Privacy Policy
What This Privacy Policy Covers
This policy covers how FacultyOutcomes.com treats personal information that it collects and receives, including information related to your past use of FacultyOutcomes.com products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable (i.e. your name, address, email address, or phone number) that is not otherwise publicly available. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that FacultyOutcomes.com does not own or control or to those whom FacultyOutcomes.com does not employ or manage. In addition, certain FacultyOutcomes.com associated partners have their own privacy statements which can be viewed by clicking on their links.
Information Collection and Use
When you register with FacultyOutcomes.com, we ask for information such as your name, email address, zip code, etc. FacultyOutcomes.com automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, FacultyOutcomes.com cookie information, and the page you requested.
FacultyOutcomes.com uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see; to fulfill your requests for products and services; to improve our services; to contact you; to conduct research; and to provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
FacultyOutcomes.com does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with anyone else or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested (when we have your permission), or under the following circumstances: We may share (provide and receive) aggregate information, which is not personally identifiable, with others. This information may include demographic data such as the gender and/or geographic location of groups of users, but it will not include personal information (such as your name or email address). We use aggregate demographic information about our audience in order to improve our service, for research purposes, marketing/promotional purposes and/or for industry reporting purposes, among others.
However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information. We respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal processes to establish/exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of FacultyOutcomes.com's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. We transfer information about you if FacultyOutcomes.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, FacultyOutcomes.com will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. FacultyOutcomes.com works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business. Facultyoutcomes.com has implemented a variety of encryption and security technologies and procedures to protect information stored in our computer systems from unauthorized access. We also maintain procedural safeguards that restrict your Personal Information to employees (or people working on our behalf and under confidentiality agreements) who need to know your Personal Information in order to provide products and services that you request. When submitting credit card information FacultyOutcomes.com will ensure that any third party companies adhere and comply with our encryption and security standards to protection your personal information.
Cookies
FacultyOutcomes.com may set and access FacultyOutcomes.com cookies on your computer. FacultyOutcomes.com uses web beacons to access FacultyOutcomes.com cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with FacultyOutcomes.com products and services.
Your Account Preferences
You can edit your FacultyOutcomes.com account information, including your marketing preferences, at any time on our site. We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the FacultyOutcomes.com service, such as service announcements, administrative messages, and the FacultyOutcomes.com Newsletter that are considered part of your FacultyOutcomes.com account. You may at any time have the right to notify us if you wish to delete your account information or inform us with the type of communication you wish to receive or not receive from us. In order to opt-out of receiving any news, updates, or information regarding FacultyOutcomes.com you must contact our customer service or submit an email that you wish to not receive any correspondence newsletters, or emails from us. You can also contact us at any time to delete and opt-out any and all your account information. FacultyOutcomes.com will notify you once your request to opt-out has been completed. Our contact information can be found at http://www.facultyoutcomes.com/contact.html.
Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
FacultyOutcomes.com may update this policy. We will notify you about significant updates regarding the use of personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your FacultyOutcomes.com account or by placing a prominent notice on our site. Our Current privacy policy is located at: http://www.facultyoutcomes.com/privacy_policy.html. The effective date of this policy is: Thursday, December 29, 2005.
Our Customer Service Contact
FacultyOutcomes.com
301 Union Avenue, Suite 315
Altoona, PA 16602
Phone: 814-935-9813
Fax: 866-360-2671
Customer Service: servicemanager@FacultyOutcomes.com
Registration Disclosure
Whether you are an employer or job seeker, you must first complete a standard registration form and obtain log in/password information. The information we obtain from you is used as contact information if the need arises. In the case of employers, information we receive is used for billing and contact purposes.
FacultyOutcomes.com is the sole owner of the information collected on our website. FacultyOutcomes.com collects personally identifiable information from our users on the registration page of our website.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Aggregate Information (Non-Personally Identifiable Information). We may share aggregated demographic information about our user base with marketing firms or advertisers. This information does not identify individual users. We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.
Personally Identifiable Information. We do not share personally identifiable information with any entity.
Choice/Opt-out
FacultyOutcomes.com does not disclose personally identifiable information to any entity. However, we may use your non-personally identifiable information (i.e. location, level of education, etc.) for demographic purposes only. As a registered client/subscriber, you may choose to end your relationship with FacultyOutcomes.com at any time. Should you choose to opt-out or unsubscribe to our services, we would require you to do one of the following -- email our customer service at servicemanager@facultyoutcomes.com, or phone us at 814/935-9813. Once we have received your confirmation, all stored information received by you will be removed from our database. We will confirm this by email once it has been removed.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We do not use cookies on this site to store any time of personal or account information. We do/do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site or any third party advertisements that may appear on our site.
We use [both] session ID cookies [and/or] persistent cookies. [We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site.] A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.
We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We employ or on occasion our third party advertising partner employs a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personally identifiable information.
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