Welcome to Spotlytt, we are a skill discovery platform built for modern professionals globally with a mission to help them showcase their skills in a more productive and successful way through the form of videos and audio. People use our Services to be found for business and career opportunities, connect with others and find relevant information. This Privacy Policy applies to any Member or Visitor of our Services. Our registered users (“Members”) create and share their professional identities, engage with their network, exchange knowledge and professional insights, post and view relevant content, learn and develop skills, discover business and career opportunities. As a Visitor or Member of our Services, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy and other documents referenced in this Privacy Policy, as well as updates.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and being transparent about the data we collect and how we use it. This Privacy Policy explains the personal data and/or personal information that we, doing business as Spotlytt (“Spotlytt”, “we”, “us”, “our”), collect and process when you visit our website (“Website”) or use the services and applications we offer (“Services”). In this Privacy Policy, we refer to our Website and Services collectively as our “Offerings”.
This Privacy Policy governs our collection and use of your personal data or personal information (or equivalent terms under applicable law). When we refer to your “data” or your “information” in this Privacy Policy, we are referring to personal data or personal information as defined by applicable law. We use those terms interchangeable throughout this Policy to refer to data or information that relates to you as an identifiable person, identifies, relates to, or describes you, or can be reasonably be associated with or linked to you.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our practices and your rights regarding your data. Changes to the Privacy Policy apply to your use of our Services after the stated “effective date”. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy in whole or any part of it, you should not access or use our Offerings.
Table of Contents
1. Data We Collect
1.1. Data You Provide to Us
You provide data to create an account with us.
Registration
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To create an account, you need to provide data including your name, email address and/or mobile number, general location (e.g., city, country), age and a password.
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If you register for a premium Service, you will need to provide payment (e.g., credit card) and billing information.
Profile
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You have choices about the information on your profile, such as your education, work experience, skills, photo, city or area, endorsements, and optional verifications of information on your profile (such as verifications of your identity or workplace).
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You don’t have to provide additional information on your profile; however, profile information helps you to get more from our Services, including helping recruiters and business opportunities find you.
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It’s your choice whether to include sensitive information on your profile and to make that sensitive information public.
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Please do not post or add personal data to your profile that you would not want to be publicly available.
Uploading and Posting
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We collect personal data from you when you provide, upload or post it to our Services, such as when you post a video, audio, fill out career summary, submit a job application on our Services.
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You don’t have to upload or post personal data; though if you don’t, it may limit your ability to grow and engage with your network over our Services.
1.2. Data from Others
Others may post or write about you.
Content
- You and others may post content that includes information about you (as part of posts, comments, videos, audios) on our Services. We also may collect public information about you, such as professional-related news and accomplishments, and make it available as part of our Services, including, as permitted by your settings, in notifications to others of mentions in the news.
Partners
- We receive personal data (e.g., your job title and work email address) about you when you use the services of our customers and partners, such as employers or prospective employers and applicant tracking systems providing us job application data.
1.3. Service Use
We log usage data when you visit or otherwise use our Services, including our website, app and platform technology, such as when you view or click on content (e.g., watching video) or ads (on or off our sites and app), perform a search, install or update one of our mobile app, share profiles, or apply for jobs. We use log-ins, cookies, device information and internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to identify you and log your use.
1.4. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We collect data through cookies and similar technologies to collect data to recognize you and your devices on, off and across different services and devices where you have engaged with our Services. We also allow some others to use cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. If you are outside the Designated Countries, we also collect information about your device where you have not engaged with our Services (e.g., ad ID, IP address, operating system and browser information) so we can provide our Members with relevant ads and better understand their effectiveness. We use data from cookies and similar technologies that track your behaviour on the sites of others for ad targeting and other ad-related purposes. If you opt out, it may limit your limit your ability to grow and engage with your network over our Services.
1.5. Your Device and Location
When you visit or leave our Services, we receive the URL of both the site you came from and the one you go to and the time of your visit. We also get information about your network and device (e.g., IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser and add-ons, device identifier and features, cookie IDs and/or ISP, or your mobile carrier). If you use our Services from a mobile device, that device will send us data about your location based on your phone settings. We will ask you to opt-in before we use GPS or other tools to identify your precise location.
1.6. Communications
We collect information about you when you communicate with others through our Services (e.g., when you post videos, audios, comment, send, receive, or engage with messages or connection requests, including our marketing communications). This may include information that indicates who you are communicating with and when. We also use automated systems to support and protect our site.
2. How We Use Your Data
2.1. Services
We use your data to provide, support, personalize and develop our Services and train artificial intelligence (AI) models to gain insights with the help of AI, automated systems, and inferences, so that our Services can be more relevant and useful to you and others. Our Services also allow you to improve your professional skills, or learn new ones. We use the data we have about you (e.g., data you provide, data we collect from your engagement with our Services and inferences we make from the data we have about you), to personalize our Services for you, such as by recommending or ranking relevant content and conversations on our Services. We also use the data we have about you to suggest skills you could add to your profile and skills that you might need to pursue your next opportunity. We also use this information to personalize content in your feed, suggest that you follow certain Members on our site, or suggest related learning content to help you towards that skill. We use your content, activity and other data, including your name and photo, to provide notices to your network and others.
We use data about you (such as your profile, profiles you have viewed or data provided through videos, audio and career summary) to help others find your profile, suggest connections for you and others (e.g. Members who share your contacts or job experiences) and enable you to invite others to become a Member and connect with you. Subject to your and their settings, when you connect with other Members, you will be able to search each other connections in order to exchange professional opportunities. It is your choice whether to invite someone to our Services, send a connection request, or allow another Member to become your connection. When you invite someone to connect with you, your invitation will include your network and basic profile information (e.g., name, profile photo, job title, region). We will send invitation reminders to the person you invited.
Our Services allow you to explore careers, evaluate opportunities, and seek out, and be found for, career opportunities. Your profile can be found by those looking to hire (for a job or a specific task) or be hired by you. We will use your data to recommend jobs and show you and others relevant professional contacts (e.g., who work at a company, in an industry, function or location or have certain skills and connections). You can signal that you are interested in changing jobs and share information with recruiters. We will use your data to recommend jobs to you and you to recruiters. Keeping your profile accurate and up-to-date may help you better connect to others and to opportunities through our Services.
Our premium Services help paying users to show more relevant content, promote content, search for and contact Members through our Services We sell premium Services that provide our customers and subscribers with customized-search functionality and tools (including messaging and activity alerts) as part of our talent, marketing and sales solutions.
2.2. Communication
We contact you and enable communications between Members. We offer settings to control what messages you receive and how often you receive some types of messages. We will contact you through email, mobile phone, notices posted on our websites or apps, messages to your Spotlytt inbox, and other ways through our Services, including text messages and push notifications. We will send you messages about the availability of our Services, security, or other service-related issues. We also send messages about how to use our Services, network updates and promotional messages from us and our partners.
2.3. Advertising
We serve you tailored ads both on and off our Services. We offer you choices regarding personalized ads, but you cannot opt-out of seeing non-personalized ads. We target (and measure the performance of) ads to Members, Visitors and others both on and off our Services directly or through a variety of partners. We will show you ads called sponsored content which look similar to non-sponsored content, except that they are labelled as advertising (e.g., as “ad” or “sponsored”). If you take a social action (such as like, comment or share) on these ads, your action is associated with your name and viewable by others, including the advertiser.
We do not share your personal data with any non-Affiliated third-party advertisers or ad networks except for: (i) hashed IDs or device identifiers (to the extent they are personal data in some countries); (ii) with your separate permission (e.g., in a lead generation form) or (iii) data already visible to any users of the Services (e.g., profile). However, if you view or click on an ad on or off our Services, the ad provider will get a signal that someone visited the page that displayed the ad, and they may, through the use of mechanisms such as cookies, determine it is you. Advertising partners can associate personal data collected by the advertiser directly from you with hashed IDs or device identifiers received from us. We seek to contractually require such advertising partners to obtain your explicit, opt-in consent before doing so where legally required, and in such instances, we take steps to ensure that consent has been provided before processing data from them.
2.4. Other Research
We use data, including public feedback, to conduct research and development for our Services in order to provide you and others with a better, more intuitive and personalized experience, drive membership growth and engagement on our Services, and help connect professionals to each other and to economic opportunity.
We seek to create opportunity for Members of the global workforce and to help them be more productive and successful. We use the personal data available to us to research social, economic and workplace trends, such as skills needed, trending skills, and jobs availability for these jobs and policies that help bridge the gap in various industries and geographic areas. In some cases, we work with trusted third parties to perform this research, under controls that are designed to protect your privacy. We may also make public data available to researchers to enable assessment of the safety and legal compliance of our Services.
2.5. Customer Support
We use data (which can include your communications) to investigate, respond to and resolve complaints and for Service issues (e.g., bugs).
2.6. Security and Investigations
We use your data (including your communications) for security purposes or to prevent or investigate possible fraud or other violations of the law, our User Agreement and/or attempts to harm our Members, Visitors, company, Affiliates, or others.
3. How We Share Information
3.1. Our Services
Any data that you include on your profile and any content you post or social action (e.g., video, audio, likes, follows, comments, shares) you take on our Services will be seen by others, consistent with your settings. Subject to your settings, it can also be visible to others on or off of our Services (e.g., Visitors to our Services or users of third-party search tools). When you share an article or a post (e.g. video, audio, image, or text) publicly it can be viewed by everyone anywhere. Members, Visitors and others will be able to find and see your publicly-shared content, including your name (and photo if you have provided one). When you follow a person or organization, you are visible to others and that “page owner” as a follower. We will share your personal data with our Affiliates to provide and develop our Services.
3.2. Service Providers
We may use others to help us with our Services (e.g., maintenance, analysis, audit, payments, fraud detection, customer support, marketing and development). They will have access to your information (e.g., the contents of a customer support request) as reasonably necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes. If you purchase a Service from us, we may use a payments service provider who may separately collect information about you (e.g., for fraud prevention or to comply with legal obligations).
3.3. Legal Disclosures
We may need to share your data when we believe it’s required by law or to help protect the rights and safety of you, us or others. It is possible that we will need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (2) enforce our agreements with you; (3) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; (4) protect the security or integrity of our Services or the products or services of our Affiliates (such as by sharing with companies facing similar threats); or (5) exercise or protect the rights and safety of Spotlytt, our Members, personnel or others. We attempt to notify Members about legal demands for their personal data when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.
3.4. Change in Control or Sale
We may share your data when our business is sold to others, but it must continue to be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We can also share your personal data as part of a sale, merger or change in control, or in preparation for any of these events. Any other entity which buys us or part of our business will have the right to continue to use your data, but only in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy unless you agree otherwise.
4. Your Choices & Obligations
4.1. Data Retention
We keep most of your personal data for as long as your account is open or as needed to provide you Services. This includes data you or others provided to us and data generated or inferred from your use of our Services. Even if you only use our Services when looking for basic browsing, finding new job every few years, we will retain your information and keep your profile open, unless you close your account. In some cases, we choose to retain certain information (e.g., insights about Services use) in a depersonalized or aggregated form.
4.2. Right to Access and Control your Personal Data
You can access or delete your personal data. You have many choices about how your data is collected, used and shared. We provide many choices about the collection, use and sharing of your data, from deleting or correcting data you include in your profile and controlling the visibility of your posts to advertising opt-outs and communication controls. We offer you settings to control and manage the personal data we have about you. For personal data that we have about you can delete data, ask for change or correct data, object to, or limit or restrict use of data. Visitors can learn more about how to make these requests here. You may also contact us using the contact information below, and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws.
4.3. Account Closure
We keep some of your data even after you close your account. If you choose to close your LinkedIn account, your personal data will generally stop being visible to others on our Services within 48 hours. We generally delete closed account information within 60 days of account closure, except as noted below. We retain your personal data even after you have closed your account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud, enforce our User Agreement, or fulfil your request to "unsubscribe" from further messages from us. We will retain de-personalized information after your account has been closed. Your profile may continue to be displayed in the services of others (e.g., search tools) until they refresh their cache.
5. Other Important Information
5.1. Security
We monitor for and try to prevent security breaches. Please use the security features available through our Services. We implement security safeguards designed to protect your data, such as HTTPS. We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. However, we cannot warrant the security of any information that you send us. There is no guarantee that data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
5.2. Children’s Policy
Our application is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so we can delete such information.
5.3. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
5.4. Contact Information
You can contact us or use other options to resolve any complaints. If you have questions or complaints regarding this Policy, please first contact Spotlytt online or can also reach us by physical mail.