Created February 1, 2008 The following Privacy Policy summarizes the various ways that Executive Career Connections ("Service Provider," "we" or "our") treats the information you provide while using www.ExecutiveCareerConnections.com ("Website"). It is our goal to bring you information that is tailored to your individual needs and, at the same time, protect your privacy. Information Collected While visiting any www.ExecutiveCareerConnections.com web pages or additional sites (collectively, the "Site"), we may ask you to register and/or provide information that personally identifies you ("Personal Information") for purposes of interacting with the Site. Such Personal Information may include, but is not limited to, your name, phone number, fax number, street address, primary phone and e-mail address. On any page that collects Personal Information, we will specifically describe what information is required in order to provide you with the service you have requested, as well as respond to your inquiry or comment. Except as described in this privacy policy, we do not disclose information about your individual visits to our site, or personal information that you provide, such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, personal references, etc., to any outside parties, except when you authorize us to or that such release is reasonably necessary to comply with law, enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements or protect the rights, property or safety of Executive Career Connections our users, or others. We may document and share information with our partners once we obtain your authorization. We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples may include hosting our web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. These other companies may have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any third party. In general, we gather information about all of our users collectively, such as what areas users visit most frequently and what services users access the most. We only use such data anonymously and in the aggregate. This information helps us determine what is most beneficial for our users, and how we can continually create a better overall experience for you. We may share this information with our partners, but only in the aggregate, so that they too may understand how visitors use our site, so they may create a better overall experience for you, as well. Personally Identifiable Information Executive Career Connections may collect personally identifiable information from users when: they inquire or apply for a position (either as a recruiter or a job seeker) and they use certain products or services. All users should be aware that when they voluntarily display or distribute personal information (such as their e-mail address), that information can be collected and used by others. This may result in unsolicited messages from third parties, for which Executive Career Connections is not responsible. Executive Career Connections does not collect personally identifying information about individuals except when specifically and knowingly provided by such individuals. The site may collects personally identifying information in several ways including: - Submitting a resume - Submitting a Profile - Posting a Job Submitting information for editorial purposes, such as news items, letters to the editor, press releases, etc. Using a "Referral" or an "Email this to a Friend" feature and submitting information to conduct transactions or use services offered through the web site. Executive Career Connections web site users should be aware that when they voluntarily disclose personal information (e.g., user name, email address) on some areas of a Executive Career Connections web site, such as Blogs, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or parties. Uses of Personally Identifying information To contact you specifically about your account, we may contact you by email, fax, or your submitted primary telephone number. Submitting a Resume Since Executive Career Connections hosts job opportunities site, we give ask job seekers to email us there resume. We partner with additional recruiting firms and will ask for your consent to send your resume to them for a job opportunity. You may send us a request at any time to remove your resume from our database. We are not responsible for the retention, use, or privacy of resumes in these instances, or for the use or privacy of resumes by any of such parties while resumes are in their database. When Submitting a Profile Profiles are provided as a service of Executive Career Connections for the benefit of our clients and our candidates. These profiles are stored on our database. However, we cannot guarantee that other parties will not, without our consent, use your information for unethical practice. You may request to remove your profile from our database at any time. We are not responsible for the retention, use, or privacy of resumes in these instances, or for the use or privacy of resumes by any of such parties while resumes are in their database. When Posting a Job Job posting is provided as a service of Executive Career Connections for the benefit of our candidates. These jobs are posted on our sites. However, we cannot guarantee that other parties will not, without our consent, gain access to these services. You may request to remove your jobs from our website at any time. We are not responsible for the retention, use, or privacy of resumes in these instances, or for the use or privacy of resumes by any of such parties while resumes are in their database. When submitted for editorial purposes If you submit personally identifying information for editorial purposes, such as name, company or title, it may be used for editorial purposes, such as letters to the editor, calendar items, articles, etc. When Submitted to Conduct Transactions To process a transaction or to offer a service, such as purchasing a subscription, personally identifying information may be transferred to another party to complete or fulfill the transaction or to provide the service or product. Financial information, such as credit card information, may also be collected and forwarded to another party to fulfill the transaction and to bill the user for products and services. When Submitted to Third Party Service Providers We have today, and will in the future have, arrangements with third party service providers, such as credit card processors. When you sign up for a service we offer on the Site, we may be required to share Personal Information with that service provider in order to provide the service. These third party providers are not permitted to retain or use Personal Information for any purpose unrelated to providing the service. While Executive Career Connections will seek to require third parties with whom it has agreements to follow appropriate privacy policies, Executive Career Connections does not bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of such third parties. This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and dissemination of information that we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose any information to other parties, whether through, for example: online job postings, resumes forwarded, profiles, forums, blogs, through third party services offered on or through the Site or through other web sites throughout the Internet, different policies may apply and Executive Career Connections shall not be responsible for the use or dissemination of such information. In addition, other sites and partners may use the Site's or Executive Career Connections name. Since Executive Career Connections does not control the privacy policies of third parties, if you input your information, then your information becomes the property Executive Career Connections. In that instance, the use of your personal information by our partner company will be subject to the privacy policy of that company and Executive Career Connections is not responsible for their use of your personal information. Executive Career Connections has areas on the site where you can submit feedback. Any feedback that is submitted through this area becomes the property of Executive Career Connections. We may use this feedback, such as success stories, quotes, for marketing purposes, or to contact you for further feedback on the site. Our Web Site may have blogs available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information, and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Executive Career Connections uses a third party software database company and a web hosting company that uses Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers and to administer our web site, for example by blocking certain addresses that are inappropriately spiders or obsessively requesting files from our site. IP addresses are used to gather broad demographics information, such as a visitor's country, operating system, browser types, frequency of visit, etc. Executive Career Connections may also share web site usage information about visitors to our web site with a reputable third party for the purpose of targeting Internet banner advertisement on this site and other sites. To do this, we may use clear GIFs, or pixel tags, on this site which allow us to recognize a browser's cookie when a browser visits this site. The information we collect and share through this technology is not personally identifiable. Third party sites linked to and from the Site are not necessarily under the control of Executive Career Connections and shall have no responsibilities or liabilities whatsoever for the content or privacy practices of any such linked site or any link or linking program at any time. Executive Career Connections does not necessarily endorse companies (or related products or services) to or from which the Site is linked. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to the Site, you do so entirely at your own risk. Executive Career Connections disclaims any rights to trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, copyrights, patents, domain names or other intellectual property interests of third parties. We respect your privacy and your ability to choose whether to share or not share information with Executive Career Connections or any third party. When job seekers or companies partner and a business relationship is created between Executive Career Connections and that job seeker, recruiter, or company. Examples of how a business relationship may be created through partnership, but are not necessarily limited to: signing a shared agreement, signing a success agreement, or submitting a resume. You may choose to "opt-out" of sharing Personal Information in several ways. You can choose whether or not to share optional Personal Information in connection with an email. Specifically indicate the preference in a communication to us via email or letter terminating your business relationship with Executive Career Connections.
Executive Career Connections may also offer other services as a part of our Site (e.g., email services, newsletters and employment headlines and alerts, tips, and other promotions with unaffiliated third parties). If you choose to use these optional services or opportunities, we may provide some of your Personal Information to third parties, such as service providers and other parties assisting us in providing the service. You may choose not to use these services or features of the Site. Kids and Parents If your children disclose information about themselves in publicly accessible areas of the Website, they may get unsolicited messages from other parties. Accordingly, you should tell them not to do so. If you're worried about your children's activities or their privacy on our site, we encourage you to contact our Privacy Policy Coordinator as described below. Effective Date and Changes This Web Privacy Policy is effective as of February 1, 2008. Executive Career Connections reserves the right to modify the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time and in our sole discretion. If we decide to change the Privacy Policy for Executive Career Connections, we will post those changes as a revision so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. Your continued use of the Site following our posting of a change notice will constitute binding acceptance of those changes. If you cannot agree with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website. This Privacy Policy does not cover information collected elsewhere, including without limitation offline and on sites linked to from the Website. If, at any time, you have questions or concerns about Executive Career Connections’ privacy commitment, please feel free to contact the Privacy Policy Coordinators at: 381 Ibis Ct. Melbourne, FL 32904 Thank you for trusting Executive Career Connections.! |