hi5space.com Privacy Policy Highlights
Our privacy policy/partner's privacy policy includes the following
information about Google and the
DoubleClick DART cookie:
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your
site.
- Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users
based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the
Google ad and content
network privacy policy.
Because laws across countries vary, we're unable to address specific
privacy policy language. However, accordance with entities such such as the
Network Advertising Initiative,
or NAI, we base our own privacy polices as well as (Google - third party vendor)
for our site visitors as follows:
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our
website.
These companies may use information (not including your name,
address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and
other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services
of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice
and to know your choices about not having this information used by these
companies, click here.
Additional information and guidelines that we use can be found in
Appendix A of the
NAI
Self-Regulatory principles for publishers (PDF). Please note that the NAI
may change this sample language at any time.
1. Personal information collected
We collect information:
* When you register an account to become a hi5space.com user (“User”), such as
your name, e-mail, country, location, occupation and a password.
* When you add to your profile with further information about yourself or your
private contacts
* We use cookies and other technologies to recognize you, customize your
experience and serve advertisements.
* We automatically receive from your internet use such information as your IP
address, the URLs of sites from which you arrive or leave the hi5space.com
website, your type of browser and your ISP.
2. Uses of personal information
We use the information you provide to:
* Administer your account with us and customize the service we provide to you.
* To send you service or promotional communications through email and notices on
the hi5space.com website.
* We do not sell, rent or otherwise provide your personal identifiable
information to any third parties for marketing purposes.
* We provide you with the means to control whether or not your contact
information is shared with another User.
* In order to deliver our services, we may share information with third parties.
For example, to process subscription payments made by you, we share some of your
information with the credit card processing company we use.
* Enable you to share your information and communicate with other Users, or
provide (usually at your option) your personal details to third parties offering
combined services with hi5space.com.
3. Your information choices
You can:
* Review, enhance or edit your personal information through your personal
profile page.
* Choose what information you make available through your public profile.
* Control the messages you receive from hi5space.com and other Users and how
these messages are sent.
* Change your settings to control visibility and accessibility through our
website.
* Tell us to close your hi5space.com account.
4. Security
* Personal information you provide will be secured with industry standards and
technology.
5. How to contact us
If you have any questions or comments please email us at hi5space.com/contact
hi5space.com Privacy Policy
Our privacy policy has been updated. Please click here for a summary of the
changes.
Your privacy is our top concern. We work hard to earn and keep your trust, so we
adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy:
* We do not rent or sell your personally identifiable information to third
parties for marketing purposes.
* We do not share your contact information with another User without your
consent.
* Any personally identifiable information that you provide will be secured with
industry standard protocols and technology.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please
review it frequently.
If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify
you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
By continuing to use the hi5space.com service after notice of changes have been
sent
to you or published on the hi5space.com website, you are consenting to the
changes.
Please read this privacy policy to learn more about:
1. What personally identifiable information of yours is collected by
hi5space.com.
2. How the information is used.
3. With whom the information may be shared.
4. How you can access and change your Account settings.
5. What security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or
alteration of information collected by hi5space.com
6. How to contact us.
1. Personal Information Collected
The purpose of the hi5space.com website is to permit Users to voluntarily
provide information about themselves for the purposes of developing, maintaining
and enhancing a network of professional contacts.
You willingly provide us certain personal information, which we collect in order
to
allow you to benefit from the hi5space.com website. If you have any hesitation
about
providing such information to us and/or having such information displayed on the
hi5space.com
website or otherwise used in any manner permitted in this Privacy Policy and the
User Agreement, you should not become a member of the hi5space.com community.
We collect your personal information in the following ways:
Registration
In order to become a User, you must first create an account on our website. To
create an account you are required to provide the following contact information,
which you recognize and expressly acknowledge is personal information allowing
others, including hi5space.com, to identify you: name, email address, country,
ZIP/postal code, a brief summary of your professional background, and a password
chosen by you.
Profile Information
Once you become a User, you may provide additional information in the Profile
section describing your skills, professional experiences, and networking
objectives.
Providing additional information beyond what is required at
registration to become a User is entirely optional, but enables you to better
identify yourself and find new opportunities in the hi5space.com system to build
and leverage your professional network.
Any information you provide at registration or in the Profile section that is
not personally identifiable may be used in the same manner and extent to which
other information that is not personally identifiable is permitted to be used
hereunder,
including for the purpose of serving advertisements through the service. If you
opt-out you may lose the potential benefit of being a User, including receiving
ads that are more targeted to your interests.
Contacts Information
In order to invite others to connect with you directly in hi5space.com, you may
use the hi5space.com services to invite them if they are a User, or enter their
names and email addresses. This information will be used by hi5space.com to send
your invitation including a message that you write.
The names and email addresses of people that you invite will be used only to
send your invitation and reminders.
You may also choose to manually enter or upload data about your contacts into
the private “My contacts” section of the hi5space.com website. You may not
invite anyone to connect with you whom you do not know.
All information entered there will only be viewable by you and will not be
searchable
by others in the hi5space.com network without your permission. All information
that you
enter or upload about your contacts will be covered by the same terms of this
privacy
policy as cover your own information.
Customer Service
hi5space.com may collect information through the hi5space.com website or through
the Customer Service website in order to, among other things, accurately
categorize and respond to a customer’s inquiry and deliver appropriate service
levels.
Cookies
Like most websites, hi5space.com uses cookies and web log files to track site
usage. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer which allows
hi5space.com to recognize you as a User when you return to the hi5space.com
website using the same computer and web browser.
If your browser settings do not allow cookies, you will not be able to use the
hi5space.com website. Like the information you enter at registration or in your
Profile,
cookie and log file data is used to customize your experience on our website.
One type of cookie, known as a “persistent” cookie, is set once you’ve logged
in to your hi5space.com account. The next time you visit the hi5space.com
website,
the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing User so you
will not need to log in before using the service.
In order to access or change any of your private information (like a credit card
number)
or to send a message to another User, however, you must log in securely again
with
your password even if your computer contains your persistent cookie.
Additionally, if you log out of the hi5space.com website you will need to
re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log in to your
account.
Another type of cookie, called a “session” cookie, is used to identify
a particular visit to the hi5space.com website. Session cookies expire after a
short time or when you close your web browser.
We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing User preferences
and tracking User trends. In the course of serving advertisements or optimizing
services to our Users, we may allow authorized third parties to place or
recognize a unique cookie on your browser.
Any information provided to third parties through such cookies will not be
personally identifiable but may provide general segment information, e.g. your
industry or geographic location, your occupation, or information about your
professional or educational background, for greater customization of your user
experience.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your
browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
Unfortunately, if your browser settings do not allow cookies or you opt to
refuse all cookies, you may not be able to use the hi5space.com website or
services.
hi5space.com does not store personally identifiable information in the cookies.
Web Beacons
We allow other companies, called ad networks, to serve advertisements to Users.
Ad networks include third party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors
and research firms. hi5space.com may “target” some ads to Users that fit a
certain general profile – for example, “product managers in Texas.” hi5space.com
does NOT use personally identifiable information to target ads.
To deliver these ads properly, hi5space.com may include a file, called a web
beacon, from these ad networks within pages served by hi5space.com so the
networks may provide anonymized, aggregated auditing, research and reporting for
advertisers as well as to target ads to you while you visit other websites.
Because your web browser must request these advertisements and web beacons from
the ad network’s servers, these companies can view, edit or set their own
cookies, just as if you had requested a web page from their site.
These general targets may also be used by ad networks to display targeted ads on
other websites as a substitute for random, irrelevant ads. hi5space.com does not
provide personally identifiable information to any advertiser or any other third
party.
You may opt-out of use of web beacons in hi5space.com pages that you view and of
placement of a cookie by ad networks in your browser. To opt-out click here and
go to the “Advertising” section at the bottom and change the setting there to
“No”. If you opt-out you may lose the potential benefit of receiving ads that
are more targeted to your interests which, in turn, may limit your ability to
fully realize the benefits of the hi5space.com services to build and leverage
your professional network.
Log files, IP addresses and information about your computer
Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the
hi5space.com web site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which
you came and the site to which you are going when you leave hi5space.com. We
also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy
server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and
type of web browser you are using, email patterns, as well as the name of your
ISP.
This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the
hi5space.com service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally
identifiable information is not shared with third-parties without your
permission or except when required by law.
Consent to hi5space.com Processing Information About You
Certain information you provide to hi5space.com may reveal, or allow others to
identify, your nationality, ethnic origin, religion or other aspects of your
private life, and more generally about you. Please be aware that in providing
information to hi5space.com for the purposes of opening your user account, you
are expressly and voluntarily accepting the terms and conditions of this Privacy
Policy and hi5space.com’s User Agreement.
The supplying of all such information by you to hi5space.com, including all
information
deemed “sensitive” by applicable law, is entirely voluntary on your part.
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, in accordance with the
terms of this Privacy.
Policy and the User Agreement, but please note that your withdrawal of consent
will not be retroactive.
Rights to Access, Correct and Eliminate Information About You
You have a right to access, modify, correct and eliminate the data about you
which has been collected pursuant to your decision to become a User. If you
update any of your information, we may keep a copy of the information which you
originally provided to us in our archives for uses documented herein.
We take your rights seriously and encourage you to use them if you deem this to
be appropriate. You may exercise these rights by using the contact us form on
this site.
Uses of personal information
hi5space.com is an online service dedicated to helping all types of
professionals more effectively connect with one another. The personally
identifiable information you choose to provide on our website is used to help
you describe yourself to other Users.
Other information, that does not personally identify you as an individual, is
collected by hi5space.com from Users (such as, for example, patterns of
utilization) and is
exclusively owned by hi5space.com. This information can be utilized by
hi5space.com in such
manner as hi5space.com, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.
hi5space.com Communications
hi5space.com will communicate with you through email and notices posted on the
hi5space.com website or through other means available through the service,
including text and other forms of messaging.
If we send any communications to you via the carrier service with which you have
a
mobile communications subscription or otherwise have access, you understand you
will pay any service fees associated with any such access (including text
messaging
charges for messages to your mobile device).
These include a series of up to five welcome emails which help inform new Users
about various features of the service. Please be aware that you will always
receive
certain emails from hi5space.com related to the proper functioning of your
account, such as
email notices when another User in your network sends you an opportunity.
hi5space.com may send you promotional information unless you have opted out of
receiving such information.
You can change your e-mail and contact preferences at any time by logging into
your ‘Account & Settings’ and amending your email notification choices. If you
wish, you can also opt-out of receiving promotional emails.
Customized Content
Information provided to hi5space.com (or to third parties with whom it offers
combined services) is also used to customize your experience on our website. For
example, when you login to your account we will display the screen names of new
Users who have recently joined your network.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
hi5space.com takes the privacy of Users very seriously. We do not sell, rent, or
otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to third parties for
marketing purposes. We will only share your personally identifiable information
with third parties to carry out your instructions or to provide specific
services or information.
For instance, we use a credit card processing company
to bill Users for subscription fees. These third parties do not retain, share,
or store any personally identifiable information except to provide these
services and they are bound by confidentiality agreements which limit their use
of such information.
hi5space.com offers a “public profile” feature which allows Users to publish
portions of their hi5space.com profile, including their “name”, but not their
“email address” to the public Internet. Users may opt-out of this feature by
editing their account and settings, however hi5space.com does not warrant how
often third-party search engines will update their cache.
We may provide aggregated anonymous data about the usage of our services to
third parties for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be
appropriate, including to prospective advertisers on hi5space.com. We may
segment our Users by role (i.e. product managers, vice presidents), industry,
geographic location, or company.
If you would like to be excluded from the aggregated research or products based
upon aggregated data about our Users’ activities on the site, please contact us.
Teaming with Other Organizations to Offer Combined and Other Services
hi5space.com may offer our services in connection with other websites (including
updates about the hi5space.com service) or may team with other online services
to give you the combined results of both services or additional services and
benefits.
Platform Applications (as defined in the User Agreement) can be
designed by Platform Developers (as defined in the User Agreement) or by a
subset of Platform Developers with whom hi5space.com has more closely aligned
(“Partners”).
As a User, you will receive requests to participate in market research including
polls and surveys submitted by other hi5space.com members. If you participate in
surveys and polls offered through our website, the information you provide may
be visible to others using the hi5space.com website. You may opt-out of
participating by changing your Account & Settings to stop receiving these
inquiries and requests.
Forums/Chats/Blogs
If you post on the Answers section of hi5space.com, or use a bulletin board,
import a blog, or participate in a chat room on hi5space.com, you should be
aware that any personally identifiable information you choose to provide there
can be read, collected, or used by other Users of these forums, as well as
Platform Developers and other third parties, and could be used to send you
unsolicited messages. hi5space.com is not responsible for the personally
identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.
Testimonials and Advertisement Placed through hi5space.com DirectAds Service
If you provide any testimonials about the hi5space.com service or place
advertisements through the hi5space.com DirectAds services, we may post those
testimonials and examples of advertisements you place in connection with
hi5space.com’s promotion of its service to third parties, which testimonials and
advertisements may include your name and other personal information that you
have provided.
Terms of Use.
Communications to other Users
Many emails you initiate through hi5space.com, e.g., an invitation sent to a
non-User, will list your email address and name in the header of the message.
Emails you initiate may also provide aggregate information about your network
(for instance how many people are in your network), but will not list the people
to whom you’re directly connected.
Other communications that you initiate through the hi5space.com website, like a
request for contact, will list your name as the initiator but will not include
your personal contact information. Your contact information will only be
shared with another User if both of you have indicated that you would
like to establish contact with each other.
Legal Disclaimer
It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required
by law, such as responses to civil or criminal subpoenas, or other requests by
law enforcement personnel.
We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is
necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, subpoena,
or other legal process or request to hi5space.com brought in any country
throughout the
world, or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
Disclosures to others
We may also disclose your personal and other information you provide, to another
third party as part of a reorganization or a sale of the assets of a
hi5space.com corporation division or company. Any third party to which we
transfer or sell hi5space.com’s assets will have the right to continue to use
the personal and other information that you provide to us.
3. Your Information Choices
Accessing and Changing Your Account Information
You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired
changes to the information you publish, or to the settings for your hi5space.com
account including your email, and contact preferences, at any time by logging in
to your account on the hi5space.com website.
Please be aware that even after your request for a change is processed,
hi5space.com may, for a time, retain residual information about you in its
backup and/or
archival copies of its database.
Closing Your Account
You can also close your account through the hi5space.com website. If you close
your hi5space.com account, we will remove your name and other personally
identifiable information from our publicly viewable database.
We may retain certain data contributed by you if we believe it may be necessary
to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as
analysis of aggregated, non-personally identifiable data, account
recovery,
or if required by law. To request that we close your account and remove
your information from the hi5space.com website, please send your request to us
via
Contact Us form.
Please send your request using an email account that you have registered with
hi5space.com under your name. You will receive a response to requests
sent to hi5space.com within five business days of its receipt.
4. Your Obligations
As a User, you have certain obligations toward the other Users with whom you
will be communicating. Certain of these obligations are imposed by applicable
law and regulations, and others have become commonplace in user-friendly
communities of like-minded members, such as hi5space.com:
* You must, at all times, respect the terms and conditions of the then-current
Privacy Policy and the User Agreement. This includes respecting all intellectual
property rights which may belong to third parties (such as photographs).
* You must not download or otherwise disseminate any information which may be
deemed to be injurious, violent, offensive, racist or xenophobic or which may
otherwise violate the purpose and spirit of hi5space.com and its community of
Users.
* You must not provide information to hi5space.com and /or other Users which you
believe might be injurious or detrimental to your person, professional or social
status.
Any violation of these guidelines may lead to the restriction, suspension or
termination of your account by hi5space.com, as we take these principles
seriously and consider them to be the basis on which our Users adhere to the
hi5space.com website and the services which it offers.
5. Important Information
Children
Children are not eligible to use our service and we ask that minors (under the
age of 13) do not submit any personal information to us or use the service.
TRUSTe and Safe Harbor Adherence
If Users have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first
contact hi5space.com
By becoming a User, you have given us your express and informed consent to
transfer the data which you provide to us in anyway we see fit within
International
laws governing such use.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
hi5space.com may update this privacy policy at any time, with or without advance
notice. In the event there are significant changes in the way we treat your
personally identifiable information, we will display a notice on the
hi5space.com website or send you an email, as provided for above.
Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information
that
we have about you and your account.
If you use the hi5space.com service after notice of changes have been sent to
you or published on our site, you hereby provide your consent to the changed
practices.
6. Security
In order to secure your personal information, access to your data on
hi5space.com is password-protected, and sensitive data (such as credit card
information) is protected by SSL encryption when it is exchanged between your
web browser and the hi5space.com web site.
To protect any data you store on our servers we also regularly audit our system
for
possible vulnerabilities and attacks and we use a tier-one secured-access data
center.
It is your responsibility to protect the security of your login information.
Please note that emails and instant messaging and similar means of communication
with other users of hi5space.com are not encrypted and we strongly request you
not to
communicate any confidential information through these means.
7. How to contact us
If you have questions or comments about this privacy policy please contact us, at:
http://www.hi5space.com/contact/
