At Werk ze!, your privacy is very important to us. We have a few fundamental principles that we follow. Read this carefully, so you know your rights.

Your privacy is very important to us. At Werk ze! we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except when necessary to comply with the law, , or protect our rights.

 

Werk ze! operates Werkze.co. It is Werk ze!’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Werk ze! collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Werk ze!’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Werk ze!’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Werk ze! may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Werk ze! also collects potentially personally-identifying information like for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Werk ze! only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

to Werk ze!’s websites choose to interact with Werk ze! in ways that require Werk ze! to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Werk ze! gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who apply for jobs through our website to provide their real name and email address. Those who wish to receive Werk ze! updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Werk ze! collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Werk ze!. Werk ze! does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Werk ze! may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Werk ze! may monitor the most popular pages on the Werkze.co site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Werk ze! may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Werk ze! does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Werk ze! discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Werk ze!’s behalf or to provide services available at Werk ze!’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. For instance, when a user uploads a resume on Werk ze!’s website, this will be made available for and is viewable by our paying customersSome of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Werk ze!’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Werk ze! will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Werk ze! discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Werk ze! believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Werk ze!, third parties or the public at large. Werk ze! is not responsible and thus cannot be held accountable for the abuse of personal-identifying information by a third party. If you are a registered user of Werkze.co website and have supplied your email address, Werk ze! may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Werk ze! and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Werk ze! takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

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. Werk ze! uses cookies to help Werk ze! identify and track visitors, their usage of Werk ze! website, and their website access preferences. Werk ze! visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Werk ze!’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Werk ze!’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Werk ze!, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Werk ze! goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Werk ze! may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Werk ze! and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

  • Google Adsense
    • Some of the ads may be served by Google. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to Users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet. DART uses “non personally identifiable information” and does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, etc. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Disqus anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Werk ze! may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Werk ze!’s sole discretion. Werk ze! encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.