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Emerio ("Emerio"),
through its partnership with Elance,
Inc., conforms to requirements of
the TRUSTe Privacy Program. This
statement discloses the privacy practices
for www.EmerioCanada.com.
1. What personally
identifiable information of yours or
third party personally identification
is collected from you.
2. The organization collecting the information.
3. How the information is used.
4. With whom the information may be shared.
5. What choices are available to you
regarding collection, use and distribution
of the information.
6. The kind of security procedures that
are in place to protect the loss, misuse
or alteration of information under Emerio
control.
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies
in your information.
If you have questions
or concerns regarding this statement,
you should first contact customer
service at help@emeriocanada.com
or the Privacy Officer at the co-ordinates
given in our Privacy Policy below.
If you do not receive acknowledgment
of your inquiry or your inquiry has
not been satisfactorily addressed,
you should then contact TRUSTe http://www.truste.org/users/users_watchdog.html.
TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison
with the Web site to resolve your
concerns.
THIS AGREEMENT WAS
LAST UPDATED ON AUGUST 14TH 2003 Emerio
is firmly committed to privacy. The following
discloses our information gathering and
dissemination practices for this website,
including Emerio, our U.S. partner -
Elance Online - and associated communities.
The protection of your privacy being
very important, we have adopted the following
practices to safeguard the confidentiality
of your personal information. We will
notify all registered users via email
of any change to this Privacy Statement,
unless you have opted-out of receiving
email from us. From time to time, changes
to this Privacy Statement will also be
communicated on this site.
We use your IP address
(the series of numbers associated with
your individual computer) to help us
maintain our site and identify problems
with our server. Your IP address does
not disclose any personally revealing
information about you.
We do use cookies to identify traffic
that comes through advertising and to
facilitate a more user friendly experience.
Cookies are small pieces of information
that a web site places on your computer's
hard drive so we know it's you when you
visit. This helps us to create a personalized
experience for you when you visit our
site. The use of cookies is a very common
practice on the Internet. If you are
uncomfortable with this, you can disable
all cookies through your browser settings.
Your enjoyment of our site won't be affected
if you have set your browser to reject
cookies.
When you register
to use any Emerio service you will be
asked for some general identifying information
which will enable us to provide you with
this individualized service. We gather
contact information (like your email
address), demographic information (like
your city of residence or age). We may
share some of this information for our
own research purposes with our professional
advisors or consultants and third party
partners, however the information shared
will be limited to non-personally identifying
demographic information shared under
cover of a confidentiality agreement.
If you choose to become a Full Member,
we collect financial information (like
your credit card number and expiry date).
We will only use this information in
the course of providing our service to
you.
Once you have registered,
you will be given the option of creating
a pseudonymous profile (nickname and
personal description) within any of our
communities where your gender is applicable.
Depending on which community you choose,
you will be asked for some personal but
non-identifying information to complete
your profile (i.e. whether you have dependants,
height, body type, race, religion, whether
you smoke, etc). This information is
not linked in any way to your personally
identifiable information, for other members
to see. Obviously, if you provide us
with a photograph some of your information
may become personally identifiable information.
If you choose to have
them sent to you, we may use your contact
information to send you valuable updates
and timely notices of promotions and
mailbox status reports. Our site provides
you with the opportunity to opt-in to
receiving different types of communications
from us at the point where we request
registration information. You may modify
this choice at any time by selecting "Preferences" from
the member home page.
Your non-personally identifying demographic
information is used to personalize your
experience, allow other members to find
you through a search, to compose your
personal profile - which is associated
with a pseudonymous identity you have
created - and to deliver targeted advertising
and promotional offers to you from external
companies that are of the highest relevance
to your demographic profile. Other than
your mail box, your contact information
is never available to other members or
organizations.
In the event that you decide to become
a Full Member of Emerio community, you
will be asked for your financial information
(like credit card number) which cannot
be read by others when you initiate your
order through a secured system. You will
know you are in secure mode when the
tiny padlock icon - located at the bottom
of your browser - appears "locked."
The personally identifiable information
we collect from you is used for internet
review and to improve the content and
functionality of our web server or customize
the layout of our pages for each individual
member. The specific information we collect
is not shared with other organizations
and we will never release your personally
identifiable information to an external
organization without your prior consent
except for the purposes of validating
credit information and collecting debts,
or unless we reasonably believe we are
required to do so by operation of law.
We keep the information
you have given us for as long as you
are a member on the site.
You can always verify
or request the removal of the personally
identifiable information we have collected
and change your registration information
by selecting "My Account" from
the main menu on the site.
Any such request may also be made by
contacting the Emerio Privacy Officer
at the co-ordinates listed at the bottom
of this page.
Our members communicate
with each other through instant messages
and onsite mail. While we do not, as
a rule, moderate or monitor members'
private exchanges, we reserve the right
to do so if we suspect users of being
under 18 or of using our service for
the purpose of solicitation or any other
violation of our terms of use or Privacy
Statement. Member submissions that appear
on the public area of the site are moderated
and, if necessary, we reserve the right
to edit, delete, remove or not use any
communication on a public area of the
site.
Members may choose to participate in
community polls. The results of these
polls are tracked by gender only and
do not reveal any personal identifiable
information linked to the individual
voters.
When you inquire about
advertising opportunities on our site,
you will be asked for contact information
and information related to your advertising
objectives. This information will be
used to provide you with the business
information you are seeking. Your information
is only shared with internal staff and
the external ad representation agencies
that sell media space on the site, on
our behalf. Emerio sites may contain
links to other sites not affiliated with
Emerio. Please note that these other
sites may have privacy policies that
differ from those of Emerio. We have
no control over any personal information
that you provide to these sites.
When you register
to become an Associate of our site, you
will be asked for contact information
and information related to your site.
Your information will only be used by
internal staff and will never be shared
with anyone external to the company other
than our advisors and representatives
without your consent, unless required
to do so by operation of law. Your information
will be used to secure your approval
as an Associate, to facilitate communication
between our two sites and to send you
payment, based on your site's performance.
Contacting us for privacy issues ONLY
**Please note that this phone number
will NOT connect you to a customer service
representative.**
Attn: Privacy Officer
1500 Bank St., Ste 501 Ottawa, Ontario
K1H 7Z2
Telephone: (902) 221-7656
Email: privacy@emeriocanada.com
ALL OTHER ENQUIRIES SHOULD BE SENT TO info@emeriocanada.com
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