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PRIVACY POLICY

Protecting privacy is a ResTrust priority. To underscore our fundamental commitment to privacy and our vision that good privacy is good business -- we have adopted this online privacy policy for [restrust.net] (the “Site”), which is operated by ResTrust P.O. Box 267054 Weston, FL, 33326. This Site is not directed at children, and may be used only by adults.

Reference to “you” and “your” refer to the person accessing the Site; however, if you register on behalf of your business, such reference includes the business, and you represent that you have authority to register for the business and to bind the business to the Terms of Use (“Terms”) and to this privacy policy.

ResTrust LLC is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build user’s trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the Web site (www.restrust.net) Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, please contact us at:
ResTrust LLC.
P.O. Box 267054
Weston, FL 33326
Email: inquiries [at] ResTrust.net

If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us the Web site to resolve your concerns.


TRUSTe effective date of approval was 03/18/2007

INFORMATION COLLECTION

I. Personally-identifiable information
This Site collects personally-identifiable information from you if you chose to provide this information to us. Personally-identifiable information collected with your consent may include, for example, name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, date of birth, credit card number, social security number, drivers license number, user name and password, your information included in your resume, any response you provide to survey questions, information relating to any orders you place, or any inquires you may make or authorize through our Site.

ResTrust does not share, sell, rent or trade personally identifiable information 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, however personally identifiable information is not collected through the use of cookies, other than your User ID. Cookies allow us to store your User ID during your visit to keep track of reports you have ordered or any updates to those reports. Cookies also help us detect potential fraud or misuse of our system. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on this site. Some of our business partners use cookies on their site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by ResTrust
LLC (www.restrust.net) only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

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. However, be aware that if you do not accept cookies from this Site, you will not be able to use some of the features of this Site, such as those for ordering reports.

III. Nonpersonally-identifiable information

This Site also collects other information relating to your use of the Site. For example, as you browse this 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 Site may use an outsourcing program or service to assist us in analyzing this data to better tailor our Site.

IV. Third Party Sites
Once you access any third party site or service through a link on the Site, you are subject to the privacy policy and terms and conditions of use of the third party site. ResTrust has no control and bears no responsibility for any action or policy associated with any third party site. Concerns regarding a third party site should be directed to the third party.



INFORMATION USE

I. Use by ResTrust.
The information collected by this Site is used only for responding to your inquiries and otherwise corresponding with you, for processing transactions you request, providing certification services, including the use of third party subcontractors to assist in such verifications, maintaining your account (if you have one), for Site administration, for review and/or the improvement of the content of our Site, and as otherwise permitted by the Terms and this policy. You may also elect to post personally identifiable information to the Site, as from time to time permitted by the Site, with the access to such posted information to be given to Site users, potential employers and other third parties. Copies of such information may be maintained by us.

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 think may be of interest to you, but we always offer you an opportunity to opt not to receive such communications. If you decide that you do not want to receive further e-mails regarding other products and services from ResTrust, you can reply to the e-mail or contact us at (www.restrust.net/content/contact_us) which is our contact us page Please request that we discontinue e-mailing you such information. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to honor such requests within 2 days from receipt.

We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form.


II. Onward Transfer

We may disclose information you provide to us to third parties in order to complete a transaction or provide a service that you requested. If, for example, you pay for a transaction using a credit card, disclosing that information for processing purposes is necessary to complete the transaction. If you sign up for ResTrust’s certification services, the information in your resume and other personal information may be provided to (a) third parties who provide services to ResTrust such as credit card processors and consumer reporting agencies, (b) may be used in obtaining verification from schools, prior employers, and other persons and establishments listed on your resume. We may provide information in your archived resume to third parties to whom you have provided your certified resume.

We may also outsource some tasks, including the operation of some Site functions, that require access to information you supply online. In such cases, however, the companies acting on our behalf have agreed to abide by our privacy policy and to institute safeguards with respect to the confidentiality of your information.

We may disclose information you provide to affiliated companies or to outside firms so that they can contact you about products or services that may be of interest, but we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out so that your information is not disclosed for these purposes. Please ensure you click opt-out when registering with ResTrust.

Finally, please note that we may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform with the law, to enforce the Terms, to enforce this privacy policy, or to comply with investigative requests of law enforcement and investigative and legal needs of ResTrust.

III. Business Transfer
If at some point ResTrust sells all or a portion of its business, or merges with another entity, the personal information it has collected may be transferred or acquired by a third party. After such a transaction, the third party that becomes the custodian of the personal information would have the right to continue using the personal information as set forth in this privacy policy that was in effect at the time that your
PII was collected.



ACCESS, CORRECTION
AND CANCELLATION

As an information company, we know the importance of accurate data. Therefore, we strive to maintain the accuracy of the information collected through this Site. Furthermore, we believe that the individual is invaluable in ensuring that data is complete and accurate. We will use reasonable efforts to provide you with access to such personally-identifiable information as you previously provided through our 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 Site.

If you wish to correct any inaccurate information you have submitted to this Site, please either use the “My Account” link provided by the Site or send an e-mail to: inquiries@ResTrust.net. Some of the information that you submit during the registration process cannot be changed once the registration process is complete. In order to change this information, you would need to set up a new account.

If you choose to cancel your account and desire your personal information to be deleted, please be aware that ResTrust may for a time retain residual information in our backup and/or archival copies of our database. ResTrust will make reasonable commercial efforts to delete your personal information after you communicate that intention to us. You acknowledge that such cancellation will cause ResTrust to be unable to certify your resume to third parties inquiring after the date of your cancellation. Please contact us through our contact us web page to cancel your account.


SECURITY

We take steps to protect against the misuse, or unauthorized alteration of personally-identifiable information collected and stored by us through this Site. We exercise care in permitting the secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers. We are not responsible, however, for protecting the information stored on your PC, or in assuring that your PC is free from any virus, malware or other program that may detect and disclose such information.

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

In regard to our staff, we limit access to personally-identifiable information stored on our servers to those employees who need access in order to carry out their job responsibilities.

Each registered user is assigned a unique user name and password which is required to access their user information. It is your responsibility to protect the security of your login information. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your account, especially on a shared computer, by logging out when you are finished using our Site.

You recognize that no physical or electronic security system is impenetrable, and ResTrust cannot guarantee the security of its servers or databases, nor can it guarantee that the information that you supply to us won’t be intercepted during transmission over the Internet.

POLICY CHANGES

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material