1. WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT? 

1.1. PERSONAL DATA YOU PROVIDE TO US 

We collect Personal Data you provide directly to us. For example, we collect Personal Data from you in the following situations:

• If you express an interest in obtaining additional information about our Services, request customer support, use our “Contact Us” or similar features, sign up for an event, webinar, or contest, or download certain content, we may require that you provide to us your contact information, such as your name, job title, school or company name, mailing address, phone number, and email address;
• If you make purchases via our Services or register for an event, webinar, or course, we may require that you provide your financial and billing information, such as billing name and address, credit card number or bank account information;
• If you attend an event, we may, upon your consent, scan your attendee badge, which will provide us with your name, title, company name, address, country, phone number, and email address;
• In support of media coverage of events or contests, we may, upon your consent, record quotes and/or take photographs or film which would be posted on our website or social media; and
• If you provide to us any Personal Data relating to other individuals, you represent that you have the authority to do so and permit us to use the Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Statement. If you believe that your Personal Data has been provided to us improperly, or to otherwise exercise your rights relating to your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information in the “Contacting Us” section below.

1.2. INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES

When you access or use our Services, we automatically collect information about you, which may qualify as Personal Data, including:

• Log Information: We collect log information about your use of the Services, including the type of browser you use, access times, pages viewed, your IP address, and the page you visited before navigating to our Services.
• Device Information: We collect information about the computer or mobile device you use to access our Services, including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.
• Information Collected by Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: We use various technologies to collect information, including cookies and web beacons. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Services and your experience, see which areas and features of our Services are popular, and count visits. Web beacons are electronic images that may be used in our Services or emails and help deliver cookies, count visits, and understand usage and campaign effectiveness. We use Google Analytics (“Google Analytics”), a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how our websites are used, including the number of visitors, the websites from which visitors have navigated to our websites, and the pages on our websites to which visitors navigate. This information is used by us to improve our websites. Information on Google Analytics and how it collects and processes data can be found at "HOW GOOGLE USES INFORMATION FROM SITES OR APPS THAT USE OUR SERVICES" (or any other URL Google may provide from time to time). Additional information on Google Analytics can be found at Google Analytics Terms of Service**. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, please see “Your Choices” below.

2. HOW DO WE USE PERSONAL DATA?

We use the Personal Data we collect and process to provide, maintain, and improve our services and may also use the Personal Data we collect to:

• Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages, as well as respond to your comments, questions, and customer service requests;
• Promote the security of our Services by tracking the use of our websites, creating aggregated, non-personal data, verifying accounts and activity, investigating suspicious activity, and enforcing our terms and policies to protect the rights and property of K2United and others;
• Manage employment applications;
• Manage user registrations;
• Manage event registrations and attendance;
• Manage contests or promotions and deliver entries and rewards;
• Manage payments;
• Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services; and
• Personalize and improve the Services.

3. WHO DO WE SHARE PERSONAL DATA WITH? 

We may share your Personal Data as follows or as otherwise described in this Privacy Statement:

• With third-party operators such as our vendors, consultants, and other contracted service providers who provide services such as credit card processing, research and analytics, marketing, customer support, and data enrichment and need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf. Here is a list of the essential third-party service providers with whom we work, if they are used only on our website or within our Services, why we use them, and links to their respective privacy policies:

  Vendor	Service or Website Only	Purpose
  Amazon Web Services (AWS)	Services	Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
  Google Analytics	Website Only	Website Traffic Analysis

• If you attend an event or webinar organized by us, or download or access an asset on our website, with sponsors of the event, and if required by applicable law, you may consent to such sharing via the registration form or by allowing your attendee badge to be scanned at a sponsor booth. In these circumstances, your information will be subject to the sponsors’ privacy statements. If you do not wish for your information to be shared, you may choose to not opt-in via event/webinar registration or elect to not have your badge scanned, or you can opt-out in accordance with the instructions set forth in “Your Choices” below;
• With sponsors of contests or promotions for which you register; 
• With third-party social media networks, advertising networks, and websites, which usually act as separate controllers, so that K2United can market and advertise on third-party platforms and websites;
• In response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law, regulation, or legal process;
• If we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements, terms, or policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of K2United or others;
• Between and among K2United and our current and future parents, affiliates subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership;
• In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company. If all or a portion of the K2United or its assets are acquired by or merged with a third-party, personal information that we have collected from users would be one of the assets transferred to or acquired by that third-party. This Privacy Policy will continue to apply to your information, and any acquirer would only be able to handle your personal information as per this policy (unless you give consent to a new policy). We will provide you with notice of an acquisition within thirty (30) days following the completion of such a transaction, by posting on our homepage, or by email to the email address that you provided to us. If you do not consent to the use of your personal information by such a successor company, you may request its deletion from the Company. In the unlikely event that we go out of business, or file for bankruptcy, we will protect your personal information, and will not sell it to any third-party; and
• With your consent or at your direction. 

For further information on the recipients of your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information in the “Contacting us” section, below.

4. SOCIAL SHARING FEATURES

Our Services may offer social sharing features, such as the Facebook “Like” button, the “Tweet” button and other sharing widgets (“Social Sharing Features”). You may be given the option by such Social Sharing Features to post information about your activities on our Services to a profile page of yours that is provided by a third-party social media network to share with others within your network, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the Social Sharing Feature. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with Social Sharing Features, please visit the privacy policies of the entities that provide these features.

5. ADVERTISING AND ANALYTICS SERVICES PROVIDED BY OTHERS

We may allow others to provide analytics services and serve advertisements on our behalf across the internet and in applications. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and other technologies to collect information about your use of the Services and other websites and applications, including your IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in apps, links clicked and conversion information. This information may be used by K2United and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, and determine the popularity of certain content. For more information about interest-based ads, or to opt-out of having web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit www.aboutads.info/choices.

6. SECURITY

K2United takes reasonable measures to help protect your Personal Data from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. In particular:

• Security Protocols: We periodically review our information collection, storage, and processing practices to guard against unauthorized access to systems;
• Security Technology: We implement features to keep your personal information safe - for example, when you enter any information anywhere on the Service, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL) by default;
• We ensure passwords are stored and transferred securely using encryption and salted hashing;
• Employee Access: We make our best effort and operate under best practices to secure usernames, passwords, and any other means of gaining access to user data; and
• Employee Training: We provide periodic security and privacy training to those employees responsible in whole or in part for the design, production, development, operations, or marketing of our Services. This includes employees that are directly or peripherally involved in the collection, use, storage, disclosure, or any other handling of Personal Data.

Although we make concerted, good faith efforts to maintain the security of personal information, and we work hard to ensure the integrity and security of our systems as per best industry standards, no practices are 100% immune, and we cannot guarantee the security of information. Outages, attacks, human error, system failure, unauthorized use, or other factors may compromise the security of user information at any time. If we learn of a security breach or other unauthorized disclosure of your Personal Data, we will attempt to notify you so that you can take appropriate protective steps by posting a notice on our homepage (www.k2united.com) or elsewhere in our Services and we will send email to you at the email address you have provided to us. Any such notice will include:

• The date of the breach;
• The type of information that was subject to breach;
• General description of what occurred;
• Steps we are taking to address the breach; and
• The contact person with K2United who you can contact regarding the breach.

7. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We store the Personal Data we collect about you for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it, or for other legitimate business purposes, including to meet our legal or other regulatory obligations. We determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Data based on the amount, nature and sensitivity of your Personal Data processed, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Data and whether we can achieve the purposes of the processing through other means, as well as on the basis of applicable regulator obligations (e.g., OSHA) and legal requirements (such as applicable statutes of limitation).

After expiry of the applicable retention periods, your Personal Data will be deleted. If there is any data that we are unable, for technical reasons, to delete entirely from our systems, we will put in place appropriate measures to prevent any further use of such data.

For further information on applicable data retention periods, please contact us by using the information in the “Contacting Us” section, below.

8. TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA TO THE U.S. AND OTHER COUNTRIES

K2United is based in the United States, and we use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host the application and for cloud computing and storage. All Personal Data is securely stored on AWS resources in the United States.

9. YOUR CHOICES

9.1 ACCOUNT INFORMATION

You may update, correct, or delete information about you at any time by emailing us at support@k2united.com. If you wish to delete or deactivate your account, please email us at support@k2united.com, but note that we may retain certain information as required by law or for legitimate business purposes. We may also retain cached or archived copies of information about you for a certain period of time.

9.2 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.

9.3 PROMOTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS

You may opt-out of receiving promotional communications from K2United by following the instructions in those communications or by emailing us at support@k2united.com. If you opt-out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.

10. LINKS TO OTHER SITES

The K2United website contains links to other sites not owned or controlled by K2United. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that may collect personal data.

11. CONTACTING US

To exercise your rights regarding your Personal Data, or if you have any questions regarding this Privacy Statement or our privacy practices, please email us at support@k2united.com or call (979) 260-0030. You may also write us at K2United, 1005 University Dr E, College Station, TX 77840.

1. PRIVACY

For information about how we collect, use, share, and otherwise process information about you, please see our Privacy Policy.

2. USER ACCOUNTS AND ACCOUNT SECURITY 

You may need to register for an account to access some or all of our Services. If you register for an account, you must provide accurate account information and promptly update this information if it changes. You also must maintain the security of your account, including keeping your account information and password confidential, and promptly notify us if you discover or suspect that someone has accessed your account. You may not permit others to use your account credentials. We reserve the right to reclaim usernames, including on behalf of businesses or individuals that hold legal claim, including trademark rights, in those usernames.

3. PROHIBITED CONDUCT AND CONTENT 

You will not violate any applicable law, contract, intellectual property right or other third-party right, or commit a tort, and you are solely responsible for your conduct while using our Services. You will not:

• Engage in any harassing, threatening, intimidating, predatory, or stalking conduct;
• Use or attempt to use another user’s account;
• Impersonate any person or entity or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
• Sell, resell, or commercially use our Services without prior written consent from an authorized K2United representative;
• Copy, reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, or publicly display all or portions of our Services, except as expressly permitted by us or our licensors;
• Modify our Services, remove any proprietary rights notices or markings, or otherwise make any derivative works based upon our Services;
• Use our Services other than for their intended purpose and in any manner that could interfere with, disrupt, negatively affect, or inhibit other users from fully enjoying our Services or that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the functioning of our Services in any manner;
• Reverse engineer any aspect of our Services or do anything that might discover source code or bypass or circumvent measures employed to prevent or limit access to any part of our Services;
• Use any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering or extraction methods designed to scrape or extract data from our Services;
• Develop or use any applications that interact with our Services without our prior written consent;
• Send or distribute spam, unsolicited or bulk commercial electronic communications, chain letters, or pyramid schemes;
• Bypass or ignore instructions contained in our robots.txt file, if any;
• Use our Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, or engage in, encourage, or promote any activity that violates these Terms; or
• Knowingly purchase the Services at prices that do not apply to you or your organization (e.g., if you are purchasing the Services on behalf of a for-profit corporation, you will not select educational/nonprofit pricing). Failure to comply with this prohibition may result in civil and criminal charges.

Enforcement of this Section is solely at K2United’s discretion, and failure to enforce this section in some instances does not constitute a waiver of our right to enforce it in other instances. In addition, this Section does not create any private right of action on the part of any third party.

4. OWNERSHIP; LIMITED LICENSE 

The Services, including the text, graphics, images, photographs, videos, illustrations, and other content contained therein, are owned by K2United or our licensors and are protected under both United States and foreign laws. Except as explicitly stated in these Terms, all rights in and to the Services are reserved by us or our licensors. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, you are hereby granted a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use our Services for your own personal, noncommercial use. Any use of the Services other than as specifically authorized herein, without our prior written permission, is strictly prohibited and will terminate the license granted herein and violate our intellectual property rights.

5. TRADEMARKS 

K2United and our logos, our product or service names, our slogans, and the look and feel of the Services are trademarks of K2United and may not be copied, imitated, or used, in whole or in part, without our prior written permission. All other trademarks, registered trademarks, product names, and company names or logos mentioned on the Services are the property of their respective owners. Reference to any products, services, processes, or other information by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier, or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by us.

6. FEEDBACK 

You may voluntarily post, submit, or otherwise communicate to us any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, original or creative materials, or other information about K2United or our Services (collectively, “Feedback”). You understand that we may use such Feedback for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you, including to develop, copy, publish, or improve the Feedback at K2United’s sole discretion. You understand that K2United may treat Feedback as nonconfidential.

7. THIRD-PARTY CONTENT 

We may provide information about third-party products, services, activities, or events, or we may allow third parties to make their content and information available on or through the Services (collectively, “Third-Party Content”). We provide Third-Party Content as a service to those interested in such content. Your dealings or correspondence with third parties and your use of or interaction with any Third-Party Content are solely between you and the third party. K2United does not control or endorse, and makes no representations or warranties regarding, any Third-Party Content, and your access to and use of such Third-Party Content is at your own risk.

8. INDEMNIFICATION 

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless K2United and our subsidiaries and affiliates, and each of our respective officers, directors, agents, partners and employees (individually and collectively, the “K2United Parties”) from and against any losses, liabilities, claims, demands, damages, expenses, or costs (“Claims”) arising out of or related to (a) your access to or use of the Services; (b) your Feedback; (c) your violation of these Terms (including, without limitation, failure to select the appropriate pricing for you or your organization); (d) your violation, misappropriation, or infringement of any rights of another (including intellectual property rights or privacy rights); or (e) your conduct in connection with the Services. You agree to promptly notify the K2United Parties of any third-party Claims, cooperate with the K2United Parties in defending such Claims, and pay all fees, costs, and expenses associated with defending such Claims (including attorneys’ fees). You also agree that the K2United Parties will have control of the defense or settlement, at K2United’s sole option, of any third-party Claims. This indemnity is in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other indemnities set forth in a written agreement between you and K2United or the other K2United Parties.

9. DISCLAIMERS 

Your use of our Services is at your sole risk. Except as otherwise provided in writing by us, our Services and any content therein are provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. In addition, K2United does not represent or warrant that our Services are accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. While K2United attempts to make your use of our Services safe, we cannot and do not represent or warrant that our Services or servers are free of viruses or other harmful components. You assume the entire risk as to the quality and performance of the Services.

10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY 

• To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, K2United and the other K2United Parties will not be liable to you under any theory of liability—whether based in contract, tort, negligence, warranty, or otherwise—for any indirect, consequential, incidental, or special damages or lost profits, even if K2United or the other K2United Parties have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
• The total liability of K2United and the other K2United Parties for any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or our Services, regardless of the form of the action, is limited to the amount paid by you to use our Services.
• The limitations set forth in this Section will not limit or exclude liability for personal injury, death, or property damage caused by the Services or products purchased through the Services or for the gross negligence, fraud, or intentional misconduct of K2United or the other K2United Parties or for any other matters in which liability cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Additionally, some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you.

11. RELEASE 

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you release K2United and the other K2United Parties from responsibility, liability, claims, demands, and/or damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown (including claims of negligence), arising out of or related to disputes between users and the acts or omissions of third parties. If you are a consumer who resides in California, you hereby waive your rights under California Civil Code § 1542, which provides: “A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by him or her must have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor.”

12. TRANSFER AND PROCESSING DATA 

For us to provide our Services, you agree that we may process, transfer, and store information about you in the United States and other countries, where you may not have the same rights and protections as you do under local law.

13. NO REPRESENTATIVE ACTIONS 

You and K2United agree that any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or our Services is personal to you and K2United and that any dispute will be resolved solely through individual action and will not be brought as a class action or any other type of representative proceeding.

14. OVERNING LAW AND VENUE 

Any dispute arising from these Terms and your use of the Services will be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, except to the extent preempted by U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict of law rules or principles (whether of the State of Texas or any other jurisdiction) that would cause the application of the laws of any other jurisdiction. Any dispute between the parties will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Bryan, Texas.

15. MODIFYING AND TERMINATING OUR SERVICES 

We reserve the right to modify our Services or to suspend or stop providing all or portions of our Services at any time. You also have the right to stop using our Services at any time. We are not responsible for any loss or harm related to your inability to access or use our Services.

16. ADDITIONAL TERMS AND AMENDMENTS 

• We may supply different or additional terms in relation to some of our Services, and those different or additional terms become part of your agreement with us if you use those Services. If there is a conflict between these Terms and the additional terms, the additional terms will control for that conflict.
• We may make changes to these Terms from time to time. If we make changes, we will provide you with notice of such changes, such as by sending an email, providing a notice through our Services, or updating the date at the top of these Terms. Unless we say otherwise in our notice, the amended Terms will be effective immediately, and your continued use of our Services after we provide such notice will confirm your acceptance of the changes. If you do not agree to the amended Terms, you must stop using our Services.

17. SERVERABILITY 

If any provision or part of a provision of these Terms is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable from these Terms and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

18. MISCELLANEOUS 

The failure of K2United to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. These Terms reflect the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements, representations, statements, and understandings of the parties. The section titles in these Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. Use of the word “including” will be interpreted to mean “including without limitation.” Except as otherwise provided herein, these Terms are intended solely for the benefit of the parties and are not intended to confer third-party beneficiary rights upon any other person or entity. You agree that communications and transactions between us may be conducted electronically.