Leapways.com - Privacy Statement Overview Leapways.com is a website solely owned by leapConepts LLC. The public website “leapways.com” (referred to herein as "The Site", "leapways.com", "leapways") is committed to respecting the privacy of our users. We strive to provide a safe, secure user experience. This Privacy Statement sets forth the online data collection and usage policies and practices that apply to the website leapways.com, owned by leapConcepts LLC and does not apply to information we collect in any other fashion. Your data will be stored and processed in whole or in part in the United States. The information we gather on the leapways.com site may be used for other services provided by LeapConcepts LLC affiliated companies on a worldwide basis in order to deliver the products and services we offer to employers such as job offering, searches for job seekers or in order to undertake analysis of our database such as aggregate profiling of our registered users. "Affiliated companies" means entities that control, are controlled by or are under common control with leapConcepts LLC. The Site contains 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 Sites. 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. Collection and Use of Information by leapways.com In some areas of leapways.com, we request or may request that you provide personal information, including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number credit card number, social security number, contact information, billing information and any other information from which your identity is discernible. In other areas, we collect or may collect demographic information that is not unique to you such as your ZIP code, age, preferences, gender, interests and favorites. Sometimes we collect or may collect a combination of the two types of information. Examples of areas on leapways.com where we collect personal or combined personal and demographic data are pages where you can open a leapways.com account, create a profile or account, sign up to use a service, post a resume or profile, enter a contest or purchase a product. We also gather or may gather certain information about your use of leapways.com, such as what areas you visit and what services you access. Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that is or may be collected by us. This information can include without limitation your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses, but is not linked to your personal information. We may sometimes afford you the opportunity to provide descriptive, cultural, behavioral, 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. If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about the leapways.com or refer a job 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 the leapways.com or view the job posting. We do not store this information. Our Use of Your Information We use the information we gather on leapways.com, whether personal, demographic, collective or technical, for the purpose of operating and improving the leapways.com site, fostering a positive user experience, and delivering the products and services that we offer. Also, as a sole owner of leapways.com, leapConcepts LLC will have the authority to use your resume for jobs offered by leapConcepts as an employment service provider. If you have provided consent for us to do so, we may also use the information we gather to inform you of other products or services available from us or our affiliated companies. We may use your contact information in order to send you e-mail or other communications regarding updates at leapways.com, 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 new 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. In addition, you may receive free informational newsletters from us relating to topics that may be of special interest to you, such as career management advice. We have areas on the leapways.com 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. Choices Regarding the Disclosure of Personal Information to Others We do not disclose your personal information to third parties, or your combined personal and demographic information or information about your use of leaqpways.com (such as the areas you visit or the services you access), except as set forth below. 1. We disclose information to third parties if you consent to such disclosure. For example, if you indicate that you would like to receive information about the opportunities, products or services of third parties at the time you register for a leapways.com account, we supply your contact information to third parties such as employers, recruiters, data aggregators, marketers or others for the purpose of sending you e-mail or otherwise communicating with you. We use data we have about you (such as the interests and preferences you have expressed) to determine whether you might be interested in the opportunities, products or services of a particular third-party. 2. We disclose information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include hosting our Web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, 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, but they may not share that information with any other third party. 3. We disclose information if legally required to do so, if requested to do so by a governmental entity or if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (b) protect our rights or property or our affiliated companies; (c) prevent a crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users or the public. 4. We disclose and transfer information to a third party who acquires all or a substantial portion of our business, whether such 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 leapways.com. If you have a leapways.com profile, other users or members of leapways.com may access your profile, however, they will not have access to your contact information and your contact information is not displayed in any leapways.com profile. Other Uses of Information We also share aggregated anonymous information about visitors to leapways.com with its clients, partners and other third parties so that they can understand the kinds of visitors to leapways.com and how those visitors use leapways.com site. We may also aggregate on an anonymous basis data regarding job qualifications, schooling, age, experience level or other information relevant to the job search or competition among Seekers for any such job. Such data may be made available to employers or fellow job seekers. We supply technology, hosting and related services to other leading companies to power recruitment areas on their Web sites (sometimes referred to as "Hosted Career Sites"). Personal and/or demographic information supplied by you in Hosted Career Sites becomes part of the leapways.com database, but it is not accessible by anyone other than you, LeapConcepts and the company concerned without your consent. If you apply for a position on leapways.com, you may be asked to provide information on your gender, race or other protected status where permitted by applicable law. Some employers are required by law to gather this information from job applicants for reporting and record-keeping requirements. You should understand that if provided, this information will be used by employers only in accordance with applicable law and will not be used in making any negative employment decisions. All information provided will be kept separate from your expression of interest in any job opportunity. Providing this information is strictly voluntary and you will not be subject to any adverse action or treatment if you choose not to provide this information. Personal Information on Resumes and Profiles Since leapways.com is a career site, we give you two options regarding the accessibility of your resume: 1. You can store your resume in our database, but not allow it to be searchable by potential employers. Not allowing your resume to be searchable means that you can use it to apply for a job online, but employers and recruiters will not have access to search it through our resume database product. 2. If you allow your resume to be searchable without making it confidential and hiding your contact information, then all parties with access to our searchable resume database (or copies thereof) will have access to your resume. In addition, portions of your searchable resume (but not your contact information) may be made public in your leapways.com profile. We attempt to limit access to our searchable resume database (or copies thereof) to paid and non paid employers, recruiters, hiring managers, headhunters, 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. However, the portions of your searchable resume (not your contact information) that are automatically made public in your leapways.com profile are accessible to anyone who uses the leapways.com service. You may remove your resume on leapways.com or delete your profile on leapways.com at anytime, but, employers, recruiters and others who have paid for access to the leapways.com resume database or to obtain a copy of that database or have paid for access to the leapways.com services, as well as parties who have otherwise gained access may have retained a copy of your resume or leapways.com profile in their own files or databases. We are not responsible for the retention, use or privacy of resumes or profiles in these instances. Posting to Public Areas of leapways.com Please remember that if you post any of your personal information in public areas of leapways.com, such as in online forums or chat rooms, or in the leapways.com searchable resume database, such information may be collected and used by others over whom we have no control. We are not responsible for the use made by third parties of information you post or otherwise make available in public areas of lepaways.com. Access to and Modification of Your Information You may review, correct, update or change your leapways.com account information at any time. From your Leapways.com account you may also opt out of receiving newsletters and certain other information from leapways.com. To change your Leapways.com account information, simply log into your Leapways.com account, go to your Account Profile, review your account information and, if you wish, edit it with the options provided. To change your Leapways.com profile, simply log into your account, click edit your Profile or choose a link. To change your Leapways.com billing account information, simply log into your Leapways.com account and choose a link under Manage Your Account. We retain indefinitely all the information we gather about you in an effort to make your repeat use of Leapways.com more efficient, practical, and relevant. Of course, you can delete your resume from leapways's online database, close your Leapways.com account at any time delete your Leapways.com profile and close your Leapways.com account, in which event we will remove all our copies of your resume from leapways.com, your Leapways.com account information and remove your Leapways.com profile and Leapways.com account information, except for an archival copy which is not accessible on the Internet. Security of the Personal Information We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. When you place an order online at Leapways.com, your credit card information is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") protocol. SSL makes it difficult for your credit card information to be intercepted or stolen while being transmitted. We use a service company to process its credit card transactions. Children The leapways.com site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Changes to Privacy Statement If we decide to materially change our Privacy Statement for leapways.com, we will post those changes through a prominent notice on the web site so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it. 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 info@leapways.com. We will make reasonable efforts to promptly to your mail to answer your question or resolve your problem. Contact Information Leapways.com is the name of the website under which LeapConcepts LLC., a New Jersey based Limited Liability Company with its principal place of business at 25 Rock Run Rd, East Windsor, NJ 08520, and certain of its affiliated companies worldwide, do business. LeapConcepts LLC is the legal entity which determines the purposes and means of processing the information gathered at the leapways.com. Thank you for using Leapways.com. Update effective November 1, 2007.