Thank you for visiting Finder Group, Inc.'s ("C2CFinder") contract search and recruiting website located at the URL www.c2cfinder.com. This Privacy Policy details certain policies implemented throughout C2CFinder governing C2CFinder's use of personally identifiable information provided to C2CFinder via this Site or otherwise.
Information Collected
While visiting any of the Finder Group's Network web pages or sites or partner links (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 and provide customer support. Such Personal Information may include, but is not limited to, your name, company details, phone number, fax number, street address, 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 product or service or enter you in the promotion you have requested, as well as respond to your inquiry or feedback.
General Information Disclosure
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, credit card number, personal references, etc., to any outside parties, except when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to
(i) Comply with law
(ii) Enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements or
(iii) Protect the rights, property or safety of C2CFinder, our users, or others.
We may record and share aggregated information with our partners, member companies and job seekers.
We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples may include hosting our web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, market research analysis, 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.
Aggregated Information
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 user experience. We may share this information with our partners, to create a better overall experience for you, as well.
Personally Identifiable Information
C2CFinder may collect personally identifiable information from users when:
Registering for a C2CFinder account (either as a recruiter or an individual)
Using certain products or services; or when they enter promotions or contests.
We may also ask you for other information, such as information on your interests, your likes and dislikes regarding the site, the types of jobs, job seekers, vendors, recruiters you are interested in, etc., in an effort to deliver to you the best possible user experience. Requesting it from you collects this information.
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 from our site and may be used by others. This may result in unsolicited messages form third parties, for which C2CFinder may not be responsible.
C2CFinder does not collect personally identifying information about individuals except when specifically and knowingly provided by such individuals. The site may collect personally identifying information in several ways including:
Registering on our site to use services or to access areas of the site offered only to registered users such as:
- Submitting a Resume, Posting a Contract
- Submitting information for editorial purposes, such as news items, letters to the editor, press releases, etc.
- Using a "Referral" or "Forward" features
- Submitting information to conduct transactions or use services offered through the web site
Uses of Personally Identifying information
When registering as a C2CFinder.com user, we may request your email address and other contact information. We may use your email address or fax number to send account statements, invoices, news letters, announcements of service enhancements and new features on the web site, surveys to monitor or improve the use and satisfaction of the site, or to send you marketing or promotional materials from C2CFinder.com or our affiliated partners.
Cookies
What are Cookies?
To enhance your experience at C2CFinder.com, we may use a feature on your Internet browser called "cookie". Cookies are small files that your Web browser places on your computer's hard drive. Cookies cannot damage user files, nor can they read information from a user's hard drive. At C2CFinder.com, we use cookies only for the protection and convenience of our users. Uses for cookies may include: remembering user names, passwords, and preferences.
Log Files
C2CFinder.com 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 accessing 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.
Banner Advertising
C2CFinder.com may also share web site usage information about visitors to our web site with a 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.
Security
We may employ procedural and technological measures, consistent with industry practice. Such measures are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. C2CFinder may use firewalls, internal restrictions, password protection, physical lock and key and other security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information.
Links to Third Party Sites
The Site may provide links to other Web sites or resources over which C2CFinder does not have control ("External Web Sites"). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by C2CFinder of those External Web Sites. You acknowledge that C2CFinder is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that C2CFinder is not responsible for the content of such External Web Sites. Your use of External Web Sites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the linked to External Web Sites.
Effective Date and Changes
This Privacy Policy is effective as of Jan 1, 2008. C2CFinder.com 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 C2CFinder.com, we will post those changes here 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 have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy please feel free to contact us. To do this, just click a "Contact Us" link on our site.