CheerScout Privacy Policy

CheerScout is a recruiting and discovery platform designed to help athletes, families, coaches, and college programs connect and learn about opportunities in collegiate cheerleading and related programs.

CheerScout may allow users to create profiles, share athletic information and media, discover schools and programs, communicate with other users, view recruiting opportunities, and use recruiting-related tools.

Depending on how you use CheerScout, we may collect the following categories of information.

CheerScout allows athletes to create recruiting profiles. Depending on the features and settings available to the user, an athlete profile may contain information such as:

Athlete name, graduation year, school, athletic skills, cheerleading experience, photos, videos, recruiting interests, and other information the athlete chooses to include.

Users should not publish sensitive personal information that is not necessary for recruiting purposes.

CheerScout may provide privacy controls that allow users to determine whether certain information is visible to other users.

Because CheerScout is a recruiting platform, information intentionally included in a public or discoverable profile may be visible to coaches, college programs, athletes, families, or other users of the Services.

CheerScout recognizes that some athletes using the platform may be under 18. We take additional care with information relating to children and teenagers.

CheerScout is not intended to encourage children to provide unnecessary personal information. Users should provide only information appropriate for recruiting and the features they are using.

Parents and legal guardians are encouraged to participate in a minor athlete’s use of CheerScout and to review the information included in the athlete’s profile.

Where parental or guardian consent is required by applicable law, CheerScout will use appropriate mechanisms to obtain or verify that consent.

We do not knowingly sell the personal information of children. We do not knowingly use children’s personal information for behavioral advertising.

Parents or legal guardians who believe that a minor has provided personal information to CheerScout without appropriate authorization may contact us using the information in the “Contact Us” section below.

We may use information we collect to:

• Create and maintain user accounts
• Provide and operate CheerScout
• Create and display athlete, coach, and college program profiles
• Help athletes discover college programs
• Help college programs discover athletes
• Facilitate recruiting-related communication
• Provide recruiting tools and features
• Display maps and program information
• Provide notifications and account communications
• Respond to questions and support requests
• Improve the Services
• Monitor and maintain platform security
• Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and unauthorized activity
• Troubleshoot technical problems
• Analyze usage and performance
• Comply with legal obligations
• Enforce our Terms of Service
• Protect the rights, safety, and security of CheerScout and its users

If you provide an email address or phone number, CheerScout may use it to communicate with you regarding your account, account verification, security, recruiting activity, messages or interactions on the platform, important changes to the Services, customer support, and other service-related notifications.

Where required by law, we will obtain appropriate consent before sending marketing communications.

You may be able to manage certain notifications through your account or device settings.

CheerScout may provide features that allow athletes, coaches, and college programs to communicate. Information submitted through messaging or recruiting communications may be processed and stored so that the communication feature can function.

Users should avoid sending sensitive information through the platform unless it is necessary and appropriate.

CheerScout may review or investigate communications when reasonably necessary to address reports of abuse, safety concerns, fraud, violations of our Terms of Service, or legal obligations.

Some CheerScout features may use location-related information to display schools, athletes, programs, recruiting opportunities, or other information on maps. CheerScout may use:

Location information that a user voluntarily provides

City, state, or other geographic information included in a profile

General location information associated with device or technical data

CheerScout does not require users to publish their precise residential address as part of an athlete recruiting profile. Users should not publish a home address or other unnecessarily precise location information in a public profile.

If the mobile application requests permission to access your device location, you can control that permission through your device’s privacy settings.

Users may upload photos, videos, and other media to their profiles. By uploading content, you represent that you have the necessary rights and permissions to upload and share that content.

Users, parents, guardians, coaches, and programs should ensure that they have appropriate permission before uploading or publishing media involving another person, particularly a minor.

CheerScout may store and process uploaded media to provide profile, recruiting, and communication features.

The CheerScout website may use cookies, local storage, analytics tools, or similar technologies to keep users signed in, remember preferences, maintain security, understand how the Services are used, improve website performance, and troubleshoot technical problems.

You may be able to control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain technologies may affect the functionality of portions of the Services.

CheerScout may use third-party service providers to help operate the Services. These providers may assist with functions such as hosting, authentication, database services, analytics, crash reporting, communications, security, payment processing, customer support, media storage, and infrastructure and application performance.

These providers may process information on CheerScout’s behalf and are expected to use information only as necessary to provide the services for which they are engaged.

CheerScout does not control the privacy practices of third-party websites or services that may be linked from CheerScout. Users should review the privacy policies of those third parties separately.

If CheerScout offers paid products or services, payment information may be processed by third-party payment providers or app-store payment systems. CheerScout generally does not need to store your complete payment card number when payment processing is handled by an authorized payment provider.

Payment providers may collect and process payment information according to their own privacy policies and terms.

CheerScout may display advertising in the future to help support the operation and maintenance of the Services. If advertising is introduced, CheerScout will take appropriate steps to comply with applicable privacy and advertising laws.

CheerScout does not knowingly use personal information from children for behavioral advertising.

We may share information in the following circumstances:

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the Services, maintain accounts, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and protect the security of our Services.

When information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete or de-identify it, subject to legal, security, backup, and operational requirements.

Users may request deletion of their CheerScout account and associated personal information. Requests may be submitted using the contact information provided below.

Some information may need to be retained when required by law or reasonably necessary for legitimate purposes such as fraud prevention, security, dispute resolution, or legal compliance.

Deleting an account may remove or disable access to associated profiles, messages, media, and recruiting information.

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the ability to:

• Access information we maintain about you
• Request correction of inaccurate information
• Request deletion of your information
• Request information about how your information is used
• Withdraw certain consents
• Object to or restrict certain processing
• Request a copy of certain information
• Manage certain communications and notifications

To exercise applicable rights, contact us using the information below. We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.

A parent or legal guardian may contact CheerScout regarding information associated with a minor’s account. Depending on the request and applicable law, we may request information reasonably necessary to verify the parent’s or guardian’s identity and authority to make the request.

Parents and guardians may request that information associated with a minor be reviewed, corrected, or deleted where applicable.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no website, application, database, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Users should use strong passwords, protect their account credentials, and notify CheerScout if they believe their account has been compromised.

CheerScout recognizes the importance of protecting children’s privacy. We do not knowingly collect more personal information from children than is reasonably necessary to provide the Services.

We do not knowingly sell children’s personal information or use children’s information for behavioral advertising.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided personal information to CheerScout without appropriate authorization, please contact us. We will review the request and take appropriate action consistent with applicable law.

If you are a California resident, California law may provide additional rights concerning your personal information. Depending on applicable law, these rights may include rights to:

Know what personal information is collected and how it is used

Request access to personal information

Request deletion of personal information

Request correction of inaccurate information

Opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information

Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information where applicable

Receive equal service and pricing when exercising privacy rights

CheerScout does not sell personal information for monetary consideration. California residents may contact us using the information below to exercise applicable privacy rights.

Residents of other U.S. states may have additional privacy rights under applicable state privacy laws. Where required, CheerScout will honor applicable rights, including rights relating to access, correction, deletion, portability, consent, and certain forms of targeted advertising or data sharing.

The specific rights available to you depend on the state in which you reside and the circumstances of the request.

CheerScout may be accessed by users outside the United States. If you use CheerScout from another country, your information may be processed in the United States or other countries where CheerScout or its service providers operate. Privacy protections in those countries may differ from those in your country.

CheerScout may contain links to college websites, recruiting resources, social-media pages, virtual tours, or other third-party websites. CheerScout is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of third-party websites.

We encourage users to review the privacy policy of any third-party website before providing personal information.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

If changes are material, we may provide additional notice where required by applicable law.

Your continued use of CheerScout after an updated Privacy Policy becomes effective means that you acknowledge the updated policy.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to request access, correction, or deletion of information, or have concerns about a minor’s information, please contact CheerScout:

For privacy requests, please include enough information for us to understand and respond to your request. Do not send passwords, payment card numbers, or other unnecessary sensitive information by email.