At PitchYourTalent.com, we take your privacy seriously! Please read this Statement of Privacy to be more aware about our policy on collecting, using and disclosing personal information. This web site is not intended for children under 13 years of age.

Scope of coverage

This Statement of Privacy covers how PitchYourTalent.com treats information collected and received, including information relating to the past use of our products and services. This Statement of Privacy applies only to the practices of PitchYourTalent.com and the people we employ or manage. Other web sites or services linked to/from this web site will have their own statements of privacy which can be viewed by clicking on their respective privacy links.

Collection of your Personal Information

PitchYourTalent.com collects contact details and personal information such as your name, email address, telephone number, work experience and other such data associated with a profile required for employment or engagement of your service. When you register with PitchYourTalent.com and sign in to our services, you are no longer unknown to us.

PitchYourTalent.com uses "Talent Profile" to display your profile to the public on the Internet. ALL the information you provide on your Talent Profile will be available for viewing and searching on PitchYourTalent.com as well as other web sites that link to or index (for search) your Talent Profile.

PitchYourTalent.com requires you to provide your name, email address, current location and mobile phone number during the "Create Account" process and these contact details collected on the "Create Account" form will be kept private and confidential. HOWEVER, YOU MAY CHOOSE TO DISCLOSE ANY OF THE CONTACT DETAILS INCLUDING YOUR NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS, CURRENT LOCATION AND MOBILE PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR TALENT PROFILE. YOUR "TALENT PROFILE" IS VISIBLE TO ANYONE AND ANY WEB SITE ON THE INTERNET.

PitchYourTalent.com keeps track of your transactions with us and some of our affiliated business partners, including information about your use of the products and services offered.

For business and security purposes, PitchYourTalent.com also keeps track of the pages our users visit within PitchYourTalent.com. We may use this data to deliver customized content and advertisement to users whose behaviours indicate that they are interested in a particular subject area.

PitchYourTalent.com uses the collected information for the following general purposes: customizing the advertisement and content you see, fulfilling your requests for products and services, improving our services, contacting you, enforcing our Terms of Use Policy, conducting research and providing relevant reports for our members.

PitchYourTalent.com may collect information about your computer hardware and software. This information includes your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. We use this information for operating our services, maintaining the quality of the service, security management and providing reports for relevant business purposes.

Use of your Personal Information

PitchYourTalent.com does not sell, rent or share your contact details and information with other people or non-affiliated third parties except to provide you with the products or services you have requested. When you give us permission, or under these circumstances:

• PitchYourTalent.com works with business partners to provide some services. We provide the information only to trusted business partners who work with us or on our behalf under confidentiality agreements. Our business partners may use your personal information to help us communicate with you about offers from them or PitchYourTalent.com. However, our business partners do not have any independent right to share this information;
• PitchYourTalent.com observes the process of law and will establish or exercise our legal rights or defend ourselves against legal claims;
• PitchYourTalent.com believes in sharing information in order to investigate, prevent or act on illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of PitchYourTalent.com's Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by the law;
• Information collected on this site may be stored and processed in any country in which PitchYourTalent.com or its business partners, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

Control of your Contact Details and Personal Information

PitchYourTalent.com offers you total control on the information you want to be seen by the public. Any information that you choose to disclose on your Talent Profile will be visible to the public on the Internet. You may at any time change the information on your Talent Profile.

Please keep in mind that when you respond to a person who sent you a message through PitchYourTalent.com, your contact details will remain private and confidential, UNLESS YOU CHOOSE TO DISCLOSE YOUR CONTACT DETAILS ON THE CONTENT OF YOUR REPLY.

Opt Out

You may at anytime UNLIST your Talent Profile from PitchYourTalent.com. When you UNLIST your Talent Profile, ALL your personal information will no longer be accessible by the public. However your account will still be accessible by you using your login ID and password.

You may also at anytime DELETE your account on PitchYourTalent.com. When you DELETE your account, ALL your contact details and personal information including your Talent Profile will be archived and UNLISTED from PitchYourTalent.com and your account will no longer be accessible by the public, including yourself.

In the event PitchYourTalent.com goes through a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified by email of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information and can choose to opt out from the database.

Security of your Personal Information

PitchYourTalent.com is committed to protect the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect contact details from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, your personal information is stored on computer systems that are located in controlled facilities. When PitchYourTalent.com transmits highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Use of Cookies

PitchYourTalent.com uses cookies to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies are assigned to and can identify you uniquely, A cookie can only be read by a web server that issued you the cookie.

Cookies cannot run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Their primary use is to provide a convenience by saving you time. For example, if you personalize our pages or register with our services, a cookie will help PitchYourTalent.com to remember you on your subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, and so on. When you next return to PitchYourTalent.com, the information you previously provided is retrieved so you can easily use our features that you had customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers will accept cookies automatically, but you can usually set your browser to decline cookies. However, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to experience the full interactive features of PitchYourTalent.com's services or other web sites you visit.

PitchYourTalent.com links the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submitted while on our site.

Email to Friend

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about a job or our web site, PitchYourTalent.com will ask you for your friend's name and email address. A one-time email inviting your friend to visit the web site will be sent to him/her automatically. PitchYourTalent.com stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral programme.

Your friend may contact us at policy@PitchYourTalent.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

Service Providers

PitchYourTalent.com may use third parties to provide 1) payment gateway services for optional services, 2) a profiling/assessment service and 3) web analytics on our website. When you sign up for such services or by using our web site, they may collect some information (e.g., credit card numbers, name) as necessary for the third party to provide that service.

These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.

Testimonials/ Success Stories

PitchYourTalent.com will ask your permission to post your testimonial or success story. If you agree to post your material on this web site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit can be read, collected, or used by other users of this site and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. PitchYourTalent.com will not be responsible for the personally identifiable information you may choose to submit in these testimonials/ success stories.

Critical Performance Errors

You may occasionally see a message informing you of a critical performance error in PitchYourTalent.com. This message will ask you to send data to PitchYourTalent.com. If you agree, our technical support team or user care team will use the data to help determine what caused the error.

Before you choose to send your data to PitchYourTalent.com, you have the opportunity to review that data. If you choose to send the data, in some cases your personal information may also be sent together. However, this personal information is deleted before we review the error data you send.

Enforcement of this Statement of Privacy

If you have questions regarding this statement, you should first contact PitchYourTalent.com at policy@PitchYourTalent.com

Changes to this Statement

PitchYourTalent.com reserves the right, at any time and without notice, update this Privacy Policy, simply by posting such update on this page. Any update will be effective immediately upon posting on the web site. A user or member is bound by any change to the Privacy Policy when she or he uses the web site after those changes have been posted.

PitchYourTalent.com encourages you to review this Statement periodically to be informed of how we are protecting your personal information.

Contact Information

PitchYourTalent.com welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that we have not adhered to this Statement, please contact us by emailing to policy@pitchyourtalent.com.

This Privacy Statement is effective since 1 March 2009 and was last updated on 6 April 2009.