PRIVACY POLICY
LAST MODIFIED: DECEMBER 13, 2024
Introduction
Selective Search Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company doing business as Selective Search (“Company,” “we” or “us”), respects the privacy of any individual accessing or using the Company’s website https://www.selectivesearch.com (the “Website”), or any other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Website (collectively, “you” or “your”). We are committed to protecting your privacy through compliance with this privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”).
This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Website and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect (as applicable): (i) on the Website; (ii) through email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website; and (iii) when you interact with or otherwise communicate through the Website.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by: (i) the Company offline or through any other means other than the Website, including, without limitation, on any other website operated by the Company or any other third party; or (ii) any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use the Website. By accessing or using the Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy below). Your continued use of the Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 18
The Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any Personal Information (as defined below) to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 18. If you are under 18 years of age, do not use or provide any information on the Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, use the interactive or public comment features of the Website (if any), or provide any information about yourself to the Company, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 18 years of age without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact the Company at info@selectivesearch.com.
Residents of certain states under 13, 16, or 18 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their Personal Information. Please see Your State Privacy Rights below for more information.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We may collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including:
Information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, email address, telephone number or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (collectively “Personal Information”).
Information that is about you but individually does not identify you.
Usage data that may include information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access the Website, and usage details.
We collect this information:
Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
From third parties, for example, our business partners.
Information You Provide to the Company
The information we collect on or through this Website may include:
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of: registering to our Website, applying to serve as a candidate, or requesting further services from the Company. We may also ask you for information if or when you report a problem with our Website.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys and other questions that we might ask you to complete if you request information about the Company or express a desire to use or otherwise participate in the services offered by the Company.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with the Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
Information such as your device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, operating system, the pages of the Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When accessing the Website by or through a mobile device, we may collect usage data that may include information such as the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include Personal Information, but we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps the Company to improve the Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including, by enabling the Company to:
Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to the Website. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information below.
Web Beacons. Certain sections of the Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect Personal Information automatically, but we may tie non-Personal Information collected automatically to Personal Information about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us.
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, that are currently or may in the future, be on the Website, may be served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies (alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies) to collect information about you when you use the Website. 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 and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
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. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information below.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:
Provide and Maintain the Website: To present the Website and its contents to you and to monitor the usage of the Website.
Requested Information: To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
Notifications: To notify you about changes to the Website, as well as other news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already inquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
Other Purposes: To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
Interactive Participation: To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
Specific Identified Purpose: In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
Analytical Purposes: For other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve the Website, as well as our products, services, marketing and Website experience.
Consent: For any other purpose with your consent.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose Personal Information that we collect, or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
Affiliates: To our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor and comply with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Service Providers: To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (“Service Providers”) and who have agreed to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
Business Transfers: To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by the Company about the Website users is among the assets transferred.
Specific Identified Purpose: To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
As Disclosed or Consented To: For any other purpose disclosed by the Company when you provide the information, or any other purpose with your consent.
We may also disclose your Personal Information:
Compliance With Laws: To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
Enforcement Purposes: To enforce or apply our Terms of Use located at https://www.selectivesearch.com/terms-of-use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
Additional Obligations: If, in the good faith belief of the Company, such disclosure is necessary to: (i) comply with any other legal obligation; (ii) protect and/or defend the rights, property, or safety of the Company, its customers or other third parties; or (iii) protect against legal liability.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising: You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Promotional Offers from the Company: If you do not wish to have your contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to info@selectivesearch.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may also send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a service purchase, service experience or other transactions.
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 located at https://thenai.org/opt-out/.
Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights below for more information.
Correcting Your Information
You can send us an email at info@selectivesearch.com to request access to, correct, or delete any Personal Information that you have provided to us. 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.
Residents of certain states may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their Personal Information. Please see Your State Privacy Rights below for more information
Processing of Your Information
The Service Providers we use may have access to your information, including Personal Information. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about your activity on the Website in accordance with their Privacy Policies.
Analytics – Google Analytics
We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of the Website. The Company currently uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of the Website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Email Marketing – Salesforce
We may use your Personal Information to contact you with promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from the Company by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting the Company at info@selectivesearch.com. We may use Email Marketing service providers such as Salesforce to manage and send emails to you. Salesforce’s privacy policy can be viewed at https://www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/.
Your State Privacy Rights
State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their Personal Information.
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:
Confirm whether we process their Personal Information.
Access and delete certain Personal Information.
Correct inaccuracies in their Personal Information, taking into account the information's nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
Data portability.
Opt-out of personal data processing for: targeted advertising (excluding Iowa), sales, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.
The scope of these rights may vary depending on your state. To exercise any of these rights, please email the Company at info@selectivesearch.com with your specific request. If you wish to appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request, please email the Company at info@selectivesearch.com with the subject line “Consumer Rights Appeal Request.”.
Links to Other Websites
The Website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by the Company. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to the Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' Personal Information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting the Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact the Company at: info@selectivesearch.com OR 35 E. Wacker Drive, Suite 1920, Chicago, IL 60601, Attn: Privacy Policy.