FINS Privacy Policy
Effective as of
April 23th, 2009.
INTRODUCTION:
This Privacy Policy describes how
Dow Jones & Company, Inc. (“Dow Jones,” “us” or “we”) will collect and use your personally identifiable information (“PII”) (that is -- your full
name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, or credit card number)
as well as data that can, under certain circumstances, indirectly lead to PII
(“Related Data”) when you visit or register at FINS (www.fins.com)
and related services or sites that link to this Privacy Policy.
From
time to time
Dow Jones may
revise this Privacy Policy. If we
make revisions that change the way we collect or use your PII or Related Data,
those changes will be posted in this Privacy Policy and the effective date will
be noted at the beginning of the Policy.
Therefore, you should review it periodically so that you are up to date
on our most current policies and practices.
If we make material changes to our practices regarding use of your PII or
Related Data, your PII and Related Data will continue to be governed by the
Privacy Policy under which it was subject prior to those changes, unless
you have been provided notice of, and have not objected to, the changes.
INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT:
Generally. When you register with
our products or services, we collect PII and Related Information from you. We also may collect PII and Related
Information from you when you contact us about your registration or participate
in activities like: our resume database; job searches; forums; message boards;
chats; creating a profile; rating and commenting; or surveys, sweepstakes,
contests, or games. When you visit our
web sites, we automatically collect non PII such as IP
addresses and web site usage information from you.
We do not, however,
knowingly collect PII from children under the age of thirteen.
When you provide PII to us, we
will make sure you are informed about the types of uses we will make of the
information to the extent it is being used in a manner that differs from what is
allowed pursuant to this Privacy Policy.
Cookies.
Cookies are small bits of information that our web sites place on the
hard drive of your computer. We use
cookies to, among other things, facilitate our login processes; allow you to
personalize and store your settings; collect usage information; determine our
total audience size and traffic; and help us improve our sites by measuring
which areas are of greatest interest to users.
Third party advertisements
displayed on our sites may also contain cookies set by Internet advertising
companies or advertisers. We do not
control these cookies and visitors to our web sites should check the privacy
policy of the advertiser to see whether and how it uses cookies. (See the “
Notice” section below for more information
on third party advertisements).
You can set the browser on your computer to warn
you each time a cookie is being sent, block third party cookies or block all
cookies. However, by blocking all
cookies you may not have access to certain features on our web sites.
We also use web beacons
(invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or clear GIFs) on our sites in
order to recognize users and assess traffic patterns, and we include web beacons
and cookies in our e-mail messages, including newsletters, in order to count how
many e-mail messages have been opened.
When you view an ad
for our publications on other sites, our third-party advertising company may
place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. We and our advertising
company may also use web beacons (invisible images often referred to as pixel
tags or clear GIFs) to note which pages you visit after viewing our ads. The
information that is collected through the use of these images is not personally
identifiable and is used only to track response to our advertising efforts.
Third Party Ad Servers.
Some of the advertisements and other services that appear on our web
site(s) are delivered to you by Internet advertising companies. These companies utilize certain
technologies including cookies to deliver advertisements and marketing messages
and to collect anonymous information about your visit to our sites and other web sites. If you
would like more information about this practice or to opt out of having this
information used by companies that are part of the Network Advertising
Initiative to provide targeted ads, please visit
http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp
NOTICE:
Third Party Web Sites.
Our web sites link to web sites operated by other companies. Some of these third party sites may
be co-branded with a FINS, Wall Street Journal, or other
Dow Jones logo, even though they are not
operated or maintained by us. For
example, FINS offers Custom Credit Card Processing for Recruiters served through
an external website.
We’re not responsible for the
privacy practices of web sites operated by third parties that are linked to or
integrated with our sites or for the privacy practices of third party Internet
advertising companies. Once you’ve
left our site via such a link or by clicking on an advertisement, you should
check the applicable privacy policy of the third party or advertiser site to
determine how they will handle any PII they collect from you.
Our web sites may also be
linked to sites operated by companies affiliated with us (i.e., that are part of
the News America Group (“Affiliated Companies”)).
Although all Affiliated Companies adhere to the News America corporate
Privacy Principles, visitors to those
Affiliated Company sites should still refer to their separate privacy policies
and practices, which may differ in some respects from this Privacy Policy.
FINS Resume Database/Job
Alerts.
FINS offers you the opportunity to create an online profile and store it in our
database. When you create a profile on our system, you can choose one of the
following options:
·
You can designate your profile as “Private”
which means that your profile will not be shared with employers or recruiters
unless you apply directly for a job.
·
You can designate your profile as “Searchable”
which means you allow your profile, including your name and contact information,
to be searchable and viewable by employers or recruiters.
IF YOU ELECT TO MAKE YOUR
PROFILE SEARCHABLE, ALL INFORMATION (INCLUDING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE
INFORMATION) THAT YOU INCLUDE IN YOUR PROFILE MAY BE VIEWED BY RECRUITERS AND
EMPLOYERS. YOU SHOULD NOT ENTER ANY INFORMATION IN THE BODY OF YOUR PROFILE THAT
YOU WISH TO REMAIN CONFIDENTIAL.
We do not screen the
credentials of employers or recruiters before allowing them to conduct searches
in our database.
Dow Jones is not responsible for the
retention, use or privacy practices of that employer or recruiter after it has
received your information.
You may remove your resume from
our searchable database at any time. However, third parties who accessed the
database or obtained a copy of your resume 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 in these instances.
FINS offers you the opportunity
to sign up for job match alerts.
These matches are generated by comparing a user’s profile to our job database
using our matching software If you would like to review, change or delete your
resume or job match alert, you can do so by signing in
here and following directions to edit.
USE: HERE’S HOW WE USE PII
Generally. We may use information in the
following ways:
- For the purposes for which you specifically provided it including,
without limitation, to enable us to process and fulfill your registration or
other requests.
- To send you information about your relationship or transactions with
us.
- To notify you about our products, services, and
special offers.
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To otherwise contact you with information that we believe will
be of interest to you.
- To enhance or develop features, products and services.
- To provide advertisers and other third parties with aggregate
information about our web site user base and usage patterns.
- To allow us to personalize the content and advertising that you and
others see on our web sites.
- To
allow other select companies to send you promotional
materials about their products and services (that is, unless you’ve told us not
to do so (see Choice below)).
Information about your
activities on our sites and other non-personally identifiable information about
you may be used to limit the online ads you encounter to those we believe are
consistent with your interests.
We may combine the
information that we collect from you with information that you provide to us in
connection with your use of other
Dow Jones products, services
and web sites, or information we collect from third parties.
Sharing your Information
Except as set forth
herein, or if we inform you otherwise at the time of data collection, we will
not share your PII or Related Data outside of
Dow Jones.
Affiliates:
We may share your PII with companies that are affiliated with us, that
is, are part of the News America Group of companies.
Service Providers: We may use other companies to perform
services including, without limitation, facilitating some aspects of our web
sites, sending e-mail, fulfilling purchase requests, serving, customizing or
delivering marketing or ads, and auditing.
These other companies may be supplied with or have access to your PII and
Related Data solely for the purpose of providing these services to us or on our
behalf.
Special Circumstances:
There may be instances when we
may disclose PII or Related Data without providing you with a choice in order to
protect the legal rights of
Dow Jones, other companies within the News America Group or their employees,
agents and contractors; to protect the safety and security of visitors to our
web sites; to protect against fraud or for risk management purposes; or to
comply with the law or legal process.
In addition, if
Dow Jones sells all or part of its
business or makes a sale or transfer of assets or is otherwise involved in a
merger or business transfer, we may transfer your PII to a third party as part
of that transaction.
Third Party Promotional Offers:
We will not sell, rent, swap, or authorize any
third party to use your personally identifiable information for such party’s own
marketing purposes, unless you choose in advance to have your personally
identifiable information shared for this purpose.
Social Network and
Interactive Tools. Certain features on our web sites give you an
opportunity to interact with us and others.
These may include forums, message boards, chats, submitting a letter to
the editor, creating community profiles, and rating, tagging and commenting on
articles. When you use these
features you should be aware that any information you submit, including your
name, location and e-mail address, may be publicly available to others. We are not responsible for any
information you choose to submit through these interactive features.
When an individual
chooses to post information that will be publicly disclosed, he or she is
responsible for ensuring that such information conforms to all local data
protection laws. We are not
responsible under any data protection laws for user posted information.
Non PII.
Anonymous click stream, number of page
views calculated by pixel tags, and aggregated demographic information may also
be shared with our advertisers and business partners.
CHOICE: WE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH CHOICES
ABOUT THE USE OF YOUR PII
To opt out of
receiving marketing communications from FINS, if you are registered member,
visit
My Alerts & Settings.
Others may notify us by contacting
Customer Service at
support@fins.com or
by calling us at 800-FINS-450.
ACCESS: HOW TO ACCESS, CORRECT
OR UPDATE YOUR PII
You may review and
update the personally identifiable information that you have provided to us by
contacting Customer Service at
support@fins.com. Most registered members of FINS can
also update their information online by signing on to their accounts and
visiting
My Account.
SECURITY: WE PROTECT THE SECURITY OF PII
We use commercially reasonable
administrative, technical, personnel and physical measures to safeguard PII and
Related Data in our possession against loss, theft and unauthorized use,
disclosure or modification.
DATA RETENTION
We retain your information for
as long as necessary to permit us to use it for the purposes that we have
communicated to you and comply with applicable law or regulations.
TRANSFER TO
US OR OTHER COUNTRIES
Your information
may be stored and processed in the
United States or any other country
where
Dow Jones has facilities, and by registering with and/or using our
publications, you consent to the transfer of information outside of your
country.
YOUR
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California Law permits our customers who are
California residents to request
certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third
parties for their own direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please
write to us at:
Dow Jones & Company
Attn: DM Disclosure Manager
200 Burnett Road
Chicopee, MA 01020,
and include your name and the address to which you would like us to respond.
REMEDIES AND COMPLIANCE: HOW TO
CONTACT US ABOUT PRIVACY CONCERNS
If you have any
questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy, you may contact us at
support@fins.com.
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