FlashReferral makes it easy to for service based professionals and those seeking their expertise to interact on both a business and social platform. We realize users may want to control the information shared within the FlashReferral networok; that is why we provide users with control and oversite of you profile and other portions of your user information. You will be able to control a majority of the information displayed on your profile to protect your privacy.
FlashReferral ensures the following:
- You have control over your personal information.
You choose what information you put in your profile, including contact and personal information, interests, and education. - You have access to the information others want to share. There is an increasing amount of information available out there, and you may want to know what relates to you, and people around you. We want to help you easily acquire this information.
Sharing information should be easy and we have created the ultimate platform in which professionals and non professionals may communicate and benefit accordingly.
When you register for FlashReferral.com as a professional you provide us with your name, e-mail address, phone number, birthdate, and gender. You knowingly choose to disclose this information as it is a pre-requisite for you to interact with our Web Site.
When you register for FlashReferral.com as a FlashReferral member, you provide us with your name, e-mail address, birthdate, and gender. You knowingly choose to disclose this information as it is a pre-requisite for you to interact with our Web Site.
After FR registration, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all FR members and visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to FR. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.
When you use FR, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, search and post events, save you favorite information, invite new members (professionals and FlashReferral members), and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see a colleague or FlashReferral friend's information. When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information.
You post User Content on the Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.
Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on FlashReferral.com is a violation or our terms and service and should be reported through the form on our privacy help page.
If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend or colleague about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will send your friend an email or instant message in your name inviting him or her to visit the site. If your invitation is accepted, they will be added to your personal network and allowed access to the areas of your profile that you choose to share. All site users or those receiving invitations from site users may contact us through the form on our contact us page to request that we remove their information from our database.
FlashReferral.com may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the FR service through the operation of the service (e.g., photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.
By using FR, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed throughout the world wide web.
FR does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for Fr or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on FR. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us through our contact us page. Although FR will not be liable for your losses caused by any unauthorized use of your account, you may be liable for the losses of FR or others due to such unauthorized use.
Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18
We recommend that minors 13 years of age or older ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.
Use of Information Obtained by FlashReferral.com
When you register with FR, you create your own profile.. A portion of your profile information will be displayed to people in the networks specified by you to connect with them in the network and of course for them to connect with you. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by FR that we think you may find valuable.
Profile information is used by FR primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others you permit to view that information. It may only be edited by the professional contributor after submittal.
Profile information you submit to FR will be available to users of the FR network. Your name, profession, education and qualifications, preferred professional network, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the FR network and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. This is primarily so friends, prospective clients, and other professionals can find you and connect with you or the professional referrals you have listed. People who see your name in searches, however, will not be able to access your full profile information until you confirm a relationship with them.
FR may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance, if a friend sends you a new message or request for professional referral, or someone would like to share a new educational library posting with you, you may receive an email alerting you to that fact.
Generally, you may opt out of such emails though FR reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.
FR may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people in a network attended a particular university, or like a specific fitness activity, sports team, etc and for personalizing advertisements and promotions so that we can provide you. We believe this benefits you. You can know more about the world around you and, where there are advertisements, they're more likely to be interesting to you. For example, if you put a favorite fitness activity in your profile, we might share an advertisement highlighting an local event or an incentive that is available in your area that is related to that favorite activity. However we do not provide the advertiser with your information, it always remains private and confidential within our network.
We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services, The FR Platform developers and other users of FR, to supplement your profile.
Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
FR is about sharing valuable referral and educational based information with friends, prospective clients, and other professionals in the network, while providing you with privacy that restricts other users from accessing your information. We allow you to choose the information you provide to other professionals, friends and members of FR. Our network architecture allows you to make informed choices about who has access to your information. We do not provide your contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is 1) reasonably necessary to offer good service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted by you.
For example:
- We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about FR, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or services, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with these business activities. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the FR specified purposes.
- We occasionally provide demonstration accounts that allow non-users a glimpse into the FR world. Such accounts have only limited capabilities (e.g., messaging is disabled) and passwords are changed regularly to limit possible misuse.
- We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the FR service or using the FlashReferral.com name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
- We let you choose to share information with marketers or electronic commerce providers through on-site offers.
- We may offer stores or provide services jointly with other companies on FlashReferral.com You can tell when another company is involved in any store or service provided on FR, and we may share customer information with that company in connection with your use of that store or service.
- If the ownership of all or substantially all of the FR business, or individual business units owned by FitFlash Inc, were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.
When you use FR, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., a professional or FlashReferral friend within the network), such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos, reviews, ratings, or other information, may be shared with other users. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting reviews, testimonials, messages, photos, videos, or other items, this information may become publicly available
FR may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by FR.
Changing or Removing Information
Access and control over most personal information on FR is readily available through the profile editing tools. FR users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their FR account may do so. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of FR..
Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on FR, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another FR user) you generally cannot remove such communications.
We respect the intellectual property rights of others and we prohibit users from uploading, posting or otherwise transmitting on the FR website or service any materials that violate another party's intellectual property rights. When we receive proper Notification of Alleged Copyright Infringement, we promptly remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material and terminate the accounts of repeat infringers as described herein in accordance with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. If you believe that any material on the Site infringes upon any copyright which you own or control, you may send a written notification of such infringement to our Designated Agent.
FR takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number or your password), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). (To learn more about SSL, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer). Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services. If you have any questions about the security of FlashReferral.com Web Site, please contact us directly via phone contact information listed in the contact us page.
Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions
Your use of FR, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy's new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us using the information provided within the contact us page.
