Privacy Policy/Practices Overview

At TechnoBird we recognize that privacy is important. This Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by TechnoBird. or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies (collectively, TechnoBird "services"). In addition, where more detailed information is needed to explain our privacy practices, we post separate privacy notices to describe how particular services process personal information.

If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to us at support@TechnoBird.

Information we collect and how we use it:

We offer a number of services that may require you to register for an account and provide any personal information to us, such as TechnoBird Webhosting, Domain Registration, employers and jobseekers services. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:

  • Information you provide - When you sign up for an account on TechnoBird or any other service offered by us that requires registration, we will ask you for certain personal information such as your name, email address, account password, postal address, phone numbers, fax numbers, national id number, age, educational details, work experience including past employer, affiliations, skills and hobbies.
  • If you are an Employer - When you post a job on our website a link to your Company Profile is also added with your job to provide a brief introduction about your company to the Jobseekers. This link only contains your company profile and none of you personal is made public.
  • If you are a Jobseeker - When you post your resume on our website, it becomes available to different Employers registered on our website and may appear in search results when an Employer search our resumes database. Similarly, when you apply for a job your resume is immediately send to that Employer either online or via email depending on the preferences of Employer. If you do not want your resume to appear under search results when an employer search our online resumes database, go to Account Settings section, select Resume Privacy link and then select "Make my resume available to an employer only if I apply for it's job" as Privacy Level. Furthermore, we also send job alerts to registered jobseekers on daily basis, at any time if you wish to stop receiving job email from TechnoBird you can click unsubscribe link shown on top of every email message.
  • You may also receive different Email alerts regarding our services.
  • TechnoBird cookies - When you visit TechnoBird or any other services offered by TechnoBird, we may send one or more cookies - a small file containing a string of characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends, such as how people search. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some TechnoBird features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled. Information collected via tracking technologies is not linked to personal information.
  • Log information - When you use TechnoBird or any other services offered by TechnoBird, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
  • User communications - When you send email or other communication to TechnoBird, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
  • Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and services that are owned and operated by TechnoBird.

TechnoBird only processes personal information for the purposes described in the applicable Privacy Policy and/or privacy notice for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:

  • Providing our products and services to users, including the display of customized content and advertising;
  • Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;
  • Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
  • Developing new services.

Invite a Friend

If you feel that the services of TechnoBird could be useful for a third party you know (e.g. your friends or family members etc), you may use our referral service. If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. TechnoBird stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.

Testimonials

We post customer testimonials on our web site which may contain personally identifiable information such as the customer's name. We do obtain the customer's consent prior to posting the testimonial to post their name along with their testimonial.

If you want to remove your personal information that is being displayed on our website under public pages please send your request to support@TechnoBird.

Blogs, Forums and Chartrooms

If you use a bulletin board, blog, or chat room on this Web site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

Choices for personal information

When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.

You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case TechnoBird may not be able to provide those services to you. In addition to the above, you may:

  • Discontinue jobs alerts, service alerts, newsletters - We offer single click unsubscribe option for the users who do not want to receive job alerts email, service alerts or newsletters from TechnoBird. If you want to stop receiving job alerts, service alerts, newsletters from TechnoBird just click Unsubscribe link show on top of the last email you have received and you will be instantly removed from that particular list.
  • Close your account - Terminate Account option is provided under Account Settings section of your account, so incase you no longer need our services you may stop them by removing your account.

Children Under Age 13

We do 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 at TechnoBird. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on TechnoBird. 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 support@TechnoBird.

Information sharing

TechnoBird does not share, sell, rent, or trade personally identifiable information with third parties for their promotional purposes.

TechnoBird only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of TechnoBird in the following limited circumstances:

  • We disclose information to companies/service providers and individuals that we employ to perform functions on our behalf. These includes web hosting, web analytics, marketing, customer care and support, live chat, billing and credit card processing to receive payments. These companies and individuals will have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any other third party.
  • We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of TechnoBird, its users or the public as required or permitted by law. Therefore, we reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

If TechnoBird becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.

Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.

Information security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. Your account information is located on secured servers behind a firewall.

We restrict access to personal information to TechnoBird employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

We process payments from customers through a third party service provider, which collects sensitive information for example credit card details using secure socket layer technology (SSL) to encrypt the data.

Data integrity

TechnoBird processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

Third Party Advertising

Advertisements that appear on our website 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. We do 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 personal information stored on our website.

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

Third Party Tracking Technologies

We use third party tracking technologies/service providers to track the overall traffic trend of our website. Some cookies may also be downloaded to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs"). Third party tracking technologies/service providers have no access to your personal information stored on our website.

This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by TechnoBird and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by service providers.

Accessing and updating personal information

When you use TechnoBird services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have different procedures to access, correct or delete users' personal information.

You may review, correct, update or change your account details by visiting Edit Profile link shown under Account Settings section of your account. You can also contact us using the following information to update your account (please note that you may be asked for certain information to protect unauthorized changes to your account):

Email: support@TechnoBird

Phone: +92-51-8313316, 8313317

Fax: +92-51-5516207

Postal Address: TechnoBird, 7-C, 2nd Floor, Afsar Plaza, Haider Road, Saddar, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Enforcement

TechnoBird regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or TechnoBird's treatment of personal information by contacting us through this web site or by writing to us at TechnoBird, 7-C, 2nd Floor, Afsar Plaza, Haider Road, Saddar, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is TechnoBird's policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between TechnoBird and an individual.

Changes in this Privacy Statement

Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Effective date of this policy is 10.10.2008