At Brilliant Connections®, we respect and protect the privacy of our members and those who use our website. Brilliant Connections affords you the opportunity to easily share the information you choose to share, while safeguarding the information you choose to protect. This privacy statement applies to the Brilliant Connections website, products and services that are located therein.

Brilliant Connections is the sole owner of information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.  We collect information you choose to disclose to us, as well as information collected by us as you utilize our web site.

When you register with Brilliant Connections, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, your gender, educational background, employment/professional information, and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.

When you use Brilliant Connections, you may set up your personal profile, establish relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events, add applications, participate in blogs, utilize our tools, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you our services and offer personalized features.

You post your personal content on the Brilliant Connections web site at your own risk. While we have established certain security measures on our site, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that personal content you post on our web site will not be viewed by persons to whom you may otherwise object. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our web site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of personal information may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your personal content.

If you choose to use our automated service to tell a colleague about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your colleague’s email address. We will automatically send your colleague a one-time email or instant message inviting him or her to visit the site. Brilliant Connections stores this information to send this one-time invitation, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of our referral program

When you register with Brilliant Connections, you create your own profile. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to enable you to connect with people on Brilliant Connections. We will occasionally use your name and email address to send you information regarding new services offered by Brilliant Connections that we think you may wish to utilize.

Profile information you submit to Brilliant Connections will be available to users of Brilliant Connections. Your name, network names, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in Brilliant Connections search results.  Those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines.  This is primarily so your colleagues can locate you.

Brilliant Connections may send you service-related announcements on a regular basis as we see fit.

We will never share, sell, or rent your personal information with third parties for their promotional use. Occasionally, we enter into contracts with third parties so that they can assist us in servicing you (for example, providing customer service). The contracts prohibit them from using any of your personal information for their own purposes, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information we provide to them. We may also disclose information to partners who introduced you to Brilliant Connections' services in order to ensure they are properly compensated for their efforts. Lastly, we may disclose or report personal information in limited circumstances where we believe in good faith that disclosure is required under the law. For example, we may be required to disclose personal information to cooperate with regulators or law enforcement authorities, to comply with a legal process such as court order, subpoena, search warrant, or law enforcement request.

Brilliant Connections may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. You can acquire desired information and, where there are advertisements, they're more likely to be applicable to you. We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of Brilliant Connections, to supplement your profile.

We use a variety of technologies on our sites. Among these are cookies; a piece of information that our websites provide to your browser when you visit our sites. Cookies allow us to verify the login status of customers using products or services linked directly with our website, track point of entry to point of registration for those users participating in our affiliate signup programs, and to track and measure the success of a particular marketing campaign. Cookies also allow us to track overall site usage and determine areas users prefer, enabling us to make your visit to our websites easier by recognizing you when you return and helping to provide you with a customized experience. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. If you choose to disable cookies, you may still use our site; however, you may have limited access to some areas within our websites.

We may access and set cookies using web beacons, also known as single-pixel GIFs which are invisible graphical images. These web beacons provide us useful information regarding our site such as which pages users access. When we send you emails, we may include a single-pixel GIF to allow us to determine the number of people who open our emails. When you click on a link in an email, we record this individual response to allow us to customize our offerings to you.

We also keep track of activity on our website via log files stored on our web servers. We collect information such as IP address, browser type and version, and pages you view. We also keep track of how you got to our site and any links you click on to leave our site. Once you leave our site, we do not track you. We use your website activity to assist us in offering you a personalized Web experience, assist you with technical support, diagnose problems with our server, administer our websites and to tailor our product and service offerings to you.

Brilliant Connections provides you the forum to share your information with others within the confines of a professional networking environment.  We allow you to choose the information you provide to colleagues through Brilliant Connections. Our network architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information.