or De-Identified Information to third parties. |
You may have certain choices and rights associated with your personal information, including opting out of targeted advertising or other disclosures to third parties. Residents of certain locations may have the right to have an authorized agent submit requests on your behalf. You or your authorized agent may request that Boostt honor these rights by contacting us as outlined in the “Contact Us” section below, or submitting a request here. Depending on your location, you may also opt out of targeted advertising here.
You will not receive any discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of your privacy rights.
Only you, or a person that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a request related to your personal information. In the case of access and deletion, your request must be verifiable before we can fulfill such request. Verifying your request will require you to provide sufficient information for us to reasonably verify that you are the person about whom we collected personal information or a person authorized to act on your behalf. We will only use the personal information that you have provided in a verifiable request in order to verify your request. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority. Please note that we may charge a reasonable fee or refuse to act on a request if such request is excessive, repetitive or manifestly unfounded.
You have a number of rights under applicable data protection laws in relation to your personal information. Under certain circumstances, you have the right to:
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us as outlined in the “Contact Us” section below.
“Shine the Light” and “Eraser” Laws: Residents of the State of California may request a list of all third parties to which we have disclosed certain information during the preceding year for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes.
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)/California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA): The CCPA, as amended by the CPRA, provides California residents and/or their authorized agents with specific rights regarding the collection and processing of their personal information.
Your Right to Know: California residents have the right to request that we disclose the following information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past twelve (12) months. We may ask you to provide certain information to identify yourself so that we may compare it with our records in order to verify your request. Upon verification, we will disclose to you:
Your Right to Opt-Out of “Sale” or “Sharing” of Personal Information: California residents have the right to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of their personal information as defined by the CCPA by clicking here or by contacting us using the information in the “Contact Us” section below.
Please note that we do not knowingly “sell” the personal information of any individuals under the age of 18.
Where we are “sharing” your personal information with third parties for the purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising or profiling, you may opt-out of such sharing at any time by submitting a request as directed on the homepage of our website or by contacting us using the information in the “Contact Us” section below.
Your Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: California residents may have the right to request that businesses limit the use of any sensitive personal information to those uses which are necessary to perform the Services or for other specifically-enumerated business purposes under the CCPA, as amended by the CPRA. Please note that we do not use sensitive personal information other than as necessary to perform the Services or as specifically permitted under the CCPA.
Your Right to Delete: California residents have the right to request that we delete any of the personal information collected from you and retained by us, subject to certain exceptions. We may ask you to provide certain information to identify yourself so that we may compare it with our records in order to verify your request. Once your request is verified and we have determined that we are required to delete the requested personal information in accordance with the CCPA, we will delete, and direct our service providers to delete your personal information from their records. Your request to delete personal information that we have collected may be denied if we conclude it is necessary for us to retain such personal information under one or more of the exceptions listed in the CCPA.
Your Right to Correct: Under the CCPA, as amended by the CPRA, California residents have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate personal information we maintain about you, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes for which we are processing such personal information. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct such inaccurate personal information about you.
Non-Discrimination: You will not receive any discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of your privacy rights conferred by the CCPA.
Under Nevada law, certain Nevada residents may opt out of the sale of “personally identifiable information” for monetary consideration to a person for that person to license or sell such information to additional persons. “Personally identifiable information” includes first and last name, address, email address, phone number, Social Security Number, or an identifier that allows a specific person to be contacted either physically or online.
We do not engage in such activity; however, if you are a Nevada resident who has purchased or leased goods or services from us, you may submit a request to opt out of any potential future sales under Nevada law by emailing privacyrequests@Boostt.com. Please note we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity and the authenticity of the request. Once verified, we will maintain your request in the event our practices change.
The laws of your state of residence (“Applicable State Law”) may provide you with certain rights, including the following:
Please note, as explained above, we do not “sell” personal information as that word is traditionally defined. However, we do share personal information with third parties to provide you with personalized advertising from us and to better understand how you interact with our Services. Through the use of cookies, we may also make available certain personal information to third parties for targeted advertising. You may opt-out from any of these disclosures under Applicable State Law by clicking here.
Certain information may be exempt from the rights described above under applicable law. If we deny your request in whole or in part, you may have the right to appeal the decision. In such circumstances, we will provide you with information regarding the appeals process. Depending on your location, you may also email legalnotices@Boostt.org with the subject “Data Privacy Request Appeal” to provide us with details about why you are appealing the decision.
If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed to your satisfaction, please contact our U.S.-based third-party dispute resolution provider free at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.
We take a number of steps to protect your data, but no security is guaranteed.
Boostt takes reasonable steps to help protect and secure the information it collects and stores about Boostt Users. We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information that we receive against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or use.
We take a number of steps to protect your data, but no security is guaranteed. Boostt takes reasonable steps to help protect and secure the information it collects...
Because we are a U.S. company, we process and store your information in the United States and our service providers may process and store it elsewhere.
Boostt may transfer your personal information to a third party that is located in a jurisdiction other than the one from which we collected your personal information, including to countries that have not been deemed to have an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects. If we do transfer your personal information to another jurisdiction, we will do so following due diligence and provided that the data recipient is subject to contractual agreements imposing obligations on it to ensure appropriate technical and organizational measures are implemented and maintained at all times to prevent the unauthorized and unlawful processing of personal information, and the accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal information, consistent with our obligations under applicable data protection laws.
We will use appropriate legal transfer mechanisms, including Standard Contractual Clauses, where required by law. In addition, Boostt Global Inc. is self-certified under the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Data Privacy Framework, as described below. Personal information from EU, Swiss, and UK residents will be treated in accordance with the Data Privacy Framework Principles. To exercise any legal right to see copies of the data transfer mechanism documents that Boostt uses to transfer data to third parties, please contact us.
Our Service contains links to other websites. If you choose to click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s website. The fact that we link to a website is not an endorsement, authorization or representation of our affiliation with that third party, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies or practices. We do not exercise control over third party websites. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit Personal Information from you. We encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit.
We may change this Privacy Policy. If we make substantial changes, we will provide notice. This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date stated at the top of this page. Boostt may update this Privacy Policy at any time and any changes will be effective upon posting. By accessing or using the Service after we notify you of such changes to this Privacy Policy, you are deemed to have accepted such changes. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy on a regular basis.
To request that Boostt honor any of the rights described in this Policy submit a request here, or contact us as outlined below...