Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

We respect your privacy.

In these days of spam and online scams, we at Mountain Careers are sensitive to the issues of protecting your privacy and your identity. We try to provide the safest possible environment for you to search and apply for jobs.

Personal Information

Mountain Careers collects personal information from users on a voluntary basis only. This allows us to give you private and secure areas for job seekers and employers to post and edit content on our site. When you voluntarily distribute or display personal information such as your email address or resume, others may be able to collect and use it. As a result, you may receive unsolicited messages from third parties for which Mountain Careers is not responsible.

Our site may contain links to other websites over which we have no control. Mountain Careers is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other Web sites to which you choose to link from Mountain Careers. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other Web sites so you can understand how they collect, use and share your information.

Please remember that if you post any of your personal information in public areas of Mountain Careers, such as in “The List”, online forums or chat rooms, such information may be collected and used by others over whom Mountain Careers has no control. We are not responsible for the use made by third parties of information you post or otherwise make available in public areas of Mountain Careers.

We use the information we gather, whether personal, demographic, collective or technical, for the purpose of operating and improving Mountain Careers, fostering a positive user experience, and delivering the products and services that we offer. We may also use the information we gather to inform you of other products or services available from Mountain Careers or to contact you about your opinion regarding potential new products and services that may be offered. We may use your contact information in order to send you e-mail or other communications regarding updates at Mountain Careers. We have an area where you may submit feedback. Any feedback you submit becomes our property, and we can use such feedback (such as success stories and quotes) for marketing purposes or contact you for further information.

We may also use or disclose information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or the Site; (b) protect and defend the our rights or property, the Site or our users, and (c) act under emergency circumstances to protect the personal safety of us, our affiliates, agents, or the users of the Site or the public.

This Site is not directed towards children under the age of 13, and we request that children under 13 not use this Site without prior parental consent.  We also request that children under the age of 13 not provide personally identifiable information to the Site.

Securing your data

Mountain Careers will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

Mountain Careers will store all the personal information you provide on secure servers.

About Cookies

We may obtain information about your general Internet usage by using a cookie file, which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalized service. They enable us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage pattern
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our website according to your individual interests
  • Speed up your searches
  • Recognize you when you return to our website

We may use information gathered from you for various purposes in order to:

  • Ensure that content from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer
  • Conduct statistical analysis
  • Develop and improve our website

Job Poster’s Rules

You may not:

  • impersonate another person, living or dead;
  • post false, inaccurate or misleading information;
  • post advertisements or solicitations of business
  • post chain letters or pyramid schemes; or
  • post opinions or notices, commercial or otherwise.

Job Seeker’s Rules

Mountain Careers is under no obligation to monitor the conduct of its Users, but it may investigate and respond when violations are reported. You may not:

  • impersonate another person, living or dead;
  • post false, inaccurate or misleading information;
  • post advertisements or solicitations of business
  • post chain letters or pyramid schemes; or
  • post opinions or notices, commercial or otherwise.

Mountain Careers makes no representations or guarantees regarding the truthfulness, accuracy, completeness, timeliness or reliability of any information posted by Users, or of any other form of communication engaged in by Users.

YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR YOUR USE OF THE SITE, THE INTERNET GENERALLY, AND THE INFORMATION YOU POST OR ACCESS AND FOR YOUR CONDUCT ON AND OFF THE SITE.

SOME IMPORTANT TIPS TO USE WHEN DEALING WITH PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYERS

  • Do not give out your social security number.
  • Never provide credit card or bank numbers on an employment application.
  • Be cautious when dealing with contacts from other countries.
  • Do not provide any non-work related personal information (i.e. social security number, eye color, marital status etc.) over the phone or online.

Cross-border data transfers

Information that Mountain Careers collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which Mountain Careers operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available around the world.

You agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.

Other Privacy Features on Mountain Careers

Choice/Opt-Out. Mountain Careers provides you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving most communications from Mountain Careers. You have the option to remove your information from our database and to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service. We also give you the option to change or modify the information previously provided. To exercise any of these options:

  1. Contact us with the details of your request
  2. Send an email: info@mountaincareers.com

Note that, by using Mountain Careers Services, you signify your agreement to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Policy, please do not use the Services. Your continued use of the Services subsequent to changes to this Policy will mean that you accept the changes.