Privacy Policy | BeInterns

Privacy Policy

We, at BeInterns, are committed to respecting your online privacy and recognize your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) you share with us. Please read the following statement to learn about our information gathering and dissemination practices. “Personal Information” means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, a home or other physical address and an email address or other contact information, whether at work or at home. In general, you can visit BeInterns Web pages without telling us who you are or revealing any Personal Information about yourself.

1 . OVERVIEW

We respect your privacy and strive to provide a safe and secure user experience. This privacy statement sets forth our online data collection and usage policies and practices. By using our services, you consent to the policies and practices described in this statement. Your data will be stored and processed on our servers which may be inside or outside UAE. User shall be solely responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other websites to which you navigate from our website. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other websites so you can understand how they collect, use and share your information. This privacy statement applies solely to the information we collect on www.beinterns.com and its sub-domains and not to information collected otherwise.

2. COLLECTION AND RETENTION OF INFORMATION

In some areas of our website, we request you to provide or submit personal information including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, contact information, billing information, education details, workplace details, experience and any other information from which your identity is discernible. In addition, we may indirectly collect information about you when you use certain third party services on our website; such information will be subject to, and treated in accordance with, the policies and practices described in this Statement and can be used by BeInterns as it deems fit. We also gather or may gather certain information about your use of our site, such as what areas you visit and what services you access. Moreover, information can include without limitation your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses and can be used by BeInterns as it deems fit. Please remember that if you post any of your personal information in public areas of Beinterns.com and any of its sub-domains, such as in online forums or chat rooms, such information may be collected and used by others over whom BeInterns claims no control. We are not responsible for the use made by third parties of information you post or otherwise make available in public areas of this website. You can correct or update your account profile and resume at any time. Moreover, you can delete your resume from our online database or close your account at any time by writing to us, in which event we will remove all our copies of your resume and your account profile information except for an archival copy which is not accessible on the internet.

3. INFORMATION COLLECTION

  • Registration and Other Information
    The Services may collect “Personal Information” (which is information that can be used to identify or contact a specific individual), account information (such as a password or other information that helps us confirm that it is you accessing your account) and demographic or other information (such as your school, gender, age or experience you have). We will also collect payment information (typically, credit card account information) if you choose to purchase products or services through the Services available on BeInterns. Any information combined with Personal Information shall be treated as Personal Information.
  • Your Profile, Community Forums and User Content
    You may have the opportunity to create a profile, which consists of information about you, which may include Personal Information, photographs, information about your academic and work history, your interests and activities, your use of the Services and other information (“Profile”). Some of the information in your Profile may be visible to third parties or to everyone, depending on the nature of the information and the privacy settings you choose when you sign in. Your Profile may also be indexed by and displayed by internet search providers when someone searches for your name. BeInterns shall not be responsible if your information becomes outdated and might be available for a period of time even if you discontinue use of the service. Note that removal of public postings does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information posted. Anything you post to a Community Forum may be public. If you choose to voluntarily disclose Personal Information in your Profile or a Community Forum, that information will be considered public information and the protections of this Privacy Policy will not apply. Please recheck your post while including Personal Information in your User Content. You may edit or remove your Profile information, but you may not be able to remove answers or postings or other uploaded User Content on some Services. In addition, the Services may allow users to communicate and collaborate with each other, including some Services that allow members to engage in one-on-one communication. If you create an account, participate in a Community Forum or choose to communicate with others through the Services, certain information about you may be disclosed in connection with your or others’ use of the Services, including certain information about you and your network (such as your name and profile photo, the number of your connections, and the names and pictures of your connections). Our servers may record and we may retain records of the content of any such user-to-user communications.
  • Third party usage of your data
    From time to time Beinterns may send you communications from our business partners (Third Parties) which we may deem to be of interest to you. In all such communications, we may provide you with a mechanism to unsubscribe yourself from any similar future promotional communication from a 3rd party. The information we collect is subject to this Privacy Policy. The information collected and stored by the third party remains subject to the third party’s privacy practices, including whether the third party continues to share information with us, the types of information shared, and your choices with regard to what is visible to others on that third-party website and service. The third party may allow you to remove the application or feature, in which case we will no longer collect information about you through the application or feature, but we may retain the information previously collected. Information about you, including your name and profile photo, may be shown to other users of the Services if you are logged in through the Services or through a third party website or service. The third party may allow you to remove the application or feature, in which case we will no longer collect information about you through the application or feature, but we may retain the information previously collected. When you choose to participate, you may be opting to link your activity on our Services with that third party website or service, which may then collect information about your visits to our Services and may publish that activity as you request to your profile or similar feature with that third party. We also may supplement the information we collect with outside records from third parties in order to provide you with information, services or goods you have requested, to enhance our ability to serve you, to tailor our content to you and to offer you opportunities to purchase products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We may combine the information we receive from those other sources with information we collect through the Services. In those cases, we will apply this Privacy Policy to the combined information.
  • Information Collects Automatically When You Access The Services
    We and other third-party service providers may automatically collect certain “Usage Information” whenever you access and use the Services. Usage Information may include the browser and operating system you are using, the URL or advertisement that referred you to our Services (if applicable), the search terms you entered into a search engine that leads you to our Services (if applicable), all of the areas within our Services that you visit (including information about any ads you may view), and the time of day you used the Services, among other information. We may use Usage Information for a variety of purposes, including to tell you about people or events nearby, to provide special offers, to serve advertisements, to select appropriate content to display to you, and to enhance or otherwise improve the Services and our products. In addition, we automatically collect your IP address or other unique identifiers (“Device Identifier”) for any computer, mobile phone or other devices (any, a “Device”) you may use to access the Services. Usage Information is generally non-identifying, but if we associate it with you as a specific and identifiable person, we treat it as Personal Information.

4. CHILDREN

BeInterns is not intended for children under 13 years of age. If you are less than 13 years old at the time of your first visit to BeInterns, you are prohibited from using the website further entirely on your own. You may do so under parental guidance. However, please note that we have no way of determining your age when you visit our website or whether you have parental supervision available or not. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

5. COOKIES

Like many websites, we set and use cookies to enhance your user experience, such as retaining your personal settings. Advertisements may appear on our website and if so, may set and access cookies on your computer and is subject to the privacy policy of those parties providing the advertisement. However, the companies serving the advertising do not have access to our cookies. These companies usually use non-personally identifiable or anonymous codes to obtain information about your visits to our site. If you are using a public computer or sharing your private computer with others, you should log out of your account after each visit. If you log out of a Service, you will need to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log in to your account. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file. We also use a cookie which functions as a “session” cookie, meaning that it is used to identify a particular visit. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser. We also allow other companies to display advertisements to you while you are visiting our website. Because your web browser must request these advertisements from the other company’s servers, these companies can view, edit or set their own cookies, just as if you had requested a webpage from their site. BeInterns has no control over and is not responsible for, the practices of those third party advertisers. BeInterns encourages you to review the policies of such advertisers. However, if you leave cookies as turned on, make sure to sign off when you finish using especially a shared computer.

6. DATA FROM OTHER SOURCES

BeInterns may use an external Facebook Comment Box plugin provided by Facebook or any other social media account linked commenting system for users to comment on the content posted on BeInterns and its sub-domains. A user can comment using their Facebook or other social media profiles. Please note that this data (user profile and comment) are not stored on BeInterns servers and databases and we have no control over how this data is used and displayed on associated social media networks and their privacy and data usage policies. Moreover, your comments would be visible to all the users (logged in or not logged in) of the BeInterns website.

7. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use information about you, including Personal Information, the information you provide in your Profile, User Content, and Usage Information to:

  • allow you to participate in features we offer or to provide related customer service;
  • tailor content, recommendations and offers we display to you, both on the Services and elsewhere online;
  • process a transaction you initiate;
  • provide you with information, products, services, or suggestions;
  • send or display to you and others using the Services special offers or advertisements from us, our advertisers, or third-parties;
  • process your registration with our Services, including verifying your e-mail address is active and valid;
  • improve the Services and our products, and for internal business purposes, including the measurement of ad effectiveness;
  • contact you with regard to your use of the Services and, in our discretion, changes to our policies.

We may create, facilitate or display social advertisements, whereby your name and profile photo may be used to advertise products and services to your network based on your use of the Services and your interactions with BeInterns and third parties through the Services (a “Social Ad”). If we are utilizing Social Ads on one of our Services, you will be able to opt-out through your account settings for that Service.

NOTE: Please note that information submitted to the Services via a “Contact Us” or other similar function may not receive a response. We will not use the information provided via these functions to contact you for marketing purposes unrelated to your request unless you agree otherwise.

8. NO GUARANTEES

While this Privacy Policy states our standards for maintenance of data and we will make efforts to meet them, we are not in a position to guarantee these standards. There may be factors beyond our control that may result in disclosure of data. As a consequence, we disclaim any warranties or representations relating to maintenance or nondisclosure of data.

9. CLOSING YOUR ACCOUNT

If you wish to close your account with one of our Services, please send your request and we will remove your Personal Information and Profile, if applicable, from the active databases for the Service(s) you request. Please let us know which Service(s) you wish to close and send your request using an email account that you have registered with BeInterns under your name. You typically will receive a response to a request within seven business days of our receiving it. We may keep information in backup records and we may retain certain data if it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable data, account recovery or if required by law. All retained data will continue to be subject to the applicable privacy policy of the Service. Also, if you have posted content on or through the Services, such as in Community Forums, we may or may not delete it.

10. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may change or modify this policy at any time. The policy shall come to effect from the date of such update, change or modification. We may notify you of substantial changes to this Policy either by posting a prominent announcement on our privacy policy page and/or by sending a message to the e-mail address you have provided to us. You are advised to refer to this page to know about our latest Privacy Policy.

11. CONTACT

In case of any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or our website, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]