BlitzTime Privacy Policy
Last Updated on December 6, 2007
BlitzTime cares deeply about online privacy. If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at privacy@blitztime.com.
By using or accessing BlitzTime, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Privacy Principles:
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 reserve the right to rent or sell information about your use of our service and site in the aggregate. For instance, if you live in Utah and you applied for five(5) interviews using BlitzTime you may be part of the statistic that states “6% of people applying for interviews while in Utah used BlitzTime to find a job 5 or more times.”
- We will not share your contact information with another user without your consent. “Consent” is defined as accepting to participate in a blitz with any entity, be it company, group, community or individual person.
- Any sensitive information that you provide will be secured with industry standard protocols and technology.
- Your conversations with other entities will be recorded. Such recordings shall be the property of Blitz Innovations, Inc. Recordings of conversations may be given, in whole or in part, to the participants of the conversation. We will never release any recorded conversations to any party other than the participants of the conversation, except where compelled by law, injunction or court order.
BlitzTime is service which is based on profiles and conversations. BlitzTime can not control and shall not be held liable for any information which you disclose to another entity while having a conversation as part of your participation in a blitz. Such information may include documents, links or any other personal information outside of your public profile.
Notice of all changes that materially affect ways in which your personally identifiable data may be used or shared will be posted in updates to our Privacy Policy. If you continue to use the BlitzTime service after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on our site, you hereby provide your consent to the changed practices.
When you visit and use BlitzTime you provide us with four types of information: Personal information, Site use information, Conversation recordings and referral requests.
Personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us:
BlitzTime collects user submitted information such as name and email address to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the BlitzTime service. BlitzTime also collects other profile data including but not limited to: past and current employment history, educational background, skills and personal interests.
We may share profile information entered into BlitzTime, including our employment sites, social networking sites, business networking sites, educational services sites, and any other web sites (collectively “BlitzTime”) which may be established by Blitz Innovations, Inc. at any time in the future.
You post User Content (as defined in the BlitzTime Terms of Use) on the Site at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your documents and links. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the BlitzTime site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.
Site use information collected by us as you interact with our web site:
When you enter BlitzTime, we collect certain information about your browser and computing environment. This information can include, without limitation, your IP address, browser type, domain names browsed to, access times and referring web site addresses. This information is gathered for all BlitzTime visitors, and is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the BlitzTime 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.
In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to BlitzTime.
Conversations recorded as part of the functioning of a blitz:
When you participate in a blitz, you and another entity enter into a conversation with each other. These conversations may be recorded, if the moderator of the blitz establishes that recording is turned “On”. Such recordings shall be the property of Blitz Innovations, Inc.
Recordings may be reviewed by staff of Blitz Innovations, Inc. as part of the company’s ongoing quality control effort.
Blitz Innovations, Inc. also reserves the right to review recordings of conversations to review for inappropriate content including abusive, defaming or harmful speech. Should Blitz Innovations, Inc. determine that you have engaged in harmful speech the company, at its sole discretion, may ban you from using the BlitzTime service in the future.
Recordings of conversations may be given, in whole or in part, to the participants of the conversation.
We will never release any recorded conversations to any party other than the participants of the conversation, except where compelled by law, injunction or court order. You or the other participant(s) in the conversation may distribute the recorded conversation to any party you wish. We may facilitate the distribution of this material through BlitzTime, but we will never initiate the distribution of this material on our own.
Referrals which encourage others to better use the BlitzTime service:
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a colleague about the BlitzTime service or refer an interview posting to a friend, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit BlitzTime, or view the Blitz posting. We will store this information to allow you to obtain credit for the referral, and to track the success of our referral program. However, after the one-time email we will not send any other follow up emails based on your referral. Your friend may contact us at privacy@blitztime.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
Links to and privacy of other sites:
Certain BlitzTime profiles or postings may contain links to other web sites over which we have no control. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other web sites to which you choose to link from our site. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other web sites so you can understand how they collect, use and share your information.
Use of Private Information in the display of ads:
We may allow other companies, called ad networks, to serve advertisements to BlitzTime users in our BlitzTime sessions. Ad networks include third party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors and research firms. BlitzTime may “target” some ads to you based on the conversation into which you are entering: For example, if you are entering a blitz where the conversation is about astronomy then ads pertaining to astronomy products may be displayed on your browser or in your “break” time during your participation in the blitz. BlitzTime does NOT use personally identifiable information stored within your profile to target ads.
This privacy policy covers the use of cookies and tags by BlitzTime and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.
Use of private information by BlitzTime agents:
In the course of everyday business we may require independent, third party agents to work for us on our behalf. We disclose information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions such as hosting our web servers, analyzing aggregate data collected by the BlitzTime service, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. These companies and individuals will have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions on our behalf as our agent, but they may not share that information with any other third party. These third parties do not retain, share, or store any personally identifiable information except to provide services as our agent and are bound by strict confidentiality agreements which limit their use of such information.
Disclosure of private information to acquiring entities:
Should we be acquired, in whole or in substantial part, we will disclose and transfer all information (including your private information) to the entity which acquires us. This will happen whether the acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation or purchase of all or a substantial portion of our assets.
In addition, in the event we become the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, we or our trustee in bankruptcy may sell, license or otherwise dispose of such information in a transaction approved by the bankruptcy court. You will be notified of sale of all or a substantial portion of our business to a third party via email or through a prominent notice posted on our site.
Should we be acquired or become a subject of a bankruptcy proceeding, you will be presented with the option of removing your information from our databases prior to the transfer occurring.
Use of private information in feedback and partnership programs:
At times we may use your contact information in order to send you e-mail or other communications regarding updates at BlitzTime, to contact you about your opinion of current products and services or potential new products and services that may be offered.
BlitzTime partners with other online and offline services to give you better opportunities to improve yourself or your business. For instance, we may partner with one or more job coaches or career counselors who may be able to help you better find a good job.
Whenever we provide you with an offer to use our partners’ services, it will be your choice to make use of the services or not. You will be given the opportunity to follow a link to the partner’s web site, where you may choose on your own to contract with that partner to obtain its services. We will not send your private information (such as recorded conversations) to the partner until and unless you make a specific request to release private information to the partner.
The nature and frequency of these partner and feedback messages will vary depending upon the information we have about you. You may opt out of our partner and feedback messages at any time from within your Profile.
Accessing and changing your account information:
You can review your profile and make any desired changes to it, or to the settings for your BlitzTime account, at any time. You will do this by logging in to your account on the BlitzTime website and editing the information on your profile page.
You can also close your account through the BlitzTime website. If you close your BlitzTime account, we mark all of your data as “Private” in our database. Entities who to whom you have sent an application or with whom you have participated in a blitz will be able to view the information which you provided to them as part of your application or participation in a blitz. However, they will not be able to review your profile, as it has been marked as “Private”. By closing your account, you also will remove your name from any and all email messages which we will periodically send to our user base to notify them of upgrades and new features.
We may retain certain data contributed by you if it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. All retained data will continue to be subject to the terms of the BlitzTime Privacy Policy that you have previously agreed to.
Should you determine that closing your account is not enough to protect your privacy, you may request that we purge our systems of all record of your use of the BlitzTime service. To request that we completely eliminate your presence from BlitzTime, please send your request to customer_service@blitztime.com. Please send your request using an email account that you have registered with BlitzTime under your name. You will receive a response to requests sent to customer_service@blitztime.com within three business days of our receiving it.
Security on BlitzTime
BlitzTime takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your profile, account information and recordings of communications with other entities are located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). (To learn more about SSL, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer).
Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services. Rather, you should always disclose personal or sensitive information to us through our web site or over the telephone. If you have any questions about the security of BlitzTime, please contact us at privacy@blitztime.com.
Privacy, Terms of Use: Notices and Revisions
Your use of BlitzTime, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law.
We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time.
Changes and clarifications of this Policy will take effect immediately. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy's new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
Use of service by children:
BlitzTime is not intended for use by children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register.
In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under the age of 13, please contact us at privacy@blitztime.com.
In certain discrete cases, BlitzTime may be used by children between the ages of 13 to 18. Specifically, certain BlitzTime products which are used by the college and university marketplace may be specifically set up to be used by minors who are typically 16 or 17 years of age.
We recommend that minors between the ages of 13 and 18 ask their parents for permission before participating in any BlitzTime sessions or sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.
Contacting BlitzTime
BlitzTime is a service provided by Blitz Innovations, Inc., a Delaware company with its principal place of business at 969 Main St, Suite 208, Walpole, MA 02081. If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this web site, please contact us the above address or via email at privacy@blitztime.com.