Online Privacy Policy

(Last updated 08/29/2008)

To underscore our commitment to privacy and our vision that good privacy is good business, we have adopted an online privacy policy for our Web sites: http://www.premieress.com,and https://webhuck.premierias.com/webhuck_2/. This policy reflects and implements---in an online setting---our corporate privacy principles.

This online privacy policy applies to the above websites, which are operated and maintained by Premier Employment Screening Services, 113 S. College Ave, Fort Collins, CO 80521, privacy@premieress.com, (800) 350-7941. This site is not directed at children.

To demonstrate our further commitment to online privacy, Premier Employment Screening Services is a licensee of the Equifax Secure eBusiness Privacy Program.

INFORMATION COLLECTION

I. Personally-identifiable information
Personally-identifiable information (PII) collected with your consent may include, for example, name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, social security number, date of birth, user id and password (if you have one), resume information, information that you may supply in connection with applying for an account with us, information about orders you place, any responses you choose to provide to survey questions, or any inquires you may make through our Web site. We do not share, sell, rent or trade PII with third parties for their promotional purposes.

II. Cookies
“Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. This site uses first and third party cookies (session and persistent), however personally identifiable information is not collected through the use of cookies, except as described in the “Personally-identifiable Web site Activity Monitoring” section below. Cookies are used to determine whether a visitor is unique or whether a visitor has viewed our site before. This site uses session cookies in our job opportunity section of the Web site for single sign-on into the application and persistent cookies for Web site traffic analysis. Cookies are also used in sections of this site which require user log-in to authenticate and validate users and to determine whether a user’s session is active or has timed-out.

While most browsers are set to accept cookies by default, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you before accepting them. Your browser manufacturer has information on changing the default setting for your specific browser.

III. Nonpersonally-identifiable information
This site also collects nonpersonally-identifiable information. For example, as you browse this Web site we may collect information about your visit, but not about you personally. Via Web server logs, for example, we may monitor statistics such as: the number of people that visit our site, which page(s) are visited on our site, from which domain our visitors come (e.g., aol.com, hotmail.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to visit our site (e.g., Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.). Our Web site might use outsourcing programs to assist us in analyzing this data to better tailor our Web site.

INFORMATION USE AND CONSUMER CHOICE

The information collected by this Web site is used only for responding to your inquiries and otherwise corresponding with you, for processing transactions you request, maintaining your account (if you have one), for other purposes permitted by your organization’s subscriber agreement(s) (if any), and for the administration, review and/or the improvement the content of our Web sites.

We may contact you in response to your comments or inquiries, as part of the maintenance of your account with us (if you have one), or in order to complete a transaction that you requested.

We may also contact you to inform you of other products or services we believe may be of interest to you, but we will offer you an opportunity not to receive such communications.

If you decide that you do not want to receive further e-mails regarding your inquiry from Premier Employment Screening Services, you can reply to the e-mail or use the telephone number (800) 350-7941 with a request that we not continue to e-mail you.

If you would like to opt-out of Personally-identifiable Web site Activity Monitoring as you visit our site, please see the “Personally-identifiable Web site Activity Monitoring” section above and follow the instructions in that section.

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site or a particular product or service, we will ask you for your friend’s name and e-mail address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time e-mail message with information about the product or service and/or inviting him or her to visit the site. This message may include your name and/or e-mail address and any optional message that you elect to send along with our e-mail. We do not retain the information that you provide as part of this referral service (although we may retain your friend’s e-mail address if he or she requests to receive additional information or e-mail messages from us).

ONWARD TRANSFER

We may disclose information you provide to us to third parties in order to complete a transaction that you requested or as otherwise permitted by your organization’s subscriber agreement(s) (if any).

We may also outsource some tasks, including the operation of certain Web site functions that require access to information you supply online and information about your visits to our Web site. In such cases, however, we require that the companies acting on our behalf abide by our privacy policy and institute safeguards to protect the confidentiality of your information.

If our company or our assets are acquired by another company, that company will assume responsibility for the personal information collected by us through this Web site and it will assume the rights and obligations regarding the information collected through this Web site, as described in this privacy policy.

Finally, please note that we may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to comply with the law or legal process.

ACCESS AND CORRECTION

As an information company, we know the importance of accurate data. Therefore, we strive to maintain the accuracy of the information collected through this Web site. Furthermore, we believe that the individual is invaluable in ensuring that data is complete and accurate. We will provide you with access to personally-identifiable information you provide through our Web site for as long as we maintain that information in a readily accessible format. Similarly, we permit and encourage you to correct inaccuracies in the information you submit to us through our Web site.

If you wish to correct any inaccurate information you have submitted to this site, please use the mechanisms provided by the site or call (800) 350-7941 or send an e-mail to: privacy@premieress.com.

SECURITY

We take steps to protect against the loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration of personally-identifiable information collected through this Web site. We recognize the importance of security for all personally-identifiable information collected by our Web site. We exercise care in providing secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers.

Once we receive personally-identifiable information, we take steps to protect its security on our systems. In the event we request or transmit sensitive information, such as credit card information or Social Security Numbers, we use industry standard, secure socket layer ("SSL") encryption.

We limit access to personally-identifiable information to those employees who need access in order to carry out their job responsibilities.

OTHER WEB SITES

This online privacy policy only applies to the Web site(s) identified in the first paragraph of this privacy policy. Our Web site, however, may include links to other Web sites which may be operated by third parties. If you visit a Web site not listed above, we recommend that you review the online privacy policy of that Web site to determine how the operator of that Web site will handle personal information collected through that Web site.

POLICY CHANGES

We may revise this online privacy policy from time to time. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on the Web site. If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via e-mail. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner.