Privacy Policy
In Short:
Any personal information we capture will be used only to better tailor our products and services to suit your needs. We will share it only with people and companies who are directly affiliated with TheAntsNest.com. We will not sell, trade, rent, or give your personal information to third-party companies or organizations, unless they are offering a product or service in conjunction with TheAntsNest.com. (See the full Privacy Policy).Any information we present to advertisers will be in the form of aggregate statistics. Advertisers will not be given specific information about you as an individual.
Any information that you divulge in a public forum of this website is considered public information.
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As we introduce new products and features in the future, we will post clarifications to our privacy policies here.
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In Full:
TheAntsNest.com is committed to maintaining the privacy of your information and to safeguard your privacy online. Please read the information below about our use of your Personal Information (defined below).This privacy policy, which is a part of our Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement, sets forth our practices regarding the collection and use of "Personal Information" from users who have registered with TheAntsNest.com through our TheAntsNest.com membership registration forms located at www.theantsnest.com/regsiter.asp?regtype=register and Clients seeking to hire ANTS as well as the choices we offer such parties regarding the use of this information.
A Client is a user seeking an ANT or posting a project that has registered for TheAntsNest.com through our client membership registration located at www.theantsnest.com/regsiter.asp?regtype=register.
If you are an ANT, "Personal Information" means information that personally identifies you, including for example, your name, address, email address, etc. If you are a Client, "Personal Information" means information that personally identifies you, including for example, the name of your company, your name, your title, phone number, address, email address, a description of the Brief you are posting including payment range and skills desired and a description of the hiring organization "Web Site" means this website under the domain www.theantsnest.com.
Questions, comments, or requests regarding this privacy policy should be directed to us as follows:
email us at: whatsup@theantsnest.com
Collection of Information
You provide certain Personal Information to us when you (a) register as a VISITOR, ANT or CLIENT with TheAntsNest.com; (b) send email messages, submit forms, (c) submit a brief. We may collect Personal Information from you at other points on our site that state that Personal Information is being collected. In the future, we may also receive certain Personal Information from third parties you have authorized to disclose such information. We do not wish to obtain Personal Information from individuals under the age of 18.Disclosure of Information
Unless we tell you otherwise, we do not give, sell or rent your Personal Information to any third parties without your approval.However, we may give, sell or rent aggregated (anonymous) information about our users generally. Your address, phone number and/or email address are not visible to anyone visiting the site. If you are a CLIENT, and post a Brief, your Personal Information (or portions thereof) included in the brief will not be posted on the Noticeboard and will only be forwarded to the ANT/S directly involved in your project and only if it is absolutely necessary. (eg. your details will be needed by the ANT if you request a corporate ID design).
ALL communication between the CLIENTS and ANTS takes place via TheAntsNest.com. This ensures your privacy and enables us to moderate all comunications.
If you expressly indicate that you would like to receive information about products and services from third parties, we may disclose your name and email address to these parties.
By posting a Brief on at TheAntsNest.com, the following information including job description, pitch deadline and final job dealine will be disclosed to and viewable by anyone viewing the Noticeboard that is not a ANT or Client. In addition, in order to provide you with certain features of the TheAntsNest.com that will be provided by our third party partners in the future, we will need to disclose some of your Personal Information to these third party partners.
Use of Information
We use Personal Information, among other things, to anticipate and resolve problems with your service, to personalize your service, to investigate activity that may violate our Terms of Service, to analyze site traffic, and to develop and market products and services that may be of interest to you.In some instances, we use third party service providers to assist us in these activities; however, we require that these service providers maintain the confidentiality of your information.
If you are a CLIENT and post a brief, you agree that we will place your job listing in a database viewable by ANTS and certain portions viewable by anyone viewing the TheAntsNest.com (as specified above). If you sign up for an email newsletter, we will send the email newsletter to the address you provide us. We will use Personal Information about you to deliver information to you that target your interests. However, unless you tell us otherwise, we will not use Personal Information collected from the TheAntsNest.com to send unsolicited mailings to you.
Third Party Sites
This policy only addresses our activities from our servers. Other sites (including those third party sites or services which we co-brand) may have their own policies and practices, which we do not control, and thus are not addressed by this policy.Review and Removal of Your Personally Identifiable Data
If you provide us with Personal Information during your use of TheAntsNest.com (including your ANT portfolio text information if you are a ANT or a Brief information if you are a Client), we will provide you with a way to review the information we have on file and either change or remove such data from your Portfolio or Brief Posting. If you delete such information, it cannot be used by us or disclosed to third parties in the future. If you wish not to receive email correspondence from TheAntsNest.com, you can simply use the Your Account link to edit your details. There you may simply uncheck the subscribe link. You can use these same link to opt out of receiving newsletters from us that may not be of interest to you at any time.You can also opt out of having us disclose your Personal Information to our third party partners that provide certain features of the service (in which case you will not be able to access these features). To the extent that such information is also stored in other databases, we cannot always ensure that such corrections or deletions will reach the other databases. If you wish to have information you provided to us online removed from our records, please provide us with all your personal information as you submitted it to us, via post, telephone or e-mail and we will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that your information is removed from our records.
Postal:
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P.O.Box 23262
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tel: +2721 68 69 887
email: info@theantsnest.com
Notwithstanding the foregoing, you should understand that Personal Information previously disclosed by us to third parties before you delete or change such information in our database will be used according to such third parties' privacy policies.
Cookies and Other Tracking Methods
When you view TheAntsNest.com, we might store some information on your computer. Our servers automatically collect information about which pages you visit, your browser type, your IP address, your most-recently visited URL, your preferences, and in the future, we may save your password and other Personal Information so it doesn't need to be reentered. This information will be in the form of a "cookie" or similar file. Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your computer hard drive, not on our site.Cookies do not spy on you or otherwise invade your privacy, and they cannot invade your hard drive and steal information. Rather, they help you navigate a website as easily as possible.
Cookies can help us provide information that is targeted to your interests, and they allow us to better understand how you like to use TheAntsNest.com, which in turn helps us focus our resources on features that are the most popular. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, but some parts of our site may not work properly in that case. In some cases we may track or collect information about your use of our service by the numeric address assigned to the computer you are using (your IP address) or by the URLs that you come from or leave to. These methods allow us to resolve server problems or administer your service. Generally, we do not associate this information with any other Personal Information that you have provided to us. We may also automatically collect and store statistics and other information about you and your use of the Web Site both on an aggregate, non-personally identifiable basis and in a manner that may allow us to associate such information with other Personal Information about you.