Privacy Policy

Effective as of February 8, 2021.

This “Privacy Policy” describes the privacy practices of SPMB, LLC (“SPMB”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) in connection with the www.spmb.com website, any other website that we own or control and which posts or links to this Privacy Policy, and any other service we offer (collectively, the “Service”).  This Privacy Policy describes the rights and choices available to individuals with respect to their information.  SPMB may provide additional or supplemental privacy policies to individuals for specific products or services that we offer at the time we collect personal information. These supplemental privacy policies will govern how we may process the information in the context of the specific product or service.

We provide important information for residents of California and individuals located in the European Economic Area and United Kingdom below.

Table of Contents

• Personal Information We Collect
• How We Use Your Personal Information
• How We Share your Personal Information
• Your Choices
• Other sites, mobile applications and services
• Security practices
• International data transfers
• Children
• Changes to this Privacy Policy
• How to Contact Us
• Important Information for California Residents
• Notice to European Users

Personal Information We Collect

Information you provide to us.

Personal information you provide to us through the Service or otherwise includes:

• Business and personal contact information, such as your first and last name, email and mailing addresses, phone number, professional title and company name.
• Content you choose to upload to the Service, such as text, images, audio, and video, along with the metadata associated with the files you upload.
• Profile information, such as your username and password that you may set to establish an online account with us, your photograph, interests, and preferences.
• Registration information, such as information that may be related to a service, an account or an event for which you register.
• Feedback or correspondence, such as information you provide when you contact us with questions, feedback, or otherwise correspond with us online.
• Demographic Information,such as your city, state, country of residence, and postal code. You may also provide us with protected classification characteristics though we do not ask for this information.
• Employment information, such as your current or former employer(s), employment dates, employment functions, or employment locations.
• Educational information, such as your current or past educational institutions, attendance dates, or location information.
• Financial information, such as your income.
• Usage information, such as information about how you use the Service and interact with us, including information associated with any content you upload to the websites or otherwise submit to us, and information you provide when you use any interactive features of the Service.
• Marketing information, such as your preferences for receiving communications about our activities, events, and publications, and details about how you engage with our communications
• Other informationthat we may collect which is not specifically listed here, but which we will use in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.

Information we obtain from social media platforms. We may maintain pages for SPMB on social media platforms, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Instagram, and other third party platforms. When you visit or interact with our pages on those platforms, the platform provider’s privacy policy will apply to your interactions and their collection, use and processing of your personal information. You or the platforms may provide us with information through the platform, and we will treat such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Information we obtain from other third parties.  We may receive personal information about you from third-party sources. For example, a business partner or individual referral may share your information with us if you have expressed interest in learning specifically about our services, or the types of services we offer. We may obtain your personal information from other third parties, such as marketing partners, publicly-available sources and data providers.  We may make inferences in relation to your personal information.

Cookies and Other Information Collected by Automated Means

We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and activity occurring on or through the Service. The information that may be collected automatically includes your computer or mobile device operating system type and version number, manufacturer and model, device identifier (such as the Google Advertising ID or Apple ID for Advertising), browser type, screen resolution, IP address, the website you visited before browsing to our website, general location information such as city, state or geographic area; and information about your use of and actions on the Service, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, and length of access.  Our service providers and business partners may collect this type of information over time and across third-party websites and mobile applications.

On our webpages, this information is collected using cookies, browser web storage (also known as locally stored objects, or “LSOs”), web beacons, and similar technologies, and our emails may also contain web beacons.

See our Cookie Policy for more information.

Referrals

Users of the Service may have the opportunity to refer contacts to us. If you are an existing user, you may only submit a referral if you have permission to provide the referral’s contact information to us so that we may contact them.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We use your personal information for the following purposes and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection:

To operate the Service.  We use your personal information to:

• provide, operate and improve the Service
• provide information about our services
• establish and maintain your user profile on the Service
• communicate with you about the Service, including by sending you announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages
• communicate with you about job opportunities
• communicate with you about events in which you participate
• understand your needs and interests, and personalize your experience with the Service and our communications
• provide support and maintenance for the Service
• respond to your requests, questions and feedback

For research and development.  We analyze use of the Service to improve the Service and to develop new products and services, including by studying user demographics and use of the Service.

To send you marketing and promotional communications.  We may send you SPMB-related marketing communications as permitted by law. You will have the ability to opt-out of our marketing and promotional communications as described in the Opt out of marketing section below.

To comply with law.We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.

For compliance, fraud prevention, and safety.  We may use your personal information and disclose it to law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties as we believe necessary or appropriate to: (a) protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims); (b) enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Service; and (c) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.

With your consent.  In some cases we may specifically ask for your consent to collect, use or share your personal information, such as when required by law.

To create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data.  We may create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect.  We make personal information into anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you.  We may use this anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and promote our business.

How We Share your Personal Information

Affiliates.  We may share your personal information within our corporate group of affiliated entities for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Service providers.  We may share your personal information with third party companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Service (such as customer support, payment processing, hosting, analytics, email delivery, marketing, and database management services). These third parties may use your personal information only as directed or authorized by us and in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy, and are prohibited from using or disclosing your information for any other purpose.

Third-party platforms and social media networks. If you have enabled features or functionality that connect the Service to a third-party platform or social media network (such as by logging in to the Service using your account with the third-party, providing your API key or similar access token for the Service to a third-party, or otherwise linking your account with the Service to a third-party’s services), we may disclose the personal information that you authorized us to share. We do not control the third party’s use of your personal information.

Other Users of the Service. We may disclose your information to other users of the Service. For instance, we may share your information with our clients to facilitate an assessment of you for an employment opportunity.  We do not control how other users or third parties use any information that we make available to them.

Professional advisors. We may disclose your personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

For compliance, fraud prevention and safety. We may share your personal information for the compliance, fraud prevention and safety purposes described above.

Business transfers.  We may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of our business or assets, including your personal information, in connection with a business transaction (or potential business transaction) such as a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy or dissolution.

At your direction. We may share your information with other categories of recipients not specifically identified above but at your direction and with your consent for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Your Choices

In this section, we describe the rights and choices available to all users. Users who are located within the European Union can find additional information about their rights below.

Access or Update Your Information. If you have registered for an account with us, you may review and update certain personal information in your account profile by logging into the account.

Opt out of marketing communications.  You may opt out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email, or by contacting us at inquiries@spmb.com.  You may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.

Cookies & Browser Web Storage.  We may allow service providers and other third parties to use cookies and similar technologies to track your browsing activity over time and across the Service and third party websites. For more details, see our Cookie Policy.

Do Not Track.  Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit.  We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals.  To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Choosing not to share your personal information. Where we are required by law to collect your personal information, or where we need your personal information in order to provide the Service to you, if you do not provide this information when requested (or you later ask to delete it), we may not be able to provide you with our services.  We will tell you what information you must provide to receive the Service by designating it as required at the time of collection or through other appropriate means.

Third-party platforms or social media networks. If you choose to connect to the Service via a third-party platform or social media network, you may have the ability to limit the information that we may obtain from the third-party at the time you login to the Service using the third-party’s authentication service or otherwise connect your account. Subsequently, you may be able to control your settings through the third-party’s platform or service. If you withdraw our ability to access certain information from a third-party platform or social media network, that choice will not apply to information that we have already received from that third-party.

Other sites, mobile applications and services

The Service may contain links to other websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties.  These links are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party.  In addition, our content may be included on web pages or in mobile applications or online services that are not associated with us. We do not control third party websites, mobile applications or online services, and we are not responsible for their actions.  Other websites and services follow different rules regarding the collection, use and sharing of your personal information.  We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites and mobile applications and online services you use.

Security practices

The security of your personal information is important to us.  We employ a number of organizational, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect.  However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

International data transfers

We are headquartered in the United States and may have service providers in other countries, and your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other locations outside of your state, province, or country where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your state, province, or country.

European Union users should read the important information provided below about transfer of personal information outside of the European Union.

Children

The Service is not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from, anyone under the age of 16.  If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We will delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.  We encourage parents with concerns to contact us

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Service. We may, and if required by law will, also provide notification of changes in another way that we believe is reasonably likely to reach you, such as via e-mail (if you have an account where we have your contact information) or another manner through the Service.

Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting the new terms and/or upon implementation of the new changes on the Service (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your continued use of the Service after the posting of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the terms of the modified Privacy Policy.

How to Contact Us

Please direct any questions or comments about this Policy or privacy practices to inquiries@spmb.com. You may also write to us via postal mail at:

SPMB, LLC

Attn: Legal – Privacy

80 Sir Francis Drake Blvd

STE 3F

Larkspur, CA 94939

Important Information for California Residents

This section applies only to California residents.  It describes how we collect, use and share Personal Information of California residents in operating our business, and their rights with respect to that Personal Information.  For purposes of this section, “Personal Information” has the meaning given in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) but does not include information exempted from the scope of the CCPA.

Your California privacy rights. As a California resident, you have the rights listed below. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases we may decline your request as permitted by law.

• You can request the following information about how we have collected and used your Personal Information during the past 12 months:
  • The categories of Personal Information that we have collected.
  • The categories of sources from which we collected Personal Information.
  • The business or commercial purpose for collecting and/or selling Personal Information.
  • The categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Information.
  • Whether we have disclosed your Personal Information for a business purpose, and if so, the categories of Personal Information received by each category of third party recipient.
  • Whether we’ve sold your Personal Information, and if so, the categories of Personal Information received by each category of third party recipient.
• Access.  You can request a copy of the Personal Information that we have collected about you during the past 12 months.
•  You can ask us to delete the Personal Information that we have collected from you.
• Opt-in.Under the CCPA, children under the age of 16 have the right to opt-in to the sale of their personal information, however because our websites and services are not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 16, we do not knowingly sell the personal information of minors under 16 years of age.
• Opt-out of sales.  If we sell your Personal Information, you can opt-out.  In addition, if you direct us not to sell your Personal Information, we will consider it a request pursuant to California’s “Shine the Light” law to stop sharing your personal information covered by that law with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
• You are entitled to exercise the rights described above free from discrimination. This means that we will not penalize you for exercising your rights by taking actions such as denying you services; increasing the price/rate of services; decreasing service quality; or suggesting that we may penalize you as described above for exercising your rights.

How to exercise your rights

You may exercise your California privacy rights described above as follows:

● Right to information, access and deletion. You can request to exercise your information, access and deletion rights by:

o visiting https://spmb.com/california-residents-do-not-sell-my-information/

o calling us toll free at 1-844-281-5681

o emailing inquiries@spmb.com

● Right to opt-out of the “sale” of your Personal Information.  We do not sell your Personal Information in the conventional sense (i.e., for money).  However, as part of our service, we may share your Personal Information with our current or prospective clients that use the Service.  California law classifies our sharing of your Personal Information as a “sale” of your Personal Information. This is because we allow them to use your Personal Information for their own purposes to evaluate you as a candidate for employment.  You can request to opt-out of this “sale” of your personal information here: Do Not Sell My Personal Information.

We will need to confirm your identity and California residency to process your requests to exercise your information, access or deletion rights.  We cannot process your request if you do not provide us with sufficient detail to allow us to understand and respond to it.

Personal information that we collect, use and share

The chart below summarizes how we collect, use and share Personal Information by reference to the statutory categories specified in the CCPA, and describes our practices during the 12 months preceding the effective date of this Privacy Policy. Categories in the chart refer to the categories described above in the general section of this Privacy Policy.

Notice to European Users (EU/EEA and UK)

The information provided in this “Notice to European Users” section applies only to individuals in Europe.

Personal information. References to “personal information” in this Privacy Policy are equivalent to “personal information” governed by European data protection legislation.

Controller and Representative. SPMB, LLC is the controller of your personal information covered by this Privacy Policy for purposes of European data protection legislation.

For those in the EU/EEA

Contact information for our representative in Europe is:

DataRep

The Cube

Monahan Road, Cork, T12 H1XY

Republic of Ireland

datarequest@datarep.com

https://www.datarep.com/data-request/?dpr=

For those in the United Kingdom

Contact information for our representative is:

DataRep

BPM 335368

372 Old Street, London, EC1V 9AU

United Kingdom

datarequest@datarep.com

https://www.datarep.com/data-request/?dpr=

Please quote “SPMB LLC” in the subject line of any communication sent to DataRep. When mailing inquiries, it is essential that you mark your letters for “DataRep” and not “SPMB LLC”; or your inquiry may not reach the correct destination. Please refer clearly to SPMB LLC in your correspondence.

Use for new purposes. We may use your personal information for reasons not described in this Privacy Policy where permitted by law and the reason is compatible with the purpose for which we collected it.  If we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and explain the applicable legal basis.

Sensitive personal information.  We ask that you not provide us with any sensitive personal information (e.g., information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Service, or otherwise to us.

If you provide us with any sensitive personal information to us when you use the Service, you must consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal information, you must not submit such sensitive personal information through our Service.

Retention

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for fraud prevention purposes.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

When we no longer require the personal information we have collected about you, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.  If we anonymize your personal information (so that it can no longer be associated with you), we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Your rights

European data protection laws give you certain rights regarding your personal information.  If you are located within the European Union, you may ask us to take the following actions in relation to your personal information that we hold:

• Provide you with information about our processing of your personal information and give you access to your personal information.
• Update or correct inaccuracies in your personal information.
• Delete your personal information.
• Transfer a machine-readable copy of your personal information to you or a third party of your choice.
• Restrict the processing of your personal information.
• Object to our reliance on our legitimate interests as the basis of our processing of your personal information that impacts your rights.

You may submit these requests by email to inquiries@spmb.com or our postal address provided above. We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and process your request.  Applicable law may require or permit us to decline your request.  If we decline your request, we will tell you why, subject to legal restrictions.  If you would like to submit a complaint about our use of your personal information or our response to your requests regarding your personal information, you may contact us or submit a complaint to the data protection regulator in your jurisdiction. You can find your data protection regulator here.