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Privacy Policy

Nosal Partners (“Nosal Partners”, “us” or “we”) respects the privacy of the visitors to its Website, the home page of which is located at http://www.nosalpartners.com (“Website”).
This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you of our policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of any Personal Information and Anonymous Information you submit to us through our Website.

Personal Information” is information about you that is personally identifiable to you, like your name, address, e-mail address, or phone number, as well as other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing.
Anonymous Information” means information that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information; Anonymous Information does not permit the identification of individual persons.
We collect and use Personal Information and Anonymous Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

User Consent
By submitting Personal Information through our Website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and you expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information according to this Privacy Policy.
Your Personal Information may be processed by Nosal Partners in the country where it was collected as well as other countries (including the United States) where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be less stringent than the laws in your country.

Collection of Personal Information
The Personal Information we gather from you helps us learn about visitors to the Website, our clients and candidates and potential clients and candidates.  We use this information to better serve you, and to better tailor the features, performance and support of our services and Website, and to offer you additional information and opportunities.
 
Personal Information You Provide to Us
We collect Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily through our Website.

  • When you set up a profile on our Website, we will collect your username, e-mail address and a password that you choose.
  • When you enter Personal Information into the profile that you have created, we will collect all such Personal Information that you decide to enter, including, but not limited to, address information, information regarding your education and skills and other employment-related information.
  • When you contact us by sending us an e-mail, we will collect your name, e-mail address and any information contained in the e-mail you send us.

Personal Information Collected Via Technology
As you navigate our Website, certain information may also be collected passively, including your Internet protocol address, browser type, domain names, access times, and operating system. We also use Cookies and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the solutions and information for which you searched and which you viewed. This type of information is collected to make our services, solutions, and the Website more useful to you.

An “Internet protocol address” or “IP Address” is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet.  In some cases your IP Address stays the same from browser session to browser session; but if you use a consumer internet access provider, your IP Address probably varies from session to session.  We track IP Addresses solely in conjunction with session cookies to analyze our web page flow.

 “Cookies” are small pieces of information that a web site sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing a web site.  We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on the Website.  Persistent Cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions.  If you choose to disable Cookies, some areas of the Website may not work properly.

Personal Information We Receive From Other Sources
We may receive Personal Information about you from other sources like postal mail, telephone or fax.  We may add this information to the information we have already collected from you via our Website in order to improve the services and solutions we provide.
 
Use of Information
In general, Personal Information you submit to us is used either to respond to requests that you make, or to aid us in serving you better. We may also use your Personal Information to provide you with our newsletter, surveys, or promotional e-mails regarding changes and upgrades to our services and solutions and for other marketing purposes, unless you request not to receive such communications from us.

We will use the Personal Information that you submit to us by entering it into your profile to perform our services to you, and we will share this Personal Information with other clients and candidates, only as requested and authorized by you.

We may create Anonymous Information records from Personal Information by excluding information (such as your name) that make the information personally identifiable to you.  We may use this Anonymous Information to analyze request patterns and usage patterns so that we may enhance our services.  Nosal Partners reserves the right to use and disclose Anonymous Information to third parties in its discretion. 

Feedback
If you provide feedback on our services to us, we may use such feedback for any purpose, provided we will not associate such feedback with your Personal Information.  Nosal Partners will collect any information contained in such communication and will treat the Personal Information in such communication in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Disclosure of Personal Information
Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not generally trade, rent, or share your Personal Information with third parties and we will not disclose such information unless you ask us to do so.

However, we may share your Personal Information with third parties that support us in serving you.  These third parties are required not to use your Personal Information other than to provide the services requested by Nosal Partners and are bound by strict confidentiality agreements with regard to their use of such information.  You expressly consent to the sharing of your Personal Information with our contractors and third party service providers for the sole purpose of providing services to you.

Although we currently do not have a parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (collectively, “Affiliates”), we may in the future. We may share some or all of your Personal Information with these Affiliates, in which case we will require our Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.

If our company or our assets are acquired by another company, that company will possess the Personal Information collected by us and it will assume the rights and obligations regarding your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Regardless of any choices you make regarding your Personal Information (as described below), we may disclose your Personal Information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on Nosal Partners; or (b) to protect and defend the rights or property of Nosal Partners or third parties.

Your Choices Regarding Your Personal Information
We offer you choices regarding the collection, use and sharing of your Personal Information. When you receive newsletters or promotional communications from us, you may indicate a preference to stop receiving further communications from us and you will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the e-mail your receive. Despite your indicated e-mail preferences, we may send you notices of any updates to our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy.
You may change any of the Personal Information contained in your profile by accessing it through our Website.

Regarding Children
We do not intentionally gather Personal Information about visitors who are under the age of 13.

Other Sites
Our provision of a link to any other website or location is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such other website or location or its contents. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for these outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of our Privacy Policy do not apply to these outside websites.

Security
Nosal Partners is committed to protecting the security of your Personal Information.  We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. 
Nosal Partners has implemented industry-standard electronic means of protecting your Personal Information.  We store Personal Information behind a computer firewall, a barrier designed to prevent outsiders from accessing our servers, and we have implemented technology to detect intrusions.  We also require you to enter a password to access your profile information.  In addition, Nosal Partners protects your Personal Information from unauthorized physical access by storing your Personal Information in a controlled facility.  Except as provided elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, Nosal Partners limits access to Personal Information in electronic databases to those persons (including employees and contractors) in Nosal Partners’s organization who have a business need for such access.
Even though Nosal Partners has taken significant steps to ensure that your Personal Information is not intercepted, accessed, used, or disclosed by unauthorized persons, you should know that Nosal Partners cannot fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information.

Contact Us
Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

Nosal Partners LLC
100 First Street, Suite 2200
San Francisco, CA 94105
United States of America

Privacy Policy Updates
This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revision, and if we make any substantial changes to it, we will post an alert on this page.  If you object to any such changes, you must cease using our Website. Continued use of our Website following notice of any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.

This Policy was last updated in February 2006.

 



 
       
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