Privacy Policy

Last Updated December 12, 2022

1. Introduction

Your privacy is extremely important to Salary.com, LLC and its affiliates ("Salary"). In order to protect your privacy, Salary has developed and complies with this Privacy Policy in relation to Salary's collection, processing, and use of data and information you share with Salary as part of your use of Salary's websites, including www.salary.com and related sites (the "Websites"), and Salary’s software-as-a-service offering and other services (the “Service”).

This Privacy Policy also describes your choices regarding your Personal Information. In relation to the Personal Information Salary collects through the Websites, Salary acts as a data controller. In relation to Personal Information provided to Salary by its customers and subscribers, Salary acts as a data processor.

By accessing and using the Websites and/or the Service, you represent and certify that you have all necessary and sufficient rights to provide the information you share with Salary. In addition, you consent to our collection, processing and use of such information in the manner and for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy.

1.1. Summary

This summary is intended to provide a high-level overview of Salary’s privacy and data collection practices – for more details, please refer to the relevant sections below. The types of data Salary collects and processes fall into two broad categories: data Salary collects for its own purposes through its Websites and other means (“Salary Collected Data”) and data provided by Salary’s Customers in connection with their use of the Service (“Customer Data”).

Salary Collected Data consists of data a Website visitor shares with Salary through the Websites and the Service, including, but not limited to, Personal Information such as name, contact information, and/or employment and compensation information, and other data and information collected through the use of cookies and similar technologies. As set forth more fully below, Salary uses the Salary Collected Data to provide and improve the Websites and the Service. Salary may provide third party service providers and advertisers with access to certain types of Salary Collected Data in furtherance of these purposes. Except for advertisers (discussed below), Salary does not sell or share Personal Information with third parties.

Customer Data consists of all data uploaded or otherwise submitted into the Service by a Customer. Customer Data may include Personal Information, e.g., information about the Customer’s employees. Customer Data is the property of our Customers. Our Customers are solely responsible for the content of Customer Data. Salary will use Customer Data only as specifically authorized and directed by the Customer.

1.2. Contact Us

Please contact Salary at privacy@salary.com or by mail at Salary.com, LLC, 610 Lincoln St, North Building, Suite 200, Waltham, MA 02451 with any privacy questions or comments you may have or to request or exercise any rights you have under applicable law to access, correct, delete, or restrict the use any of your Personal Information.

1.3. Changes to this Privacy Policy

Salary reserves the right to change this Policy at any time. All changes will be posted on the Websites and, in such event, Salary will update the "Last Updated" date above. Please be sure to review any changes made to the Privacy Policy by occasionally checking our homepage for updates. Your continued use of the Websites and Service(s) will constitute your agreement to any such updates.

2. Salary Collected Data

2.1. What Categories of Information Do We Collect?

As part of your use and access to the Websites and/or the Service, we may ask you to share certain categories of data and we or our partners may collect other categories of data (together, the ”Salary Collected Data”). Salary Collected Data includes:

1. Personal Information. Personal Information is information that that identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated with a particular person, including:

   1. Your name and contact information.

   2. Information about your employment, including compensation.

   3. Payment information. If you purchase a subscription to the Service or any other product or service, Salary may collect and process your payment information, including credit card numbers and billing information, using third party service providers which are PCI-compliant.

   4. Certain information about your use of the Websites, such as your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. (Some jurisdictions consider IP addresses to be Personal information. While an IP address alone does not identify a specific person, it can be used together with other types of information to do so).

2. Other User Information. We may also collect other, non-identifying information associated with your use of the Websites or the Services, such as browser type, referral source, length of visit and pages viewed, actions taken and pages viewed on the Websites or in the Service, next URL visited (regardless of whether it is a Salary Website), and other similar information. We collect this information using tracking technologies such as cookies or other similar technologies. Please see below for more information.

3. Third-Party Information. You may also provide information about third parties, such as your employer, your employees, or your employer’s employees.

2.2. How do we Collect Information?

2.2.1. Websites and The Services

Salary collects information (i) when you fill out information forms, (ii) when you buy or download products or services, (iv) when you use the Services, and (iv) when you interact with us or other customers on or through the Websites or the Services, including on line chat rooms or message boards.

2.2.2. Cookies

Salary and certain third parties may use various tracking technologies such as cookies or other similar technologies to collect information relating to the use of the Websites or the Services. Salary uses both “per-session” and “persistent” cookies.

Cookies are small bits of data stored locally by a browser that saves information and helps the hosting website identify the user upon subsequent visits. Cookies are uniquely assigned to the users' computer and may only be read by a web server located within the domain that originally issued the cookie. Cookies generally assist users by performing certain functions such as saving passwords and personal preferences for a website. “Persistent” cookies are stored for a set length of time determined by the web server when it passes the cookie on to the browser and are used to store information between visits to a site. “Per-session” cookies are used to store information only within a single session and are only cached while a user is visiting the web server that issues the per-session cookie. Per-session cookies are deleted from the cache when the user closes the session. Most browsers allow users to specify whether they would like to accept or decline cookies. Declining use of cookies in conjunction with the Websites or the Service may hinder performance and negatively impact the user experience. Use of cookies or similar technologies by Salary's advertisers or other third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy and Salary does not have access or control over any such cookies or similar technologies.

You can access Salary’s Privacy Controls here to learn more about and manage the cookies we use on the Websites.

2.2.3. Clear Gifs

Salary and its partners may also employ clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help Salary better manage content on the Websites and in the Service by informing Salary what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user's computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

2.2.4. Log Files

Salary gathers certain information about a visitor's visit, access, and use of the Websites and/or the Service and stores such information in log files. This information includes IP addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and click stream data. Salary may use this information to analyze trends, to administer the Websites and the Service, to track visitors' movements around the Websites and the Service and to gather demographic information about our visitor base as a whole.

2.2.5. Payment Info

We use PCI-compliant third-party service providers to collect and process payment information, including credit card numbers and billing information. We do not collect or store credit card information or other payment information.

2.3. Children

The Websites and Service are intended for use by adults and are not intended for or targeted at children under 13 years of age. Salary does not knowingly or intentionally collect information or data on children under 13 years of age. Please contact Salary at privacy@salary.com if you believe that Salary has collected information about a child under 13 years of age.

3. How We Use Salary Collected Data

3.1. For What Purposes Do We Use Salary Collected Data?

Salary may use the Salary Collected Data for business purposes including, but not limited to the following:

(i) To provide the Websites, the Service, and related support services.

(ii) To personalize your user experience and tailor Salary interactions with you.

(iii) To analyze usage and effectiveness of the Websites, the Service, and other services, products, and offerings.

(iv) To communicate with you and our other customers about the Websites, the Service, and/or other products, services, or offerings.

(v) To complete your transactions or purchase.

Salary may also anonymize or de-identify the Salary Collected Data so that by it cannot be linked to a person and aggregate that information with other information and use such anonymized and aggregated information to improve our products and services.

3.2. Third Parties

Service Providers

Salary may permit certain third-party service providers to collect non-personally identifiable data concerning your use of our Websites through the use of tracking technologies such as cookies and other similar technologies. Salary uses the data gathered by these service providers to maintain our Websites and to deliver the Services to our customers and to support the business purposes listed in the previous section.

Salary may permit other service providers to access the Salary Collected Data for the same purposes, i.e., to help Salary to maintain the Websites and deliver the Services to our customers.

We do not sell or share Personal Information with these service providers, nor do we permit them to collect Personal Information.

Advertisers

Salary may use third-party advertisers to serve or present ads on the Websites. Advertisers may use information about you and your visits to the Websites and other sites in order to provide advertisements on Salary's Websites and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. Advertisers may use cookies, clear gifs, or other similar technology to help present, better target, and/or measure the effectiveness of their advertisements, using data gathered over time and across their networks to determine the characteristics and preferences of their audience.

Advertisers may collect IP addresses, which we consider Personal Information under this Policy, as part of the information they collect from the Websites.

We do not directly sell Personal Information to advertisers. However, when a Website user clicks on an ad appearing on our website, the advertiser may be paid a fee. Our advertisers may share a portion of such a fee with us.

Some of our advertisers use may be members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI). Individuals may opt-out of targeted advertising delivered by NAI member ad networks by visiting www.networkadvertising.org. Salary may also use advertising networks that are members of the Digital Advertising Alliance. Such advertisements can be identified by the DAA icon. You can click on the DAA icon in the advertisements themselves to manage your preferences.

Required Disclosures

We may disclose your Personal Information if required by law or if Salary believes that such use or disclosure is necessary to protect Salary's or Salary's business partner's rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or comply with a law, court order, or legal process. In addition, Salary may disclose, remove, or change information you provide about third parties if properly instructed by the individual who is the subject of such information.

Some of Salary's offerings may be jointly sponsored by Salary and one or more third parties. If you sign up for these offerings, be aware that your information may also be collected by and shared with those third parties. Please familiarize yourself with their privacy policies to gain an understanding of the manner in which they will handle information about you.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in the event Salary goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition, change in control, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, Salary may disclose, sell, transfer, or assign its rights to the Salary Collected Data as part of such business transition. Salary will use reasonable efforts to notify you in the event of any such business transition, sale, transfer, or assignment of Salary's rights to the Salary Collected Data.

3.3. Social Media and Third-Party Sites

The Websites contain links to third party sites that are not owned or controlled by Salary, including links to social media platforms such as Facebook. The Websites may also contain various social media tools, integrations, or widgets such as the Facebook Like button. Please be aware that Salary is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites or social media tools. Salary encourages you to be aware when you visit any third-party site or use any social media tools and to read the privacy statements of each and every third-party site you visit. This Privacy Policy applies only to the Websites and the Service.

3.4. Visitor Comments and Forums

The Websites or the Service may include functionality that allows you and others to access, view, and post comments on or through blogs, forums, or similar media. Any information or material you post or otherwise make available through such media may be viewed, read, saved, collected, and used by Salary and others, including members of the public. Salary is not responsible for and will have no liability arising from or related to any information or materials posted or otherwise made available by any third party through these media.

4. International

4.1. International Transfers

If you are visiting the Websites from outside the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to Salary, including Personal Information, will be processed within the United States. In addition, Salary is a global organization with business processes, management structures, and technical systems that cross international borders. As such, Salary may share, transfer, and access information about you from locations and countries throughout the world where we do business or have offices. Where Salary transfers Personal Information received from the EEA to any other country, Salary uses the Standard Contractual Clauses issued by the European Commission to ensure adequate safeguards in relation to such transfers. If you would like to learn more about the safeguards Salary has in place in relation to such transfers, please contact Salary at privacy@salary.com. This Privacy Policy is designed to provide a globally consistent level of protection for personal information all over the world. This means that even in countries whose laws provide for less protection for your personal information, Salary will still handle your information in the manner described here.

4.2. Pipeda

The Websites abide by the principles established in Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA"). The PIPEDA principles are: (i) accountability/compliance with the principles, (ii) identification of the purposes/reasons for collecting the personal information, (iii) consent to the collection of the personal information, (iv) limiting the collection to only what is necessary in order to achieve the desired tasks, (v) limiting the use, disclosure and retention of the personal information, (vi) maintaining accurate data, (vii) safeguarding data with appropriate security policies, and (viii) making policies easily available to employees and customers.

5. General

5.1. Service Providers

Salary may employ other companies, individuals, or consultants to help us to provide the Websites and the Services to you. For example, Salary may use such service providers to host data and information, send and receive emails, process credit card payments, and provide customer service. Salary will ensure that all such service providers adhere to privacy, security, and data handling practices at least as protective as Salary’s own privacy, security, and data handling practices.

You agree that Salary may share the Salary Collected Data with such service providers for the above purposes.

5.2. Security

Salary uses reasonable physical, administrative and technical safeguards to help protect the Salary Collected Data from unauthorized access, use and disclosure. For example, when a customer places an order online through any of Salary’s Websites, the customer’s credit card, personal information, employee and related account information is protected through the use of a secure encryption such as the Secure Socket Layer (“SSL”) protocol. Salary also requires that its suppliers protect such information from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure.

5.3. Access Rights and Unsubscribing

5.3.1. Access Rights

Salary will provide you with reasonable access to your Personal Information, including in some cases employee information, as well as the ability to review and correct such information. You may access, modify, or remove your Personal Information by contacting privacy@salary.com or, in some cases, by logging into the Service and making the applicable changes. In order to protect your privacy and security, Salary will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your Personal Information and may limit or deny access to any information where providing such access would be unreasonable, burdensome, or expensive in the circumstances. Salary will respond to requests for access within 30 days.

5.3.2. Retention

Salary may retain the Salary Collected Data for as long as you have a subscription to the Service, as it may be useful in order to potentially contact you about the Service, other services, products, or offerings, or as required by law or reasonably necessary for Salary to comply with any legal obligations, or enforce its rights or resolve disputes. Salary Collected Data which has been anonymized/de-identified and aggregated with other information may be retained indefinitely.

5.3.3. Deletion Requests

At any time, you can request that your Personal Information be deleted by either:

1. Contacting Salary at privacy@salary.com

2. Contacting Salary by mail at Salary.com, LLC, Attn: Support – Unsubscribe, 610 Lincoln St, North Building, Suite 200, Waltham, MA 02451.

6. California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, please review the following disclosures and additional information regarding the Personal Information we collect, how we use it, and your rights under California law.

We collect the following categories of Personal Information:

• We collect the categories of information set forth in Section 2 of this Policy

We collect Personal Information from the following categories of sources:

• Visitors to the Websites

• Our customers

• Cookies and other tracking technologies we and third parties may place on the Websites

We collect Personal Information for the following business or commercial purposes:

• We collect Personal Information for the purposes set forth in Section 3 of this Policy.

We do not directly sell or lease Personal information, but we do share such information with others for certain purposes.

• We permit certain advertisers to collect information, including IP addresses, from our Website users. We do not directly sell this information to those advertisers. However, when a user clicks on an ad appearing on the Websites, the advertiser may be paid a fee, and the advertiser may share a portion of that fee with us.

• We may share Salary Collected Data with the categories of third parties described in Section 3.2 of this Policy

• We may use or disclose your Personal Information if required by law or if Salary believes that such use or disclosure is necessary to protect Salary's or Salary's business partner's rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or comply with a law, court order, or legal process.

We will not retain your Personal Information for longer than is reasonably necessary for the purposes listed above.

• We will retain Salary Collected Data in accordance with Section 5.3.2 of this Policy.

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights with respect to your personal information.

• You have the right to request that we delete your Personal Information.

• You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate Personal Information about you.

• You have the right to request that we disclose to you (1) the categories of Personal Information we collect, (2) the categories of sources from which Personal Information is collected, (3) the business or commercial purpose for collecting or sharing Personal Information, (4) the categories of third parties to whom we disclose Personal Information, and (5) the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you. Please see our disclosures above.

• You have the right to request that we disclose to you (1) the categories of Personal Information we have collected about you, (2) the categories of Personal Information about you that we have shared and the categories of third parties with whom we shared such information, and (3) the categories of Personal Information that we have disclosed about you for a business purpose and the categories of persons to whom it was disclosed for a business purpose. Please see our disclosures above.

• You have the right to request that we provide an accounting of the categories of Personal Information we shared with a third party for the purpose of direct marketing in the previous calendar year, and the identity the third parties with whom such information was shared.

• You have the right to direct us to not to sell or share your Personal Information with third parties. This right may be referred to as the “right to opt-out” of sale or sharing.

If you wish to exercise your right to opt out, please click here

If you wish to exercise your other California rights, please send your request to us at privacy@salary.com or call our toll-free number 1-844-725-2792 or you can contact us by regular mail at:

If we can reasonably verify that we have collected Personal Information about you, then we will comply with your request in accordance with California law. Please note that in some cases we may be unable to satisfy a request to delete Personal Information because we need the information for legitimate business purposes or to comply with legal requirements.

Last, California law prohibits any form of retaliation or discrimination against a California resident who exercises any of the above rights.