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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: August 1, 2006

Your Privacy is important to us

BigHal™ is committed to providing our customers with exceptional service. As providing this service involves the collection, use and disclosure of some personal information about our customers, protecting their personal information is one of our highest priorities.

Protecting your privacy means:

• We keep your personal information and the business you do with us in strict confidence.
• We do not sell your personal information.
• We ensure the accuracy, confidentiality, and security of our clients’ and consultants’ personal information.
• You have control over how we obtain, use, and give out your personal information.
• We respect your privacy when we market our services

We obtain personal information about you to:

• Identify and represent you for contract opportunities.
• Protect all parties against error and fraud.
• Carry out contests and surveys.
• To administer our web site.
• To provide information about our services.

What we do with personal information

When you provide personal information to us in the form of addresses, emails, or by participating in a contests or surveys, the information is stored in our secure database. Our procedures and systems are designed to protect your information from error, loss and unauthorized access. Our employees who have access to your information are made aware of how to keep it confidential. Each employee is governed by policies regarding information handling.

We may use your personal information to:

• Calculate Sales Tax
• Carry out contests/surveys
• Improve our site and, where applicable, the services we offer
• We may send you information about our company and promotional material
• Demographic data collected is used to learn more about our site visitors and refine our marketing plans

Your information is obtained only with your consent

We want to assure you that any personal information you provide BigHal will be kept completely confidential until you request otherwise, unless required by law. We do not provide candidate or client information to third parties. We will always obtain your authorization to contact references and we will always contact you and obtain your permission before we submit your profile to a client requirement.

Your information is obtained without consent in the following limited circumstances:

• When the collection, use or disclosure of personal information is permitted or required by law
• In an emergency that threatens an individual's life, health, or personal security
• When the personal information is available from a public source (e.g., a telephone directory)
• When we require legal advice from a lawyer
• For the purposes of collecting a debt
• To protect ourselves from fraud
• To investigate an anticipated breach of an agreement or a contravention of law.

Questions or Comments If you have questions or comments about this privacy policy, please go to the contact us section of our web site.