HotJobs.com - Privacy

Privacy

HotJobs.com, a Yahoo! company, is committed to protecting the privacy of our users. We want to provide a safe, secure user experience. Please read the following to learn more about how we treat information collected on the HotJobs site. To learn how Yahoo! uses your personal information when you are visiting the Yahoo! site, please read the Yahoo! Privacy Policy.

Aggregated Data About HotJobs.com Visitors
In general, we gather information about all of our users collectively, such as what areas users visit most frequently. We only use such data anonymously and in the aggregate. This information helps us to determine what is most beneficial for our users, and how we can continually create a better overall experience for you. We may share this information with third parties, but only in the aggregate, so that they too may understand how HotJobs.com visitors use our site, so they may create a better overall experience for you as well.

Personally Identifiable Information
HotJobs.com collects personally identifiable information from users when you register for a myHotJobs account, when you use certain products or services and when you enter promotions or contests. We may also ask you for other information, such as information on your interests, your likes and dislikes regarding the site, the types of jobs you are interested in, etc., in an effort to deliver to you the best possible site experience. Personal Information is collected by specifically requesting it from you.

If you give us permission, we may use that information to contact you about new site feature announcements, Career Expo events, enhancements and general updates. HotJobs.com also provides you with the opportunity to opt-out of these types of communications. If you choose to receive these types of communications at the time of registration, but later decide you no longer want to receive them, simply follow the instructions in the e-mail to opt-out.

All users should be aware that when they voluntarily display or distribute personal information (such as their e-mail address), that information can be collected and used by others. This may result in unsolicited messages form third parties, for which HotJobs.com is not responsible.

Internet Protocol Address
We collect an IP address from all visitors to our site. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our site. Your IP address is also used to help identify you when you visit our site.

General Information Disclosure
Except as described in this privacy policy, we do not disclose your personal information including your individual visits to our Web site, or personal information that you provide, such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, credit card number, personal references, etc., to any outside parties, except when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with law, (ii) enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements or (iii) protect the rights, property or safety of HotJobs.com, our users, or others. But, we may record and share aggregated information with our partners, member companies and job seekers. Also, if you input your information on a co-branded page, then your information becomes the property of both HotJobs.com and the co-sponsor of the page. In that instance, the use of your personal information by our partner company will be subject to the privacy policy of that company and HotJobs.com is not responsible for their use of your personal information.

We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples may include hosting our web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. These other companies may have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any third party.

Resumes
Since HotJobs.com is a career site, we give you the option of putting your resume in our database. There are three ways of doing this:

With our HotBlock™ feature, you can store your resume in our database, but not allow it to be searchable by any employers or agencies. Not allowing your resume to be searchable means that you can use it to apply for a job online, but it will not be searchable through our resume database.
You can store your resume in our database, but not allow it to be searchable by certain employers or agencies who are members of our site at the time you set your HotBlock preferences. Not allowing your resume to be searchable means that you can use it to apply for a job online, but those employers or agencies you have blocked will not have access to search it through our resume database.
If you allow your resume to be searchable, then those individuals or entities that pay for access to our resume database and all prospective customers who are receiving a demonstration of our product will have access to your resume. These individuals or entities have the ability to distribute your resume to their own hiring systems via e-mail.

It is our intention that only paying customers or prospective customers will have access to the resume database, but cannot guarantee that other parties will not, without our consent, gain access to this database. You may remove your resume from our searchable database at any time. However, employers and recruiters who have paid for access to the database, and other parties who have otherwise gained access to the database, may have retained a copy of your resume in their own files or databases. We are not responsible for the retention, use, or privacy of resumes in these instances, or for the use or privacy of resumes by any of such parties while resumes are in the database.

Updating Account Information
HotJobs.com allows you to change, correct or remove your personal information at any time. To do so, simply log into your myHotJobs account, go to your account profile, and you will find options for editing the information you have submitted.

Public Forums
Our Web Site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information, and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Online Order Security
You may purchase single ad postings online with a credit card. A company called VeriSign (http://www.verisign.com), which has recently acquired our former payment services vendor CyberCash (http://www.cybercash.com), maintains our credit card transactions. For further information about VeriSign's privacy and security practices, please click here.

About Cookies
Cookies, which are small text files recorded in a user's hard drive, are employed by thousands of sites to enhance user's Web viewing experience. Cookies cannot damage user files, nor can they read information from a user's hard drive. Cookies allow Web sites to "remember" users across pages of a Web site and across multiple visits to a Web site. HotJobs.com uses cookies in order to remember preferences, maintain information about whether you're currently logged into our systems, and track click streams. By using cookies, we can deliver faster service, consistent, updated results, and a more personalized site experience. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of our site's functionality if you do so.

Advertising
HotJobs.com uses a third party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our Web site. This company may use information (not including your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to our Web Site and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on our Web Site and other Web sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to our third-party advertising networks may also place or access a unique cookie on your browser. For more information about our third party ad server or for your choices about not having this information used, please click here.

Web Beacons
HotJobs.com and Yahoo! work together to research certain usage and activities on the HotJobs.com web site, using a technology called web beacons. Web beacons are often single pixel gifs or other images that are used to access cookie information. The information collected through these web beacons is used to find out more about HotJobs.com users including user demographics and usage patterns for more accurate reporting and to improve the effectiveness of our marketing.

HotJobs.com also shares Web site usage information about visitors to our Web site with a reputable third party for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on our Web Site and other Web sites, through the use of web beacons. The information we collect and share through these web beacons is not personally identifiable.

Feedback
HotJobs.com has an area on the site where you can submit feedback. Any feedback that is submitted through this area becomes the property of HotJobs.com. We may use this feedback, such as success stories, for marketing purposes, or to contact you for further feedback on the site.

Children
We do not specifically collect information about children. We believe that children should get their parents' consent before giving out personal information.

Privacy Commitment Changes
If we decide to change our privacy commitment for HotJobs.com, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. If, at any time, you have questions or concerns about HotJobs.com's privacy commitment, please feel free to e-mail us at privacy@hotjobs.com or call 1-877-HOTJOBS and speak to one of our account managers.

Thank you for using HotJobs.com.