**Privacy Policy for Ditching the 9-to-5 Job**
**Effective Date:** August 12, 2024
At Ditch the 9-to-5 Job (“we,” “us,” or “our”), we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our website, ditchthe9to5job.com (the “Site”). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using the Site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by all the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Site.
**1. Information We Collect**
* **Personal Information:** We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the site, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, participate in activities on the Site, or otherwise contact us. The personal information that we may collect includes:
* Your name
* Email address
* Any other information you choose to provide
* **Non-Personal Information:** When you visit the Site, we may also collect non-personal information, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and information about your interaction with the Site. This information does not directly identify you but helps us analyze trends, administer the Site, track users’ movements around the Site, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
* **Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies:** We may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about your activity on our Site. Cookies are small data files that are placed on your hard drive when you visit a website. Web beacons are small electronic images that may be used in our emails or on the Site to deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage, and determine if an email has been opened and acted upon.
**2. How We Use Your Information**
We may use the information we collect about you for various purposes, including to:
* Provide, maintain, and improve our Site
* Respond to your comments, questions, and requests, and provide customer service
* Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages
* Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, rewards, and events offered by us and others, and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you
* Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Site
* Personalize and improve the Site and provide advertisements, content, or features that match user profiles or interests
* Process and deliver contest entries and rewards
* Link or combine with information we get from others to help understand your needs and provide you with better service
* Carry out any other purpose for which the information was collected
**3. How We Share Your Information**
We may share your information with third parties under the following circumstances:
* **Service Providers:** We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and other similar services.
* **Business Transfers:** If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, then your information may be transferred as part of such a transaction as permitted by law and/or contract.
* **Compliance with Laws:** We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with applicable laws, in response to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena, or warrant, or to otherwise cooperate with law enforcement or other governmental agencies.
* **Protect Our Rights:** We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
**4. Your Choices**
* **Opt-Out of Marketing Communications:** You may opt out of receiving marketing-related emails from us by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in any such email.
* **Cookies:** Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies or reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Site.
**5. Security**
We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
6. Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, please do not use or provide any information on this Site. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.
**7. Changes to This Privacy Policy**
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the site’s home page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Site and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
**8. Contact Us**
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
* **Email:** [email address removed]
By using the Site, you consent to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.