Privacy Policy
Last Updated: June 9, 2008

NetHooks Philosophy
NetHooks was created to make it easy to share information with your friends, colleagues, potential employers and people around you in a professional setting. We understand you may not want everyone to have the information you share on NetHooks; that is why we give you control of your information. Our default privacy settings limit the information displayed in your profile to your networks and other reasonable community limitations that we tell you about.

NetHooks follows two main principles:

1. You should have control over your personal information.
NetHooks helps you share information with your friends and people around you. You choose what information you put in your profile, including contact and personal information, pictures, interests and groups you join. And you control the users with whom you share that information through the privacy settings on each respective pages.

2. You should 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, your friends, and people around you. We want to help you easily get that information.
Sharing information should be easy. And we want to provide you with the privacy tools necessary to control how and with whom you share that information. If you have questions or ideas, please send them to privacy@nethooks.com

The Information We Collect
When you visit NetHooks you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Web Site use information collected by us as you interact with our Web Site.

When you register with NetHooks, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your location, schools attended and work/professional information.
When you enter NetHooks, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all NetHooks 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 NetHooks. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.

When you use NetHooks, you may set up your professional profile, personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches, search for events and jobs and queries, set up events, post jobs and internships 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 your friend list. 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 (as defined in the NetHooks Terms of Use) 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 NetHooks is a violation of the NetHooks Terms of Service and should be reported to privacy@nethooks.com

If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email or instant message inviting him or her to visit the site. NetHooks stores this information to send this one-time invitation, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at privacy@nethooks.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

NetHooks may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the NetHooks 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 NetHooks, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States and Canada.

Children Under Age 13
NetHooks 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 NetHooks or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, location or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on NetHooks. 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 at privacy@nethooks.com

Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18
We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.

Use of Information Obtained by NetHooks
When you register with NetHooks, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people on NetHooks. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by NetHooks that we think you may find valuable.

Profile information is used by NetHooks primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings. In some cases where your privacy settings permit it other NetHooks users may be able to supplement your profile (i.e Q/ A page).

Summary of your Profile information you submit to NetHooks will be available to all users of NetHooks. Your Profile Summary will be available for all users on NetHooks to view. This is primarily so that potential connections can find you and send a connection request.

NetHooks may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance, if a connection sends you a new message or start network request you may receive an email alerting you to that fact.

Generally, you may opt out of such emails from the Notification page, though NetHooks reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.

Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
NetHooks is about sharing information with others — including your connections and users in general on NetHooks — while providing you with privacy settings that restrict users from accessing your information based on your setting and choice. We allow you to choose the information you provide to your connection and general users on NetHooks. Our network architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information. We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share the following information to your connections on NetHooks

• Your Connection Feed may aggregate the information you provide and make it available to your connection.
• Unlike most sites on the Web, NetHooks limits access to site information by third party search engine "crawlers" (e.g. Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask)
• 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 NetHooks service or using the NetHooks name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
• We may offer stores or provide services jointly with other companies on NetHooks. You can tell when another company is involved in any store or service provided on NetHooks, 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 NetHooks business, or individual business units owned by NetHooks, 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 NetHooks, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., a friend or someone in your network), such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos, jobs or internship listings or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. 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 comments, messages, photos, videos, jobs or internship listings or other items , this information may become publicly available.

Links
NetHooks 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 NetHooks.

Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on NetHooks are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. NetHooks does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on NetHooks unless you choose to share it with them.

This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by NetHooks and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

Changing or Removing Information
Access and control over most personal information on NetHooks is readily available through the profile editing tools. NetHooks 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 NetHooks account may do by contacting support@nethooks.com. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of NetHooks.

Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on NetHooks, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another NetHooks user) you generally cannot remove such communications.

Security
NetHooks 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 NetHooks Web Site, please contact us at privacy@nethooks.com

Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions
Your use of NetHooks, 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.

Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@nethooks.com. You may also contact us by email at contact@nethooks.com