Last Updated: April 28, 2009

Your privacy is our top priority at PivotalDiscovery.com. We work hard to earn and keep your trust, so we adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy:

• We will never share your contact information with another user, without your consent.
• We will never rent or sell your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes.
• Any sensitive information that you provide will be secured with all industry standard protocols and technology.

Notice of all changes that materially affect ways in which your personally identifiable data may be used or shared will be posted in updates to our Privacy Policy. If you continue to use the PivotalDiscovery.com service after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on our site, you hereby provide your consent to the changed practices

Please read this privacy policy to learn more about:

1. What personally identifiable information of yours is collected by PivotalDiscovery.com.
2. How the information is used.
3. With whom the information may be shared.
4. How you can access and change your Account information under My Profile.
5. What security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information collected by PivotalDiscovery.com.
6. How to contact us.

Information Collection

Registration:
In order to become a PivotalDiscovery.com user, you must first create an account on this web site. To create an account you are required to provide the following contact information: name, email address, country, ZIP/postal code, a brief summary of your professional background (current occupation & networking objectives), and enter a password.

Profile Information:
Once a user, you may provide additional information in the My Profile (“Profile”) section describing your skills, professional experiences, education, and networking objectives. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional, but enables you to better identify yourself and find new opportunities and connect with other professionals in the PivotalDiscovery.com system.

Information about your Contacts
In order to invite others to connect with you directly in PivotalDiscovery.com, you will enter their names and email addresses. This information will be used by PivotalDiscovery.com to send your invitation including a message that you write. The names and email addresses of people that you invite will be used only to send your invitation and reminders.

You may also choose to manually enter or upload data about your contacts into the private “Contacts” section of the Pivotal Portal. All information entered there will only be viewable by you and will not be searchable by others in the PivotalDiscovery.com network without your permission.

All information that you enter or upload about your contacts will be covered by the same terms of this privacy policy as cover your own personally identifiable information.

Cookies & Log Files:
Like most web sites, PivotalDiscovery.com uses cookies and web log files to track site usage. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer which allows PivotalDiscovery.com to recognize you as a user when you return to our site using the same computer and web browser. Keep in mind that if your browser settings do not allow cookies, you will not be able to use our website. Like the information you enter at registration or in your Profile, cookie and log file data is used to customize your experience on the web site.

One type of cookie, known as a “persistent” cookie, is set once you’ve logged in to your PivotalDiscovery.com account. The next time you visit the PivotalDiscovery.com web site, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing user so you will not need to log in before using the service. If you log out of the PivotalDiscovery.com site you will need to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log in to your account. Another type of cookie, called a “session” cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to the PivotalDiscovery.com site. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser.

Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the PivotalDiscovery.com web site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave PivotalDiscovery.com. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the PivotalDiscovery.com service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is never shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.

Web Beacons:
We allow other companies, called ad networks, to serve advertisements to PivotalDiscovery.com users. Ad networks include third party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors and research firms. PivotalDiscovery.com may “target” some ads to users that fit a certain general profile — for example, “Litigation professionals in New York.” PivotalDiscovery.com does NOT use personally identifiable information to target ads.

To deliver these ads properly, PivotalDiscovery.com may include a file, called a web beacon, from these ad networks within pages served by PivotalDiscovery.com so the networks may provide anonymized, aggregated auditing, research and reporting for advertisers as well as to target ads to you while you visit other websites.

Because your web browser must request these advertisements and web beacons from the ad network’s servers, these companies can view, edit or set their own cookies, just as if you had requested a web page from their site.

These general targets may also be used by ad networks to display targeted ads on other websites as a substitute for random, irrelevant ads. You will never see additional ads as a result of being a PivotalDiscovery.com user and PivotalDiscovery.com never provides personally identifiable information to any advertiser nor any third party.

Children:
Children are not eligible to use our service and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us or use the service.

Information Use

Our mission is to provide a community platform for e-discovery and litigation professionals to connect with each other and foster meaningful professional relationships, engage individually and as groups with the larger community, discover new resources, and proactively manage their careers. The personally identifiable information you choose to provide on this site is used to help you describe yourself to other users. Other information, that does not personally identify you as an individual, is collected by PivotalDiscovery.com from the site (such as, by way of example, patterns of utilization) and is exclusively owned by PivotalDiscovery.com. This information can be utilized by PivotalDiscovery.com in such manner as PivotalDiscovery.com, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.

PivotalDiscovery.com Communications:
PivotalDiscovery.com will communicate with you through email and notices posted on this website. These include a series of up to five welcome emails which help inform new users about various features of the service. Please be aware that you will always receive certain emails from PivotalDiscovery.com related to the proper functioning of your account, such as email notices when another user in your network sends you an opportunity. PivotalDiscovery.com may send you promotional information unless you have opted out of receiving such information. If you wish to opt-out of receiving promotional emails, please send a request to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Customized Content:
Information you provide at registration or in your Profile section is also used to customize your experience on the web site. For example, when you login to your account we will display the number of new private messages you have received and the number of connection requests you have received.

Information Sharing

Sharing Information With Third Parties:
PivotalDiscovery.com takes the privacy of our users very seriously. We will never sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to any third parties for marketing purposes. We will only share your personally identifiable with third parties to carry out your instructions and to provide specific services. For instance, for employers posting jobs we use a credit card processing company to bill users for posting fees. These third parties do not retain, share, or store any personally identifiable information except to provide these services and are bound by strict confidentiality agreements which limit their use of such information.

We may provide aggregated data about the usage of our services to third-parties for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate. We may segment our users by role (i.e. project managers, paralegals), geographic location, or company. If you would like to be excluded from the aggregated research or products based upon aggregated data about our users’ activities on the site, please email customer service.

Partnering with Other Organizations to Offer Combined Services:
PivotalDiscovery.com partners with other online services to give you the combined results of both services. For example we partner with Indeed.com to let you use their services to find jobs and then to use PivotalDiscovery.com to manage the career opportunity and find trusted referrals to those jobs. Whenever we offer such combined services it will be your choice to make use of the combined services or not. In these cases, your personally identifiable information will only be passed from PivotalDiscovery.com to the partner if you choose to use the combined service.

Communications Between Users:
Many emails you initiate through PivotalDiscovery.com, an invitation sent to a non-user or use of the Send Email feature for example, will list your email address and name in the header of the message. Other communications that you initiate through the PivotalDiscovery.com website, using the Request Connection feature for example, will list your name only.

Legal Disclaimer:
It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on our company or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

Accessing and Changing Your Account Information

You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired changes to the information, or to the settings for your PivotalDiscovery.com account, at any time by logging in to your account on the PivotalDiscovery.com website and editing the information on your Profile page. If you wish to close your PivotalDiscovery.com account, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . We will remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our publicly viewable data. We may retain certain data contributed by you 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 terms of the PivotalDiscovery.com Privacy Policy to which you have previously agreed. To request that we close your account and remove your information from the PivotalDiscovery.com service, please send your request to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Please send your request using an email account that you have registered with PivotalDiscovery.com under your name. You will receive a response to requests sent to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it within three business days of our receiving it.

Security

In order to secure your personal information, access to your data on PivotalDiscovery.com is password-protected, and sensitive data (such as credit card information) is protected by SSL encryption when it is exchanged between your web browser and our web site. To protect any data you store on our servers we also regularly audit our system for possible vulnerabilities and attacks and we use a tier-one secured-access data center.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

PivotalDiscovery.com may update this privacy policy. In the event there are significant changes in the way we treat your personally identifiable information, we will display a notice on this site. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Questions or Comments

If you have questions or comments about this privacy policy, please email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or contact us at:

PivotalDiscovery.com
Attn: Privacy Questions
460 Brannan Street
#77025
San Francisco, CA 94107