Purpose of our Privacy Policy

CareerFlight.com is aware of the trust you place in us and our responsibility to protect your privacy. Career Flight has implemented privacy features on the CareerFlight.com website and created this Privacy Policy to ensure the protection of your privacy. The Privacy Policy describes how we collect, protect and use information received and collected from you through our Website. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using our Website or services. Your use of our Website indicates acceptance of the practices described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control or to individuals that we do not employ or manage. Capitalized and other terms not defined in this Privacy Policy will have the meaning ascribed to them in our Terms of Use.

Any information you provide to us is voluntary and may be withdrawn at any time.

The information you provide to us through our Website may reveal your nationality, ethnic origin, religion, gender, age, geography, or other personal information. By providing information to us for the purposes of creating your account or adding any additional details to your Website profile, you are expressly and voluntarily accepting the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use that allow us to process information about you. You have the right to withdraw your consent to our collection and processing of your information at any time, in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, by changing your Settings, or by closing your account. Please note, however, that your withdrawal of consent will not be retroactive.

How we communicate with you

We will communicate with you through e-mail and notices posted on our Website, messages to your account inbox, mobile text messages, or through other means available to us. We may send you a series of e-mails that help inform new Members about the features of our Website, and we will also send you service messages relating to the functioning of our Website. We may also send you messages with promotional information directly or on behalf of our Sponsors, unless you have opted out of receiving promotional information.

Many communications you initiate through our Website (e.g., an invitation sent to a non-Member) will list your primary e-mail address and name in the header of the message. Other communications that you initiate through our Website, such as a request for an introduction, will list your name as the initiator but will not include your personal email address. Your contact information will only be shared with another Member if both of you have indicated that you would like to establish contact with each other.

You can change your e-mail and contact preferences at any time by logging into your account and changing the Settings related to your email notification choices. You cannot opt-out of receiving service messages from us. If we send 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 your receipt of messages on your mobile device (including text messaging charges).

You may unsubscribe from CareerFlight.com emails at any time by either clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link in the footer of the email or by logging into your account and changing your email preferences. Removing your name from the email list may take up to ten (10) days.

Your obligations to us and to other Users

As a User, you have certain obligations to other Users. Those obligations include the following:

1. You must, at all times, abide by the terms and conditions of the then-current Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. This includes respecting all intellectual property rights that may belong to third parties.

2. You must keep your username and password confidential and not share it with others.

3. Any violation of these guidelines may lead to the restriction, suspension or termination of your account at our sole discretion.

Information we collect from you

Personally Identifiable Information

Our Website enables Members to search for jobs, receive emails about job postings, maintain and update a personal account and permits Sponsors to post employment opportunities and to contact Members directly regarding job offerings. You may search for jobs without registering on CareerFlight.com, but all other activities require you to register on the Website and create an account with CareerFlight.com. . We may collect the following personally identifiable information from Members:

• Email address
• Password
• Name
• Address
• City
• State
• ZIP code
• Phone number
• Date of birth
• Gender
• Military service
• Citizenship
• Education
• Job preferences
• Work experience
• Social Security Number

We also collect the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave our Website, as well as the IP address of the computer you are using (or the proxy server you use to access our Website), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, mobile device operating system (if you are accessing our Website using a mobile device), as well as the name of your internet service provider or your mobile carrier in order to provide us with a way to verify your identity, and to provide us with information which we aggregate with that of other users in order to help diagnose problems with our server, improve our Website and to communicate with advertisers (see “How we use information we collect from you,” below).

Providing your personally identifiable information allows us to share Members’ job preferences and work experiences with prospective employers, communicate with you about potential employment opportunities, as well as our Service and our Website, improve our Service and our Website, customize the Website to your individual preferences and ensure your compliance with our Terms of Use and any other restrictions noted on the Website.

If you register a Member account on CareerFlight.com, you will create a user profile in which you may describe your skills, professional experiences, educational background, recommendations from other Website Users, group memberships, and networking objectives (this information, together with your personally identifiable information, shall be referred to collectively herein as your “Personal Information”). Providing such additional information is entirely optional. However it enables Members to derive a greater benefit from the Website by helping to build and leverage professional networks and facilitating your search for professional resources, information, and new opportunities. Any Personal Information you provide at registration or in the profile section may be used by us as we describe in the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy. If you decide not to share such Personal Information, you may not receive the full benefit of being a Website Member. By applying for a job or providing your contact information to show interest in a job, you consent to the disclosure of such information to that Sponsor.

In order for Members to connect with others on CareerFlight.com, you may use the Website to send invitations either to other Members or to email addresses of individuals who are not Members. The names and email addresses of people whom you invite will be used by us to send your invitations and reminders as well as to allow us to help expand our network. Please note that when you send an invitation to connect to another Member, that Member will then have access to your email address because it is displayed in the invitation.. You should not invite anyone to connect with you whom you do not know and trust.

You may also choose to manually enter or upload data about your contacts to the “Contacts” section of your account with us. Information entered into Contacts is only viewable by you and us. By providing email addresses or other information of non-Members, you represent that you have authority to do so. The information that you enter or upload about your contacts enables us to provide customized services such as suggesting people to connect on our Website.

We may collect information through our Website in order to, among other things, accurately categorize and respond to Member inquiries and investigate breaches of our terms.

We may collect information about the fact that you use certain features and functionality or our Website, click on ads, or participate in research initiatives like polling and surveys on our Website.

The Website is intended to allow Members to share information and allow others to find them. Certain information about you is, therefore, publicly available by default. Information posted in the public areas of the Website may be accessed by everyone on the Internet including users without CareerFlight.com accounts and may appear in public search engine search results. You can control the visibility of your information by managing your privacy settings. You can also restrict the information available to others by deleting information you do not want visible or by not providing it at all.

When you post information on another User’s profile or provide a comment on another User’s post, the public availability of that information is subject to the other User’s privacy settings.

Summary of information collected by us

In sum, we collect the following information from you:

• Registration information;
• Profile information;
• Information regarding your contacts with other CareerFlight.com Members;
• Information regarding your usage of our Website;
• Information we glean from our cookies; and
• Your IP address, operating system or mobile platform, ISP or mobile provider, whichever is applicable.

“Cookies”

A cookie is a piece of electronic data that is stored on a user’s hard drive, mobile phone or other device containing information about the user. Cookies can save time, as they can store information such as a user’s login so that the same information does not have to be entered on subsequent visits to the same website. We use cookies and web log files to track your Website usage and trends, to improve the quality of our Service, to customize your experience on our Website, as well as to deliver third-party advertising to Members.

While your browser may accept cookies automatically, you can change the settings on your browser to prevent our cookies from being downloaded automatically or to notify you that they are ready to be downloaded. The latter will give you the option of accepting our cookies. If you decide to decline our cookies, however, some of our Website’s features or services may not function as well as they would if you accepted our cookies

Polls and surveys on our Website

Polls and surveys may be conducted us, our Members or our Sponsors. As a Member, you may be invited to participate in polls and surveys from our Website. Your selection may be random, or it may be based on your non-personally identifiable information, such as job title, geographic location, company size and/or industry. Whether or not you decide to participate in a poll or survey is completely up to you.

After you complete a poll, you will be given access to the aggregate responses of the poll on a results page. Some third parties may target advertisements to you on the results page based on your answers in the poll. We or our Sponsors may follow up with you via e-mail in your account regarding your participation unless you have opted out of receiving such e-mail messages.

We may use third parties to deliver incentives to you to participate in surveys or polls. If the delivery of incentives requires your contact information, you may be asked to provide Personal Information to the third party fulfilling the incentive offer, which will only be used for the purpose of delivering incentives and/or verifying your contact information. It is up to you whether you provide this information, or whether you choose to take advantage of an incentive.

We will not disclose any Personal Information to any third parties in connection with the conduct of any polls or surveys. Your consent to use any Personal Information for the purposes set forth in the poll or survey will be explicitly requested by the party conducting it. You may opt-out of participating in surveys by changing your settings to stop receiving these inquiries and requests.

How we protect the information you give to us

We have implemented appropriate security measures to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alternation or disclosure. We keep your Personal Information on a central database on a secured network in the United States that can be accessed only by a limited number of persons who are required to keep such information confidential. We audit our network regularly for possible vulnerabilities and attacks.

By using the Website, you grant us and all other persons or entities involved in the operation of our Website the right to receive, transmit, monitor, retrieve, store and use your Personal Information, including information that may be privileged and confidential under applicable state and federal laws, in connection with the operation of our Website and our maintenance of your Personal Information.

Although we have made reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your Personal Information, the Internet is an open system and we cannot guarantee that information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. We also cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to circumvent our security measures and obtain access to your Personal Information and use it for improper purposes. As a user of the Website, you agree that you assume all risks regarding your use of the Website, transmissions made over the Internet generally, and your sharing of your Personal Information.

You are responsible, however, for taking all reasonable steps to ensure that no unauthorized person has access to your password. It is your sole responsibility (1) to control the dissemination and use of your password; (2) to authorize, monitor and control access to your password; and (3) to promptly notify us of any need to deactivate your login, or to change your password.

Also, please note that e-mails, instant messaging, and similar means of communication with other Users of our Website are not encrypted, and we strongly advise you not to communicate any confidential information through these means.

How we use information we collect from you

We do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your Personal Information to third parties for marketing purposes. The only instances in which we disclose your Personal Information to third parties is as follows:

We disclose your Personal Information to companies and individuals who perform duties on our behalf, such as website hosting, marketing and customer service companies. While these companies may have access to your Personal Information in order to perform their jobs, they are prohibited from sharing your information with any other individual or company.

We may release Personal Information to third parties to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order. We also may release Personal Information in order to prevent a crime, for national security, to protect our rights and property and to protect the personal safety of our Users or the public.

We disclose your Personal Information to third parties if you consent for us to do so. For example, we send your information to Sponsors if you indicate that you want us to do so in the registration process. In addition, if you indicate that you want to receive offers and promotions from our Sponsors, we will send your Personal Information to them according to your interests and preferences. You will be provided with instructions regarding how to opt out of sharing your contact information if you decide you no longer wish to do so.

We may disclose and transfer your Personal Information to a third party that acquires all or a substantial portion of our business, whether by way of merger, consolidation or purchase of all or a substantial portion of our assets. In addition, in the event that we become the subject of a voluntary or involuntary bankruptcy proceeding, we or our trustee in bankruptcy may sell, license or otherwise dispose of your Personal Information in a transaction approved by a bankruptcy court.

We may use information that does not allow you to be identified (“Aggregate Information”) to better design our Website and to share with our advertisers. For example, we may advise an advertiser or potential advertiser that a certain number of individuals visited a certain area on our Website. We might also share Aggregate Information regarding the overall demographics of the Users of our Website, such as their age, sex or occupation. Depending on the circumstances, we may or may not charge advertisers for this information.

Notwithstanding anything else herein, we may partner with third party advertisers who may (themselves or through their partners) place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. These cookies enable more customized advertising, content or services to be provided to you. To trigger these cookies, we may pass an encrypted or "hashed" (non-human readable) identifier corresponding to your email address to an advertising partner, who may place a cookie on your computer. No personally identifiable information is on, or is connected to, these cookies. To opt-out of these cookies, please go to http://www.privacychoice.org/choose.

Some of our third-party partners may allow you to opt out of their targeted advertising. For more information, visit the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Page.

Our Website contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. We do not have control over these websites, however, and therefore are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices. Please make sure to review the privacy policies of these websites so that you will be familiar with them.

We offer search services to help find information and learn more about other Members, Sponsors and employment opportunities. We use information from Member profiles to populate and refine our search engine results.

How you can access, correct or delete your Personal Information

You may review the Personal Information that we have collected from you by logging in to your account and accessing your profile. If you would like a hard copy of the Personal Information that we have collected from you, you may contact us at info@CareerFlight.com. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before sending your Personal Information or making corrections to it. Please be aware that even after your request for a change is processed, we may, for a time, retain residual information about you in our backup and/or archival copies of our database.

While we have developed default settings for User accounts. We encourage you to review your account Settings and adjust them according to your preferences.

You may opt out of receiving communications from us by logging in, clicking Settings, clicking “Edit Subscriptions,” and deselecting the corresponding checkboxes before clicking the “Submit” button. If you no longer wish to use our Website, we will, upon request, remove your account and Profile Information from our records. In order to do so, please e-mail us with your username, password and email address. The removal process may take up to ten (10) days.

If you decide to close your account with us, we will remove your name and other Personal Information from our publicly viewable database. If you close your account, we have no obligation to retain your information, and may delete any or all of your account information without liability. However, 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. We may also retain and use your information if necessary to provide our Website services to other Users. For example, just as an email you may send to another person through an email service provider resides in that person’s inbox even after you delete it from your sent files or close your account, emails you send via your account on our Website to other Users, as well as your contributions to discussion groups, may remain visible to others after you have closed your account. Similarly, other information you have shared with others, or that other Users have copied, may also remain visible. We disclaim any liability in relation to the deletion or retention (subject to the terms herein) of information or any obligation not to delete the information. We do not control when search engines update their caches, which may contain certain public profile information that has since been removed from our publicly viewable database.

If we learn that a Member is deceased, we may close such Member’s account. In those cases we may restrict profile access, remove messaging functionality, and close an account if we receive a formal request from the Member’s next of kin or other proper legal request to do so.

How we announce changes to our Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without advance notice. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post the changes to our Website, and may alert you to such change via e-mail. Your use of the Website constitutes acceptance of this Privacy Policy, and your continued use of our Website after such changes are posted constitutes acceptance of such revised Privacy Policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account that we have collected from you by means of our Website.

How to contact us

Should you have other questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or any comments, concerns or general feedback, please do not hesitate to contact us by sending us an email to the following: info@careerflight.com

Updated October 20, 2013

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