Privacy Statement

Honor Roll Online, LLC, is committed to the privacy of our Users and strives to provide a safe, secure experience. This Privacy Statement sets forth the online data collection and usage policies and practices that apply to the Honor Roll Online Web Site (sometimes referred to herein as "HonorRollOnline.com") and does not apply to information we collect in any other fashion.

Your data will be stored and processed in whole or in part in the United States. The information we gather on HonorRollOnline.com may be shared within HRO-affiliated companies on a worldwide basis in order to deliver the products and services we offer to employers or in order to undertake analysis of our database. "Affiliated companies" means entities that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with Honor Roll Online, LLC.

HonorRollOnline.com sites may contain links to other web sites over which we have no control. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other web sites to which you choose to link from our site(s). We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other web sites, so you understand how they collect, use and share your information.

Collection and Use of Information

In some areas of HonorRollOnline.com, we request or may request that you provide personal information, including your name, address, e-mail address, contact information and any other information from which your identity is discernible. In other areas, we collect or may collect demographic information that is not unique to you such as your age, gender, preferences and interests. Sometimes we collect or may collect a combination of the two types of information. Examples of areas on HonorRollOnline.com where we collect personal or combined personal and demographic data are pages where you can create a HonorRollOnline.com candidate profile, post a resume or transcript, transmit an online application or enter a contest.

We also gather or may gather certain information about your use of HonorRollOnline.com, such as what areas you visit and what services you access. Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that is or may be collected by us. This information can include without limitation your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring web site addresses, but is not linked to your personal information.

We may sometimes afford you the opportunity to provide descriptive, cultural, behavioral, preferential and/or life style information about yourself, but it is solely up to you whether you furnish such information. If you do provide such information, you are thereby consenting to the use of that information in accordance with the policies and practices described in this Privacy Statement. For example, such information may be used for the purpose of determining your potential interest in receiving e-mail or other communications about particular products or services.

Our Use of Your Information

We use the information we gather on HonorRollOnline.com, whether personal, demographic, collective or technical, for the purpose of operating and improving HonorRollOnline.com, fostering a positive user experience, and delivering the products and services that we offer.

If you have provided consent for us to do so, we may also use the information we gather to inform you of other products or services available from us or our affiliated companies or to contact you about your opinion of current products and services or potential new products and services that may be offered.

We may use your contact information in order to send you e-mail or other communications regarding updates at HonorRollOnline.com, and if you have requested, information on new HonorRollOnline.com opportunities. The nature and frequency of these messages will vary depending upon the information we have about you.

We may have areas on HonorRollOnline.com where you can submit feedback. Any feedback you submit in these areas becomes our property, and we can use such feedback (such as success stories) for marketing purposes or to contact you for further information.

Disclosure of Personal Information to Others

We do not disclose your personal information to third parties, or your combined personal and demographic information or information about your use of HonorRollOnline.com (such as the areas you access), except as set forth below.

1. We will disclose information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include hosting our web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, and providing customer service. 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.
2. We will disclose information if legally required to do so, if requested to do so by a governmental entity or if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (b) protect our rights or property or our affiliated companies; (c) prevent a crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users or the public.
3. We will disclose and transfer information to a third party who acquires all or a substantial portion of our business, whether such acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation or purchase of all or a substantial portion of our assets. In addition, in the event we become the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, we, or our trustee in bankruptcy, may sell, license or otherwise dispose of such information in a transaction approved by the bankruptcy court. You will be notified of sale of all or a substantial portion of our business to a third party via email or through a prominent notice posted on HonorRollOnline.com.

If you have an HonorRollOnline.com profile, other users or certain other users of HonorRollOnline.com may access your profile. However, they will not have access to your contact information and your contact information is not displayed in any HonorRollOnline.com profile.

Other Uses of Information

We also share aggregated anonymous information about visitors to HonorRollOnline.com with its clients, partners and other third parties, so that they can understand the kinds of visitors to HonorRollOnline.com and how those visitors use HonorRollOnline.com.

If you apply for a position on HonorRollOnline.com through an affiliated corporate web site, you may be asked to provide information on your gender, race or other protected status where permitted by applicable law. Some employers are required by law to gather this information from job applicants for reporting and record-keeping requirements. You should understand that if provided, this information will be used by employers only in accordance with applicable law and will not be used in making any negative employment decisions. All information provided will be kept separate from your expression of interest in any job opportunity. Providing this information is strictly voluntary and you will not be subject to any adverse action or treatment if you choose not to provide this information.

Personal Information on Resumes & Profiles

HonorRollOnline.com gives you two options regarding the accessibility of your resume:

1. You can store your resume in our database, but not allow it to be searchable by potential employers. Not allowing your resume to be searchable means that you can use it to apply for a job online, but employers and recruiters will not have access to search it through our resume database product. If you have a confidential resume, but apply to a job posting on HonorRollOnline.com, the employer to whom you send your resume will be able to view your contact information.
2. If you allow your resume to be searchable without making it confidential and hiding your contact information, then all parties with access to our searchable resume database (or copies thereof) will have access to your resume.

We attempt to limit access to our searchable resume database only to paying employers, recruiters, hiring managers and human resource professionals, as well as law enforcement and national security agencies, but cannot guarantee that other parties will not gain access to this database. We are not responsible for the use made of resumes by third parties who access such resumes while they are in our searchable database. However, the portions of your searchable resume (not your contact information) that are automatically made public in your HonorRollOnline.com profile are accessible to anyone who uses the HonorRollOnline.com service. You may remove your resume on HonorRollOnline.com or delete your profile on HonorRollOnline.com at anytime, but employers, recruiters and others who have paid for access to the HonorRollOnline.com resume database, as well as parties who have otherwise gained access may have retained a copy of your resume or HonorRollOnline.com profile in their own files or databases. We are not responsible for the retention, use or privacy of resumes or profiles in these instances.

Access to and Modification of Your Information

You may review, correct, update or change your HonorRollOnline.com profile information at any time. To perform these functions, simply log onto HonorRollOnline.com with your user ID number, email address and personal password. A personalized “home page” will appear so you may review your personal information or preferences and edit it according to the options provided. Click here to access your HonorRollOnline.com profile page.

We retain all the information we gather about you indefinitely in an effort to make your repeated use of HonorRollOnline.com more efficient, practical, and relevant. Of course, you can delete your profile and all accompanying documentation at any time, in which case we will remove all copies of your information from our web site and database (except for an archival copy which is not accessible on the Internet).

Security of Personal Information

We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.

Use of Cookies

We may use "cookies" to help personalize and maximize your online experience and time online. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by a Web page server. Cookies are not used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize HonorRollOnline.com pages, or register for services, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information (such as user name, password and preferences). Because of our use of cookies, we can deliver faster and more accurate results and a more personalized site experience. When you return to HonorRollOnline.com, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized. We also use cookies to track click streams and for load balancing.

You may have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline all cookies if you prefer. Alternatively, you may be able to modify your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis. If you choose to decline cookies, however, that may hinder performance and negatively impact your experience on HonorRollOnline.com.

Use of Web Beacons

HonorRollOnline.com web pages may contain electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about our web site usage. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides.

You may not decline web beacons, however, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or modifying your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.

Third parties are not permitted to use web beacons on HonorRollOnline.com.

Use by Minors

HonorRollOnline.com is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Changes to Privacy Statement

If we decide to materially change our Privacy Statement for Honor Roll Online, LLC and/or HonorRollOnline.com, we will post those changes through a prominent notice on the web site so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it.

If at any time, you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Statement or believe that we have not adhered to this Privacy Statement, please feel free to email us at privacystatement@HonorRollOnline.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly answer your question or resolve your problem.

Contact Information

HonorRollOnline.com is the name under which Honor Roll Online, LLC, an Illinois corporation with its principal place of business at 115 West 55th Street, Suite 400, Clarendon Hills, IL 60514, does business. Honor Roll Online, LLC is the legal entity which determines the purposes and means of processing the information gathered at HonorRollOnline.com.

Effective January 6, 2006.