Privacy Policy
Appledore Associates, which owns and operates this website, believes that addressing your concerns about privacy online is critical. Appledore Associates uses its best efforts to protect the personal information given to us by visitors to this website so that the information you submit on this website is used only in ways to which you have consented. A more detailed explanation about how we treat your personal information is described below.
Disclosure of Information
Appledore Associates is the owner of the information collected on this website. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Appledore Associates may collect information from our users at several different points on our website.
Appledore Associates reserves the right to access and disclose individually identifiable information to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests, to operate its systems properly or to protect itself or its users. We reserve the right to share aggregated "site usage" information with third parties for the purpose of increased efficiency and personalization of this website.
Administration of Personal Information
You are in control of the personal information you provide to this website.
You can:
- Ask for a copy of your personal information.
- Ask for your personal information to be corrected or updated
- Ask us to remove your personal information from our records
Registration
In order to use certain areas of this website, a user may be required to first complete a registration form. During registration, a user is required to give his or her contact information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact users about the services on our site in which they have expressed interest.
Resume
One of the primary purposes of this website is to enable visitors to provide their resumes for use by Appledore Associates. As a user of this site, you have the option of submitting or posting your resume to the site. By doing so, your resume will be viewable and searchable and may be forwarded, transmitted, or ported to recruiters of Appledore Associates. Appledore Associates recruiters who have received your resume or personal information may retain them in their own files or databases.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Sharing
We may share aggregated demographic information with our affiliates, partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
In certain areas, we partner with other companies to provide specific services. When a user signs up for these services, we will share his or her names or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties are to use personally identifiable information only for the purpose of providing these services.
Referral Service
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site or information posted on our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. Appledore Associates will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site, or a link to certain information contained within this website. Appledore Associates stores this information for the purpose of sending this one-time email. The friend may contact Appledore Associates.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Appledore Associates is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.
Opt-In Email Services
If a user wishes to subscribe to our opt-in email services (for example, our newsletter), we ask for contact information such as name and email address.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users through surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys and contests is completely voluntary, so the user has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as ZIP code and age range). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files recorded in a user's hard drive and are employed by many sites to enhance a user's web viewing experience. Cookies allow sites and advertisers to "remember" users across pages of a site and across multiple visits to a site. We may use cookies for remembering preferences, maintaining information about whether you are currently logged into our system and for tracking click streams. Through use of cookies, we can deliver faster service, updated results and a more personalized site experience. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify user's computers. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of a website's functionality if you do so.
Children
Children are not the intended users of our site. We do not specifically collect information about children. We believe that children should get their parent's consent before giving out personal information.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF OUR PRIVACY PRACTICES
By using this website or any other Appledore Associates website or interactive banner ads, you signify your acceptance of our Privacy Policy and your adherence to the terms and conditions posted on the website. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here in order to keep you informed.
If you have any questions or concerns about the security at our website, please feel free to contact us.