1. Privacy Notice

Accredital’s core mission is to match candidates with a job they love and to connect the world’s most innovative companies with top tech talent. It is, therefore, an essential part of Our Service that information You submit through the Service be made available to other Users. Your information may also be shared with other Accredital Services of which You are not a User, as well as potentially transmitted to third-parties as set forth herein. Accredital is committed to protecting the privacy of its Users and the information that You share in connection with Your use of Accredital’s Services. This Privacy Notice describes how We collect, use, share, transfer, and disclose Your Personal Information. This Privacy Notice applies to information We collect when You access and/or use Our Services. Accredital may provide additional notices through Our Services in addition to these practices or provide You additional choices about how Accredital may process Your Personal Information. If You have any questions about this Privacy Notice, please contact Us at [email protected].

By submitting information, including Personal Information, through Our Services, You agree to the terms of this Privacy Notice, If You do not agree, You should discontinue use of the Services immediately.

Changes to this Privacy Notice. We may change the provisions of this Privacy Notice at any time and will indicate when changes have been made by revising the date at the top of this Privacy Notice. We encourage You to review the Privacy Notice whenever You access Services to make sure that You understand Our information collection, use, and disclosure practices. When We make material changes to this Privacy Notice, We will provide You with prominent notice as appropriate under the circumstances, e.g., by displaying a prominent notice within the Service or by sending You an email. We may notify You in advance.

2. Categories of Personal Information

Personal Information. Personal Information is information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. The following are Personal Information categories of data that We may collect from You: Contact Information. Name, postal address, unique personal identifier, telephone number, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, company name or other similar information. Protected Classification Information. Gender, national origin, disability, and/or age. Transaction Information. Information related to transactions made through Services. Personal Network Information. Browsing history, search history, information regarding Your interaction with the Services and advertisements. Geolocation Data. Mailing address or billing address. Visual, audio, olfactory, electronic, or similar data. Physical characteristics or description, video or photos You choose to share. Professional Information. Employer name and employment history. Financial Information. Bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, other financial information. Inferences from the foregoing categories. Additional demographic information reflecting Your preferences and characteristics. Personal Information may also contain third-party personally identifiable information You provide to Accredital through Your use of the Service(s), of which You remain liable for at all times. Aggregated, non-personally identifying information is not Your Personal Information. We may use aggregated, non-personally identifying information to operate, analyze, improve, and optimize Services.

3. Sources of Information

  1. When Accessing and Using Services. We receive Your Personal Information when (and/or in relation to): You contact Us, create an Account, interact with us or other Users.
  2. Social Media Platforms. If You contact Us through Our Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter or another similar service (“Social Media Platform”), We may have access to the profile information associated with Your Social Media Platform account. We may also be able to access information contained in Cookies placed on the device used to access and use the applicable Social Media Platform. “Cookies” are text-only pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual’s hard drive or other website-browsing equipment for record-keeping purposes. Cookies allow Services to remember important information that will make Your use of Services more convenient.
  3. Personal Network Information and Log Data. We also collect Your public IP address when You visit or access Our Services. We may use Your public IP address in order to determine whether certain requests are fraudulent or frivolous and We may automatically cross-reference Your public IP address with Your domain name. When accessing Services from Your personal network, Your IP address and any associated domain name will be treated as Your “Personal Network Information”. “Log Data” does not include Personal Network Information.
  4. Things Others Do and Information They Provide About You. We also receive and analyze communications and information from other Users related to Your use of Services. This can include information about Your performance and your ability to meet the obligations associated with a potential hiring arrangement.
  5. Device Information. As described in further detail below, We collect information from and about the computers, mobile devices, and other web-connected devices that You use in connection with Our Services, and We combine this information across different devices You use. For example, We use information collected about Your use of Services on Your mobile device to better personalize features associated with Our Services based on the type of computing device You use to access Services. Device information may also include the following:
    1. Device attributes: Information such as the operating system, hardware and software versions, battery level, signal strength, available storage space, browser type, app and file names and types, and plugins.
    2. Device operations: Information about operations performed on the device, such as whether a window is foregrounded or backgrounded, or mouse movements (which can help distinguish humans from bots).
    3. Identifiers: Unique identifiers, device IDs, and other identifiers, such as from games, apps or accounts You use, and family device IDs (or other identifiers unique to Services associated with the same device or Account).
    4. Device signals: Bluetooth signals, and information about nearby Wi-Fi access points, beacons, and cell towers.
    5. Data from device settings: Information You allow us to receive through device settings You turn on, such as access to Your GPS location, camera, or photos.
    6. Network and connections: Information such as the name of Your mobile operator or ISP, language, time zone, mobile phone number, IP address, connection speed, and, in some cases, information about other devices that are connected to Services nearby or on Your network, so We can do things like help You locate Shippers and Carriers.

4. How We Use the Information We Collect

We use Your Personal Information in connection with providing You with the Services and product features. Here are some examples of how We use Your information:

  1. To provide, develop, and enhance Services;
  2. Provide and deliver the products and Services You request, process transactions, and to send You related information including confirmations and invoices;
  3. To respond to feedback and monitor security of Services;
  4. To provide You with promotional communications, materials, and other third-party information that you may find interesting;
  5. To enforce Our terms or rights under any agreement between You and Accredital; and
  6. To perform any other action deemed necessary by Accredital in its provision of the Service, interactions with You, or any other third-party.

We may also store information locally on Your device, for instance in Your local cache. Accredital reserves the right to review any information to help resolve problems with Our Services or to ensure compliance with Our Terms of Service.

How We Share Your Information

We may share Your information as follows: With Other Users: We may share information about You, Your interactions with the Service, Content You post, or other similar information with other Users of Our Services. With Other Accredital Services: We may share information about You, Your interactions with the Service, Content You post, or other similar information with other Accredital Services, including those of which You are not a User. With Third Parties: We may share information about You with third-parties, whether designated by You, or with other third-parties including Our service providers, business partners, and other organizations as We may choose. With Service Providers: We may share Your Personal Information with third-parties, such as vendors and service providers who provide assistance with billing, payment processing, marketing, data analytics support and service associated with Our Services, including any provision of goods through Our Services. With Business Partners and Affiliates: We may share Your Personal Information with Our channel partners, subsidiaries, affiliates, join ventures, or any other company, to fulfill obligations and requests, to deliver support, and to provide Users and Our customers’ Users with information about Accredital or its affiliates. Accredital does not control how a business partner may use Your Personal Information. Our business partners are responsible for managing the use of Personal Information collected in these circumstances. For Compliance with Laws and for other Legitimate Business Purposes: We may share Your Personal Information when: (i) We believe disclosure is necessary or required by law; (ii) needed to meet Legitimate Business Purposes associated with corporate restructuring, change of control, merger or acquisition; (iii) to protect Users, the integrity of the Service, and/or (iv) to defend or exercise Our legal rights. We may also disclose Your Personal Information when it may be necessary for other legitimate purposes as reasonably determined by Accredital. And Generally: We may share information with the general public, such as Your name, username, profile picture, and any Content You post in Our Services.

6. Email Communication

We may send You emails, including marketing, promotional, and third-party related communications. You may opt out of these emails at any time by unsubscribing or selecting this option through Our Services. Note that You may need to opt out from each Accredital Service individually. Despite Your election, We may still be required to send You Service-related communications, including any updates to Our Terms of Service or this Privacy Notice.

7. Public Profile

As an essential element of the Service, most of the information You provide to Us when You register or update Your profile is displayed on Your profile and intended to be shared with other Users. Your photos, posts, and other Content You post through Our Services are also meant for public consumption. We may display this Content through Our Services. Once displayed on publicly viewable web pages, that information can be collected and used by others. We cannot control who reads Your postings or what other Users may do with the information that You voluntarily post, so it is very important that You do not put any sensitive, confidential, or any other information You do not wish to be shared in Your posts. Once You have posted information publicly, while You will still be able to edit and delete it on the Service, You will not be able to edit or delete such information cached, collected, and stored elsewhere by others.

8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We and Our partners, affiliates, analytics, and Service Providers use Cookies or other tracking technologies as pixel tags and web beacons. These are used in order to store content information and preferences, analyze trends, administer and maintain Services, and monitor User interaction with Services. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis. We use Cookies to remember User settings for authentication. Users can control the use of Cookies at the individual browser level. If You reject Cookies, You may still access and use Services, but Your ability to use some features will be fundamentally diminished. These technologies help us better understand user behavior, tell Us which parts of Services Users visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of advertisements and web searches. We treat information collected by Cookies and other technologies as nonPersonal Information. However, to the extent that IP addresses or similar identifiers are considered Personal Information by local law, We accordingly treat these identifiers as Personal Information.

9. Feedback

We may publish any feedback We receive from You. We may identify You by Your first and last name and may also indicate Your home city. We may post any feedback on the Service from time to time. If You make any comments on a blog or forum associated with Accredital, You should be aware that You have no reasonable expectation of privacy and that any Personal Information You submit there can be read, collected, or used by other Users of these forums, and could be used to send You unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information You choose to submit in these blogs and forums.

10. Retention, Modification, or Deletion of Your Information

You may change any of Your Personal Information in Your account by editing Your profile within Your account. Generally, Accredital will retain User Personal Information for as long as Your account is active or as needed to provide You Services. We may retain certain User Personal Information indefinitely, unless You delete it or request its deletion. For example, We don’t automatically delete inactive User accounts, so unless You choose to delete Your account, We will retain Your account information indefinitely or as long as allowable by law, whichever comes first.

If You would like to cancel Your account or delete Your User Personal Information, You may do so in Your User account, but We may retain and use Your information as necessary to comply with Our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce Our agreements before any such deletion. After an account has been deleted, certain data, such as messages to other Users and comments, will remain. However, We will delete or deidentify Your Personal Information, including Your User name and email address, by associating them with an anonymous User. When We delete any information, it will be deleted from the active database, but may remain in Our archives.

11. Security

Accredital is committed to protecting the security of Your Personal Information. We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect Your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We also require You to enter a password to access Your account information. Please do not disclose Your account password to unauthorized people. You are solely responsible for all actions or disclosures of Your information or any access to Your account. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is one hundred percent (100%) secure, however. Therefore, while Accredital uses reasonable efforts to safeguard Your Personal Information, Accredital cannot guarantee its absolute security.

12. Changes To this Privacy Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time and for any reason. We will endeavor to provide You advanced notice of such updates, but You are ultimately responsible for consulting this Privacy Notice regularly for any changes. Continued use of Our Services shall indicate Your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms of such changes. If You do not agree, You should immediately discontinue Your use of the Services.