Privacy Policy
1. Baseskills.app Privacy Statement
Base Apps, Inc. ("Base") knows that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our Privacy Statement. By using the baseskills.app website, or any of our mobile applications (such as are available via the App Store and Google Play Store), and any related services and/or features (collectively, the "Service") you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Statement. If you are a resident of the European Union ("EU"), United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, Norway, or Iceland, you may have additional rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR") with respect to your Personal Information, as outlined below.
baseskills.app website, or any of our mobile applications (such as are available via the App Store and Google
Play Store), and any related services and/or features (collectively, the "Service") you acknowledge that you
accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Statement. If you are a resident of the European
Union ("EU"), United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, Norway, or Iceland, you may have additional rights under the EU
General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR") with respect to your Personal Information, as outlined below.
2. What Does This Privacy Statement Cover?
This Privacy Statement covers Base's treatment of personally identifiable information ("Personal Information")
that Base gathers when you access/use the Service.
3. What Personal Information Does Base Collect?
Base collects information you voluntarily submit to the Service, such as, the information we collect when you
register for an account: your name, email address, school, date of birth, etc.
Information you elect to submit to the Service in a public or quasi-public manner may be disclosed to other
users of the Application or the general public ("User Submission(s)"). For example–if you make a post to a
message board or chat forum that includes any personal information – such information will be made publicly
available. We endeavor to make sure the Service's functionality puts you on reasonable notice as to the scope
of an intended submission.
In addition, we may automatically receive and store certain, anonymous types of information whenever you
interact with the Service. Such information may include the user's IP address, domain server, and type of
Internet browser. This information helps us, among other things, analyze trends and administer the Service.
This information is anonymous and contains no personally identifiable data.
Do Not Track Policy. Through cookies we place on your browser or device, we may collect information about your
online activity after you leave our Services. Just like any other usage information we collect, this
information allows us to improve the Services and customize your online experience, and otherwise as described
in this Privacy Policy. Your browser may offer you a "Do Not Track" option, which allows you to signal to
operators of websites and web applications and services (including behavioral advertising services) that you
do not wish such operators to track certain of your online activities over time and across different websites.
Our Services do not support Do Not Track requests at this time, which means that we collect information about
your online activity both while you are using the Services and after you leave our Services.
4. What about children?
The safety and privacy of children is extremely important to us. If you are a resident of the EU, United
Kingdom, Liechtenstein, Norway, or Iceland, then you must be 16 years old or older to use the Services in any
way. Otherwise, every user of the Service must be 13 years of age or older. Any person that does not meet the
foregoing age requirements is a "Minor". Minors are prohibited from signing up or using the Service in any
way. If you are a Minor, please do not attempt to register for the Services or send any personal information
about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a Minor, we will delete
that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a Minor may have provided us personal
information, please contact us at privacy@Base.org. We reserve the right to require any user to verify that
the user is not a Minor, and if a user does not provide such verification in a timely manner, we will
terminate the user's account and delete all personally identifiable information displaying on the site and
collected from such user.
5. How does Base use the information it collects?
Provide the Service: Your information will be used primarily to
provide you with the Service.
Improve the Service: Your information may be used by us internally to
improve the Service and develop new products, services and features.
Other Uses: Your information may also be used by us as set forth in
the next section.
6. Will Base Share Any of the Personal Information it Receives?
To the limited extent we collect Personal Information – we neither rent nor sell your Personal Information to
anyone. We share your Personal Information only as described below.
Recipient of User Submissions: As mentioned above – your User
Submissions may be shared in a public or quasi-public manner.
Service Providers and Agents: We employ other companies and people to
perform tasks on our behalf. For example, we may decide to use a third-party payment processing company to
process payments you make through the Service. In addition, parts of the Service may be hosted by a third
party on our behalf. Your information may be accessed by such providers/agents in the event that we need to
share your information with them to provide our services or customer support to you. Unless we tell you
differently, Base's agents do not have any right to use Personal Information we share with them beyond what is
necessary to assist us.
Business Transfers: In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell
assets. In these types of transactions, customer information is typically one of the business assets that are
transferred. Moreover, if Base, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event
that Base goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, customer information would be one of the assets that is
transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer
of Base may continue to use your Personal Information as set forth in this policy.
Protection of Base and Others: We may release Personal Information
when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with the law; enforce or apply our
conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Base, our employees, our
users, or others.
With Your Consent: Except as set forth above, you will be notified
when your Personal Information may be shared with third parties and will be able to prevent the sharing of
this information.
7. Conditions of Use
If you decide to access or use the Service, such access and use and any possible dispute over privacy is
subject to this Privacy Statement and our Terms of Use (located on our website), including limitations on
damages, disclaimer of warranties, and the application of California state law.
8. Third Party Websites/Services
The Site may permit you to link to other websites on the Internet, and other websites may contain links to the
Site. These other websites are not under Base's control, and such links do not constitute an endorsement by
Base of those other websites or the services offered through them. The privacy and security practices of
websites linked to or from the Service are not covered by this Privacy Statement, and Base is not responsible
for the privacy or security practices or the content of such websites.
9. Opting out of all future emails
If you would like to stop receiving email from Base, simply visit the Email section of your Account settings
and uncheck any and all boxes.
10. Privacy Shield
The Services are hosted and operated in the United States ("U.S.") through Base and its service providers, and
if you do not reside in the U.S., laws in the U.S. may differ from the laws where you reside. By using the
Services, you acknowledge that any Personal Data about you, regardless of whether provided by you or obtained
from a third party, is being provided to Base in the U.S. and will be hosted on U.S. servers, and you
authorize Base to transfer, store, and process your information to and in the U.S., and possibly other
countries. You hereby consent to the transfer of your data to the U.S. pursuant to the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S.
Privacy Shield Framework, the details of which are further set forth below.
Base has certified to the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework set forth by the U.S. Department of
Commerce regarding the collection and use of Personal Data transferred from the EU and Switzerland. For more
information about the Privacy Shield Program, and to view Base's certification, please visit
www.privacyshield.gov. Base is committed to the Privacy Shield Principles of (1) notice, (2) consent, (3)
accountability for onward transfer, (4) security, (5) data integrity and purpose limitation, (6) access, and
(7) recourse, enforcement, and liability with respect to all Personal Data received from within the EU and
Switzerland in reliance on the Privacy Shield. The Privacy Shield Principles require that we remain
potentially liable if any third party processing subject Personal Data on our behalf fails to comply with
these Privacy Shield Principles (except to the extent we are not responsible for the event giving rise to any
alleged damage). Base's compliance with the Privacy Shield is subject to the investigatory and enforcement
powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Please contact us at privacy+gdpr@Base.org with any questions or concerns relating to our Privacy Shield
Certification. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your Privacy Shield-related complaint from us,
or if we have not resolved your complaint, you may also resolve a Privacy Shield-related complaint through
JAMS, an alternative dispute resolution provider located in the United States. You can visit
https://www.jamsadr.com/file-an-eu-us-privacy-shield-claim for more information or to file a complaint, at no
cost to you. Under certain conditions, you may also be entitled to invoke binding arbitration for complaints
not resolved by other means.
11. California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident please click to learn more about your privacy rights.
12. GDPR
For this GDPR section, we use the terms "Personal Data" and "processing" as they are defined in the GDPR, but
"Personal Data" generally means information that can be used to individually identify a person, and
"processing" generally covers actions that can be performed in connection with data such as collection, use,
storage, and disclosure. Base will be the controller of your Personal Data processed in connection with the
Sites. Note that we may also process Personal Data of our customers' end users or employees in connection with
our provision of services to customers, in which case we are the processor of Personal Data. If we are the
processor of your Personal Data (i.e., not the controller), please contact the controller party in the first
instance to address your rights with respect to such data.
If there are any conflicts between this section and any other provision of this Privacy Policy, the policy or
portion that is more protective of Personal Data shall control to the extent of such conflict. If you have any
questions about this section or whether any of the following applies to you, please contact us at
privacy+gdpr@Base.org.
What Personal Data Do We Collect From You?
We collect Personal Data about you when you provide such information directly to us, when third parties such
as our business partners or service providers provide us with Personal Data about you, or when Personal Data
about you is automatically collected in connection with your use of our Sites.
Information we collect directly from you: We receive Personal Data
directly from you when you provide us with such Personal Data, including without limitation the following:
Required:
{'\n'}- First and last name
{'\n'}- Email address
{'\n'}- Birthdate
{'\n'}- IP address(es)
Optional:
{'\n'}- Mailing address
{'\n'}- Telephone number
{'\n'}- Facts about education history and career
{'\n'}- General location
Information we receive from third party sources: Some third parties
such as our business partners and service providers provide us with Personal Data about you, such as the
following:
Account information for third party services: If you interact with a
third-party service when using our Sites, such as if you use a third-party service to log in to our Sites
(e.g., Facebook, Google, or Twitter), or if you share content from our Sites through a third-party social
media service, the third-party service will send us information about you, such as information from your
public profile, if the third-party service and your account settings allow such sharing. The information we
receive will depend on the policies and your account settings with the third-party service.
Information we automatically collect when you use our Sites: Some
Personal Data is automatically collected when you use our Sites, such as the following:
- IP address
{'\n'}- Device identifiers
{'\n'}- Web browser information
{'\n'}- Page view statistics
{'\n'}- Browsing history
{'\n'}- Usage information
{'\n'}- Transaction information (e.g., transaction amount, date, and time such transaction occurred)
{'\n'}- Cookies and other tracking technologies (e.g., web beacons, pixel tags, SDKs, etc.) — For more
information, please review our Cookie Policy.
{'\n'}- Location inferred from your IP address
{'\n'}- Log data (e.g., access times, hardware, and software information)
How Do We Use Your Personal Data? We process Personal Data to operate,
improve, understand, and personalize our Sites. For example, we use Personal Data to:
- Create and manage user profiles
{'\n'}- Communicate with you about the Sites
{'\n'}- Process orders
{'\n'}- Contact you about Site announcements, updates, or offers
{'\n'}- Provide support and assistance for the Sites
{'\n'}- Personalize website content and communications based on your preferences
{'\n'}- Meet contract or legal obligations
{'\n'}- Respond to user inquiries
{'\n'}- Fulfill user requests
{'\n'}- Comply with our legal or contractual obligations
{'\n'}- Resolve disputes
{'\n'}- Protect against or deter fraudulent, illegal, or harmful actions
{'\n'}- Enforce our Terms and Conditions
We will only process your Personal Data if we have a lawful basis for doing so. Lawful bases for processing
include consent, contractual necessity, and our "legitimate interests" or the legitimate interest of others,
as further described below.
Contractual Necessity: We process the following categories of Personal
Data as a matter of "contractual necessity," meaning that we need to process the data to perform under our
Terms and Conditions with you, which enables us to provide you with the Sites. When we process data due to
contractual necessity, failure to provide such Personal Data will result in your inability to use some or all
portions of the Sites that require such data.
- First and last name
{'\n'}- Email address
{'\n'}- Birthdate
{'\n'}- Mailing address
{'\n'}- Telephone number
{'\n'}- Facts about education history and career
{'\n'}- General location
Legitimate Interest: We process the following categories of Personal
Data when we believe it furthers the legitimate interest of us or third parties.
- First and last name
{'\n'}- Email address
{'\n'}- Birthdate
{'\n'}- IP address(es)
Examples of these legitimate interests include:
- Operation and improvement of our business, products, and services
{'\n'}- Marketing of our products and services
{'\n'}- Provision of customer support
{'\n'}- Protection from fraud or security threats
{'\n'}- Compliance with legal obligations
{'\n'}- Completion of corporate transactions
Consent: In some cases, we process Personal Data based on the consent
you expressly grant to us at the time we collect such data. When we process Personal Data based on your
consent, it will be expressly indicated to you at the point and time of collection.
Other Processing Grounds: From time to time we may also need to
process Personal Data to comply with a legal obligation, if it is necessary to protect the vital interests of
you or other data subjects, or if it is necessary for a task carried out in the public interest.
How and With Whom Do We Share Your Data? We share Personal Data with
vendors, third-party service providers, and agents who work on our behalf and provide us with services related
to the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or our Terms and Conditions. These parties include:
- Payment processors
{'\n'}- Ad networks
{'\n'}- Analytics service providers
{'\n'}- Services to provide customer support
{'\n'}- Hosting service providers
We also share Personal Data when necessary to complete a transaction initiated or authorized by you or provide
you with a product or service you have requested. In addition to those set forth above, these parties also
include:
- Other users (where you post information publicly or as otherwise necessary to effect a transaction initiated
or authorized by you through the Sites)
{'\n'}- Social media services (if you interact with them through your use of the Sites)
{'\n'}- Other parties authorized by you
We also share information with third parties when you have given us consent to do so (as indicated at the
point such information is collected).
We also share Personal Data when we believe it is necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other
government agencies
{'\n'}- Protect us, our business, or our users, for example to enforce our Terms and Conditions, prevent spam
or other unwanted communications, and investigate or protect against fraud
{'\n'}- Maintain the security of our products and services
{'\n'}- Provide a service directly authorized and requested by you, the end user
Furthermore, if we choose to buy or sell assets, user information is typically one of the transferred business
assets. Moreover, if we, or substantially all of our assets, were acquired, or if we go out of business or
enter bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that are transferred or acquired by a third
party, and we would share Personal Data with the party that is acquiring our assets. You acknowledge that such
transfers may occur and that any acquirer of us or our assets may continue to use your Personal Information as
set forth in this policy.
How Long Do We Retain Your Personal Data? We retain Personal Data
about you as long as you have an open account with us or as otherwise necessary to provide you Services. In
some cases, we retain Personal Data for longer if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations,
resolve disputes, or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule, or
regulation. Afterwards, we retain some information in a depersonalized or aggregated form but not in a way
that would identify you personally.
What Security Measures Do We Use? We seek to protect Personal Data
using appropriate technical and organizational measures based on the type of Personal Data and applicable
processing activity. For example, we encrypt all data in transit, obfuscate and anonymize data that we share
with processors like analytics services, and maintain all services with security patches in a timely manner.
We also require that our suppliers protect such information from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure.
Personal Data of Children: We do not knowingly collect or solicit
Personal Data from anyone under the age of 16. If you are under 16, please do not attempt to register for the
Sites or send any Personal Data about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected Personal Data from a
child under age 16, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under
16 may have provided us Personal Data, please contact us at privacy+gdpr@Base.org.
What Rights Do You Have Regarding Your Personal Data? You have certain
rights with respect to your Personal Data, including those set forth below. For more information about these
rights, or to submit a request, please email privacy+gdpr@Base.org. Please note that in some circumstances, we
may not be able to fully comply with your request, such as if it is frivolous or extremely impractical, if it
jeopardizes the rights of others, or if it is not required by law, but in those circumstances, we will still
respond to notify you of such a decision. In some cases, we may also need you to provide us with additional
information, which may include Personal Data, if necessary, to verify your identity and the nature of your
request.
- Access: You can request more information about the Personal Data we
hold about you and request a copy of such Personal Data. You can also access your Personal Data by visiting
Account settings {'>'} Export your data.
- Rectification: If you believe that any Personal Data we are holding
about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can request that we correct or supplement such data. In certain
circumstances, you can correct some of this information directly by updating it in the relevant Account
settings.
- Erasure: You can request that we erase some or all of your Personal
Data from our systems.
- Withdrawal of Consent: If we are processing your Personal Data based
on your consent (as indicated at the time of collection of such data), you have the right to withdraw your
consent at any time. Please note, however, that if you exercise this right, you may have to then provide
express consent on a case-by-case basis for the use or disclosure of certain of your Personal Data if such use
or disclosure is necessary to enable you to utilize some or all of our Sites.
- Portability: You can ask for a copy of your Personal Data in a
machine-readable format. You can also request that we transmit the data to another controller where
technically feasible.
- Objection: You can contact us to let us know that you object to the
further use or disclosure of your Personal Data for certain purposes.
- Restriction of Processing: You can ask us to restrict further
processing of your Personal Data.
- Right to File Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint
about Base's practices with respect to your Personal Data with the supervisory authority of your country or EU
Member State.
13. Changes to this Privacy Statement
Base may amend this Privacy Statement from time to time. Use of information we collect now is subject to the
Privacy Statement in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes in the way we use
Personal Information, we will notify you by posting an announcement on our website, or via the Service, or
sending you an email. Users are bound by any changes to the Privacy Statement when they use the Service after
such changes have been first posted.
14. Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy, please send us a detailed message at
privacy@Base.org. We will make every effort to resolve your concerns.
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