Effective Date: July 26, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how Scrumentorship.com ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, stores, protects, and discloses your personal information when you visit or make use of our website, scrumentorship.com (the "Site"). We are based in Canton, GA, USA.

We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information responsibly and in compliance with applicable data protection laws.

1. Information We Collect

We collect various types of information from and about users of our Site, depending on how you interact with us.

a. Personal Information You Provide to Us Directly: This is information you voluntarily provide when you use our services, register for an account, subscribe to our newsletter, contact us, participate in mentorship programs, or otherwise interact with the Site. This may include:

Identifiers: Your real name, email address, phone number, postal address, unique personal identifiers, and account credentials (e.g., username, password).

Professional/Educational Information: Information related to your professional background, educational history, skills, interests, and goals relevant to mentorship. This could include your resume or CV if uploaded.

Commercial Information: Records of services or resources you purchase, obtain, or consider through our Site (e.g., if we offer paid mentorship programs, courses, or premium content).

User-Generated Content: Any content you submit to the Site, such as profile descriptions, mentorship requests, feedback, messages exchanged within the platform, forum posts, or testimonials.

Payment Information: If you make a purchase or subscribe to paid services, we collect necessary payment details (e.g., credit card number, billing address). Note: We typically use secure third-party payment processors (e.g., Stripe, PayPal) who directly collect and process your payment information. We do not store sensitive payment card details on our servers.

b. Information Collected Automatically: When you access and use the Site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and your activity. This information is primarily used to maintain the security and operation of our Site, and for our internal analytics, performance monitoring, and reporting purposes. This may include:

Internet or Other Similar Network Activity: Your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, operating system, device information (e.g., device ID), referring URL, pages viewed, the time and date of your visit, and the time spent on those pages.

Geolocation Data: General location information derived from your IP address. We do not collect precise geolocation without your explicit consent.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and similar technologies to collect information about your Browse activities. Please refer to Section 5 for more details on our use of these technologies.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various business and commercial purposes, including:

To Provide and Maintain Our Services: To operate and manage scrumentorship.com, facilitate mentor-mentee connections, deliver educational content and resources, create and manage user accounts, and process transactions (if applicable).

To Personalize Your Experience: To tailor the content, resources, and mentorship opportunities presented to you based on your interests, qualifications, and past interactions.

To Facilitate Mentorship Connections: To match mentors and mentees based on submitted profiles, interests, and stated goals. Information necessary for this matching and communication will be shared between matched parties within the platform.

To Communicate With You: To respond to your inquiries, send you administrative notifications (e.g., account updates, session reminders), provide customer support, and, with your consent where required, send you newsletters, marketing communications, or updates about our services.

For Analytics and Improvement: To understand how users interact with our Site, analyze trends, track user movements, and gather demographic information about our user base to improve our Site's functionality, content, and the effectiveness of our programs.

For Security and Fraud Prevention: To detect, prevent, and investigate potential security breaches, fraudulent activities, and other harmful or illegal activities.

To Comply with Legal Obligations: To meet our legal and regulatory requirements, including responding to lawful requests from public authorities.

For Marketing and Promotional Purposes: To deliver targeted advertisements to you, or send you promotional materials that may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving marketing communications as described in Section 7.

3. How We Disclose Your Information

We may disclose your personal information to third parties for various business or commercial purposes, as described below:

With Other Users (Mentors/Mentees): As the core function of ScRumentorship.com involves connecting mentors with mentees, certain personal information (e.g., profile information, areas of expertise/interest, communication preferences, public profile details) will be visible to, or shared with, other users within the platform to facilitate the mentorship relationship. You control the information displayed on your public profile.

Service Providers: We engage third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our services, provide services on our behalf, or assist us in analyzing how our Site is used. These include, but are not limited to, website hosting providers, payment processors, analytics providers (e.g., Google Analytics), email marketing services, communication tools, and customer support platforms. These service providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and may only use it for the specific purposes for which we disclose it to them.

Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

Legal Requirements and Law Enforcement: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency). We may also disclose your information to protect our rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of our users or others, or to enforce our terms of service.

With Your Consent: We may share your information with your explicit consent or at your direction for specific purposes not outlined in this policy.

We do not "sell" your personal information in the traditional sense for monetary gain. However, like many websites, we may "share" certain information with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising (e.g., displaying ads on other sites based on your interests on our Site), which may be considered "sharing" or a "sale" under certain state laws (e.g., CCPA/CPRA).

4. Data Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. These measures include using secure servers, encryption (SSL/TLS) for data in transit, access controls, and regular security assessments.

While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your data. You are also responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (e.g., web beacons, pixels) to track activity on our Site and hold certain information.

Cookies: Small data files placed on your device. We use both session cookies (which expire when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which remain on your device until you delete them). Cookies help us:

Remember your preferences and settings.

Analyze website traffic and usage patterns.

Provide personalized content and features.

Facilitate certain website functionalities (e.g., keeping you logged in).

Support our marketing and advertising efforts.

Web Beacons/Pixels: Small graphic files embedded in web pages or emails that allow us to count users who have visited certain pages or opened emails and collect other related website statistics.

Categories of Cookies We Use:

Strictly Necessary Cookies: Essential for the Site to function correctly (e.g., enabling login, security features).

Performance/Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with the Site by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Functionality Cookies: Enable the Site to remember choices you make (e.g., username, language) and provide enhanced, more personal features.

Advertising/Targeting Cookies: Used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

Your Choices Regarding Cookies: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can typically find these settings in your browser's "Options" or "Preferences" menu. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site or experience full functionality. You may also be able to opt-out of certain third-party advertising cookies through industry opt-out pages like the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) Opt-Out Page or the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Opt-Out Page.

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

The length of time you have an active account or relationship with us.

The nature and sensitivity of the data and the purpose for which it was collected.

Our legal and contractual obligations.

The necessity of retaining the data for audit, security, or fraud prevention purposes.

7. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your residency and applicable laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. We will respond to your requests to exercise these rights in accordance with applicable law.

a. For California Residents (California Consumer Privacy Act/California Privacy Rights Act - CCPA/CPRA): If you are a California resident, you have the following rights regarding your personal information, subject to certain exceptions:

Right to Know: The right to request that we disclose to you the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources from which personal information is collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information, and the categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information.

Right to Delete: The right to request the deletion of personal information that we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.

Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing: The right to opt-out of the "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information (as defined by CCPA/CPRA) for cross-context behavioral advertising. We provide a "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link in our Site's footer.

Right to Correct: The right to request the correction of inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.

Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: The right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information to that which is necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer.

Right to Non-Discrimination: The right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of your privacy rights.

To exercise these rights, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by:

Emailing us at: [email protected]

Visiting our contact page: scrumentorship.com/contact-us

Calling us at: (904) 760-1846

We will verify your request using information associated with your account, including your email address. Government identification may be required for certain requests. You may also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf.

b. For Users in the European Economic Area (EEA) and the UK (General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR): If you are located in the EEA or the UK, and we process your personal data, you have the following data protection rights:

The Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.

The Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.

The Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

The Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we have collected and processed your personal data with your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. If you have concerns about our handling of your personal data, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in the EEA/UK.

c. For Residents of Other US States (e.g., Virginia, Colorado, Utah, Connecticut): If you are a resident of Virginia, Colorado, Utah, or Connecticut, you may have similar rights to access, delete, and opt-out of the sale or targeted advertising of your personal data. Please contact us using the information below to exercise your rights.

8. Children's Privacy (COPPA Compliance)

Our Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately at [email protected], and we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

9. Links to Other Websites

Our Site may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. 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.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Effective Date" at the top of this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Your continued use of the Site after any changes indicates your acceptance of the updated policy.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your privacy rights, or our data practices, please contact us:

Emailing us at: [email protected]

Visiting our contact page: scrumentorship.com/contact-us

Calling us at: (904) 760-1846