YOJO Privacy Policy
Effective Date: Mar 17, 2025
YOJO.Center ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, YOJO.Center (the "Site"). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Site.
1. Information We Collect
1.1 Information We Collect Directly
We may collect information you directly provide us, such as when you register on the Site, subscribe to a newsletter, or contact us. This may include:
Contact information, such as your name, email address, and phone number
Learner/student profile information, including your education and career background, areas of study that interest you, types of programs you are interested in, and mentoring interest
Authentication information, such as your username and password
Other information you provide when you communicate with us, such as when completing our “Contact Us” form
1.2 Information We Automatically Collect
When you access the Site, we may automatically collect information about your device and usage, including:
IP address
Device identifiers such as MAC address
Referring URL
Browser type and version
Operating system and version
Pages viewed on the Site
Time and date of visits
Interactions and transactions with the Site, including time spent on the Site
Other traffic and usage data
Other information collected
We may collect this information using cookies, pixels, web beacons, and similar technologies to enhance your experience on the Site. A “cookie” is a unique numeric code transferred to your computer to track your interests and preferences and recognize you as a return visitor. A “web beacon” is a transparent graphic image placed on a website, email, or advertisement that enables monitoring things such as user activity and site traffic. We use these and similar technologies to collect information such as browser type, transactions and interactions, time spent on online services, visited pages, referring URLs, and other traffic and usage data. We may use this information to determine what features interest our users and revise our site features or operations, as further described below. We and other parties that provide these technologies may also use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services.
Google Analytics is one of the technologies we use to learn more about how visitors use the Site. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how visitors use the Site. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the Website includes your IP address. If you so choose, you can opt-out by turning off cookies in the preferences settings in your browser. For more information on Google Analytics, including how Google Analytics collects, uses, and discloses information, refer to the following page: . We may also use other technologies to monitor your activities on our Website.
For more information, see the “Your Choices” section below.
2. How We Use Your Information
We may use, disclose, transmit, transfer, store, and otherwise process the information we collect for various purposes, including:
Conducting our business and providing our services to you and others, including to match you to mentors and programs
Providing, developing, maintaining, personalizing, protecting, modifying, and managing the Site, our services, and our organization
Communicating with our contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization and the Site
Communicating with you, including responding to your inquiries or requests
Debugging, identifying, and repairing errors and effectuating similar functional enhancements for our Site, services, and organization
Modifying our services and user experience
Understanding how you and others use our Site and determining what features and services may interest you and others
Legal and safety purposes, such as maintaining the safety, security, and integrity of our Site, other technology assets, services, and our organization, protecting the legal rights, property, safety, and security of us, our users, our employees, and others
Protecting 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.
Enforcing our policies, terms of use, contracts, or other legal rights.
Investigating or preventing unlawful activities or misuse of the Site
Evaluating or participating in an actual or potential merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all our assets, including as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceedings
Creating aggregate or de-identified data, which will not be subject to this Privacy Policy and may be used for any lawful purpose
Such other purposes as you may authorize or that we otherwise disclose
3. Disclosing Your Information
We may disclose your information for any purposes described in the How We Use Your Information section above. We may disclose your information:
3.1 To Other Users
We may share your information with other users, such as potential mentors, mentees, and program administrators.
3.2 To Service Providers
We may share your information with third-party contractors, service providers, and other third parties who perform services on our behalf, such as hosting, analytics on the Site, or email and communications delivery.
3.3 For Legal Purposes
We may disclose your information :
For legal and safety purposes, such as maintaining the safety, security, and integrity of our Site, other technology assets, services, and our organization, protecting the legal rights, property, safety, and security of us, our users, our employees, and others
To protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity and participate in any prosecution or enforcement of laws or agreements meant to prevent or punish such activity.
To enforce our policies, terms of use, contracts, or other legal rights.
To investigate or prevent unlawful activities or misuse of the Site
3.4 For Business Transactions
We may disclose your information 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 our assets, including as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceedings.
With Your Authorization
We may disclose your information to such other parties or such other purposes as you may authorize or that we otherwise disclose.
4. Your Choices
We respect your privacy and offer choices regarding our collection and use of your personal information.
4.1 Not Providing Information
You may choose not to provide the information we request. However, not providing the requested information may restrict your ability to use certain Site features and our services. For example, we cannot assist with placing you with a mentor or program if we do not have sufficient information about you and your interests.
4.2 Opt Out of Certain Email Communications
You can opt out of receiving communications by following the unsubscribe instructions included in those emails, updating your notification settings at YOJO.Center, or contacting us directly.
4.3 Automatic Collection Choices and Do Not Track
You may be able to restrict the collection of information or functionality through your device’s operating system or by disabling cookies, but doing so may prevent you from using the Site's functionality.
Some Internet browsers have a “do-not-track” feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want your online activities tracked. We currently do not respond to “do-not-track” signals from web browsers. 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 Site.
4.4 Users Under 18
If you are under the age of 18 and a registered user of the App, you may request and, in certain circumstances, obtain removal of any content or information you posted on the App that is visible to another user. Removal of such content or information may not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of content or information you posted in the App. To request removal of information, contact us as described in the “Contact Us” section.
5. Third-Party Links
The Site may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites. Please review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.
6. Minors’ Privacy
Any program listed on YOJO.Center that the program sponsor offers to minors has its own privacy policies, practices, and protocols. It is the responsibility of the minor user and their guardian to investigate and review these policies before providing their data.
7. Accessibility
We are committed to making this Privacy Policy accessible to all users. If you require assistance or an alternative format, please contact us at .
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. An updated “Effective Date” will indicate the revised version, and we encourage you to review the privacy policy periodically.
9. Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at .
Thank you for trusting YOJO.Center.