CSA Privacy Policy

Our goal at Collegiate Sports of America (CSA-Prepstar) is to be your source and recruiting service for college athletic scholarships. To achieve this goal, we need to collect information to understand your qualifications and goals as a prospective student-athlete that differentiates you from each of our thousands of other unique users.

REGISTRATION

First, you may register with CSA-PrepStar at no cost, providing us with valuable information on your personal, athletic and academic background as a prospective student-athlete. This information is used for CSA-PrepStar to evaluate your personal data form and contact you regarding a personal student-athlete scholarship evaluation or one of our many other recruiting services designed to assist student-athletes in pursuit of their college dreams.

CSA-PrepStar is committed to respecting your privacy. We recognize the need for appropriate protection and management of the personally identifiable information (or "Personal Information," as discussed below) you may share with us through this website, and we have established this Privacy Policy so you understand the care with which we intend to treat your Personal Information, how we may use your Personal Information and the choices you have about the way your Personal Information is used. To make this Privacy Policy easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where Personal Information may be collected. 

This Privacy Policy provides notice regarding our collection and use of Personal Information. You may choose whether or not to provide Personal Information to us. If you choose not to provide the requested Personal Information, you can still visit most parts of our website, but you may be unable to access certain options, offers and services that involve our interaction with you. 

WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION?

"Personal Information" means personally identifiable information, in other words, any information that may be used to identify a specific person, such as: first and last name, home or other physical address, email address, other contact information (whether work or home), date of birth, scholastic information (such as school, class/year, class rank, grade point average, awards/honors and extracurricular activities), athletic information (such as sports, positions, awards/honors and records), physical traits and characteristics (such as height, weight and build) and similar information. This Privacy Policy applies to all Personal Information collected or submitted through CSA-PrepStar 's recruiting website. 

PROTECTING CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

OUR WEBSITE IS NOT DIRECTED TO, OR INTENDED FOR, CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE. Collegiate Sports of America understands that protecting the privacy of young children is important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain Personal Information through our website from users we actually know are under 13 years of age, and no part of our website is designed to attract users under 13 years of age. No Personal Information should be submitted through our website by users under 13 years of age. If a user under 13 years of age submits Personal Information to our website, we delete such Personal Information as soon as we discover it was provided by a user under the age of 13 and we do not use it for any purpose. 

IF YOU ARE UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE, OR IF YOU ARE THE PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN OF A CHILD UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE, PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO COLLEGIATE SPORTS OF AMERICA (CSA-PREPSTAR).

When you visit CSA-PrepStar's recruiting website you may be asked to provide Personal Information, and we may collect and maintain your Personal Information, if you request that we contact you, if you subscribe to email newsletters or our similar communications, if you apply or register to receive our services or if you wish to participate in or receive other products, services or information through our website. You can decline to provide your Personal Information to us, in which case you may not be able to access certain parts of our website and we may not be able to provide certain services to you. 

We may collect Personal Information from you through our website in various ways, such as by asking you specific questions, by permitting you to communicate directly with us via e-mail or feedback forms or by providing online registration forms, questionnaires or other materials which solicit Personal Information. 

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

The individually identifiable information that you provide will be used extensively within CSA-PrepStar to provide a personalized experience to you. Except as described in this privacy policy, CSA will never willfully disclose individually identifiable information about its users to anyone outside of our service providers without first receiving that users permission, preventing this information from appearing in unauthorized mailings and other solicitations.

Collegiate Sports of America may use your Personal Information as follows: 

  • To provide our services to you.
  • To respond to communications, inquiries and requests from you, such as responding to an email you send to us.
  • To send you newsletters, as well as other advertising, marketing and promotional materials and communications.
  • To inform you of our products, services and promotions.
  • To offer you information regarding certain products and services of our partners, sponsors, advertisers and affiliates.
  • To conduct transactions with you through our website.

Additionally, when you apply or register through our website to receive CSA-PrepStar's Athletic Recruiting services, you are agreeing that CSA- may share your Personal Information with third parties as necessary to provide our services to you (such as when a student-athlete's Personal Information is provided to a college coach or athletic director for evaluation). 

We will not otherwise share your Personal Information with any third parties, without your consent, except in the following circumstances: 

  • To help us deliver programs, products, information and services, and to conduct transactions through our website or to support the business operations of our website, when our third party vendors or suppliers (such as transaction processors, financial institutions, application service providers, web hosting providers, Internet service providers and technical support providers) may receive your Personal Information in connection with providing their services to CSA-PrepStar. (However, such third parties are only authorized to use your Personal Information for the purpose of providing their services to CSA-PrepStar and are required by us to treat your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.)
  • In the event that we are party to a business transition, such as a merger, divestiture, acquisition, liquidation or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your Personal Information, in most instances, will be part of the assets transferred.
  • To respond to law enforcement requests or, where required by applicable laws, court orders or government regulations.

Additionally, you may "opt out" of receiving promotional communications from CSA-PrepStar either by choosing to "opt out" where such option is made available on our website or at any time by contacting us at the address, phone number or email address shown at the end of this Privacy Policy. We endeavor to process such "opt out" requests within ten (10) days of receipt.

USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

CSA-PrepStar may track your visit to our site by giving you a "cookie" when you enter. Cookies are pieces of information that web sites transfer to your computer's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Third party advertising networks may issue cookies when serving advertisements. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can reset your browser either to notify you when you've received a cookie, or to refuse to accept cookies. You should understand that areas of certain sites will not function properly if you set your browser to not accept cookies.

Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser, but please note that if you choose to erase or block your cookies, you may be unable to use those services or engage in activities on our website that require the placement of cookies. 

Tracking technologies may record information such as Internet domain and host names, Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser software and operating system types.  

SECURITY

Wherever your Personal Information may be held by CSA-PrepStar or on our behalf, we intend to take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the Personal Information that you share with us from unauthorized access or disclosure. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the Personal Information we collect and maintain through our website. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we have taken appropriate steps to protect your Personal Information, we cannot ensure or otherwise warrant the security of any Personal Information you provide to us through our website. For additional information about the security measures we employ please contact us at the address, phone number or email address shown at the end of this Privacy Policy. 

ACCESS/ACCURACY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

To the extent that you provide us with Personal Information, we wish to maintain accurate Personal Information. Where we collect Personal Information from you on our website, our goal is to provide a means for updating or correcting that Personal Information. You can access and update your Personal Information by logging into your online account and making the appropriate updates. If you have forgotten your login credentials you can retrieve those via our automated password retrieval system. 
You may also update your Personal Information by contacting us at the address, phone number or email address shown at the end of this Privacy Policy. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before making updates or corrections. 

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links or references to third party owned and/or operated websites that we believe might be of interest to users, including websites of our partners, sponsors, advertisers and affiliates. We do not control the content of these third party websites. These third party websites may send you their own cookies, collect data or solicit Personal Information. Once you have clicked on a link to a third party website and leave our website, you must read the privacy policy of the third party website to see how your Personal Information will be handled.

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

A business subject to California Civil Code section 1798.83 is required to disclose to its California customers, upon request, the identity of any third parties to whom the business has disclosed personal information within the previous calendar year, along with the type of personal information disclosed, for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. 

If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to: 

Collegiate Sports of America
22900 Ventura Blvd., Suite 100
Woodland Hills, CA  91364 

Please note that under California law, businesses are only required to respond to a customer request once during any calendar year. 

CONTACT US

Should you have questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us by mail, phone or email as follows: 

Collegiate Sports of America
22900 Ventura Blvd., Suite 100
Woodland Hills, CA  91364 
(818) 225-7300