PRIVACY POLICY
biipmi Privacy
Policy Highlights
This page
summarizes the key highlights from our Privacy Policy.
1.
Personal
information collected
We collect
information:
·
When you register an account to
become a biipmi user
(“User”), such as your name, e-mail, employer, country, and a password.
·
When you view and interact with biipmi pages,
features, and functionality, including biipmi mobile
applications, software (like adding to your profile, participating in Groups, Cliques, uploading
contacts, etc.), and platform technology (like “Shout in Scriin” buttons or third party applications).
We also collect your IP address, browser type, operating system, mobile
carrier, and your ISP, and receive the URLs of sites from which you arrive or
leave the biipmi website, or sites that have embedded biipmi platform
technology.
·
Through cookies and other
technologies that allow us to recognize you, customize your experience, and
serve advertisements both on and off biipmi. Learn more
about cookies, beacons in Sections 1G and 1H, below. You can opt-out of
advertising off biipmi.
·
When you interact with third
party services available through biipmi like
surveys, polls or other third party research undertaken with your consent.
2.
Uses
of personal information
We use the
information you provide to:
·
Enable you to share your
information and communicate with other Users, or provide your personal details
to third parties offering combined services with biipmi;
·
Administer your account with us
and customize the service we provide to you and other Users; and to
·
Send you service or promotional
communications through email and notices on the biipmi website.
You can control your messaging preferences in your personal Settings.
·
Connect you to opportunities by
enabling other professionals to find you on biipmi.
·
Create and distribute
advertising relevant to you or your network’s biipmi experience.
If you share your interactions on biipmi, for
example, when you recommend a product, follow a company, establish or update
your profile, join a Group, etc., biipmi may use
these actions to create social ads for your network on biipmi using your
profile photo and name. You can control whether biipmi uses your
name and picture in social ads in your
personal Settings.
We do not
sell, rent, or otherwise provide personally identifiable information to third
parties without your consent except where it is necessary to carry out your
instructions (to process your payment information, for example) or as described
in Section 2 of this Privacy Policy. Also, we may share information with
affiliates to provide the Services. We also provide you with the means to
control whether or not your contact information is viewable to other Users
through your profile.
Please note
that in order to fulfil your
requests for paid services (e.g., biipmi Premium
Services), we share your payment information with our
payment processor.
3.
Your Information Choices
You can:
·
Review, enhance or edit your personal
information through your personal profile
page;
·
Control what information you make available
to search engines through your public profile;
·
Choose whether you install or remove any third party
applications;
·
Control whether your profile information is
shared with third parties through Developer Applications installed by your
connections;
·
Control the messages you receive from biipmi and other Users;
·
Change your settings to control visibility
and accessibility through our website;
·
Control whether biipmi personalizes its
professional plugins across the web using your biipmi account.
·
Control whether biipmi uses your name and
profile photo in social ads; and
·
Tell us to close your biipmi account.
4.
Your
obligations to other Users.
·
Do not abuse the biipmi service by
using it to spam, abuse, harass, or otherwise violate the User Agreement or
Privacy Policy.
5.
Important
information
·
If Users have questions or
concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you should
first contact biipmi.
·
Notice of all changes that
materially affect ways in which your personal information may be used or shared
will be posted in updates to our Privacy Policy.
6.
Security
·
Personal information you provide
will be secured in accordance with industry standards and technology. Since
the internet is NOT a 100% secure environment, we cannot
ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to biipmi. There is
no guarantee that information may not be accessed, copied, disclosed, altered,
or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial
safeguards.
·
You are responsible for
maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information,
and for controlling access to your email communications at all times.
7.
How to
contact us
If you have questions or comments please send them to us or contact
us at:
·
BIIPMI PTE LTD,
BIIPMI PRIVACY
POLICY
Introduction:
The mission of biipmi is to create an
echo-system where individuals can enhance their employability effectively.
Being part of biipmi means
sharing information about yourself with other professionals, communicating with
them, as well as working privately on your own. By default, your account is set
up to share the information that we have found the vast majority of our Users
are interested in sharing. But the amount and type of information you decide to
share, and with whom you share it, is up to you.
Here are the three main types of information on Biipmi:
Information about yourself that
you share. This is the
information that your connections, other professionals, and companies see about
you. This includes your profile and your contributions to discussions on biipmi Cliques, Groups, or
other community features biipmi may offer
such as “Profile Stats” which, if you choose to opt-in, can show you who viewed
your profile (and will show others when you visited their profiles). You have control over what you share, and you can update information at
any time.
Communication. We help you
communicate with connections and other professionals. Some of this is
one-to-one, some of it is in groups, and some of it is public discussion. You decide how much or how little you wish to communicate to individuals
or groups.
Private activity. We also
provide tools that you can use privately on biipmi (for
example, creating portfolio entries, searching, or adding notes to your
connections information.) These actions and information are
private and we don't share or distribute them to others on the website.
Of course, maintaining your trust is our top concern, so we adhere to
the following principles to protect your privacy:
·
We do not rent, sell, or
otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to third parties
without your consent, except as described in this
policy or as required by law.
·
We do not share any information
you have not chosen to display on your biipmi profile to
other parties, unless compelled by law, or as necessary to enforce our User
Agreement or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of biipmi, its Users, and the public.
·
All information that you provide
will be protected with industry standard protocols and technology.
We reserve
the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it
frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you
here, by means of a notice on our home page so that you may access and review
the changes to this document in advance of your continued use of the service.
If you object to any changes, you may close your account. By
continuing to use the biipmi service
after notice of changes has been sent to you or published on the Biipmi website,
you are consenting to the changes.
Please read this policy and send us
questions, concerns and suggestions in you feel
there is a need.
What biipmi’s Privacy
Policy Covers:
1.
Information collected by biipmi.
2.
How biipmi uses your
information.
3.
Your information choices.
4.
Your obligations as a User.
5.
Security.
6.
How to contact us.
1.
Information
Collected
The mission
of biipmi is to create an
echo-system where individuals can enhance their employability effectively. To achieve
this mission, biipmi makes features
and functionality available through our website, including our mobile and other
applications, developer platform, premium services, and other information
provided as part of the biipmi services
(“Services”) to enable professionals to develop, maintain and enhance a network
of contacts, seek experts and consultants, fill job opportunities, create,
share, and distribute information in collaboration with one another. By joining
biipmi, you voluntarily and willingly provide
biipmi Pte Ltd in
We collect
your personal information in the following ways:
A.
Registration
In order to become a User, you must provide us the following information
to create an account: name, email address and password. Without this
minimal amount of information, you cannot create a biipmi account.
Like other passwords, you should choose one that is known only by you. biipmi requests
other information from you during the registration process, (e.g., gender,
location, etc.) that biipmi uses to
provide better, more customized services such as language-specific profile
pages and updates, better ads, and more valuable career opportunities. You
acknowledge that this information is personal to you, and by creating an
account on Biipmi, you allow others, including biipmi, to
identify you and to allow biipmi to use your
information in accordance with our User Agreement.
B.
Profile
Information
Once you become a User, you may provide additional information to your biipmi Profile describing
your skills, professional experiences, educational background, recommendations
from other biipmi Users, group memberships, and social networking
objectives (among other options). Providing additional information about
yourself beyond what is minimally required at registration is entirely up to
you, but providing additional information enables you to derive more benefit
from biipmi and your professional network by
helping you build your professional branding identity and
leverage your professional network and facilitating your search for
professional resources, information, and new opportunities. Any information you
provide at registration or in the Profile section may be used by biipmi as
described in the User Agreement and this
Privacy Policy, including for the purpose of allowing professional
opportunities to find you on biipmi, or for serving
more relevant advertisements on biipmi. Learn more
about biipmi’s advertising practices by reading
this privacy policy, in particular Sections 1.H, 2.J, and 2.K. If you decide
not to share certain information, you may not receive the full benefit of being
a biipmi User.
C.
Contacts
Information
In order to
connect with others on biipmi, you may
use the Services to send invitations either to their biipmi profiles or
email addresses of people you know if they have not registered with biipmi. The names
and email addresses of people whom you invite will be used to send your
invitations and reminders as well as to allow biipmi to help
expand your network. Please note that when you send an invitation to connect to
another User, that User will have access to your email address because it is
displayed in the invitation. Your biipmi connections
will also have access to your email address. You may not invite anyone you do
not know and trust to connect with you.
You may also
choose to manually enter or upload data about your contacts to the “Contacts”
section of your account on biipmi.
Information entered into Contacts is only viewable by you. By providing email
addresses or other information of non-Users to biipmi, you
represent that you have authority to do so. All information that you enter or
upload about your contacts is covered by the User Agreement and this Privacy
Policy and will enable us to provide customized services such as suggesting
people to connect with on biipmi.
D.
Customer
Service
We collect information when you interact with biipmi’s customer
service in order to
accurately categorize and respond to customer inquiries and investigate
breaches of our terms.
E.
Using the biipmi Site and
Applications
We receive
information when you interact with and use the biipmi website, biipmi
Applications (e.g. biipmi for iPhone, Android, etc.), and biipmi platform
technology (such as “Shout on Scriin”). For
example, we know when you click on ads, upload your address book, join groups,
participate in polls, install a biipmi mobile
application, share articles on biipmi, etc.
F.
Using Third
Party Services and Visiting Third Party Sites
We receive information when you use your biipmi account to
log in or authenticate to a third-party website or application. Also, if you
are logged into biipmi and visit a
third party site that embeds biipmi
professional plugins, like “Shout on Scriin”, biipmi will
receive information that those pages have loaded in your web browser. biipmi will use
this information to personalize the biipmi-provided functionality,
including providing you insights from your Biipmi network,
allowing you to share information with your network, enabling you to use biipmi
functionality off the biipmi site and
serving you more relevant advertising. Users wishing to disable this
personalization may opt-out of this
feature. biipmi’s retention
of this data is addressed in Section 1.K.
G.
Cookies
Like most
websites, we use cookies and web log files to track site usage and trends, to
improve the quality of our service, to customize your experience on biipmi, as well as
to deliver biipmi and third-party advertising to Users
both on and off the biipmi site. A
cookie is a tiny data file that resides on your computer, mobile phone, or
other device, and allows us to recognize you as a User when you return to the biipmi website
using the same computer and web browser. You can remove or block cookies using
the settings in your browser, but in some cases doing so may impact your
ability to use biipmi to its full
capability. One type of cookie, known as a “persistent” cookie, is set once you’ve
logged in to your biipmi account.
The next time you visit the biipmi website,
the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing User so you
will not need to log in before using the Services. In order to access or change
any of your private information (like a credit card number) or to send a
message to another User, however, you must log in securely again with your
password even if your computer contains your persistent cookie. Another type of
cookie, called a “session” cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to
the biipmi website. Session cookies expire after
a short time or when you close your web browser. Other technology like
Macromedia’s flash can be used to place the functional equivalent of a cookie
on your computer. You can control flash “local stored objects” or “flash
cookies” using the Macromedia Website Privacy Settings Panel at
www.macromedia.com. biipmi may use
cookie-equivalent technology for the limited purpose of enhancing the security
of biipmi's services.
In the
course of serving advertisements or optimizing the Services to our Users, we
may allow authorized third parties to place or recognize a unique cookie on
your browser. Any information provided to third parties through cookies will
not be personally identifiable but may provide general segment information
(e.g., your industry or geography, career field, or information about your
professional or educational background) for the enhancement of your user
experience by providing more relevant advertising. Most browsers are initially
set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies
or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. biipmi does not
store unencrypted personally identifiable information in the cookies.
H.
Advertising
and Web Beacons
To support
the Services we provide at no cost to our Users, as well as provide a more
relevant and useful experience for our Users, we target and serve our own ads
and third-party ads both on and off the site using ad networks. Ad networks
include third party ad servers, ad agencies, ad exchanges, ad technology
vendors and research firms.
We target
ads to Users based on general profile categories (e.g., “product managers in Bedok”) or on non-personally identifiable
information inferred from a User’s profile (e.g., industry, current or former
company, school, compensation bracket, gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality,
or other aspects of your life) in addition to a User’s use of biipmi or their
clicking on biipmi ad
inventory. biipmi does not
provide personally identifiable information to any third party ad network.
We use ad
technology such as web beacons, pixels, anonymous ad network tags, and cookies
to more effectively serve ads to our Users on and off biipmi through ad
networks, as well as to collect anonymized,
aggregated auditing, research and reporting for advertisers. Because your web
browser requests advertisements and web beacons directly from ad network
servers, these networks can view, edit or set their own cookies, just as if you
had requested a web page from their site.
You may opt-out of ads served to you off biipmi. If you
opt-out you may lose certain functionality of the biipmi Services,
as well as the potential benefit of receiving ads that are targeted to your
interests which, in turn, may limit your ability to fully realize the benefits
of the biipmi Services to build and leverage your
professional network.
I.
Log files,
IP Addresses and information about your computer and mobile device
Due to the communications standards on the internet, when you visit the biipmi website we
automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to
which you are going when you leave biipmi.
Additionally, advertisers receive the URL of the page you were on when you
click on an ad on biipmi. biipmi also
receives the internet protocol (“IP”) address of your computer (or the proxy
server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system
and type of web browser you are using, email patterns, your mobile device
(including your UDID) and mobile operating system (if you are accessing Biipmi using a
mobile device), as well as the name of your ISP or your mobile carrier. biipmi may also receive location data passed
to it from third-party services or GPS-enabled devices that you have enabled.
Also, as described above in Sections 1.E. and 1.F., biipmi receives
information when you access web pages containing biipmi interactive
plugins, such as “Shout on Scriin”
functionality. You can control the collection and use of this information in Settings. The link
between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is not
shared with third parties without your permission, except as described in
Section 2.L (“Compliance with Legal Process”), below.
J.
Rights to
Access, Correct and Eliminate Information About You
You have a right to access, modify, correct and eliminate the data you
supplied to biipmi. If you
update any of your information, we may keep a copy of the information that you
originally provided to us in our archives for uses documented in this policy.
You may request deletion of your information at any time by contacting
biipmi customer service. We will
respond to your request within 30 days. Please note, however that information
you have shared with others, or that other Users have copied, may also remain
visible even if you request its deletion.
K.
Data
Retention
biipmi will retain
your information for so long as your account is active or as needed to
provide you services. If you wish to close your account,
you may do so. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply
with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce this Agreement.
2.
Uses of
personal information
A.
Consent to biipmi Processing
Information About You
The information you provide to biipmi may reveal,
or allow others to identify, your nationality, ethnic origin, gender, age, and
other aspects of your life. By providing information to us for the purposes of
creating your User account or adding any additional details to your biipmi profile,
you are expressly and voluntarily accepting the terms and conditions of this
Privacy Policy and biipmi’s User
Agreement that allow biipmi to process
information about you. Supplying information to biipmi, including
any information deemed “sensitive” by applicable law, is entirely voluntary on
your part. You have the right to withdraw your consent to biipmi’s
collection and processing of your information at any time, in accordance with
the terms of this Privacy Policy and the User Agreement, by changing your Settings, or by closing
your account.
B.
biipmi
Communications
As described
in the User Agreement, we will communicate with you through email, notices
posted on the biipmi website,
messages to your biip box, or through
other means available through the service, including mobile text messages. We
may send you a series of emails that help inform new Users about the features
of the Services, and we will also send you service messages relating to the
functioning of the Services. We may also send you messages with promotional
information directly or on behalf of our partners, unless you have opted out of
receiving promotional information.
You can change your e-mail and contact preferences at any time by
logging into your account and changing your settings related to
your email notification choices. If you wish, you can also opt-out of receiving
promotional emails by sending a request to biipmi customer
service through our customer service.
Please be
aware that you cannot opt-out of receiving service messages from biipmi. Also, if
we send communications to you via the carrier service with which you have a
mobile communications subscription or otherwise have access, you understand you
will pay any service fees associated with your receipt of messages on your
mobile device (including text messaging charges).
C.
User
Communications
Many
communications you initiate through biipmi (e.g., an
invitation sent to a non-User) will list your primary email address and name in
the header of the message. Messages you initiate may also provide aggregate
information about your network (for instance how many people are in your
network), but will not list the people to whom you’re directly connected. Other
communications that you initiate through the biipmi website,
like a request for an introduction, will list your name as the initiator but
will not include your personal email address contact information. Your contact
information will only be shared with another User if both of you have indicated
that you would like to establish contact with each other.
D.
Customized
Content
We use
information you provide to us (or to third parties with whom Biipmi offers
combined services) to customize your experience on our website. For example,
when you login to your account, we will display the names of new Users who have
recently joined your network or recent status updates from your connections.
E.
Sharing
Information with Third Parties
biipmi takes the privacy of our Users very
seriously, and we do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally
identifiable information to third parties, except as described in this policy.
We will also not share other personal information not published to your profile
or generated through engagement with other biipmi services (Cliques, Groups,
Company Pages, etc.) without your explicit consent or to carry out your
instructions (for example, to process payment information) unless, disclosure
is reasonably necessary in our opinion to: (1) comply with legal process,
including, but not limited to, civil and criminal subpoenas, court orders or
other compulsory disclosures; (2) enforce this Agreement; (3) respond to claims
of a violation of the rights of third parties, whether or not the third party
is a User, individual, or government agency; (4) respond to customer service
inquiries; or (5) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of biipmi, our Users
or the public.
biipmi offers a
“public profile” feature that allows Users to publish portions of their biipmi profile to
the public internet. This public profile will be crawled by and displayed
through search engines when someone searches for your name. You may opt-out of
this feature by editing your account settings; however, biipmi does not
warrant how often third-party search engines will update their caches, which
may contain old public profile information.
Content
distributed through biipmi’s sharing
features and third party integrations may result in displaying some of your
information outside of biipmi. For
example, when you post content to a biipmi Group that
is open for public discussion, your content, including your name as the
contributor, may be displayed in search engine results.
We may
provide aggregated anonymous data about the usage of the Services to third
parties for purposes that we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate,
including to prospective advertisers on biipmi.
F.
Developers
using biipmi Platform
Services
We
collaborate with and allow third parties to use biipmi’s developer
platform to offer services and functionality in conjunction with and outside of
biipmi. These third parties are either
partners (“biipmi Partners”) with whom we have
negotiated an agreement to provide services (“Combined Services”),
for example, biip Apps, or developers (“Platform
Developers”) who have agreed to our developer terms in order to build
applications (“Platform Applications”). Both the negotiated agreements and our
API terms and conditions contain restrictions on access, storage and use of
your information.
If you choose
to use Combined Services or a Platform Application, you may be asked to confirm
acceptance of the privacy policy and/or user agreement of the biipmi Partner or
Platform Developer, which have not necessarily been reviewed or approved by biipmi. It is your
choice whether or not to make use of Combined Services or Platform Applications
and whether to proceed under any third party terms, and once you do, the third
party's terms, and not this policy, will govern how they handle information you
provide to them directly or through your biipmi account.
Also,
despite our agreements and technical steps taken to restrict access to and
avoid possible misuse of information, we may not screen or audit all Combined
Services or Platform Applications. We also cannot guarantee that any biipmi Partner or
Platform Developer will abide by our agreement. You agree that your use of
Combined Services or Platform Applications is on an “as is” basis and without
any warranty.
If you use
any Combined Service or Platform Application, the biipmi Partner or
Platform Developer may access and share certain information about you, such as
non-public profile information and information visible only to your
connections. This includes information about your connections by virtue of you
being connected to others. However, unless you have used a Combined Service or
Platform Application, it can only access the information about you that is
otherwise visible to other biipmi Users.
To revoke permission granted to a Combined Service or Platform Application
at any time, please visit the settings page. If the
relevant Platform Developer or Application, or biipmi Partner is
not listed under Authorized Applications, go directly to the Application
Details page for the Platform Application you wish to uninstall. Note, however,
that even if you revoke the permission granted a third party, your connections,
other members of your network, or other Users of biipmi may still
be using the Platform Application, so the Platform Application or Combined
Service may still have access to certain information about you, just as those
Users do. You may opt-out of providing information to third parties through
others connected to you under settings. To report
any suspected misuse of information, contact biipmi’s customer
service. Biipmi is not responsible for your use of or
inability to use any Combined Service or Platform Application, including the
content, accuracy, or reliability of applications and the privacy practices or
other policies of biipmi Partners or
Platform Developers.
G.
Polls and
Surveys
Polls and
Surveys may be conducted by biipmi, biipmi Users or
third parties. As a User, you may be invited to participate in polls and
surveys from the biipmi website.
Your selection may be random, or it may be based on your non-personally
identifiable information, such as job title, geography, company size and/or
industry. Whether or not you decide to participate in a poll or survey is
completely up to you.
After you
complete a poll, you will be given access to the aggregate responses of the
poll on a results page. Some third parties may target advertisements to you on
the results page based on your answers in the poll. Further, biipmi or third
parties may follow up with you via biip box regarding
your participation unless you have opted out of receiving biip box messages.
We may use
third parties to deliver incentives to you to participate in surveys or polls.
If the delivery of incentives requires your contact information, you may be
asked to provide personally identifiable information to the third party
fulfilling the incentive offer, which will only be used for the purpose of
delivering incentives and/or verifying your contact information. It is up to
you whether you provide this information, or whether you desire to take advantage
of an incentive.
We will not disclose any personally identifiable information to any
third parties in connection with the conduct of any polls or surveys. Your
consent to use any personally identifiable information for the purposes set
forth in the poll or survey will be explicitly requested by the party
conducting it. You may opt-out of participating in Surveys by changing your settings to stop
receiving these inquiries and requests.
H.
Search
We offer
search services to help find information and learn more about other Users (for
example, you can search for Users with particular expertise or consulting
experience, or that you may know from your industry or profession), as well as
employment opportunities. biipmi search also
allows Users to find other Users, jobs,
companies, and contributions to the community aspects of the biipmi Services,
such as Groups and Cliques that will
help Users more effectively use biipmi and expand
their network. We use information from User profiles and contributions to
Groups, Company Pages to inform and refine our search service.
I.
Answers,
Groups, and other Services
If you post
on the Answers section of biipmi,
participate in biipmi Groups, or
import a blog, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information
you choose to provide there can be read, collected, or used by other Users of
these forums, as well as Platform Developers and other third parties, and could
be used to send you unsolicited messages. biipmi is not
responsible for the information you choose to submit in these forums. Also,
some content in biipmi Groups may
be public and searchable on the internet if the Group owner has opened the
group for public discussions. You can delete your posts to biipmi Groups at
any time. However, please note that ideas you post and information you share
may be seen and used by other Users, and biipmi cannot
guarantee that other Users have not made copies of or use the ideas and
information that you share with others on biipmi.
J.
Testimonials
and Advertisements Placed through Biipmi Ads Service
If you provide any testimonials about the biipmi Services or
place advertisements through the biipmi Ads, we may
post those testimonials and examples of advertisements you place in connection
with our promotion of these services to third parties. Testimonials and
advertisements may include your name and other personal information that you
have provided.
K.
Advertising
and Endorsements on Biipmi
In order to deliver relevant and valuable ads to you and your network, biipmi may use
your name and profile photo in connection with social advertising based on
content shared on biipmi. This
advertising may include the fact that you have recommended or endorsed a
product or service on biipmi, followed a
company, joined Groups or conversations, established or added content to your
profile or portfolio, etc., and will only be displayed to
your biipmi network. You can opt-out of allowing
your name and/or profile photo to be used in social ads in settings.
L.
Compliance
with Legal Process
It is
possible that we may need to disclose personal information, profile information
and/or information about your activities as a biipmi User when
required by subpoena or other legal process, or if biipmi has a good
faith belief that disclosure is necessary to (a) investigate, prevent or take
action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government
enforcement agencies; (b) to enforce the User Agreement, to investigate and
defend ourselves against any third party claims or allegations, or to protect the
security or integrity of our site; and/or (c) to exercise or protect the
rights, property or personal safety of biipmi, our Users,
employees, or others.
M.
Disclosures
to Others as the Result of a Change in Control or
We may also
disclose your personal information and other information you provide to another
third party as part of a sale of the assets of biipmi Pte Ltd, a
subsidiary or division, or as the result of a change in control of the company.
Any third party to which biipmi transfers
or sells biipmi’s assets will have the right to
continue to use the personal and other information that you provide to us.
3.
Your
Information Choices
A.
Accessing
and Changing Your Account Information
You can review the personal information you provided to us and make any
desired changes to the information you publish, or to the settings for your biipmi account
including your email and contact preferences, at any time by logging in to your
account on the biipmi website.
Please be aware that even after your request for a change is processed, biipmi may, for a
time, retain residual information about you in its backup and/or archival
copies of its database.
B.
Default
Settings
Because the
mission of biipmi is to connect the world’s
professionals to enable them to become more productive and successful, we have
established what we believe to be reasonable default settings that we have
found most professionals desire. Because Users may use and interact with biipmi in a
variety of ways, and because those uses may change over time, we designed our
settings to provide our users granular control over the information they share.
We encourage our Users to review their account settings and adjust them in
accordance with their preferences.
biipmi accounts
are also defaulted to allow Users to be contacted to participate in polls,
surveys and partner advertising.
C.
Closing Your
Account
You can
close your account through the biipmi site. If
you close your biipmi account, we
will remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our
publicly viewable database. If you close your account, we have no obligation to
retain your information, and may delete any or all of your account information
without liability. However, we may retain certain data contributed by you if biipmi believes it
may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business
purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally identifiable data,
account recovery, or if required by law. biipmi may also
retain and use your information if necessary to provide the Services to other
Users. For example, just as an email you may send to another person through an
email service provider resides in that person’s inbox even after you delete it
from your sent files or close your account, emails or biip box
mail you send on biipmi to other
Users, as well as your contributions to biipmi Cliques or Groups,
may remain visible to others after you have closed your account. Similarly, other
information you have shared with others, or that other Users have copied, may
also remain visible. biipmi disclaims
any liability in relation to the deletion or retention (subject to the terms
herein) of information or any obligation not to delete the information. biipmi does not control when search engines
update their cache, which may contain certain public profile information that
has since been removed from biipmi’s publicly viewable database.
D.
Memorializing Accounts
If we learn that a User
is deceased, we may memorialize the User’s account. In these cases we may
restrict profile access, remove messaging functionality, and close an account
if we receive a formal request from the User’s next of kin or other proper
legal request to do so. User WILL NOT be featured in SEARCH
result as
well.
4.
Your Obligations
As a User,
you have certain obligations to other Users. Some of these obligations are
imposed by applicable law and regulations, and others have become commonplace
in user-friendly communities of like-minded members such as biipmi:
·
You must, at all times, abide by
the terms and conditions of the then-current Privacy Policy and User Agreement.
This includes respecting all intellectual property rights that may belong to
third parties (such as trademarks or photographs).
·
You must not download or
otherwise disseminate any information that may be deemed to be injurious,
violent, offensive, racist or xenophobic, or which may otherwise violate the
purpose and spirit of biipmi and its
community of Users.
·
You must not provide to biipmi and/or
other Users information that you believe might be injurious or detrimental to
your person or to your professional or social status.
·
You must keep your username and
password confidential and not share it with others.
Any violation
of these guidelines may lead to the restriction, suspension or termination of
your account at the sole discretion of biipmi.
5.
Important information
.
Children and Minors
Children under the age
of 18 are not eligible to use our service.
A.
TRUSTe and
Please note that by
becoming a User, you have given us your express and informed consent to
transfer the data that you provide to us and to process it in the
If
Users have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you should first
contact biipmi.
B.
Changes to this Privacy
Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without advance
notice. In the event there are significant changes in the way we treat your
personally identifiable information, or in the Privacy Policy document itself,
we will display a notice on the biipmi website or
send you an email, so that you may review the changed terms prior to continuing
to use the site. As always, if you object to any of the changes to our terms,
and you no longer wish to use biipmi, you may close your account. Unless
stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that biipmi has about
you and your account.
Using the biipmi Services
after a notice of changes has been sent to you or published on our site shall
constitute consent to the changed terms or practices.
6.
Security
In order to
help secure your personal information, access to your data on biipmi is
password-protected, and sensitive data (such as credit card information) is
protected by SSL encryption when it is
exchanged between your web browser and the biipmi website. To
protect any data you store on our servers, biipmi also
regularly audits its system for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and we
use a tier-one secured-access data center. However,
since the internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot ensure or
warrant the security of any information you transmit to biipmi. There is
no guarantee that information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed
by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. It is
your responsibility to protect the security of your login information. Please
note that emails, instant messaging, and similar means of communication with
other Users of biipmi are not
encrypted, and we strongly advise you not to communicate any confidential
information through these means.
7.
How to
contact us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please
contact us at:
BIIPMI PTE LTD