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I. Privacy Policy

Dossier (“Dossier,” “us,” “we,” and other similar terms) provides this Privacy Policy to describe how we collect, use, and share the information of individuals who visit our website at www.dossiersearch.com (the “Website”).

We take each user’s data privacy seriously, and at all times endeavor to collect, compile, handle, store, and disseminate user data (whether or not personally identifiable, “User Data”) in compliance with applicable law, including, as may be applicable to certain users.

II. INFORMATION COLLECTION

When using our Website, you may voluntarily provide information about yourself, including Personal Data, when you register for an account, request our services, sign up for email communications, apply for jobs listed on the Website, or otherwise communicate with us. This Personal Data may include, without limitation:

• Contact data (such as your first and last name, user name or alias, physical street address, city, state, zip code, phone number, and email address);
• Demographic data (such as your zip code and gender);
• Other legal data or any number of attributes, which, taken together, may lead to the identity of you (such as physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social characteristics);
• Your resume;
• Your social media profiles;
• Educational information;
• Previous employment and reason for departure;
• Personal references;
• Job search status and motivation;
• Transportation and travel availability; and
• Precise geolocation information (the location of your device).

We (and other entities, such as your Internet Service Provider) also automatically collect User Data relating to your interactions with us and our Website, including browser type, Internet Protocol (IP) address, pages visited, and other activities on the Website, device type, and time and date of visit, and other information we collect through the use of cookies and similar technology.

III. INFORMATION USE

We may use information for any lawful purpose, including the following:

• Processing or recording transactions;
• Otherwise, providing you with our services, products, and features you elect to use, and as applicable, purchase;
• Displaying your historical transaction or appointment information;
• Providing, maintaining, personalizing, and improving the Website;
• Developing new products and services;
• Delivering the information and support you request, including technical notices, security alerts, and support and administrative messages, including to resolve disputes, collect fees, and provide assistance for problems with the Website or your user account;
• Measuring, tracking, and analyzing usage in connection with your use or the performance of the Website;
• Sending you information we think you may find useful or which you have requested from us about our products and services;
• Conducting surveys and collecting feedback about our products and services;
• Investigating, detecting, preventing, or reporting fraud, misrepresentations, security breaches or incidents, other potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and to protect our rights or the rights of third parties; and
• Complying with any applicable laws or regulations, or in response to lawful requests for information from the government or through legal process; fulfilling any other purpose as disclosed to you.

IV. INFORMATION SHARING

We may share User Data, including Personal Data, with affiliated and non-affiliated third parties, including, without limitation, in connection with the following:

• We sometimes disclose the User Data we collect to our affiliated companies for marketing purposes and to enhance our products or services to better suit your needs. When identifying methods of improving our products or services, or if we think a product or service may be of interest to you, we may extend select special offers of goods or services to you. If you would like to opt out of receiving these offers, please refer to the "Offering You Choices - Marketing Options" section below.
• We sometimes disclose the User Data we collect to companies that operate various services for us, such as marketing, distribution, administrative services, advertising, or certain product functionalities, or who otherwise provide services that may be of interest to you. If you provide information to us, you are expressly consenting to receiving telephone calls, emails or text messages, or direct mail, from us, or on our behalf, regarding the products and services offered on the Website.
• If you choose to respond to a job posting on the Website, you may be directed to a third-party site, or third-party entity or individual. Any Personal Data you provide will be collected by such third party. We have no control over, and are not responsible or liable for, such third party's use of your Personal Data. Please consult such third party's privacy policy for information regarding their privacy practices.
• Personal Data will not be sold, leased, or otherwise made available to any person or entity not authorized by or associated with us.
• We may disclose your Personal Data in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary: (a) to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interfering (either intentionally or unintentionally) with: (i) our legal rights or property, (ii) another visitor or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities; or (b) by operation of law or at the request for cooperation from law enforcement or another governmental agency.
• In the event we go through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, reorganization, a divestiture, a sale of all or a portion of our assets, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy, your Personal Data and any information you provide to us will likely be among the assets transferred, and you hereby consent to such transfer.
• We may, and we may use third-party service providers to process and store your information. The third-party service providers that we engage will at all times be bound by confidentiality obligations and other appropriate restrictions with respect to their use and collection of your information.
• We may share your User Data as otherwise permitted by law.

Please note that when you disclose Personal Data through a forum, message board, blog, or other publicly visible features on the Website, the information may become public and accessible to all or a part of the Website’s userbase, so it is important for you to exercise discretion and appropriate caution when deciding to reveal Personal Data in these areas. In addition, when you choose to make a posting on such services, even if you do not directly disclose Personal Data, certain Personal Data associated with your user account, such as your alias (to the extent that it is Personal Data under applicable law), may be available for other users to view. We urge you to exercise discretion and caution when deciding to disclose your Personal Data, or any other information, on the Website. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE OF ANY PERSONAL DATA YOU VOLUNTARILY DISCLOSE THROUGH THE WEBSITE VIA THESE FORUMS AND OTHER INTERACTIVE FEATURES. Please note that we reserve the right, but have no obligation, to republish content posted in a forum, message board, blog, or news group (including any Personal Data contained therein).

V. THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISING AND ANALYTICS

We may partner with ad networks and other ad serving providers (“Advertising Providers”) that serve ads on behalf of us and others on non-affiliated platforms. Some of those ads may be personalized, meaning that they are intended to be relevant to you based on information Advertising Providers collect about your use of the Website and other sites or apps over time, including information about relationships among different browsers and devices. This type of advertising is known as interest-based advertising.

You may visit the DAA WebChoices tool at www.aboutads.info to learn more about this type of advertising and how to opt out of this advertising on websites by companies participating in the DAA self-regulatory program.

If you delete your cookies or use a different browser or mobile device, you may need to renew your opt-out choices exercised through the DAA WebChoices tool. Note that electing to opt out will not stop advertising from appearing in your browser or applications. It may make the ads you see less relevant to your interests.

We may work with third parties that use automated technologies to collect data on our behalf for advertising and analytics. This data collection may occur across different websites and applications. Third parties may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect and store information about your use of the Website and other sites or services over time. We may use this information to analyze trends, administer the Website, and gather demographic information for aggregate use. Third parties may use the collected information to serve you with advertisements that are tailored to your interests, as well as for analytics and reporting purposes.

Some third parties may be subject to their own privacy policies. You can learn more about Google Analytics’ privacy practices by visiting www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners, and to opt out of Google Analytics, visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

VI. COOKIES

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the hard drive of your computer that contains information about you, and that is used for record-keeping purposes. Cookies and similar technologies enable us to track and target your interests to enhance your experience on the Website. We may set and access cookies on your computer to provide you with customized content and to assist in providing the products that you have requested. We also work with companies that provide services to maintain the Website and enable those service providers the right to use cookies on our website. Like many other websites, we may automatically track information based upon your behavior on the Website, including combining information that we obtain through the use of cookies with Personal Data, or other aggregate data, including a unique identification we may assign you. The information may include browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, IP address, and number of clicks, all used to analyze trends, administer the Website, track your movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Most web browsers and mobile device browsers are initially set up to accept cookies; however, you can reset your browser to reject all cookies. If you reject the cookie, you may still use the Website, although your access to and use of some areas of the Website may be limited.

We may use cookies to:

• Remember that you have visited us or used the Website before. This allows us to identify the number of unique visitors we receive, so that we can provide enough capacity to accommodate all of our users.
• Customize elements of the layout and/or content of the Website.
• Collect data about the way you interact with the Website (e.g., when you use certain features).
• Collect data to assess and improve our advertising campaigns, including sending information to our business partners.
• Allow our business partners (including third parties) to use these tracking technologies to track your behavior on the Website (including when you use multiple devices) and on partner websites.
• Enable third parties to collect data about the way you interact across sites outside of the Website.
• Collect anonymous statistical information about how you use the Website (including the length of your web or application session) and the location from which you access the Website, so that we can improve the Website and learn which elements and functions of the Website are most popular with our users.

VII. LOCATION INFORMATION

In order to provide certain services, we may require access to location information, including precise geolocation information collected from your browser or device. If you do not consent to the collection of this information, certain services will not function properly, and you will not be able to use those services. You may stop our collection of location information at any time by changing the preferences in your browser or on your mobile device.

VIII. OFFERING YOU CHOICES - MARKETING OPTIONS

If you do not wish to receive communications from us, you may opt out by emailing us at any time at Hello@dossiersearch.com. Alternatively, each marketing e-mail we send to you will include instructions on how to opt-out which you may utilize. Please note that you may still receive information from third parties to whom we have disclosed your information prior to the time you opted out. You should contact each party in the event that you no longer want to receive information from such party.

IX. LINKS

Please note that this Website's Privacy Policy only applies to the Website and not to any other websites that you may access from the Website, each of which may have privacy policies that are materially different from this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to be aware when you leave the Website and to read the privacy policies of each and every other website, as we are not responsible or liable for the commitments and obligations made to you in any privacy policy or other terms of use of any such website.

X. SECURITY

We know it is very important to protect the information you share with us. We take appropriate security measures to help safeguard this information from unauthorized access and disclosure. For example, we restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to our employees who need to have access to such information in order to provide products or services to you, as well as to authorized third parties (as stated above). We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards designed to protect your Personal Data.

XI. HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR INFORMATION

We process and store Personal Data collected from you. After you deactivate your account, we may also retain copies of information about you and any transactions or services in which you may have participated for a period of time that is consistent with applicable law, applicable statute of limitations or as we believe is reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, to detect or prevent fraud, to collect fees owed, to resolve disputes, to address problems with the Website, to assist with investigations, to enforce other applicable agreements or policies, or to take any other actions consistent with applicable law.

XII. CHANGES TO THE POLICY

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. If our information practices change, we will post these changes in this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to visit this page periodically to learn of any updates.

XIII. CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns regarding our notice, or if you believe our notice or applicable laws relating to the protection of your Personal Data have not been respected, you may file a complaint with us, and we will respond to let you know who will be handling your matter and when you can expect a further response. We may request additional details from you regarding your concerns and may need to engage or consult with other parties in order to investigate and address your issue. We may keep records of your request and any resolution.
If you wish to deactivate or cancel your account, you can do so by making a request to us by email or phone, using the contact details provided below.

If you wish to exercise any right afforded to you under applicable law, or if you have any additional questions about our collection and storage of data, please contact us at: Hello@dossiersearch.com