Preferred Jobs is committed to ensuring the
privacy of our users. In addition to fully supporting the Principles of Online
Solicitation adopted by the Interactive Services Association (ISA) and the Direct
Marketing Association, Preferred Jobs also pledges that:
- Preferred Jobs will not provide an individual's email address, usage paths, or
demographic data to any third parties.
- Preferred Jobs will honor a request by a user to terminate his or her account. Upon
termination of an account information about that user will be erased.
- Preferred Jobs will not monitor the content of personal communications sent using the
Preferred Jobs software.
Preferred Jobs is dedicated to improving Internet navigation for everyone, and firmly
believes that personal privacy is a commodity worth protecting. We are acutely aware that
evolving technologies present new challenges for user privacy. We work to comply with the
guidelines set by numerous privacy organizations to ensure that we stay on the cutting
edge of privacy protection.
Third Party Advertising: We use Maxworldwide and other third-party
advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These
companies may use information (not including your name, address, email
address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites
in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods
and services that may be 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, please click
here
Third Party Cookies: In the course of serving advertisements to this
site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique
"cookie" on your browser.
Any data which we collect will only be
used by ourselves. We reserve the right to transfer any data collected in
the event we sell this site or any other site which we own.
We want to be very clear: We will not obtain personally-identifying
information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide
such information to us.
In addition to our pledge not to compromise the privacy of our users, we'd like to share
with you some privacy sites that we monitor, subscribe to the policies of, and suggest
that you visit to keep abreast of the issues surrounding your privacy and the Internet.
EPIC
EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. They offer extensive updated
lists of privacy legislation in progress, links to a "privacy bookstore", policy
archives, an archive of their newsletter, and a variety of other privacy resources.
Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) is a public-interest alliance of
computer scientists and others interested in the impact of computer technology on society.
They offer a variety of detailed information about public policy in a computer age.
Privacy issues are among the ones covered, but there are many other topics covered here as
well.
Privacy
International
Privacy International was formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance by governments and
corporations. With members in more than 40 countries, it has created an international
movement that has helped to counter abuses of privacy by way of information technology.
Privacy International has conducted campaigns in Europe, Asia and North America to raise
awareness about the dangers of ID card systems, military surveillance, data matching,
police information systems, and credit reporting.
The Electronic
Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit civil liberties organization working in
the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources
and information online, as well as to promote responsibility in new media.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
Our Compliance Statement and Procedures
Although we have no
knowledge of any children under the age of 13 using any service or
subscribing to any service on this site which may fall under the purview of
this law we have chosen to implement our full and absolute compliance with
this law. We think this law is good and children under the age of 13 need
protection.
If you are under 13 years of age please do not subscribe to any of our
email lists or register (e.g.,
resume posting) and or use any service on this site which requires
your "personnel information". The next paragraph explains this in more
detail.
If you are under the age of 13 and you see any service on this site which
collects the following information, please do not use it or submit any data.
This includes a service on this site which asks for your name, home address,
e-mail address, telephone number, hobbies, interests, and a request for any
other information that would allow someone to identify or contact a child
under the age of 13. If you have any questions about our compliance
procedures, please
Email us.
Helpful Links:
How to Comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/coppa.htm
Federal Trade Commission Privacy Initiatives Site (includes link to the full
text of the Final Rule)
http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/index.html
CNET article, "Building Websites for Kids; Do: Be Careful with Private Info"
(includes link to a "quick fix" privacy policy)
http://www.builder.com/Graphics/Kids/ss03.html
Online Privacy Alliance's Resources for Business
http://www.privacyalliance.org/resources
Some sections of this
page were adopted from the Privacy Policy of the Federal Trade Commission.