Staffing & Consulting Firm Reviews for IT Professionals

The main intent of this site is to put the Users – IT Professionals and IT Job Seekers – in control.  Anonymity and privacy are key to this.  As the site develops and adds new services, this will always be foremost in our actions.

This Privacy Policy was last updated in January 2010.

5BowlsofSoup.com. (“5BowlsofSoup”, “we”, or “us”) takes the privacy and protection of personal information very seriously. By visiting the Site, registering as a Member, or using any feature of the site (“Services”), you acknowledge and accept the practices and policies outlined in this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”). This Privacy Policy describes 5BowlsofSoup's practices with respect to Personal Information that we collect when you use the Services.

"Personal Information" is information about you that is personally identifiable to you, such as your name, address, e-mail address, or phone number, as well as other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing.

"Anonymous Information" means information that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information; Anonymous Information does not permit the identification of individual persons.

We collect and use Personal Information and Anonymous Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

BY USING THE SERVICES OR SUBMITTING PERSONAL INFORMATION THROUGH THE SERVICES, YOU EXPRESSLY CONSENT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ACCORDING TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE PROCESSED IN THE COUNTRY WHERE IT WAS COLLECTED AS WELL AS OTHER COUNTRIES (INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES) WHERE LAWS REGARDING PROCESSING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE LESS STRINGENT THAN THE LAWS IN YOUR COUNTRY.

Personal Information We Collect

We collect the following Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily:

•            Registration Information: Our registration process to create an Account requires you to provide us with some basic information, such as a username, e-mail address, password, location and some information about your areas of specialty.

•            When you contribute staffing firm reviews or discussion forums, participate in our surveys (either directly, or through third party service providers), or provide any other content to the Services through other means, we will collect all the information you provide.

•            Please be aware that while some pieces of information that you provide to us would not be sufficient to identify you when seen by another user without any context, the combination of different pieces of information that you have provided for viewing by other users, or any contextual information, may allow other users to identify you.
•            When you contact us by sending us an e-mail or when you use any of our contact forms, we will collect any information that is contained in (and/or attached to) your e-mail, text message, or that you enter into such forms.

Personal Information Collected Via Technology

As you use the Services, certain information may also be collected passively, including your Internet protocol (IP) address and the browser that you use to visit the Site. 5BowlsofSoup may store a small text file called a “Cookie” on your computer to store your login information (if any) and your personal preferences for the Services. 5BowlsofSoup may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them). While you will still be able to use the Services if you disable Cookies in your browser, certain parts of the Services may not function as effectively. After you register and enable Cookies, we may associate this information with Personal Information that we have collected from you.

Personal Information from Other Sources

We may receive Personal Information about you from outside the Site, such as telephone, fax, mail, or from third parties that provide services for us that are related to the Services. We may add this information to the information we have already collected from you via our Services.

Use of Information We Collect

In general, information (including Personal Information) you submit to us, or to third parties that support us in collecting information, is used by us to provide you and other Users with the Services, respond to requests that you make, to improve our Services and to better tailor the features, performance and support of the Services.

We may also use your Personal Information to provide you with notifications related to your use of the Services, such as electronic newsletters or promotional e-mails.

We may create anonymous information from Personal Information by excluding information (such as your name) that makes the information personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous information for internal purposes, such as analyzing usage patterns so that we may enhance the Services, and we also reserve the right to use and disclose such anonymous information at our discretion.

If you choose to use our service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. We store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and ensuring multiple invitations are not sent. Your friend may contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to request that we remove this information from our database.

Public Postings

One of the purposes of the Services is for Members to share information about Staffing Firms to other users.  This information is available to the public and other users of the Services.  We may provide you the ability to anonymously post certain comments, in which case we will not include your contact information (i.e., name, username, email address, or postal address) on the Site in connection with such comments. However, you should know that our internal records may associate your contact information with such comments.

Feedback

If you provide feedback about the Services to us, we may use and disclose such feedback for any purpose, provided we do not associate such feedback with your Personal Information. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the Personal Information in it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of Personal Information

Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not disclose to or share your Personal Information with third parties, unless you ask or authorize us to do so.

We may provide your Personal Information to third party service providers and suppliers who work on behalf of or with us to provide you with some of the services and features of the Services and to help us communicate with our Users. However, these service providers and suppliers do not have any independent right to use this information except to help us provide the Services.

In the event that we may share some or all of your Personal Information with any parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (collectively, “Associates”), in which case we will require our Associates to honor this Privacy Policy.

In the event 5BowlsofSoup goes through a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your Personal Information will likely be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of 5BowlsofSoup or its assets may continue to use your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

We may (and you authorize us to) disclose information we have collected from and about you (including Personal Information) if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us; (b) to enforce our 5BowlsofSoup Terms of Use and Privacy Policy; or (c) to protect and defend the rights or property of us, the users of our Services, or third parties.

Choices Regarding Personal Information

You may change your Personal Information (i.e., email address) by logging into the service and editing your account information from within your User Page.

We may send newsletters or promotional communications to our users. To unsubscribe to these communications you will be required to click an "Unsubscribe" link in these emails and confirm the email address for which you would like to unsubscribe.

We may send you service-related announcements (such as, but not limited to, notice we have changed our Services or our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy) when we believe it is necessary to do so.

You may request that your Account be terminated and that your Personal Information be deleted by sending an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Any termination of your account may involve deletion of your Account information from our live databases and all the information and data stored for such Account in the Services. 5BowlsofSoup will not have any liability whatsoever to you for any termination of your account or related deletion of you information.

When we delete Personal Information that we have collected from or about you, it will be deleted from our active databases but may remain in our archives.  Any content you have posted to the site will remain active on the site after your account has been terminated.

Links to Other Web Sites

The Services may contain links to other web sites that are not owned or controlled by 5BowlsofSoup. The provision of such links is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such web sites or location or its contents. We have no control over, do not review and are not responsible for the privacy policies of or content displayed on such other web sites. Please be aware that the terms of our Privacy Policy do not apply to any outside web sites.

Ad Servers

We may allow advertisers to place advertisements on the Site. Clicking on such advertisements will direct you to the website of a third party. The third-party ad server may use Cookies or web beacons in connection with these advertisements. This Privacy Policy does not cover the collection of information by these third-party ad servers through the use of Cookies, web beacons, or other means. For information about our advertising partners, please visit their websites through the links included in the presentation of the advertisements.

Privacy of Minors

We do not intentionally collect or maintain information in the Services from those visitors and Users of the Services who are under 13 years old.

Security and Confidentiality

5BowlsofSoup has put in place commercially reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, and operational procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. However, no company nor organization can fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information.

Changes in This Privacy Statement

As part of the 5BowlsofSoup Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy is subject to occasional amendment, in accordance with the terms of the 5BowlsofSoup Terms of Use. If we decide to change our privacy and security policy, we will update the date upon which this policy, including those changes became effective from at the top of this policy and post a notice on our homepage, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time and will notify you when we do.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy please contact us by sending an e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

We hope you find this policy reasonable, but if you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, please do not use the site.

The Soup Team.