Privacy Policy

At TugLink, we know that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By accessing the TugLink web site or using any of the services provided through the web site you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Your privacy is our top concern. We work hard to earn and keep your trust, so we adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy:

• We will never rent or sell your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes,

• We will never share your contact information with another user, without your consent. Your contact information will only be shared with another user if both of you have indicated that you would like to establish contact (a tuglink) with each other.

• Any sensitive information that you provide will be secured with all industry standard protocols and technology.

What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy covers TugLink’s treatment of personal information that TugLink gathers when you are on the TugLink web site and when you use TugLink services.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to content you post or otherwise make available to other users or the public via the web site. You acknowledge that your TugLink alias (screen name) and other personal profile information may be displayed to other users when you activate your account and post content.

This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that TugLink does not own or control, or to individuals that TugLink does not employ or manage.

Children are not eligible to use our service and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us or use the service.

Web Site Visitors

TugLink collects non-personally-identifying information including the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. TugLink's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how TugLink's visitors use its web site. From time to time, TugLink may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its web site.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

TugLink is an online peer-to-peer job search service which allows members help each other find employment through employee referrals. The personally identifiable information you choose to provide on this site is used to help you describe yourself to other users. Because TugLink is a community-oriented marketplace, it is important that job candidates and company insiders have sufficient information about each other in order to consider establishing a tuglink with each other. You are welcome to share as much information about yourself as you think is necessary and appropriate. Such sharing of information is entirely your choice, and you share this information at your own discretion.

We ask customers to register with a username (email address) and password on the TugLink web site. Those who engage in transactions with TugLink are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, TugLink collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the customer's interaction with TugLink. TugLink does not store or disclose personally-identifying and financial information.

In addition, we may combine non-personally-identifiable information with personally-identifiable information in a manner that enables us to attribute TugLink usage to an individual customer's computer or network. We do so, however, only for our own internal business purposes and will not share such combined data with third parties without your permission.

Aggregated Statistics

TugLink may collect statistics which may be comprised of aggregated personally-identifying information about the behavior of visitors to its web sites and customers of its services. We may segment our users by job function, industry, geographic location, company. TugLink may display this statistical information publicly or provide it to others. However, TugLink does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

TugLink discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on TugLink’s behalf or to provide services available at TugLink’s web site, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using TugLink’s web sites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. TugLink will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, TugLink discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, court order, or when TugLink believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of TugLink, third parties or the public at large.

Communications

If you are a registered member of a TugLink web site and have supplied your email address, TugLink may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with TugLink and our web site. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. TugLink takes measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a web site stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the web site each time the visitor returns. TugLink uses cookies to help TugLink identify and track visitors, their usage of TugLink web site, and their web site access preferences. TugLink visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using TugLink’s web sites, with the drawback that certain features of TugLink’s web sites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the TugLink web site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave TugLink. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the TugLink service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is never shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.

Privacy Policy Changes

TugLink may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in TugLink’s sole discretion. TugLink encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of our web site and services after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Contacting TugLink

You can contact us by e-mail at compliance@tuglink.com or by regular mail at the following address:

TugLink, Inc
PMB #6117

2711 Centerville Rd. Ste 120

Wilmington, DE 19808