TIMEDRIGHT PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is TimedRight Inc.’s (“TimedRight”, “we”, “our” or “us”) top concern. Please read this privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) carefully.
We will always work to earn and keep your trust, so we adhere to the principles of Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”) regarding the protection of your personal information. This policy has been authored in alignment with the principles of PIPEDA.
Notice of 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. TimedRight may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy regularly for updates or changes. If you continue to use the TimedRight services (the “Services”) available at timedright.com (the “Website”) after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on our site, you hereby provide your consent to the changed practices.
Please read this Privacy Policy to learn more about what personally identifiable information of yours is collected by TimedRight, and how this information is used and who it may be shared with.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms and conditions of the TimedRight Terms of Use and the TimedRight Membership Agreement.
If users have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact TimedRight by email at privacy@timedright.com.
The TimedRight Privacy Policy has been developed to comply with the principals of PIPEDA, and set out rules governing the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by TimedRight.
- Accountability
Organizations are accountable for the personal information they collect, use, retain and disclose in the course of their commercial activities.
- Identifying Purposes
Organizations are to explain the purposes for which the information is being used at the time of collection and can only be used for those purposes.
- Consent
Organizations must obtain an Individual’s express or implied consent when they collect, use, or disclose the individual’s personal information.
- Limiting Collection
The collection of personal information must be limited to only the amount and type that is reasonably necessary for the identified purposes.
- Limiting Use
Disclosure and Retention: personal information must be used for only the identified purposes, and must not be disclosed to third parties unless the Individual consents to the alternative use or disclosure.
- Accuracy
Organizations are required to keep personal information in accurate and up-to-date active files.
- Safeguards
Organizations are to use physical, organizational, and technological safeguards to protect personal information from unauthorized access or disclosure.
- Openness
Organizations must inform their clients and train their employees about their privacy policies and procedures.
- Individual Access
An individual has a right to access personal information held by an organization and to challenge its accuracy if need be.
- Provide Recourse
Organizations are to inform clients and employees of how to bring a request for access, or complaint, to the Chief Privacy Officer, and respond promptly to a request or complaint by the individual.
OUR INFORMATION COLLECTION, USE, RETENTION AND DISCLOSURE PRACTICES
Information Collected
TimedRight may collect Personal Information (as defined below) and non-personal information about our Website users and our Members.
“Personal Information” means personally identifiable information, and can include as your name, address, age, employment history, and email address when you choose to provide it to us when registering with the Website or subscribing to receive news or other information from TimedRight.
Non-Personal Information includes business contact information such as the name, title, business address, email address or telephone number of a business or professional person or an employee of an organization is considered non-personal information. Non-personal information is anonymous information such as your internet protocol (“IP”) address, the domain you may have used to access the Website, the type and version of browser or operating system you may be using, and the Website you may have arrived from or the website you visit next. Our web servers may automatically collect non-personal information provided through your browser or stored on a cookie or through a web beacon when you choose to the Website. Additional information about the practices of collecting non-personal information using cookies or web beacons is detailed below.
TimedRight may collect information per the following:
Registration
In order to become a Member to access the TimedRight Services, you must register to create an account with us. When registering for an account, you will be required to provide us with certain contact information, such as your name and email. You will also be required to choose a password, which we recommend that you keep private and safe so that no one else may access your TimedRight account.
Profile Information
Once registered as a member, you may provide additional information about yourself for inclusion in your user “Profile” component of the Website, including, but not limited to, your present occupation, work organization, work location, phone numbers, professional experiences, professional affiliations, interests, and networking objectives. Providing additional information within your Profile beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional, but enables you to better connect with other users and to better use the Services to communicate, share information, and interact with your contacts.
A small portion of your TimedRight Profile, including your “name” and “workplace”, but not your “email address”, is searchable by other members within the open services of timedright.com. This portion of your profile that is visible by Non-Contacts is not published to the public Internet.
Information about your Contacts
In order to invite others to connect with you directly via the Services, you may search within the Services to locate other members that you may know . If they are found in the Service as an existing member, you can request that they connect with you. If they are not found in the Services, you will need to enter their names and email addresses with the “Invite New Member” capability in order to connect them. This information will be used by TimedRight to send your invitation, including a message that you may edit. The names and email addresses of people that you invite will be used only to send your invitation and reminders.
Information that you enter or upload about your contacts will be covered by the same terms of this privacy policy.
Information Sharing
Sharing Information with Third Parties
TimedRight takes the privacy of our users very seriously. We will never sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to any third parties for marketing purposes.
We will only share your personally identifiable with third parties to carry out your instructions and to provide specific services. For instance, we use a credit card processing company to bill users for subscription fees. These third parties do not retain, share, or store any personally identifiable information except to provide these services and are bound by strict confidentiality agreements which limit their use of such information. Furthermore, we will only disclose your Personal Information to third parties:
- · who work on our behalf as our agents, suppliers or service providers solely to enable us to provide you with requested services or fulfill authorized transactions. These third parties act under strict contractual controls, requiring them to maintain the confidentiality of all such Personal Information and to use the information solely to provide TimedRight services; and
- · as required by law, including by order of any court, institution or body with jurisdiction or authority to compel the production of information.
TimedRight may offer a “public profile” feature that allows users to publish a portion of your TimedRight profile, including your “name” and “workplace”, but not your “email address”, to the public Internet. Users will be able to opt-out of this feature, however TimedRight does not warrant how third-party search engines will update their cache.
We may provide aggregated data about the usage of our services to third-parties for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate. We may segment our users by role (i.e. product managers, vice presidents), industry, geographic location, company, etc.
Partnering with Other Organizations to Offer Combined Services
TimedRight partners with other online services to give you the combined results of both services. Whenever we offer such combined services it will be your choice to make use of the combined services or not. In these cases, your personally identifiable information will only be passed from TimedRight to the partner if you choose to use the combined service.
Legal Disclaimer
It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on our company or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
Links to Other Websites
The Website may contain links to other websites and services. We endeavor to link only to sites and services that share our privacy standards. However, we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites or companies.
Cookies & Log Files
Like most web sites, TimedRight uses cookies and web log files to monitor site usage and measure user traffic on the Website. We use this formation to maintain and improve Website performance. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer which allows TimedRight to recognize you as a user when you return to the Website using the same computer and web browser. If you prefer, you can reset your browser either to notify you when you have received a cookie, or to refuse to accept cookies. If your browser settings do not allow cookies, some elements of our website will not function correctly. Like the information you enter at registration or in your Profile, cookie and log file data is used to customize your experience on the web site. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies.
A cookie is a small data file containing a unique identification number that is transferred through your browser from a web site to your computer. The cookie identifies your browser and will not let a website know any personal information about you, such as your name and address. Since cookies are only data files, they cannot run on your computer, search your computer for other information or transmit any information to anyone.
One type of cookie, known as a “persistent” cookie, is set once you’ve logged in to your TimedRight account. The next time you visit the Website, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing user so you may not need to log in before using the Services. In order to access or change any of your private information, however, you must log in securely again with your password even if your computer contains your persistent cookie. Additionally, if you log out of the Website you will need to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log in to your account. Another type of cookie, called a “session” cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to the Website. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser.
Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the Website we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going to when you leave the Website. 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 Services. 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.
Web Beacons
We may allow companies that are “ad networks” to serve advertisements, to users of the Website and the Services. Ad networks may include third party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors and research firms. TimedRight may “target” some ads to users that fit a certain general profile – for example, “Managers in Texas.” TimedRight does NOT use personally identifiable information to target ads.
To deliver these ads properly, TimedRight may include a file, called a web beacon, within pages served by TimedRight so the companies serving advertisements may provide anonymized, aggregated auditing, research and reporting for advertisers as well as to target ads to you.
Because your web browser must request these advertisements and web beacons from the ad network’s servers, these companies can view, edit or set their own cookies, just as if you had requested a web page from their site.
These general targets may also be used by ad networks to display targeted ads on other websites as a substitute for random, irrelevant ads. You will never see additional ads as a result of being a TimedRight user of the Website and the Services and TimedRight never provides personally identifiable information to any advertiser nor any third party.
Children (persons under the age of 18)
We ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us or use the service.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is very important to us. TimedRight and its third party agents take technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security steps to protect Personal Information that you provide to us.
We require that all employees sign acknowledgement of our TimedRight Member Personal Information Policy, which describes how we control the TimedRight membership data, and that they read this Privacy Policy.
If you provide credit card information to us for any service, we work to help protect the security of your credit card information during transmission by using industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology.
Information Use
TimedRight is an online service dedicated to helping all types of professionals more effectively connect with one another. The Personally Information that you choose to provide in connection with the Services is used to help you describe yourself to other users. Other information, that does not personally identify you as an individual, is collected by TimedRight from the site (such as, by way of example, patterns of utilization) and is exclusively owned by TimedRight. This information can be utilized by TimedRight in such manner as TimedRight, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.
TimedRight communications:
TimedRight will communicate with you through email and notices posted on the Website. These may include a series of welcome emails which help inform new users about various features of the service. Please be aware that you will always receive certain emails from TimedRight related to the proper functioning of your account, such as email notices informing you of new information within group forums you are following, when another user invites you to connect, when you are invited to participate in a goup or event, and when another user in your network sends you an opportunity. While you are a member of the timedright.com, TimedRight may send you promotional information unless you have opted out of receiving such information. If you wish to opt-out of receiving promotional emails, please send a request to customer_service@timedright.com.
Communications Using the Services
Some emails you initiate through the Services (whether to TimedRight or to other members) may list your email address and name in the header of the message. Emails you initiate may also provide aggregate information about your network (for instance how many people are in your network), but will never list the people to whom you are directly connected. Other communications that you initiate through the Website, such as a request for contact, will list your name as the initiator but will not include your personal contact information. You have control of who can see your information, and contact information will only be shared with another member if both of you have indicated that you would like to establish that level of “Trusted Relationship” with the member.
Customized content
Information you provide at registration or in your Profile section is also used to customize your experience on the web site. For example, when you login to your account we may display the screen names of new users who have recently joined your network.
Accessing and Changing Your Account Information
You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired changes to the information, or to the settings for your TimedRight account, at any time by logging in to your account on the Website and editing the information on your Profile page. You can also close your account by sending a TimedRight conversation message to Member Services or by sending an email to customer_service@timedright.com and requesting that we close your account. If your TimedRight account is closed, we will remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our publicly viewable data. We may retain certain data contributed by you as necessary to enable us to restore your account in future, and 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 this Privacy Policy that you have previously agree to. To request that we close your account and remove your information from the TimedRight service, please send your request to customer_service@timedright.com. Please send your request using the email account that you registered with TimedRight under your name. You will receive a response to requests to close your account within three business days of our receiving it.
Questions or Comments
If you have questions or comments about this privacy policy, please email us at privacy@timedright.com or contact us at:
TimedRight Inc.
Attn: Privacy Policy Issues
545 King St. West
Toronto, ON, M5V 1M1