FirstDialog Privacy Policy

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. Your use of the Site (as defined below) constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to this Privacy Policy.

Last Updated: 14th February 2010
Your privacy is our top concern. We work hard to earn and keep your trust, so we adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy:
  • We do not rent or sell your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes.
  • We do not share your contact information with another User without your consent.
  • Any personally identifiable information that you provide will be secured with industry standard protocols and technology.

This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") describes our practices in connection with Personally Identifiable Information that we collect through our web site located at http://www.firstdialog.com (the "Site").
By using the Site, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Policy. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this Policy, please do not use the Site. We reserve the right to change this Policy without prior notice. You can determine when this Policy was last revised by referring to the "Last Updated" legend at the top of this page. Any changes to our Policy will become effective upon our posting of the revised Policy on the Site. Use of the Site following such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Policy then in effect.

The Site is controlled and operated by Vunovate Media Pvt. Ltd. from India with a brand name of FirstDialog, herein referred as “FirstDialog”, and is not intended to subject Vunovate Media Pvt. Ltd. to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of the India.

Please read this privacy policy to learn more about:

  1. What personally identifiable information of yours is collected by FirstDialog.
  2. How the information is used.
  3. With whom the information may be shared.
  4. How you can access and change your Account settings.
  5. What security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information collected by FirstDialog
  6. How to contact us.
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1. Personal Information Collected

 
The purpose of the FirstDialog website is to permit Users to voluntarily provide information about themselves for the purposes of developing, maintaining and enhancing their personal branded microsite. You willingly provide us certain personal information, which we collect in order to allow you to benefit from the FirstDialog website. If you have any hesitation about providing such information to us and/or having such information displayed on the FirstDialog website or otherwise used in any manner permitted in this Privacy Policy and the User Agreement, you should not become a member of the FirstDialog community.
     Registration
 
In order to become a User, you must first create an account on our website. To create an account you are required to provide the following contact information, which you recognize and expressly acknowledge is personal information allowing others, including FirstDialog, to identify you (some of the field may be added at a later date which may or may not include): name, email address, country, ZIP/postal code, a brief summary of your professional background, and a password chosen by you.
     Profile Information
 
Once you become a User, you may provide additional information in the Resume Wizard or resume section describing your skills, professional experiences, and others. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration to become a User is entirely optional, but enables you to better identify yourself and find new opportunities in the FirstDialog system to build and leverage your brand. Any information you provide at registration or in the Profile section that is not personally identifiable may be used in the same manner and extent to which other information that is not personally identifiable is permitted to be used hereunder, including for the purpose of serving advertisements through the service. If you opt-out you may lose the potential benefit of being a User, including receiving ads that are more targeted to your interests.
     Contacts Information
 
In order to invite others to connect with you directly in FirstDialog, you may use the FirstDialog services to invite them if they are a User, or enter their names and email addresses. This information will be used by FirstDialog to send your invitation including a message that you write. The names and email addresses of people that you invite will be used only to send your invitation and reminders.

You may also choose to manually enter or upload data about your contacts into the private “Account Settings” section of the FirstDialog website. You may not invite anyone to connect with you whom you do not know. All information entered there will only be viewable by you and will not be searchable by others in the FirstDialog network without your permission until and unless your profile is set to Public view. All information that you enter or upload about your contacts will be covered by the same terms of this privacy policy as cover your own information..
    
 
Customer Service
FirstDialog may collect information through the FirstDialog website in order to, among other things, accurately categorize and respond to a customer’s inquiry and deliver appropriate service levels.
     Cookies
 
Like most websites, FirstDialog uses cookies and web log files to track site usage. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer which allows FirstDialog to recognize you as a User when you return to the FirstDialog website using the same computer and web browser. If your browser settings do not allow cookies, you will not be able to use the FirstDialog website. Like the information you enter at registration or in your Profile, cookie and log file data is used to customize your experience on our website.
   
 
One type of cookie, known as a “persistent” cookie, is set once you’ve logged in to your FirstDialog account. The next time you visit the FirstDialog 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 service. In order to access or change any of your private information (like a credit card number) or to send a message to another User, or to change any profile information, you must log in securely again with your password even if your computer contains your persistent cookie.

Additionally, if you log out of the FirstDialog website you will need to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log in to your account. Another type of cookie, called a “session” cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to the FirstDialog website. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser.

We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing User preferences and tracking User trends. In the course of serving advertisements or optimizing 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 such cookies will not be personally identifiable but may provide general segment information, e.g. your industry or geographic location, your occupation, or information about your professional or educational background, for greater customization of your user experience. 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. Unfortunately, if your browser settings do not allow cookies or you opt to refuse all cookies, you may not be able to use the FirstDialog website or services. FirstDialog does not store personally identifiable information in the cookies

Web Beacons
We allow other companies, called ad networks, to serve advertisements to Users. Ad networks include third party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors and research firms. FirstDialog may “target” some ads to Users that fit a certain general profile – for example, “Product Managers in California.”

Because your web browser must request these advertisements and web beacons from the ad network’s servers, these companies can view, edit or set their own cookies, just as if you had requested a web page from their site.

These general targets may also be used by ad networks to display targeted ads on other websites as a substitute for random, irrelevant ads. FirstDialog does not provide personally identifiable information to any advertiser or any other third party unless submitted by you for Credential Verification, Online Skill test etc.

Log files, IP addresses and information about your computer
Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the FirstDialog web site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave FirstDialog. We also receive 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, as well as the name of your ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the FirstDialog service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is not shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.

Consent to FirstDialog Processing Information About You
Certain information you provide to FirstDialog may reveal, or allow others to identify, your nationality, ethnic origin, religion or other aspects of your private life, and more generally about you. Please be aware that in providing information to FirstDialog for the purposes of opening your user account, you are expressly and voluntarily accepting the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and FirstDialog’s User Agreement. The supplying of all such information by you to FirstDialog, including all information deemed “sensitive” by applicable law, is entirely voluntary on your part. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy and the User Agreement, but please note that your withdrawal of consent will not be retroactive.

Rights to Access, Correct and Eliminate Information About You
You have a right to access, modify, correct and eliminate the data about you which has been collected pursuant to your decision to become a User. If you update any of your information, we may keep a copy of the information which you originally provided to us in our archives for uses documented herein.
We take your rights seriously and encourage you to use them if you deem this to be appropriate. You may exercise these rights by emailing us at privacy@vunovate.com or by contacting us at:

Vunovate Media Pvt. Ltd.
Attn: Privacy Policy Concerns
5 ITBI
JSSATE – Science & Technology Entrepreneurs Park
C-20/1, Sector 62
Noida – 201301 (U.P.), INDIA

2. Uses of personal information

 
FirstDialog is an online service dedicated to helping all types of professionals, jobseekers, businesses more effectively build their personal brand and connect with one another. The personally identifiable information you choose to provide on our website is used to help you describe yourself to other Users. Other information, that does not personally identify you as an individual or as a business, is collected by FirstDialog from Users (such as, for example, patterns of utilization) and is exclusively owned by FirstDialog. This information can be utilized by FirstDialog in such manner as FirstDialog, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.

FirstDialog Communications
FirstDialog will communicate with you through email and notices posted on the FirstDialog website or through other means available through the service, including text and other forms of messaging. If we send any 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 any such access (including text messaging charges for messages to your mobile device). These include a series of up to five welcome emails which help inform new Users about various features of the service. Please be aware that you will always receive certain emails from FirstDialog related to the proper functioning of your account, such as email notices when another User in your network sends you an opportunity or try to contact you for any specific purpose. FirstDialog may send you promotional information unless you have opted out of receiving such information. You can change your e-mail and contact preferences at any time by logging into your ‘Account Settings’ and amending your email notification choices. If you wish, you can also opt-out of receiving promotional emails, by sending a request to customer_service@vunovate.com.

Customized Content 
Information provided to FirstDialog (or to third parties with whom it offers combined services) is also used to customize your experience on our website. For example, when you login to your account we will display the matching jobs with your profile and networking jobs through your network contacts.

Sharing Information with Third Parties 
FirstDialog takes the privacy of Users very seriously. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes. We will only share your personally identifiable information with third parties to carry out your instructions or to provide specific services or information. For instance, we use a credit card processing company to bill Users for subscription fees. These third parties do not retain, share, or store any personally identifiable information except to provide these services and they are bound by confidentiality agreements which limit their use of such information.

FirstDialog offers a “public profile” feature which allows Users to publish portions of their FirstDialog profile, including their “name”, and other information to the public Internet. Users may opt-out of this feature by editing their privacy settings, however FirstDialog does not warrant how often third-party search engines will update their cache.

We may provide aggregated anonymous data about the usage of our services to third parties for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate, including to prospective advertisers on FirstDialog. We may segment our Users by role (i.e. product managers, vice presidents), industry, geographic location, or company. If you would like to be excluded from the aggregated research or products based upon aggregated data about our Users’ activities on the site, please email customer_service@vunovate.com.

We work with third parties who provide services including but not limited to data analysis, order fulfillment, career management and other services of an administrative nature. We reserve the right to share your PII with such third parties for the purpose of enabling these third parties to provide such services (for example, if you choose to have your education or employment or identity credentials certified or have a career management professional review your Resume information through the Site, we may provide your Personal Identifiable information to a third-party service provider to allow the provider to perform the selected service).

Teaming with Other Organizations to Offer Combined and Other Services

FirstDialog may offer our services in connection with other websites (including updates about the FirstDialog service) or may team with other online services to give you the combined results of both services or additional services and benefits. Platform Applications can be designed by Platform Developers or by a subset of Platform Developers with whom FirstDialog has more closely aligned (“Partners”). Platform Developers or related has yet to be launched in FirstDialog and will be informed by medium not restricted to Press Release.

In the case of Partners, we do some vetting and we only work with trusted Partners. For example, SimplyHired.com is a Partner which lets you use its services to find jobs combined with the use of FirstDialog to find referrals to those jobs in the Matching Job section and with Crederity for Credential Verification. Because of FirstDialog’s trust in these Partners, Platform Applications or services designed by a Partner may be automatically granted permission to access account information to provide the combined services.

For Platform Applications designed by most Platform Developers, you will be asked to confirm acceptance of the Platform Developers’ respective privacy policies and user agreements, which have not necessarily been reviewed or approved by FirstDialog. In these cases, it will be your choice whether or not to make use of the services and whether to proceed under the Platform Developers’ terms.

Platform Developers are required to agree to restrictions on access, storage and usage of your information. However, while we typically enter into contractual agreements and take technical steps to restrict possible misuse of such information by such Platform Developers, we may not screen or approve Platform Developers, and we cannot and do not guarantee that all Platform Developers will abide by such restrictions and agreements. Certain actions you take through the Platform Applications will be displayed to your connections. You understand that your use of any Platform Applications is on an “as is” basis without any warranty as to the Platform Developers’ actions.

If you, your connections, members of your network, or other Users of FirstDialog use any Platform Application, or if you interact with a Platform Application being used by any of them, such Platform Application may access and share certain information about you with others. Because a Platform Application can make calls on behalf of the User interacting with it to access non-public information, the level of detail accessible by the Platform Application is constrained by the same settings that govern visibility of your data to that User on FirstDialog.

Network News/Announcements/Blogs 
If you post on the Networking sections of FirstDialog, or use a announcement board, import a blog or article, or participate in any group discussion on FirstDialog, 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, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. FirstDialog is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these sections.

Communications to other Users 
Many emails you initiate through FirstDialog, e.g., an invitation sent to a non-User, will list your email address and name in the header of the message. Emails 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 FirstDialog website, like a request for contact, will list your name as the initiator but will not include your personal 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.

By default each user’s profile will be in Public mode and searchable. All the information that the user has not made private by locking the specific sections, will be visible in public domain. If the user wishes to hide certain information which they feel as confidential or hidden or not searchable, in that case the user should lock that respective section. Communication with other users or non-users is at sole discretion of the user and should make appropriate changes before sharing profile or information with either FirstDialog user or non-users.

Registration 
In order to become a User, you must first create an account on our website. To create an account you are required to provide the following contact information, which you recognize and expressly acknowledge is personal information allowing others, including FirstDialog, to identify you (some of the field may be added at a later date which may or may not include): name, email address, country, ZIP/postal code, a brief summary of your professional background, and a password chosen by you.

Legal Disclaimer 
It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law, such as responses to civil or criminal subpoenas, or other requests by law enforcement personnel. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, subpoena, or other legal process or request to FirstDialog brought in any country throughout the world, or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

Disclosures to others 
We may also disclose your personal and other information you provide, to another third party as part of reorganization or a sale of the assets of a FirstDialog corporation division or company. Any third party to which we transfer or sell FirstDialog’s assets will have the right to continue to use the personal and other information that you provide to us.

3 . Your Information Choices

 
Accessing and Changing Your Account Information 
You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired changes to the information you publish, or to the settings for your FirstDialog account including your email, and contact preferences, and others at any time by logging in to your account on the FirstDialog website. Please be aware that even after your request for a change is processed, FirstDialog may, for a time, retain residual information about you in its backup and/or archival copies of its database.

Deleting or Closing Your Account 
You can also delete or close your account through the FirstDialog website. If you delete your FirstDialog account, we will remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our publicly viewable database. We may retain certain data contributed by 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-personally identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. To delete your account and remove your information from the FirstDialog website, please go to Account Settings and click on “Delete Your Account”.

4. Your Obligations

 
As a User, you have certain obligations toward the other Users or Non-Users with whom you will be communicating. Certain 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 FirstDialog:
  • You must, at all times, respect the terms and conditions of the then-current Privacy Policy and the User Agreement. This includes respecting all intellectual property rights which may belong to third parties (such as photographs or Videos or Documents).           
  • You must not download or otherwise disseminate any information which may be deemed to be injurious, violent, offensive, racist or xenophobic or which may otherwise violate the purpose and spirit of FirstDialog and its community of Users.                   
  • You must not provide information to FirstDialog and /or other Users which you believe might be injurious or detrimental to your person, professional or social status.
Any violation of these guidelines may lead to the restriction, suspension or termination of your account by FirstDialog, as we take these principles seriously and consider them to be the basis on which our Users adhere to the FirstDialog website and the services which it offers.

5. Important Information

 
Children 
Children are not eligible to use our service and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us or use the service.

Network Solution Secure & Hacker Safe  
FirstDialog is a licensee of the Network Solutions (NS) Protect Program. Network Solution’s security solutions are state-of-the-art and allow our customers to secure their sites for transactions, protect their sites from hackers, and preserve their reputation in the process. This privacy statement covers the site www.firstdialog.com. Because we want to demonstrate our commitment to our Users’ privacy, we have agreed to disclose our selected privacy practices and have them reviewed for compliance by Network Solutions.

If Users have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact FirstDialog by email at privacy@vunovate.com. If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or it is not satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact NS through the Network Solution’ Customer Support (http://www.networksolutions.com/support/nsprotect-secure-ssl). However, please understand that the NS Protect program only covers information collected through the site www.firstdialog.com, and does not cover information that may be collected through software downloaded from the site.

By becoming a User, you have given us your express and informed consent to transfer the data which you provide to us to India and to process it in India.

If you are faxing or mailing Network Solution to lodge a complaint, you must include the following information: the name of company, the alleged privacy violation, your contact information, and whether you would like the particulars of your complaint shared with the company. The NS Protect Program complaint process shall be conducted in English.

Changes to this Privacy Policy 
FirstDialog 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, we will display a notice on the FirstDialog website or send you an email, as provided for above. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

If you use the FirstDialog service after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on our site, you hereby provide your consent to the changed practices.

6. Security

 
In order to secure your personal information, access to your data on FirstDialog is password-protected, and sensitive data (such as credentials, credit card information) is protected by SSL encryption when it is exchanged between your web browser and the FirstDialog web site.

To protect any data you store on our servers we also regularly audit our system for possible vulnerabilities and attacks and we use a tier-one secured-access data center. It is your responsibility to protect the security of your login information. Please note that emails and instant messaging and similar means of communication with other users of FirstDialog are not encrypted and we strongly request 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 email us at info@vunovate.com or contact us at:

Vunovate Media Pvt. Ltd.
Attn: Privacy Policy Concerns
5 ITBI
JSSATE – Science & Technology Entrepreneurs Park
C-20/1, Sector 62
Noida – 201301 (U.P.), INDIA