• Providing Our Services. To provide our Services, such as to create and manage your account and to analyze your information to match you with colleges and universities.
  
  
• Business Operations. To operate our business, such as improving our internal operations, securing our systems, and detecting fraudulent or illegal activity, and monitoring and analyzing trends, usage and activities in connection with our Services.
  
  
• Product Improvement, Development, and Research. To improve our products, develop new products or features, and conduct research.
  
  
• Personalization. To understand you and your preferences to enhance your experience and enjoyment using our Services and to personalize your online experience and the advertisements you see when you use our Services and on other sites as detailed below.
  
  
• Customer Support. To answer your questions and respond to your requests and to send you information and notices about your account, such as updates, order confirmations, delivery notices, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
  
  
• Marketing and Advertising. To communicate with you about new Troove products and services, offers, promotions, contests, upcoming events, and other information about our products and services and to display advertising to you.
  
  
• Legal, Security, and Safety Reasons. For legal, security and safety reasons, such as to protect our rights and the rights of our users, enforce our policies, communicate product recalls or safety notices, detect, investigate, or prevent fraud and other illegal activities, or address legal and regulatory compliance obligations.
  
  
• For any other purpose described to you at the time information is collected.

• Troove entities. Your personal information may be shared within our company and with our affiliated entities as reasonably necessary to accomplish any of the above-noted purposes.
  
  
• Colleges and Universities. We may share your personal information with colleges and universities that we believe will be of interest to you.
  
  
• Vendors and Service Providers. Your information may be shared with parties who support our business, such as professional advisors, advertising and marketing, web-hosting, analytics providers, customer-relationship-management software providers and other similar information technology providers.
  
  
• Merger, Sale, or Business Transfer. Your previously collected personal information may be shared or disclosed in connection with the sale, assignment or other transfer of our company or one of our businesses and of their assets. This includes merger, sale, or transfer in the case of bankruptcy or receivership.
  
  
• Fraud Protection, Prevention, and Legal Compliance. We may disclose your information: (1) at times when we believe it is necessary to comply with applicable regulation, law, judicial or legal proceeding, or governmental agency request; (2) to third-parties as to aid them in their attempts to root out fraud or suspected fraud or illegal activity; (3) to combat and prevent fraud, suspected fraud, illegal activities, and threats to others’ physical safety; and (4) to uphold and enforce an agreement we have with customers.
  
  
• With your consent. Other disclosures with your consent.
  
  

How We Secure Your Personal Information

We take what we believe are reasonable steps to protect your personal information as you transmit your information from your computer to our Services and to protect such information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.

Social Media Features
If you use social media logins (like Google and Facebook) to log in to Troove, we may access your public social media profile information. You can always limit this sharing using your social media service settings.

Our Site may include social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button and Twitter “Follow” button. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Information Collected from Children
Troove’s programs and services are intended for individuals at least 13 years old. If we become aware that personal information from a child 12 years of age or younger has been collected without such child's parent or guardian's consent, we will use all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database. If any parent, guardian or other responsible adult becomes aware that we have collected personal information from a child 12 years of age or younger, please contact us at info@troove.me.

Links to Other Web Sites
You should be aware that when you are on our Services you could be directed to other sites beyond our control. For example, if you “click” on a link to a college or university, the “click” may take you off our Services and onto the college or university’s website. These other websites may send their own cookies to you, independently collect data or solicit personal information and may or may not have their own published privacy policies. If you visit a website that is linked to our Services, you should consult that site’s privacy policy before providing any personal information. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such third parties.

Changes to This Privacy Policy
We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy as our business and services change. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy or make any material changes to how we use your personal information, we will revise this Privacy Policy to reflect such changes and revise this Privacy Policy’s effective date.

We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of your personal information collected in the past without your consent.

We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to be informed of how we are using and protecting your personal information.

Information for International Residents

• Transferring Your Personal Information Internationally: Troove is located in the United States. If you choose to use this website from outside the United States, you are consenting to the collection, storage, processing, and transfer of your information in and to the United States, pursuant to the laws of the United States.
• Our Legal Basis for Processing:
• Contractual Necessity. This covers data used by us in order to provide you with Services that you have requested.
• Legitimate Interests. This covers data used by us for purposes that can be reasonably expected with your use of our Services and that we do not believe are harmful to your privacy, such as providing your data to our college and university partners, using analytics to understand how our users interact with our website and apps, to keep our websites and apps safe and secure, and to provide a more personalized experience and marketing and advertising.
• Legal Obligation. This covers data used by us to comply with legal obligations, such as to maintain records valid legal requests.
• Consent. Where we process data based on your consent, we will ask for your explicit consent. You may withdraw consent at any time, but that will not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data prior to such withdrawal.

If you do not want us to collect any personal data about you at all, you should cease using our Services.