HelluvaJob.com Privacy Commitment
Last updated May, 2007
HelluvaJob.com is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to build users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the site HelluvaJob.com. Because HelluvaJob.com wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
HelluvaJob.com is in compliance with the EU Safe Harbor framework as set forth by the Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact HelluvaJob.com's Privacy Office via email HelluvaJob.com or sent via postal mail to:
HelluvaJob.com, inc. Attn: Privacy Officer 1155 7th Street Oakland, CA 94607
If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed within 30 days of receipt of your inquiry, you should contact TRUSTe. It will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.
About HelluvaJob.com and the information we collect
HelluvaJob.com has created this Privacy Commitment to demonstrate our dedication to protecting your personal information and informing you about how we handle it. This privacy commitment only applies to transactions and activities in which you engage, and data gathered, on HelluvaJob.com ("HelluvaJob.com", "HelluvaJob.com", the "site" or "website", the "HelluvaJob.com Service", or "Service") through email campaigns conducted on behalf of our customers, or double blind email communications between HelluvaJob.com members (collectively, the "Site") but does not apply to any other Website or offline point of contact between HelluvaJob.com, or any other company, and consumers. Please review this privacy commitment periodically as we may modify it from time to time. Each time you visit the site or provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting the practices described in this privacy commitment at that time.
Information Collected
Your Personally Identifiable Information Collected by HelluvaJob.com:
� Our registration form requires you to give us certain information such as your name, email address and password. You may always choose not to provide such Personally Identifiable Information; however, this may limit our ability to provide you with a specific service or particular content.
� We may also collect demographic and other data, which may include Personally Identifiable Information. This information is provided by you, and you have the choice whether or not to input information about yourself.
� Demographic information is divided into two categories:
1) "non-public information", which consists of personal or financial information and one-on-one communications between you and other users of the Site; and
2) "public information", which consists of all other demographic information. We ask that you do not enter personal information or financial information into your "Profile." Please note that nowhere on the Site do we knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 14, as we require that all users represent to us that they are at least 14 years old. Further, users under the age of 18 are subject to certain restrictions. Please reference User Agreement for more information.
� If you place an order for goods or services on HelluvaJob.com, you may be required to enter your credit card number and information, as well as your address and/or other contact information.
Profile:
� If you choose to build a Profile you will be required to register with the Personally Identifiable Information indicated above.
� You will also be able to enter information regarding your skills, experience and interests that will allow other Users to search for people like you. By default, your Profile will be public and available to Users of HelluvaJob.com and anyone else who searches the Internet for public information. HelluvaJob.com reserves the right to distribute your public profile information, or parts thereof, in marketing materials and communications in the media, in publications online and offline.
� HelluvaJob.com may use your Profile information to match you to various job opportunities or users. Once presented with the opportunity, you can choose whether to make contact with the matched user(s) or act on the job opportunity.
Personally Identifiable Information Collected by HelluvaJob.com's Business Partners:
� HelluvaJob.com works with employers, third-party advertising companies, sponsors and other companies with whom we do business ("Business Partners") to place advertising on our site and in email communications sent to our registered users and to recipients of Job Opportunities, Job Search Alerts, and other communications related to the HelluvaJob.com Service. Information about your visit to this site, such as number of times you have viewed an ad, may be used to serve advertising to you.
� Recipients of job opportunities have the option to inquire or forward the job on to friends. When you inquire or forward jobs, at minimum, your name and email address is shared with the employer offering the job. If you do not respond to a job opportunity, your contact information is not shared with the employer.
� HelluvaJob.com may correlate or match registered user information, including Personally Identifiable Information, with information held by our Business Partners to target ads or otherwise improve the effectiveness of our service. Our Business Partners may read or set cookies on your hard drive, use pixel tags, track which ads you have viewed, or collect other information about you.
� From time to time, HelluvaJob.com may also have special offers that are sponsored by a Business Partner. In order to participate in these offers, you may be required to follow a separate registration process. If you consent to receive information from a Business Partner, through an opt-out process, HelluvaJob.com may pass your information to such Business Partners.
� HelluvaJob.com may also offer goods or services for purchase available by our Business Partners. If you purchase goods or services offered through HelluvaJob.com by a Business Partner, then you may be required to submit Personally Identifiable Information in order to complete the transaction and HelluvaJob.com may provide your Personally Identifiable Information to such Business Partner for that purpose.
� In some cases, we may enter into a promotional relationship with a Business Partner in which we prominently display their brand name or trademarks on pages that appear the same as or very similar to the pages of the HelluvaJob.com service. These pages are known as "Co-Branded Pages" and these particular Business Partners are known as "Co-Branded Business Partners."
� If the page on which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may share your personal information with the associated Co-Branded Business Partner. Co- Branded Business Partners may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. HelluvaJob.com disclaims all liability for the privacy policies and procedures on any Business Partner or Co-Branded Business Partner Web site.
� You will need to contact the Co-Branded Business Partner to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that HelluvaJob.com may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such Co-Branded Business Partners in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information you submit to us (see Use of Personally Identifiable Information by Business Partners below).
Cookies:
HelluvaJob.com wants to optimize your experience by ensuring that the most relevant information, searches and offers are displayed to you while using the HelluvaJob.com web site. A common manner in which to do this is by placing cookies on your computer. Cookies are strings of text and numbers that can identify your computer to us when you visit our site, and which may be correlated with your Personally Identifiable Information in our log files.
IP Address:
We log standard information such as your IP address along with the URL from which you came to our site and the URLs visited on our site, which may or may not contain some Personally Identifiable Information. When we send messages to you or others, we may provide a URL link to the HelluvaJob.com site that contains an alphanumeric identifier, which allows us to identify the person to whom we sent the message so that we can personalize our content for that individual.
PixelTags:
HelluvaJob.com uses pixel tags to gather information about the emails we send to our registered users and to recipients of messages. Pixel tags are tiny graphic files, not visible to the human eye, that are included in our HTML-encoded email messages. When such a message is opened in an HTML-capable email program, the recipient's computer will access our server to retrieve the pixel tag file, allowing us to record and store, along with your email address, the date and time the recipient viewed the invite or reminder, that the recipient's email program is capable of receiving HTML- encoded email, and other standard logging information. The pixel tag also may see or read cookies. For more information about cookies and how to disable their use, see the section below on "Use of Cookies."
Use of Information Use of Personally Identifiable Information by HelluvaJob.com:
� We use the collected Personally Identifiable Information to verify you and to contact you in connection with your transactions, postings and other activities on the site, to forward to you messages from other Users, to communicate with you about Job opportunities of interest to you and to operate the HelluvaJob.com service.
� HelluvaJob.com may capture searches and other activity conducted by you on the HelluvaJob.com Service in order to make suggestions to you regarding what similar searches, activities or topics might be of interest to you.
� These types of communications may contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and special offers. Each communication we send to you, other than communications sent to you for the sole purpose of addressing a technical or operational issue regarding the HelluvaJob.com service, will give you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving further such communications from us. � Use of our invitation service to tell a friend about our site or a job opportunity, or to participate in a referral chain, requires that you enter your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site or view the opportunity. HelluvaJob.com stores this information to send this one-time email, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of the HelluvaJob.com referral program. Your friend may contact us at HelluvaJob.com to request that we remove this information from view in our active database (Please use HelluvaJob.com Privacy in the subject line).
� HelluvaJob.com uses your Personally Identifiable Information to help us provide you with personalized content, advertising, and commercial messages (collectively, "Content").
� HelluvaJob.com does not sell, share or otherwise provide any "Personally Identifiable Information" you give to us with any Business Partner without your consent, which maybe obtained through an opt-in request (see Use of Personally Identifiable Information by Business Partners below), unless required by law, court order or as required to technically operate the service, or to complete a transaction or order.
� HelluvaJob.com does reserve the right to share your Personally Identifiable Information with its parent, subsidiary or affiliated entities ("affiliated entities" are those companies owned or controlled by WISH JOBS.COM's parent company).
Use of Personally Identifiable Information by Other Users:
� Other users will be able to view the information that you provide on your Profile.
� Other users may choose to contact you. However, to ensure your privacy, HelluvaJob.com will not display or give out your email address or any other contact information to other users on the site. We have developed a process that uses a "double-blind" email system, which hides the email addresses of both the sender and recipient of email messages to protect the privacy of both the sender and receiver. When using the process on the site, it is up to you to choose when you are comfortable disclosing your email address, or any other contact information, to others through private communications.
� Similarly, you may contact other users on the site, and HelluvaJob.com will hide your email address by using the "double-blind" email process on the site.
� Use of our invitation service to tell a friend about our site or a job opportunity, or participation in a referral chain, requires that you enter your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site or view the opportunity. HelluvaJob.com stores this information to send this one-time email, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of the HelluvaJob.com referral program. Your friend may contact us at HelluvaJob.com to request that we remove this information from view in our active database (Please use WISHJOBS .COM Privacy in the subject line).
Use of Your Personally Identifiable Information by HelluvaJob.com's Business Partners:
� Contracted employers using HelluvaJob.com to send their jobs to you may receive your contact information (name and email address) from another user on HelluvaJob.com, from one of their employees participating in a HelluvaJob.com referral campaign, or by using other means outside the context of HelluvaJob.com, such as their own database of resumes or a third party database. In all cases, the employer using HelluvaJob.com to contact you is subject to this Privacy Commitment. And, you may at any time choose to opt out of receiving further communication from HelluvaJob.com. However, even if HelluvaJob.com blocks further use of your contact information, HelluvaJob.com cannot prevent employers who have obtained your name and email address independently from HelluvaJob.com from contacting you directly. HelluvaJob.com recommends contacting the employer directly if you wish to opt-out of further communication.
� In order to provide other offers of particular interest to you, HelluvaJob.com may share demographic, geographic, and other Personally Identifiable Information with its Business Partners with your explicit consent (opt-in).
PLEASE NOTE: The privacy practices of advertisers and other companies who provide services or advertising through our site are not covered by this privacy commitment. Please contact those companies directly for more information about their privacy practices. If you wish to prevent those companies from setting cookies on your browser, you may set your browser to refuse cookies or to warn you before setting a cookie. Disabling cookies set by companies whose products or services are advertised on this site may affect your ability to use this site.
When We May Disclose Your Personally Identifiable Information, HelluvaJob.com Communications Content, Data and Information:
HelluvaJob.com may disclose your Personally Identifiable Information or the contents of your private communications if required to do so by law or court order. Your Personally Identifiable Information may also be disclosed if necessary in order to complete a transaction such as the fulfillment of an order or purchase placed by you.
HelluvaJob.com will in no way disclose the contents of your HelluvaJob.com communications other than to the intended recipient(s) unless required (1) by law or court order, (2) to protect HelluvaJob.com's rights and property, (3) to protect against unauthorized use of the HelluvaJob.com site, and (4) during emergencies such as when we believe someone's physical safety is at risk.
Also, certain technical processing of messages and their content may be required to:
(1) send and receive messages;
(2) conform to connecting networks' technical requirements;
(3) conform to the limitations of the Service; or
(4) conform to other similar requirements.
It is possible that as we continue to develop the HelluvaJob.com website and business, HelluvaJob.com and/or related assets may be acquired. In such a transaction, customer information may be transferred to the acquiring entity.
Security
This site has industry standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and integrity of the information under our control. Although we make good faith efforts to store the information collected by the HelluvaJob.com service in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security.
Other Websites or Links
This Website contains links to other websites. HelluvaJob.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Opt-Out/Correct/Delete/Deactivate
You may elect not to receive future communications from HelluvaJob.com or to discontinue use of our service. If you are a registered user, please log in and visit your settings on the "Edit Profile" page of the website and uncheck the box related to sending information to you via email.
If you have previously made contact (by expressing interest in a job, or participating in communication, or referring someone else for a job) with HelluvaJob.com business partners, you must independently opt-out of communications from that individual company.
Individuals who wish to deactivate their HelluvaJob.com account may do so. Removed information may persist in backup or cached copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to any user of HelluvaJob.com.
HelluvaJob.com allows its users the option to change information previously provided. This may be done through the following method:
� Log in to the HelluvaJob.com site, access your "Edit Profile" view. From here you can answer, delete, update or change any content that you have previously submitted.
Changes to this Policy
HelluvaJob.com reserves the right to amend this Privacy Commitment at its sole discretion. If we make any substantive changes to the policy in the future with regard to how we use your information, we will notify registered users through the HelluvaJob.com newsletter. For other users, substantive changes will be posted on the site in this location, and the date of the changes will be noted on the Web site for a period of time.
Your continued use of the site after the changes are posted constitutes your agreement to the changes with regard to information collected in the past and in the future from you. If you do not agree to the changes, you may opt-out as described above.
Contacting the Web Site
We strive to do everything we can to protect the privacy of our users. Please feel free to share any comments and concerns with us. If you have any questions about this Privacy Commitment, the practices of the HelluvaJob.com site or Service, or your dealings with this website, you can contact us by writing to:
HelluvaJob.com Privacy at HelluvaJob.com. Please include HelluvaJob.com Privacy in your subject line.
Or you may write to:
HelluvaJob.com inc. Atm: Privacy Officer 1155 7th Street Oakland, CA 94607
HelluvaJob.com Privacy Commitment
HelluvaJob.com is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to build users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the site HelluvaJob.com. Because HelluvaJob.com wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
HelluvaJob.com is in compliance with the EU Safe Harbor framework as set forth by the Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.