PRIVACY POLICY
Effective: January 01, 2024
Highlight NIL LLC is a technology company. Our product — Highlight — provides a platform to connect businesses and college athletes to help create sports marketing partnership deals.
When you use these services, you’ll share some information with Highlight NIL LLC, so you should know what information is collect, how it is used, how it is shared, and the controls you have.
This Privacy Policy is written in a way that’s easy to understand for all our users and free of difficult language and legal phrases. Have questions? Just reach out to us at jlee@highlightnil.com.
Information Collected
There are three basic categories of information collected:
- Information you provide.
- Information obtained when you use our services.
- Information obtained from third parties.
Information You Provide
When you interact with Highlight NIL LLC's services, the information you provide is collected. For example, many services require you to set up an account, requiring you to provide details about you, such as your name, username, password, email address, phone number, and date of birth. You may also be asked to provide some additional information that will be publicly visible on Highlight. If you choose to make a partnership deal on Highlight, you will be asked for your payment information, like a debit or credit card number and associated account information.
Of course, you’ll also provide whatever information you send through Highlight NIL LLC services, such as direct chats, public profile information, and more. Keep in mind that the users who view your content can always save that content or copy it outside the app. So, do not send messages or share content that you would not want someone to save or share.
When you contact Highlight NIL LLC in any other way, whatever information you volunteer or that is needed to resolve your question will be collected.
Information We Get When You Use Our Services
When you use Highlight NIL LLC services, information about the services you’ve used and how you’ve used them is collected. Types of information that may be collect includes:
- Usage Information Information about your activity through our services is collected. For example:
- how you interact with Highlight NIL LLC services, such as which filters you apply, which posts you interact with, or which search queries you submit.
- how you communicate with other users, such as their names, the time and date of your communications, the number of messages you exchange with users, which users you exchange messages with the most, and your interactions with messages.
- Content Information When you use Highlight NIL LLC services, you may engage with the camera or creative tools and create and share various types of content. Information about content you create or provide and your engagement with the camera and creative tools is collected. For certain content, this may include information based on the content of the image, video, and audio. Other information about the content, including metadata — which is information about the content itself like the date and time it was posted and who viewed it — may be collected.
- Device Information Information from and about the devices you use is collected. For example:
- information about your hardware and software, such as the hardware model, operating system version, device memory, advertising identifiers, unique application identifiers, apps installed, unique device identifiers, device usage data, browser type, keyboards installed, language, battery level, and time zone;
- information from device sensors, such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, compasses, microphones, and whether you have headphones connected; and
- information about your wireless and mobile network connections, such as mobile phone number, service provider, IP address, and signal strength.
- Device Phonebook Because come services are about communicating with other users in your area, information may— with your permission — be collected from your device’s phonebook, such as your contacts and related information.
- Camera, Photos, and Audio Many services require collection of images and other information from your device’s camera, photos, and microphone. For example, you won’t be able to upload photos from your camera roll unless we can access your camera or photos.
- Location Information When you use Highlight NIL LLC services information about your location may be collected. With your permission, information about your precise location that includes methods such as GPS signals may be collected.
- Information Collected by Cookies and Other Technologies Like most online services and mobile applications, cookies and other technologies, such as web beacons, web storage, and unique advertising identifiers, maybe used to collect information about your activity, browser, and device. These technologies may also be used to collect information about when you interact with services offered through partners, such as advertising and commerce features. For example, information collected on other websites to show you more relevant ads may be used. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually remove or reject browser cookies through the settings on your browser or device. Removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of services.
- Log Information Log information when you use our website may be collected. For example:
- details about how you’ve used services;
- device information, such as your web browser type and language;
- access times;
- pages viewed;
- IP address;
- identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser; and
- pages you visited before or after navigating to our website.
- Other information, with your permission There may be instances when you interact with services that we will ask your permission to collect additional information.
Information We Collect from Third Parties
We may collect information about you from other users, our affiliates, and third parties. Here are a few examples:
- Information from advertisers, app developers, publishers, and other third parties may be obtained to help target or measure the performance of ads, among other ways.
- If another user uploads their contact list, combined information about you from that user’s contact list with other information collected about you may be used.
- We may receive information from third parties, including website publishers, social network providers, law enforcement, and others, about potential violators of our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines.
How We Use Information
Your information may be used to improve the products and services provided by Highlight NIL LLC. For example:
- develop, operate, improve, deliver, maintain, and protect products and services.
- with your permission, provide, personalize, and improve our advertising services, ad targeting, and ad measurement, including through the use of your content and precise location information both on and off our services.
- develop and improve algorithms and machine learning models, including for personalization, advertising, augmented reality, fairness and inclusivity, and to prevent abuse or other Terms and Conditions violations.
- conduct research to better understand users and general consumer interests and trends, including the ways services are used.
- use information you provide to communicate with you on other messaging platforms.
- enhance the safety and security of products and services.
- verify your identity and prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity.
- use information collected from cookies and other technology to enhance our services and your experience with them.
- enforce, investigate, and report conduct violating our Terms and Conditions and other usage policies, respond to requests from law enforcement, and comply with legal requirements.
- send you communications, including by email, SMS, or other messaging platforms, where permitted.
- send you communications, including by email, SMS, or other messaging platforms, where permitted.
How We Share Information
Here are the ways information about you may be shared:
- With other users The following information may be shared with other users:
- information about you, such as your username, name, and other public profile information.
- information about how you have interacted with Highlight NIL LLC services and content you’ve engaged with.
- information about your device such as the operating system and device type.
- any additional information you have directed can be shared.
- content you post or send.
- With all users, business partners, and the general public The following information may beshared with all users as well as with business partners and the general public:
- public information like your name, username, profile pictures, and other information on your public profile.
- Public content and any content that you submit to an inherently public service. This content may be viewed, used, and shared by the public at large both on and off Highlight NIL LLC services, including through search results, on websites, in apps, and in online and offline broadcasts.
- With third parties Information maybe shared with third parties in the following ways:
- information may be shared with service providers who perform services, including to facilitate payments and measure and optimize the performance of ads and deliver more relevant ads, including on third-party websites and apps.
- information about you may be shared with business partners that provide services and functionality on services.
- information about you, such as device and usage information, may be shared to help us and others prevent fraud.
- information about you may be shared for legal, safety, and security reasons. Information about you maybe shared if reasonably believed that disclosing the information is needed to:
- comply with any valid legal process, governmental request, or applicable law, rule, or regulation.
- investigate, remedy, or enforce potential Terms and Conditions violations.
- protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, or others.
- detect and resolve any fraud or security concerns.
- information about you may be shared as part of a merger or acquisition. If Highlight NIL LLC gets involved in a merger, asset sale, financing, liquidation or bankruptcy, or acquisition of all or some portion of our business to another company, your information may be shared with that company before and after the transaction closes.
- Non-personal information Information may also be shared with third parties that provide services to us or perform business purposes for us aggregated, non-personally identifiable, or de-identified information.
Third-Party Content and Integrations
Highlight NIL LLC services may contain third-party content and integrations. Through these integrations, you may be providing information to the third party as well as to Highlight. Highlight NIL LLC is not responsible for how those third parties collect or use your information. As always, you are encouraged to review the privacy policies of every third-party service that you visit or use, including those third parties you interact with through our services.
How Long We Keep Your Information
We store some information shared indefinitely. For example:
- basic account information — like your name, phone number, and email address — until you ask Highlight NIL LLC to delete them.
- location information for different lengths of time based on how precise it is and which services you use.
If you ever decide to stop using Highlight, you can ask Highlight to delete your account. Highlight NIL LLC will also delete most of the information collected about you after you’ve been inactive for a while.
While systems are designed to carry out deletion practices automatically, it cannot be promised that deletion will occur within a specific timeframe. There may be legal requirements to store your data and deletion practices may need to suspended if valid legal process asking us to preserve content is reported, reports of abuse or other Terms and Conditions violations is reported, or if your account, content created by you, or content created with other users is flagged by others or our systems for abuse or other Terms and Conditions violations. Certain information may also be retained in backup for a limited period of time or as required by law.
Control Over Your Information
You can control your with the following tools:
- Access, Correction, and Portability You can access and edit most of your basic account information right in Highlight. Because your privacy is important, you will be asked to verify your identity or provide additional information you may access or update your personal information. Your request to access or update your personal information may be rejected for a number of reasons, including, for example, if the request risks the privacy of other users or is unlawful.
- Revoking permissions In most cases, if you let Highlight NIL LLC use your information, you can simply revoke your permission by changing the settings in the app or on your device if your device offers those options. Of course, if you do that, certain services may lose full functionality. For promotional emails and messages sent by SMS or other messaging platforms, you may opt out by clicking on the unsubscribe link or similar mechanism as provided.
- Deletion You may delete your account for any reason. You can also delete some information in the app.
International Data Transfers
Your personal information may be collected from, transfer it to, and store and process it in the United States and other countries outside of where you live. Whenever information is shared outside of where you live or with third parties, adequate transfer mechanism will take place when legally required to do so.
State and Region Specific Information
You may have specific privacy rights in your state or region. For example, in the United States, residents of California and other states have specific privacy rights. Users in the European Economic Area (EEA), the UK, Brazil, the Republic of Korea, and other jurisdictions also have specific rights.
Our Audience
Highlight NIL LLC services are not intended for — and are not directed to — anyone under 13. Personal information from anyone under 13 is not intentionally collected. In addition, Highlight NIL LLC may limit how it collects, uses, and stores some of the information of users under 18. In some cases, this means some users may not have certain functionality.
Updates to the Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. But when we do, we’ll let you know one way or another — revising the date at the top of the Privacy Policy that’s available on this website and mobile application, additional notice (such as adding a statement to our websites’ homepages or providing you with an in-app notification), or other ways.