TalkingBio.com Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
This document declares the undertakings by TalkingBio.com in relation to its handling of Your Data and our Privacy Policy. By using our website, submitting information to us, or providing us any information via phone or email, you agree to the following terms:
Modification to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
We reserve the rights to change our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, at anytime, at our sole discretion, with or without any prior notice. From time to time, you should return to our website to this section to review our updated Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. By continuing using our website, you agree to be bound by our updated and revised Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Privacy
If you submitted the information on our website or emailed us any information, it is public. Our goal is to promote you and your unique background, specific information and unique skills to prospective employers, as such all information provide to us or submitted on our website may be seen by the public, including employers, recruiters, or any other third party individuals and companies that may request information about you. We want to protect your privacy and provide a safe and secure environment for you and other users. If you would like to keep any information private, do not submit it on our website and do not email it to us.
Data Collection
TalkingBio.com undertakes to collect Your Data by means that are: fair; legal; and transparent. If you visit our web-site, your web-browser automatically discloses, and our web-server automatically logs, the following information: the date and time, the IP address from which you issued the request, the type of browser and operating system you are using, the URL of any page that referred you to the page, the URL you requested, and whether your request was successful. This data may or may not be sufficient to identify you.
Any additional data that you provide, e.g. in a web-form, may also be logged. This data may or may not be sufficient to identify you.
Any additional data that your web-browser automatically provides may also be logged. This will be the case, for example, if your browser has previously been requested to store data on your computer in 'cookies' and submits them each time you request a web-page within a particular domain (such as talkingbio.com). This data may or may not be sufficient to identify you.
If you disclose personal data to TalkingBio.com in conjunction with an identifier such as your name or your credit-card details, TalkingBio.com will collect Your Data. Moreover, any data that becomes available to TalkingBio.com through any of the means described in the preceding paragraphs may be able to be associated with that identifier, and hence become Your Data.
Right to Be Contacted via phone, email or other means
By providing information to TalkingBio.com, you agree to be contacted by talkingbio.com and its affiliates by phone, email or other means to collect further information from you and/or to offer you different services. You further agree that TalkingBio.com will forward your information to employers and recruiters, and post your information on websites to promote you as a prospective employee.
Data Security
TalkingBio.com undertakes to store Your Data in a manner that ensures security against unauthorized access, alteration or deletion, at a level commensurate with its sensitivity.
TalkingBio.com undertakes to store Your Data only in jurisdictions where data protections are at least equivalent to those required under the OECD Guidelines.
TalkingBio.com undertakes to transmit Your Data in a manner that ensures security against unauthorized access, alteration or deletion, at a level commensurate with its sensitivity.
TalkingBio.com undertakes to implement appropriate measures to ensure security of Your Data against inappropriate behavior by TalkingBio.com's staff-members and contractors. These include: training for staff in relation to privacy; access control, to limit access to Your Data to those staff and contractors who have legitimate reasons to access it; particularly in the case of sensitive data, audit trails of accesses, including the identities of staff and contractors accessing the data; reminders to staff and contractors from time to time about the importance of data privacy, and the consequences of inappropriate behavior; declaration of appropriately strong sanctions that are to be applied in the event of inappropriate behavior clear communication of policies and sanctions; and processes to audit, to investigate and to impose sanctions.
Data Use
Use refers to the application of Your Data by any part of TalkingBio.com, or any staff-member or contractor of TalkingBio.com in the course of their work.
TalkingBio.com undertakes to use Your Data only for:
the purposes for which it was collected;
such other purposes as are subsequently agreed between TalkingBio.com and You;
such additional purposes as may be required by law. In these circumstances, TalkingBio.com will take any reasonable steps available to it to communicate to You that the use has occurred, unless it is precluded from doing so by law; and
such additional purposes as are authorized by law (in particular to protect TalkingBio.com's interests, e.g. if it believes on reasonable grounds that You have failed to fulfill your undertakings to TalkingBio.com or have committed a breach of the criminal law).
TalkingBio.com undertakes to use YourData only if it has demonstrable relevance to the particular use to which it is being put. TalkingBio.com undertakes to use YourData in such a manner as to take into account the possibility that it is not of sufficient quality for the purpose, e.g. because it is inaccurate, out-of-date, incomplete, or out-of-context.
Requests to stop receiving email only, can also be made, at your local store or by sending an email to your unsubscribe@talkingbio.com. TalkingBio.com is committed to protecting our customers' expectations about privacy. TalkingBio.com does not share your personal information with any other entity, other than authorized TalkingBio.com store locations and employees.
Data Disclosure
Disclosure refers to making YourData available to any party other than TalkingBio.com and You. The term disclosure may include many different conditions of data transfer, including selling, renting, trading, sharing and giving. TalkingBio.com undertakes to disclose Your Data only under the following circumstances:
in the course of business being conducted between You and TalkingBio.com, where disclosure is necessary to a contractor, such as a transport company. Where Your Data is disclosed in this way, TalkingBio.com undertakes to exercise control over TalkingBio.com's contractors to ensure that their actions are compliant with these Terms;
in other circumstances that are directly implied by the purpose agreed between You and TalkingBio.com at the time of data collection or subsequently. Where Your Data is disclosed in this way, TalkingBio.com undertakes to exercise control over TalkingBio.com's contractors to ensure that their actions are compliant with these Terms;
with your consent, or at your request;
where required by law, such as a provision of a statute, or a court order such as a search warrant or subpoena. In these circumstances, TalkingBio.com will take any reasonable steps available to it to communicate to You that the disclosure has occurred, unless it is precluded from doing so by law;
where permitted by law (e.g. the reporting of suspected breach of the criminal law to a law enforcement agency; and in an emergency, where TalkingBio.com believes on reasonable grounds that the disclosure of YourData will materially assist in the protection of the life of health of some person), provided that TalkingBio.com will apply due diligence to ensure that the exercise of the permission is justifiable.
In all cases, TalkingBio.com undertakes to disclose only such of Your Data as is necessary in the particular circumstances.
Data Retention and Destruction
Subject to the qualifications immediately below, TalkingBio.com undertakes: to retain Your Data only as long as is consistent with its purpose; and to destroy Your Data when its purpose has expired, and to do so in such a manner that Your Data is not subsequently capable of being recovered. This undertaking is qualified as follows: Your Data may be retained in TalkingBio.com's logs, backups and audit trails within short-term retention cycles that are devised to protect the company's operations. In such cases, Your Data will be destroyed in accordance with those cycles; Your Data may be retained beyond the expiry of its purpose if that is required by law, such as a provision of a statute, or a court order such as a search warrant or subpoena, or a warning by a law enforcement agency that delivery of a court order is imminent. In these circumstances, TalkingBio.com: will take any reasonable steps available to it to communicate to You that Your Data is being retained, unless it is precluded from doing so by law; and will only retain Your Data while that provision is current, and will then destroy Your Data; Your Data may be retained beyond the expiry of its purpose if it is authorized by law (in particular to protect TalkingBio.com's interests, e.g. if it believes on reasonable grounds that You have failed to fulfill your undertakings to TalkingBio.com or have committed a breach of the criminal law). In these circumstances, TalkingBio.com will only retain Your Data while that situation is current, and will then destroy Your Data.
Access by You to Your Personal Data
TalkingBio.com undertakes to provide you with access to Your Data, subject to only such conditions and processes as are reasonable in the circumstances. In particular, TalkingBio.com undertakes to enable access: conveniently; without unreasonable delay; and without cost. TalkingBio.com undertakes to establish and operate identity authentication protections for access to Your Data that are appropriate to its sensitivity, but practical. This may involve some inconvenience; for example, relatively straightforward procedures may be involved in order to provide you with access through a channel that you have previously registered with TalkingBio.com (such as a particular email-address), but may impose more onerous procedures if you wish to use some other channel. In the event that you dispute some aspect of Your Data, TalkingBio.com undertakes to take reasonable steps in relation to the amendment, supplementation or deletion of Your Data. You undertake: not to seek access for frivolous purposes, or unreasonably frequently; to accept that deletion of some data may not be consistent with the provision of particular services by TalkingBio.com to you.
Information about Data-Handling Practices
TalkingBio.com undertakes to make information available to you about the manner in which TalkingBio.com handles your data:
in general terms, in a readily accessible manner; and in more specific terms, on request. Where Your Data is disclosed to a contractor, TalkingBio.com undertakes to make information available to you on request about the manner in which TalkingBio.com's contractors handle your data.
TalkingBio.com undertakes to ensure that the information provided is meaningful, and addresses your concerns.
You undertake:
not to seek such information for frivolous purposes, or unreasonably frequently; and to accept that the disclosure of excessive detail may harm the security of Your Data and TalkingBio.com's business processes, and may harm TalkingBio.com's commercial interests.
Handling of Enquiries, General Concerns and Complaints
If you have enquiries, general concerns, or complaints about these Terms, or about TalkingBio.com's behavior in relation to these Terms, you undertake: to communicate them in the first instance: to TalkingBio.com only; in sufficient detail; through a channel made available by TalkingBio.com for that purpose; TalkingBio.com undertakes: to provide one or more channels for communications to TalkingBio.com, which are convenient to users; to promptly provide acknowledgement of the receipt of communications, including the provision of a copy of the communication, the date and time it was registered, and TalkingBio.com's reference-code for the communication; to promptly provide a response to the communication, in an appropriate and meaningful manner. You further undertake to not pursue TalkingBio.com through any Regulator or the media: until and unless TalkingBio.com has had a reasonable opportunity to respond to the initial communication; and while TalkingBio.com and you remain are conducting a meaningful dialogue about the matter.
Enforcement
TalkingBio.com declares that its undertakings in these Terms are intended to create legal obligations, and that those obligations are intended to be enforceable under appropriate laws in appropriate jurisdictions. These include laws relating to data protection, privacy, fair trading, corporations and criminal laws.
You undertake to seek enforcement only in a jurisdiction that is relevant to the transactions that have taken place between You and TalkingBio.com, in particular the jurisdiction in which you live or in which you performed the relevant acts, and the jurisdiction in which TalkingBio.com is domiciled or performed the relevant acts.
Changes to These Privacy Undertakings
TalkingBio.com undertakes: Not to materially change these Terms in a manner that reduces the protections for Your Data; to take all possible steps to prevent any company that acquires this company or any of its relevant assets from materially changing the Terms applicable to Your Data in a manner that reduces the protections for Your Data; where it is considering making changes to these Terms, or creating more specific Terms relating to specific services, to consult with appropriate representative and advocacy organizations; where it makes changes to these Terms, to ensure that the differences between successive versions are readily accessible; to maintain all prior versions of these Terms in such a manner that they are dated, and readily accessible.
Definitions
YourData means data that is capable of being associated with you, whether or not it includes an explicit identifier such as your name or customer number. In particular, it encompasses all data that TalkingBio.com is capable of correlating with you, using such means as server-logs and cookie-contents.
Your Data does not refer to data that can no longer be associated with you. This includes aggregated data that does not and cannot identify the individuals whose data are included in the aggregation.
Consent means your concurrence with an action to be taken by TalkingBio.com. Consent may be express or implicit, but in either case must be informed and freely-given.
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