Last Updated: 06/27/2024

This section provides additional information for residents of certain states regarding their privacy rights under the consumer privacy laws enacted in those states that grant their residents certain rights and require additional disclosures (“State Laws”). If you are a resident of one of these states, this section applies to you.

As required by certain State Laws, below explains this same information, including the categories of personal information we collect (and have collected over the preceding twelve (12) months), types of entities to which we disclose such information, and the ways we use each category of information.

1. We may collect the following categories of personal information about you.
   
   1. Identifiers. Examples include name, Internet Protocol address, email address, or other identifiers.
   2. Personal information. Examples include name, education, professional or employment data, etc.
   3. Characteristics of protected classifications under state/federal laws. Examples include age or gender.
   4. Internet or other network activity information. Examples include your interactions with internet websites, applications, or databases.
   5. Geolocation data. steppingblocks.com only collects geolocation data on users with registered accounts.
   6. Inferences. Examples may include inferences relating to you based upon certain characteristics.
   7. We may also collect aggregated information about companies, industries, and salaries, and may associate this information with certain profiles.
2. We may collect information from you from various sources, including you and our service providers.
   
   1. Directly from you when you access or use our services, request to receive information about our services, contact our sales team or customer support, attend one of our marketing events or webinars.
   2. From third parties, such as those to whom you have previously provided information.
   3. From publicly-available information.
   4. From our service providers.
3. We may collect your personal information for business purposes.
   1. We may use your personal information to provide services to you, manage business operations, comply with legal and financial obligations, administer customer relationships, and to communicate with you.
   2. To process and manage transactions and payments.
   3. We may use your personal information related to your browser and usage to monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our services.
   4. To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our technology assets and business.
   5. For the development or improvement of our solutions.
   6. For marketing and promotion.
   7. To resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
   8. To respond to law enforcement, governmental, or other legal requests and as required by applicable law.
4. We may disclose your personal information for our business purposes if you are a customer or end user.
   1. Merger, Sale, or Asset Transfer: We may disclose your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Steppingblocks’ assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.
   2. For verification services.
   3. To protect the rights of Steppingblocks, its employees, service providers, assets, business, partners, or others.
   4. To respond to law enforcement, governmental, or other legal requests and as required by applicable law.
   5. We may disclose your personal information to our affiliates and subsidiaries, and to third parties who provide us with services to fulfill the purposes described in this policy.
   6. We may also disclose aggregated or de-identified personal information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you. We will not attempt to re-identify such information except as permitted by law.
   7. Steppingblocks Database
      1. We disclose personal information (name, email address, education, professional qualifications, work history, etc.) about profiles in our database with our business customers.
      2. We may also disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent or at your direction.

1. We may sell or share your personal information.
   1. We may “sell” the following categories of personal information to third parties: (i) identifiers, such as your name, (ii) personal information described under certain state laws, (iii) characteristics of protected classification, such as age or gender, (iv) professional employment information, (v) education information, and (vi) inferences.
   2. We may sell or share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.
   3. We do not knowingly sell the personal information of minors under sixteen years of age. 
   4. We do not sell your financial information when you make payments to us.
2. We may retain your personal information in accordance with our legal obligations.
   1. We may retain your personal information for reasonable periods necessary to provide our services and for other disclosed purposes.
3. Depending on where you reside, you may have rights regarding your personal information.
   1. Right to Notice. The right to notice about our collection, use, disclosure, sale, or sharing of information about you. 
   2. Right to Know. The right to know if Steppingblocks possesses your personal information; and the right to know your personal information, including the specific pieces of personal information that we have about you and information about any automated decision-making, including profiling, about you made by steppingblocks.com. You may use this personal information request form to request access to your personal information.
   3. Right to Correct. The right to request that we correct your personal information. You may use this personal information request form to request correction of your personal information.
   4. Right to Restrict Use and Processing. You can request that we restrict the processing of your personal information. You may use this personal information request form to request restrictions on your profile processing.
   5. Right to Delete. The right to request that we delete the personal information we have collected about you. You may use this personal information request form to request the deletion of your personal information. In certain circumstances, laws may require that we retain personal information.
   6. Right to opt-out of sale/sharing/targeted advertising. You can opt out of the “sale,” “share,” or use of your personal information for targeted advertising. You may do so by using this personal information request form. In certain states, you may opt out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects and solely automated decisions.
   7. Limit the use of personal information and use of sensitive personal information. If you live in California, the right to ask us to limit our use of your personal and sensitive personal information. You may do so by using this personal information request form.
   8. Right to Data Portability. The right to obtain a copy of your personal information and profiling information that you may also request be transmitted to another entity. You may request information using this personal information request form.
   9. Non-Discrimination. You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of your privacy rights under applicable law.
   10. Appeals. You have the right to request an appeal to Steppingblocks’ decision regarding your above rights by emailing privacy@steppingblocks.com.  If you have concerns about the result of an appeal, you may contact the attorney general in the state where you reside.
   11. Non-retaliation. The right to be free from retaliation for exercising any of these rights.
   12. Sensitive and Demographic Personal Information. Steppingblocks makes certain inferences about individuals and stores that information in the database as disclosed above. This information may be considered “sensitive information” under certain states' privacy laws but is not sensitive information as defined by other states’ privacy laws because the information relates to individuals in their professional capacity rather than their consumer or household capacity.
   13. Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: steppingblocks.com uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to analyze visits to our websites and interactions with our communications to help us improve our website, services, and marketing campaigns. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually adjust your browser settings to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our services.

Steppingblocks.com does not offer financial incentives for the collection, retention, or sale of personal information and does not have financial incentive programs for you to opt into.
If you wish to exercise any of these privacy rights, please submit a request via the Privacy Form or via email at privacy@steppingblocks.com. 

In order to protect your personal information from unauthorized access or deletion, we may require you to verify your identity before we can process a privacy request related to your personal information. If we cannot verify your identity, we may be unable to comply with your request to provide, correct, or delete your personal information.

1. You may have the right to designate an authorized agent to act on your behalf.
   
   1. You may have the right to designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We must receive a signed letter from you that describes you, your designated authorized agent, and the purpose of the designation. Your designated agent may then use the access, correction, deletion, and opt-out links described above to make a request on your behalf. In addition, we must still be able to verify your identity before you may access, correct, or delete your personal information.
2. Disputes Regarding Our Privacy Practices
   
   1. If you have a dispute relating to our privacy practices, please email us at privacy@steppingblocks.com.
3. How we protect your information.
   
   1. We have implemented security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to personal information. Despite these measures, no data transmission over the internet can be entirely secure, and we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit via our websites or apps.
   2. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your credentials used to access any Steppingblocks service or account, and you must report suspected unauthorized activity to us.
   3. We make reasonable efforts to restrict access to information to only those employees, contractors, and agents who need such access in order to operate, develop, improve, or deliver our programs, products, and services.
4. We may revise this policy.
   
   1. We may update this policy in accordance with applicable law, including by posting a revised policy on the website that hosts this policy.
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6. You may contact us.
   
   1. If you have any questions or concerns about this policy or your rights, you may contact us by emailing us at privacy@steppingblocks.com or at the mailing address Steppingblocks, Inc. 3423 Piedmont Road NE, Suite R17, Atlanta, Georgia 30305.