Privacy Policy

The mission of ClearedCommunity.com is to serve as a knowledge base of information pertaining to the acquisition, maintenance, and retention of government-issued security clearances. However, ClearedCommunity.com is not just committed to providing you with timely information and a forum to exchange personal experiences. ClearedCommunity.com is also committed to protecting your privacy.

Our privacy policy is simple: we will not share your name or email address with other commercial entities or third party marketing firms, ever. For more detail about what information we collect and what we do with that information, please read the following paragraphs. If you have any questions about the privacy practices of ClearedCommunity.com or this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

Uniquely Identifying Information

“Uniquely identifying information” means any contact information you may provide us in the course of visiting the site: your name, your email, your mailing address, or your phone number. We will not share your uniquely identifying information with any commercial entity or third party marketing firm. We do reserve the right to share your personal information with a government agency if required by law or compelled by court order, or in the course of a criminal or civil investigation.

When do we ask for your Uniquely Identifying Information?

We ask for your information under the following circumstances:

• We require that you provide an email address when you sign up for “Alerts,” and for your protection we send a confirmation email to the address provided. We do not share this email address with other visitors to the site.
• The Clearance Watch area of ClearedCommunity.com allows users to engage in a lively discussion with a community of intelligent professionals interested in acquiring, maintaining, or retaining a government-issued security clearance. We ask for your name and professional affiliation when you post a message to the Clearance Watch Board. If you choose to provide your name and affiliation, this information will appear with your posted message so that other visitors can see who is posting to the site. However, you are free to post to the Clearance Watch Board anonymously. We do not assume that you want to receive email from us simply because you post to the Clearance Watch Board, and we will not spam email addresses listed on the Board.

Please remember that any information you disclose in the Clearance Watch Board, including your name and affiliation, will become public information. We post names and affiliations, when provided, to encourage responsible and productive discussions, but we cannot prevent parties unrelated to ClearedCommunity.com from accessing this public information.

Your IP Address

For our protection, we collect your IP address any time you post to the Clearance Watch Board. We do not show your IP address to other site visitors, and we do not share your IP address with any other commercial entity. As with your name and email, we will share your IP address with a governmental entity if we are compelled to do so by law or subpoena.

Non-Uniquely Identifying Information

By “non-uniquely identifying information,” we mean information that cannot be used to identify you specifically. For example, we collect information about your operating system and your browser each time you visit the site. We do not associate that information with any uniquely identifying information you provide to us. We reserve the right to aggregate operating system and browser data and to provide that information to third parties.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

If we ever change the Privacy Policy, we will post that information on this Privacy Policy page. If there is ever any material change to the information we gather and how it is used, we will post a notice to our Privacy Policy page. We invite you to come back from time to time to review the policy. If you have any questions about ClearedCommunity.com’s privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, please contact us.