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Privacy

Participation in AlphaBeta Finder is completely and confidentially up to you. Please click here to see our Privacy Statement for our official policy. However, in this section, we describe our contact process so that you understand when and under what circumstances your identifying information is provided to another individual or organization.

We protect your privacy, but we also require that you update your information at least every 6 months so that your interest, availability, and profile are accurate for searches.

For any of our users, whether they are Alphas or Betas or Development Project Companies, if we receive information from any user or source that something about your profile, project, skills, or background was false or misleading or that you are not complying with our Terms of Use or Privacy Agreement, we will place your records on hold so they are not viewable on the site. Depending upon the circumstances, we may try to contact you to straighten out the situation or we may remove your records permanently. If we do try to contact you but you do not respond or work with us to determine the accuracy of your information, we will remove your records from our service.

The accurate identifying information we know about you is only your email address. We ask for your name but it can be any nickname or identifier you prefer. We do not ask for information that hackers might want such as social security numbers, your physical address, or your credit history. If you are a development project company and purchase our service, we use a secure merchant service for credit card transactions that will itself require payor name, address, and credit card number, but AlphaBeta Finder does not know or retain any credit card information on our servers.

Privacy for Alpha and Beta Users and Organizations

Your Privacy is Kept Until You Decide to Test on a Specific Project with a Specific Development Company.

At no time do we offer your contact information or your profile information for any purpose other than as test candidates for our development project subscribers. Our Terms of Use require that all our users pledge not to use contact details they obtain from our service for sales or other purposes other than Alpha or Beta matching and connecting.

Our goal is to connect interested, willing, and available users with software projects. You fill out information about the computers you know and use, such as a Windows laptop or a Linux Treo, and the types of software you know, such as a browser or online shopping, and also the types of business knowledge or other skill you might have, such as work experience as a loan officer or a hair stylist. We do ask for some voluntary demographic information such as age or disabilities because some development projects are specifically targeted to these segments. We do not use demographic information to share with anyone other than for matching for projects on our site. All of this information is optional for you to enter but the more specific information you enter, the better your chances to turn up in a search for projects. Our only means to directly contact or identify you is your contact email address. When a company conducts a search and your profile comes up, we send you an email with that company's project information and test description and the estimated duration and time from you. If you are interested and available, you send us a "Yes, I Am Interested and Accept" reply and only then do we forward your contact details to the company and only if they request them. After that, it is up to the development company to contact you via that email address for additional information and to make test arrangements. See our FAQ web pages to learn typical test activities. If you say you are not interested in the project, we do not forward your email address to anyone. In that same email, you have other options such as completely cancelling your registration with us.

Be aware though that even though you agreed via your email reply to test on this project, the company is not obligated to contact you further or use you for the project. They may get many more Yes'es than they anticipated; their project may get delayed or they may simply change their minds. You may be disappointed about that project, but if you keep your profile updated and detailed, and you will be eligible for more projects.

AlphaBeta Finder does not make project matching contacts by phone although we do not prevent you from exchanging phone numbers with development project companies once you are in communication with them on a development project. Once you are on a project, telephone may become a convenient and more responsive way to communicate with them about your testing.

AlphaBeta Finder only knows you by your email address. We ask for your city and country and language in case this helps you become a better match, but do not record a specific location address. If you never want to give out your real name and address, you do not have to reveal it, although if you join a development project as an Alpha or Beta user, you will very likely need to give some accurate identification so that they can converse with you. And in order to obtain a reward such as a gift certificate, travel, or check from them, your identification will of course be requested by them. These arrangements are between you and the development project company and are outside the scope of our service.

If you no longer want your profile used in AlphaBeta Finder, you can temporarily or permanently de-activate it. You can also at any time delete any data you record such as removing a computer that is broken. If you wait 6 months and simply do not access or update your information, we de-activate your record for you and you then do not turn up in any searches. You can re-activate it if you change your mind and want to participate again.

Privacy for Development Project Companies

If you are a development project company, we do ask for your company name and web site, but you can choose not to show these in emails to Alpha and Beta users you select. You may want to do this if your project is in stealth mode. While this information is not required, we strongly urge you to provide as much detail about your company and project as you can to gain the credibility you need to enlist sincere participants.

Companies and their project information are not viewable or searchable to users of our Service. This policy keeps web site visitors from "shopping" just to see if they can gain competitive intelligence about you from our service. It also prevents users from comparing projects just to see where the best rewards are. Most importantly, it provides you with confidentiality about your project. Many development projects need to remain private until they debut in the market. Your company, project, and test information is only privately emailed to qualified users who turn up in searches that you define and only after you deliberately select them by reviewing their profile information. This allows you to refine even more the number and types of users we email for you.

Once we obtain "Yes, I Accept and want to participate on this Project" email replies from those you asked that we contact for you, you can still eliminate any of those you do not want to proceed further with. We forward you email addresses of those you decide to continue with.

After that point, AlphaBeta Finder is no longer involved, and it is up to you to contact them with additional test information, screen them further to make sure they are the candidates you want to work with on your project, and make test arrangements with them to obtain your hardware or software.

Privacy Statement

This statement discloses the privacy practices for the AlphaBeta Finder website, which may be accessed through www.alphabetafinder.com, or through related URLs.

Information We Collect and How It is Used

AlphaBeta Finder collects a wide variety of information on hardware, software, experience, skills, companies, organizations, and software and test projects that is used to conduct searches and determine matches for using and testing software.

All information collected by AlphaBeta Finder is used to find, qualify, match, and assist users and testers of software or hardware and find, qualify, match, and assist organizations with alpha, beta, or test projects. None of the information we collect is made accessible to the public other than for these purposes.

Users who do not agree to our Privacy Statement and Terms of Use cannot access any user contact information.

The AlphaBeta Finder matching and contact process is designed to allow opt in as often and as specifically as possible.

Only when a user agrees to our privacy statement and other terms and conditions, do we provide the ability to search our database for matches on prospective users and testers of development projects. In addition, we provide our users' contact information only after we specifically notify them of a test project and they reply that they are interested in the opportunity. Unless these conditions are met, we do not forward contact names and contact information on that user.

Our users can enter our system and delete or alter their profile at any time. They can also suspend their profile and activate it at a later time of their choice. They are encouraged to update their information frequently, at least every 6 months, to keep their information current for searches.

Details on profiles from our users are displayed anonymously with no contact details and will only be shown to other users when they conduct searches in our system. User information that is shown are the skills, languages, experience, software and hardware information they choose to share to be eligible for projects.

Employees of AlphaBeta Finder may see the information on users in the performance of their duties with the web site and its software. Employees are trained in keeping user information private and are obligated to do so.

You may be asked to participate in testimonials, user stories, user forums, panel discussions, user surveys and other research conducted by AlphaBeta Finder and your identifying details may be requested. Only with your full agreement will your experiences and identity be used.

Information Supplied by You at Registration or Purchase

AlphaBeta Finder offers a subscriber-based service to users seeking test projects and testers and may offer for sale related products that it develops. To process subscriptions and/or product purchases, we may require your name, email address, billing address, phone number, email address, shipping address and credit card information. Information gathered during product purchases is used primarily to process your order. AlphaBeta Finder uses email notification to notify you that we have received your order. You also receive email reminders to update your information approximately every 6 months. AlphaBeta Finder may delete or inactivate profiles at its discretion that are not updated every 6 months.

Once you are a registered user of AlphaBeta Finder, we may also occasionally send you newsletters and email you notifications of special events or product offerings at AlphaBeta Finder. If you have started, but not completed, the registration process, we may also send you email messages encouraging you to complete the process and become a subscriber. All of the email messages we send you may contain code that enables our database to track your usage of the emails, including whether the email was opened and/or what links (if any) were clicked. If you would rather not receive emails about new products, promotions or other noteworthy news, please see the section below labeled "Choice/Opt-out". AlphaBeta Finder fully complies with the requirements of the federal CAN-SPAM Act.

Demographic and profile data are also collected at our site only to help developers better match testers with projects. For instance, some new products may be developed for visually impaired users. To be eligible for projects like this, a user can enter information about vision. All demographic and profile information is optional.

As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets and, depending on the transaction, your personally identifiable information may be one of the transferred assets. In the event that we are acquired by another company, your personal information may be part of the assets transferred to the acquiring party. If this occurs, you will be notified if there are any material changes to the way your personally identifiable information is collected or used.

Credit card transactions are processed through industry standard secure socket layer encryption by a third party, which only uses your information for that purpose.

We will only share your information with third-parties in the ways defined in this Privacy Statement.

Information Supplied by Your Browser

AlphaBeta Finder also logs IP addresses for systems administration purposes. IP addresses are logged to track a user's session. This gives AlphaBeta Finder an idea of which parts of our site users are visiting. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that a user's session will be tracked, but the user will be anonymous.

Our site uses cookies to keep track of some types of information while you are visiting or using AlphaBeta Finder. Cookies are very small files placed on your computer, so that when you return to AlphaBeta Finder we can identify you. Cookies are needed for the AlphaBeta Finder site to operate properly. If your browser is set to reject all cookies, the site will not function properly.

Legal Disclaimer

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may disclose information you provide if required to do so by law or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process served on us; (2) protect and defend our rights or property; (3) act in an emergency to protect someone's safety or (4) as expressly provided herein.

Age Restrictions

AlphaBeta Finder users must be at least 18 years of age to register for and use our service. As per the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, any information we receive from people we believe to be minors will be purged from our database.

Public Forums

AlphaBeta Finder may make message boards or blogs available to its users and visitors. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personally identifying information or intellectual property information regarding your company or your project.

Refer a Colleague

AlphaBeta Finder encourages you to refer business and personal colleagues to our service. You may voluntarily provide us with colleague email addresses and we will email them to request that they register with our service.

Security

AlphaBeta Finder has extensive security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information stored in our database. These measures include the use of Secure Server technology during credit card transactions and administrative access to site data, as well as other proprietary security measures which are applied to all repositories and transfers of user information. Although we will exercise reasonable care in providing secure transmission of information between your computer and our servers, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us over the Internet and we accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure.

AlphaBeta Finder itself does not store any credit card information on its users as a security precaution.

Policies and Remedies

Links to Other Sites

AlphaBeta Finder is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites that may be linked to this site or of any third party advertisers.

Choice/Opt-Out

AlphaBeta Finder users may use the following options for removing their information from our database if they do not wish to receive future communications.

1. Send email to info@AlphaBeta Finder.com with the word "Remove" in the subject field

Contacting the Website

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with the AlphaBeta Finder website, you can contact:

Site Administrator
info@AlphaBeta Finder.com

Acceptance of Privacy Statement

Your use of our website, including any dispute concerning privacy, is subject to this Privacy Statement and the Terms of Use. BY USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES SET OUT IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR TERMS OF USE.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement page. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, or by other means, such as email, at our discretion.

Your continued use of any portion of our website following posting of the updated privacy statement will constitute your acceptance of the changes.