2. Data We Collect
2.1 Data You Provide To Us
- Registration: To create an account, you need to provide data including your name, email address and/or mobile number, and a password.
- Profile: You create your Office Connexion profile (a complete profile helps you get the most from our Services).
- Profile Information: You have choices about the information on your profile, such as your name, organization, division, email, country, etc. Profile information helps you to get more from our Services, including helping business opportunities find you.
2.2 Data From Others
- Content and News: You and others may post content that includes information about you (as part of articles, posts, comments, videos) on our Services.
- Contact and Calendar Information: Others may sync their contacts or calendar with our Services, which may include personal data.
2.3 Service Use
We log your visits and use of our Services, including mobile apps. This includes tracking how you interact with content, ads, and features across the site.
2.4 Cookies, Web Beacons, and Other Similar Technologies
We collect data through cookies and similar technologies to recognize you across different devices and Services. For more details, please refer to our Cookie Policy.
2.5 Your Device and Location
We receive data from your devices, such as location data, device ID, and browser type. This helps us improve your experience across our Services.
2.6 Messages
If you communicate through our Services, we collect information regarding your messages and interactions with others, including tracking actions like reading and responding to messages.
2.7 Workplace and School Provided Information
Your employer may provide us with data about you if they purchase our Services for your use.
2.8 Other
We continuously improve our Services, which may result in new ways we collect and use data. We will notify you of any significant changes.
3. How We Use Your Data
We use your data to provide, support, personalize, and develop our Services to offer a better experience for you and others.
3.1 Services
Our Services help you connect with others, find and be found for business opportunities, stay informed, and be more productive. We use your data to personalize your experience and help you connect.
3.2 Communications
We contact you through various methods including email, mobile notifications, and on-site messages to keep you updated about our Services. You can manage your communication preferences through your account settings.
3.3 Advertising
We serve you tailored ads based on the data we collect, both on and off our platform. You can manage your ad preferences through your account settings.
3.4 Marketing
We promote our Services to you and others to grow our user base, engagement, and product offerings.
3.5 Developing Services and Research
We use feedback and data to improve and develop new features, conduct research, and enhance our Services.
3.6 Customer Support
We use your data to respond to and resolve any issues or questions you may have regarding our Services.
3.7 Aggregate Insights
We analyze aggregated data to gain insights into user behavior and trends, which help us improve the platform and provide better services.
3.8 Security and Investigations
We use data for security purposes and to prevent fraud, including investigating any violations of our User Agreement or Privacy Policy.
3. How We Use Your Data
We use your data to provide, support, personalize, and develop our Services to offer a better experience for you and others.
3.1 Services
Our Services help you connect with others, find and be found for business opportunities, stay informed, and be more productive. We use your data to personalize your experience and help you connect.
3.2 Communications
We contact you through various methods including email, mobile notifications, and on-site messages to keep you updated about our Services. You can manage your communication preferences through your account settings.
3.3 Advertising
We serve you tailored ads based on the data we collect, both on and off our platform. You can manage your ad preferences through your account settings.
3.4 Marketing
We promote our Services to you and others to grow our user base, engagement, and product offerings.
3.5 Developing Services and Research
We use feedback and data to improve and develop new features, conduct research, and enhance our Services.
3.6 Customer Support
We use your data to respond to and resolve any issues or questions you may have regarding our Services.
3.7 Aggregate Insights
We analyze aggregated data to gain insights into user behavior and trends, which help us improve the platform and provide better services.
3.8 Security and Investigations
We use data for security purposes and to prevent fraud, including investigating any violations of our User Agreement or Privacy Policy.
3. How We Share Information
3.1 Our Services
Profile: Any data that you include on your profile and any content you post or social action (e.g. likes, follows, comments, shares) you take on our Services will be seen by others. Your profile is fully visible to only Users that you have agreed to connect with. Subject to your settings, it can also be visible to others on or off of our Services (e.g., Visitors to our Services or users of third-party search engines). As detailed in our Help Center, your settings, degree of connection with the viewing Member, the subscriptions they may have, their usage of our Services, access channels, and search types (e.g., by name or by keyword) impact the availability of your profile and whether they can view certain fields in your profile.
Likes, Follows, Comments, Messages: Our Services allow viewing and sharing information, including through likes, follows, and comments.
- When you share an article or a post (e.g., an update, image, video, or article) publicly, it can be viewed by everyone and re-shared anywhere. Users, Visitors, and others will be able to find and see your publicly-shared content, including your name (and photo if you have provided one).
- Any information you share through companies’ or other organizations’ pages on our Services will be viewable by it and others who visit those pages.
- When you follow an organization, you are visible to others and that “page owner” as a follower.
- We let senders know when you act on their message, subject to your settings where applicable.
- When you like, re-share, or comment on another’s content (including ads), others will be able to view these “social actions” and associate them with you (e.g., your name, profile, and photo if you provided it).
3.2 Enterprise Accounts
Your employer can see how you use Services they provided for your work (e.g., as a recruiter or sales agent) and related information. We will not show them your personal messages.
Your employer may offer you access to our enterprise Services such as advertising Campaign Manager. Your employer can review and manage your use of such enterprise Services. Depending on the enterprise Service, before you use such Service, we will ask for permission to share relevant data from your profile or use of our non-enterprise Services. For example, users of Sales Navigator will be asked to share their “social selling index,” a score calculated in part based on their personal account activity. We understand that certain activities such as personal messages are sensitive, and so we do not share those with your employer unless you choose to share it with them through our Services (for example, by applying for a new position in the same company or mentioning your job hunting in a message to a co-worker through our Services).
3.3 Communication Archival
Regulated Users may need to store communications outside of our Service. Some Users (or their employers) need, for legal or professional compliance, to archive their communications and social media activity, and will use services of others to provide these archival services. We enable archiving of messages by those Members outside of our Services. For example, a financial advisor needs to archive communications with her clients through our Services in order to maintain her professional financial advisor license.
3.4 Others’ Services
You may link your account with others’ services so that they can look up your contacts’ profiles, post your shares on such platforms, or start conversations with your connections on such platforms. Excerpts from your profile will also appear on the services of others.
Subject to your settings, other services may look up your profile. When you opt to link your account with other services, personal data will become available to them. The sharing and use of that personal data will be described in, or linked to, a consent screen when you opt to link the accounts. For example, you may link your Twitter or LinkedIn account to share content from our Services into these other services, or your email provider may give you the option to upload your contacts into its own service. You may revoke the link with such accounts.
Subject to your settings, excerpts from your profile will appear on the services of others (e.g., search engine results, mail and calendar applications that show a user a “mini” profile of the person they are meeting or messaging, social media aggregators, talent, and lead managers). “Old” profile information remains on these services until they update their data cache with changes you made to your profile.
3.5 Related Services
We share your data across our different Services and Office Connexion-affiliated entities. We will share your personal data with our affiliates to provide and develop our Services. We may combine information internally across the different Services covered by this Privacy Policy to help our Services be more relevant and useful to you and others.
3.6 Service Providers
We may use others to help us with our Services. We use others to help us provide our Services (e.g., maintenance, analysis, audit, payments, fraud detection, marketing, and development). They will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes.
3.7 Legal Disclosures
We may need to share your data when we believe it’s required by law or to help protect the rights and safety of you, us, or others. It is possible that we will need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (2) enforce our agreements with you; (3) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; (4) protect the security or integrity of our Service (such as by sharing with companies facing similar threats); or (5) exercise or protect the rights and safety of Office Connexion, our Users, personnel, or others. We attempt to notify Users about legal demands for their personal data when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague, or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.
3.8 Change in Control or Sale
We may share your data when our business is sold to others, but it must continue to be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We can also share your personal data as part of a sale, merger or change in control, or in preparation for any of these events. Any other entity which buys us or part of our business will have the right to continue to use your data, but only in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy unless you agree otherwise.