Privacy Policy

SweatMonkey®.org is committed to your privacy. We do not share your private information with anyone outside of the SweatMonkey® family of companies. The reason we collect data is to better serve our members by using our demographical information to increase our job offerings and to tailor our marketing efforts towards providing our members with a more robust website.

In some areas of SweatMonkey®.org we request that you provide personal information, including your name, address, e-mail address, birth date, telephone number, contact information, and any other information from which your identity and your job requirements are confirmed. In other areas, we collect or may collect demographic information that is not unique to you such as your ZIP code, age, preferences, gender, interests and favorites. Sometimes we collect or may collect a combination of the two types of information. Examples of areas on the SweatMonkey® site where we collect personal or combined personal and demographic data are pages where you can create a SweatMonkey® networking profile or account, sign up to use a service, post a résumé or profile, enter a contest or purchase a product.

We also gather or may gather certain information about your use of SweatMonkey®.org and SweatMonkey®.org networking, such as what areas you visit and what services you access.

SweatMonkey®.org contains links to other Web sites over which we have no control. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other Web sites to which you choose to link from our Sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other Web sites so you can understand how they collect, use and share your information.

We may sometimes afford you the opportunity to provide descriptive, cultural, behavioral, and preferential and/or lifestyle information about yourself, but it is solely up to you whether you furnish such information. If you do provide such information, you are thereby consenting to the use of that information in accordance with the policies and practices described in this Privacy Statement. For example, such information may be used for the purpose of determining your potential interest in receiving e-mail or other communications about particular products or services. You will always have an "opt-out" election should you decide to stop a particular offer.

We may use your contact information in order to send you e-mail or other communications regarding updates at the SweatMonkey®.org, to contact you about your opinion of current products and services or potential new products and services that may be offered. We may also provide additional communications, promotions and information on new SweatMonkey®.org opportunities and additional job postings which may be of interest to you. The nature and frequency of these messages will vary depending upon the information we have about you.

In addition, you may receive free informational emails, newsletters, or blogs from us relating to topics that may be of special interest to you, such as career management advice.

You may opt out of receiving any promotional emails delivered by the Site by clicking on the functional "unsubscribe" mechanism in each email.

We have areas on the SweatMonkey®.org site where you can submit feedback. Any feedback you submit in these areas becomes our property, and we can use such feedback (such as success stories) for marketing purposes or to contact you for further information.

Choices Regarding the Disclosure of Personal Information to Others

We do not disclose your personal information to third parties, or your combined personal and demographic information, or information about your use of SweatMonkey®.org (such as the areas you visit or the services you access), except as set forth below.

1. We disclose information to third parties if you consent to such disclosure. For example, if you indicate that you would like to receive information about the opportunities, products or services of third parties at the time you register for a SweatMonkey®.org account, we supply your contact information to third parties such as employers, recruiters, data aggregators, marketers or others for the purpose of sending you e-mail or otherwise communicating with you. We use data we have about you (such as the interests and preferences you have expressed) to determine whether you might be interested in the opportunities, products or services of a particular third-party.
2. We disclose information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include hosting our Web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, and providing customer service. These companies and individuals will have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any other third party.
3. We disclose information if legally required to do so, if requested to do so by a governmental entity, or if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process (warrant, subpoena or court order); (b) protect our rights or property or our affiliated companies; (c) prevent a crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users or the public.
4. We disclose and transfer information to a third party who acquires all or a substantial portion of our 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 we become the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, we or our trustee in bankruptcy may sell, license or otherwise dispose of such information in a transaction approved by the bankruptcy court. You will be notified of sale of all or a substantial portion of our business to a third party via email or through a prominent notice posted on the SweatMonkey®.org sites.

Personal Information on Résumés and Profiles

SweatMonkey®.org is not a "career" website. We do not intend to allow potential employers to search through your information. Rather, we intend to allow YOU the member to search through a potential job listing to confirm if the job listing is, in fact, desirable to the member. Organizational members will be given access to your personal information ONLY after YOU, the member, decide to share this information with an organization.

Third Party Personally Identifiable Information

Some features of SweatMonkey®.org, such as Invite a Friend, ask you to provide email addresses of third parties. Such email addresses are used ONLY to send a one-time invitation to visit the site and to recognise completed referrals, and are not shared with any other entity.

Public Areas of SweatMonkey®.org

It is currently not planned to allow open forum between our members and organizations. The only exception to this would be inter-school communication between student and student or student and faculty within our "My Network" feature. It is our intent at SweatMonkey®.org to maintain a security level that allows for complete privacy between potential members and organizational members, if so desired. Therefore, we have no plans for an INTERACTIVE SweatMonkey®.org bulletin board, chat room, or public forum of any kind. Members must realize that our Event Calendar, volunteer service listings, job postings, video job offerings, and Theatre are OPEN PUBLIC FORUMS and must be treated as such. SweatMonkey®.org does not guarantee the accuracy OR YOUR SAFETY when responding to a student or organizational posting on any of these forums. Please be SMART and verify any and all organizations or members. If you are less than 18 years old, SweatMonkey®.org requires you to get your parent or legal guardian involved! If an individual member chooses to contact an organization and reveal private information, SweatMonkey®.org assumes no responsibility for this action and it is understood by all parties that the member is acting on their own and not under the direction of SweatMonkey®.org

Use of Cookies

We use "cookies" to help personalize and maximize your online experience and time online. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by a Web page server. Cookies are not used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer, and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize SweatMonkey®.org pages, or register for services, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information (such as user name, password and preferences). Because of our use of cookies, we can deliver faster and more accurate results and a more personalized site experience. When you return to SweatMonkey®.org, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized.

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 SweatMonkey®.org.

For statistical purposes, SweatMonkey® allows third party services, such as Google Analytics, to collect and store data on interactions with the site - for example, visited pages. Tracking technologies may include browser cookies. No personally identifying information is collected or stored in third party or first party cookies.

Access to and Modification of Your Information

You may review, correct, update or change your SweatMonkey®.org member account at any time. From your SweatMonkey®.org member account you may also opt out of receiving newsletters and certain other information from SweatMonkey®.org.

We retain indefinitely all the information we gather about you in an effort to make your repeat use SweatMonkey®.org member profile more efficient, practical, and relevant. Of course, you can delete your résumé from SweatMonkey®.org's online database, close your SweatMonkey®.org account at any time, delete your SweatMonkey®.org member profile and close your SweatMonkey®.org account, in which event we will remove all our copies of your résumé from SweatMonkey®.org, and remove your SweatMonkey®.org member profile and SweatMonkey®.org account information, except for an archival copy which is not accessible on the Internet.

Security of the Personal Information

We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.

Children

SweatMonkey®.org is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

TRUSTe Privacy Program

TreeTop Software Company, LLC is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent organization whose mission is to build users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the web site www.sweatmonkey.org. SweatMonkey® has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact SweatMonkey at the Contact Us page.

If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.

Changes to Privacy Statement

If we decide to materially change our Privacy Statement for SweatMonkey®.org we will post those changes through a prominent notice on the web site so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it.

Contact Information

SweatMonkey®.org is a website operated by SweatMonkey®, Inc., a not for profit Florida Corporation, pursuant to license with TreeTop Software Company, LLC, which developed and owns the web site. You can contact the site by visiting the Contact Us page.

Registered address:

Barnett, Bolt, Kirkwood, Long & McBride
601 Bayshore Boulevard
Suite 700
Tampa, Florida 33606

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