GadBall Privacy Statement

Effective April 1, 2006:

About GadBall.com
("GadBall") is an online professional, personal and career community networking service. Users of the GadBall website and service ("Users") can post resumes on the GadBall website and utilize the GadBall Resume Distribution technologies to distribute their resumes to multiple internet employment sites from GadBall. Users can also create personal profiles and link these to other Users through User established networks.

GadBall Users can view the profiles of other Users, communicate with friends (both new and old) on the service, share photos, post messages and comments, and describe their professional, personal, and career interests. To enrich and facilitate the experiences of our Users we request and display some personal information to other Users and visitors of GadBall, which allows Users to identify each other and expand their networks. GadBall Users can edit their User profile information at any time and control which internet employment sites receive their information, and how other GadBall Users and GadBall communicates with them.

Upholding the privacy of our Users is paramount to GadBall. If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please contact us.

Information Collection and Use by GadBall.com
GadBall collects User submitted information such as name, eMail address, and age to authenticate Users and to send notifications to Users relating to the GadBall service. GadBall also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, work history, education and occupation in order to assist Users in finding and communicating with each other.

GadBall automates the process of posting a resume on multiple internet employment sites, and GadBall only transmits User resume information to internet employment sites as requested by the User.

GadBall logs non-personally identifiable information including IP address, aggregate profile information, aggregate User data, aggregate resume content, and browser type, from Users and visitors to the site. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes. All of this data is used to manage the website, track usage, display relevant advertising, and improve the website services. This non-personally identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to facilitate the provision of more relevant services and advertisements to members.

GadBall will never provide, share, rent or sell User-specific personal information to any third parties, unless the User requests GadBall to transmit this information on the User's behalf.

User Profile information including members' pictures, first names, and city, state (or province) and country of residence are displayed to other Users and visitors in order to facilitate User interaction in the GadBall social networking community.

EMail addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join GadBall, to add Users to a User's friends' network(s), and to send notifications related to the service. With the exception of inviting friends, adding friends, and notifications, a User's eMail address is not shared or displayed to people within a User's personal network. Users within a personal network communicate on GadBall with each other through the GadBall service, without disclosing their email addresses. Users' full names are never directly revealed to other members. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, GadBall allows Users to search for other members using first and last name, email address, and schools and/or companies where Users may have attended or worked.

GadBall may also use a User's email address to send updates, notifications of unread eMail messages, or a newsletter or news regarding the service. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their "notification" settings on the User "Account Settings".

GadBall or a partner may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on GadBall. Participating Users may be asked to provide personal information including (but not limited to) name, eMail address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. GadBall will make it clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information; the User electing transfer of information from GadBall is responsible for reviewing the Privacy Policy of the recipient – this includes the resume distribution service of GadBall in which the User specifically selects the sites to receive the User's resume.

Invitations and Other Communications to Non-members GadBall Users can invite friends to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. GadBall stores the email addresses that Users provide so that the respondents may be added to the User's network, and to send the invitations, and also to send reminders of the invitations. GadBall does not sell, rent, or trade these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders (up to three [3] per email address). Recipients of invitations from GadBall may contact GadBall to request the removal of their information from our database.

GadBall Users may also store email addresses of people they know in their internal GadBall address book and may also choose to send invitations and other communications to those addresses.

Use of Cookies GadBall uses cookies to store User and Visitor preferences and to record session information, for enhancement of the User experience (including ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements) and to customize newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and User information. Users may be able to configure their browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify the User when a cookie is set. Each browser is different; it is the User's responsibility to check the "Help" menu of the User's browser to learn how to change cookie preferences. However, you must enable cookies from GadBall in order to use most functions on the site. Users Please Note: GadBall allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer; this is a common internet practice. Each advertiser's use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the GadBall Privacy Policy.

Links GadBall contains links to sites. GadBall.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site each User should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on GadBall.

Chat Rooms, Discussion Forums, Journals and WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds and Public Forums
All Users, please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to Journals, WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds or any other Public Forums that the information you post can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications. For this reason we recommend that Users only post their resumes to third party employment sites using the GadBall resume distribution service and Users refrain from posting contact information of any type on any internet website(s).

Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
GadBall Users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account, accessing the appropriate features, and making the desired changes.

Email Choice/Opt-out
GadBall Users who no longer wish to receive notifications may choose not to by logging into their account, accessing the appropriate features, and making the desired changes. All notification emails from GadBall also include the above instructions for opting-out of those communications in the future.

Third Party Advertising
Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to Users by GadBall or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by GadBall and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Security
GadBall User accounts are secured by member-created UserID's and Passwords. GadBall takes precautions to insure that User account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect User information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to User information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our technical staff. Please note that no company, including GadBall, can guarantee the security of User account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of User information at any time. GadBall recognizes the trust of our Users is the foundation for our long-term success; we review our security processes regularly, and we attempt to take every commercially reasonable step to keep our systems updated with the newest in security technologies to protect our Users' information.

Sharing and Disclosure of Information
GadBall Collects Except as described above, GadBall will not disclose personal information to any third party without a User's explicit permission unless required by law. GadBall reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of GadBall. For more information see the "Changes in Our Privacy Policy" section below.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy. If we make changes, we will post them on our site to make Users aware of what the changes are so Users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A User is bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted. If, however, we are going to use Users' personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify Users by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days.

Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us (1400 Quail Street, Suite 260, Newport Beach, CA 92660). Thank you for your interest in how we address Privacy for our Users; we hope you are comfortable joining us and that you benefit from the service(s) we provide – Welcome to GadBall!