Privacy Policy

Effective Date: March 1, 2022

This Policy applies when you use our services on Pod.io or Atlasjobs.com other Pod Network sites, apps, communications and services (“Services”), including off-site services, such as our ad services and the “apply” or “share” plugins. California residents should refer to our California Privacy Disclosure for additional policies.

This Privacy Policy applies whether you are a visitor to our site or a member of our services. Our users have options about the data we collect, use and share as described in our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Settings, and in our Help Center.

As a visitor to our site or a member of our Services, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy and other documents referenced in this Privacy Policy, as well as updates. We reserve the right to modify this Policy, and if we make material changes to them, we will provide notice through our Services or by other means to you give you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. If you object to any changes, you may close your account with us. You agree and acknowledge that your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy means that the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to the updated Privacy Policy, as of its effective date.

SECTION 1.
DATA WE COLLECT

  1. We Collect Data that you Provide to Us.

    1. Registration.You provide data to us when you create an account. To create an account you need to provide data including your name, email address and/or mobile number, and a password. If you register for a paid Service, you will need to provide payment (e.g., credit card) and billing information.

    2. Profile.You create a profile with us. You have options about the information on your profile, such as your education, work experience, skills, photo, city or location and other information. You are not required to provide additional information on your profile. However, profile information helps you to get more from our Services, including helping recruiters and business opportunities find you. It is your choice whether to include sensitive information about yourself on your profile and to make that sensitive information public. Please do not post or add personal data to your profile that you would not want to be publicly available.

    3. Posting and Uploading.We collect personal data from you when you provide, post or upload it to our Services, such as when you fill out a form, (e.g., with demographic data or salary), respond to a survey, or submit a resume or fill out a job application on our Services. If you opt to import your address book, we receive your contacts (including contact information your service provider or app automatically added to your address book when you communicated with addresses or numbers not already in your list). If you sync your contacts or calendars with our Services, we will collect your address book and calendar meeting information to keep growing your network by suggesting connections for you and others, and by providing information about events, e.g. times, places, attendees and contacts. You don’t have to post or upload personal data; though if you don’t, it may limit your ability to grow and engage with your network over our Services.

  2. We Collect Data from Others.

    1. Content and News.You and others may post content that includes information about you (as part of articles, posts, comments, videos) on our Services. We also may collect public information about you, such as professional-related news and accomplishments, and make it available as part of our Services, including, as permitted by your settings, in notifications to others.

    2. Contact and Calendar Information.We receive personal data (including contact information) about you when others import or sync their contacts or calendar with our Services, associate their contacts with Member profiles, scan and upload business cards, or send messages using our Services (including invites or connection requests). If you or others opt-in to sync email accounts with our Services, we will also collect “email header” information that we can associate with Member profiles.

    3. Partners.We receive personal data (e.g., your job title and work email address) about you when you use the services of our customers and partners, such as employers or prospective employers and applicant tracking systems providing us job application data.

    4. Related Companies and Other Services.We receive data about you when you use some of the other services provided by us or our affiliates for improved activities on our Services.

  3. Service Use.We log usage data when you visit or otherwise use our Services, including our sites, app and platform technology, such as when you view or click on content or ads (on or off our sites and apps), perform a search, install or update one of our mobile apps, share articles or apply for jobs. We use log-ins, cookies, device information and internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to identify you and log your use.

  4. Cookies and Similar Technology.As further described in our Cookie Policy, we use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., pixels and ad tags) to collect data (e.g., device IDs) to recognize you and your device on, off and across different services and devices where you have engaged with our Services. We also allow some others to use cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. You can opt out from our use of data from cookies and similar technologies that track your behavior on the sites of others for ad targeting and other ad-related purposes. Visitors may set controls in Settings.

  5. Your Device and Location.When you visit or leave our Services (including some plugins and our cookies or similar technology on the sites of others), we receive the URL of both the site you came from and the one you go to and the time of your visit. We also get information about your network and device such as IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser and add-ons, device identifier and features, cookie IDs and/or ISP, or your mobile carrier. If you use our Services from a mobile device, that device will send us data about your location based on your phone settings. We will ask you to opt-in before we use GPS or other tools to identify your precise location.

  6. Messages.We collect information about you when you send, receive, or engage with messages in connection with our Services. For example, if you get a connection request, we track whether you have acted on it and will send you reminders. We also use automatic scanning technology on messages to support and protect our site. For example, we may use this technology to suggest possible responses to messages and to manage or block content that violates our User Agreement or other policies from our Services.

  7. Workplace and School Provided Information.Others buying our Services for your use, such as your employer or your school, provide us with personal data about you and your eligibility to use the Services that they purchase for use by their workers, students or alumni. For example, we will get contact information for various administrators and for authorizing users of our premium Services.

  8. Sites and Services of Others.We receive information about your visits and interaction with services provided by others when you login with us or visit others’ services that include some of our plugins (such as “apply” or “share”) or our ads, cookies or similar technologies.

  9. Other.We may introduce new features, which could require the collection of new information. If we collect materially different personal data or materially change how we collect, use or share your data, we will notify you and may also modify this Privacy Policy.

SECTION 2.
HOW WE USE YOUR DATA

How we use your personal data will depend on which Services you use, how you use those Services and the choices you make in your settings. We use the data that we have about you to provide and personalize our Services, including with the help of automated systems and inferences we make, so that our Services (including ads) can be more relevant and useful to you and others.

  1. Services

    1. Career.Our Services allow you to explore careers, evaluate educational opportunities, and seek out, and be found for, career opportunities. Your profile can be found by those looking to hire (for a job or a specific task) or be hired by you. We may use your data to recommend jobs or mentees, show you and others relevant professional contacts (e.g., who work at a company, in an industry, function or location or have certain skills and connections). We will use your data to recommend jobs to you and you to recruiters. We may use automated systems to provide content and recommendations to help make our Services more relevant to our Members, Visitors and customers. Keeping your profile accurate and up-to-date may help you better connect to others and to opportunities through our Services.

    2. Productivity.Our Services allow you to collaborate with colleagues, search for potential applicants, and partners for the purposes of filling positions. Our Services allow you to communicate with other Members and schedule and prepare meetings with them. If your settings allow, we scan messages to provide “bots” or similar tools that facilitate tasks such as scheduling meetings, drafting responses, summarizing messages or recommending next steps.

  2. Premium Services.We sell premium Services that provide our customers and subscribers with customized-search functionality and tools (including messaging and activity alerts) as part of our talent acquisition solutions. Customers can export limited information from your profile, such as name, headline, current company, current title, and general location, such as to manage sales leads or talent, unless you opt-out. We do not provide contact information to customers as part of these premium Services without your consent. Premium Services customers can store information they have about you in our premium Services, such as a resume or contact information.

  3. Communications.We will contact you through email, mobile phone, notices posted on our websites or apps, messages to your account inbox, and other ways through our Services, including text messages and push notifications. We will send you messages about the availability of our Services, security, or other service-related issues. We also send messages about how to use our Services, network updates, reminders, job suggestions and promotional messages from us and our partners. You may change your communication preferences at any time. Please be aware that you cannot opt out of receiving service messages from us, including security and legal notices. We also enable communications between you and others through our Services.

  4. Marketing.In addition to advertising our Services, we use Members’ data and content for invitations and communications promoting membership and network growth, engagement and our Services, such as by showing your connections that you have used a feature on our Services.

  5. Developing Services and Research.

    1. Service Development.We use data, including public feedback, to conduct research and development for our Services in order to provide you and others with a better, more intuitive and personalized experience, drive membership growth and engagement on our Services, and help connect professionals to each other and to economic opportunity.

    2. Research.We seek to create economic opportunity for Members of the global workforce and to help them be more productive and successful. We use the personal data available to us to research social, economic and workplace trends, such as jobs availability and skills needed for these jobs and policies that help bridge the gap in various industries and geographic areas. In some cases, we work with trusted third parties to perform this research, under controls that are designed to protect your privacy. We publish or allow others to publish economic insights, presented as aggregated data rather than personal data.

  6. Other Ways We Use Your Data.

    1. To conduct surveys. We use your data to conduct Surveys which are done by us or others through our Services. You are not obligated to respond to polls or surveys & you may opt-out of survey invitations. You also have the option of what information you provide.

    2. To investigate complaints. We use your data to investigate, respond to and resolve complaints and Service issues.

    3. To produce insights. We use your data to produce and share insights that do not identify you.

    4. To prevent fraud. We use your data for security, fraud prevention and investigations.

SECTION 3.
HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

  1. Our Services

    1. Profile.Your profile is fully visible to all Members and customers of our Services. Subject to your settings, it can also be visible to others on or off of our Services (e.g., visitors to our Services or users of third- party search engines). Your settings, degree of connection with the viewing Member, the subscriptions they may have, their usage of our Services, access channels and search types (e.g., by name or by keyword) impact the availability of your profile and whether they can view certain fields in your profile.

  2. Related Services.We may share your personal data with our affiliates to provide and develop our Services. We may combine information internally across the different Services covered by this Privacy Policy to help our Services be more relevant and useful to you and others. For example, we may personalize your job recommendations based on your learning history.

  3. Service Providers.We use others to help us provide our Services (e.g., maintenance, analysis, audit, payments, fraud detection, marketing and development). They will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes.

  4. Legal Disclosures.It is possible that we will need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (2) enforce our agreements with you; (3) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; (4) protect the security or integrity of our Services (such as by sharing with companies facing similar threats); or (5) exercise or protect the rights and safety of our company, our Members, personnel or others. We attempt to notify Members about legal demands for their personal data when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.

  5. Change in Control or Sale.We can also share your personal data as part of a sale, merger or change in control, or in preparation for any of these events. Any other entity which acquires us or a part of our business will have the right to continue to use your data, but only in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy unless you agree otherwise.

SECTION 4.
YOUR CHOICES & OBLIGATIONS

  1. Data Retention

    We generally retain your personal data as long as you keep your account open or as needed to provide you Services. This includes data you or others provided to us and data generated or inferred from your use of our Services. Even if you only use our Services when looking for a new job every few years, we will retain your information and keep your profile open, unless you close your account. In some cases we choose to retain certain information (e.g., insights about Services use) in a depersonalized or aggregated form.

  2. Rights to Access and Control Your Personal Data

    We provide many choices about the collection, use and sharing of your data, from deleting or correcting data you include in your profile and controlling the visibility of your posts to advertising opt-outs and communication controls. We offer you settings to control and manage the personal data we have about you. For personal data that we have about you, you can: (a) you can ask us to erase or delete all or some of your personal data (e.g., if it is no longer necessary to provide Services to you); (b) you can edit some of your personal data through your account. You can also ask us to change, update or fix your data in certain cases, particularly if it’s inaccurate; (c) you can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data (e.g., if we have no legal right to keep using it) or to limit our use of it (e.g., if your personal data is inaccurate or unlawfully held); and (d) you can ask us for a copy of your personal data and can ask for a copy of personal data you provided in machine readable form. You may also contact us using the contact information below, and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws.

  3. Account Closure

    If you choose to close your account, your personal data will generally stop being visible to others on our Services within 48 hours. We generally delete closed account information within 30 days of account closure, except as noted below. We retain your personal data even after you have closed your account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse (e.g., if we have restricted your account for breach of our Professional Community Policies), enforce our User Agreement, or fulfill your request to "unsubscribe" from further messages from us. We will retain de-personalized information after your account has been closed. Information you have shared with others will remain visible after you close your account or delete the information from your own profile or mailbox, and we do not control data that other Members have copied out of our Services. Group content and ratings or review content associated with closed accounts will show an unknown user as the source. Your profile may continue to be displayed in the services of others (e.g., search engine results) until they refresh their cache.

SECTION 5.
Other Information

  1. Security.

    We implement security safeguards designed to protect your data, such as HTTPS. We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. However, we cannot warrant the security of any information that you send us. There is no guarantee that data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

  2. Cross-Border Data Transfers.

    We process data both inside and outside of the United States and rely on legally provided mechanisms to lawfully transfer data across borders. Countries where we process data may have laws which are different from, and potentially not as protective as, the laws of your own country.

  3. Lawful Bases for Processing.

    We will only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful bases. Lawful bases include consent (where you have given consent), contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you and “legitimate interests.” Where we rely on your consent to process personal data, you have the right to withdraw or decline your consent at any time and where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object.

  4. Direct Marketing and Do Not Track Signals.

    We currently do not share personal data with third parties for their direct marketing purposes without your permission.

  5. Contact Information.

    If you have questions or complaints regarding this Policy, you may send an email to: Privacy@pod.io.

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