Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At Actuarial Careers, Inc. ® we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

  • We ask for your contact information which might be considered “personally identifiable” information. We don’t ask you for personal information. We distinguish between the two types of information.
  • We would not share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law or protect our rights.
  • We don’t collect or store personal information on our servers. We store personally identifiable information as required for the on-going operations of our site and the services we provide to you.

It is Actuarial Careers, Inc.® policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors

Actuarial Careers, Inc.® collects non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Actuarial Careers, Inc.’s ® purpose in collecting non personally identifying information is to better understand how Actuarial Careers, Inc.’s® visitors use its website. From time to time, Actuarial Careers, Inc.® may release non-personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Actuarial Careers, Inc.® also collects potentially personally identifying information such as Name, Address, E-Mail, Telephone Number, Company Name, Base Salary, Gender, Country of Employment, Career Specialization, Employment Status, Professional Designations, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users opting in to receive job updates or users who participate in our annual salary survey.  Actuarial Careers, Inc.® only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Actuarial Careers, Inc.’s® websites choose to interact with Actuarial Careers, Inc.® in ways that require Actuarial Careers, Inc.® to gather personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that Actuarial Careers, Inc.® gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who participate in our Salary Survey to voluntarily disclose their Name, Address, E-Mail, Telephone Number, Company Name, Base Salary, Gender, Country of Employment, Career Specialization, Employment Status, Professional Designations. Those who wish to receive Actuarial Careers, Inc.® updates via email, we collect their emails, telephone number, first and last name. In each case, Actuarial Careers, Inc®. collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Actuarial Careers, Inc.. Actuarial Careers, Inc®. does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Actuarial Careers, Inc. ® may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Actuarial Careers, Inc.® may monitor the most popular pages on the ActuarialCareers.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam.

Protection of Certain Personally Identifying Information

Actuarial Careers, Inc.® discloses potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information to process it on Actuarial Careers, Inc.’s® behalf or to provide services available at Actuarial Careers, Inc.’s® websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Actuarial Careers, Inc.’s ® websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Actuarial Careers, Inc.® will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Actuarial Careers, Inc.® discloses potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Actuarial Careers, Inc.® believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Actuarial Careers, Inc.®, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Actuarial Careers, Inc.® website and have supplied your email address, Actuarial Careers, Inc.® may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Actuarial Careers, Inc.® and our products. We primarily use our various site pages to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Actuarial Careers, Inc. takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Actuarial Careers, Inc.® uses cookies to help Actuarial Careers, Inc.® identify and track visitors, their usage of Actuarial Careers, Inc.® website, and their website access preferences. Actuarial Careers, Inc.® visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Actuarial Careers, Inc.’s ®websites, with the drawback that certain features of Actuarial Careers, Inc.’s® websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Actuarial Careers, Inc.®, or substantially all its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Actuarial Careers, Inc.® goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Actuarial Careers, Inc.® may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Actuarial Careers, Inc.® may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Actuarial Careers, Inc.’s® sole discretion. Actuarial Careers, Inc.® encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at 914-285-5100.