HireVillage.com Privacy Policy

OVERVIEW

We have created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our commitment to protecting information you submit. This Privacy Policy only applies to data gathered on the HireVillage.com web site (the "Site"), and does not apply to any other information or web site. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically as we may update it from time to time. This Privacy Policy is effective as of July 1, 2006. Each time you visit the Site or provide us with information, you are, by doing so, accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy at that time. You agree that by using the Site you are expressly and affirmatively consenting to our use and disclosure of the information that you provide, and consenting to receive emails, as described below in this Privacy Policy.

 

HireVillage.com cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. Therefore, although we are committed to protecting your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private. As a user of the Site, you understand and agree that you assume all responsibility and risk for your use of the Site, the internet generally, and the documents you post or access and for your conduct on and off the Site.

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

In order to operate the Site in an efficient and effective manner and provide users with information on job postings and services that may be of interest to them, HireVillage.com may collect personal information, including but not limited to contact information (such as an email address), from its users. In addition, this information allows us to provide users with private and secure areas to post and modify their original content on our site (e.g., jobs and resumes). We also automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on the Site and use this information to do internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve users in general. This information may include the URL that a user has just come from (whether this URL is on our Site or not), the URL a user goes to next (whether this URL is on our Site or not), a user's computer browser information, and their IP address. This is a standard industry practice.

 

You agree that HireVillage.com may use your personal information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, is targeted to your interests (such as relevant job postings and services), or provides administrative notices or communications applicable to your use of the Site. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information. If you do not wish to receive these communications, we encourage you to opt out of any further receipt by following the opt out provisions provided in each such communication.

 

We do not sell our users' personal information to anyone for any reason if the user has indicated a desire for us to keep the information private. When posting jobs and resumes, our users decide for themselves how much contact information they wish to display.

 

All users should be aware, however, that when they voluntarily display or distribute personal information (such as their email address or resume), that information can be collected and used by others. This may result in unsolicited messages from third parties for which HireVillage.com is not responsible. Also, you may have arrived at this Web site by following a link from a HireVillage.com affiliate. If so, please be aware that HireVillage.com may share your information with that affiliate and the affiliate may use the information consistent with its privacy policy instead of this one.

 

HireVillage.com may also disclose specific user information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, to cooperate with or seek assistance from law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of HireVillage.com or other users of the Site. In addition, personal information we have collected may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets or a bankruptcy of HireVillage.com.

 

As a matter of policy, we do not solicit sensitive information (e.g., data on racial/ethnic origin, health, sexual orientation, political opinions, religious/philosophical beliefs, union membership).

 

It is HireVillage.com's intention that only paying customers or prospective customers will have access to the resume database, but HireVillage.com cannot guarantee that other parties will not, without HireVillage.com's consent, gain access to this database. You may remove your resume from the searchable database at any time. However, employers and recruiters who have paid for access to the database, and other parties who have otherwise gained access to the database, may have retained a copy of your resume in their own files or databases. HireVillage.com is 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 the database. Those individuals or entities that pay for access to the resume database and all prospective customers who are receiving a demonstration of our product will have access to your resume. These individuals or entities have the ability to distribute your resume to their own hiring systems via e-mail.

 

ADVERTISING

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information about you and your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services of interest to you.

 

CREDIT CARD & DATA SECURITY

HireVillage.com employs encryption for secure credit card transactions.

 

HireVillage.com takes appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect against the loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of personal information under our control (e.g., multiple levels of user authentication, industry standard security).

 

COOKIES

At HireVillage.com, we use cookies only for the protection and convenience of our users. Cookies enable us to serve secure pages to our users without asking them to sign in repeatedly. If a user's system is idle for more than an hour, however, the cookie will expire, forcing the user to sign in again to continue their session. This prevents unauthorized access to the user's information while they are away from their computer. You may have the ability to reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent; however, some HireVillage.com features or services may not function properly without cookies. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.

 

QUESTIONS

 

We hope this policy clarifies our procedures regarding your Personal Information. We may amend this policy at any time by sending the amended policy to the email address you provided to us or by posting the amended policy on our site.

 

If you have questions, please email us at questions@hirevillage.com.