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Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 20th, 2024

We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use, and share your personal information. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us or supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.

We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are subject to various laws in the United States and, if applicable, the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom), and we are responsible as “controller” of that personal information for the purposes of those laws if and when they apply.

Key Terms

It would be helpful to start by explaining some key terms used in this policy:

We, us, our, Horse Spot, Inc. or the Company

Personal information

Any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual

Platform

Horse Spot, Inc.’s website, mobile applications, and related services, information, and communications


Personal Information We Collect About You.

We may collect and use the following personal information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household:

Categories of Personal Information:

Specific Types of Personal Information Collected

This personal information is required to provide products to you. If you do not provide the personal information we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from providing products to you.

Information Collection and Tracking Technologies.

When you download, access, or use the Platform, it may use technology to automatically collect or utilize:

How Your Information is Collected.

We collect most of this personal information directly from you – by phone, text, email, your orders, or via our website. However, we may also collect information:

Third Party Information Collection.

When you use the Platform or its content, certain third parties may use automatic information collection technologies to collect information about you or your device. These third parties may include:

These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Platform. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, and other online services websites. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

Any data provided within the United States will not be transferred by us to third countries or international organizations outside the United States. The hosting of the site is also within the United States.

Any data provided outside the United States will be transferred by us to the United States. Where personal data transfers occur internationally, they are governed by safeguards which include International Group Data Transfer Agreements which contain the appropriate Model Contract Clauses for data protection where required. We may transfer any information we collect mentioned above to the United States.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

How and Why We Use Your Personal Information.

Under data protection law, we can only use your personal information if we have a proper reason for doing so, e.g.:

A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.The table below explains what we use (process) your personal information for and our reasons for doing so:

What we use your personal information for

Promotional Communications.

We may use your personal information to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone or mail) about our products, including exclusive offers, promotions or new products.

We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal information for promotional purposes (see above “How and why we use your personal information”). This means we do not usually need your consent to send you promotional communications. However, where consent is needed, we will ask for this consent separately and clearly. We will always treat your personal information with the utmost respect.

You have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications at any time by:

We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you instruct us to provide further products in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.

Who We Share Your Personal Information With.

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual or device, without restriction. We do not sell, trade or otherwise transfer personal information to outside parties (except to the third parties with whom we have contracted to provide services to us, as detailed in the applicable section below). In addition, we may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide:

We only allow our service providers to handle your personal information if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal information. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers to ensure they can only use your personal information to provide services to us and to you. We may also share personal information with external auditors.We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.We may also need to share some personal information with other parties, such as potential buyers of some or all of our business or during a re-structuring. We will typically anonymize information, but this may not always be possible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.

Personal Information We Disclosed for a Business Purpose.

In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed for a business purpose to one or more third parties the following categories of personal information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household:

Where Your Personal Information is Held.

Information may be held at our offices and those of our group companies, third party agencies, service providers, representatives and agents as described above (see above: “Who We Share Your Personal Information with”).

How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept.

We will keep your personal information while you have an account with us or while we are providing products to you. Thereafter, we will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary:

We will not retain your personal information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. Different retention periods apply for different types of personal information.

Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Information.

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Platform and visiting your account profile page.

You may also contact customer support to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Please note, however, that reports and results from competitions cannot be deleted, as records must be kept complete for Horse Spot Users’ benefit. If you have a compelling reason for requesting your competition results’ removal from Horse Spot, please contact us by email at support@horsespot.net and we will work with you on a case-by-case basis.

Sweepstakes, Contests, Raffles, and Similar Promotions.

We typically ask for certain Personal Information when you enter and, if applicable, win a sweepstakes, contest, raffle, or similar promotion. We may share this Personal Information with third-party sponsors of the sweepstakes, contests, raffle, or similar promotion’s rules, as they may contain additional important information about Horse Spot’s and the sponsor/sponsors’ use of your Personal Information. Insofar as the terms and conditions concerning the use of your Personal Information conflict with this Privacy Policy, the rules shall control. For Competitors at Horse Show Operations: Horse Spot is not responsible for assessing and making changes to invoices, prize money, and other monetary rewards or fees associated with entry into, participation in, and winning in, competitions.

Links to Other Sites.

Please be aware that Horse Spot’s website will typically contain links to other sites that are not governed by this Privacy Policy but other privacy policies that will often differ. We encourage users to review the privacy policy of each Website visited before disclosing any personal information.

Children.

Parents, legal guardians and/or trainers (provided they are, in turn, authorized by a parent or legal guardian) may sign minors (children under the age of 18) up as “Exhibitors” for competitions. Children under the age of 18 may not sign up as Exhibitors for competitions without the consent of their parent, legal guardian, and/or trainers (provided they are, authorized by a parent or legal guardian). Horse Spot does not independently collect parental consent for competition participants. Competition Management Companies are responsible for collecting parental consent on behalf of any and all minors who wish to participate in competitions and agree to the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy when collecting information from minor(s), including adhering to the following:

Your Rights Under the GDPR, if and only if applicable.

How to File a GDPR Complaint.

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information. The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live, or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.

Your Rights Under the CCPA.

You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to exercise free of charge:

Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About You

You have the right to know:
(1) The categories of personal information we have collected about you; (2) The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected; (3) Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information; (4) The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information, if any; and• The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

Please note that we are not required to:
(1) Retain any personal information about you that was collected for a single one-time transaction if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about you is not retained; (2) Reidentify or otherwise link any data that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information; or (3) Provide the personal information to you more than twice in a 12-month period.

Personal Information Sold or Used for a Business Purpose

In connection with any personal information we may sell or disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know:

The categories of personal information about you that we sold and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold; and

The categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose.

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
(1) Make a good-faith effort to delete your personal information from our records; and (2) Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not delete your personal information if it is necessary to: (1) Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us; (2) Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity; (3) Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; (4) Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law; (5) Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act; (6) Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent; (7) Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;• (8) Comply with an existing legal obligation; or (9) Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Protection Against Discrimination

You have the right to not be discriminated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the CCPA. This means we cannot, among other things: (1) Deny goods or services to you; (2) Charge different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties; (3) Provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you; or (4) Suggest that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Please note that we may charge a different price or rate or provide a different level or quality of goods to you, if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to our business by your personal information.

Keeping Your Personal Information Secure.

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Platform, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Platform like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Platform.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet and mobile platforms is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted through our Platform. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures we provide.

How to Exercise Your Rights.

If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, please email us at support@horsespot.net.

Please note that you may only make a CCPA-related data access or data portability disclosure request twice within a 12-month period.

If you choose to contact directly by email, you will need to provide us with:

We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information or is someone authorized to act on such person’s behalf.

Any personal information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with your request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.

Disclosures to Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Virginia.

The disclosures in this section apply solely to individual residents of the States of Colorado, Connecticut, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Virginia. Privacy laws in Colorado, Connecticut, Utah and Virginia give residents certain rights with respect to their personal data, and privacy laws in Montana, Oregon, and Texas will give residents certain rights with respect to their personal data when they take effect over the course of 2024. Those rights include:

Nevada-Specific Disclosures.

For residents of the State of Nevada, Chapter 603A of the Nevada Revised Statutes permits a Nevada resident to opt out of future sales of certain covered information that a website operator has collected or will collect about a resident. Although we do not currently sell covered information, please contact us at support@horsespot.net to submit such a request.

Bermuda-Specific Disclosures.

If you live in Bermuda, you have the following rights:

You can make a request or exercise these rights by contacting us at support@horsespot.net and we will make all reasonable and practical efforts to comply with your request, so long as it is consistent with applicable law.

Canada-Specific Disclosures.

If you live in Canada, you have the following additional rights:

You may submit a request by contacting us at support@horsespot.net with the subject line “Canadian Privacy Rights Request”. Before we honor your request, we will need to verify your identity.

Changes to This Privacy Notice.

This privacy notice was published on April 26th, 2024 and last updated on the date set forth above. We may change this privacy notice from time to time–when we do, we will inform you via our website or other means of contact such as email. By accessing the Platform or using the Services after we make any such changes to this Privacy Policy, you are deemed to have accepted such changes. Please refer to this Privacy Policy on a regular basis.

How to Contact Us

Please contact us by email if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you. Our contact details are shown below:

support@horsespot.net
5060 Poole Street
North Charleston, SC 29405

Do You Need Extra Help?

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