Jobster Privacy Commitment
Last updated
November, 2006
Jobster 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
jobster.com. Because Jobster 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.
Jobster 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 Jobster's Privacy
Office via email Jobster or
sent via postal mail to:
Jobster, Inc.
Attn: Privacy Officer
3131 Elliott Avenue
Suite 600
Seattle, WA 98121
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 Jobster and the information we collect
Jobster 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 Jobster ("Jobster", "Jobster.com", the "site" or "website", the "Jobster Service", or "Service") through email campaigns conducted on behalf of our customers, or double blind email communications between Jobster.com members (collectively, the "Site") but does not apply to any other Website or offline point of contact between Jobster, 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 Jobster:
- 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 16, as we require that all
users represent to us that they are at least
16 years old.
- If you place an order for goods or services
on Jobster, 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 Jobster and
anyone else who searches the Internet for public
information. Jobster 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.
- Jobster 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 Jobster's Business Partners:
- Jobster 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 Jobster 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.
- Jobster 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, Jobster 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, Jobster may pass your information
to such Business Partners.
- Jobster may also offer goods or services
for purchase available by our Business Partners.
If you purchase goods or services offered through
Jobster by a Business Partner, then you may
be required to submit Personally Identifiable
Information in order to complete the transaction
and Jobster 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 Jobster
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.
Jobster 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 Jobster 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 : Jobster wants to optimize
your experience by ensuring that the most relevant
information, searches and offers are displayed to
you while using the Jobster 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.
IPAddress: 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 Jobster 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: Jobster
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 Jobster:
- 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 Jobster service.
- Jobster may capture searches and other activity
conducted by you on the Jobster 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 Jobster
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. Jobster 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
Jobster referral program. Your friend may contact
us at Jobster to request that
we remove this information from view in our
active database (Please use Jobster Privacy
in the subject line).
- Jobster uses your Personally Identifiable
Information to help us provide you with personalized
content, advertising, and commercial messages
(collectively, "Content").
- Jobster does not sell, share or otherwise
provide any "Personally Identifiable Information" you
give to us with any Business Partner without
your consent, which may be 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.
- Jobster 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 Jobster'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, Jobster 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 Jobster 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. Jobster 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
Jobster referral program. Your friend may contact
us at Jobster to request that
we remove this information from view in our
active database (Please use Jobster Privacy
in the subject line).
Use of Your Personally Identifiable Information
by Jobster's Business Partners:
- Contracted employers using Jobster to send
their jobs to you may receive your contact
information (name and email address) from another
user on Jobster, from one of their employees
participating in a Jobster referral campaign,
or by using other means outside the context
of Jobster, such as their own database of resumes
or a third party database. In all cases, the
employer using Jobster to contact you is subject
to this Privacy Commitment. And, you may at
any time choose to opt out of receiving further
communication from Jobster. However, even if
Jobster blocks further use of your contact
information, Jobster cannot prevent employers
who have obtained your name and email address
independently from Jobster from contacting
you directly. Jobster 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, Jobster 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, Jobster Communications Content, Data
and Information
Jobster 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.
Jobster will in no way disclose the contents of
your Jobster communications other than to the intended
recipient(s) unless required (1) by law or court
order, (2) to protect Jobster's rights and property,
(3) to protect against unauthorized use of the Jobster
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 Jobster website and business, Jobster 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 Jobster 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.
Jobster 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 Jobster 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 Jobster
business partners, you must independently opt-out
of communications from that individual company.
Individuals who wish to deactivate their Jobster
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 Jobster.
Jobster allows its users the option to change
information previously provided. This may be done
through the following method:
- Log in to the Jobster 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
Jobster 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 Jobster 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 Jobster site or Service, or your dealings
with this website, you can contact us by writing
to:
Jobster Privacy at Jobster.
Please include Jobster Privacy in your subject line.
Or you may write to:
Jobster Privacy Officer
Jobster, Inc.
3131 Elliott Ave., Suite 600
Seattle , WA 98121
Jobster Privacy Commitment
Last updated November,
2006
Jobster 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
jobster.com. Because Jobster 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.
Jobster 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.
