DeveloperWanted.com Privacy Policy Version 08/10/2005
At DeveloperWanted, we strive to develop innovative services to better
serve our users. We recognize that privacy is an important issue, so we
design and operate our services with the protection of your privacy in
mind. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we
gather when you use DeveloperWanted's services, as well as some of the
steps we take to safeguard it. The
following principles apply to the personally identifying information we
ask for and that you provide. "Personally identifying information" is
information that individually identifies you, such as your name,
physical address or email address. Data collection - DeveloperWanted.com does not require any personally identifying information.
- DeveloperWanted.com
collects limited non-personally identifying information your browser
makes available whenever you visit a website. This log information
includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser
language, the date and time of your query and one or more cookies that
may uniquely identify your browser. We use this information to operate,
develop and improve our services.
- Some of our services require you to register for an account. DeveloperWanted.com asks
you for some personal information in order to create an account
(typically your name, email address and a password for your account)
and we will use that information to provide the service. For certain
services, such as our freelance programs, we may request credit card or
other payment information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure
servers.
- When we require personally identifying
information, we will inform you about the types of information we
collect and how we use it. We hope this will help you make an informed
decision about sharing your personal information with us.
Cookies - Upon your first visit to DeveloperWanted.com,
a cookie is sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your
browser. A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters
that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. We use cookies
to improve the quality of our service and to better understand how
people interact with us. DeveloperWanted.com does
this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends
and patterns of how people search. Most browsers are initially set up
to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or
to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some DeveloperWanted.com features or services may not function properly without cookies.
Information sharing -
We do not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other
companies or individuals, unless we have your consent. We may share
such information in any of the following limited circumstances:
- We have your consent.
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We provide such information to trusted businesses or persons for the
sole purpose of processing personally identifying information on our
behalf. When this is done, it is subject to agreements that oblige
those parties to process such information only on our instructions and
in compliance with this Privacy Policy and appropriate confidentiality
and security measures.
- We conclude that we are required by
law or have a good faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure
of such information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights,
property or safety of DeveloperWanted.com, its users or the public.
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If you have an account, we may share the information submitted under
your account among all of our services in order to provide you with a
seamless experience and to improve the quality of our services. We will
not disclose your account information to other people or non-affiliated
companies, except in the limited circumstances described in this Policy
or with your consent.
- We may store and process personal information collected on our site in the United States or any other country in which DeveloperWanted.com or
its agents maintain facilities. By using our services, you consent to
the transfer of your information among these facilities, including
those located outside your country.
- In the event of a transfer of ownership of DeveloperWanted.com,
such as acquisition by or merger with another company, we will provide
notice before any personally identifying information is transferred and
becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
- We may
share aggregated information with others. Examples of this include the
number of users who searched for "e-commerce developer" or how many
users clicked on a particular advertisement.
Information security - We
take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized
access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
- We
restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees
who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or
improve our services.
Updating your information -
We provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your personally
identifying information for many of our services. For more information,
please see the help pages for each service.
Links - The sites displayed as search results or linked to by DeveloperWanted.com's services are developed by people over whom DeveloperWanted.com exercises
no control. These other sites may place their own cookies on your
computer, collect data or solicit personal inforation.
- DeveloperWanted.com may
present links in a format that enables us to understand whether they
have been followed. We use this information to understand and improve
the quality of DeveloperWanted.com's search
technology. For instance, this data helps us determine how often users
are satisfied with the first result of a query and how often they
proceed to later results.
Changes to this Policy
Please note this Privacy Policy will change from time to time. We
expect most such changes to be minor, but there may be changes that are
more significant. Regardless, we will post those changes on this page
and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a more
prominent notice. Each version will be noted at the top of the page. If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact us any time at privacy at developerwanted dot com.
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