Last Updated: May 16. 2025
This Privacy Policy explains how Napplo LLC ("Napplo," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and shares information about you when you use our website, services, and applications (collectively, the "Services").
1. Information We Collect
1.1 Information You Provide to Us
We collect information you provide directly to us when you:
- Create an account (e.g., name, email address, password)
- Complete your profile (e.g., professional details, skills, experience)
- Participate in challenges (e.g., submissions, code, designs)
- Communicate with other users or teams
- Provide feedback or contact us
1.2 Automatically Collected Information
When you access or use our Services, we automatically collect certain information, including:
- Log Information: We record information about your use of our Services, including your browser type, access times, pages viewed, and your IP address.
- Device Information: We collect information about the device you use to access our Services, including hardware model, operating system, and unique device identifiers.
- Usage Information: We track your interactions with our Services, including challenge participation, voting activities, and user engagement metrics.
- Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your browsing behavior and preferences.
1.3 Information from Third Parties
We may receive information about you from third parties, such as:
- Social media platforms when you connect your account
- Other users who invite you to join teams
- Business partners with whom we offer co-branded services
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Provide, maintain, and improve our Services
- Create and manage your account and profile
- Process and display your challenge submissions
- Facilitate team formation and collaboration
- Track achievements and community recognition
- Respond to your comments, questions, and requests
- Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support messages
- Understand user preferences to enhance the user experience
- Develop new features and functionality
- Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services
- Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities
- Personalize content based on your preferences
- Protect the rights and property of Napplo and others
3. Sharing of Information
3.1 Public Information
The following information is considered public and may be visible to other users or visitors of our Services:
- Your profile information (except for your email address and password)
- Your challenge submissions and portfolio projects
- Your activity in public challenges and community discussions
- Achievements and recognitions earned on the platform
3.2 Sharing with Third Parties
We may share information about you as follows:
- With Challenge Sponsors: For sponsored/rewarded challenges, we may share your profile information and submissions with the business sponsoring the challenge.
- With Service Providers: We may share information with vendors, consultants, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf.
- For Legal Reasons: We may share information if we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request.
- For Safety and Protection: We may share information if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of Napplo, our users, or the public.
- With Your Consent: We may share information with third parties when you give us explicit consent to do so.
3.3 Aggregated or De-identified Information
We may share aggregated or de-identified information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you, for various purposes including analytics, improvement of our Services, and promotional purposes.
4. Data Retention
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you with our Services. We will also retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
5. Data Security
We take reasonable measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no security system is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems.
6. Your Choices
6.1 Account Information
You may update, correct, or delete your account information at any time by logging into your account settings. If you wish to delete your account, please follow the instructions available through our Services.
6.2 Cookies
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Services.
6.3 Promotional Communications
You may opt out of receiving promotional emails from us by following the instructions in those emails. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.
7. Children's Privacy
Our Services are not directed to children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will promptly delete that information.
8. International Data Transfers
Napplo is based in the United States, and the information we collect is governed by U.S. law. If you are accessing our Services from outside the United States, please be aware that information collected through our Services will be transferred to, processed, and stored in the United States. The data protection laws of the United States may differ from those of the country in which you are located. By using our Services, you consent to this transfer.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by email or through our Services prior to the changes becoming effective. Your continued use of our Services after any such update constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [contact email].