Privacy Policy

Directional Drilling Jobs.com Privacy Policy is as follows;

Your privacy is very important to us. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. Please read this privacy policy to learn more about the ways in which we use and protect your personal information. If you have additional questions, click here to send us Email

This Privacy practices describes the information, as part of the normal operation of our services, we collect from you and what may happen to that information. Although this policy may seem long, we have prepared a detailed policy because we believe you should know as much as possible about Directional Drilling Jobs.com's practices so that you can make informed decisions. Our subsidiaries and joint venture partners operate under similar privacy practices as described in this Privacy Policy and, subject to the requirements of applicable law, we strive to provide a consistent set of privacy practices throughout our Directional Drilling Jobs.com website.

By accepting the Privacy Policy and User Agreement in registration, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the Directional Drilling Jobs.com User Agreement. This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance in registration for new registering users, and is otherwise effective on May 31, 2005 for all users.

Table of Contents
1. An Important Note About Children
2. Information We Collect
3. Our Use of Your Information
4. Our Disclosure of Your Information
1. Advertisers
2. Directional Drilling Jobs.com Community
3. External Service Providers
4. Internal Service Providers for Our Operations
5. Other Corporate Entities
6. Legal Requests
5. Your Use of Other Users' Information
6. Use of Email Tools
7. Control of Your Password
8. Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information
9. Other Information Collectors
10. Security
11. Privacy Tools
12. Notice
13. Accountability

1. A Special Note About Children
Children (persons under the age of 18) are not eligible to use the Site, and we ask that children do not submit any personal information to us. If you are under the age of 18, you may not use this Site.

2. Information We Collect
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information from you is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our service to make your experience easier. We only collect personal information about you that we consider necessary for achieving this purpose.

In general, you can browse the Site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to us. If you choose to use our Site, we may require you to provide contact and identity information, billing information, and other personal information as indicated on the forms throughout our Shopping Cart Site. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields are optional. You always have the option to not provide information by choosing not to use a particular service or feature.

Under some circumstances, we may require some additional financial information. We use your financial information, including credit card information to verify the accuracy of your name, address, and other information, as well as to bill you for your use of our services.

We automatically track certain information about you based upon your behaviors on our Site. We use this information to do internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve you and our community. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our Site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our Site or not), your computer browser information, and your IP address.

We use data collection devices such as "cookies" on certain pages of the Site to help analyze our web page flow, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety. "Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing our services. We offer certain features that are only available through the use of a "cookie." We also use "cookies" allow you to enter your password less frequently during a session. Cookies can also help us provide information that is targeted to your interests. Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted at the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features on our Site and you may be required to re-enter your password more frequently during a session.
Additionally, you may encounter "cookies" or other similar devices on certain pages of our Site that are placed by third parties. We do not control the use of cookies by third parties.

If you establish a credit account with us to pay the fees we charge, we collect some additional information, such as: a billing address, and tracking information from cheques or money orders.

If you choose to post messages in our forums, chat rooms or other message areas or leave feedback for other users, we will collect that information that you provide to us. We retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law.

If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on our site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.

3. Our Use of Your Information
We use your personal information to facilitate the services you request. We use personal information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site to: resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; bill your account; measure consumer interest in our products and services, inform you about online and offline offers, products, services, and updates; customize your experience; detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce our User Agreement; and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection, use or disclosure. At times we look across multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may examine your personal information to identify users using multiple User ID's or aliases. We may compare and review your personal information for errors, omissions and for accuracy.

You agree that we may use personal information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze Site usage, to improve our content and product offerings, and to customize the Site's content, layout, and services. These uses improve the Site and better tailor it to meet your needs, so as to provide you with a smooth, efficient, safe and customized experience while using the Site.

You agree that we may also use your personal information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, administrative notices, product offerings, and communications relevant to your use of the Site. By accepting the User Agreement and Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information. If you do not wish to receive these communications, we encourage you to opt out of the receipt of certain communications on the notification preferences. You may make changes to your notification preferences at any time.

4. Our Disclosure of Your Information
As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any of your personal information to third parties. However the following describes some of the ways that your personal information may be disclosed in the normal scope of business to provide our services.

• External Service Providers.
  There are a number of separate services offered by third parties that we refer to as external service providers that may be complimentary to your use of the Site (e.g., affiliate tracking, online merchant account, authentication, shopping cart, and vide interviewing). We do not disclose your personal information to external service providers.
• Legal Requests.
  Directional Drilling Jobs.com cooperates with law enforcement inquires, as well as other third parties to enforce laws such as: intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights, to help protect you and the Directional Drilling Jobs.com community from bad actors. Therefore, in response to a verified request by law enforcement or other government officials relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity, we can (and you authorized us to) disclose your name, city, province, telephone number, email address, UserID history, fraud complaints, and listing history without a subpoena. However, in an effort to balance your right to privacy and the ability to keep the community free from bad actors, we will not disclose additional information to law enforcement or other government officials without a subpoena, court order or substantially similar legal procedure, except when the additional disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss. Further we can (and you authorize us to) disclose your name, street address, city, province, zip code, country, phone number, email and company name to Directional Drilling Jobs.com Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) programme participants under confidentiality agreement, as we in our sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation or prosecution of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy or other unlawful activity.
  
  Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose personal information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or users may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the Site. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private.

5. Your Use of Other Users' Information
In order to facilitate interaction among all Directional Drilling Jobs.com drilling community members, our Site provides them with limited access to the contact information you have told us to disclose to them. By entering into our User Agreement, you agree that, with respect to other user's personal information that you obtain through the Site or through an Directional Drilling Jobs.com-related communication or Directional Drilling Jobs.com-facilitated transaction, Directional Drilling Jobs.com hereby grants to you a license to use such information only for: (a) Directional Drilling Jobs.com-related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages, (b) using co-branded services offered through Directional Drilling Jobs.com, and (c) any other purpose that a such user expressly agrees to after you tell them the purpose you would like to use it for. In all cases, you must give users an opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what information you have collected about them. In addition, under no circumstances, except as defined in this Section, can you disclose personal information about another user to any third party without our consent and the consent of that user. You agree that other users may use your personal information to communicate with you in accordance with this Section. Note; that law enforcement personnel, and other rights holders are given different rights with respect to information they access.

6. Use of Email Tools
You may not use the Email This Item to a Friend service or other email services that we offer to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our User Agreement. We do not permanently store email messages or the email addresses sent from these tools. If you do send an email using the Email This Item to a Friend service to an email address that is not registered on our Site, we do not use that email address for any purpose other than to send your email. We do not rent or sell these email addresses.

7. Control of Your Password
You are responsible for all actions take with your User ID and password, including fees charged to your account. Therefore, we do not recommend that you disclose your Directional Drilling Jobs.com password to any third parties. If you choose to share your User ID and password or your personal information with third parties, you are responsible for all actions take with your account and therefore you should review that third party's privacy policy before doing so. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password as detailed in Section 8.

8. Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information
We will modify your personal information based upon your request. You can change your email address, contact information, financial information. Once posted, you cannot change or remove any public postings made in our forums, product reviews, chat rooms or other message .

Upon your request, we will deactivate your account, contact information, billing information, and financial information from our active databases. Such information will be deactivated as soon as reasonably possible based upon your account activity and in accordance with our deactivation policy and applicable law.

We will retain in our files some personal information you have requested to remove to prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our User Agreement and comply with legal requirements as is permitted by law. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personal information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests. However, such personal information will be deactivated from public and member viewing and will only be available to select Directional Drilling Jobs.com personal.

9. Other Information Collectors
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties, whether they are Directional Drilling Companies or Directional Drillers on our Site or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the personal information you disclose to them. Since Directional Drilling Jobs.com does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy customs and policies of that third party. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.

10. Security
Your information is stored and processed on computers located in Canada and the United States. Directional Drilling Jobs.com uses procedural and technical safeguards to protect your personal information against loss or theft, as well as against unauthorized access or disclosure, to protect your privacy, including firewalls and encryption. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.

11. Privacy Tools
It is our goal to make our privacy practices easy to understand. We have created easy-to-read summaries, privacy principles, a privacy chart and, are working on privacy enhancing technology to help summarize our full privacy policy. If you have questions about any summary or if you would like more detailed information, we encourage you to review our full privacy policy.

12. Notice
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on the Site. All amended terms shall automatically be effective 30 days after they are initially posted on the Site.

13. Accountability
Our privacy office is responsible for ensuring that our day-to-day procedures comply with this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Directional Drilling Jobs.com.