Boomband Privacy Policy

Effective on October 20, 2025

Your Control & Privacy Matter at Boomband

Boomband’s mission is to inspire a new generation of seekers / players in pursuit of their goals & dreams. Core to our mission is our commitment to be transparent about the data we collect about you, how it is used and with whom it is shared. This Privacy Policy applies when you use our Services (described below). We offer our users choices about the data we collect, use and share as described in this Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Settings and our Help Center.

Data Boomband Collects
How Boomband Uses Your Data
How Boomband Shares Information
Your Choices and Obligations
Other Important Information

Introduction

We offer a personal brand platform using new visualization tools to showcase the players in action - in pursuit of their goals & dreams. People use our Services for a wide range of opportunities, connections and learnings. Our Privacy Policy applies to any Player, Visitor or User to our Services. Our registered users (“Players”) share their professional identities, engage with their network, exchange knowledge and professional insights, post and view relevant content, learn and develop skills, and find business and career opportunities. Content and data on some of our Services is viewable to non-Players (“Visitors”).

Services

This Privacy Policy, including our Cookie Policy applies to your use of our Services. This Privacy Policy applies to Boomband.com, Boomband-branded apps, and other Boomband-branded sites, apps, communications and services offered by Boomband (“Services”), including off-site Services, such as our ad services and the “Apply with Boomband” and “Share with Boomband” plugins, but excluding services that state that they are offered under a different privacy policy.

Data Controllers and Contracting Parties. As a Visitor or Player 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.

Change

Changes to the Privacy Policy apply to your use of our Services after the “effective date.” Boomband (“we” or “us”) can modify this Privacy Policy, and if we make material changes to it, we will provide notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. If you object to any changes, you may close your account. You acknowledge that your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy means that the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to the updated Privacy Policy, as of its effective date.

1. Data We Collect

1.1 Data You Provide To Us

You provide data to create an account with us.

Registration: To create an account, you need to provide data including your name, email address and/or mobile number, general location (e.g., city), and a password. If you register for a premium Service, you will need to provide payment (e.g., credit card) and billing information. You can create your Boomband Dossier (a complete Dossier) which helps you get the most from our Services).

Dossier: You have choices about the information on your Dossier, such as your education, work experience, skills, photo, city or area, endorsements, and optional verifications of information on your Dossier (such as verifications of your identity, experiences, background or workplace). You don’t have to provide additional information on your Dossier; however, Dossier information helps you to get more from our Services, including helping opportunities find you. It’s your choice whether to include sensitive information on your Dossier and to make that sensitive information public and you control what others can see. Please do not post or add personal data to your Dossier that you would not want to be publicly available. You may give other data to us, such as by syncing your calendar or contacts in the future. To help jumpstart your experience, Boomband may use AI models to generate a preliminary version of your Dossier based on publicly available data, profile inputs, or third-party sources you connect (e.g., resumes, open-source data, social accounts). You’ll be able to edit, approve, or remove any such generated content before publishing. Boomband creates an initial dossier using public data sources and user-authorized inputs. This dossier is editable and intended solely for discovery and career development, not as a formal employment application or resume.

Posting and Uploading

We assemble & collect personal data from you when you provide, post or upload it to our Services, such as when you fill out a form, respond to a survey, or submit data or fill out any forms or applications on our Services. If you sync your calendars or contacts with our Services, we will collect your calendar meeting information to keep growing your network by suggesting connections for you and others, and by providing information about events, e.g. times, places, attendees and contacts. You don’t have to post or upload personal data; though if you don’t, it may limit your ability to grow and engage with the Boomband network over our Services.

1.2 Data From Others

Others may post or write about you.

Content and News

You and others may post content that includes information about you (as part of articles, posts, comments, videos, micro-validations or promotions) on our Services. We also may collect public information about you and make it available as part of our Services, including, as permitted by your settings, in notifications to others of mentions in the news.

Others may sync their calendar with our Services

Contact and Calendar Information. We receive personal data (including contact information) about you when others import or sync their calendar with our Services, associate their contacts with Player Dossiers, scan and upload business cards, or send messages using our Services (including invites or connection requests). If you or others opt-in to sync email accounts with our Services, we will also collect “email header” information that we can associate with Player Dossiers.

Customers and partners may provide data to us.

Partners

We receive personal data about you when you use the services of our customers and partners.

Related Companies and Other Services We receive data about you when you use some of the other services provided by us or our Affiliates.

Not all categories described are collected for all users or at all times. Collection depends on the features you use and product availability. As new features launch, we may collect additional categories consistent with this Policy, and we will update this Policy when materially required.

1.3 Service Use

We log your visits and use of our Services, including mobile apps.

We log usage data when you visit or otherwise use our Services, including our sites, app and platform technology, such as when you view or click on content (on or off our sites and apps), perform a search, install or update one of our mobile apps, share articles or interact in any manner. We use logins, 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.

As further described in our Cookie Policy, we use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., pixels and ad tags) to collect data (e.g., device IDs) to recognize you and your device(s) 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. We also collect (or rely on others who 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 Players with relevant ads and better understand their effectiveness. Where required by law, we obtain consent before placing cookies or allowing third parties to place or access cookies. You can manage cookie preferences in your browser settings or via our cookie preference center

1.5 Your Device and Location

We receive data through cookies and similar technologies

When you visit or leave our Services (including some plugins and our cookies or similar technology on the sites of others), 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). We will request opt-in consent before collecting GPS or other precise location data. If consent is not provided, precise location features will be unavailable.

1.6 Communications

If you communicate through our Services, we learn about that.

We collect information about you when you communicate with others through our Services. This may include information that indicates who you are communicating with and when. We also use automated systems to support and protect our site. For example, we use such systems to suggest possible responses to messages and to manage or block content that violates our User Agreement or Professional Community Policies.

1.7 Workplace, School, Hobbies & Interests Provided Information

When your organization buys a premium Service for you to use, they give us data about you. Others buying our Services for your use, such as an employer or a school, provide us with personal data about you and your eligibility to use the Services that they purchase for use by their workers, students or alumni.

1.8 Sites and Services of Others

We get data when you visit sites that include our ads, cookies or plugins or when you log-in to others’ services with your Boomband account. We receive information about your visits and interaction with services provided by others when you log-in with Boomband or visit others’ services that include some of our plugins or our ads, cookies or similar technologies.

1.9 Other

We are improving our Services, which means we get new data and create new ways to use data. Our Services are dynamic, and we often introduce new features, which may require the collection of new information. If we collect materially different personal data or materially change how we collect, use or share your data, we may choose to notify you and may also modify this Privacy Policy.

2. How We Use Your Data

We use your data to provide, support, personalize and develop our Services.

How we use your personal data will depend on which Services you use, how you use those Services and the choices you make in your settings. We may use your personal data to improve, develop, and provide products and Services, develop and train artificial intelligence (AI) models, develop, provide, and personalize our Services, and 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. Feature Availability. Certain features referenced in this Policy (e.g., Ad Share Program, cookie preference center, export tools) may not yet be available to all users. When rolled out, they will operate in accordance with the terms described herein as updated at launch.

2.1 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 Players, Visitors and others both on and off our Services directly or through a variety of partners, using the following data, whether separately or combined:

Data collected by advertising technologies on and off our Services using pixels, ad tags
Player-provided information
Data from your use of our Services
Information from advertising partners, vendors and publishers; and
Information inferred from data described above

If you opt into the Ad Share Program, we will collect and track your interactions with participating advertisements, including views, clicks, or viewing duration, in order to determine your eligibility for compensation. These metrics may be aggregated and shared with advertisers to evaluate performance. We may share aggregate engagement data (e.g., impressions, completion rates) with advertisers to verify performance. No personally identifiable information is disclosed. In addition to traditional ads, Boomband may partner with brands to offer sponsored content placements, challenge-based incentives, or leaderboard-based promotions. Where these involve your participation, engagement metrics may be collected and aggregated, but will not include personally identifiable information unless you consent. You can opt out of personalized ads, but you may still see generic, non-targeted ads. Certain state laws (e.g., California) may provide additional rights to limit the use of your personal information for advertising purposes. If you are a resident of California or another jurisdiction that provides such rights, you may have the right to opt out of the ‘sale’ or ‘sharing’ of your personal information. You can exercise this right at any time by visiting contacting us at info@boomband.com.

Ad Choices

You have choices regarding our uses of certain categories of data to show you more relevant ads. We do not share your personal data with any third-party advertisers or ad networks except for: (i) hashed IDs or device identifiers; (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., Dossier). 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.

2.2 Marketing

We promote our Services to you and others. In addition to advertising our Services, we use Players’ data and content for invitations and communications promoting Player and network growth, engagement and our Services, such as by showing your connections that you have used a feature on our Services. Participation in ad-based programs is voluntary and subject to specific engagement and compensation criteria. Your data may be used to track eligibility and support advertising reporting metrics.

2.3 Developing Services and Research

We develop our Services and conduct research

Service Development

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 Player growth and engagement on our Services, and help connect professionals to each other and to economic opportunity.

Other Research

We seek to create economic opportunity for Players of the US 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 jobs availability and skills needed 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. We publish or allow others to publish economic insights, presented as aggregated data rather than personal data.

Surveys

Polls and surveys are conducted by us and others through our Services. You are not obligated to respond to polls or surveys, and you have choices about the information you provide. You may opt-out of survey invitations.

2.4 Customer Support

We use data to help you and fix problems. We use data (which can include your communications) to investigate, respond to and resolve complaints and for Service issues (e.g., bugs). You may access and adjust your privacy and sharing preferences via your account dashboard at any time. Boomband will respect your visibility settings, including for Dossiers, posts, and engagement actions. If you have opted into advertising features, you may revoke that consent through your dashboard. Changes may take up to 72 hours to take effect.

2.5 Insights That Do Not Identify You

We use data to generate insights that do not identify you.

We use your data to perform analytics to produce and share insights that do not identify you. For example, we may use your data to generate statistics about our Players, their profession or industry, to calculate ad impressions served or clicked on (e.g., for basic business reporting to support billing and budget management or, subject to your, settings for reports to advertisers who may use them to inform their advertising campaigns), to show Players' information about engagement with a post or Boomband page to publish visitor demographics for a Service or create demographic workforce insights, or to understand usage of our services.

2.6 Security and Investigations

We use data for security, fraud prevention and investigations.

We and our Affiliates, including Microsoft, may 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/or attempts to harm our Players, Visitors, Users, Company, Affiliates, or others.

2.7 Responsibilities of Employers

Employers using Boomband agree to:

Not treat any interaction through the platform as a formal job application or trigger for adverse action procedures;
Avoid discriminatory practices in their use of AI scores, dossier insights, or platform tools;
Abide by all U.S. labor laws and equal opportunity obligations;
Provide notice and obtain user consent when using automated decision systems, where required by law.

3. How We Share Information

3.1 Our Services

Any data that you include on your Dossier and any content you post or social action (e.g., likes, follows, comments, shares) you take on our Services will be seen by others, consistent with your settings.

Dossier

Your Dossier is visible to all Players and customers of our Services based on 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). Your settings, degree of connection with the viewing Player, Arena connections, etc.. the subscriptions they may have, access channels and search types (e.g., by name or by keyword) impact the availability of your Dossier and whether they can view certain fields in your Dossier.

Posts, Likes, Follows, Comments, Messages

Our Services allow viewing and sharing information including through posts, likes, follows and comments.

When you share an article or a post (e.g., an update, image, video or article) publicly it can be viewed by everyone and re-shared anywhere (subject to your settings). Players, Visitors and others will be able to find and see your publicly shared content, including your name (and photo if you have provided one).
In a group, posts are visible to others according to group type. For example, posts in private groups are visible to others in the group and posts in public groups are visible publicly. Your Player in groups is public and part of your Dossier, but you can change visibility in your settings
Any information you share through companies’ or other organizations’ pages on our Services will be viewable by those organizations and others who view those pages' content.
When you follow a person or organization, you are visible to others and that “page owner” as a follower.
We let senders know when you act on their message, subject to your settings where applicable.
Subject to your settings , we let a Player know when you view their Dossier. We also give you choices about letting organizations know when you've viewed their Page.
When you like or re-share or comment on another’s content (including ads), others will be able to view these “social actions” and associate it with you (e.g., your name, Dossier and photo if you provided it).
Your employer can see how you use Services they provided for your work (e.g. as a recruiter or sales agent) and related information. We will not show them your job searches or personal messages.

Enterprise Accounts

Your employer may offer you access to our enterprise Services. Your employer can review and manage your use of such enterprise Services.

Depending on the enterprise Service, before you use such Service, we will ask for permission to share with your employer relevant data from your Dossier or use of our non-enterprise Services. For example, users of Sales Navigator will be asked to share their “social selling index”, a score calculated in part based on their personal account activity. We understand that certain activities such as job hunting and personal messages are sensitive, and so we do not share those with your employer unless you choose to share it with them through our Services (for example, by applying for a new position in the same company or mentioning your job hunting in a message to a co-worker through our Services).

Subject to your settings when you use workplace tools and services (e.g., interactive employee directory tools) certain of your data may also be made available to your employer or be connected with information we receive from your employer to enable these tools and services.

3.2 Communication Archival

Regulated Players may need to store communications outside of our Service.

Some Players (or their employers) need, for legal or professional compliance, to archive their communications and social media activity, and will use services of others to provide these archival services. We enable archiving of messages by and to those Players outside of our Services. For example, a financial advisor needs to archive communications with her clients through our Services in order to maintain her professional financial advisor license.

3.3 Others’ Services

You may link your account with others’ services so that they can look up your contacts’ Dossiers, post your shares on such platforms, or enable you to start conversations with your connections on such platforms. Excerpts from your Dossier will also appear on the services of others.

Subject to your settings other services may look up your Dossier. When you opt to link your account with other services, personal data (e.g., your name, title, and company) will become available to them. The sharing and use of that personal data will be described in, or linked to, a consent screen when you opt to link the accounts. For example, you may link your Twitter or WeChat account to share content from our Services into these other services, or your email provider may give you the option to upload your Boomband contacts into its own service. Third-party services have their own privacy policies, and you may be giving them permission to use your data in ways we would not. You may revoke the link with such accounts.

The information you make available to others in our Services (e.g., information from your Dossier, your posts, your engagement with the posts, or message to Pages) may be available to them on other services. For example, search tools, mail and calendar applications, or talent and lead managers may show a user limited Dossier data (subject to your settings), and social media management tools or other platforms may display your posts. The information retained on these services may not reflect updates you make on Boomband.

3.4 Related Services

We share your data across our different Services and Boomband affiliated entities.

We will share your personal data with our Affiliates to provide and develop our Services.

We may also share your publicly shared content (such as your public Boomband posts) with our Affiliates to provide or develop their services. Where allowed, we may combine information internally across the different Services covered by this Privacy Policy to help our Services be more relevant and useful to you and others. For example, we may personalize your feed or job recommendations based on your learning history.

3.5 Service Providers

We may use others to help us with our Services.

We use others to help us provide 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).

3.6 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 Boomband, our Players, personnel or others. We attempt to notify Players 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.

3.7 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.

We generally retain your personal data for as long as your account remains active or as necessary to provide you with our Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, or support business operations. In determining the appropriate retention period, we consider the nature and sensitivity of the data, potential risk of harm from unauthorized use, the purposes for which we process it, and applicable legal requirements. De-personalized or aggregated information may be retained indefinitely.

4.2 Rights 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 Dossier 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. You may submit access, correction, deletion, or objection requests by emailing info@boomband.com. We will respond within a reasonable time and in any event within 45 days where required by law.

4.3 Account Closure

We keep some of your data even after you close your account.

If you choose to close your Boomband account, your personal data will generally stop being visible to others on our Services within 24 hours. We generally delete closed account information within 30 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 and abuse (e.g., if we have restricted your account for breach of our Professional Community Policies), enforce our User Agreement, or fulfill your request to "unsubscribe" from further messages from us. We will retain de-personalized information after your account has been closed. Information you have shared with others (e.g., through InMail, updates or group posts) will remain visible after you close your account or delete the information from your own Dossier or mailbox, and we do not control data that other Players have copied out of our Services. Groups content and ratings or review content associated with closed accounts will show an unknown user as the source. Your Dossier 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.

5.3 Lawful Bases for Processing

We have lawful bases to collect, use and share data about you. You have choices about our use of your data. At any time, you can withdraw consent you have provided by going to settings. We will only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful bases. Lawful bases include consent (where you have given consent), contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (e.g., to deliver the Boomband Services you have requested) and “legitimate interests.” Where we rely on your consent to process personal data, such as for processing sensitive information, biometric data, or data subject to heightened regulation, we will ask for your clear and affirmative opt-in consent before such processing. You may withdraw your consent at any time in your settings, and such withdrawal will not affect processing lawfully carried out before your withdrawal

Consent

Where we process data based on consent, we will ask for your explicit consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time, but that will not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data prior to such withdrawal. Where we rely on contract, we will ask that you agree to the processing of personal data that is necessary for entering into or performance of your contract with us. We will rely on legitimate interests as a basis for data processing where the processing of your data is not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.

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