i. Introduction
School of the Legends, LLC, a Tennessee limited liability company (“SOTL”, “we” or “us”) operates this website, service offering, and unique media environment where fans, athletes, and others can find news and information and original content about NFL teams and players. As the largest community of NFL players, SOTL enable registered users ("Fan" or "Athlete") to directly comment alongside some of their favorite professional football players ("Legends"), past, present, and keep up with those players' activities on the field and away from the game (for the purposes of the SOTL Terms & Conditions of User at sotl.com and sotltraining.com ("SOTL Website(s)"), the site features high-definition video training courses taught by Legends for every position on the football field. The SOTL services offered to Users include any SOTL-branded URL,, SOTL Website, SOTL video services, SOTL mobile services, SOTL applications for use with mobile devices, SOTL social networking services, and any other features, content, or applications, free-to-the-registered User or paid services, offered from time to time by SOTL in connection with SOTL's business (collectively, the "SOTL Service(s)").
To be able to do this, and to offer you the products and services available on the SOTL Website, we will request some information from you and automatically collect information about your use of the SOTL website and the SOTL Services (both as defined in the SOTL Terms and Conditions of Use). Further, SOTL will request information from other third-party services if such services are activated via SOTL. This policy (the “SOTL Privacy Policy” or “Privacy Policy”) describes our online privacy practices and what personal information we may collect from you and what we will and will not do with that information. This Privacy Policy applies to the services offered by SOTL, including any SOTL-branded URL (the “SOTL Website(s)”), the SOTL social networking service, SOTL mobile services, and any other features, content, or applications offered from time to time by SOTL in connection with the SOTL Website (collectively, the “SOTL Services”).
ii. Personal Information Collected / Provided
When you sign up for a SOTL account (“User Profile”), we will ask you to voluntarily provide first and last name, e-mail address, and a password (“Registration Information”). Remember, any additional User Profile Information is provided at your sole discretion; none of this information is required except for the Registration Information; your e-mail address will not be made public.
When you use the SOTL Services and SOTL Website, we may automatically receive information about your use of the service and website, including personal information such as, but not limited to, media you access, searches you make, content you provide, comments or reviews you post, date and time of your requests, your Internet protocol address, performance of your network and computer, your browser type, language and identifying information, and/or your operating system. Further, should you activate any integrated services (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, etc.), your usernames and passwords for any such services may be saved by SOTL for the purpose of facilitating your use of those services.
One of the primary reasons people use SOTL is to share content with others. Examples include, but are not limited to, when you upload or take a photo, upload or record a video, share a link, or send someone a message. If you do not want us to store metadata associated with content you share on SOTL (such as photos), please remove the metadata before uploading the content.
We track of some of the actions you take on SOTL, such as, but not limited to, adding connections, indicating whether you “Love it” or “Hate it” about a post on another User’s and/or Legend’s Profile, attending an event, interacting with other Users and/or Legends, and accessing SOTL Content. In some cases, you are also taking an action when you provide information or content to us. For example, if you share a video, in addition to storing the actual content you uploaded, we might log the fact that you shared it.
SOTL may also collect certain information from you if you choose to participate in SOTL Services activities like sweepstakes, contests, and surveys because you want us to furnish you with products, services, newsletters, or information; or in connection with content or suggestions you submit to SOTL for review.
We may retain the details of transactions or payments you make on SOTL. If you do not want us to store your payment source account number, please contact us via customerservice@sotl.com.
We may also receive information about you from advertising partners and other websites so that SOTL may provide you with useful, quality advertisements and so that we may measure our advertising effectiveness.
iii. Sharing and Use of Your Personal Information
We use the information we collect to try to provide a safe, efficient, and customized experience. Below, you will find details on how we do that.
We will use your personal information (i) to provide the products and services that you have purchased or requested (including the display of customized content and advertising), (ii) to communicate with you concerning your account and customer service issues, (iii) to personalize and improve the SOTL Services and the SOTL Website, (iv) to ensure the technical functionality of our products and services, (v) to develop new products and services, and (vi) to protect the copyright-protected content of the SOTL Services (e.g. by limiting access to the SOTL Services content to Users Paid-for-Services account).
We may contact you with service-related announcements from time to time.
We may provide information to service providers that help us bring you the services we offer. For example, we may use third-parties to help host our website, send out e-mail updates about SOTL, remove repetitive information from our User lists, process payments, or provide search results or links (including sponsored links). These service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time, but when this occurs we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections to limit their use of that information to helping us provide the service.
In order to respond to legal requests or to prevent harm, we may disclose information pursuant to subpoenas, court orders, or other requests (including criminal and civil matters) if we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law. This may include respecting requests from jurisdictions outside of the United States where we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law under the local laws in that jurisdiction, applies to users from that jurisdiction, and is consistent with generally accepted international standards. We may also share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activity, to prevent imminent bodily harm, or to protect ourselves and you from people violating our Terms & Conditions of Use Policy. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, courts or other government entities.
iv. Age Limitations
SOTL does not collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that a child has provided SOTL with personally identifiable information without the consent of his or her parent or guardian, please contact us at legal@sotl.com. If SOTL becomes aware that a child under age 13 has provided us with personally identifiable information, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child's account.
v. Changes to Privacy Policy
From time to time SOTL may modify this SOTL Privacy Policy to reflect industry initiatives or changes in the law, our personally identifiable information collection and use practices, the features of the SOTL Services, or technology; and such modifications shall be effective upon posting by us on the SOTL Website. It is your own responsibility to check the website for such postings from time to time, and SOTL reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at its own discretion. You may also be asked to reacknowledge and reaccept this Privacy Policy following any material changes.
Please note that by accepting the SOTL Terms and Conditions of Use or by using the SOTL Services, or the SOTL Website, you consent to the collection and processing of your personal information as described in this SOTL Privacy Policy, as well as the other terms of this Policy. As mentioned above, we will notify you if we make any changes to this SOTL Privacy Policy by posting the new version of the policy on the SOTL Website. Your continued use of the SOTL Services or the SOTL Website following the posting or other notice of changes to this SOTL Privacy Policy will constitute an acceptance of such changes. If you have any concerns, questions or thoughts on how we can improve our privacy policy, please let us know by sending an email to legal@sotl.com.
vi. Business Transfer
In the event that SOTL or its affiliates or its or their respective business or this website becomes owned or controlled by other individuals or entities, the information we have collected about you through this website or otherwise may be transferred to such other individuals or entities. In such an event, this Privacy Policy will continue to apply to the information gathered online about you through this site until you are notified otherwise or a change is made to this Policy and posted or notified as provided above.
vii. Security
We take a number of steps to keep your personal information secure from unauthorized access. For example, we ask you to use a unique and strong password and not to share this information with anyone. In addition, we use encrypted transmissions to limit access to the systems that store your personal information. Further, we respect and comply with applicable laws and regulations on data protection. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your user access name and related password. While we try our best to safeguard your personal information once we receive it, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
viii. Links to Third - Party Websites
This Privacy Policy only applies to information collected by SOTL. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that SOTL does not own or control, or employees that SOTL does not manage. The SOTL Website and SOTL Services contains links to third-party websites. Any information you provide to, or that is collected by, third-party sites may be subject to the privacy policies of those sites, if any. We encourage you to read such privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit. It is the sole responsibility of such third-parties to adhere to any applicable restrictions on the disclosure of your personally-identifiable information, and SOTL and its affiliates shall not be liable for wrongful use or disclosure of your personally-identifiable information by any third-party.