Privacy Policy
SalesAnimals Privacy Policy
1. Policy:
Sales Animals, L.L.C.’s (“Sales Animals”) policy is to respect and protect the privacy of the users of www.SalesAnimals.com (“Sales Animals Web Site” or “Web Site”). This Privacy Policy applies solely to the information that Sales Animals collects through the Web Site and does not apply to information Sales Animals collects in any other fashion. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Sales Animals does not own or control, or to individuals that are not under Sales Animals’ supervisory control.
Sales Animals LLC is a licensee of the TRUSTe Program. TRUSTe is an independent organization whose mission is to build users trust in the internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. Sales Animals has elected to disclose its information practices to demonstrate its commitment to users’ privacy, as well as have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
Please direct your privacy questions and concerns to us at info@salesanimals.com . Should your inquiry receive no acknowledgement within a reasonable time frame, or isn’t addressed to your satisfaction, please contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe shall then serve as a liaison to help resolve your concerns.
2. Collection and Retention of Information:
Sales Animals may collect personal or personally identifiable information including your name, physical and email address, and telephone number, when you select to use one of the contact forms on the Site to request information from us.
a. Users:
Sales Animals collects information about use of the Web Site, such as the pages users’ visit most frequently, the services users’ access the most, and the links to other sites that users most often visit. Sales Animals may also log your IP address, domain name, referring Web site addresses, access times and browser type when you use the Web Site. Sales Animals only uses such data in the aggregate (“Aggregate Data”).
b. Registered Users:
i. Registered Candidates.
Job applicants seeking employment may register with the Sales Animals Web Site (“Registered Candidates”). During registration, candidates shall be asked for their name, e-mail address, mailing address and have the opportunity to select a password.
In addition, Registered Candidates may create a candidate profile (“Candidate Profile”) that provides employers with information about their qualifications and employment preferences. Candidates who choose to create a Candidate Profile shall be asked for their name, e-mail address, password and mailing address. Additionally, Candidates have the option of providing information about their current job, years of experience, telephone number(s) as well as posting their resume and/or posting an image. Candidates may also specify contact instructions for potential employers.
Candidates may choose whether, or not they would like to limit viewer access to their Candidate Profile to Web Site members (“Members Only”). Candidate Profiles that are not limited to ‘Members Only’ may be viewed by all Web Site users. Candidate Profiles that are limited to ‘Members Only’ can be viewed only by Registered Candidates and Registered Employers (defined hereinafter).
While Sales Animals intends members to comprise paying employers, recruiters, hiring managers, headhunters, and human resource professionals, as well as law enforcement and national security agencies, it cannot guarantee that other parties will not gain access to this database nor does it confirm, verify or investigate in any way the accuracy of the information provided by such members. Employers, recruiters and others who have paid for access to the Candidate Profile database, or to obtain a copy of that database, as well as parties who have otherwise gained access to the database, may retain a copy of your Candidate Profiles in their own files or databases. Sales Animals is not responsible for the retention, use or privacy of Candidate Profiles in these instances.
ii. Registered Employers:
Employers seeking job applicants may register with the Web Site (“Registered Employers”). To register, employers must enter their name, e-mail address, mailing address and select a password. Employers also have the option of entering additional information such as their title, company name, telephone number and fax number. Employers may also post job openings to be viewed by Web Site users. Employers must submit payment information including, but not limited to, credit card information and other billing information.
We host our payment pages on a third party agent Site who processes payments on our behalf. This third party is not authorized to use your personal information for any other purposes beyond processing your payments on our behalf and hosting our credit card collection pages. These pages are framed, as a SalesAnimals.com page would appear to maintain ease of use, but information is collected by the third party, which is identified in the status bar by their URL. We simply receive confirmation or denial of your transaction.
c. Cookies:
The Web Site uses cookies to optimize service for visitors. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by a Web page server. You may have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline all cookies if you prefer. Alternatively, you may be able to modify your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept, or decline cookies on an individual basis. If you choose to decline cookies, however, that may hinder performance and negatively impact your experience on the Web Site. Cookies are not tied to the personal information of users’ of the Site. Cookies are used by the Site to ensure a smooth user experience by remembering your preferences as well as improve our Site offerings and services.
To make your repeat use with us more efficient, practical, and relevant, Sales Animals may retain all the information it gathers about you indefinitely. Registered Candidates may designate their Candidate Profile as “inactive” at any time, in which event the Sales Animals will deactivate the Registered Candidate’s account. Once deactivated, the Candidate Profile may not be viewed by other Web Site users; however, Sales Animals maintains an archival copy not accessible via the Web Site. In the event you select to delete your account on the Site, we shall honor that request and not retain any information about you on the Site beyond the archival copy for our records not searchable on the Site.
3. Use of Information
a. Sales Animals Internal Use:
Sales Animals uses the information it gathers on the Web Site for the purpose of operating and improving the Web Site, fostering a positive user experience, and delivering the products and services that it offers. Sales Animals may also use the information it gathers to inform you of other products or services available from Sales Animals or its “affiliated companies” or to contact you about your opinion of current products and services or potential new products and services or job listings that may be offered. “Affiliated Companies” means entities that control, are controlled by or are under common control with Sales Animals.
b. Sharing and Disclosure of Information to Others:
i. Aggregate Data:
Sales Animals may disclose the anonymous Aggregate Data it collects to third parties. This information helps determine what is most beneficial for our users, and how Sales Animals can continually improve the services and features provided to the users of the Web Site. This information is not associated with personal information from users’ of the Site.
ii. Your Information:
Sales Animals may disclose your “Your Information” to companies and individuals employed by Sales Animals to perform functions on its behalf including, but not limited to, providing customer service, processing credit card payments, analyzing data and hosting our web servers. Sales Animals will share your “Information” with other entities should you request Sales Animals to share such information, or if Sales Animals is required to in complying with a formal request such as in responding to court orders, subpoenas or other legal process. Sales Animals may disclose your Information if it believes in good faith such action is necessary to protect the rights or property of Sales Animals or protect the personal safety of users, or the public. In addition, Sales Animals may disclose any informational content you post, upload or transmit to the Web Site, if such disclosure is necessary to enforce the Terms of Use Agreement, to respond to claims of intellectual property infringement, to comply with legal process, or to protect the rights of Sales Animals, the public, or other users’.
Sales Animals may disclose and transfer “Your Information” to a third party, who acquires all, or a substantial portion of Sales Animals’ business, whether such acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation or purchase of all or a substantial portion of our assets. In addition, in the event Sales Animals becomes the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, Sales Animals or its trustee in bankruptcy may sell, license or otherwise dispose of “Your Information” in a transaction approved by the bankruptcy court. In any such event, a prominent notice on the Site’s homepage shall be present to inform you of the changes and the information practices governing your information under such circumstance.
C.Email a Friend:
When you select to email a friend about our Site and service, we shall request their name and email as well as yours. We use this information to send this one time message on your behalf and do not store this personal information, nor do we use it for any other purposes.
D. Widgets:
We provide users’ of the Site the capacity to share content on the Site across other platforms. These widgets do not collect or store your personal information and act simply as a bridge to third party links.
4. Access:
You have the ability to edit your information at any time, and may deactivate your account at your convenience by logging into your account & modifying your preferences at your discretion.
5. Security:
Sales Animals has implemented industry accepted measures to secure your “Information” from accidental loss and unauthorized access, use, disclosure or alteration. Sales Animals cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never defeat these security measures or use your “Your information for improper purposes. The Candidate Profiles and job listings must be accessed with passwords. You are advised not to share your password with any other person. We employ the use of SSL encryption on the credit card collection pages hosted by a third party on our behalf to transmit your sensitive financial information.
If you use a bulletin board, blog, or chat room on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and may be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information that you choose to submit in these forums.
6. Links:
This Web Site contains links to other sites over which Sales Animals has no control. Sales Animals is not responsible for the privacy practices, the content or the practices of such other Web sites to which you choose to link from the Sales Animals Web Site. Sales Animals encourages you to review the privacy policies of those other Web sites so you can understand how they collect, use and share your information.
7. Children:
The Sales Animals Web Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. The Web Site does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
8. Amendments:
Sales Animals reserves the right to amend this policy at any time. Sales Animals shall post a prominent notice of changes on the Web Site 30 days prior to any change, when and if the terms of this policy are amended, or if we make a material change to our privacy practices.
9. Your Consent:
By using the Sales Animals Web Site, you consent to the collection, storage, and dissemination of personal information as described above. We send registered users’ of the site who select to receive them, newsletters denoting new products, resources and news from the site. You can opt-out of these notifications by selecting the “opt-out” link present in every communication we send when you provide us your email address.
10. Contact:
Sales Animals, L.L.C. is a New Jersey Limited Liability Company (“The Customer”) located at 71 Union Avenue, Rutherford, New Jersey 07070. You may contact Sales Animals directly by e-mailing info@salesanimals.com should you have any questions regarding this policy.
Effective April.6th.2009