Last revised on June 16, 2011
1. Personal information collected
We collect information:
2. Uses of personal information
We use the information you provide to:
We do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide personally identifiable information to third parties without your consent.
3. Your Information Choices
You can:
4. Your obligations to other Users.
5. Security
6. How to contact us
If you have questions or comments please send them to us here or contact us at:
ARindustry Privacy Policy
Introduction:
The mission of ARindustry is to connect Accounts Receivable (A/R) professionals to enable them to be more productive and successful. We work to fulfill this mission by helping you, your connections, and millions of other professionals meet, exchange ideas, learn, make deals, find opportunities or employees, work, and make decisions in a network of trusted relationships and groups.
Being part of ARindustry means sharing information about yourself with other professionals, communicating with them, as well as working privately on your own. By default, your account is set up to share the information that we have found the vast majority of our Users are interested in sharing. But the amount and type of information you decide to share, and with whom you share it, is up to you.
Here are the three main types of information on ARindustry:
Information about yourself and you company that you share. This is the information that your connections, other professionals, and companies see about you. This includes your profile and your contributions to discussions on ARindustry Groups, Answers, or other community features ARindustry may offer such as "Profile Stats" which, if you choose to opt-in, can show you who viewed your profile (and will show others when you visited their profiles). You have control over what you share, and you can update information at any time.
Communication. We help you communicate with connections and other professionals. Some of this is one-to-one, some of it is in groups, and some of it is public discussion. You decide how much or how little you wish to communicate to individuals or groups.
Private activity. We also provide tools that you can use privately on ARindustry (for example, searching, or adding notes to your connections information.) These actions and information are private and we don't share or distribute them to others on the website.
Of course, maintaining your trust is our top concern, so we adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy:
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by means of a notice on our home page so that you may access and review the changes to this document in advance of your continued use of the service. If you object to any changes, you may close your account. By continuing to use the ARindustry service after notice of changes has been sent to you or published on the ARindustry website, you are consenting to the changes.
What ARindustry's Privacy Policy Covers:
1. Information Collected
We collect your personal information in the following ways:
A. Registration
In order to become a User, you must provide us the following information to create an account: name, email address, country, and password. Without this minimal amount of information, you cannot create a ARindustry account. Like other passwords, you should choose one that is known only by you. ARindustry requests other information from you during the registration process, (e.g., gender, location, etc.) that ARindustry uses to provide better, more customized services such as language-specific profile pages and updates, better ads, and more valuable career opportunities. You acknowledge that this information is personal to you, and by creating an account on ARindustry, you allow others, including ARindustry, to identify you and to allow LI to use your information in accordance with our User Agreement.
B. Profile Information
Once you become a User, you may provide additional information to your ARindustry Profile describing your skills, professional experiences, educational background, recommendations from other ARindustry Users, group memberships, and networking objectives (among other options). Providing additional information about yourself beyond what is minimally required at registration is entirely up to you, but providing additional information enables you to derive more benefit from ARindustry and your professional network by helping you build your professional identity and leverage your professional network and facilitating your search for professional resources, information, and new opportunities. Any information you provide at registration or in the Profile section may be used by ARindustry as described in the User Agreement and this Privacy Policy, including for the purpose of allowing professional opportunities to find you on ARindustry, or for serving more relevant advertisements on ARindustry. Learn more about ARindustry's advertising practices by reading this privacy policy, in particular Sections 1.H, 2.J, and 2.K. If you decide not to share certain information, you may not receive the full benefit of being a ARindustry User.
C. Contacts Information
In order to connect with others on ARindustry, you may use the Services to send invitations either to their ARindustry profiles or email addresses of people you know if they have not registered with ARindustry. The names and email addresses of people whom you invite will be used to send your invitations and reminders as well as to allow ARindustry to help expand your network. Please note that when you send an invitation to connect to another User, that User will have access to your email address because it is displayed in the invitation. Your ARindustry connections will also have access to your email address. You may not invite anyone you do not know and trust to connect with you.
D. Customer Service We collect information when you interact with ARindustry's customer service website in order to accurately categorize and respond to customer inquiries and investigate breaches of our terms.
E. Using the ARindustry Site and Applications
We receive information when you interact with and use the ARindustry website, and ARindustry platform technology (such as "Share on ARindustry" plugins for publishers). For example, we know when you click on ads, upload your address book, join groups, participate in polls, install a ARindustry mobile application, share articles on ARindustry, etc.
F. Cookies Like most websites
we use cookies and web log files to track site usage and trends, to improve the quality of our service, to customize your experience on ARindustry, as well as to deliver ARindustry and third-party advertising to Users both on and off the ARindustry site. A cookie is a tiny data file that resides on your computer, mobile phone, or other device, and allows us to recognize you as a User when you return to the ARindustry website using the same computer and web browser. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases doing so may impact your ability to use ARindustry. One type of cookie, known as a "persistent" cookie, is set once you've logged in to your ARindustry account. The next time you visit the ARindustry website, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing User so you will not need to log in before using the Services. In order to access or change any of your private information (like a credit card number) or to send a message to another User, however, you must log in securely again with your password even if your computer contains your persistent cookie. Another type of cookie, called a "session" cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to the ARindustry website. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser. Other technology like Macromedia's flash can be used to place the functional equivalent of a cookie on your computer. You can control flash "local stored objects" or "flash cookies" using the Macromedia Website Privacy Settings Panel at www.macromedia.com. ARindustry may use cookie-equivalent technology for the limited purpose of enhancing the security of ARindustry's services. We do not use flash cookies for advertising purposes.
In the course of serving advertisements or optimizing the Services to our Users, we may allow authorized third parties to place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. Any information provided to third parties through cookies will not be personally identifiable but may provide general segment information (e.g., your industry or geography, career field, or information about your professional or educational background) for the enhancement of your user experience by providing more relevant advertising. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. ARindustry does not store unencrypted personally identifiable information in the cookies.
G. Advertising and Web Beacons
To support the Services we provide at no cost to our Users, as well as provide a more relevant and useful experience for our Users, we target and serve our own ads and third-party ads both on and off the site using ad networks. Ad networks include third party ad servers, ad agencies, ad exchanges, ad technology vendors and research firms.
We target ads to Users based on general profile categories (e.g., "product managers in Texas") or on non-personally identifiable information inferred from a User's profile (e.g., industry, current or former company, school, compensation bracket, gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, or other aspects of your life) in addition to a User's use of ARindustry or their clicking on ARindustry ad inventory. ARindustry does not provide personally identifiable information to any third party ad network.
We use ad technology such as web beacons, pixels, anonymous ad network tags, and cookies to more effectively serve ads to our Users on and off ARindustry through ad networks, as well as to collect anonymized, aggregated auditing, research and reporting for advertisers. Because your web browser requests advertisements and web beacons directly from ad network servers, these networks can view, edit or set their own cookies, just as if you had requested a web page from their site.
H. Log files, IP Addresses and information about your computer and or mobile device
Due to the communications standards on the internet, when you visit the ARindustry website we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave ARindustry. Additionally, advertisers receive the URL of the page you were on when you click on an ad on ARindustry. ARindustry also receives the internet protocol ("IP") address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, email patterns, your mobile device (including your UDID) and mobile operating system (if you are accessing ARindustry using a mobile device), as well as the name of your ISP or your mobile carrier.
I. Data Retention
ARindustry will retain your information for so long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services, except in the case of our professional plugin impression data, which we de-identify after 12 months. If you wish to close your account, you may do so. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce this Agreement.
2. Uses of personal information
A. Consent to ARindustry Processing Information About You
The information you provide to ARindustry may reveal, or allow others to identify, your nationality, ethnic origin, gender, age, and other aspects of your life. By providing information to us for the purposes of creating your User account or adding any additional details to your ARindustry profile, you are expressly and voluntarily accepting the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and ARindustry's User Agreement that allow ARindustry to process information about you. Supplying information to ARindustry, including any information deemed "sensitive" by applicable law, is entirely voluntary on your part. You have the right to withdraw your consent to ARindustry's collection and processing of your information at any time, in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy and the User Agreement, by changing your Settings, or by closing your account, but please note that your withdrawal of consent will not be retroactive.
B. ARindustry Communications
As described in the User Agreement, we will communicate with you through email, notices posted on the ARindustry website, messages to your ARindustry inbox, or through other means available through the service. We may send you a series of emails that help inform new Users about the features of the Services, and we will also send you service messages relating to the functioning of the Services. We may also send you messages with promotional information directly or on behalf of our partners, unless you have opted out of receiving promotional information.
You can change your e-mail and contact preferences at any time by logging into your account and changing your settings related to your email notification choices. If you wish, you can also opt-out of receiving promotional emails by sending a request to ARindustry customer service.
Please be aware that you cannot opt-out of receiving service messages from ARindustry. Also, 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).
C. User Communications
Many communications you initiate through ARindustry (e.g., an invitation sent to a non-User) will list your primary email address and name in the header of the message. Messages you initiate may also provide aggregate information about your network (for instance how many people are in your network), but will not list the people to whom you're directly connected. Other communications that you initiate through the ARindustry website, like a request for an introduction, will list your name as the initiator but will not include your personal email address contact information. Your contact information will only be shared with another User if both of you have indicated that you would like to establish contact with each other.
D. Customized Content
We use information you provide to us (or to third parties with whom ARindustry offers combined services) to customize your experience on our website. For example, when you login to your account, we will display the names of new Users who have recently joined your network or recent status updates from your connections.
E. Sharing Information with Third Parties
ARindustry takes the privacy of our Users very seriously, and we do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to third parties, except as described in this policy. We will also not share other personal information not published to your profile or generated through engagement with other ARindustry services (Groups, Answers, Company Pages, etc.) without your explicit consent or to carry out your instructions unless, disclosure is reasonably necessary in our opinion to: (1) comply with legal process, including, but not limited to, civil and criminal subpoenas, court orders or other compulsory disclosures; (2) enforce this Agreement; (3) respond to claims of a violation of the rights of third parties, whether or not the third party is a User, individual, or government agency; (4) respond to customer service inquiries; or (5) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of ARindustry, our Users or the public.
ARindustry offers a "public profile" feature that allows Users to publish portions of their ARindustry profile to the public internet. This public profile will be crawled by and displayed through search engines when someone searches for your name. You may opt-out of this feature by editing your account settings; however, ARindustry does not warrant how often third-party search engines will update their caches, which may contain old public profile information.
Content distributed through ARindustry's sharing features and third party integrations may result in displaying some of your information outside of ARindustry. For example, when you post content to a ARindustry Group that is open for public discussion, your content, including your name as the contributor, may be displayed in search engine results.
F. Polls and Surveys
Polls and Surveys may be conducted by ARindustry, ARindustry Users or third parties. As a User, you may be invited to participate in polls and surveys from the ARindustry website. Your selection may be random, or it may be based on your non-personally identifiable information, such as job title, geography, 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. Further, ARindustry or third parties may follow up with you via InMail regarding your participation unless you have opted out of receiving
InMail 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 personally identifiable 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 desire to take advantage of an incentive.
We will not disclose any personally identifiable information to any third parties in connection with the conduct of any polls or surveys. Your consent to use any personally identifiable information for the purposes set forth in the poll or survey will be explicitly requested by the party conducting it. ARindustry is a member of the Council of American Survey Research Organizations ("CASRO") and abides by CASRO guidelines for market research. You may opt-out of participating in Surveys by changing your settings to stop receiving these inquiries and requests.
G. Search
We offer search services to help find information and learn more about other Users (for example, you can search for Users with particular expertise or consulting experience, or that you may know from your industry or profession), as well as employment opportunities. ARindustry search also allows Users to find jobs, companies, and contributions to the community aspects of the ARindustry Services, such as Groups and Answers that will help Users more effectively use ARindustry and expand their network. We use information from User profiles and contributions to Groups, Company Pages, and Answers to inform and refine our search service.
H. Answers, Groups, and other Services
If you post on the Answers section of ARindustry, participate in ARindustry Groups, or import a blog, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you choose to provide there can be read, collected, or used by other Users of these forums, as well as Platform Developers and other third parties, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. ARindustry is not responsible for the information you choose to submit in these forums. Also, some content in ARindustry Groups may be public and searchable on the internet if the Group owner has opened the group for public discussions. You can delete your posts to Answers and ARindustry Groups at any time. However, please note that ideas you post and information you share may be seen and used by other Users, and ARindustry cannot guarantee that other Users have not made copies of or use the ideas and information that you share with others on ARindustry.
I. Advertising and Endorsements on ARindustry
In order to deliver relevant and valuable ads to you and your network, ARindustry may use your name and profile photo in connection with social advertising based on content shared on ARindustry. This advertising may include the fact that you have recommended or endorsed a product or service on ARindustry, followed a company, joined Groups or conversations, established or added content to your profile, etc., and will only be displayed to your ARindustry network. You can opt-out of allowing your name and/or profile photo to be used in social ads here.
J. Compliance with Legal Process
It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information, profile information and/or information about your activities as a ARindustry User when required by subpoena or other legal process, or if ARindustry has a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to (a) investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (b) to enforce the User Agreement, to investigate and defend ourselves against any third party claims or allegations, or to protect the security or integrity of our site; and/or (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property or personal safety of ARindustry, our Users, employees, or others.
K. Disclosures to Others as the Result of a Change in Control or Sale of ARindustry Corporation
We may also disclose your personal information and other information you provide to another third party as part of a sale of the assets of ARindustry Corporation, a subsidiary or division, or as the result of a change in control of the company. Any third party to which ARindustry transfers or sells ARindustry's assets will have the right to continue to use the personal and other information that you provide to us.
3. Your Information Choices
A. Accessing and Changing Your Account Information
You can review the personal information you provided to us and make any desired changes to the information you publish, or to the settings for your ARindustry account including your email and contact preferences, at any time by logging in to your account on the ARindustry website. Please be aware that even after your request for a change is processed, ARindustry may, for a time, retain residual information about you in its backup and/or archival copies of its database.
B. Default Settings
Because the mission of ARindustry is to connect AR industry professionals to enable them to become more productive and successful, we have established what we believe to be reasonable default settings that we have found most professionals desire. Because Users may use and interact with ARindustry in a variety of ways, and because those uses may change over time, we designed our settings to provide our users granular control over the information they share. We encourage our Users to review their account settings and adjust them in accordance with their preferences.
ARindustry accounts are also defaulted to allow Users to be contacted to participate in polls, surveys and partner advertising.
C. Closing Your Account
You can close your account anytime. If you close your ARindustry account, we will remove your name and other personally identifiable 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 ARindustry believes 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. ARindustry may also retain and use your information if necessary to provide the 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 or InMails you send on ARindustry to other Users, as well as your contributions to ARindustry Answers or 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. ARindustry disclaims any liability in relation to the deletion or retention (subject to the terms herein) of information or any obligation not to delete the information. ARindustry does not control when search engines update their cache, which may contain certain public profile information that has since been removed from ARindustry's publicly viewable database.
D. Memorializing Accounts
If we learn that a User is deceased, we may memorialize the User's account. In these cases we may restrict profile access, remove messaging functionality, and close an account if we receive a formal request from the User's next of kin or other proper legal request to do so.
4. Your Obligations
As a User, you have certain obligations to other Users. Some of these obligations are imposed by applicable law and regulations, and others have become commonplace in user-friendly communities of like-minded members such as ARindustry:
Any violation of these guidelines may lead to the restriction, suspension or termination of your account at the sole discretion of ARindustry.
5. Security
In order to help secure your personal information, access to your data on ARindustry is password-protected, and sensitive data (such as credit card information) is protected by SSL encryption when it is exchanged between your web browser and the ARindustry website. To protect any data you store on our servers, ARindustry also regularly audits its system for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and we use a tier-one secured-access data center. However, since the internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to ARindustry. There is no guarantee that information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. It is your responsibility to protect the security of your login information. Please note that emails, instant messaging, and similar means of communication with other Users of ARindustry are not encrypted, and we strongly advise you not to communicate any confidential information through these means.
6. How to contact us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
ARindustry, Vinton Moss, Inc.
PH: 714.845.1900
Attn: Privacy Policy / Legal
527 10th Ave #707
San Diego, Ca 92101
USA