Privacy

Privacy Policy

This "Privacy Policy" is part of the Terms of Use http://www.ThePlatinumCircle.com/termsofuse for ThePlatinumCircle.com and its associated websites (collectively, the "Website"). This Privacy Policy is designed to assist You in understanding how We will use the information You provide when You use the Website, as well as how We will use other information that We collect based on that use. By using the Website, You consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Privacy Policy.

"Personal Information" means information that would allow a third party to learn your identity or contact You, including, for example, Your full name, address, telephone number, or email address.

Please read this Privacy Policy to learn more about the ways in which We collect, use and protect Your Personal Information. If We make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, We will notify You in accordance with the process described in the Terms of Use.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We do not sell or rent Your Personal Information to third parties for the purposes of marketing the products or services provided by those third parties to You. We use other third parties to provide Web analytics on our site. When You sign up for ThePlatinumCircle.com, We will share aggregate click data as necessary for the third party to provide that service. Although We may disclose aggregated information about the use of our Website, that information does not contain Personal Information. We may share Personal Information with our contractors and service providers solely for the purpose of maintaining, enhancing, or adding to the functionality of the Website. In the case of criminal investigations, including but not limited to fraud or alleged illegal activity, We may share Your Personal Information with law enforcement, government, and/or credit card issuing banks.

As ThePlatinumCircle.com continues to develop its business, ThePlatinumCircle.com might sell or buy lines of business or assets. If all or substantially all of ThePlatinumCircle.com's business (or a line of business) or assets (or the assets of a line of ThePlatinumCircle.com's business) are acquired by a third party, Personal Information of ThePlatinumCircle.com users will generally be one of the transferred business assets. We reserve the right to include Your collected Personal Information and other information We collect as described herein as an asset in any such transfer to a third party.

Information We Collect and How We Use That Information

Our basic registration forms require users to provide contact information, including but not limited to, a first and last name, a home or other physical address and an email address or other contact information, whether at work or at home and income information. We use this information to contact You about the services on our site in which You have expressed interest. Should You choose to purchase services, Your credit card information will be stored. We use your credit card information for billing purposes only. If We have trouble processing Your order, We will use Your contact information to contact You. Sensitive information such as Your income level and credit card information will be kept completely private.

Should You post a resume, the amount of information You choose to keep confidential is entirely up to Your discretion. You may enter as much or as little information as You choose. All information posted will only be visible to recruiters and companies seeking employees. All recruiters are believed by ThePlatinumCircle.com to be legitimately seeking applicants for available positions.

In Your use of the Website, We also store such information as jobs You've applied to, jobs You've viewed, Your resume, and similar information. We track clickstream data to monitor utilization and ensure good customer experience. We also use Personal Information to provide You with targeted job information.

We may sometimes afford you the opportunity to provide descriptive, cultural, preferential and/or life style information about yourself, but it is solely up to you whether you furnish such information. If you do provide such information, you are thereby consenting to the use of that information in accordance with the policies and practices described in this Privacy Statement. For example, such information may be used for the purpose of determining your potential interest in receiving e-mail or other communications about particular products or services.

We may use your contact information in order to send you e-mail or other communications regarding updates at the Web Site, to contact you about your opinion of current products and services or potential new products and services that may be offered. We may also provide additional communications, promotions and information on ThePlatinumCircle.com opportunities and additional job postings which may be of interest to you. The nature and frequency of these messages will vary depending upon the information we have about you.

We have areas on the websites where you can submit feedback. Any feedback you submit in these areas becomes our property, and we can use such feedback (such as success stories) for marketing purposes or to contact you for further information.

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

If you have a confidential resume, but apply to a job posting on ThePlatinumCircle.com, the employer to whom you send your resume will be able to view your contact information.

We attempt to limit access to our searchable resume database (or copies thereof) only to paying employers, recruiters, hiring managers, and human resource professionals, as well as law enforcement and national security agencies, but cannot guarantee that other parties will not gain access to this database. We are not responsible for the use made of resumes by third parties who access such resumes while they are in our searchable database. You may remove your resume on Monster at anytime, but, employers, recruiters and others who have paid for access to the Monster resume database or to obtain a copy of that database as well as parties who have otherwise gained access 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 or profiles in these instances.

Newsletters

If You wish to subscribe to our email communications, We will use Your name and email address to send the newsletter to You. Out of respect for Your privacy, We provide You with a way to way to unsubscribe. Please see the "Choice/Opt-out" section.

Choice/Opt-out

When You register for our site, We use Your email address to send You internal communications from ThePlatinumCircle.com. If You've registered to receive email communications from us and later change Your mind, You may contact us to have Your name removed from our distribution lists. You may Opt-out of any of our communications by changing Your Account Settings. Please go to Account Settings and indicate from which distribution lists You would like to have Your name removed.

Internet Protocol Address

Like most websites, We collect Internet Protocol ("IP") address from all visitors to the Website. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to Your computer when You use the Internet. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Website, analyze trends, track users' movement, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the Website, and deliver customized, personalized content.

Invite-A-Friend

If You choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, We will ask You for Your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send Your friend an email inviting him or her to visit the site. ThePlatinumCircle.com stores this information for the sole purpose of sending emails, tracking the success of our referral program, and following up with additional information if the friend has opted-in.

Your friend may contact us at support@ThePlatinumCircle.com to request that We remove this information from our database.

Use of "Cookies"

Like most websites, We may use cookies to enhance Your experience on our Website. Cookies are pieces of information that some websites transfer to the computer that is browsing that website and are used for record-keeping purposes. Use of cookies makes web-surfing easier by performing certain functions such as saving Your passwords and Your personal preferences regarding Your use of the particular website. We do link the information We store in cookies to any Personal Information You enter into Your account settings on the Website. This link is only used internally for Website usage tracking and for re-marketing Theplatinumcircle' product and services to you.

As the use of cookies is considered industry standard, Your browser is probably set to accept cookies. However, if You would prefer not to receive cookies, You can alter the configuration of Your browser to refuse cookies. If You choose to have Your browser refuse cookies, our Website will not function properly. If Your Personal Information changes, or if You no longer desire our service, You may correct, update, or deactivate it by making the change on our member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at support@ThePlatinumCircle.com.

Our third party advertising partner(s) employs a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user's computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers' personally identifiable information. This information is used by Theplatinumcircle for internal use only and is not sold or rented to third parties for purposes of marketing the products or services provided by those third parties.

Children

The Websites are not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Security

ThePlatinumCircle.com has implemented and follows industry standard measures to protect against unauthorized access to and unlawful interception or processing of Personal Information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While We strive to protect Your Personal Information, We cannot ensure or warranty the security of any such Personal Information.

Other Web sites

Our Website contains links to other websites. Please note that when You click on one of these links, You are entering another website over which ThePlatinumCircle.com has no control and will bear no responsibility. Often these websites require You to enter Your Personal Information as You apply for a job directly with the hiring company. We encourage You to read the privacy statements on all such websites as their policies may differ from ours.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

TPC Online Pvt. Ltd. reserves the right to update, change or modify this policy at any time. The policy shall come to effect from the date of such update, change or modification.

If at any time, you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Statement or believe that we have not adhered to this Privacy Statement, please feel free to email us at support@ThePlatinumCircle.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly answer your question or resolve your problem. Legal Disclaimer We may disclose Your Personal Information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on ThePlatinumCircle.com.

As such, We cannot ensure that Your Personal Information will not be disclosed to third parties. For example, We may be legally obligated to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may circumvent our security measures to unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications.