Privacy Policy
Introduction
Last revised on April 28, 2017 We are a social network that provides Applications on Demand. BroadIQâs mission is to connect the worldâs professionals to each other and provide access to applications running in the cloud enabling them to be more productive and successful. Our registered users (âMembersâ) share their professional identities, engage with their network, exchange knowledge and professional insights, post and view relevant content, and access applications. The cornerstone of our business is to focus on our Members first. We protect your personal information using industry-standard safeguards. We may share your information with your consent or as required by law, and we will always let you know when we make significant changes to this Privacy Policy. Maintaining your trust is our top priority, so we adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy:- We protect your personal information and will only provide it to third parties: (1) with your consent; (2) where it is necessary to carry out your instructions; (3) as reasonably necessary in order to provide our features and functionality to you; (4) when we reasonably believe it is required by law, subpoena or other legal process; or (5) as necessary to enforce our User Agreement or protect the rights, property, or safety of BroadIQ, our Members and the public.
- We have implemented appropriate security safeguards designed to protect your information in accordance with industry standards.
1. What information we collect
1.1. Data Controllers
Our Privacy Policy applies to any Member. We collect information when you use our Services to offer you a personalized and relevant experience, including growing your network, using cloud applications and enabling business opportunities. If you have any concern about providing information to us or having such information displayed on our Services or otherwise used in any manner permitted in this Privacy Policy and the User Agreement, you should not become a Member, visit our websites, apps or otherwise use our Services. If you have already registered, you can close your accounts. We collect your personal information in the following ways:1.2. Registration
When you create an account with us, we collect information (including your name, email address, and password). To create an account on BroadIQ, you must provide us with at least your name, email address and/or mobile number, and a password and agree to our User Agreement and this Privacy Policy, which governs how we treat your information. You may provide additional information during the registration flow (for example, your postal code, job title, and company) to help you build your profile and to provide you more customized services (for example: language-specific profile pages, updates, content, more relevant ads and career opportunities). You understand that, by creating an account, we and others will be able to identify you by your BroadIQ profile. We may also ask for your credit card details if you purchase certain additional services or Cloud Applications.1.3. Profile Information
We collect information when you fill out a profile. A complete BroadIQ profile that includes professional details â like your job title, education, and skills â helps you get found by other people for opportunities. After you create an account, you may choose to provide additional information on your BroadIQ profile, such as descriptions of your skills, professional experience, and educational background. You can list honors, awards, professional affiliations, Group memberships, networking objectives, companies or individuals that you follow, and other information including content. Providing additional information enables you to derive more benefit from our Services by helping you express your professional identity; find other professionals, opportunities, and information. It also enables us to serve you ads and other relevant content when using our Services.1.4. Customer Service
We collect information when you contact us for customer support. When you contact our customer support services, we may have to access your messages and other contributions to our Services and collect the information we need to categorize your question, respond to it, and, if applicable, investigate any breach of our User Agreement or this Privacy Policy. We also use this information to track potential problems and trends and customize our support responses to better serve you. We do not use this information for advertising.1.5. Using the BroadIQ Sites and Applications
We collect information when you visit our Services, use our mobile applications, and interact with advertising on and off our Services. We collect information when you use (whether as a Member or a Visitor) our websites, applications, our platform technology or other Services. For example, we collect information when you view or click on ads on and off our Services, perform a search, join and participate in organization, participate in polls, and install one of our mobile applications. If you are logged in on BroadIQ.com or another Service or one of our cookies on your device identifies you, your usage information and the log data described in Section 1.10 of this policy, such as your IP address, will be associated by us with your account. Even if youâre not logged into a Service, we log information about devices used to access our Services, including IP address.1.6. Using Third-Party Services and Visiting Third-Party Sites
We collect information when you use your account to sign in to other sites or services, and when you view web pages that include our plugins and cookies. You allow us to receive information when you use your account to log in to a third-party website or application. Also, when you visit a third-party site that embeds our social plugins we receive information that those pages have loaded in your web browser. If you are logged in as a Member when you visit sites with our plugins, we use this information to recommend tailored content to you. We will use this information to personalize the functionality we provide on third-party sites, including providing you insights from your professional network and allowing you to share information with your network. Our retention of this data is addressed in Section 3.2. We may provide reports containing aggregated impression information to companies hosting our plugins and similar technologies to help them measure traffic to their websites, but no personal data. You also allow us to receive information about your visits and interaction with the sites and services of our partners that include our cookies and similar technologies. If you are not a Member, we rely on the online terms between you and our partners.1.7. Cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies to collect information. We use cookies and similar technologies, including mobile application identifiers, to help us recognize you across different Services, learn about your interests both on and off our Services, improve your experience, increase security, measure use and effectiveness of our Services, and serve advertising. You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools. By visiting our Services, you consent to the placement of cookies and beacons in your browser and HTML-based emails in accordance with this Privacy Policy.1.8. Advertising Technologies and Web Beacons
We use advertising technologies and web beacons to collect information. We give you a number of ways to opt out of targeted ads, including through the Ad Choices icon shown with any ads we serve on third-party sites. If you do not want us to track your behavior on third-party sites, you can opt out. If you do not opt out, you consent to our use of beacons and other advertising technologies. We target (and measure the performance of) ads to Members, Visitors and others both on and off of our Services through a variety of ad networks and ad exchanges, using the following, whether separately or combined:- Advertising technologies on and off of our Services, like web beacons, pixels, ad tags, cookies, and mobile identifiers as permitted by mobile platforms;
- Member-provided profile and contact information and categories (for example, âproduct managers in Texasâ);
- Information inferred from a Memberâs profile (for example, using job titles to infer age, industry, seniority, and compensation bracket; or names to infer gender);
- Your use of our Services (for example, your search history, Organization participation, which pages you visit, your clicking on a BroadIQ ad, etc.) and log files generated as described in Section 1.10;
- Information from 3rd parties (e.g. advertising partners, publishers and data aggregators) which we use in addition to the information from our cookies (and similar technologies), your profile and use of our Services.