Industryblender.com Privacy Policy

Industryblender.com has created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make use of the many features of our Web site. When you use the Industryblender.com Web site, you consent to the use of your personal information by Industryblender.com in the manner specified in this Privacy Policy. This policy may change periodically, so please check back from time to time. For your information, the date of the last update to this Privacy Policy is stated at the top of this document. In addition to this Privacy Policy, your use of the site is also subject to our Terms of Service.
THIS POLICY WILL EXPLAIN:

1) What Information Industryblender.com Collects From You When You Visit Our Web Site
2) Who Is Collecting Your Information And With Whom They Can Share It
3) Opt Out
4) Monitoring and Enforcement
5) What Are Cookies And How Industryblender.com Uses Them
6) What Kind Of Security Is In Place To Protect Your Personal Information
7) How You Can Correct Any Inaccuracies In Your Information
8) Links to Other Web Sites
9) How To Contact Industryblender.com


1) WHAT INFORMATION INDUSTRYBLENDER.COM COLLECTS FROM YOU WHEN YOU VISIT OUR SITE:

One of the basic principles of Industryblender.com is that we ask only for the information we need to provide the service you have requested. In several areas of our site, we ask you to provide information by filling out and submitting an on-line form. The features of the Web site where personal information is collected are explained below:
Registering for Industryblender.com Membership: Registering with Industryblender.com is purely your own choice and is not a requirement for you to enjoy many of its features. When you register with Industryblender.com, you create a "User ID" of your choice and choose a secret password. We then ask for background information. The more information you provide, the better we can customize your on-line experience. Once you register with Industryblender.com, you are no longer anonymous to us. You are asked to create a User ID and a password and are better able to take advantage of the many features of this Web site.

Registering for Forums and Chat Rooms: To post messages on Industryblender.com ‘s forums and chat rooms ("Forums"), you must separately register with the Forums, apart from registration for Industryblender.com membership. You may view messages without registration. During registration, you will be asked to create a User ID and a Password, and you must give us your email address. You also may provide us personalized signature for postings. In posting messages, you are not required to post your real name; however, you are required to post your actual email address, although you may hide that email address from viewers. All of the information you provide, other than your password, will be viewable by other visitors of the Forums, as described in Section 2 below, so if you do not feel comfortable providing certain information, leave those fields blank during registration. In addition, your password is not encrypted and can be seen by the Forums' administrators, so do not use a password you would not like others to know.
Contact and Questions: You may submit questions, comments, or concerns to us on the Industryblender.com Web site. We will ask for your name, email address, your company name, and your comment or question. You may also provide your street address with zip code, phone number, fax number, and Web site.

Sweepstakes, Contests, and Special Offers: From time to time, we run sweepstakes, contests, and special offers, which you may choose to opt into. Participating in these promotions is purely voluntary. In these offers, we may ask participants for contact information (like your name, street address, email address), demographic information and perhaps additional information.
Resumes: At the Employment Center at Industryblender.com, we give individuals the option of posting their resume in our database. We will ask you to provide contact information, including your name and email address, and to answer various questions about the positions sought, your education level, relocation preference, current job title, availability, current work status, title, a category for your resume to be listed in, and a brief overview of your resume. You will also be required to submit your resume. You will be given a choice about "locking" your resume, as described in Section 2, below.

Job Postings: At Industryblender.com, we give companies the option of posting job openings in our database. We will ask you to provide your company name, a contact name, street address, phone number, email address. We will also ask you to describe the job you wish to fill.

Use of IP Addresses: An Internet Protocol ("IP") address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web. Web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address. When visitors request pages from Industryblender.com, our servers log the visitors' IP addresses. We do not normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that a visitor's session will be logged, but the visitor remains anonymous to us. Industryblender.com collects IP addresses for the purposes of system administration and to audit the use of our site. We also use IP addresses to collect statistical information to send to our advertisers and for other marketing and promotional purposes.
Cookies: Industryblender.com uses "cookies" to collect non-personal information, as more fully describe in Section 5 below.

2) WHO IS COLLECTING YOUR INFORMATION AND WITH WHOM THEY CAN SHARE IT:

Industryblender.com is committed to keeping your personal information confidential. We will not sell, trade, or rent your personally identifiable information to third parties.

Individual Member Information: "Individual Member Information" is the information collected when you register. Individual Member Information will be used for research on usage patterns and product development, on-line site customization and targeted marketing. We will not give out to third parties your telephone number or email address. We will not give out to third parties information that would link your Username with your actual name. If you cancel your account, Industryblender.com will keep your Individual Member Information accessible to customer service temporarily after cancellation. Thereafter, it is placed in Industryblender.com's service bureau archives.

Information from Contact and Questions: The information you provide with your questions and comments will aid Industryblender.com in responding appropriately to your inquiries. We will use the information to respond to your inquiry and may share it internally to improve our service to you. In addition, we may use the information for various business purposes, including, but not limited to, sharing consumer testimonials about our products or services. These testimonials may be posted on the Industryblender.com Web site; however, we will not post them without your prior permission. In addition, we may share your testimonials with third parties; however, in such a case, we will not share your personally identifiable information, but we will just use your comment or question with your geographic location or other non-personal information.

Information from Surveys: Results from the surveys will be posted on the Industryblender.com Web site; however, personally identifiable information will not be posted. We may also use the information to conduct market research studies and reports. We use contact data from our surveys to send users information about our company and promotional material from some of our strategic business partners and to contact you directly. By participating in the surveys, you authorize us to send you additional direct marketing emails related to a specific product or service. However, you will be given a choice to "opt out" of being contacted in this way. (See Section 3 below).

Information from Contests, Sweepstakes, and Special Offers: We use contact data from our sweepstakes, contests, and special offers to contact winners. We also use this information to send users information about our company and promotional material and to give to advertisers, who may send you information about special offers on their products and services. However, you will be given a choice to "opt out" of being contacted in this way. (See Section 3 below).

Information from Resumes: Unless you choose to "lock" your resume, any visitor to the Web site may access your resume and view your personal information. If you lock your resume, visitors will not have access to your personal information unless you grant permission on a case-by-case basis. However, visitors will have access to the non-personal information about what type of job you are looking for and your geographic location, so that employers will be able to decide whether to request access to your resume.

Information from Job Postings: Any visitor to the Web site may access your job postings. Visitors will see your company name and address, description of the job you wish to fill, and contact information to submit a resume and cover letter. If you do not wish for this information to be public, please do not place a job posting on the Industryblender.com Web site. If you choose to pay for the job posting with a credit card, that information will not be publicly shared; however, we will have to share the information with the credit card processor for purposes of collecting money for the job posting/membership.

Co-Branded Services: Some Industryblender.com services are offered in conjunction with a partner company. These are called co-branded services. In order to provide these co-branded services to you, it is necessary for us to share your personal information with our partners. If data is being collected and/or maintained by any company other than Industryblender.com, you will be notified prior to the time of the data collection or transfer. If you do not want your data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that particular service.

Co-Sponsored Promotions: Promotions that run on Industryblender.com may be sponsored by companies other than Industryblender.com or may be co-sponsored by Industryblender.com and another company. Some or all data collected during such a promotion may be shared with the sponsor. If data will be shared, you will be notified prior to the time of data collection or transfer. You can decide not to participate in the promotion if you do not want your data to be shared. Currently, Industryblender.com promotions are limited to Canadian and US residents.

Industryblender.com Affiliates and Strategic Business Partners: We will share much of our data, including personally identifiable information about you as necessary, with our affiliates and strategic business partners that are committed to serving your needs throughout the world. To the extent that these entities are provided access to your information, we will use all commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that they will treat it at least as protectively as they treat information they obtain from their other users. We usually require our affiliates and strategic business partners to follow privacy practices no less protective of all users than our practices described in this policy. If you have any additional questions regarding the privacy practices of our affiliates or strategic business partners, please visit the privacy policies of their Web sites.

Aggregate Information: Industryblender.com shares the information you provided during registration, or during contests, sweepstakes, and special offers, in aggregate form, to serve ads and to provide on-line and off-line promotions. Industryblender.com also may share aggregate demographic information with purchasers of Industryblender.com Storefronts or similar service. When we say that we will share such information in "aggregate" form, we mean that we will not disclose individual names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, or other personally identifiable information unless we have your permission.

Other Information Collectors: Except as otherwise expressly discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties, such as outside links to other sites, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the personal information you disclose to them. To the extent that we feature third-party advertisements on our Web site, these advertisers adhere to their own privacy customs and policies. Since Industryblender.com does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy customs and policies of that third party. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.

3) OPT OUT:

When you register (for Industryblender.com membership or for Industryblender.com Forums) or participate in a survey, sweepstakes, or contests, we give you the option of receiving communications from us at your email address. By clicking on the checkmarks beside the boxes on the applicable pages, you can opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners. If you decide to receive one or more of our many useful publications but later decide you would like to stop receiving that publication, you can opt out at any time by doing any of the following:
sending any email to customercare@Industryblender.com

4) MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT:

Industryblender.com has no obligation to monitor the Web site or the use thereof or to retain the content of any user session. However, Industryblender.com reserves the right at all times to monitor, review, retain, and/or disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request or to cooperate with law enforcement and other authorities in investigating a claim of illegal activity. Industryblender.com may use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our Terms of Service or to protect our service, site, customers, or others.

5) WHAT ARE COOKIES AND HOW INDUSTRYBLENDER.COM USES THEM:

What are cookies? Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. The cookie assigns you an ID, which allows Industryblender.com to recognize you when you return to the Industryblender.com Web site. This makes Web-surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while you are at our site. A cookie may save your Industryblender.com password while you are visiting the Industryblender.com Web site, so remember to log out when you are done visiting the Web site. Please see the security provisions in Section 6. The use of cookies is an industry standard--you will find them at most major Web sites. By showing how and when guests use a site, cookies help us see which areas are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to the site are based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. This information is most easily tracked with cookies.

How does Industryblender.com use cookies? We use the information from cookies to provide services better tailored to our users' needs. For example, we use cookies to track user trends and patterns. This helps us better understand and improve areas of Industryblender.com that our users find valuable. While both of these activities depend on the use of a "cookie," visitors to Industryblender.com always have the option of disabling cookies via their browser preferences.
How can I disable cookies? Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, note that some parts of Industryblender.com will not function properly or may be considerably slower if you refuse cookies. For example, without cookies, you will not be able to take full advantage of Industryblender.com’s services, or you may have difficulty filling out surveys.
Advertisers: You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers. Industryblender.com does not control these cookies. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry.

6) WHAT KIND OF SECURITY IS IN PLACE TO PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Passwords: If you register, your personal information is password-protected. However, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. Therefore, we recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Industryblender.com will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. If you have logged into the Industryblender.com Web site, remember to always log out when you have finished using our site. This will ensure that any passwords that might have been saved in cookies will no longer be saved. Also remember to close your browser window when you have finished using the site. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe. If you lose or forget your password, we will email it to you or you can contact us at customercare@Industryblender.com or (800) 896-4442.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Industryblender.com cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or any information provided by our on-line products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Industryblender.com will not be liable for disclosures of your personal information due to errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties. However, once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

7) HOW YOU CAN CORRECT ANY INACCURACIES IN YOUR INFORMATION:

Following registration on Industryblender.com , you can review and change the following information:
Your password; and
Your name, address.
To change your email address please email customer service at customercare@Industryblender.com

8) LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES:

During your visit to the Industryblender.com Web site, you may come across links that will take you to third-party Web sites. Industryblender.com does not control the content of or the information collected from these third-party Web sites. These third-party Web sites are not subject to Industryblender.com's Privacy Policy. Links to third-party sites do not constitute sponsorship, endorsement, or approval by Industryblender.com of the content, policies, or practices of such sites. Therefore, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of these sites before you disclose your personal information to these other parties.

9) HOW TO CONTACT INDUSTRYBLENDER.COM:

Privacy and security is important to us all. We pursue a full-disclosure approach to care responsibly for the information you have entrusted to us, and we depend on information sharing as our principal means to best serve you. This is why we are committed to building a trusting relationship with you. We will continually monitor customer feedback and seek to improve our services to meet your needs. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with the Web site, or would like to provide comments, you can send us an email at customercare@Industryblender.com.

Remember that your use of this Web site is always subject to our Terms of Service. Please also take a moment to read the Terms of Service so that you are aware of the terms and conditions of our relationship.

Thank you for your cooperation. We hope you find the Industryblender.com Web site helpful and convenient to use!