Privacy Policy

Your privacy is extremely important to us. At LOCLx.com, we have a few fundamental principles:

  • We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services
  • We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it
  • We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what information on your website is shared publicly (or kept private), indexed by search engines, and permanently deleted
  • We help protect you from overreaching government demands for your personal information
  • We aim for transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information

Below is LOCLx.com’s privacy policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.

Who We Are and What This Policy Covers

Hi! We are an internet platform that connects Local businesses across a variety of categories with talent for a variety of hiring needs.

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use:

  • Our website LOCLx.com;
  • Our mobile applications (including the mobile app for Android and iOS, when it becomes available); and
  • Other products and services that are available on or through our website, LOCLx.com

Throughout this Privacy Policy we’ll refer to our website, mobile applications and other products and services collectively as “Services.”

Below we explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.

Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to any of our products or services that have a separate privacy policy.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so–for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.

We collect information in three ways: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.

Information You Provide to Us

It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us. The amount and type of information depends on the context and how we use the information. Here are some examples:

  • Basic Account Information: We ask for basic information (username and email) from you in order to set up your account and be able to log into the secured areas of our platform. In order to meaningfully use our platform, you are recommended to additionally complete a candidate profile (seeking employment) OR employer profile (providing employment).
  • Candidate Profile Information: After signing up, individuals seeking work are recommended to provide information to build their candidate profile in order to garner interest from prospective employers. A typical candidate profile contains information like contact details (phone number), work history, education history, professional certifications/licenses, references/testimonial details. When the candidate applies for a job, Employers get access to Candidate Resume with details mentioned above (including candidate email and phone number). Premium employers can additionally browse candidates which will show the Public profile which contains candidate details mentioned earlier minus the contact details (i.e. except candidate email, phone number etc). Candidates can see exactly what their Resume and Profile Looks like and what details are available to Employers. Candidate Resumes/Public profiles are NOT visible to other Candidates or any non-logged-in users
  • Employer Profile Information: Individuals representing businesses seeking to hire talent will create an employer profile which consists of details of the primary contact, address, industry classification, business biography and links to other public business profiles. Employer profiles are not viewable by candidates or by non-logged-in users but some details like the biography and social media profile links will be visible from Job postings.
  • Job Posting Information: As an Employer who uses our service to post a job, you would provide us with information relating to the preferred requirements, job description, compensation and benefits details. Information provided in Jobs is viewable by candidates and non-logged in users
  • Transaction and Billing Information: If you buy something from us–a premium subscription or other services like a background check, for example – you will provide additional personal and payment information that is required to process the transaction and your payment, such as your name, credit card information, and contact information. Your payment information is stored with our payment provider, Stripe
  • Communications with Platform particants: When you communicate with another person on our Platform (i.e. Employer to Candidate or vice versa) using our messaging system (Conversations), the details of the communication is obviously shared between the two parties and is recorded on our system (along with a notification sent by our platform to your email/phone number as specified by your communication profile). Applicant Candidate emails and phone numbers are visible to the Employers (but not vice versa) so direct communication bypassing our platform can be alternatively be initiated.
  • Communications with Us: You may also provide us information when you respond to surveys, communicate with our technical/customer support, or post a question/response in our public forums (when they become available).

Information We Collect Automatically

We also collect some information automatically:

  • Log Information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services– e.g. when you update your profiles etc. in order to improve our service offering.
  • Usage Information: We collect information about your usage of our Services. For example, we collect information about the actions that site administrators and users perform on LOCLx.com – in other words, who did what, when and to what thing on a site (e.g., [LOCLx.com username] created draft application for Job [ID] at [time/date]). We also collect information about what happens when you use our Services (e.g., page views, resource page access, button clicks) along with information about your device (e.g., mobile screen size, name of cellular network, and mobile device manufacturer in our mobile app). We use this information to, for example, provide our Services to you, as well as get insights on how people use our Services, so we can make our Services better.
  • Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit a particular job from certain geographic regions. We may also collect information about your precise location via our mobile apps (when, for example, you attach a project photograph with location information) if you allow us to do so through your mobile device operating system’s permissions.
  • Information from Cookies & Other Technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and e-mails. LOCLx.com uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services, as well as track and understand e-mail campaign effectiveness and to deliver targeted ads in some cases. Cookies can be deleted from the footer at the bottom of every page (visible only when logged out)

Information We Collect from Other Sources

We may also get information about you from other sources. For example, if you create or log into your LOCLx.com account through another service (like Google Calendar Synchronization), we will receive information from that service (such as your username, basic profile information, and calendar events) via the authorization procedures used by that service. The information we receive depends on which services you authorize and any options that are available. We donot store details of calendar events that were not created on LOCLx.com and only pull them in temporarily for your convenience

We may also get information from third party services about individuals who are not yet our users (…but we hope will be!), which we may use, for example, for marketing and advertising purposes.

How We Use Information

We use information about you as mentioned above and as follows:

  • To provide our Services–for example, to set up and maintain your account, host your website, backup and restore your website, or charge you for any of our paid Services;
  • To further develop our Services–for example by adding new features that we think our users will enjoy or will help them to create and manage their websites more efficiently;
  • To monitor and analyze trends and better understand how users interact with our Services, which helps us improve our Services and make them easier to use;
  • To monitor and protect the security of our Services, detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, fight spam, and protect the rights and property of LOCLx.com and others;
  • To communicate with you about updates and promotions offered by LOCLx.com; and
  • To personalize your experience using our Services and provide content recommendations

Sharing Information

How We Share Information

We do not sell our users’ private personal information.

We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:

  • Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries, our employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help us provide our Services or to process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for personal information that we share with them.
  • Third Party Vendors: We may share information about you with third party vendors who need to know information about you in order to provide their services to us. This group includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (like payment providers that process your credit and debit card information) and those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers). We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments in order to share information with them.
  • As Required by Law: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.
  • To Protect Rights and Property: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of LOCLx.com, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.
  • Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that LOCLx.com goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.
  • With Your Consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction. For example, we may share your information with third parties with which you authorize us to do so, such as the social media services that you connect to from LOCL.wrok.
  • Aggregated and De-Identified Information: We may share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our Services.
  • Published Support Requests: And if you send us a request (for example, via a support email or one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish that request in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.

Information Shared Publicly

Information that you choose to make public is disclosed publicly (in the manner discussed above). Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties. Please keep all of this in mind when deciding what you would like to share.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so.

Choices

You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:

  • Limit the Information that You Provide: If you have an account with us, you can choose not to provide the optional account information, profile information, and transaction and billing information. Please keep in mind that if you do not provide this information, this may affect your ability to connect with other platform participants and/or access to premium features.
  • Limit Access to Information On Your Mobile Device: Your mobile device operating system should provide you with the ability to discontinue our ability to collect stored information or location information via our mobile apps. If you do so, you may not be able to use certain features (like adding a location to a photograph, for example).
  • Opt-Out of Electronic Communications: You may opt out of receiving communication notifications and digest messages from us. Just follow the instructions in those messages. If you opt out of those messages, we may still send you other messages, like those about your account and legal notices.
  • Set Your Browser to Reject Cookies: At this time, LOCLx.com does not respond to “do not track” signals across all of our Services. However, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using LOCLx.com’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of LOCLx.com’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies and may require you to log in every time.

Other Things You Should Know (Keep Reading!)

Transferring Information

LOCLx.com is a worldwide service. By accessing or using the Services or otherwise providing information to us, you consent to the processing, transfer, and storage of information in and to the U.S. and other countries, which may have rights and protections that are different from those in your home country.

Analytics Services Provided by Others

Other parties may also provide analytics services via our Services. These analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about your use of our Services and across other websites and online services. These technologies allow these third parties to recognize your device to compile information about you or others who use your device. This information allows us and other companies to, among other things, analyze and track usage, determine the popularity of certain content. Please note this Privacy Policy only covers the collection of information by LOCLx.com and does not cover the collection of information by analytics providers.

Third Party Software

If you’d like to use third party software (like plugins with our Services or custom application required by an Employer), please keep in mind that when you interact with them you may provide information about yourself to those third parties. We don’t own or control these third parties and they have their own rules about collection, use and sharing of information. You should review their rules and policies when installing and using third party software.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, LOCLx.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. LOCLx.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the change log below, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification through e-mail or your LOCLx.com dashboard). Your continued use of the Services after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your consent to such change.

Note: This policy document was adapted from the Automattic privacy policy, which is generously made available under the Creative Commons Sharealike License.

Change log

  • March 10, 2018:Initial Version