We may collect information about you directly from you and from third party sources, as well as automatically through your use of our Site and Services.
Information We Collect Directly From You We may collect information directly from you. For example, if you register for or use our Services, we may collect your name, email address, photograph, zip code, company name, current or past employers, dates of employment, employee referral information, income information, resumes, and any other information that you submit as part of your profile or that may be useful in helping us to match job seekers and employers; if you pay for our Services, we will collect your payment information, including payment card number and billing address. We will also collect any other information that you provide to us, including information about your contacts and connections if you share such information with us.
Information We Collect From Other Sources We may also collect information about you from other sources, including recruiters and employers, publicly available information, social networking platforms, and other third parties. You may be able to connect other social networking accounts (e.g., LinkedIn, Google+) with your Global Recruiter account in order to share your contacts and connections with us. If you do this, we will collect information about your contacts and connections (and any other information you grant us permission to access). We will use this information as set forth below. You may also be able to log in to our Site through third party platforms (e.g., LinkedIn, Google+). If you connect to our Services through a third party platform, we will ask your permission to obtain certain information about you from that platform, (e.g., email address, profile information and friends or contact list). In addition, we may collect information about you from a contact of yours who has shared your information with us, such as for referral purposes.
Information We Collect Automatically We may track clickstream data, viewing data, searches submitted through the Site and Services, and other data to monitor utilization and to improve user experience. We also automatically collect the certain usage information through cookies, web beacons, log files, java script and other technologies, including: domain name; browser type and operating system; web pages viewed; link clicked; searches, including search terms; IP address; date and time stamp and the length of time using Site or Services; referring URL (of website that led you to our Site). Generally, we use this information to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Site, analyze trends, track users’ movement on our Site, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the Site and our Services, and to deliver customized, personalized content. We also may track and use your location information to customize information that we provide to you, and to display targeted ads on our Site and on third party websites. Please see the “Third-Party Ad Networks” section below for more information.