Privacy Policy

Insightory is committed to maintaining the privacy of all its users. However, the nature of an interactive online service like ours is such that it requires a special privacy policy, which is described here. By using Insightory, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and consented to the privacy policy described in this section.

The Privacy Policy applies only to Insightory.com. We do not have any control over or responsibility or liability for other websites, even if this website links to them.

The Privacy Policy should be read and understood together with the Terms of Use.

Note that we will never sell, rent or provide your email address or other contact information to any third party, except if required to do so by law.

Insightory collects personal information when you create your user profile. Specific data elements that we collect may include name, email address, education, experience, professional interests, age, gender, location, occupation etc., and may change with time. This information, at an aggregate level, helps us with:

• Strategic planning and marketing
• Website design, navigation and performance management
• Display of relevant content and advertising

Some of this information is optional, while some is required. Our attempt is to always keep the "required" elements to a minimum, while keeping in mind the need for efficiency and relevance on the website. If you decide not to share any of the required information with us, we will not be able to provide services to you.

When you browse the website, or log in to your account, we automatically send one or more "cookies" to your computer to, among other things, maintain logs of your visit, identify your IP address, your browser type, and the pages you visit. You can set your internet browser to reject cookies, but doing so may make it difficult or impossible to use some features of the website.

By creating a profile, you consent to letting us use your email id whenever there is a need to contact you individually. This may be for reasons such as:

• Welcoming you to the website and validating your registration
• Confirmation of new content uploaded by you
• Questions or changes in any content you have posted
• Major updates in website features or policies
• Copyright issues or other legal issues
• Poll or election regarding functioning of the site
• Other administrative matters

Keeping in mind our professional audience, Insightory does not allow contrived user names or pseudonyms of any kind. All transactions and content on the website will be under your real name. Further, all information you enter in your profile, including your photograph, but not including your email or other contact information, will be accessible by all users. This is essential to a community-driven service such as Insightory. By creating a profile on Insightory, you consent to making all this information available to other users.

Insightory may share some of the information you provide us with third parties, in the following ways:

• Provide aggregate information to partner companies who may use it to provide targeted offers to certain groups (such as a particular type of advertisement appearing when all "Executives" log in), or to improve Insightory's own services (such as monitoring locations from where users log in)
• Share demographic information with third parties such as the media, advertisers, and government agencies. This is typically in the form of aggregated numbers, such as total numbers of Insightory users in a particular location or occupation.

In either case, we will not share personally identifiable information. However, any personally identifiable information that you disclose on your profile may be used by others, and will not be subject to this restriction.

If you opt to use a third-party service (such as job search) offered by a partner company, that requires personally identifiable information, you consent to us sharing such information with that company.

By using the website and providing content, you consent to us "highlighting" your contributions and activities by mentioning them on the website or blog, in related services (such as email "alerts" to users), in press releases and in any other publicity related to the website. Examples of contributions and activities we may highlight include: mentioning those who submit high-quality and/or high volume of content, or those who volunteer to moderate various forums at Insightory.

We will cooperate with the appropriate authorities on legal matters. Sometimes, this may require us to share your information to:

• Respond to subpoenas, warrants or court orders.
• Cooperate with law enforcement officials in an investigation of illegal activity, fraud, threats etc.
• Secure the website and users, investigate violations of Insightory's Terms of Use, or to defend against legal claims or allegations.

If Insightory is acquired by or merged with another company, you understand that we may transfer the information we have collected from users to that company.

Insightory takes a number of steps to safeguard your data, including:

• Limiting data access to employees on a "need to know" basis only.
• Using physical and electronic security measures.
• Using industry-standard SSL encryption to protect transmission of sensitive data.

User data provided to Insightory may be stored in our offices, data centers or on the servers provided by our web hosting providers. These may be located anywhere in the USA or overseas. You understand and consent to this storage and transmission of data potentially crossing international borders. This is especially relevant for users from other countries (particularly the European Union countries) where data privacy rules are more restrictive.

Insightory is designed for adult business and management professionals only. We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors under 18 years of age.

We are always willing to help a parent or guardian who believes that their child has provided Insightory with personally identifiable information. You may contact us at help@insightory.com.

Insightory.com may have links to other web sites that contain relevant information for our users. You recognize that Insightory has no responsibility for the privacy policies of these websites, nor do we have any liability arising out of any content or transaction you perform on these sites.

Advertisers may place additional cookies on the website. This privacy policy does not cover those advertisers, or their use of cookies.

This policy may change from time to time. We will attempt to notify users about any major change, either through email or by a prominent posting on our website and/or blog. However, most changes are expected to be minor, and hence we will not send out notifications for them. You should review this section frequently to ensure that you are aware of our latest privacy policy.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please send an email to help@insightory.com.