Assured Labor Privacy Policy
Last updated: 06/11/08
Overview
Assured Labor knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy for the www.assuredlabor.com web site (the "Site").
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact customer support by emailing support@assuredlabor.com.
Notice of Information We Collect And How We Use It
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our service to make your experience safer and easier. We only collect personal information about you that we consider necessary for achieving this purpose.
In general, you can browse the Site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal information, you are no longer anonymous to us.
Information We Collect About Anonymous Visitors
We automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on the Site. We use this information to do internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve you and our community.
Log Files
Like many Web sites, we automatically gather certain information about our Site traffic and store it in log files. This information includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the Site, to track users' movements around the Site and to gather demographic information about our user base.
We do not link this automatically collected data to personally identifiable information.
We use a third-party tracking service that uses log files and cookies, see below, to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to the Site in the aggregate. This service captures usage, volume statistics, and other system usage information to better serve and identify the needs of users.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. As noted above, we do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by the Site only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
We use both session ID and persistent cookies.
A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site.
A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser's "help" file.
We set a persistent cookie to remember language and other preferences between visits. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, will be limited.
Information We Collect To Respond To Your Choices and Requests
Registration
In order to use some features of this Web site, you must first complete the registration form and create a user name and password. During registration you are required to give truthful contact information (such as name and email address) in accordance with our terms of use http://www.assuredlabor.com/terms-of-service/. We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest.
You have the option to provide demographic information (such as preferred language and mode of communication) to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience on our site.
Surveys or Contests
We may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and address) and demographic information.
We use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor site traffic, or to personalize the site (in the case of anonymous information collected in surveys) and to send participants an email and or text message newsletter.
Feedback and Ratings System
When you choose to leave feedback for other users, we will collect the information you post, and this will be displayed anonymously for other users as part of their aggregate rating. However, we retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted or required by law.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you. We reserve the right to terminate the accounts of visitors who use these services in a manner inconsistent with the terms of use http://www.assuredlabor.com/terms-of-service/.
Communication from Us or the Site
Service-Related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we may send you an email or text message.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email, text message, or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
Profile
We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, and/or third party sources to create a "profile" of your preferences.
We share your profile to third parties in aggregate form only.
Conditions Under Which We Share Information
Personally Identifiable Information
Except as discussed below, we do not share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties.
Agents
We use an outside shipping company to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
Service Providers
We use other third parties to provide text message interaction with the Site. When you sign up for text message notifications we will share your cell phone number and wireless provider as necessary for the third party to provide that service.
These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights; to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on us or the Site; or in connection with an actual or proposed corporate transaction or insolvency proceeding involving all or part of the business or asset to which the information pertains.
Links to Other Sites
The Site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Assured Labor. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy policies of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave the Site and to read the privacy policies of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy policy applies only to information collected by the Site.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on our member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at support@assuredlabor.com.
Security
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can email us at support@assuredlabor.com
Changes in this Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post changes to this privacy policy and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make changes that materially affect our uses or disclosures of personally identifiable information that we have previously collected, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:
www.assuredlabor.com/contact/
support@assuredlabor.com
Effective Date: 06/11/08