Privacy Policy Statement for IMDiversity, Inc. Web Sites

Privacy Policy Updated November 30, 2007

IMDiversity, Inc., publisher of the Web sites IMDiversity.com and THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online, is committed to protecting the privacy of our users. We want to provide a safe and secure experience for all. We use our best efforts to ensure the information you submit to us remains private and is used only for the purposes described here. IMDiversity, Inc. is dedicated to providing career and self-development information to all minority job seekers and underrepresented groups, particularly to African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and women. Our mission is to help you find a job and succeed in the workplace.

The following reflects our commitment to you.

Information Collection and Usage

Information About All IMDiversity, Inc. Visitors
In general, we gather information about all of our users collectively, such as what areas users visit most frequently and what services they access the most. We only use such data anonymously and in the aggregate. This information helps us 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 our partners, but again only in the aggregate, so that they, too, may understand how visitors use our site, creating a better overall experience for you as well.

Information About You Specifically

In some instances, when you sign up to use one of our services such as My Job Tools and Resume Manager, enter a contest, purchase a product, or request information from us, for example, we may need more specific information about you, such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, etc.  We may use that information when necessary to contact you regarding site changes relevant to services or functions you have signed up to use.  If you give us permission, we may also use that information to make you aware of additional products, services and content that may be of interest to you.  We may also ask you for other information, such as information on your interests, likes and dislikes regarding the site, the types of jobs you are interested in, etc. This is all in an effort to deliver the best possible site experience for you.  Additionally, IMDiversity may collect email addresses of newsletter mailing list subscribers. Newsletters are opt-in mailings, and the user may opt-out from the list at any time using personal subscription controls or upon request.  See also "User Access and How to Opt-out or Unsubscribe" section below for additional detail.

Registration

Registration is required for some job-seeker functionality, such as creating a My Job Tools account, allowing online job applications, resume storage, contact by potential employers, and job alert email features.  Registering to create a My Job Tools account requires you to give us contact information (i.e. name, phone, e-mail address). We use this information to send you announcements about careers, jobs, our company, and our partners.  The contact information is also used to contact you, if necessary.

In general, we will not release any user information to any third party unless you give us permission to do so or you specifically choose to expose your information using your personal privacy and subscription control functions included in your My Job Tools account, as described below.

Updating Account Information

IMDiversity allows you to change or modify your resume and other job tools and to modify your confidentiality control settings and personal information at any time. To do so, simply log into My Job Tools on IMDiversity.com or BlackCollegian.com and select the option for editing the information you wish to change.

Resumes

As a career site, IMDiversity.com or BlackCollegian.com provides you with tools to store and manage your resume online, including the option to place your resume in a database that can be searched, viewed, copied, stored and forwarded by prospective employers.  For your security and privacy, you may assign one of three levels of confidentiality to every resume you post, controlling the degree of access that employers will have to your resume and your identifying information:

• "Public": Your identity, resume, and contact information will be completely searchable and viewable by all employers and recruiters who pay for access to our resume database

• "Confidential": Employers may search for and view the contents of your resume, but your identity, contact information, and current job title will be hidden from their view. Potential employers may contact you only by email, and you may choose whether to respond to those emails. (NOTE: If you choose this option, do not include your contact information in the body of your resume.)

• "Private": Your stored resume and personal information will not be accessible in the searchable database. It will be disclosed only to employers upon your specific authorization, on a company-by-company basis.

You may also be allowed to automatically post your resume to the resume database of one of our partners or hiring employer advertisers.  In that case, your resume and contact information will be subject to the privacy policy of our partner. Please read the partner’s privacy policy carefully before deciding whether you would like to allow this additional posting.

We use our best efforts to grant access to our resume database only to paying employers and their recruiters, hiring managers, and human resource professionals, but we can’t 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 by deleting your information or by emailing a resume deletion request to support@IMDiversity.com.  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 your resume by any such parties while your resume is in our database.

User Access and How to Opt-out or Unsubscribe

IMDiversity, Inc. is committed to providing reasonable and practical access to allow visitors to identify inaccuracies in their personal information.  Each user has the right of access to personal data he or she has submitted through IMDiversity Web sites.  In most cases, Visitors who submit personal information through IMDiversity subscription-based tools may change their personal information, and subscribe and unsubscribe to services themselves. However, Visitors may also submit inquiries about the accuracy of personally identifiable information they have previously submitted through IMDiversity, Inc. Web sites, and may request to have information removed by IMDiversity.  When practical, IMDiversity, Inc. will, upon request, modify or delete personally identifying information. To request modifications or report other problems, please contact endusersupport@imdiversity.com or call 504-532-0154.

Our site also allows you to opt-out of (unsubscribe from) receiving communications from us and our partners, at the point where we request information about you.  You can send email to remove@IMDiversity.com if you would like to remove your information from our database, and no longer wish to receive communications or services from IMDiversity.

Third Party Distribution

General Information Disclosure
 
We do not disclose information about your individual visits to our sites, or personal information that you provide, such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, credit card number, personal references, etc., to any outside parties.  We may, however, record and share aggregated information with our partners.  For example, if you choose to put your information on a co-branded registration page, such as that of an IMDiversity and partner company-sponsored contest, then your information may become the property of both IMDiversity, Inc. and the partner co-sponsoring the contest. In that instance, IMDiversity, Inc. is not responsible for the information that the partner company receives.

Subscribers to "My Job Tools" should also refer to the section, "Information About You Specifically" above, which provides information about privacy conditions and your customized confidentiality controls specifically related to creating a My Job Tools account, and posting a resume and other job search-related materials containing personal information on IMDiversity Web sites.

Use of IP Address and Cookies

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is also used to help identify you and your user session.

IMDiversity uses cookie technology on a limited basis (to make the site more convenient to our users), and cookies are only set if your computer allows cookies to be accepted.  There are some pages and functions within our site that will not work if you do not accept cookies.  To learn more about cookies and understand how your computer handles them, see the page below that corresponds to the browser you use:

• Netscape
• Internet Explorer
• Mozilla
• Opera
• Apple Safari

Data Security

The security of the information you provide to IMDiversity is important to us. Registration forms, which capture certain information, including credit card transactions, are secured through 128 bit SSL encryption with a registered Verisign SSL certificate. Information is stored in a secure area and is only accessible by authorized IMDiversity staff. However, the IMDiversity.com and BlackCollegian.com sites include links to other sites, and when you choose to visit those sites, IMDiversity cannot assume responsibility for any other site’s content or information handling practices. We encourage you to review each site’s privacy policy prior to entering into transactions with the third-party linked sites.

Minors

IMDiversity complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and does not knowingly collect personal, identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13.

Feedback and How to Contact Us

IMDiversity, Inc. Web sites have many areas on the site where you can submit feedback.  Feedback submitted through these areas becomes the property of IMDiversity, Inc.  We may use this feedback, such as success stories or letters to the editor, for marketing or content purposes, or to contact you for further feedback on our site.

Voluntary Ethnicity and Gender Information

Because this company’s goal is to connect jobseekers with those employers who have invested in promoting their job openings to qualified, diverse jobseekers, this site invites and encourages active jobseekers to voluntarily share background information during some steps of the Job Tools account creation process, including ethnicity and gender.  Providing this information is wholly optional.  If you choose to volunteer this information, you are helping us to gauge how effectively we are able to provide job information, tools, and content to users of diverse backgrounds, in the aggregate, and where improvements are needed.  As with most other aspects of your account profile and online resumes at this site, you may add or remove, expose or hide this optional information at any time using your account tools.  Your decision about whether or not to volunteer this information in no way affects any job search or application functions available to you.

Future Notifications

If we decide to change our privacy commitment for IMDiversity, Inc., we will post those changes here so 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 IMDiversity’s privacy commitment, please feel free to e-mail us at support@imdiversity.com or call 1-504-523-0154 and speak to one of our customer service representatives. Thank you for using IMDiversity Web sites.  We'll keep working hard to so that we can continue to merit your loyalty.