Privacy policy.
Last modified: January 2025
Introduction
Varsity Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, doing business as Venturous (“Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website http://venturous.work (our “Website”) and/or access our services (our “Services”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to the information we collect:
On this Website or in connection with providing our Services to you.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and us, including messages submitted or received through the Website.
It does not apply to information collected by:
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 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 our Website or Services. By accessing or using the Website or our Services, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy1). Your continued use of our Website or Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website and our Services. The type of information depends primarily on the type of user you are.
For “candidates,” which refers to individuals that access our Website or Services for their own benefit, including individual professionals accessing our Website or registering for our Services that are interested in being placed with our clients to provide fractional or full-time executive services, we may collect the following types of information:
Information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, social security number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
Information that is about you but individually does not (but may indirectly) identify you, such as non-personal information that you might list on a resume. For example, this may include current and past work history (which may include the names of companies for which you have worked, dates of service, the positions you held, and other details about your work history), educational experience (including the institutions you attended, the degrees or other recognition earned at such institutions, and the dates you attended and received such degrees/recognition), professional skills (for example, languages spoken, aptitude or experience working with specific business technology or concepts), professional references (including their names, titles or positions, and contact information), and other non-identifying personal details.
Information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details, including, for example, the pages on our Website that you visit.
For “client representatives,” meaning individuals representing businesses and other organizations, including business and organizations that are or are interested in becoming our clients to obtain access to our network of talented professionals for fractional and fulltime placement services, we may collect the following types of information:
Information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline, including personal and work addresses and numbers depending on which you elect to provide (“personal information”);
Information that is about you but individually does not (but may indirectly) identify you, such as details about the business or organization you work for and your role within that business or organization.
We collect this information:
Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through the Website or make use of our Services.
Children Under the Age of 18
Our Website and Services are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to us or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, use any of the interactive features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 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 us at privacy@venturous.work2.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
Your search queries on the Website.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we may limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website who may access 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 Data Collection Technologies
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 you. 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. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information3.
Web Beacons. Pages of our 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 us, 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 certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with Services and other information that you request from us.
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 our Services.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website and access our Services.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
In the case of candidates, to client representatives, and in the case of client representatives, to candidates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
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 us about users of our Website and Services are among the assets transferred.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, we may forward a candidate’s resume information to a client that we think may be interested in engaging with that candidate.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our Terms of Service4 and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our clients, candidates, or others.
Aggregated/Anonymized Information and Artificial Intelligence
We may compile, use and disclose aggregated, anonymized information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction, for any lawful purposes.
We may also use artificial intelligence to parse information you provide to us to assist us in providing Services to you and for any other lawful purpose (for example, to assist in matching candidates with clients). In order to maintain and improve this artificial intelligence technology, you agree that we may use the information we collect from or about you to improve or “train” our artificial intelligence models. The fact that any such technology has been trained on information we may have collected from or about you shall not be deemed to vest in you any right or interest in any improvements we make in that technology.
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 this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users.
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 exact scope of these rights varies by state. To exercise any of these rights please contact us at privacy@venturous.work.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
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 our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or 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 ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our 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 us at: privacy@venturous.work.