Collection of Information

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Some personal information is required to ensure you have the best experience with our Services. When you register for our Services, we may ask that you voluntarily provide us with certain personal information that may identify you or can be used to identify you (“Personal Information”), including name, email address, location, industry and alumnus. 

You may choose to provide us with additional information or voluntarily post it on the site. This could be information regarding your profile, speakers you are looking for, for what occasion and where, speaking engagements that you may have been a part of, speakers you recommend, video, photo and post likes, etc. 

In June 2022, we will be adding an optional ‘Demographic’ and a ‘Paid’ speaker category to the site.

Please know that you don’t have to provide additional information on your profile; however, profile information helps you to get more from our Services. It’s your choice whether to include sensitive information on your profile. Please do not post or add personal data to your profile that you would not want to be publicly available

If you opt to import your Gmail contacts, we will receive your contacts. You will be able to access your contacts directly from your Inbox.

You will be asked to enter some personal information. 

While specific things like name, email address, location, industry and alumnus information are mandatory, some other sections are not. 

Do not post or add personal data to your profile that you would not want to be publicly available.

When you use or access our Services, non-personal data is collected. This includes but is not limited to: (1) the type of browser you use, (2) access times, (3) pages viewed, (4) search terms, (5) your IP address, (6) the page you visited before navigating to our Services, (7) geolocation information, (8) device used, including hardware model, operating system, mobile network information, and device identifiers, and (9) other statistics and information associated with the interaction between your browser or device and the Services (collectively “Traffic Data”).

We log usage data when you are using our services (platform technology social media, newsletters), such as when you view or click on content or ads, perform a search, share articles or posts, or apply, create or respond to a speaker opportunity. We use log-ins, cookies, device information and IP addresses to identify you and to log your use. 

We receive data from your devices and networks, including location data. When you visit or leave our network, we receive the URL of the site you came from and the one you go to as well as the time of your visit. If you access SpeakerPost from a mobile device, that device will send us data about your location based on your phone settings.

Our system automatically collects browser, device, hardware and location information.

Our analytics will tell us which pages you spent most time on and what time of day you accessed the page.

How We Use Your Information

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We may use both personal Information and non-personal Data about you for various purposes, including:

To Provide, Maintain, and Improve our Services; Register and service your account and profile;

Help communicate with you and facilitate communication between you, other registered members, and respond to your comments, questions, requests, or respond to any solicitations or input from you; Enable a member to search for another member based on the information the other has made available on the Site; To track whether you have acted on a specific task and to send you reminders

We use the collected information to provide you with a decent website experience,  to maintain and service our site and your account, and to prevent, detect and investigate security breaches.

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Enable us to provide a safer community for all users, and to Verify information you provide us as well as the representations and warranties you make to us in the Terms of Use or on the Site; To contact you when necessary or requested, To send emails and other communications that display content that we think will interest you and according to your preferences; To track and analyze trends and usage in connection with our Services;  To prevent, detect, and investigate security breaches, fraud, and other potentially illegal or prohibited activities; To enforce the legal terms that govern your use of the Services; To protect our rights or property; For any other purpose disclosed to you in connection with our Services.

For the purposes for which you provided the information; To send you information about your relationship with us; To customize and tailor your experience with the Services, including notifying you about certain resources, communications, or other users we think you may be interested in learning more about;

To combine information received from third parties with the information that we have from or about you and use the combined information for any of the purposes described in this Privacy Policy; To use statistical information that we collect in any way permitted by law, including from third parties in connection with their commercial and marketing efforts.

Your information helps us connect you with other members, for you to search others on the site safely (and for them to find you)  and to notify you of community members in your industry or location that may interest you. In other words, we need to analyze and tabulate user data so that you can build better relationships with our community members. 

We use your information to contact you for a variety of reasons, when necessary or when requested. 

We also collect information to track trends and usage and to help us with our marketing efforts.

Sharing of Information

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We may share personal information that we collect about you as follows or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:

Sharing with third parties to provide, maintain, and improve our Services, including service providers who access information about you to perform services on our behalf;

Sharing in connection with, or during the negotiation of, any merger, sale of company stock or assets, financing, acquisition, divestiture or dissolution of all or a portion of our business (but only under non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements and protections);

Sharing if disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request; to enforce applicable the Terms of Use or other user agreements or policies; to protect the security or integrity of our website, mobile application or Services; and to protect us, our users or the public from harm or illegal activities;

With your consent or at your direction, including if we notify you through our Services that the information you provide will be shared in a particular manner and you provide such information.

We may also share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information with third parties. In June 2022, we added Google Ads to the site via AdSense.

Your information is safe. SpeakerPost will never directly sell your information to an advertiser or to any other sites or people - we may use it in aggregate to provide you with the best ‘site’ experience. We also have Google ads on the site.

In some cases, we may have to share personal information that we collect with our web development team OR during a merger, sale or acquisition OR if the law requires us to do so which protects our users or the public from harm.

Access to and Control Over Your Information

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You can easily review and update your online user profile information by logging on www.speakerpost.com. What you have entered in that profile is your information. Through your browser, you are able to print this information as well.

Information on your profile belongs to you. You can edit or delete it anytime.

If you wish to close your account, you should be able to delete it under Account Settings. If you have trouble with this, email us at hello@speakerpost.com. Please note, however, that we reserve the right to retain information from closed accounts, including to comply with law, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, enforce the Terms of Use, and take other actions permitted by law. Please notify us promptly if any of your account data is lost, stolen or used without permission.

It is easy to delete your account. We may need to retain some information from closed accounts to prevent fraud or resolves disputes.

We take security of your information seriously. We have an invitation code to the site, and we can closely monitor activity on the site. We can also remove members who do not adhere to the site rules. We have installed SSL and we use the trusted AWS server for our platform. . 

We cannot however guarantee the security of your information. If at any time during or after our relationship we believe that the security of your information may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. 

If a notification is appropriate, we will endeavor to notify you as promptly as possible under the circumstances. If we have your email address, we may notify you by email to the most recent email address you have provided us in your account profile. Please keep your email address in your account up to date.

You can update that e-mail address anytime in your account profile. If you receive a notice from us, you can print it to retain a copy of it. To receive these notices, you must check your email account using your computer or mobile device and email application software. You consent to our use of email as a means of such notification.

If you prefer for us to use the U.S. Postal Service to notify you in this situation, please email us at hello@speakerpost.com. Please include your address when you submit your request. You can make this election any time, and it will apply to notifications we make after a reasonable time thereafter for us to process your request. You may also use this address to request a print copy of an electronic notice we have sent to you regarding a compromise of your Personal Information. You may need to pay postage for this service.

We definitely take steps to protect your information. 

But sometimes, bad things happen. We will notify you if we have a security breach, so please ensure you are receiving our emails.

Links To Other Websites

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Our site may contain links to or embedded content from our blog , third party websites, including websites of our advertisers or Social Media websites. A link to or embedded content from a non-SpeakerPost website does not mean that we endorse that website, the quality or accuracy of information presented on such website or the persons or entities associated with such website. If you decide to visit a third-party website, you are subject to the privacy policy of the third party website as applicable and we are not responsible for the policies and practices of the third party website. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your information to others.

You may have arrived on our site from, or began your use of the site at, a third party website, including a third party website that links to the Site or embeds SpeakerPost content. The presence of such links or content on third party websites does not mean that we endorse that website, the quality or accuracy of information presented on the non-SpeakerPost website or the persons or entities associated with the non-SpeakerPost website. You may be subject to the privacy policy of the third party website as applicable and we are not responsible for the policies and practices of the third party websites. In addition, the policies and practices of third parties do not apply to your information, including Personal Information, obtained pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

People post whatever they want on our timeline and other SpeakerPost pages. If you click on their links and visit those sites, we cannot control what you see. 

If you click on any of the advertiser boxes, you are subject to their policies and practices. Their website will open in another tab. 

You may have come to our site from a third-party website. We do not endorse that site or people who referred you to our site.

CCPA Personal Information Category

Sources of this Information

Identifiers (e.g., real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, social account details, demographic information, professional speakership, account name, or other similar identifiers)

Information you provide directly or through your interactions with SpeakerPost Services or its advertisers. 

Characteristics of protected classifications under California or Federal law (e.g., your gender or age) (“Characteristics of Protected Classifications”)

Information you provide to us directly and inferences we make based on that information; Information from our customers

Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interactions with our Services)

Your interactions with our Services; your visits to third party sites advertised on our site or via our services, and your interactions with the services of partners and customers that use SpeakerPost 

Geolocation Data

Information you provide to us directly or through your interactions with our Services

Professional or Employment-Related Information

Information you provide to us directly or from other members 

Inferences

Information you provide to us directly or through your interactions with our Services, information from our customers or partners

Personal information described in Cal. Civ. Code §1798.80(e)(such as name, address, telephone number, education, employment history)

Information you provide directly or through your interactions with our Services, information from our customers or partners

Audio, electronic, visual or similar information

Information you provide directly or through your interactions with our Services, customers or partners