StandOut Connect Privacy Policy

Privacy is important to StandOut. This Privacy Policy describes the type of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you use our websites, https://www.standoutconnect.org and https://standoutsearch.com (collectively, the "Website"), and your engagement with our services, including, without limitation, when you engage with us through the Website or otherwise, or when you make any purchases you may make (collectively, the "Services") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. Please review this policy carefully. When you use our Services, you are consenting to the collection, use, sharing, and storage of your Personal Information as described below. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not access or use the Services.

This Privacy Policy supplements and is incorporated into our Terms of Service which, together with this Privacy Policy, govern your use of the Services. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by the Services. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meaning given to them in the Terms of Service. If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please send us an email at info@standoutsearch.com.

The terms "StandOut" or "StandOut Connect" or "StandOut Search" or "us" or "we" or "our" refer to StandOutSearch Inc., the owner of the Services. The terms "you" or "your" refer to the user or viewer of the Services.

Information Collection

We collect information from those who visit and interact with our Services, including information:

• By which you may be personally identified, such as: (1) your name; (2) date of birth or age; (3) education information; (4) geographic information; (5) your parents' or guardians' names and contact information; (6) email address; (7) home address; (8) phone number; (9) order and payment information; and (10) application responses, comments, requests, and other information you may offer ("Personal Information");
• That is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or
• That is non-identifiable information related to your access to our Services, including, but not limited to, your IP address, Services visits, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, and page interaction information.

We collect the above information directly from you when you provide it to us, automatically as you navigate the Services, and from third parties, such as service providers, partner organizations and publicly available sources.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Services may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website, including but not limited to information provided at the time that you apply for any of our programs;
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us;
• Your responses to optional surveys, polls, or other similar items that we might distribute; and/or
• Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Services.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Services, or transmitted to other users of the Services or third-parties, including but not limited to any reviews of our programs (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Means

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include Personal Information, or we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our 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 our 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 our Website.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website 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 for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Third Parties

Articles and other information shared on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.

In addition to the third-party content above, StandOut currently engages Google Analytics and Google Ads, services provided by Google LLC ("Google"), and may engage other advertising platforms, such as Meta, TikTok and OpenAI, to help us analyze how users use the site and to advertise our Services and measure the results. Google and these platforms may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information to help StandOut evaluate your use of the Website, compile reports on Website activity, measure advertising and provide other information related to the Services and Website usage. StandOut may permit Google and, from time to time, other such third-party analytics providers to combine information collected through our Services with information collected from third-party services, and these analytics providers may use this information to help StandOut better understand our users. These analytics providers may also use this information to help their other customers better understand their users. To learn more about how Google Analytics uses your information, click the following link: How Google Uses Data Collected By Google Analytics.

We expressly disclaim any and all liability for the actions of third parties. The privacy practices of any third parties are outside the scope of this Privacy Policy and their use or disclosure of your information (including your Personal Information) will be governed by their own privacy practices or policies. We encourage you to review the privacy practices or policies of those third parties.

Information Use

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:

• To present our Services and our Website and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us or information, products or services that we think you may be interested in.
• To fulfill the purpose of any programs you may have applied to.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

For more information, see the Your Access to and Control Over Information section below.

Text Messages

If you give us your mobile number and agree to receive texts, we may send you text messages about your application and our Services. We only send promotional text messages if you have separately agreed to receive them, and agreeing to receive promotional texts is never a condition of applying or enrolling. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. To stop receiving texts, reply STOP; for help, reply HELP or email us at info@standoutsearch.com.

Notwithstanding anything else in this Privacy Policy, mobile phone numbers and text messaging opt-in data and consent will never be shared with or sold to third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.

Information Sharing

We do not ever sell your Personal Information for commercial purposes. We may share your information with third parties to facilitate your engagement with any programs you have qualified for. We may share your information with third party service providers that help us to run the Services or to facilitate the Services you obtain from us. We may share your information to monitor or improve our Services. We may also share information with third parties in limited circumstances, such as complying with legal processes, cooperating with law enforcement, preventing fraud or imminent harm, ensuring the security of our network and services, when we believe your actions violate our Terms of Service, or in the event we are transferred or sold to another entity as a result of a corporate sale, merger, consolidation, asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

Information Retention

We retain the information we collect from you for as long as we deem necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless otherwise required and authorized by applicable law.

Your Access to and Control Over 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 this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Contacts Directly From StandOut. You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can contact us to do the following:
  • See what data we have about you, if any.
  • Modify any data we have about you.
  • Delete any data we have about you.
  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

If you would like to access, modify, or delete your Personal Information, you may submit a request to info@standoutsearch.com. A parent or guardian may also make these requests on behalf of their child. Residents of certain states, such as California, Nevada, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia and Utah may have additional Personal Information rights and choices. Please see the Your State's Privacy Rights section below for more information. We will promptly review all such requests in accordance with applicable laws.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information.

When you submit information through our Website, it is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

The computer servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

StandOut will make its best efforts to protect your information, but StandOut cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to us or store on the Services, and you do so at your own risk. We also cannot guarantee that such information will not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of StandOut's physical, technical, or administrative safeguards.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

The Services are intended for high school students, who must be at least 14 years old to use the Services as stated in our Terms of Service, and for their parents or guardians. The Services are not directed to children under 13 years old. We do not target the Services to children under 13, and we do not intentionally collect any information from users under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information through the Services. If you become aware that a child has used the Services, and we may have Personal Information about a user under 13, please contact us at info@standoutsearch.com, so we may delete the information.

Your State Privacy Rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their Personal Information.

Additional Disclosures for California Users

Shine the Light

StandOut does not disclose Personal Information to third parties for those third parties' own direct marketing purposes.

Notice of Collection

In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of Personal Information enumerated in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended (the "CCPA"):

• Identifiers, including name, postal address, email address, phone number, and IP address.
• Commercial and financial information, including tuition payments and information you provide about your financial circumstances.
• Characteristics of protected classifications, including age.
• Internet activity, including your interactions with our Website.
• Employment and education data, including information you provide when you apply for a job with us or when you engage with the Services.
• Inferences, including information about your interests, preferences and favorites.

For more details on the information we collect and how we may share it, review the Information Collection, Information Use and Information Sharing sections above.

Right to Know and Delete

Consumers who are California residents (and not representatives of businesses, whether those businesses are our clients or others) have the right to know certain information about our data practices in the preceding 12 months. In particular, they have the right to request the following from us:

• The categories of Personal Information we have collected about them;
• The categories of sources from which the Personal Information was collected;
• The categories of Personal Information about them that we disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
• The categories of third parties to whom the Personal Information was disclosed for a business purpose or sold; and
• The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the Personal Information.

In addition, in certain circumstances, California consumers have the right to delete the Personal Information we have collected from them.

To exercise any of these rights, California consumers should email us at info@standoutsearch.com (using the subject line "California Privacy Rights Request") or write to us at the following address: 93 Ocean Heights Lane, Ogunquit, Maine 03907. In the request, please specify which right you are seeking to exercise and the scope of the request. We will confirm receipt of your request within 10 days. We may require specific information from you to help us verify your identity and process your request. If we are unable to verify your identity, we may deny your requests to know or delete.

Authorized Agent

You can designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf. However, we will require written proof of the agent's permission to do so and verify your identity directly.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

StandOut does not sell Personal Information as the term "sell" is defined under the CCPA.

Right to Non-Discrimination

You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of any of your rights.

Additional State Disclosures

Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah each provide their state residents with rights to:

• Confirm whether we process their Personal Information.
• Access and delete certain Personal Information.
• Data portability.
• Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising and sales.

Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia also provide their state residents with rights to:

• Correct inaccuracies in their Personal Information, taking into account the information's nature and processing purpose.
• Opt-out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

To exercise any of these rights please email info@standoutsearch.com.

Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain Personal Information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to this designated address: info@standoutsearch.com. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute's opt-out requirements.

International Users

The Services are hosted in the United States and are intended primarily for visitors located within the United States. If you choose to use the Services from outside the United States or in a jurisdiction with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from the laws of the United States, you hereby authorize and consent to the transfer of your Personal Information outside of such region and to the United States, or any other jurisdiction to be determined in StandOut's sole discretion, for data storage and processing purposes.

While StandOut does not specifically target its Services to individuals outside of the United States, it voluntarily offers individuals in other countries the rights described in Your Access to and Control Over Information. You may also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority. To exercise any of these rights, please contact StandOut at info@standoutsearch.com.

Changes and Updates to Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically, and this will be reflected by the date above. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. Your continued use of the Services constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any future revisions.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please email us at info@standoutsearch.com.