Privacy Policy
RushmoreDrive.com Privacy Policy
Your Privacy Rights
Last Updated: April 10, 2008
RushmoreDrive.com has teamed with Jobster to bring you Job Networks at RushmoreDrive.com, a
premier online career, job and networking destination powered by Jobster. In addition to
RushmoreDrive.com's Privacy Policy as set forth below, information about you from your use of
this site will be collected and used by Jobster and subject to the Jobster Privacy Policy.
Black Web Enterprises Inc. respects the privacy of our users and has developed this
Privacy Policy to demonstrate its commitment to protecting your privacy. This Privacy
Policy is intended to describe for you, as an individual who is a user of RushmoreDrive
or our services, the information we collect, how that information may be used, with
whom it may be shared, and your choices about such uses and disclosures.
We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully when using our website or
services or transacting business with us. By using our website, you are accepting
the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Black Web Enterprises Inc. is a
part of the IAC family of businesses www.iac.com,
which includes HSN, Ticketmaster, LendingTree, RealEstate.com, Ask.com, Citysearch,
Evite, Match.com, Interval International, ServiceMagic, Entertainment Publications,
Gifts.com, Pronto, and many others.
If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please refer to the end of
this Privacy Policy for information on how to contact us.
Information we collect about you
In General. We may collect personal information that can identify you such
as your name and email address and other information that does not identify you.
When you provide personal information through our website, the information may be
sent to servers located in the United States and other countries around the world.
- Information you provide. We may collect and store any personal information
you enter on our website or provide to us in some other manner. This includes identifying
information, such as your name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number, and,
if you transact business with us, financial information such as your payment method
(valid credit card number, type, expiration date or other financial information).
We also may request information about your interests and activities, your gender
and age, and other demographic information.
- Information from other sources. We may also periodically obtain both personal
and non-personal information about you from other IAC businesses, business partners,
contractors and other third parties and add it to our account information or other
information we have collected. Examples of information that we may receive include:
updated delivery and address information, purchase history, and additional demographic
information.
- Information about others. We may also collect and store personal information
about other people that you provide to us. If you use our website to send others
(friends, relatives, colleagues, etc.) a product as a gift, information that may
interest them or messages (such as invitations) through our system, we may store
your personal information, and the personal information of each such recipient.
Use of cookies and other technologies to collect information. We use various
technologies to collect information from your computer and about your activities
on our site.
- Information collected automatically. We automatically collect information
from your browser when you visit our website. This information includes your IP
address, your browser type and language, access times, the content of any undeleted
cookies that your browser previously accepted from us (see "Cookies" below), and
the referring website address
- Cookies. When you visit our website, we may assign your computer one or more
cookies to facilitate access to our site and to personalize your online experience.
Through the use of a cookie, we also may automatically collect information about
your online activity on our site, such as the web pages you visit, the links you
click, and the searches you conduct on our site. Most browsers automatically accept
cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If
you choose to decline cookies please note that you may not be able to sign in or
use some of the interactive features offered on our website.
- Other Technologies. We may use standard Internet technology, such as web
beacons [and other similar technologies, to track your use of our site. We also
may include web beacons in promotional or other e-mail messages or newsletters to
determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. The information we obtain
in this manner enables us to customize the services we offer our website visitors
to deliver targeted advertisements and to measure the overall effectiveness of our
online advertising, content, programming or other activities.
- Search Queries. If you enter a search query, we will collect the query text
and process it, together with the above information, to return a search results
page to you. We may also aggregate search query information for internal reporting,
product improvement, advertising and other internal purposes. This information is
not combined with personally identifiable information.
- Information collected by third-parties. We may allow third-parties, including
our authorized service providers, IAC companies, advertising companies, and ad networks,
to display advertisements or provide applications and services on our site. These
companies may use tracking technologies, such as cookies or web beacons], to collect
information about users who view or interact with their advertisements or use their
applications and services. Our website does not provide any personal information
to these third parties. This information allows them to deliver targeted advertisements
and personalized online experience and gauge their effectiveness. Some of these
third-party advertising companies may be advertising networks that are members of
the Network Advertising Initiative, which offers a single location to opt out of
ad targeting from member companies (http://www.networkadvertising.org).
How we use the information we collect
In general. We may use information that we collect about you to:
- deliver the products and services that you have requested;
- manage your account and provide you with customer support;
- perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products, services,
or content, or products, services or content offered by others;
- communicate with you by e-mail, postal mail, telephone and/or mobile devices about
products or services that may be of interest to you either from us, our sister IAC
companies or other third parties;
- develop and display content and advertising tailored to your interests on our site
and other sites;
- verify your eligibility and deliver prizes in connection with contests and sweepstakes;
- enforce our terms and conditions;
- manage our business and
- perform functions as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.
Financial information. We may use financial information or payment method
to process payment for any purchases made on our website, to protect against or
identify possible fraudulent transactions, and otherwise as needed to manage our
business.
Job applicants for positions with our company. If your personal information
is submitted through our website when applying for a position with our company,
the information will be used solely in connection with considering and acting upon
your application. We may retain your personal information for a period of time,
but only for the purpose of considering your application for current or future available
positions. This information may be shared with our sister IAC companies for the
purpose of evaluating your qualifications for the particular position or other available
positions, as well as with third-party service providers retained by us to collect,
maintain and analyze candidate submissions for such job postings.
RushmoreDrive Job Network. When you register with our RushmoreDrive Job Network,
we may use this information to match your personal information and job request information
against our list of employers and we may share such personal information as provided
below. If you chose to delete your RushmoreDrive profile, your registration with
the RushmoreDrive Job Network will become inactive, we will no longer match you
with prospective employers on our network and your RushmoreDrive job network profile
will be set to private. The other profile information will be deleted except as
provided below. See "How you can access your information" for those exceptions and
for further information about accessing and deleting your profile information.
Please review "Your choices about collection and use of your information" below.
With whom we share your information
We want you to understand when and with whom we may share personal or other information
we have collected about you or your activities on our web site or while using our
services.
Personal information. We do not share your personal information with others
except as indicated below or when we inform you and give you an opportunity to opt
out of having your personal information shared. We may share personal information
with:
- Authorized service providers: We may share your personal information with
our authorized service providers that perform certain services on our behalf. These
services may include fulfilling orders, processing credit card payments, delivering
packages, providing customer service and marketing assistance, performing business
and sales analysis, supporting our website functionality, and supporting contests,
sweepstakes, surveys and other features offered through our website. These service
providers may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions
but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes.
- Business partners: When you make purchases, reservations or engage in promotions
offered through our website or our services, we may share personal information with
the businesses with which we partner to offer you those products, services, promotions,
contests and/or sweepstakes. When you elect to engage in a particular merchant's
offer or program, you authorize us to provide your email address and other information
to that merchant.
- Other IAC businesses. We are part of the IAC family of businesses (go to
www.iac.com for a listing of these businesses). We may share information we collect,
including personal information, with the IAC companies. Sharing information with
our IAC companies enables us to provide you with information about a variety of
products and services that might interest you. All IAC companies comply with the
IAC Consumer Privacy]. Our IAC companies also will comply with applicable privacy
and security laws and, at a minimum, in any commercial e-mail they send to you,
will give you the opportunity to choose not to receive such e-mail messages in the
future.
- Employer members of the RushmoreDrive Job Network. When you register with
our RushmoreDrive Job Network we may use this information to match your personal
information and job request information against our list of employers and you consent
to our providing your personal information and job request to the employers that
are members of our RushmoreDrive Job Network. Sharing this information with employers
allows them to review your profile to determine whether you meet their candidate
criteria and contact you using the e-mail address or other contact information you
provided. In addition, your job profile will be publicly available for viewing and
searching, as described in the Blogs, Comment Fields and Ratings section You can
elect not to have your job profile publicly available for viewing and searching
by changing the jobs account settings area in
My Profile to private.
- Other Situations. We also may disclose your information:
- In response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order, or a request
for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; to establish
or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required
by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available
to us.
- When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate,
prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other
wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company,
our users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate
with law enforcement; or to enforce our website terms and conditions or other agreements
or policies.
- In connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of our
business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely
event of bankruptcy.
Any third parties to whom we may disclose personal information may have their own
privacy policies which describe how they use and disclose personal information.
Those policies will govern use, handling and disclosure of your personal information
once we have shared it with those third parties as described in this Privacy Policy.
If you want to learn more about their privacy practices, we encourage you to visit
the websites of those third parties. These entities or their servers may be located
either inside or outside the United States.
Aggregated and non-personal information. We may share aggregated and non-personal
information we collect under any of the above circumstances. We may also share it
with third parties and our IAC sister companies to develop and deliver targeted
advertising on our websites and on websites of third parties. We may combine non-personal
information we collect with additional non-personal information collected from other
sources. We also may share aggregated information with third parties, including
advisors, advertisers and investors, for the purpose of conducting general business
analysis. For example, we may tell our advertisers the number of visitors to our
website and the most popular features or services accessed. This information does
not contain any personal information and may be used to develop website content
and services that we hope you and other users will find of interest and to target
content and advertising.
Third-party websites
There are a number of places on our website where you may click on a link to access
other websites that do not operate under this Privacy Policy. For example, if you
click on an advertisement or a search result on our website, you may be taken to
a website that we do not control. These third-party websites may independently solicit
and collect information, including personal information, from you and, in some instances,
provide us with information about your activities on those websites. We recommend
that you consult the privacy statements of all third-party websites you visit by
clicking on the ?privacy? link typically located at the bottom of the webpage you
are visiting.
How you can access your information
If you have an online account with us, you have the ability to review and update
your personal information online by logging into your
account. You can also review and update your personal information by contacting
us. More information about how to contact us is provided below.
If you have an online account with us, you also may choose to close your account
at any time by sending an account deletion request to privacy@rushmoredrive.com.
After you close your account, you will not be able to sign in to our website or
access any of your personal information. However, you can open a new account at
any time. If you close your account, we may still retain certain information associated
with your account for analytical purposes and recordkeeping integrity, as well as
to prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, enforce our terms and conditions, and take
actions we deem necessary to protect the integrity of our web site or our users,
or take other actions otherwise permitted by law. If you chose to delete your RushmoreDrive
profile, your registration with the RushmoreDrive Job Network will become inactive,
we will no longer match you with prospective employers on our network and your RushmoreDrive
job network profile will be set to private. In addition, if certain information
has already been provided to third parties as described in this Privacy Policy,
retention of that information will be subject to those third parties? policies.
Your choices about collection and use of your information
- You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but that may result in
you being unable to use certain features of our website because such information
may be required in order for you to register as a member; purchase products or services;
participate in a contest, promotion, survey, or sweepstakes; ask a question; or
initiate other transactions on our website.
- At any time you can choose to no longer receive commercial or promotional emails
from us by updating your personal settings option on the My Profile page by unchecking
the box associated with ? Yes, I want to be the first to know about upcoming special
offers and promotions from RushmoreDrive partners and advertisers.. When your register
on our website, you will be given a choice as to whether you want to receive e-mail
messages about special offers. You may modify your choice at any time on the My
Profile page under personal settings. You also will be given the opportunity, in
any commercial e-mail that we send to you, to opt out of receiving such messages
in the future. It may take up to 10 days for us to process an opt-out request. We
may send you other types of transactional and relationship e-mail communications,
such as service announcements, administrative notices, and surveys, without offering
you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them. Please note that changing information
in your account, or otherwise opting out of receipt of promotional email communications
will only affect future activities or communications from us. If we have already
provided your information to a third party before you have changed your preferences
or updated your information, you may have to change you preferences directly with
that third party.
- You may tell us not to share your personal information with third parties or the
IAC family of companies for direct marketing purposes by unchecking the box associated
with Yes, I want to be the first to know about upcoming special offers and promotions
from RushmoreDrive partners and advertisers. in the personal settings section of
My Profile.
- If you have registered with our RushmoreDrive Job Network, you may chose not to
have your job profile information made publicly available. You may do this by setting
the jobs profile in My Profile to private.
How we protect your personal information
We take appropriate security measures (including physical, electronic and procedural
measures) to help safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access and
disclosure. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access personal
information, and they may do so only for permitted business functions. In addition,
we use encryption in the transmission of your sensitive personal information between
your system and ours, and we use firewalls to help prevent unauthorized persons
from gaining access to your personal information.
We want you to feel confident using our website to transact business. However, no
system can be completely secure. Therefore, although we take steps to secure your
information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information,
searches, or other communications will always remain secure. Users should also take
care with how they handle and disclose their personal information and should avoid
sending personal information through insecure email. Please refer to the Federal
Trade Commission's website at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menus/consumer/data.shtm for
information about how to protect yourself against identity theft.
Blogs, Comment Fields, and Ratings
We may provide areas on our websites where you can post information about yourself
and others and communicate with others, as well as post reviews of products, establishments,
contractors, and the like, or upload content (e.g. pictures, videos, audio files,
etc.. Such postings are governed by our Terms of Use .
In addition, such postings may appear on other websites or when searches are executed
on the subject of your posting. Also, whenever you voluntarily disclose personal
information on publicly-viewable web pages, such as when allow your job profile
to be publicly viewable, that information will be publicly available and can be
collected and used by others. For example, if you post your email address, you may
receive unsolicited messages. We cannot control who reads your posting or what other
users may do with the information you voluntarily post, so we encourage you to exercise
discretion and caution with respect to your personal information. Once you have
posted information, you may not be able to edit or delete such information.
Children's privacy
Our website is a general audience site, and we do not knowingly collect personal
information from children under the age of 13.
Visiting our websites from outside the United States
This Privacy Policy is intended to cover collection of information on our website
from residents of the United States. If you are visiting our website from outside
the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to,
stored, and processed in the United States where our servers are located and our
central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States
and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. Please
be assured that we seek to take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is
protected. By using our services, you understand that your information may be transferred
to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in
this privacy policy.
No Rights of Third Parties
This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require
disclosure of any personal information relating to users of the website.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices
and services. When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the ?last
updated? date at the top of this Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes
in the way we collect, use, and/or share your personal information, we will notify
you by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address you most recently provided us in
your account, profile or registration (unless we do not have such an email address),
and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on our website. We recommend
that you check our website from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in
this Privacy Policy or any of our other policies.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our information-handling
practices, or if you would like to request information about our disclosure of personal
information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, please contact
us by e-mail privacy@RushmoreDrive.com
or postal mail as follows:
Vice President of Product
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