Privacy Policy

We show you advertisements that look like non-sponsored content except for being labeled as sponsored content (e.g., "ad" or "sponsored"). If you engage in any social interaction with these ads (such as liking, commenting, or sharing), your action will be associated with you and visible to others, including the advertiser. Depending on your settings, if you engage socially through BossArena Services, this interaction may be referenced in related ads. For example, if you like a company, we may include your name and photo in their sponsored content.

Ad Preferences

We adhere to self-regulation principles regarding interest-based advertisements and support the industry-wide opt-out option. This does not mean you will stop receiving ads; you will continue to receive ads from advertisers who do not work with these self-regulation tools. Additionally, you can opt out of the use of data for specific categories to show you more relevant ads.

Information for Advertisers

We do not share your personal information with third-party advertisers or ad networks except in the following cases: (i) hashed IDs or device identifiers (to the extent they are considered personal data in some countries); (ii) with your explicit permission; or (iii) if the data is already public for all users of the Services (e.g., profile). However, if you click on an ad within or outside our Services, advertisers may receive a signal indicating that someone visited the page where the ad was displayed. They may also determine that it was you using mechanisms such as cookies. Advertising partners may associate personal information obtained directly from you with anonymized IDs or device identifiers received from us. In such cases, we require advertisers to obtain your consent through a contract before proceeding.

2.4 Marketing

We promote our Services to you and others.

We use members' data and content for advertising our Services, invitations, communications to increase membership and network size, interactions, and showcasing features you use in our Services to your connections.

2.5 Service Development and Research

We improve our Services and conduct research.

Service Development

We use your data, including general feedback, to guide research and development efforts aimed at offering a better, more intuitive, and personalized experience, increasing membership and engagement in our Services, and helping professionals connect and find economic opportunities.

Other Research

We strive to help all members worldwide be more productive and successful by creating economic opportunities. We use publicly available personal data to research social, economic, and workplace trends, such as job development opportunities, required skills for certain roles, and workforce gaps across different industries and regions. In some cases, we conduct these studies through trusted third parties under privacy-protective controls. Instead of using personal data, we publish aggregated economic insights or allow third parties to publish them.

Surveys

Research and surveys may be conducted through our Services by us or third parties. Participation in these surveys is optional, and you have control over the information you provide. You can opt out of survey invitations.

2.6 Customer Service

We use data to assist you and resolve issues.

We use data (including contact details) to investigate, resolve, and respond to complaints and issues related to our Services (e.g., bugs).

2.7 Insights Without Identifying You

We use data to generate insights that do not identify you.

We use your data to create and share non-identifiable insights. For example, we may use your data to generate general statistics about our members, their professions, or industries, calculate the number of ad impressions and clicks, publish demographic distributions of visitors to a Service, or develop workforce insights.

2.8 Security and Investigations

We use data for security, fraud prevention, and investigations.

We use your data (including contact details) for security purposes or to prevent or investigate possible fraud, violations of the User Agreement, or attempts to harm our Members, Visitors, or others.

3. How We Share Information

3.1 Our Services

All data in your profile and any content you publish or interactions you engage in within our Services (e.g., likes, follows, comments, shares) may be visible to others based on your settings.

Profile

Your profile is fully visible to all Members and customers of our Services. Additionally, based on your settings, it may be viewed by others inside or outside our Services (e.g., Visitors or users of third-party search engines). As detailed in our Help Center, your settings influence who can view your profile, based on factors such as the viewer's connection level with you, their subscriptions, their usage of our Services, and the search type (e.g., by name or keyword).

Posts, Likes, Follows, Comments, Messages

Our Services allow information to be displayed and shared through posts, likes, follows, and comments.

• When you share an article or post (e.g., an update, image, video, or article), this content can be viewed by anyone and shared anywhere (depending on your settings). Members, Visitors, and others can see publicly shared content, including your name (and photo, if provided).
• In a group, posts are visible to other group members. Group membership is public and part of your profile, but you can adjust its visibility in your settings.
• Any information you share on a company's or organization's page is displayed there and can be seen by visitors to that page.
• When you follow a person or organization, you are visible as a follower to others and to the “page owner.”
• Depending on your current settings, we notify message senders when you interact with their messages.
• Based on your settings, we notify a Member when you visit their profile.
• When you like, share, or comment on another person’s content (including ads), others can see this "social interaction" and associate it with you (e.g., your name, profile, and photo if provided).

3.2 Creating a Communication Archive

Members subject to regulations may need to archive their communications outside our Services.

Some Members (or their employees) may need to archive their communications and social media activities due to legal or professional compliance and will use other services for this archiving process. We support the archiving of messages for Members outside our Services. For example, a financial advisor may be required to archive communications with clients through our Services to maintain their financial advisory license.

3.3 Other Services

You can connect with other services using your account, allowing them to view your connections' profiles, share your posts on such platforms, or enable discussions with your connections on those platforms. Some sections of your profile may appear on other services.

Depending on your settings, other services may view your profile. If you choose to establish a connection between your account and other services, your personal data becomes accessible to them. The sharing and usage of this personal data will be explained in a consent screen displayed at the time of account linking or referenced via a link. Third-party services have their own privacy policies, and by linking your accounts, you may be allowing them to use your information in ways we would not. You can cancel these connections.

Depending on your settings, some parts of your profile may appear on other services (e.g., in search engine results, in calendar applications that show limited information about the person with whom a user has a meeting or message exchange, in social media data aggregators, talent scouts, sales managers). Until these services update their data caches, your "old" profile information may remain visible.

3.4 Related Services

We share your data across different Services and BossArena affiliates.

We share your personal data with our affiliated companies to provide and improve our Services. To make our Services more relevant and useful for you and others, we may combine information from different Services covered by this Privacy Policy.

3.5 Service Providers

We may engage others to help us with our Services.

We use other companies to assist in providing our Services (e.g., maintenance, analysis, auditing, payments, fraud detection, marketing, and development). These companies will have access to the information necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use the information for other purposes.

3.6 Legal Notices

We may share your data when required by law or to protect the rights and safety of you, us, and others.

We may disclose information about you when legally required, such as in response to a subpoena or other legal process, or when we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or address suspected or actual illegal activities, assist law enforcement authorities, enforce agreements, defend against claims, maintain the security or integrity of our Services (e.g., sharing with companies facing similar threats), or protect the rights, property, or safety of BossArena, our Members, employees, or others. Unless prohibited by law or an urgent request, we may try to notify our Members about legal demands for their personal data at our discretion. We may contest requests that are overly broad, vague, or lack proper authorization, but we are not obligated to challenge every request.

3.7 Change of Management or Sale

If our company is sold, your information may be shared, but it must continue to be used under this Privacy Policy.

We may share your personal data in preparation for or during a sale, merger, or change of management. The entity acquiring or partnering with our company has the right to continue using your data as specified in this Privacy Policy unless you provide consent otherwise.

4. Your Choices and Obligations

4.1 Data Retention

We retain most of your personal data as long as your account is active.

We generally retain your personal data as long as your account is active or as needed to provide our Services to you. This includes data provided by you or others and data we derive from your use of our Services. Even if you only use our Services occasionally for job searching, we keep your data and keep your account active unless you close it. In some cases, we may retain specific information (e.g., insights about Service usage) without personal details or in aggregated form.

4.2 Access and Control of Your Personal Data

You can access and delete your personal data. You have choices regarding how your data is collected, used, and shared.

We offer various options regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your data, including deletion, correction of your profile, visibility of your posts, advertising preferences, and communication controls. We provide settings to help you manage your personal information.

For the personal data we hold about you:

• Delete Data: You may request us to delete or remove some or all of your personal data (e.g., if we no longer need to provide you with Services).
• Modify or Correct Data: You can edit your personal data through your account. In certain cases, especially if information is incorrect, you may ask us to change, update, or correct it.
• Object to, Restrict, or Limit Data Use: You may request that we stop using some or all of your personal data (e.g., if we have no legal right to use it) or restrict its use (e.g., if your data is inaccurate or unlawfully obtained).
• Access and/or Obtain Your Data: You may request a copy of your personal data and a copy of the data you provided in a machine-readable format.

You can also contact us, and we will evaluate your requests in accordance with the law.

4.3 Account Closure

We retain some of your information even after you close your account.

If you choose to close your BossArena account, your data will generally stop being visible to others on our Services within 24 hours. Except in the cases listed below, we usually delete information related to the closed account within 30 days of account closure.

Even if you have closed your account, we may retain your personal information when necessary to fulfill legal obligations (including legal requests), comply with regulations, resolve disputes, ensure security, prevent fraud and misuse (e.g., if we restricted your account due to a violation of the Professional Community Policies), enforce our User Agreement, or process your subscription cancellation requests sent via message. We continue to store non-personal information after your account is closed.

Information you have shared with others may still be visible even after you close your account or delete it from your profile or message box, and we cannot control the data that other Members have copied from our Services. Content related to closed accounts in Groups, ratings, or review content will appear as being from an unknown user. Your profile may continue to appear on other services (e.g., search engines) until they update their caches.

5. Other Important Information

5.1. Security

We continuously monitor security vulnerabilities and work to prevent breaches. Please use the appropriate security features offered through our Services.

We implement security measures such as HTTPS to protect your data. We regularly monitor our system for potential security vulnerabilities and attacks. However, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you provide to us. There is no guarantee that data cannot be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed due to breaches of physical, technical, or administrative safeguards.

5.2. Cross-Border Data Transfers

We may store and use your data outside your country.

In accordance with legal mechanisms enabling the cross-border transfer of data, we use your data both within and outside the United States. Learn more. The countries where we process data may have different laws from your country, and these laws may not provide the same level of protection as those in your country.

5.3 Legal Basis for Data Processing

We have legal rights to collect, use, and share data about you. You have options regarding how we use your data. You can revoke the permission you granted us at any time by adjusting your settings.

We collect and process personal data only when we have a legal basis to do so. Legal bases include consent (when you grant permission), contracts (when processing is necessary to fulfill a contract with you, such as providing the BossArena Services you requested), and "legitimate interests."

When we rely on your consent to process your data, you have the right to withdraw or revoke your consent at any time. When we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object. If you have any questions about the legal bases for our data collection and use, please contact our Data Protection Officer.

5.4. Direct Marketing and Do Not Track Signals

Our statement regarding direct marketing and "do not track" signals.

We do not share your personal data with third parties for direct marketing purposes without your consent.

5.5. Contact Information

You can contact us to resolve your complaints or explore other available options.

If you have questions or complaints about this Policy, please first contact BossArena online. You can also reach us by mail. If contacting us does not resolve your complaint, there are other options available. Individuals residing in specific countries and regions also have the right to contact our Data Protection Officer. If your complaint is still not resolved, individuals residing in specific countries and regions may have additional options under their local laws.