Startup Summer, LLC Online Privacy Policy

Last Updated: March 23, 2026

Startup Summer, LLC (“we,” “us” and/or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose the personal information we collect through our website, www.joinoutset.com (the “Website”) and subdomains.

The Information We Collect and How We Collect It.

The information we collect, and how we use and disclose it, depends on the specific features of the Website you use and on the context of your interactions with us. As explained below, we collect some of this personal information when you provide it directly to us. In other cases, we may receive personal information from third parties. We also collect certain information automatically when you use and interact with the Website.

• Information You Provide Directly. When you visit and use the Website, we collect personal information that you choose to share with us, which may include information falling within the following categories:
  
  • personal and contact details such as your name, email address, home address, and phone number;
  • information about you and your background that you choose to share when you apply for our programs through the Website, including your interests, education history, US citizenship status, and gender;
  • information about your need for financial aid, including the level of aid and reason for seeking it;
  • information about your parents or guardians, including their name, email address, and occupation;
  • information that you choose to share when you fill out and submit contact forms through the Website; 
  • contact details for friends that you choose to submit so that we can share information about our programs with them; and
  • any other information that you choose to share when you communicate with us through the Website, which may be recorded by or through third-party service provider(s) who act on our behalf and at our direction.
• Information We Collect Automatically. In addition to the information that you provide to us directly, or that we receive from third parties, when you use the Website, we collect some information automatically about you and your device. The types of information that we collect automatically may include:
  
  • information about your computer or mobile device, such as IP and MAC address, operating system, browser type, and information about your mobile network and internet connection;
  • usage and clickstream information, such as pages visited and features used; referring URLs; content you consume through the Website; mouse movements, clicks, and text entered; time spent using the Website and features thereof, and other details of your actions on the Website, which may be collected by or shared with our third-party service provider(s) to analyze and organize collected data on our behalf and at our express direction;
  • contents of communications you have through the Website;
  • information collected in connection with third-party analytics technologies, such as Google Analytics (for more information on Google Analytics, including how Google Analytics collects, uses, and discloses information, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/); and
  • information about your location, including your approximate geographic location as indicated by your device’s IP address.

For more information about the technologies we use for this automatic data collection, please see the How We Use Cookies and Other Similar Technologies section of this Privacy Policy.

How We Use the Information We Collect

We may use the personal information that we collect or receive through the Website for the following purposes:

• to evaluate your application for participation in our programs;
• to provide and administer the services that you request;
• to evaluate your eligibility for financial assistance;
• to provide, maintain, and support the operations of the Website;
• to communicate with you about the status of your applications for participation in our programs and/or for financial assistance;
• to inform you about products, services, and opportunities that we think would interest you;
• to respond to your inquiries and requests and communicate with you about the Website;
• to analyze usage trends and patterns and measure the effectiveness of the Website;
• to administer, evaluate, and improve the Website and our and our affiliates’ operations and businesses (including developing new products and services; managing our communications; and performing accounting, auditing, billing, reconciliation and collection activities);
• to comply with legal or regulatory requirements, judicial process, and our company policies (including due diligence and contracting activities);
• to secure the Website, including by protecting against and responding to fraud, illegal activity (such as incidents of hacking or misuse of the Website), and claims and other liabilities, including by enforcing our customer agreements;
• to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, including as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding; and
• for any other purpose that you may authorize or direct at the time we collect your personal information.

How We Disclose the Information We Collect

We may disclose information we collect about you:

• to the universities and other organizations who host and participate in the delivery of our programs;
• to our contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization, which may include storage, hosting, and other support for any of the data uses described above;
• to third parties that provide other online tracking technologies used in connection with the Website, including to enable or participate in targeted and cross-context behavioral advertising;
• to our current and future parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common ownership or control with us, who may also use the information for the purposes described above;
• to comply with applicable law, other legal requirements, and applicable industry and self-regulatory standards;
• to enforce our policies, terms of use, contracts, or other legal rights;
• to investigate or prevent unlawful activities or misuse of the Website;
• to protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and participating in any prosecution or enforcement of laws or agreements meant to prevent or punish such activity;
• to operate, evaluate, debug, identify and repair errors, effectuate similar functional enhancements, and improve the Website and our other product and service offerings;
• to protect the legal rights, property, safety, and security of us, our users, our employees, and others;
• to an actual or potential buyer, successor, or other organization in the event of an actual or potential merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, including as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceedings; and
• to such other parties as you may expressly authorize when we collect the information or otherwise ask for your consent or authorization.

How We Use Cookies and Other Similar Technologies

When you visit and use the Website, we and third parties with whom we work may use automatic data collection technologies, including cookies and web beacons, to collect information about your device and interactions with the Website. These technologies may also be used by those third parties to collect information about your activities over time and across different websites and online services, and may include the technologies described below.

• Cookies. We use cookies and similar technologies in connection with the Website to store and honor your preferences and settings, enable you to sign-in, provide interest-based advertising, combat fraud, analyze the performance of the Website, and to fulfill other legitimate business purposes. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer or your mobile device to store data that can be recalled by a web server in the domain that placed the cookie. This data often consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies your computer, but it can contain other information as well. Some cookies on our Website are placed by third parties, such as companies we hire to provide analytics and advertising services on our behalf.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that enable us and other companies we work with to provide analytics and advertising services to collect information about your use of the Website and interaction with our emails, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

For more information about the cookies we use and how to manage your preferences, please see our Cookie Policy below.

Your Choices

We provide you with choices with regard to your information. For example, you may choose not to provide the personal information we request through the Website. However, not providing information we request may restrict your ability to use certain features of the Website and our ability to facilitate your access to our services, as applicable.

You may also be able to restrict the automatic collection of information when you use the Website by disabling cookies in your internet browser, but doing so may prevent you from using some features of the Website.  You can also customize your cookie preferences by visiting our cookie preference center as described in the Cookie Policy below. 

Some Internet browsers have a “do-not-track” feature that let you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. At this time, the Website do not respond to browser “do-not-track” signals, and other parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different websites, applications, and other online products or services when you use the Website.

For information about interest-based advertising, and to opt out of this type of advertising by third parties that participate in self-regulatory programs, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) opt out tool (http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/) and/or the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising (https://youradchoices.com/). Please note that any opt-out choice you exercise through these programs will apply to interest-based advertising by the third parties you select, but will still allow the collection of data for other purposes, including research, analytics, and internal operations. You may continue to receive advertising, but that advertising may be less relevant to your interests.

Children

Our Website are intended for use strictly by adults. The Website are not intended for use by children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.

Third-party Links

The Website may include links to other websites, applications, information, and services provided by third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of those third parties. We encourage you to review the applicable privacy policies of such third parties if you elect to follow the links provided.

Changes to this Policy.

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our privacy practices at any time. When we do so, we will update the Last Updated date of the Privacy Policy above. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.

How to Contact Us

Any questions about this Privacy Policy should be addressed via email to info@joinoutset.com.