The Software Contractor's Guild

We collect and store the following information-

Software Contractor Profiles: First/Last Name (required) Title Mailing Address (state and country required) Internal Email Address (private, required) Public Email Address Home Page URL Telephone Number with Area Code Availability Date Years of Experience Type of Contracts Accepted Skill Set (mark categories) Location where contractor will work Citizenship Resume/CV Password (private, one-way encrypted) Subscription Due Date and Status For Credit Card payments: Credit Card Number/Expiration Date Teams: Text is provided by the team for posting.

Company Profiles: Company Name (required) Mailing Address Email Address (required) Web Page(s) and Logo URL Telephone/Fax Contact Name/Title Type of company Type of contractors hired Company Description Subscription Due Date and Status Password (private, one-way encrypted) Billing information (private) Jobs: Job ID and title Date posted Rate range Job duration Job location Job categorizations Citizenship/Security requirements Listing company name Contact's name, email address, phone Skill set requirements Job description

Web data entry forms:

The Contractor/Company/Job information is obtained via web entry forms. Only the data indicated above is required. Any information that the subscriber does not want exposed to the Internet should not be provided.

Any software contractor who is serious about their career will treat it as a real business. The resume and profile pages are the company brochure. The Guild provides a means to advertise that business by providing that brochure the maximum exposure possible.

Along with this exposure to potential clients comes exposure to Internet by search engines and robots looking for resumes. This implies some risks. This will almost always generate unwanted junk email and possibly telephone contact for purposes other than the software contracting business. This is part of the cost of running a business. The software contractor should seriously weigh the utility of exposing personal information in the profile of their software contracting business.

For those contractors who pay dues by on-line credit card transaction, the Guild does retain the credit card information as required by our merchant account to defend any disputed charge. However, this information is kept private and is stored off-line where it cannot be accessed for any other purpose.

Some job information is obtained by software robots that extract job information from a subscribing company's website by special arrangement.

The Team data retained is only the data emailed to the webmaster with a request to be posted.

Search Keywords:

The top 100 keywords requested from our own search engine are accumulated and indexed. No personally identifiable information related to the originator of the search is retained.

Choice: Opt-In

All data retained is an Opt-In Choice. We retain only explicitly collected data. No personal data is obtained from third parties or derived from site visits.

Readability/Correction/Updating/Delete:

All data (except those indicated as private) are displayed on the web pages of the Guild for all to see.

All data (including private data) entered by a subscriber may be accessed and modified or deleted only by that subscriber who can navigate to the update page(s) and enter their private password. This data can only be modified by the subscriber's password or the master password.

All information retained for a subscriber can be deleted by the subscriber by making a request either by email or by using the web forms accessible at the bottom of their profile page and entering their password. This will remove all data in the database immediately and all information from the Guild's web pages within 24 hours. This deleted information is retained in off-line archives used for no other purpose than to restore the subscription upon a subscriber's written request.

Web Server Hit information:

Server logs are analyzed and hit counts are accumulated by contractor, company, and job as well as the entire site. Server logs are not retained. No personally identifiable information for a visitor is obtained.

Cookies:

The Guild does not use Cookies. The secure server used for membership dues credit card payments is an IIS web server and by default uses Cookies for session identification but the Guild makes no use of the session information.

JavaScript:

We use JavaScript to collect the password. It avoids an extra trip to the server. We don't use some of the fancy things that get into trouble with security. The next revision of the login pages will probably go back to the separate login page so we can get the stars when you type.

Java:

We do not use java applets.

Use of Collected data

The Guild uses the collected data for its primary purpose and that is to post it on the web to provide maximum possible exposure. In addition it makes use of the data in the following ways:

• Guild News letters. Periodically (approximately every quarter) the Guild publishes a newsletter and emails it to all current Software Contractor subscribers using the private email address provided by the subscriber. This newsletter contains information relative to new features and changes in the Guild.
• Notices of expiration or obsolete. During each nightly processing notices and invoices are emailed to those subscribers that have memberships that are about to expire or have expired. In addition, reminder notices are sent to those members who have availability dates that are about to be marked obsolete.
• Demographic Info. The Guild compiles summary information from member data that describes the overall demographics of the Guild. No personal identifiable data is used for this purpose.
• Backup/Log Files. The backup archive files are maintained off-line. They are retained for years but are used only to restore profiles in case of data loss. Deleted profiles will be restored only on written request (email) from a subscriber.

Sharing of Information

We do not sell or distribute our database to other sites or companies.

However, all data (other than those fields marked as 'private') are posted on the Guild's web site to be shared with everyone on the Internet. On average, every resume in the Guild is scanned by robots from other sites at least 3-4 times per week (guessing from the server log activity).

In the interest of getting the most visibility for our members' resumes we do not discourage this practice. But as a result there are many sites on the Web that contain data and resumes from the Guild which we do not control.

In certain areas Software Contractors' Guild uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

• Guild's webmaster admin@scguild.com
• Guild's administrator keeney@scguild.com