EarnKarma is committed to protecting your privacy. Because your privacy is important to us, we have adopted and implemented this Privacy Policy as part of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. EarnKarma will provide notice of materially significant changes to this privacy policy by posting notice on the EarnKarma site.

1. Protecting your privacy

• We don't run banner ads, pop ups, pop unders, or any other kind of commercial ads.
• We don't share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
• We don't engage in cross-marketing or link-referral programs with other sites.
• We don't send you unsolicited communications for marketing purposes.
• Account information is password-protected. Keep your password safe.
• EarnKarma does not knowingly collect any information from persons under the age of 13. If EarnKarma learns that a posting is by a person under the age of 13, EarnKarma will remove that post.
• EarnKarma, or people who post on EarnKarma, may provide links to third party websites, which may have different privacy practices. We are not responsible for, nor have any control over, the privacy policies of those third party websites, and encourage all users to read the privacy policies of each and every website visited.

2. Data we collect

• We sometimes collect your email address, for purposes such as sending self-publishing and confirmation emails, authenticating user accounts, providing subscription email services, registering for forums, etc.
• We sometimes collect your phone number for account authentication purposes, and may transmit it to a third party service for tele-robotic verification.
• We may collect personal information if you provide it in feedback or comments, post it on our classifieds or interactive forums, or if you contact us directly. Please do not post any personal information on EarnKarma's forums or classifieds that you expect to keep private.
• Our web logs collect standard web log entries for each page served, including your IP address, page URL, and timestamp. Web logs help us to diagnose problems with our server, to administer the EarnKarma site, and to otherwise provide our service to you.

3. Data we store

• All classified and forum postings are stored in our database, even after "deletion", and may be archived elsewhere.
• Our web logs and other records are stored indefinitely.
• Although we make good faith efforts to store the information in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security.

4. Archiving and display of EarnKarma postings by search engines and other sites Search engines and other sites not affiliated with EarnKarma - including archive.org, google.com, and groups.yahoo.com - archive or otherwise make available EarnKarma postings, including resumes

5. Circumstances in which EarnKarma may release information

• EarnKarma may disclose information about its users if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process.
• EarnKarma may also disclose information about its users to law enforcement officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce our Terms of Service; respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third-parties; or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of EarnKarma, its users or the general public.

6. International Users

By visiting our web site and providing us with data, you acknowledge and agree that due to the international dimension of EarnKarma we may use the data collected in the course of our relationship for the purposes identified in this policy or in our other communications with you, including the transmission of information outside your resident jurisdiction. In addition, please understand that such data may be stored on servers located in India. By providing us with your data, you consent to the transfer of such data.

7. Changes to Privacy

Policy:We may change this Privacy Policy at any time in our sole discretion, by providing thirty (30) days notice to you by displaying a prominent notice, in all caps, above the text of the Privacy Policy. If we change this Privacy Policy, we will post the changes on our web site's Privacy Policy page so that you will always know what type of personally identifiable information we collect and how we use this information. If you continue to use our web site following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy, you agree to be bound by the changes to the Privacy Policy.

8. Feedback:

We welcome your feedback on this document.Mail us at contact AT earnkarma DOT org with PRIVACY as the subject.