Privacy Policy

Purpose of our Privacy Policy

HeyHire.com appreciates the sensitivity and privacy with which your job search should be handled. In addition to installing numerous privacy features on the HeyHire.com website, HeyHire.com has created this Privacy Policy to emphasize our commitment to your privacy. The Privacy Policy describes how we collect, protect, and use information received and collected from you by means of our Website. It does not apply to information that we gather or collect using any other method. We urge you to read our Privacy Policy so that you will understand both our commitment to you and your privacy, and how you can participate in that commitment. Capitalized and other terms not defined in this Privacy Policy will have the meaning ascribed to them in our Terms of Use.

• Providing information to us is voluntary and may be withdrawn by you at any time.
• The information you provide to us through our Website may reveal, or allow others to identify, your nationality, ethnic origin, religion, gender, age, geography, or other aspects of your private life. By providing information to us for the purposes of creating your Member account or adding any additional details to your Website profile, you are expressly and voluntarily accepting the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use that allow us to process information about you. You have the right to withdraw your consent to our collection and processing of your information at any time, in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, by changing your Settings, or by closing your account. Please note, however, that your withdrawal of consent will not be retroactive.

Information we collect from you

Personally Identifiable Information

Our Website enables you to search for jobs in your area, register to receive emails about future job postings, participate in interactive areas such as My Account, or to permit employers to contact you directly regarding job offerings. You may search without registering, but to apply for a job, receive email communications, participate in the interactive areas found at My Account, or be contacted by an employer interested in you for employment, you will have to register with HeyHire.com. We sometimes collect the following personally identifiable information:

• Email address
• Password
• Name
• Address
• City
• State
• ZIP code
• Phone number
• Date of birth
• Gender
• Military service
• Citizenship
• Education
• Job preferences
• Work experience

We also collect the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave our Website, as well as the IP address of the computer you are using (or the proxy server you use to access our Website), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, mobile device operating system (if you are accessing our Website using a mobile device), as well as the name of your ISP or your mobile carrier to provide us with a way to verify your identity and to provide us with information that we aggregate with that of other users to help diagnose problems with our server, run our Website better, and to communicate with advertisers (see “How we use information we collect from you,” below).

Your personally identifiable information allows us to share your job preferences and work experiences with prospective employers, communicate with you about potential employment opportunities, our business, and our Website, improve the information on and operation of our Website, customize the Website to your individual preferences, and ensure your compliance with our Terms of Use and any other restrictions noted on the Website.

In addition to providing us with your personally identifiable information and your IP address, if you chose to participate in the interactive portions of our Website found at My Account, you will have to complete a user profile in which you may describe your skills, professional experiences, educational background, recommendations from other Website users, group memberships, and networking objectives (this information, together with your personally identifiable information, shall be referred to collectively herein as your “Personal Information”). Providing additional information about yourself beyond what is minimally required at registration is entirely up to you, but providing such additional information enables you to derive more benefit from the Website and your professional network by helping you build and leverage your professional network and facilitating your search for professional resources, information, and new opportunities. Any Personal Information you provide at registration or in the profile section may be used by us as we describe in the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy. If you decide not to share such Personal Information, you may not receive the full benefit of being a Website Member.

To connect with others on HeyHire, you may use the Website to send invitations either to other Members or to email addresses of individuals who are not Members. The names and email addresses of people you invite will be used by us to send your invitations and reminders and to allow us to help expand our network. Please note that when you send an invitation to connect to another Member, that Member will then have access to your email address because it is displayed in the invitation. The Members with whom you connect at My Account will also have access to your email address. You may not invite anyone to connect with you at My Account whom you do not know and trust.

You may also choose to manually enter or upload data about your contacts to the “Contacts” section of your account with us. Information entered into Contacts is only viewable by you and us. By providing email addresses or other information of non-Members, you represent that you have authority to do so. All information that you enter or upload about your contacts will be covered by the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy and will enable us to provide customized services such as suggesting people to connect on our Website.

We may collect information through our Website to, among other things, accurately categorize and respond to Member inquiries and investigate breaches of our terms.

We may collect information about the fact that you use certain features and functionality of our Website, click on ads, or participate in research initiatives like polling and surveys on our Website.

Polls and surveys on our Website

Polls and surveys may be conducted by us, our Members, or our Sponsors. As a Member, you may be invited to participate in polls and surveys from our Website. Your selection may be random, or it may be based on your non-personally identifiable information, such as job title, geographic location, 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, we or our Sponsors may follow up with you via email in your My Account account regarding your participation unless you have opted out of receiving such email 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 Personal 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 Personal Information to any third parties in connection with the conduct of any polls or surveys. Your consent to use any Personal Information for the purposes set forth in the poll or survey will be explicitly requested by the party conducting it. You may opt out of participating in surveys by changing your settings to stop receiving these inquiries and requests.

Cookies

A cookie is a bit of electronic data stored on a user’s hard drive, mobile phone, or other device containing information about the user. Cookies can save time, as they can store information such as a user’s login so that the same information does not have to be entered on subsequent visits to the same website. We use cookies and web log files to track your Website usage and trends, to improve the quality of our service, to customize your experience on our Website, and to deliver third-party advertising to Members both on and off our Website.

While your browser may accept cookies automatically, you can change the settings on your browser to prevent our cookies from being downloaded automatically, or to notify you that they are ready to be downloaded. The latter will give you the option of whether or not you want to accept our cookies. If you decide to decline our cookies, however, some of our Website’s features or services may not function as well as they would have had you accepted our cookies.

Our Website may also contain very small, transparent, electronic images called “Web Beacons” that allow us to count Members who have visited the Website pages on which they are located. Web Beacons are not used to access your Personal Information but rather are a method for us to assemble aggregated statistics about the usage of our Website. While you cannot decline Web Beacons, you can decline all cookies and therefore render the Web Beacons ineffective. We use Web Beacons with respect to our mobile applications as well.

Summary of information collected by us

In sum, we collect the following information from you:

• Registration information
• Profile information
• Information regarding your contacts with other HeyHire.com Members
• Information regarding your usage of our Website
• Information we glean from our cookies
• Information we glean from our Web Beacons
• Your IP address, operating system or mobile platform, ISP or mobile provider, whichever is applicable

How we communicate with you

As described in our Terms of Use, we will communicate with you through email and notices posted on our Website, messages to your My Account inbox, mobile text messages, or through other means available to us. We may send you a series of emails that help inform new Members about the features of our Website, and we will also send you service messages relating to the functioning of our Website. We may also send you messages with promotional information directly or on behalf of our Sponsors, unless you have opted out of receiving promotional information.

Many communications you initiate through our Website (e.g., an invitation sent to a non-Member) will list your primary email address and name