Privacy Policy of myBusinessin
myBusinessin.com is a professional networking service that allows Members professionals find and connect with other professionals more effectively.
myBusinessin users can create unique professional profiles online in order to make contact with thousands of professionals who are users of the myBusinessin Service.
The Site (www.myBusinessin.com) and its Services stores and sometimes displays both private and public information of our Members, if they so wish.
We care about our Member's privacy and will do our best to protect it, subject to this Privacy Policy and the binding Terms and Conditions.
First and foremost you should know that no mater how we try, the Site can never guarantee that anything you post, upload, send to anyone or publish ("post") on the Site shall remain confidential. Both profiles and other Services on the Site may not be confidential. Therefore, please DO NOT POST ANY INFORMATION YOU WISH TO REMAIN CONFIDENTIAL.
BY USING OR ACCESSING THE SITE OR ANY OF THE SERVICES, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF ANYTHING HERE OFFENDS YOU OR YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY IT, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SITE OR ANY OF ITS SERVICES.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact our staff at Privacy@mybusinessin.com, using the subject line "Privacy Policy Question" or the "Contact" page on the Site.
We work hard to earn and keep your trust, so we adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy:
- We will never rent or sell your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes
- We will never share your contact information with another user, without your consent.
Information Collection
Registration :
When you become a Member, you provide certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your password, birthday date, state of residency or employment and company name, if relevant and any other information you choose to submit. Only your password, age and email are kept confidential (if you so choose and mark your profile page as such, and subject to these Terms and Privacy Policy). All other information supplied to the Site may not be kept confidential by the Site.
Profile Information :
As a Member 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 is entirely optional, but enables you to better identify yourself and find new opportunities on myBusinessin, set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events, add applications, and post all kinds of Content on the Site and its Services. The Site may collect, analyze and use this information so that we can provide you with a better Site and Services and offer more personalized features and promotional materials.
The Site collects Members information from their profile page, such as name, email address, and age. That is done for various reasons such as to authenticate the registration, to send certain communications relating to the Site and its Services and to allow better and more relevant promotional material and advertisements. The Site also collects other information from the profile page, as well as other Content, as posted by the Members on the Site and Services.
Information about your Contacts :
In order to invite others to connect with you directly in myBusinessin, you will enter their names and email addresses. This information will be used by myBusinessin 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.
Cookies:
When Users access the Site or any of its Services, the Site collects non-personally identifiable information such as, but not limited to, user data, browser type and IP address using "cookies" or other methods. A cookie is a piece of data stored on your computer holding information about you. This information is gathered for all Users and may be used by the Site to improve the Services, to offer a better experience using the Site and Services, to offer more useful advertising or promotional material, etc.
The Site may use several types of cookies, such as to confirm the logging in of Users or to make it easier for Users to log from a computer they already logged in from. Some of the cookies may be temporary and others may be persistent.
Users may configure their web-browsers to accept or reject all or some cookies, per browser's definitions. However, in order to use many of the Services on the Site Users must enable accepting cookies from the Site.
Members that post Content on the Site do so at their own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable even if the Content is posted on a confidential place. The Site cannot guarantee that Content you post will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Also if you choose to share certain Content with other Users, the Site cannot control the actions of those Users and the confidentiality of the Content.
Members should be aware that even after removal of Content, either by the Site or by the Member, copies of any Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Site or if other Users have copied or stored your Content.
By using the Site or Services, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in France.
Collecting Content and information from the Site and Service by Others
You may NOT collect any information and content from the Site and Services, even if such information and Content is posted openly, unless after receiving license to do so from the Site. Any unauthorized collection or misuse of information is a violation of this Policy and the Terms and allows the Site to hold any legal actions, including but not limited - injunction.
Persons Under Age of 18
The Site does not address persons under the age of 18 and does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 18, please do not attempt to register for the Site or any of its Services or send any information about yourself to the Site.
Please note that minors and other Users of the Site may be exposed to offensive or inappropriate Content. We do our best to remove any offensive Content or Content not in accordance to the Terms of this Site, but the Site cannot guarantee such exposure will not happen. Surfing the Site should be done carefully, at your own risk.
Use of Information Obtained by the Site
When you become a Member, you create your profile and receive your privacy settings. Any of your profile information which you do not set as "Private" (except your password) will be displayed to the public or to certain people you choose, depending on your settings.
The Site may from, time to time use your name and email address or other details and Content you submit to the Site to send you notifications regarding new services offered by the Site or use your email address to allow other Members to contact you if you so wish.
Profile information is primarily used so other Users may view it and get to know you. By nature, it is not intended to be kept confidential. Therefore, it will be available to Users, both directly or using the "search" feature on the Site or even by some search engines.
The Site or any User may from time to time send you messages, announcements or promotional materials. You may block certain Users and choose not receive messages from them.
Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
Please take notice that whenever you voluntarily post public information and Content on any of the profile pages, blogs (Web-logs), forums, chat rooms, private messages, ads and other Services, that information can be accessed by anyone using the Internet and the Site cannot be responsible to any result of such exposure.
Members may use the Site and Services to share various information about themselves with third parties, but Members are also encouraged to make informed, cautious and relevant choices in the information they choose to share.
Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy the Site will not disclose personal information to any third party unless the Site believes that such disclosure is required: (1) to conform to any legal requirements of any jurisdiction or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the Site's Terms of Use or to protect any of the Site's rights; or (3) to protect the safety of Users or other persons.
The Site may transfer any and all Content, personal information (including password protected) and other information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale, merger, acquisition or any other transaction with the Site or substantially all of its assets.
The Site will not share Members' contact information (other for statistical purposes) with third party advertisers if Members chose to set their privacy settings accordingly.
The Site may use or supply to third parties the information in Members profile or in other Content, without identifying the Members individually but in a manner that might be used to offer each Member certain information and services, either by the Site or by third parties, regarding fields of interest they have chosen to state. This will allow the Site and third parties to supply you with better and informed services to your benefit. For example, should you choose your profession as an attorney, you may get some commercial mail regarding your legal profession. Same applies to other criteria, such as your Region, etc.
When Members use the Site and Services, certain information posted or shared by them with third parties, contacts or friends (such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos or other information), may be shared by those thirds parties. All such sharing of information is done at the Members own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos or other Content, this information may become publicly available and the Site will not be able to prevent that.
Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on the Site might be delivered to Users by third party advertisers or partners. Such third parties may automatically receive your IP address and some other details when this happens. These third party advertisers may also use cookies, or other tracking technologies to offer Users better services. In this way, they may gather certain information regarding the Internet use from Users' computer in order to send them more relevant and targeted advertising (such as what advertisements were viewed or clicked on). The Site does not have access to or control of those cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. This Privacy Policy does not cover those cookies or advertisers.
This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by advertisers.
To remove any doubt, subject to this Privacy Policy, third party advertisers have no access to your contact information on the Site unless you choose to share it with them.
Changing or Removing Information
Members have access and control over their profile information and some of the Content they post. Members may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time or some of the content they post, as appropriate. Information will be updated immediately. Please note that cached versions or backup copies of the Site might hold said information or Content as prior to such change, for a certain period of time.
Where Members choose to make use of communication features of the Site and Services with others, however, the original Member may not be able to remove or amend such content after it has been shared or sent.
Security
The Site's Member accounts are secured by user created passwords. The Site uses reasonable measures to protect those passwords and the information protected by them. The Site restricts access to Member password-protected-information to employees who need such access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff.
The Site cannot guarantee the security of Member password-protected-information from any unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, mal-software and other factors that may compromise the security of such information.
The Site might use security measures such as an updated anti-virus and firewall programs, but is under no obligation to do so and cannot guarantee such devices will protect you from any malware or other code.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
myBusinessin may update this privacy policy. In the event there are significant changes in the way we treat your personally identifiable information, we will display a notice on this site. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the "Contact Us" page.
(*) This Privacy Policy adds to the Terms and Conditions for Use of the Site, as detailed herein Terms and Conditions. The definitions as set in the Terms apply to this Privacy Policy as well.
