uWurk.com Privacy Policy
Last Updated: April 1, 2015
uWurk.com offers various services to help connect employers with suitable employees. uWurk.com's Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") is designed to provide a clear understanding of the information we collect and how we use it to provide our services and give users a better experience. It applies to any users of www.uWurk.com and any US affiliated websites, web pages, mobile applications and mobile websites operated by uWurk.com (the "Site"), including those who are seeking to find employment through uWurk.com ("Employees") as well as those who are looking to hire employees through uWurk.com ("Employers"), and any users of any of the various services that uWurk.com provides through the Site or any other channels, including over the telephone ("Services"). For purposes of this Agreement, the terms "uWurk.com," "we," "us," and "our" refer to uWurk.com, Inc. "You" refers to you, as a visitor or user or the Site or the Services. Please note that our subsidiaries have separate privacy policies. In addition, this Privacy Policy does not apply to third party entities that may use the uWurk.com Site or Services. Such entities' use of the uWurk.com Site and Services are subject to separate terms that they agreed when they registered with uWurk.com.
By using the Site and/or the Services, you consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information and other information as described in this Privacy Policy.
- Information We Collect
- How We Use Information
- How We Share Information
- Changing or Removing your Personal Information and Closing your Account
- Collection of Information from Children
- How We Protect Information
- Links to other Websites
- Changes to our Privacy Policy
I. Information We Collect
We collect both "Personal Information" and "Non Personal Information" about our users. In this policy, Personal Information is information that can be used to contact or identify you, such as your full name and email address, and information that is linked to such information. "Non Personal Information" is information that cannot be used to contact or identify you and is not linked to information that can be used to contact or identify you and includes passively collected information about your activities on our Site, such as usage data, to the extent that information is not linked to your Personal Information.
Site Visitors can access and browse certain portions of the Site without disclosing Personal Information, although, like most websites, we passively collect certain information from your computer, such as your IP address and web browser user agent, when you browse the Site. Visitors who access and browse the Site without registering are "Site Visitors". In order to utilize some of the Services offered by uWurk.com, you must register with uWurk.com. All users who register with uWurk.com are "Registered Users".
A. Information you provide
Regardless of whether you are a Site Visitor or a Registered User, all Personal Information that you provide to us when registering, posting a job, posting a profile, communicating through the Site, discussing employment options over the phone, utilizing our mobile applications or that you otherwise provide on the Site or by phone, email or postal mail, will be stored by us. You represent and warrant to us that you have the right and authority to provide us all Personal Information you provide about yourself or others. You may provide us this Personal Information in various ways, including:
When registering
When you register directly through uWurk.com, we will collect and store the information that you provide to us directly on our online registration forms. This may include, among other information:
- your first and last name
- your email address
- your home address
- your gender
- your birthday
- your phone number
Some users may have the opportunity to register with uWurk.com by connecting through Facebook's application programming interface (API). Please see Section I.B.4 below to learn about the information we access, collect and store if you register for uWurk.com through Facebook.
If you register for a Service that requires you to pay a fee, uWurk.com will also collect your credit card type, number, expiration date, and security code as well as your billing address for payment purposes and your birthday, if not previously provided.
When searching for potential employees
If you are an Employer, we collect and store all of the additional information that you provide to us on your job posting or that is otherwise included in an auto-generated job posting. This may include, among other information:
- the type of job you are looking to fill, your schedule, location, hourly rate, narrative job description, requirements for an Employee, (such as a valid driver’s license)
- pictures you choose to provide
- company logos
- personal information
- any other information you choose to include in your job search
When posting a profile
If you are a potential Employee, we collect and store all of the additional information that you provide to us in your profile. This may include, among other information:
- details on your prior employment, and other information including your availability, your location, your level of education, languages you speak, your ability to drive
- personal appearance information, (such as visible tattoos)
- pictures you choose to post
- your phone numbers
- references, if you choose to provide them
- any other information you choose to include in your profile
By telephone
Both Site Visitors and Registered Users may provide Personal Information to uWurk.com when they contact or utilize certain Services uWurk.com may offer by telephone. For example, if you call a uWurk.com to discuss uWurk.com services over the phone, we will collect and store all of the Personal Information you chose to provide to us, including but not limited to financial information, information about potential or actual employees or employers, your contact information, etc. If you provide information about someone other than yourself, you represent that you have authority to do so.
Otherwise through the Site or by telephone, text message/ SMS, email, postal mail or chat
Certain Registered Users may provide Personal Information on the Site through other Site features and offerings such as our online communications, groups and payment platforms. In some cases, Site Visitors may have the ability to provide us Personal Information through the Site, such as contact information. In addition, both Registered Users and Site Visitors may choose to provide us additional Personal Information by phone, email, postal mail, text message/ SMS, or chat. We collect and store all of the Personal Information you provide us through these channels. Moreover, if you provide information about someone other than yourself through any of these channels, you represent that you have authority to do so.
B. Information provided by others
By Site Visitors, Registered Users and others
uWurk.com also captures and collects information that Site Visitors, Registered Users and others provide about each other. For example, Employees may invite Site Visitors, Registered Users or others to rate and indicate their relationship to the Employee on the Site. Additionally, certain uWurk.com Registered Users may post reviews about other Registered Users. uWurk.com may also obtain and post audio recordings of Registered User references, which may also be accessed from the Site. In addition, certain Registered Users may communicate directly with each other through uWurk.com platforms. Site Visitors, Registered Users and others also may provide us information about Registered Users by phone, email or postal mail. uWurk.com captures and stores all information it receives from Site Visitors, Registered Users and others about other Registered Users and Site Visitors.
By third parties to verify your information and representations
In order to promote the safety and integrity of the Site and Service, you authorize uWurk.com in its Terms of Use to utilize third party service providers to use your Personal Information to scan on an on going basis a variety of sources, which may include, but are not limited to, national criminal databases, sex offender registries, certain media streams, terrorist watch lists, criminal and fugitive watch lists, fraud watch lists, law enforcement reports, and other data to assist us in verifying the information you provide us (such as your name, address, email address, etc.) and the representations and warranties you make in the Terms of Use and on the Site (such as representations regarding your criminal background) ("Verification Checks"). The results of any Verification Checks will be made available to uWurk.com.
By third parties that perform background checks
For the legitimate business purpose of protecting the safety and integrity of the Site and uWurk.com users, you authorize uWurk.com in its Terms of Use to utilize a third party consumer reporting agency to use your Personal Information to run periodic background checks on you when you register with uWurk.com and thereafter in connection with your continued use of our Services and/or interaction with our Site. In addition, we may provide some or all Registered Users with the option of requesting a background check be run on themselves or on Registered Users they are considering hiring. Any such background checks will be subject to the terms we establish for such checks on the Site pages where you may request them, the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. uWurk.com may receive a copy of, or otherwise have access to, any such completed background check.
By Facebook if you connect to uWurk.com through Facebook
You may have the opportunity to connect to uWurk.com through Facebook's API when you register for uWurk.com or after you have registered for uWurk.com. If you connect to uWurk.com through Facebook, either when you register or after you have registered, we will collect, store, and use in accordance with this Privacy Policy any and all information you agreed that Facebook could provide to uWurk.com through its API. Your agreement (and our access to your information) takes place when you instruct, accept or allow Facebook to register you for a uWurk.com account or otherwise connect to uWurk.com through Facebook. The information uWurk.com may access, collect and store may include the following, among other information, as allowed by you, Facebook's API, and your Facebook privacy settings:
- your name
- your profile picture
- your email address
- your gender
- your birthday
- your location (i.e. city)
- the names and pictures of your Facebook friends
- your interests and affinity networks
- other information you make publicly available via Facebook
By service providers you use in connection with our Services
If you engage a service provider through uWurk.com, such as a payments processor (i.e. PayPal), that service provider may provide us Personal Information about you such as information relating to your transactions with them as related to uWurk.com.
By other sources
In addition, we may obtain from other sources publicly available Personal Information, such as demographic data, and other information to enable us to comply with regulatory requirements, ensure the accuracy of data, better understand your likely interests, prevent fraud, etc.
C. Information you expressly authorize us to collect
We may from time to time request permission for collect Personal Information from or about you. For example, if you use a uWurk.com mobile application, we may request permission to access information about the contacts listed in your mobile device phone book when you initiate an address book search for friends who have downloaded the application. We may also request permission to access and store your location. If you grant your permission, we will access and or store such information unless you subsequently opt out by adjusting the settings in your mobile device.
D. Technical and usage information
Log files, IP addresses and information about your computer and mobile device
When you visit the Site, uWurk.com receives the internet protocol ("IP") address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the internet), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using. If you are using a mobile device, uWurk.com may also receive your mobile device id (UDID), or another unique identifier, and mobile operating system. We may correlate this information with other Personal Information we have about you. Additionally, when you visit the uWurk.com website we and any third parties we use to place ads on our Site automatically receive the URL of the webpage from which you came. If you click on an ad, we and any such third party may also receive the URL of the page you were on when you clicked the ad and the URL of the site associated with the ad that you clicked.
Cookies and other technologies
Like most websites, we and our service providers use cookies and tracking pixels to track Site usage and trends, evaluate the effectiveness of our ads both on and off our Site, customize your experience on the Site and improve the quality of our Services. For example, using these technologies we can determine, among other things, which pages of our Site you visit and which ads you click on. A cookie is a tiny data file that resides on your computer, mobile phone, or other device, and allows us to recognize you when you return to the Site using the same computer (or mobile device) 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 uWurk.com. Tracking pixels do not identify individual users and the analysis of data obtained by tracking pixels is performed on an aggregate basis.
When you visit our Site or open one of our emails, we may allow authorized third parties, such as ad servers, ad agencies, ad exchanges, ad technology vendors and research firms, to place or recognize a unique cookie, pixel, and/or similar technologies on your browser in order to provide you relevant uWurk.com advertisements as you surf the Internet. These advertisements may be targeted to you based on information these authorized third parties know or infer about you and include in the cookies placed on your browser and/or information about your Internet browsing activities gathered through your browser. If you prefer not to receive these online behavioral advertisements, you may opt-ou there. In order for the opt-out to work, your browser must be set to accept third party cookies. Furthermore, if you buy a new computer or mobile device, change web browsers or delete the opt-out cookie, you will need to perform the opt-out task again. Please note that if you opt-out you may continue to receive uWurk.com advertisements as you surf the Internet, including contextual ads based on the content on a webpage you are visiting. However, these advertisements will not be displayed based on information contained in, or collected by, cookies or other technologies placed on your browser when you visit our Site or open our emails.
Social media features and widgets
Our Site includes social media features and widgets, such as the Facebook "Share" button. These features may collect your IP address, the URL of the page you are visiting on our Site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
II. How We Use Information
A. Personal Information
In general, the Personal Information we collect is used (1) to improve our Services and enhance your experience with uWurk.com, (2) to enable us to provide a safer community for all of our Registered Users, and (3) to help us communicate with you. For example, we may use your Personal Information to:
- register and service your account.
- include in job searches and user profiles.
- contact you in response to questions and solicit feedback and input from you.
- enable Employers to search based on the Personal Information the other has made available on the Site, and the information others have provided about them.
- connect Employers with Registered USers that appear to meet their needs and preferences.
- enable Registered Users to search for, find, interact, connect and share information with other Registered Users they may have an interest in interacting with.
- enable Registered Users who connect to uWurk.com through Facebook to see which of their Facebook friends who have connected to uWurk.com through Facebook are Registered Users or friends with other Registered Users who have connected to uWurk.com through Facebook.
- verify information you provide us as well as the representations and warranties you make to us in the Terms of Use or on the Site.
- otherwise help protect the safety and integrity of the Site and uWurk.com users.
- target promotional messages or content on the Site, via email or other ads on uWurk.com or third party sites.
B. Non Personal Information
In general, we use the Non Personal Information we collect to help us improve our Services and customize the user experience, such as by providing targeted useful features and promotions based on the type of Service you seek. We also aggregate the information collected via cookies and similar technologies to use in statistical analysis to help us track trends, evaluate the effectiveness of our ads and analyze patterns in the use of uWurk.com.
III. How We Share Information
In addition to using the information collected by uWurk.com for the purposes described above, we may also share your information with various third parties, as described below. Please review our sharing policy closely, especially with respect to your Personal Information. By using our Site or our Services, you agree to allow us to share the Personal Information you provide to us in the ways described below. Your ability to make changes to what information is shared is described below in Section IV.
A. Personal Information
With All Site Visitors and Registered Users
If you are a Registered User, in order to increase your chances of finding a job or finding the employee you need, we share with Site Visitors and Registered Users the information that is included in your profile, as well as the following registration information, which we may include in your job posting or profile: your first name your last name, city, state, profile picture, your gender, and, unless you opt-out, your age. With certain exceptions, you choose how much detail you want to include in either your job posting or your profile; the more information you share, however, the better chance you have of finding a job or an employee. We may also share on your profile or job posting any company reviews you have posted on our Site and whether you have connected to uWurk.com through Facebook. If you are a Registered User and have elected to verify certain information with uWurk.com or to have a background check performed, we may also disclose that information in your profile in addition to any payment or payroll preferences you have indicated.
We may display personal testimonials of Registered Users and other endorsements on our Site or in other marking materials. These testimonials or endorsements may include Non Personal Information such as the Registered User's first name, first initial of last name, town and state. With a Registered User's consent, we may include Personal Information such as their full name.
With other Registered Users and corporate providers
In addition to the information that is provided to all visitors to uWurk.com, Registered User reviews and references are made available to certain Registered Users. If you are a Registered User, your phone number will be visible to certain Registered Users if you elect to share it in your profile. In addition, your approximate residential location (through Google map plotting) is made available to certain Registered Users unless you elect to keep that information confidential.
If you are a Registered User, you will appear in search result listings if you match the search criteria used by a Registered User, as applicable. Similarly, you may appear in emails sent to Registered Users in your area. If you are a Registered User, your uWurk.com online status may be made available to other Registered Users.
If you connect to uWurk.com through Facebook, we may allow any of your Facebook friends who have connected to uWurk.com through Facebook to see that you are a Registered User. In addition, other Registered Users who have connected to uWurk.com through Facebook will be able to see if you are friends with any of their Facebook friends or if you share certain affinities or interests with them.
If we terminate your registration for any reason, we reserve the right to send a notice of your termination to other Registered Users with whom we believe you have corresponded.
With vendors/service providers
We also share Personal Information with vendors who perform services on behalf of uWurk.com, including without limitation vendors who provide email services, demographic information, or geo-location information, vendors who perform background checks or verification checks, vendors who process credit card payments, vendors who run classified advertising businesses, and vendors who send SMS messages to Registered Users' mobile phone numbers, in each case to the extent applicable. uWurk.com has selected vendors who maintain high standards with respect to privacy and agree to use the Personal Information only to perform specific services on behalf of uWurk.com.
With listings in Google and other public search engines
In an effort to further facilitate the ability for Registered Users to find an employee or a job, selected information contained in Registered Users employee searches and Registered Users profiles, which may include photo, first name, last name, city, state, and job/provider description, may also be shared with third party search engines and other vendors who run classified advertising businesses, and thus may be listed in third party web site search results (e.g., Google), which would make that information available to the public and allow them to link to your uWurk.com profile.
With Facebook if you connect to uWurk.com through Facebook
If you connect to uWurk.com through Facebook's API, you may elect to post certain of your activities on uWurk.com back to your Facebook account. You will be prompted to decide whether or not to share those uWurk.com activities back to your Facebook account.
With third parties to send you direct mail from other companies
We may share certain of your Personal Information, such as your name, postal address and other information we know about you such as your age, and the type of job you are looking for or looking to fill with third parties in the business of facilitating communications, such as direct mail brokers, to enable them to send you postal mail advertisements from companies whose products we believe may be of interest to you. We do not share email addresses for this purpose, and we do not allow these third parties to provide your personal information directly to the companies whose products are being advertised. If you do not want to receive these advertisements and prefer that we do not share your information with these third party communication facilitators for that purpose, you may opt-out by adjusting yourMy Dashboard.
As required by law or for reasons of safety
You acknowledge and agree that we may disclose information we've collected about you if required to do so by law or if we, in our sole discretion, believe that disclosure is reasonable to comply with the law, requests or orders from law enforcement, or any legal process (whether or not such disclosure is required by applicable law), or to protect or defend uWurk.com's, or a third party's, rights or property. We may also reserve the right to disclose information we've collected about you for purposes of protecting the health and safety of our Registered Users, such as in the case of risk of harm or violence against any person (including you).
With our affiliates
You acknowledge and agree that to the maximum extent permitted by law we may disclose any of the information we've collected about you to any of our affiliates or subsidiaries, for the purposes of providing you with the Services, operating the Site, and our other commercial purposes.
With Your Consent
We also may share your Personal Information with a third party if you consent to the sharing.
B. Non Personal Information
This Privacy Policy does not limit our use or disclosure of any Non Personal Information, such as information passively collected from your computer via cookies, web beacons, or standard logging of website activity. If you do not wish to share this information with uWurk.com, then you should take steps to limit the passive collection of data about your activities on our site, for example, by changing your browser settings to disable cookies. We reserve the right to use and disclose such Non Personal Information, as well as any other Non Personal Information we collect, with our advertisers and other third parties at our discretion.
C. Business transactions
In the event we go through a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your Personal Information may be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge and consent that such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Privacy Policy, and that any acquirer of ours or that
Your Communication Choices
By becoming a uWurk.com Registered User, you are consenting to receive certain email communications from us, such as special offers, tips and advice, customer surveys and administrative notices.
Please note that despite any indicated email marketing preferences, we may send you administrative emails regarding uWurk.com, including, for example, notices of updates to our Privacy Policy, responses to job searches from Registered Users, if we choose to provide such notices to you in this manner.
If you have opted in to receive text messages from us but would now like to opt out, you may do so by adjusting your settings in yourMy Dashboard. You also have a choice to stop us from contacting you by phone for marketing purposes by adjusting your settings in My Dashboard.
If you are a Registered User with an active profile, certain Employers may initiate contact with you directly using the messaging features of the uWurk.com Site. You have an option at any time to stop permitting select Employers from initiating contact with you by adjusting your settings in your My Dashboard.
IV. Changing or Removing your Personal Information and Closing your Account
If the Personal Information you provided when you registered changes, you may update this information by logging into your account and accessing your My Dashboard. If you would like to remove some of the Personal Information you have posted on the Site, such as information you posted on your profiles, you may do so by editing or deleting that item in your My Dashboard area. If you no longer wish to participate in our Services you may close your account directly in the My Dashboard portion of your account.
If you close your uWurk.com account, we will remove your name and other Personal 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 information related to you if we believe it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, Non Personal Information, account recovery, auditing our records, enforcing our rights and obligations under our agreements or if required by law. uWurk.com may also retain and use your information if necessary to provide the Services to other Registered 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 you send to others through uWurk.com to other Users, as well as your contributions to uWurk.com groups, may remain visible to others after you have closed your account. Similarly, other information you have shared with others, or that others have copied, may also remain visible. uWurk.com 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. uWurk.com does not control when search engines update their search index or cache, which may contain certain job post, profile or other information that has since been removed from uWurk.com's Site.
V. Collection of Information from Children
uWurk.com's Site and Services are not intended for individuals under the age of 14. Accordingly, uWurk.com does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from individuals under the age of 14.
VI. How We Protect Information
We have implemented industry-recognized safeguards to help protect your information from unauthorized access. These safeguards include:
- uWurk.com uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer), the industry standard method for computers to communicate securely without risk of manipulation or recipient impersonation. We utilize SSL in the online registration process, in the login process, and in the account management section of the Site.
- uWurk.com uses strong encryption technology to protect sensitive information.
- uWurk.com employs firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and system monitoring to protect against unauthorized access of our systems.
Your user accounts are also protected by the password you use to access your online account with uWurk.com, and we urge you to take steps to keep your password safe. If you feel your password has been compromised, you should change it immediately by logging into your account and visiting the "My Profile & Settings" section. After you have finished using our Site, you should log out of your uWurk.com account and exit your browser.
WE TAKE THESE PRECAUTIONS IN AN EFFORT TO PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION AGAINST SECURITY BREACHES. HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT A GUARANTEE THAT SUCH INFORMATION MAY NOT BE ACCESSED, DISCLOSED, ALTERED, OR DESTROYED BY BREACH OF SUCH FIREWALLS AND SECURE SERVER SOFTWARE. BY USING OUR SITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO ASSUME THESE RISKS.
VII. Links to Other Websites
uWurk.com may provide links to other web sites that we believe may be of interest to our users. However, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by those web sites, nor are we responsible for the information or content they contain. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by us through uWurk.com; thus when you use a link to go from our web site to another third party web site, this policy is no longer in effect. We encourage our users to read the privacy policies of these other web sites before proceeding to use them.
VIII. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
uWurk.com reserves the right to change this policy and our Terms of Service at any time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat Personal Information by sending a notice to the email address registered in your account, or by placing a prominent notice on our Site, so that you can choose whether to continue using our Services. Significant changes will go into effect 30 days after we notify. Non-material changes or clarifications will take effect immediately upon posting of the updated policy on our Site. You should periodically check www.uWurk.com/privacyfor updates. Your use of the Site or the Services after such effective date will constitute acceptance by you of such changes.