Privacy Policy
Effective June 1, 2005
Privacy Notice Table Of Contents:
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Our Commitment To Privacy
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TRUSTe
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The Information We Collect
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How We Use Information
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Our Commitment To Data Security
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How To Access Your Personally Identifiable Information
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Choice/Opt-out
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Cookies
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Log Files
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Security
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Changes To This Privacy Statement
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How To Contact Us
Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is very important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide
this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can
make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice
easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where
personally identifiable information may be requested.
TRUSTe
Fortnight is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program.
TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build
user’s trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair
information practices. This privacy statement covers the site
www.fortnight-solutions.com. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its
commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices
and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe. If you have
questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact our
Network Coordinator at
Network.Coordinator@fortnight-solutions.com. If you do not receive
acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily
addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at
http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will
then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.
The Information We Collect
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the
Fortnight Solutions website. As part of our sign-up, some pages
request information that helps Fortnight contact you.
We also ask you to enter information about how frequently we may initiate
contact (e.g., send you an e-mail). The types of personal information collected
at these pages are:
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Name
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Address
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Email address
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Phone number
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(Etc.)
At other parts of our sign-up, we request information about your background that
helps establish and clarify your expertise. The types of information collected
at these pages are:
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Educational history
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Employment history
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Years of expertise in particular fields
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Expert witness experience
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(Etc.)
How We Use Information
At Fortnight, you choose how, when, and to whom
your information is released. We will contact you directly before:
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Presenting to a client any Lead you have suggested.
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Presenting to a client your name as potential consultant or expert witness.
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Making any changes in this privacy policy.
If you would like your resume or related information be made available to
clients without contacting you directly each and every time we suggest you as a
potential consultant or expert witness, you must explicitly opt-in during the
sign-up proceedure.
We use your phone number and e-mail address (1) to contact you to verify your
information and Leads you may submit and (2) to announce when new requests from
our clients are available. Your contact information is not used for any other
purpose and is not shared with outside parties.
As part of our sign-up process, you choose how frequently you would like to
receive those announcements. You can change this at any time by logging into
our website.
We use non-identifying and aggregate information to describe our network’s
capabilities and provide initial feedback to clients’ requests. For example, we
may tell our clients that Z number of experts have joined the Fortnight
Network or fit a particular expertise profile. We will not disclose anything
that could be used to identify those individuals unless they give Fortnight
explicit authorization to do so, as described above. We also use such
information to optimize our website.
We do not use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us
online in ways unrelated to the ones described above. Period!
Our Commitment To Data
Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct
use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and
managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect
online.
How To Access Your
Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, you may update it at any
time by making the change on your member information page (login required), by
emailing the Network of Experts by emailing the Network Coordinator at
Network.Coordinator@fortnight-solutions.com, or by contacting us by
telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below.
To protect your privacy and security, we may take reasonable steps to verify
your identity before granting access or making corrections that may include
contacting you by email or phone.
Choice/Opt-out
We have designed our business around protecting and respecting your privacy. As
such, you must explicitly give us permission to share your personally
identifiable information with third parties (our clients). You may change your
election to let us share your resume or contact information with prospective
clients at any time by making the change on your member information page (login
required), by emailing the Network Coordinator at
Network.Coordinator@fortnight-solutions.com, or by contacting us by
telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below.
If you wish to stop participating in the Network of Experts, please email the
Network Coordinator at
Network.Coordinator@fortnight-solutions.com or contact us by telephone
or postal mail at the contact information listed below.
Cookies
Some parts of our website make extensive use of cookies. A cookie is a small
text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We
use two types of cookies on this site: session ID cookies and (optionally)
persistent cookies.
We use session ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A
session ID cookie is created when you log in to your Expert account and is
deleted when you log out. Should you forget to log out, every session ID cookie
expires when you close your browser. Session ID cookies contain no personally
identifiable information.
We use persistent cookies to store username and passphrase information so you
don’t have to enter it each time you visit our site. A persistent cookie is set
only if you choose “Save credentials for next time” from the Login page. All
information stored within this persistent cookie is encrypted to further
protect your privacy.
A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time.
You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your
Internet browser’s “help” file.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some
areas of our site, specifically interacting with Requests and Leads, will be
severely limited.
Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and
store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP)
addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages,
operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze
trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and
to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not
link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter
sensitive information such as your name and contact information or any
interactions with Requests and Leads, we encrypt that information using secure
socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal
information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.
No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage,
is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially
acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its
absolute security.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as
required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our
rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process
served on our Web site.
Changes To This Privacy
Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this
privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that
you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what
circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please
review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will
notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
How To Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please
call, e-mail, or write to us using the contact information below.
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