Dancing Circles has established this privacy policy to explain to you how your information
is protected, collected and used, which may be updated by Dancing Circles from time
to time. Dancing Circles will provide notice of materially significant changes to
this privacy policy by posting notice on the Dancing Circles site.
1. Protecting your privacy
We don’t run banner ads, pop ups, pop unders, or any other kind of commercial
ads.
We don’t share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
We don’t engage in cross-marketing or link-referral programs with other sites.
We don’t employ tracking devices for marketing purposes (“cookies”,
“web beacons”, single-pixel gifs).
We don’t send you unsolicited communications for marketing purposes.
We offer email anonymization & relay, to reduce 3rd party harvesting &
spam.
Account information is password-protected. Keep your password safe.
Forums use basic web server authentication. Close your browser to log out.
Dancing Circles does not knowingly collect any information from persons under the
age of 13. If Dancing Circles learns that a posting is by a person under the age
of 13, Dancing Circles will remove that post.
Dancing Circles, or people who post on Dancing Circles, may provide links to third
party websites, which may have different privacy practices. We are not responsible
for, nor have any control over, the privacy policies of those third party websites,
and encourage all users to read the privacy policies of each and every website visited.
2. Data we collect
- We sometimes collect your email address, for purposes such as sending self-publishing
and confirmation emails, authenticating user accounts, providing subscription email
services, registering for forums, etc.
- For paid job postings, we collect contact information, such as name(s), phone/fax
number(s), and address for billing purposes.
- Dancing Circles does not store credit card information. Credit card transactions
are transmitted to a financial gateway, and we endeavor to protect the security
of your payment information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
technology.
- We may collect personal information if you provide it in feedback or comments, post
it on our classifieds or interactive forums, or if you contact us directly. Please
do not post any personal information on Dancing Circles’ forums or classifieds
that you expect to keep private.
- Our web logs collect standard web log entries for each page served, including your
IP address, page URL, and timestamp. Web logs help us to diagnose problems with
our server, to administer the Dancing Circles site, and to otherwise provide our
service to you.
3. Data we store
- All classified and forum postings are stored in our database, even after “deletion,”
and may be archived elsewhere.
- Our web logs and other records are stored indefinitely.
- Registered job posters can access and update their account information through the
account homepage.
- Although we make good faith efforts to store the information in a secure operating
environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security.
4. Archiving and display of Dancing Circles postings by search engines and other
sites
Search engines and other sites not affiliated with Dancing Circles — including
archive.org, google.com, and
groups.yahoo.com — archive or otherwise make available Dancing
Circles postings, including resumes
5. Circumstances in which Dancing Circles may release information
- Dancing Circles may disclose information about its users if required to do so by
law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to
respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process.
- Dancing Circles may also disclose information about its users to law enforcement
officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably
necessary to: enforce our Terms of Use; respond to claims that any posting or other
content violates the rights of third-parties; or protect the rights, property, or
personal safety of Dancing Circles, its users or the general public.
International Users
By visiting our web site and providing us with data, you acknowledge and agree that
due to the international dimension of Dancing Circles we may use the data collected
in the course of our relationship for the purposes identified in this policy or
in our other communications with you, including the transmission of information
outside your resident jurisdiction. In addition, please understand that such data
may be stored on servers located in the United States. By providing us with your
data, you consent to the transfer of such data.
7. Feedback
We welcome your feedback on this document by submitting contact us form.