WORKLINX Privacy Policy

WORKLINX is TRUSTe Compliant. This statement discloses the privacy practices for the WORKLINX web site. WORKLINX, Ltd. is a member of the TRUSTe program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit initiative whose mission is to build users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the principles of disclosure and information consent.

Your information may be stored and processed in New Zealand or any other country in which WORKLINX or WORKLINX representatives and affiliates maintain facilities. This information is highly protected and is stored in a secure and controlled environment. By using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. WORKLINX abides by the principles set forth in the Safe Harbour framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.

Because WORKLINX wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, we have agreed to disclose our information practices and have our privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe. By displaying the TRUSTe mark, WORKLINX has agreed to notify you of:

What personally identifiable information or third-party personally identifiable information is collected from you through our web site.

The organization collecting the information

How the information is used.

With whom the information may be shared.

What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of the information.

The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under WORKLINX control.

How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

The TRUSTe program covers information that is collected through this web site. It does not cover information that may be collected through software downloaded from this web site.

Questions or concerns regarding this statement should be directed to the WORKLINX privacy coordinator. If your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe online at: www.truste.org/users/users_watchdog.html. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with WORKLINX to resolve your concerns.

WORKLINX and your privacy

At WORKLINX we respect your right to privacy and we understand that, as a visitor to WORKLINX.com, you prefer to control your own personal information and preferences. For this reason, we may ask you to register or to provide personal information and preferences when you visit certain areas of WORKLINX.com, download free software, request information, or subscribe to WORKLINX Edge newsletter.

We will guard the personal information you share with us to ensure the content, services, and advertising that we provide on WORKLINX.com are always tailored to your current, designated preferences.

When you provide WORKLINX with your name (or alias), e-mail address, mailing address, or telephone number, and you do not 'opt out,' WORKLINX and WORKLINX representatives and affiliates may use the provided information to alert you to product upgrades, special offers, updated information, classes, new services, and other WORKLINX information. Representatives and affiliates may include value-added resellers and authorized training partners. Beyond its representatives and affiliates, WORKLINX does not offer or allow the selling of any user-provided information to third parties.

WORKLINX respects the rights users give us when opting to receive e-mail communications and enforces internal policies to preserve those rights. It is our objective to retain the long-term ability to continue to communicate with our users.

If you do not want WORKLINX or WORKLINX representatives to contact you, you may "opt out" of this preference at any time, whether you're online or contacting WORKLINX directly. As part of your preference flexibility, you'll always have the option to opt back in and have WORKLINX contact you based on your previous or new preferences. For instructions, please see the section "Contact Us," below.

If you choose not to register or provide personal information, you can still visit most WORKLINX web sites; however, you will not have access to areas that require personal identification.

Personal information that you post to online forums is accessible by other forum participants.

If a user elects to use our “Tell A Friend” application for forwarding a WORKLINX e-mail to their friend or informing a friend about our web site., we ask them for the friend’s name and e-mail address. WORKLINX will automatically send the friend the specified e-mail or the specified web site. information. WORKLINX will not use the friend's information to contact them in the future.

The WORKLINX Flash Player has privacy settings that you may control. Visit the Global Privacy Settings page for more information.

WORKLINX membership and the use of log files (cookies)

WORKLINX offers free membership to all WORKLINX.com visitors. In order to establish membership, visitors are requested to provide both personal information and preferences. This information is stored and protected by your user-established Member ID and Password.

There is an additional "Remember me" option. By selecting it, you allow WORKLINX to store your Member ID and password so you can access certain areas of the web site. without re-signing in. The sign-in information is stored until you explicitly sign out. It also allows you to return to any WORKLINX web site. on subsequent visits without having to re-enter your information. WORKLINX remembers you by placing a log file (cookie) that contains only enough information to identify you upon return visits. A "cookie" is a small line of text that is stored with your web browser for record-keeping purposes and helps WORKLINX provide better service to you. Your browser has options to accept, reject, or provide you with notice when a cookie is sent.

No information, other than that found in the Membership cookie, will be accessed by any WORKLINX system. Access to your membership information always requires both your Member ID and Password.

WORKLINX also utilizes visitor log files (cookies) and hosted tracking with our web site. Once a user enters our site, a cookie follows them through their click stream path. Examples of information being collected by these cookies and the hosted tracking include the number of times a user came to our site(s), and the paths they took to get there. WORKLINX uses the data collected from web site. visitor cookies and hosted tracking in aggregate form only and does not collect any personally identifiable information. Use of this information helps us better understand what users are seeking and learning at our web site.(s) and helps us identify potential navigation issues.

We also gauge effectiveness of our communications by inserting transparent GIF images in our HTML e-mails. These GIF files are not unique identifiers and do not gather any personally identifiable information. They simply let us know the number of e-mails that have been opened.

How WORKLINX will protect your personal information

WORKLINX will always protect the personal information that you share with us. WORKLINX stores information internally in a controlled, secure environment. If, for example, you make a purchase online, we route all transactions through SSL (Secure Socket Layers) and will process your credit card number only to secure your current payment. The SSL transaction does not retain your credit card number subsequent to the transaction at hand and will not use the number for marketing purposes.

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, including packaging, mailing and delivering purchases, answering customer questions about products or services, sending postal mail and processing event registration. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

If WORKLINX requests general demographic information, this information is limited to reporting purposes only; members remain anonymous. Phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and postal addresses are never shared for demographic reports with outside entities. WORKLINX may occasionally present a special contest or promotion that is sponsored by another company. To qualify for entry, we may ask you to provide personal information. If we plan to share that information with the sponsor(s), we will provide an up-front statement to that effect.

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our web site.

Product Activation and Privacy

WORKLINX products may require activation in order to authenticate licensed users. The WORKLINX Product Activation System does not collect or utilize personal information, such as your name and contact information, and does not associate activation data with registration data. For more details, visit the WORKLINX Product Activation Center.

WORKLINX & Security

Security is one of our highest priorities, and WORKLINX understands that security is important to our customers as well. WORKLINX uses the Security Zone to periodically publish security bulletins and technical briefs that provide information to customers about security issues.

Contact us

How to update your personal information and preferences: You can help WORKLINX maintain the accuracy of your personal information by notifying us when you change your name, address, title, phone number, e-mail address, or your content preferences. If at any time you wish to update your information or preferences, or you prefer to stop receiving communication from WORKLINX, feel free to contact us at any time.

Online: www.WORKLINX.com/membership/

E-mail : privacy@WORKLINX.com

Postal Mail: WORKLINX, Attn: Privacy, PO Box 2427, 1081 Hinemoa Street, Rotorua., N. Z.

If you change your e-mail or postal address, please contact WORKLINX. In order to make the appropriate corrections, please include both your old and new address.

WORKLINX would like to receive your comments and questions about this Privacy Policy: Please address comments or questions regarding the WORKLINX Privacy Policy to one of the addresses listed above (online, e-mail, or postal mail). WORKLINX may occasionally update, amend, or change this Privacy Policy based on user feedback and as needed or appropriate. If we decide to materially change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and will e-mail the information to our users so that they are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. Users will always have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in accordance with, and in respect to, the posted privacy policy. If users have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated their account, then they will not be contacted.

Links

WORKLINX web sites may contain links to other sites. WORKLINX assumes no responsibility for the content or the privacy policies and practices of such web sites WORKLINX encourages you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites; their privacy practices may differ from ours.