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LawHire.com "Terms of Service" & "Privacy Policy"
Terms of Service
1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
Solution Hire, Inc. (LawHire.com) welcomes you. LawHire.com provides its service to you subject to the following Terms of Service ("TOS"), which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you.
2. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE
LawHire.com provides users with career board services. You also understand and agree that the Service may include advertisements and that these advertisements are necessary for LawHire.com to provide the Service. You also understand and agree that the Service may include certain communications from LawHire.com, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the LawHire.com Newsletter, and that these communications are considered part of LawHire.com membership and you are not able to opt out of receiving all of them. You understand and agree that the Service is provided "AS-IS" and that LawHire.com assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, non or mis-delivery or failure to store any user communications or personalization settings. You are responsible for obtaining access to the Service, and that access may involve third-party fees (such as Internet service provider or airtime charges). You are responsible for those fees, including those fees associated with the display or delivery of advertisements. In addition, you must provide and are responsible for all equipment necessary to access the Service.
3. YOUR REGISTRATION OBLIGATIONS
In consideration of your use of the Service, you represent that you are of legal age to form a binding contract and are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdiction. You also agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Service's registration form (the "Registration Data") and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or LawHire.com has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, LawHire.com has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof). LawHire.com is concerned about the safety and privacy of all its users.
4. LawHire.com PRIVACY POLICY
Registration Data and certain other information about you will not be knowingly sold, leased or provided to any third party not directly associated with or registered as a user, including former registrants, of LawHire.com. Any information or documentation any registrant or user of LawHire.com submits to LawHire.com or to a registered user of, including former registrants, is submitted at the discretion of and with the understanding and awareness that said submittal(s) are not considered and may not be treated as private or confidential.
5. MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD AND SECURITY
You will receive a password and account designation upon completing the Service's registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. You agree to (a) immediately notify LawHire.com of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. LawHire.com cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with Section 5.
6. MEMBER CONDUCT
You understand that all information, data, text, software, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, tags, or other materials ("Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. This means that you, and not LawHire.com, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available via the Service. LawHire.com does not control the Content posted via the Service and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. You understand that by using the Service, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no circumstances will LawHire.com be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via the Service. You agree to not use the Service to:
a. upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
b. harm minors in any way;
c. impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a LawHire.com official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise
misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
d. forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Service;
e. upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
f. upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party;
g. upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation.
h. upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
i. disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, cause a screen to "scroll" faster than other users of the Service are able to type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in real time exchanges;
j. interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service;
k. intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law;
l. provide material support or resources (or to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, or ownership of material support or resources) to any
organization(s) designated by the United States government as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act;
m. "stalk" or otherwise harass another; and/or
n. collect or store personal data about other users in connection with the prohibited conduct and activities set forth in paragraphs a. through m. above.
You acknowledge that LawHire.com may or may not pre-screen Content, but that LawHire.com and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to pre-screen, refuse, or remove any Content that is available via the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, LawHire.com and its designees shall have the right to remove any Content that violates the TOS or is otherwise objectionable. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. In this regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any Content created by LawHire.com or submitted to LawHire.com.You acknowledge, consent and agree that LawHire.com may access, preserve and disclose your account information and Content if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the TOS; (c) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third parties; (d) respond to your requests for customer service; or (e) protect the rights, property or personal safety of LawHire.com, its users and the public. You understand that the technical processing and transmission of the Service, including your Content, may involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.You understand that the Service and software embodied within the Service may include security components that permit digital materials to be protected, and that use of these materials is subject to usage rules set by LawHire.com and/or content providers who provide content to the Service. You may not attempt to override or circumvent any of the usage rules embedded into the Service. Any unauthorized reproduction, publication, further distribution or public exhibition of the materials provided on the Service, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited.
7. INTERSTATE NATURE OF COMMUNICATIONS ON LawHire.com NETWORK
When you register with LawHire.com, you acknowledge that in using LawHire.com services to send electronic communications (including but not limited to email, search queries, uploading photos and files, and other Internet activities), you will be causing communications to be sent through LawHire.com’s computer networks, portions of which are located in the United States and portions of which may be located abroad. As a result, and also as a result of LawHire.com’s network architecture and business practices and the nature of electronic communications, even communications that seem to be intrastate in nature can result in the transmission of interstate communications regardless of where you are physically located at the time of transmission. Accordingly, by agreeing to this Terms of Service, you acknowledge that use of the service results in interstate data transmissions.
8. SPECIAL ADMONITIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL USE
Recognizing the global nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable Content. Specifically, you agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside.
9. CONTENT SUBMITTED OR MADE AVAILABLE FOR INCLUSION ON THE SERVICE
LawHire.com does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Service. However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service, you grant LawHire.com the following worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license(s), as applicable:
a. With respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of LawHire.com, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purposes of providing and promoting the specific LawHire.com service(s) to which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Service and will terminate at the time you remove or LawHire.com removes such Content from the Service.
b. With respect to photos, graphics, etc. you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service other than LawHire.com, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purposes for which
such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Service and will terminate at the time you remove or LawHire.com removes such Content from the Service.
c. With respect to Content other than photos, graphics, etc. you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service other than LawHire.com, the perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed. "Publicly accessible" areas of the Service are those areas of the LawHire.com network that are intended by LawHire.com to be available to the general public. By way of example, publicly accessible areas of the Service would include exporting of job postings to job search engines. However, publicly accessible areas of the Service would not include portions of LawHire.com that are limited to registered members or areas off of the Yahoo! network of properties such as portions of World Wide Web sites that are LawHire.com accessible via hypertext or other links but are not hosted or served by lawHire.com.
10. CONTRIBUTIONS TO LawHire.com
By submitting ideas, suggestions, documents, and/or proposals ("Contributions") to LawHire.com, you acknowledge and agree that: (a) your Contributions do not contain confidential or proprietary information; (b) LawHire.com is not under any obligation of confidentiality, express or implied, with respect to the Contributions; (c) LawHire.com shall be entitled to use or disclose (or choose not to use or disclose) such Contributions for any purpose, in any way, in any media worldwide; (d) LawHire.com may have something similar to the Contributions already under consideration or in development; (e) your Contributions automatically become the property of LawHire.com without any obligation of LawHire.com to you; and (f) you are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement of any kind from LawHire.com under any circumstances.
11. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold LawHire.com and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, employees, partners and licensors harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Service, your use of the Service, your connection to the Service, your violation of the TOS, or your violation of any rights of another.
12. NO RESALE OF SERVICE
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service.
13. GENERAL PRACTICES REGARDING USE AND STORAGE
You acknowledge that LawHire.com may establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Service, including without limitation the maximum number of days that email messages or other uploaded or transmitted Content will be retained by the Service, the maximum disk space that will be allotted on LawHire.com servers on your behalf, and the maximum number of times (and the maximum duration for which) you may access the Service in a given period of time. You agree that LawHire.com has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any messages and other communications or other Content maintained or transmitted by the Service. You acknowledge that LawHire.com reserves the right to log off accounts that are inactive for an extended period of time. You further acknowledge that LawHire.com reserves the right to modify these general practices and limits from time to time.
14. MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE
LawHire.com reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that LawHire.com shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.
15. TERMINATION
You agree that LawHire.com may, under certain circumstances and without prior notice, immediately terminate your LawHire.com account, any associated email address, and access to the Service. Cause for such termination shall include, but not be limited to, (a) breaches or violations of the TOS or other incorporated agreements or guidelines, (b) requests by law enforcement or other government agencies, (c) a request by you (self-initiated account deletions), (d) discontinuance or material modification to the Service (or any part thereof), (e) unexpected technical or security issues or problems, (f) extended periods of inactivity, (g) engagement by you in fraudulent or illegal activities, and/or (h) nonpayment of any fees owed by you in connection with the Services. Termination of your LawHire.com account includes (a) removal of access to all offerings within the Service, (b) deletion of your password and all related information, files and content associated with or inside your account (or any part thereof), and (c) barring of further use of the Service. Further, you agree that all terminations for cause shall be made in LawHire.com’s sole discretion and that LawHire.com shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your account or access to the Service.
16. DEALINGS WITH ADVERTISERS
Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. You agree that LawHire.com shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the Service.
17. LINKS
The Service may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. Because LawHire.com has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that LawHire.com is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any Content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that LawHire.com shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such Content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.
18. LawHire.com’s PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
You acknowledge and agree that the Service and any necessary software used in connection with the Service ("Software") contain proprietary and confidential information that is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws. You further acknowledge and agree that Content contained in sponsor advertisements or information presented to you through the Service or by advertisers is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws. Except as expressly permitted by applicable law or authorized by LawHire.com or advertisers, you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the Service or the Software, in whole or in part. LawHire.com grants you a personal, non-transferable and non-exclusive right and license to use the object code of its Software on a single computer; provided that you do not (and do not allow any third party to) copy, modify, create a derivative work from, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code, sell, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in or otherwise transfer any right in the Software. You agree not to modify the Software in any manner or form, nor to use modified versions of the Software, including (without limitation) for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access to the Service. You agree not to access the Service by any means other than through the interface that is provided by LawHire.com for use in accessing the Service.
19. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:
a. YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. LawHire.com AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, PARTNERS AND LICENSORS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
b. LawHire.com AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, PARTNERS AND LICENSORS MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (ii) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE; (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE; (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS; AND (v) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED.
c. ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS ACCESSED AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
d. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM LawHire.com OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TOS.
e. A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF USERS MAY EXPERIENCE EPILEPTIC SEIZURES WHEN EXPOSED TO CERTAIN LIGHT PATTERNS OR BACKGROUNDS ON A COMPUTER SCREEN OR WHILE USING THE SERVICE. CERTAIN CONDITIONS MAY INDUCE PREVIOUSLY UNDETECTED EPILEPTIC SYMPTOMS EVEN IN USERS WHO HAVE NO HISTORY OF PRIOR SEIZURES OR EPILEPSY. IF YOU, OR ANYONE IN YOUR FAMILY, HAVE AN EPILEPTIC CONDITION, CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN PRIOR TO USING THE SERVICE. IMMEDIATELY DISCONTINUE USE OF THE SERVICE AND CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN IF YOU EXPERIENCE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS WHILE USING THE SERVICE: DIZZINESS, ALTERED VISION, EYE OR MUSCLE TWITCHES, LOSS OF AWARENESS, DISORIENTATION, ANY INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT, OR CONVULSIONS.
20. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT LawHire.com AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, PARTNERS AND LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE
LOSSES (EVEN IF LawHire.com HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE; (ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE; (iii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iv) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE; OR (v) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SERVICE.
21. EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OF SECTIONS 19 AND 20 MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
22. SPECIAL ADMONITION FOR SERVICES RELATING TO FINANCIAL MATTERS
If you intend to create or join any service, receive or request any news, messages, alerts or other information from the Service concerning companies, jobs, inquiries, or any forms of communications, either electronic, written or verbal, please read the above Sections 19 and 20 again. The Service is provided for informational purposes only, and no Content included in the Service is intended for trading or investing purposes. LawHire.com and its licensors shall not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, usefulness or availability of any information transmitted or made available via the Service, and shall not be responsible or liable for any trading or investment decisions based on such information.
23. NO THIRD-PARTY BENEFICIARIES
You agree that, except as otherwise expressly provided in this TOS, there shall be no third-party beneficiaries to this agreement.
24. NOTICE
LawHire.com may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to the TOS, including by but not limited to email, regular mail, RSS, postings on the Service, or other reasonable means now known or hereinafter developed.
25. TRADEMARK INFORMATION
The LawHire.com logo and trademarks and service marks and other LawHire.com logos and product and service names are trademarks of Solution Hire, Inc. or its officers. Without LawHire.com’s prior written permission, you agree not to display or use in any manner the LawHire.com Marks.
26. NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT
LawHire.com respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. LawHire.com may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may be repeat infringers. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide LawHire.com the following information:
a. an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest;
b. a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
c. a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;
d. your address, telephone number, and email address;
e. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
f. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf. LawHire.com’s Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:
By mail:
Solution Hire, Inc.
PO Box 1123
Plymouth, MA 02362-1123
By telephone: (508) 830-1123
By email: info@LawHire.com
27. GENERAL INFORMATION
• Entire Agreement. The TOS constitutes the entire agreement between you and LawHire.com and governs your use of the Service, superseding any prior
agreements between you and LawHire.com with respect to the Service. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use or purchase certain other LawHire.com services, affiliate services, third-party content or third-party software.
• Choice of Law and Forum. The TOS and the relationship between you and LawHire.com shall be governed by the laws of the State of Massachusetts without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and LawHire.com agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
• Waiver and Severability of Terms. The failure of LawHire.com to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the TOS shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the TOS is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should
endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the TOS remain in full force and effect.
• Statute of Limitations. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the
Service or the TOS must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred. The section titles in the TOS are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.
28. VIOLATIONS
Please report any violations of the TOS to: info@LawHire.com.
Privacy Policy
A. INTRODUCTION
PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT CAREFULLY. IT CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE CONTINUING TO USE
OUR SERVICE. BY CONTINUING TO USE LawHire.com WEBSITE AND SERVICES YOU WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE ACCEPTED THIS LawHire.com PRIVACY POLICY. Your use of the LawHire.com Website and any services and software provided therein, including any dispute concerning privacy, is subject to this Privacy Policy and LawHire.com Terms of Service. By using the LawHire.com Site, you are accepting the practices set out in this Privacy Policy and those Terms of Service. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the changes on this page. Please check the revision date below to determine if the policy has been modified since you last reviewed it. Your continued use of any portion of the LawHire.com Site following posting of the updated Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes.
This privacy statement was last updated on October 4, 2008. Solution Hire, Inc. / LawHire.com and its affiliates (collectively, “LawHire.com”) has created this
privacy statement in order to disclose its information gathering and dissemination practices for this internet Website, www.LawHire.com located in the United States of America (the “Website”). Upon reading this privacy statement, you will be informed regarding the following: (1) what personally identifiable information of yours or third party personally identifiable information is collected from you through the Website; (2) the organization collecting the information; (3) how the information is used; (4) with whom the information may be shared; (5) what choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information; (6) the kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under LawHire.com’s control; and (7) how you can access and correct any inaccuracies in the information collected about you.
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to LawHire.com by emailing at info@LawHire.com.
If you have any concerns or feel that there are certain problems or issues relating to compliance with the policies outlined in this privacy statement, please submit a report by emailing at info@LawHire.com.
Word from LawHire.com
LawHire.com has a strong commitment to providing reasonable service to all of our customers and visitors of this Website relative to the cost, if any, of the service provided, and particularly respecting your concerns about privacy. We understand that you may have questions about how this Website collects and uses information and we have prepared this statement to inform you of the privacy principles that govern the Website (the “Privacy Policy”). We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information or a list of our customers to third parties. However, as described in more detail below, there are limited circumstances in which some of your information will be shared with third parties, under strict restrictions, so it is important for you to review this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy contains numerous general and technical details about the steps we take to respect your privacy concerns. The bottom line is that meeting your needs and expectations form the foundation of everything we do, including protecting your privacy. Personal information on this Website is collected by LawHire.com and if after reviewing this Privacy Policy you have any questions or privacy concerns please send an e-mail to info@LawHire.com.
1. Changes in Privacy Policy
LawHire.com wants you to be always aware of what personal information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. All personal
information, as further described below, that we collect and maintain will be subject to the version of the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of such collection.
LawHire.com reserves the right to change the Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion, and will prominently post any material changes on the home page of the Website. You will be given the opportunity to opt-out. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, and will be subject to, the changes to the Privacy Policy by your continued use of the Website after such notice has been posted for thirty (30) days with the following exception: if at the time you provide personal information to LawHire.com you limit how such information will be used to communicate with you, either by LawHire.com or by third parties, LawHire.com will not knowingly change your preference in this regard without your express written consent.
2. Third Party Websites
LawHire.com does not control the information collection and distribution policies on Internet domains other than those Internet domains that are under the control of LawHire.com itself. When you are on the LawHire.com Website, you may be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. These other sites may independently collect data, solicit personal information, or send their own “cookies” to you. LawHire.com is not responsible for any use of the information, including click-stream data, created when using such third party sites.
The LawHire.com Website may also contain advertising and other links to other web sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those other sites. Also we do not knowingly send random marketing emails to personal email addresses (spam). The LawHire.com Website may contain hyper links to external web sites owned and operated by third parties. LawHire.com has no control over or association with such third party sites and LawHire.com is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness and quality of the information contained within them. Any and all contents on these external web sites do not reflect products, services or information provided by LawHire.com. You should direct any concerns regarding any external link to the web sites administrator or webmaster of such site. LawHire.com may inform you before you will be redirected to such third party sites and that LawHire.com may notify when you leave its Website and/or provide indication that you are directed to such other third party websites. We may also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. These companies may use general information about your visits to this and/or other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, direct such concerns regarding to the respective company’s administrator or webmaster.
3. Legal Issues
This Website may be subject to the laws of various jurisdictions, including the laws of the United States of America, as this is a US-based website, and other
jurisdiction because the access to our Website may use internet traffic of different jurisdictions, including the United States of America. LawHire.com will disclose personally identifiable information without your permission when required by law, or in good faith belief that such action is necessary to investigate or protect against harmful activities to LawHire.com guests, visitors, associates, or property (including this Website), or to others. As mentioned above, laws related to personal identifiable information vary by country. For example, personally identifiable information collected in the European Union and its Member States is subject to the EU Directives concerning personal data, privacy and electronic communications, including but not limited to Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector and Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and the subsequent legislation adopted in the EU Member States.
LawHire.com may be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide personally identifiable information to appropriate governmental authorities. If requested by law enforcement or judicial authorities, we will provide this information upon receipt of the appropriate documentation. LawHire.com may also provide information to law enforcement to protect its property and the health and safety of individuals as permitted by statute.
B. COLLECTED INFORMATION
1. Browsing
This Website does not collect personally identifiable information from your computer when you browse the Website and request pages from our servers. This means that, unless you voluntarily and knowingly provide us with personally identifiable information, we will not know your name, your e-mail address, or any other personally identifiable information. When you request a page from our Website, our servers log the information provided in the HTTP request header, JavaScript or similar technical tools, including the IP number, the time of the request, the URL of your request and other information. We collect such information in order to make our Website function correctly and provide you the functionality that you see on this Website, as our servers use this information to deliver to you the pages on this Website. We also use this information to better understand how visitors use our Website and how we can better tune our Website, its contents and functionality to meet your needs.
2. Information We Collect
As a visitor to this Website, you can engage in many activities without providing any personal information as described above in Section “Browsing” above. In connection with other activities, such as utilizing online software applications or purchasing or downloading any of the products and services available on the Website, LawHire.com may ask you to voluntarily supply us with certain information about yourself by filling out and submitting an online form. It is completely optional for you to engage in these activities and/or make any purchases. If you elect to engage in these activities or make purchases, however, LawHire.com may ask that you provide us personal information, defined as any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains, including but not limited to your first and last name, mailing address (including ZIP code), e-mail address, employer, and other personal information. This information is requested in conjunction with the purchase and registration of our Products or Services. In addition, as noted below, minimum information is requested if you choose to subscribe to product updates.
LawHire.com may collect personal information as described above of registered users, Service subscribers (e.g., job alerts), and all posted advertisements
information. All advertisements will be archived and stored on our servers. You may deactivate your personal information by contacting at: info@LawHire.com.
When and if you deactivate your personal information, all information stored and maintained as part of your personal information will be deleted from our servers, provided that the information may be retained by LawHire.com for archival, backup and record purposes. The security of this information is addressed in the section “Security” below.
You never have to answer any questions, and you can decline this exchange of information at any time. However, if you should choose to withhold requested information, we may not be able to provide you with some of the services dependent upon the collection of this information. Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask you to provide is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular activity or purchase, you will not be able to engage in that activity or make such a purchase. LawHire.com will reasonably inform on the mandatory and/or optional character of the requested and/or required information.
All posted personal information in advertisements and postings will be available for all Website visitors. By posting any information you agree that such posted content may also be distributed to our partner sites (including without limitation simplyhired.com, oodle.com, etc.). LawHire.com is the sole owner of the information it gathers on the Website.
LawHire.com will only share your information with outside parties in ways that are described in this privacy statement or if we are required to do so by law or in good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law, cooperate with law enforcement agencies, or comply with a legal process served on our Website and the subsequent legislation adopted in the EU Member States.
When you use the Website, LawHire.com or third parties authorized by LawHire.com may also collect certain technical and routing information about your computer to facilitate your use of the Website and its services. When you surf the Internet, your Internet browser (such as Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer) automatically transmits some information to LawHire.com every time you access content on one of our internet domains within the Website. Examples of such information include the URL of the Web page you were just on (known as the “Refer”), the IP (or Internet Protocol) address of the computer you are using, or the browser version you are using to access our site. All of this information may be collected by LawHire.com and used to help improve our offerings to you.
We use such data to facilitate and track your use of the Website and its services. LawHire.com also uses such environmental variables to measure traffic patterns on the Website. Without expressly informing you in each particular circumstance, we do not match such information with any of your personal information.
When you submit personal information to LawHire.com through this Website, you understand and agree that this information may be transferred across national boundaries and may be stored and processed in any of the countries in which LawHire.com and its affiliates and subsidiaries maintain offices. You also acknowledge that in certain countries or with respect to certain activities, the collection, transferring, storage, and processing of your information may be undertaken by trusted vendors of LawHire.com. Such vendors are bound by contract not to use your personal information for their own purposes or provide it to any third parties.
In addition, any and all information posted by the user in advertisements or postings may be distributed via RSS feed to partnership sites. LawHire.com may establish relationships with various service providers whose services may become available to you from this Website or from other websites that are linked to this Website. Typically, these providers would offer services that LawHire.com customers might find useful, such as those that can be used in conjunction with LawHire.com services and products. In order to use those services, you may be required to provide personal information to the providers. Unless expressly provided to the contrary, personal information that you provide while you are visiting a provider's Website will be subject to the privacy policy posted on such site, and personal information that you provide while on this Website in conjunction with a provider's service will be subject to this Privacy Policy. For instances, the credit card information may be entered as part of the filling out the purchase form or registration process is collected by the third parties registration and/or merchant services and subject to their respective privacy policies. You should be aware that our agreements with these service providers often provide that they will share with LawHire.com personal information collected from you. In such instances, LawHire.com may use this information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
3. Updating Your Personal Preferences
You may have access and correct your personal information and privacy preferences by writing LawHire.com at email info@LawHire.com. As a registered user you have the right to access and change your personal information and privacy preferences at any time by logging into your personal account, where you can view and make changes to your personal information. You may also access and change your personal information and privacy preferences by writing LawHire.com at email: info@LawHire.com.
4. Information Relating to Children
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) was passed by the U.S. Congress in November 1998. COPPA provides parents with specific rights regarding their children's privacy. For additional information and resources on COPPA, please visit the Federal Trade Commission Web site at http://www.ftc.gov/. The LawHire.com Website and any products or services available on that site are not directed at children under 13 years of age and, therefore, COPPA does not apply. However, we recognize that children under the age of 13 may access this Website and subscribe to a newsletter, purchase products and services, or download software programs. The collection of information is covered above. Parents and Legal Guardians may request from us to review, delete or stop the collection of the personally identifiable information of their child. You may do so by contacting us by letter (using the address information provided at the bottom of this page) or at email: info@LawHire.com.
5. Securing the Transmission and Storage of Information
LawHire.com operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are
periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary, and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our users. LawHire.com takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you use these services at your own risk.
We treat the information you provide to us as confidential information; it is, accordingly, subject to our company’s security procedures and corporate policies regarding protection and use of confidential information. After personally identifiable information reaches LawHire.com it is stored on a server with physical and electronic security features as customary in the industry, including utilization of login/password procedures and electronic firewalls designed to block unauthorized access from outside of LawHire.com. Because laws applicable to personal information vary by country, our offices or other business operations may put in place additional measures that vary depending on the applicable legal requirements. Information collected on the sites covered by this Privacy Policy is processed and stored in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions and also in other countries where LawHire.com and its service providers conduct business. All LawHire.com employees are aware of our privacy and security policies. Your information is only accessible to those employees who need it in order to perform their jobs.
C. USE AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
1. How Your Personal Information is Used
LawHire.com collects your information in order to record and support your participation in the activities you select. We will use your e-mail address to send a confirmation and, if necessary, might use the other information to contact you for help to process the purchase or service you have selected. If you subscribe to a service or register a product, for example, the information is used to register your rights, if any, to technical support or other benefits that may be made available to registered users. Your personal information is also used to keep you informed about new products, product upgrades, patches, special offers, and other products and services of LawHire.com and selected third parties if you have so opted to receive such communications.
LawHire.com may collect information about the use of the Website, such as the types of services used and how many users we receive daily. This information is collected in aggregate form, without identifying any user individually. LawHire.com may use this aggregate, non-identifying statistical data for statistical analysis, marketing, or similar promotional purposes.
LawHire.com recognizes and appreciates the importance of responsible use of information collected on this Website. Without your consent, LawHire.com will not communicate any information to you regarding products, services, and special offers available from LawHire.com or its affiliates, although we may find it necessary to communicate with you regarding your use of the services on this Website. Except in the particular circumstances described in this Privacy Policy, LawHire.com will also not provide your name to other companies or organizations without your consent.However, you should be aware that some of your contact information in advertisements and postings may be visible for all other visitors, and we cannot guarantee that someone will not use it for commercial or other purposes or activities.
2. Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
LawHire.com may use the services of third parties, such as e-mail service providers, purchase, shipping and order processing merchants and marketing companies that act as independent contractors on behalf of LawHire.com. These parties are contractually prohibited from using personally identifiable information for any purpose other than for the purpose LawHire.com specifies. We do provide non-personally identifiable information to certain service providers for their use on an aggregated basis for the purpose of performing their contractual obligations to us. We prohibit the sale or transfer of personal information to entities outside of the LawHire.com’s affiliates for their use without your approval.
LawHire.com may disclose your personally identifiable information if we believe in good faith that we are required to do so in order to comply with applicable
law, a subpoena, or other legal process. LawHire.com may also disclose personally identifiable information when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating this Privacy Policy, the terms of your agreements with the Company or to protect the safety of our users and the public or under confidentiality and licensing agreements with certain third parties which assist us in developing, operating and maintaining the Website and its content.
In the event that all or substantially all of LawHire.com’s stock and/or all or substantially all assets are transferred or sold to another entity, LawHire.com may transfer personally identifiable information to the acquiring entity. If, as a result of such a business transition, your personally identifiable information will be used in a materially different manner, you will be given choice consistent with our policy regarding notification of changes.
3. Choices Available to You
You can always choose whether or not to disclose personally identifiable information and that choice will not prevent you from using the LawHire.com Website. Please note, however, if you should choose to withhold requested information, we may not be able to provide you with some of the services dependent upon the collection of this information and you will be given an opportunity to “opt-in” and make your preference choices for any items that are optional and which are not prerequisite for our rendering such services.
You can choose at anytime to opt out of receiving emails from LawHire.com or from having your personally identifiable information shared with selected ompanies. If you want to opt out, you can do so by editing your preferences with respect to email or the sharing of information. If you elect to “opt out” we will not, as applicable, share your personal information with third parties or send you emails. However, we may continue to use your personal information for internal purposes, to enhance your user experience or as necessary to administer the site or comply with applicable law.
We reserve the right to send a one-time registration confirmation email, and infrequent Service Alert messages to users to inform them of specific changes that may impact their ability to use a service they have previously signed up for, regardless of email contact opt-in status. We also reserve the right to contact you if compelled to do so as part of a legal proceeding or if there has been a violation of any applicable licensing, warranty and purchase agreements.
LawHire.com is retaining these rights because in limited cases we feel that we may need the right to contact you as a matter of law or regarding matters that will be important to you. These rights do not allow us to contact you to market a new or existing service if you have asked us not to do so, and issuance of these types of communications is rare.
When you create a personal account with LawHire.com and provide your e-mail address and other personal identification information, based on your personal preferences, we may periodically contact you via e-mail and provide information about special offers and promotions that may be of interest to you. These communications will relate to LawHire.com offers and/or the promotions of select, reputable third parties with whom LawHire.com has a strategic marketing relationship because they offer products or services that we believe would be of interest to you. We may use a third party e-mail service provider to send e-mails. This service provider is prohibited from using your e-mail address for any purpose other than to send LawHire.com related e-mail. If you do not wish to receive e-mails with updates and information please unsubscribe by sending email to: info@lawHire.com. In addition, every time you receive an e-mail you may be provided the choice to opt-out of future e-mails by following the instructions provided in the e-mail. You may also opt-out online by updating your personal account as described in “Updating Your Personal References”.
To ensure that your request is honored, you must provide LawHire.com with information sufficient for us to accurately identify and access your records. The information we require is your full name, address and the email address you provided to LawHire.com when you requested services or products. LawHire.com reserves the right to contact you to verify that we have accurately identified your record.
4. Cookies
Our Website uses “cookie” technology. “Cookies” are short pieces of data generated by a web server that a website stores on a user’s computer. Certain pages on our Website may require the use of a cookie for purposes of keeping information you enter on multiple pages together. Cookies also enable us to customize our Website and offerings to your needs and provide you with a better online experience with us. In addition, cookies are used to:
• measure usage of various pages on our Website to help us make our information; more pertinent to your needs and easy for you to access;
• identify and categorized the internet webpages from which the visitor came to the Website and observe the browsing patterns; and
• provide functionality such as online orders, LawHire.com’s services and other functionality that we believe would be of interest and value to you.
The types of cookies that we use are referred to as “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies. Session cookies are temporary and are automatically deleted once you leave the Website. Persistent cookies remain on your computer hard drive until you delete them. We do not use cookies to gather information concerning your visits to other websites, nor ascertain any personally identifiable information about you apart from what you voluntarily provide us in your dealings with LawHire.com. Cookies do not, under ordinary circumstances, corrupt or damage your computer, programs, or computer files.
In addition, the service providers we use to serve and host our advertisements, and/or deliver our e-mails, use session and persistent cookies, to track the number of times the Website is accessed and whether the site was accessed from an advertisement. There are no cookies in the advertisement or e-mail. A cookie is placed on your computer only if and when you click on an advertisement or open the e-mail. The cookie generated from the advertisement or e-mail does not contain any personally identifiable information and will remain on your hard drive until you delete it.
You may set your browser to block cookies (consult the instructions for your particular browser on how to do this), although doing so may adversely affect your ability to perform certain transactions, use certain functionality and access certain content on our Website.
D. PRIVACY-RELATED INQUIRIES AND COMPLAINTS
LawHire.com takes and addresses its users’ privacy concerns with utmost respect and attention. If you believe that there was an instance of non-compliance with this Online Privacy Policy with regard to your personal information or you have other related inquiries or concerns, you may write or contact LawHire.com at email: info@LawHire.com.
In your message, please describe in as much detail as possible the nature of your inquiry or the ways in which you believe that the LawHire.com Online Privacy Policy has not been complied with. We will investigate your inquiry or complaint promptly. Please note that if you provide LawHire.com with inconsistent privacy preferences (for example, by indicating on one occasion that third parties may contact you with marketing offers and indicating on another occasion that they may not), LawHire.com cannot guarantee that your most recent privacy preference will be honored.
Please note that LawHire.com does not collect any credit card information unless and until you provide such information in connection with your payment for LawHire.com’s paid services. LawHire.com will never contact you to ask you for your credit card data. If you are contacted by anyone representing themselves as LawHire.com, Solution Hire, Inc. or any possible agent of this service requesting credit card data or personal information, DO NOT provide any information and email LawHire.com immediately at: info@LawHire.com.
This Information was last updated: February 10, 2009
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