The Career News is firmly committed to protecting your privacy. We created this Privacy Statement so you'll have the information you need to make a confident and informed online subscription decision.

We value your trust and pledge to do everything we can to handle your personal, private or sensitive information carefully, responsibly and securely. Below are the information gathering, use and dissemination practices for The Career News. To communicate any questions or concerns you may have regarding our privacy practices, please send an email to: privacy@thecareernews.com

Handling of Information Gathered from Customers

Personal Information

The Career News will not rent or sell any information gathered from a customer's use of our web site or receipt of our newsletter. Your personal information will not be shared with any 3rd parties for any reason other than what's described in this Privacy Statement or lawfully requested by federal or state authorities.

Employee Accountability

Only those The Career News employees that have a legitimate business purpose for accessing and handling personal information obtained by us are given authorization to do so. The unauthorized access or use of such information by any The Career News employee is prohibited and constitutes grounds for disciplinary action.

Additionally, our information management systems are configured in such a way as to block or inhibit employees from accessing information that they have no authority to access.

Information Created or Generated By Our Web site

Cookies

A "cookie" is a small data file that gets sent by a web site to your web browser and may then be stored on your computer. Most web browsers allow users to choose to: never to accept cookies, automatically accept cookies, be notified prior to accepting receipt of a cookie from a web site. A received cookie is usually stored in a directory that can be deleted from your computer at any time.

The Career News uses cookies solely for the following reasons:

• To track a customers movement through our web site and provide meaningful related information from page to page.
  
  
• The information contained in a cookie created by the The Career News web site includes a randomly generated session ID and is combined with a portion of the customers IP address for added security. A cookies usefulness along with all related records on our web server expire within hours of having been used.

Web Site Log Information

While not associated with any particular web site visitor's contact information, we retain standard log information gathered by our web server software package for an indefinite period of time. This information will be used solely for statistical analysis. Standard log information includes:

• The web page requested.
• The host name or IP address of the user making the request.
• The date and time of the request.
• The web page address visited prior to the request.
• The users browser type.
• The users operating system.

OptIn Mechanism

For your security, The Career News uses an email reply subscription method. After submitting the subscription form complete with first name, last name and email address, you'll receive an email message asking you to confirm your subscription by clicking a link in that email. This prevents someone else from inadvertently or erroneously subscribing you to our newsletter. You must confirm your subscription to be added to our newsletter distribution list. Subscription confirmations will be processed within a week.

Subscriber Surveys

The Career News may from time to time conduct surveys that ask you for feedback on various products and services. We use that information for market research, to improve our service offerings, identify desirable new career tools and perform site and service enhancements. We do not release information from individual survey responses outside The Career News without prior permission. We may occasionally share aggregated data with selected business partners. Some surveys may be performed by outside professional firms on our behalf to minimize bias. Those professionals are bound by these same restrictions.

Children's Use of Our Web Site

Our web site is not targeted to nor is it particularly interesting or useful to children. Nevertheless our web site does not contain any mature or other content, which would be considered objectionable to a parent whose child may arbitrarily find our web site. Moreover, there's nothing inherent in our services or advertising that would likely attract children.

Our services are targeted and advertised specifically to adults who are looking to further their career. In order to use our web site a customer must have given a reasonable amount of thought to their career objectives and must be prepared to answer detailed questions about career requirements and background. Additionally they must have a credit card or checking account.

Contact Us

We invite your comments and assistance in helping us maintain our commitment to your privacy. If you feel that The Career News, its affiliates, or any of their representatives or employees is violating this Privacy Statement, or you feel we can be handling private information more responsibly, please email us at privacy@thecareernews.com or contact us by mail: