Last Updated: January 2026
Our Role in Processing Personal Data
Data protection laws sometimes differentiate between “controllers” and “processors” of personal data. A “controller” determines the purposes and means (the why and how) of processing personal data. A “processor,” which is sometimes referred to as a “service provider,” processes personal data on behalf of a controller subject to the controller’s instructions.
This Privacy Policy describes our privacy practices where we are acting as the controller of personal data. However, this Privacy Policy does not cover or address how our customers may process personal data when they use our services, or how we may process personal data on their behalf in accordance with their instructions where we are acting as their processor. As a result, we recommend referring to the Privacy Policy of the customer with which you have a relationship for information on how they engage processors, like us, to process personal data on their behalf. In addition, we are generally not permitted to respond to individual requests relating to personal data we process on behalf of our customers, so we recommend directing any requests to the relevant customer.
Our Collection and Use of Personal Data
The categories of personal data we collect depend on how you interact with us and our services. For example, you may provide us your personal data directly when you sign up for our mailing list, register for an account, make an online purchase, post a review, participate in an event, contest, promotion or survey, interact with social networking features, or otherwise contact us or interact with us.
We also collect personal data automatically when you interact with our websites and other services and may also collect personal data from other sources and third parties.
Personal Data Provided by Individuals
We collect the following categories of personal data individuals provide us:
Contact Information, including first and last name, alias, phone number, email address, mailing address, and communication preferences. We use this information primarily to fulfill your request or transaction, to communicate with you directly, and to send you marketing communications in accordance with your preferences.
Account Information, including first and last name, account name, alias, email address, phone number, account credentials or one-time passcodes, and the products or services you are interested in, purchased, or have otherwise used. We use this information primarily to administer your account, provide you with our products and services, communicate with you regarding your account and your use of our products and services, and for customer support purposes.
Customer Content, including any files, documents, audio, videos, images, data, or communications you choose to input, upload, or transmit to our products and services, and audio recordings of customer service calls. We use this content primarily to provide you with our products and services, to facilitate your requests, and to improve our products and services.
Payment Information, including payment card information, billing address, and other financial information (such as, routing and account number). Please note that we use third-party payment providers to process payments made to us. We do not retain any personally identifiable financial information, such as payment card number, you provide these third-party payment providers in connection with payments. Rather, all such information is provided directly by you to our third-party payment providers. The payment provider’s use of your personal data is governed by their Privacy Policy.
Event, Contest, Promotion, and Survey Information, including information provided when you sign up for an event, enter a contest or promotion, complete a survey or submit a testimonial. We use this information primarily to administer and facilitate our products and services, respond to your submission, communicate with you, conduct market research, inform our marketing and advertising activities, improve and grow our business, and facilitate the related event, content, promotion, or survey.
Feedback and Support Information, including the contents of custom messages sent through the forms, chat platforms, including our online live chat or automated chat functions, email addresses, or other contact information we make available to customers, as well as recordings of calls with us, where permitted by law (including through the use of automated tools provided by us or our third-party providers). We use this information primarily to investigate and respond to your inquiries, to communicate with you via online chat, email, phone, text message or social media, and to improve our products and services.
Security-Related Information, including name and contact information of visitors to our premises, video recordings of videos on our premises, and electronic login records and access details when a visitor utilizes company technology on our premises. We use this information primarily to protect the security of our premises, employees, and our company.
If you choose to contact us, we may need additional information to fulfill the request or respond to your inquiry. We may provide additional privacy disclosures where the scope of the request we receive or personal data we require fall outside the scope of this Privacy Policy. In that case, the additional privacy disclosures will govern how we may process the information you provide at that time.
Personal Data Automatically Collected
We, and our third-party partners, automatically collect information you provide to us and information about how you access and use our products and services when you engage with us. We typically collect this information through the use of a variety of our own and our third-party partners’ automatic data collection technologies, including (i) cookies or small data files that are stored on an individual’s computer and (ii) other, related technologies, such as web beacons, pixels, embedded scripts, mobile SDKs, location-identifying technologies and logging technologies. Information we collect automatically about you may be combined with other personal information we collect directly from you or receive from other sources.
We, and our third-party partners, use automatic data collection technologies to automatically collect the following data when you use our services or otherwise engage with us:
Information About Your Device and Network, including the device type, manufacturer, and model, operating system, IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, and unique identifiers associated with you, your device, or your network (including, for example, a persistent device identifier or advertising ID). We employ third-party technologies designed to allow us to recognize when two or more devices are likely being used by the same individual and may leverage these technologies (where permitted) to link information collected from different devices.
Information About the Way Individuals Use Our Services and Interact With Us, including the site from which you came, the site to which you are going when you leave our services, how frequently you access our services, whether you open emails or click the links contained in emails, whether you access our services from multiple devices, and other browsing behavior and actions you take on our services (such as the pages you visit, the content you view, videos you watch, the communications you have through our services, and the content, links and ads you interact with). We employ third-party technologies designed to allow us to collect detailed information about browsing behavior and actions that you take on our services, which may record your mouse movements, scrolling, clicks, and keystroke activity on our services and other browsing, search or purchasing behavior. These third-party technologies may also record information you enter when you interact with our products or services, or engage in chat features or other communication platforms we provide.
Information About Your Location, including general geographic location that we or our third-party providers may derive from your IP address, as well as geolocation when you grant us access through your device settings (for example, if you choose to provide your GPS location via a mobile app).
All of the information collected automatically through these tools allows us to improve your customer experience. For example, we may use this information to enhance and personalize your user experience, to monitor and improve our products and services, to offer communications features such as live and automated chat, and to improve the effectiveness of our products, services, offers, advertising, communications and customer service. We may also use this information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the site; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information, including targeted content and advertising; (c) identify you across multiple devices; (d) provide and monitor the effectiveness of our services; (e) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, usage, and demographic patterns on our website; (f) diagnose or fix technology problems; and (g) otherwise to plan for and enhance our products and services.
For information about the choices you may have in relation to our use of automatic data collection technologies, please refer to the Your Privacy Choices section below. For additional details about the cookies we use on our websites and to adjust your preferences with regard to those cookies, please visit our “Cookie Preferences” manager linked in the footer of our websites.
Personal Data from Other Sources and Third Parties
We may receive the same categories of personal data as described above from the following sources and other parties:
Our Affiliates: We are able to offer you the products and services we make available because of the hard work of our team members across all sharpseeks entities. To provide our products and facilitate our services, sharpseeks entities receive personal data from other sharpseeks entities for purposes and uses that are consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Single Sign-On: We may provide you the ability to log in to our services through certain third-party accounts you maintain. When you use these single sign-on protocols to access our services, we do not receive your login credentials for the relevant third-party service. Instead, we receive tokens from the single sign-on protocol to help identify you in our system (such as by your username) and confirm you successfully authenticated through the single sign-on protocol. This information allows us to more easily provide you access to our products and services.
Mobile Sign-On: We may provide you the ability to log in to our mobile applications or authenticate yourself using facial, fingerprint, or other biometric recognition technology available through your mobile device. If you choose to utilize these login features, information about your facial geometry, your fingerprint, or other biometric information will be collected by your mobile device for authentication purposes. We do not store or have access to this biometric information. Instead, your mobile device will perform the biometric authentication process and only let us know whether the authentication was successful. If the authentication was successful, you will be able to access the applicable mobile application or feature without separately providing your credentials. For more details, please refer to the biometric authentication guides offered by your device provider.
Employers: If you interact with our services in connection with your employment, we may obtain personal data about you from your employer or another company for which you work. For example, we may obtain your contact information from your employer to allow us to communicate with you about your employer’s customer relationship with us.
Other Customers: We may receive your personal data from our other customers. For example, a customer may provide us with your contact information as a part of a referral.
Social Media: When you interact with our services through other social media networks, such as when you follow us or share our content on other social networks, we may receive some information that you permit the social network to share with third parties. The data we receive is dependent upon your privacy settings with the social network, and may include profile information, profile picture, username, and any other information you permit the social network to share with third parties. You should always review and, if necessary, adjust your privacy settings on third-party websites and social media networks and services before sharing information and/or linking or connecting them to other services. We use this information primarily to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of our products and services, as well as to communicate directly with you, such as to send you messages about features that may be of interest to you.
Advertisers, Influencers, and Publishers: We engage in advertising both on our services and through third-party services. Advertisers, influencers, and publishers may share personal data with us in connection with our advertising efforts. For example, we may obtain information about whether an advertisement on our services led to a successful engagement between you and a third-party advertiser.
Business Partners: We may receive your information from our business partners, such as companies that offer their products and/or services as a part of or in connection with our services. For example, certain of our products and services allow our customers to integrate third-party services. If you choose to leverage these third-party service integrations, we may receive confirmation from our business partner regarding whether you are an existing customer of their services.
Service Providers: Our service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as analytics and certain marketing providers, collect personal data and often share some or all of this information with us. For example, we receive personal data you may submit in response to requests for feedback to our survey providers.
Other Sources: We may also collect personal data about you from other sources, including publicly available sources, third-party data providers, brand partnerships, or through transactions such as mergers and acquisitions.
Inferences: We may generate inferences or predictions about you and your interests and preferences based on the other personal data we collect and the interactions we have with you.
Additional Uses of Personal Data
In addition to the primary purposes for using personal data described above, we may also use personal data we collect to:
Fulfill or meet the reason the information was provided, such as to fulfill our contractual obligations, to facilitate payment for our products and services, or to deliver the services requested;
Manage our organization and its day-to-day operations;
Communicate with you, including via email, text message, chat, social media and/or telephone calls;
Facilitate the relationship we have with you and, where applicable, the company you represent;
Request you provide us feedback about our product and service offerings;
Address inquiries or complaints made by or about an individual in connection with our products or services;
Create and maintain accounts for our users;
Verify your identity and entitlement to our products and services;
Register you for and provide you access to events, contests, sweepstakes, and surveys;
Market our products and services to you, including through email, phone, text message, push notification, and social media;
Administer, improve, and personalize our products and services, including by recognizing you and remembering your information when you return to our products and services;
Develop, operate, improve, maintain, protect, and provide the features and functionality of our products and services;
Identify and analyze how you use our products and services;
Infer additional information about you from your use of our products and services, such as your interests.
Create aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you, which information we may use for purposes outside the scope of this Privacy Policy;
Conduct research and analytics on our user base and our products and services, including to better understand the demographics of our users;
Improve and customize our products and services to address the needs and interests of our user base and other individuals we interact with;
Test, enhance, update, and monitor the products and services, or diagnose or fix technology problems;
Help maintain and enhance the safety, security, and integrity of our property, products, services, technology, assets, and business;
Defend, protect, or enforce our rights or applicable contracts and agreements (including our Terms & Conditions), as well as to resolve disputes, to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights, and to protect our business interests and the interests and rights of third parties;
Detect, prevent, investigate, or provide notice of security incidents or other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity and protect the rights and property of sharpseeks and others;
Facilitate business transactions and reorganizations impacting the structure of our business;
Comply with contractual and legal obligations and requirements;
Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide your personal data, or for which you have otherwise consented.
Our Disclosure of Personal Data
We disclose, sell/share or otherwise make available personal data in the following ways:
To Our Affiliates: We are able to offer you the products and services we make available because of the hard work of our team members across sharpseeks entities. To provide our products and facilitate our services, sharpseeks entities disclose personal data to other sharpseeks entities for purposes and uses that are consistent with this Privacy Policy.
To Your Employer: If you interact with our services in connection with your employment, we may disclose personal data to your employer or another company for which you work. For example, we may provide information to your employer about your usage of our services in connection with your work for them.
To Other Customers and the General Public: We make available personal data designed for sharing through our services with certain or all other sharpseeks customers, or the general public, based on the applicable privacy settings and intended recipients. Keep in mind that the customers who view customer-generated content can always reshare or redistribute the content both on and off our services or save or copy the content outside of our services. In addition, by publicly posting content on our services, you are directing us to disclose that information as broadly as possible and directing those accessing the content to do the same.
To Marketing Providers: We coordinate and share personal data with our marketing providers in order to advertise and communicate with you about the products and services we make available.
To Ad Networks and Advertising Partners: We work with third-party ad networks and advertising partners to deliver advertising and personalized content on our services, on other websites and services, and across other devices. These parties may collect information automatically from your browser or device when you visit our websites and other services through the use of cookies and related technologies. Information collected may include the site from which you came, the site to which you are going when you leave our services, how frequently you access our services, whether you open emails or click the links contained in emails, whether you access our services from multiple devices, and other browsing behavior and actions you take on our services (such as the pages you visit, the content you view, videos you watch, the communications you have through our services, and the content, links and ads you interact with). These third-party technologies may record your mouse movements, scrolling, clicks, and keystroke activity on our services and other browsing, search or purchasing behavior. These third-party technologies may also record information you enter when you interact with our products or services, or engage in chat features or other communication platforms we provide. This information is used to provide and inform targeted advertising, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics, and market research.
To Business Partners: We may share personal data with our business partners, or we may allow our business partners to collect personal data directly from you in connection with our services. Our business partners may use your personal data for their own business and commercial purposes, including to send you information about their products and services.
To Service Providers: We engage other third parties to perform certain services on our behalf in connection with the uses of personal data described in the sections above. Depending on the applicable services, these service providers may process personal data on our behalf or have access to personal data while performing services on our behalf.
To Other Businesses as Needed to Provide Services: We may share personal data with third parties you engage with through our services or as needed to fulfill a request or transaction including, for example, payment processing services.
In Connection with a Business Transaction or Reorganization: We may take part in or be involved with a business transaction or reorganization, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets. We may disclose, transfer, or assign personal data to a third party during negotiation of, in connection with, or as an asset in such a business transaction or reorganization. Also, in the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, receivership, or insolvency, your personal data may be disclosed, transferred, or assigned to third parties in connection with the proceedings or disposition of our assets.
To Facilitate Legal Obligations and Rights: We may disclose personal data to third parties, such as legal advisors and law enforcement:
in connection with the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
to comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process;
to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of our agents, customers, and others, including to enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of use;
to detect, suppress, or prevent fraud;
to reduce credit risk and collect debts owed to us;
to protect the health and safety of us, our customers, or any person; or
as otherwise required by applicable law.
With Your Consent or Direction: We may disclose your personal data to certain other third parties or publicly with your consent or direction. For example, with your permission, we may post your testimonial on our websites.
Children’s Personal Data
Our services are not directed to children under the age of 16. We do not intentionally or knowingly collect or solicit personal data from younger children. If an individual is under the age of 16, they should not use our services or otherwise provide us with any personal data either directly or by other means. If a child under the age of 16 has provided personal data to us, we encourage the child’s parent or guardian to contact us to request that we remove the personal data from our systems. If we learn that any personal data we collect has been provided by a child under the age of 16 we will promptly delete that personal data.
Security of Personal Data
We have implemented reasonable physical, technical, and organizational safeguards that are designed to protect your personal data. However, despite these controls, we cannot completely ensure or warrant the security of your personal data.
Retention of Personal Data
We will usually retain the personal data we collect about you for no longer than reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, and in accordance with our legitimate business interests and applicable law. However, if necessary, we may retain personal data for longer periods of time as required under applicable law or as needed to resolve disputes or protect our legal rights.
To determine the appropriate duration of the retention of personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of personal data and if we can attain our objectives by other means, as well as our legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, and other applicable obligations.
Once retention of the personal data is no longer reasonably necessary for the purposes outlined above, we will either delete or deidentify the personal data or, if that is not possible (for example, because personal data has been stored in backup archives), we will securely store the personal data and isolate it from further active processing until deletion or deidentification is possible.
Third-Party Websites and Services
Our services may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, applications and other services. Except where we post, link to or expressly adopt or refer to this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy does not apply to any personal data practices of third parties. To learn about the personal data practices of third parties, please visit their respective Privacy Policy’s.