Livelink-Experts.com Members are independent people and businesses

PLAIN LANGUAGE

Liveink-Experts.com  is firmly committed to the privacy of its members and the confidentiality of any information that any  Member has provided to Liveilnk-Experts.com  about themselves,  their company, customers, colleagues or even friends. There is an implicit one-way Non-Disclosure Agreement in place between all authorized users of Liveilnk-Experts.com and all GATE Employees, Directors and Officers of the corporation. Except where explicit permission has been granted by a GATE members, or in compliance with a court order,  GATE will never release otherwise private details about any Member to any 3^rd party. 

Liveilnk-Experts.com Members agree to not release any confidential Information to any 3^rd parties.

Member Profiles

The information contained within the member profile you register is used by GATE for GATE Village matters. GATE may use this information to externally market Livelink-Experts.com but will never sell or allow 3^rd parties to access the member or vendor profile information (except as may be required to perform Liveink-Experts.com related duties as contracted by GATE including marketing, promotional, and administrative activiees).

Most information in the Member Profiles is 'public' within Livelink-Experts.com by default, though Members are typically able to restrict details to only their direct network (please note, while this is allowed it is not recommended, you are advised not to include things in your user profile you don't want to become public knowledge).

GATE will not sell, distribute, or make accessible any Member profile information that could be used to identify a Livelink-Experts.com  Member except where a Member has explicitly provided their written permission or via some transactional means as devised and available within the online community. GATE does not attempt to prevent members from disclosing information about themselves except as such prevention is connected to Information Security Realms.

Information Collection and Use

Livelink-Experts.com is a Web-based community that indirectly connects businesses with experts and other businesses. GATE is the sole owner of the information collected on this web site. We will not sell, share or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement or as is consistent with mission of GATE Village.

GATE will use aggregated information to promote Livelink-Experts.com, the Livelink-Experts.com membership and the tools and services within the community. Individual Members will not be identifiable without their explicit permission, however quotes, skills, and other qualities of individual Members may be included.

Livelink-Experts.com Members agree to allow GATE Employees to contact them regarding Livelink-Experts.com activity, promotions, research, or other Livelink-Experts.com related matters. GATE will provide the ability to opt out of any promotional mailing list.

Cookies
Cookies are text files that websites use to capture and or track information about the members using their sites. GATE uses cookies to recognize authorized users on our website. Livelink-Experts.com members must have cookies enabled on their browser(s). Cookie preferences are set within each browser's Internet options/preferences. will not provide any personally identifying information on individual members to any third party except in connection with possible opportunities or with the Expert's consent.

Any cookies set and used by Livelink-Experts.com will not contain any publicly identifiable information.

Logging and Auditing

Livelink-Experts.com monitors all traffic at all times and audits, retains and uses this information in pursuit of improving Livelink-Experts.com. Livelink-Experts.com intends to be able to identify all activity of all logged in users at all times and such log files are considered confidential material and not available to non-GATE Employees.

Sharing

Should Livelink-Experts.com share aggregated demographic information with 3^rd parties, such information will not be linked to personal information that identifies individual members, except in the case of fraud.

Links

Livelink-Experts.com contains links to other websites and is not responsible for the privacy practises of such websites. Livelink-Experts.com encourages its members to read the privacy policies of all websites. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by Livelink-Experts.com.

Security

GATE takes every precaution to protect registered member information. When Experts and Customers submit sensitive information via the website, their information is protected both on-line and off-line.

While GATE uses encryption with the latest technology (TLS v1 or SSL v3) to protect sensitive information online, we also protect member information off-line. All member information is restricted within our offices. Servers used to store personally identifiable information are housed in a secure, supervised environment. In addition, only GATE employees or 3^rd parties as commissioned by GATE who need specific information to perform a task are granted access to personally identifiable information outside of the Livelink-Experts.com Public Information. Furthermore, all employees are current with our security and privacy practises.

Any time new policies are added, GATE Employees and Livelink-Experts.com Members are notified and reminded about the importance of privacy, and what they can do to ensure the protection of sensitive member information.

Mandatory Communications

GATE sends all new members a welcome / registration email which will verify their email addresses.  In addition, we communicate with members via personal emails or phone calls to provide requested services and proactively communicate with the membership to better understand their needs and desires.

Optional Communications

Livelink-Experts.com will offer a number of opt-in communication channels including but not limited to newsletters, blogs, notifications, podcasts, webinars, mailing lists and other such technologies as may seem prudent. Livelink-Experts.com Members may choose to receive such communications and may at any time request to be removed from any particular communication channel. GATE will fulfil the request within 30 days (generality sooner but we need the wiggle room).

Correction/Updating Personal Information

With minor exceptions, Members in Good Standing may correct and update their personal data listed GATE on  at any time. The two exceptions are: sends service announcements to Members. Members cannot unsubscribe from service announcements that discuss upcoming changes that affect their

1. There must be a valid and verified email address at all times, thus to change a primary email address Members must first have a verified secondary address.

Notification of Changes

If we alter our Privacy Policy, we will post all changes prominently within the community website. If we decide that the policy changes are significant enough to warrant the intrusion, we will email our members about pending policy changes.