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Career Partners International (CPI) Privacy Statement
Career Partners International is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our non-password protected Web site. A separate policy exists for users of our Career Portal (password required), and may be found on those pages.
This policy may change without prior notice.
Some web pages created by Career Partners International use "cookies", which are small text files that may be placed on your hard disk for record-keeping purposes. It is essentially your identification card, and cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses. It is uniquely yours and can only be read by the server that gave it to you. A cookie's purpose is to tell the server that you returned to that Web page. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's computer. Furthermore, a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer. The use of cookies is an industry standard.
Many major Web sites use cookies to provide useful features for their customers. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies. However, you will not be able to take full advantage of a Web site if you do so.
Career Partners International will not send you any unsolicited information, including email regarding any commercial offers or advertisements at any time. We value the relationships we have with our customers and future customers, so we respect these concerns.
Linked sites are not under the control of Career Partners International. Therefore, Career Partners International is not responsible or liable for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site. Links are provided to you as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply the endorsement of the site by Career Partners International.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at (919) 967-9527 or e-mail us at info@cpiworld.com.
Canadian Privacy Statement
Introduction
Career Partners International ( CPI ) is a group of professional career management firms offering career, learning and networking resources. CPI LLC and its partner companies deliver the highest quality and most personalized consultation to individuals facing career transition or growth situations.
We strive to provide a safe, secure user experience by promoting the use of fair information practices. CPI will only ask for information about you that we need and will only ask for it when we need it. When we ask you for the information, we will explain to you why we need it and what we are going to do with it.
CPI is committed to protecting the privacy rights of all persons with whom it deals. To demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, CPI has made its information practices and privacy practices available in this statement.
This Privacy Policy applies to your use of the CPI website at http://careerportal.cpiworld.com and your use of any service offered from the Web Site. This Privacy Statement sets forth the online data collection and usage policies and practices that apply to the CPI Site including notification about:
• Any personally identifiable information of yours or third party personal identification that is collected from you through the web site
• How your personal information is used
• With whom your personal information may be shared
• What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of your personal information
• The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under the control of CPI
• How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information
If you have questions or concerns regarding the privacy of your personal information, please write to CPI 's Privacy Officer at 104 South Estes Drive, Suite 301 - S
Chapel Hill , NC 27514 or call 919/967-9527.
Changes to this Policy
Career Partners International, LLC. is the legal entity which determines the purposes and means of processing the information gathered at the CPI Portal Site. If we plan to make significant changes to our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement at least 30 days before they take effect. If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can send e-mail to info@cpiworld.com or call 919/967-9527.
Consent
By using the CPI Portal Site, you consent to the policies and practices described in this Privacy Statement.
This statement discloses the privacy practices for CPI 's web site. The purpose of this statement is to notify you of what personally identifiable information of yours will be collected, how it will be used, and what options are available to you regarding the collection, correction and/or deletion of information.
At any time, you may access your account to update your personal information by signing-in to the CPI Portal Site. If you would like to be completely removed from our database and no longer receive our services, you may delete your account. You may review, correct, update or change your Networking profile information at any time by logging into the Online Career Center , go to the My Profile section of the Networking Homepage and edit it with the options provided. Click here to access your Networking home page.
What is Personal Information?
Personal information means information about an identifiable individual, but does not include name, title or business contact information (e.g. address, e-mail, telephone) of an employee of an organization.
Personal information is information that can be explicitly used to identify or contact you as an individual. (e.g. name, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card number).
Personal information is collected by CPI only when you specifically and knowingly choose to receive information or services from CPI or its associate companies. You will be informed that your personal information is being collected, the purpose for which it is being collected and that you have a right of access to the information.
We may also receive personal information from our business associates and other third parties provided that such third parties confirm to us that they have obtained your consent to the disclosure of your personal information.
Information We Collect
We collect personally identifying information, such as your name, street address, email address, and phone number, and any other information you provide to us.
CPI Portal is not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18.
Demographic and profile data is collected at our site. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and display the content according to their preferences.
CPI may make aggregate information about our users available to third parties for the purposes of marketing, advertising and other beneficial services. The information gathered on the CPI Portal Site and any other CPI Web Site may be shared within CPI , Inc. and its Associate Companies acting on our behalf, who are subject toconfidentiality agreements.
YOUR PERSONAL CONTACT INFORMATION WILL NOT BE EXCHANGED OR SOLD TO ANY OTHER BUSINESS OR VENDOR.
If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via email or by telephone. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner.
If you choose to provide personally identifying information to us, we will use and disclose it as described in this Privacy Policy.
Your personal information is required for:
Registration
When you register for services using the CPI Career Portal, CPI will request personal information from you, including your name and email address. Some of the information requested from you during registration is optional, and is clearly identified on the site.
Information collected by CPI as part of the log-in/registration is NOT made accessible to the public, other users of the site or anyone not employed by CPI directly.
This information is held in strict confidence and can be removed at your request at any time.
Your personal information is used to communicate with you about your account and to provide you with information related to CPI services. We may use your contact information in order to send you e-mail or other communications regarding updates to the CPI Portal Site, such as new career opportunities which may be of interest to you. The nature and frequency of these messages will vary depending upon the information we have about you.
You have the option to elect to receive additional communications, and information including without limitation free informational newsletters from CPI relating to topics that may be of special interest to you. You always have the option, however, to tell us not to share your personal information with other CPI Companies or to exclude you from offers for other products or services.
My Account
Personal contact Information is collected (e.g. First Name, Last Name, Address, Home Phone, Work Phone, Email Address and Fax number). You can choose to make this information visible to public in your resume or you may choose for this information to remain private.
Resume Maker
Publishes your career objective, accomplishments, capabilities and job history. You may choose to make the information contained in your resume private or public by clicking in the box provided.
Virtual Career Workbook
Personal assessments of your strengths and interests, individually selected for you by your CPI career consultant. Including resume builder and Interactive exercises. This information may be shared with your CPI career consultant if you choose.
My Daybook
Allows you to access your calendar, email, contact lists and discussion forums, and manage all ofyour documents. You can choose to keep information in your Daybook Private or share it with a Group by clicking the box provided.
Networking Profile
Creating a Network Profile allows you to communicate with other outplacement candidates and outplacement alumni. Upon your registration in the networking portion of the CPI Portal and the posting of your Profile, we will allow searches of certain portions of your Profile information by other registered Networking Members of the CPI Portal for personal and professional Portal purposes, including networking.
We release the following information to assist the networking process:
• first name and first initial of your last name;
• most recent company from which you have left;
• job function; industry;
• your city, state/province, country, and postal code.
If you provide the following information, we also release it:
• other companies you have/are working for with
• city/state/country;
• universities attended;
• primary and secondary languages; and,
• your brief biography
You may choose whether to release your information locally or across all CPI Affiliates. Your access to other Networking Members will be consistent with your decision; that is, if you decide to release the information only locally, you will not have access to Networking Members in other CPI Affiliate locations
Personal information that you volunteer in the networking portion of the CPI Portal is deemed to be in the public domain unless otherwise indicated.
How your Personal Information will be Used
CPI uses the information we gather on the CPI Portal Site, whether personal, demographic, collective or technical, for the purpose of operating and improving the CPI Portal Site, fostering a positive user experience, and delivering the products and services available from CPI or its affiliated companies.
CPI uses the information for:
• Monitoring information to ensure compliance with Career Partners International policies;
• Editorial and feedback solicitation purposes;
• Establishing and maintaining communication, including marketing, advertising and other beneficial services; and,
• Compliance with federal, state, provincial or municipal laws
• Personal information that you provide to the CPI Portal site will not be made available to third parties outside of CPI without explicit permission from you. We do not disclose to third parties your personal information, combined personal and demographic information or information about your use of the CPI Portal Site (such as the areas you visit or the services you access).
Disclosure of Personal Information
To enable us to more efficiently provide the services you have requested from us, CPI may share aggregated anonymous information about visitors to the CPI Portal Site (for example, the number of visitors to the CPI Portal Site) with its clients, agents and other third parties so that they may understand the kinds of visitors to the CPI Portal Site and how those visitors use the site.
We may disclose your personal information to other CPI companies, agents, contractors and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf. Only the information necessary to perform a specified business function will be disclosed (e.g. to provide career assistance, host our web servers, provide customer service). These companies and individuals will have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any other third party and are subject to strict terms of confidentiality.
In other circumstances we may be required or authorized by law to disclose the information you provide. Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information if legally required to do so, if requested to do so by a governmental entity or if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of CPI or its affiliated companies; (c) prevent a crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users or the public.
E-Mail Messages / Feedback
When you send us messages via e-mail, we will use your name and e-mail address only to respond to the concerns you write to us with. Your e-mail may be shared with appropriate people within the CPI organization to help us respond to your concerns and improve the services we provide.
We have an area where you can submit feedback. Any feedback you submit in this area becomes our property, and we can use such feedback (such as success stories) for marketing purposes, without attribution, or contact you for further information and release.
Public vs. Private
We attempt to limit access to our searchable Profiles (or copies thereof) only to registered Networking Members of the CPI Portal Site. We are not responsible for the use made of Profiles by third parties who access such Profiles while they are in our searchable database. You may remove your Profile from our searchable database at any time. However, registered Networking Members, and others who have been provided CPI Portal services, as well as parties who have otherwise gained access to the database, may have retained a copy of your Profile in their own files or databases. We are not responsible for the retention, use or privacy of Profiles in these instances.
Once you have created a resume, you will have the option of choosing a Public or Private setting. The Private setting will prevent anyone other than you from viewing your online resume. The Public setting makes your online resume viewable by selected hiring employers.
At any time, you may reset the Public setting to “Private.”
Online Forums
Please remember that any personal information that is disclosed in public areas of the CPI Portal Site becomes public information. We recommend that you exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personally identifying information , as it could be collected and used by others over whom CPI has no control. We are not responsible for the use made by third parties of information you post or otherwise make available in public areas of the CPI Portal site.
Information Supplied by Your Browser / Use of Cookies
A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by to collect information about your activities on a web site. "Cookies" give us an idea of which parts of our site users are visiting. For example, if you personalize CPI pages, or register for services, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information (e.g. your user name, password and preferences). When you return to the CPI Portal Site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized.
We use this information only as anonymous aggregate data to determine how many people visit our site, which features are used most frequently, and which browsers are primarily used. We do not use it to track or record information about individuals. This information assists us in diagnosing problems with our site and helps us deliver a better overall experience for you and other visitors.
Many consumers do not know that "cookies" are being placed on their computers when they visit Web sites. Cookies are not used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer, and can usually only be read the web server that issued the cookie to you.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you want to know when this happens, or to prevent it from happening, you can set your browser to warn you when a Web site attempts to place a "cookie" on your computer. Accepting cookies is voluntary, however if you decline cookies you may not be able to use some features of the CPI Portal.
Security
Your profile has a password so that only you can access it. We recommend that you do not provide your password to anyone, as you are ultimately responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your account information. If you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public location, remember to sign out and close your browser window when you have finished to ensure that others cannot access your personal information.
Links to Other Sites
This Privacy Statement applies solely to the information we collect on the CPI Portal Site, and does not apply to information we collect in any other fashion.
Users should be aware that when you are on CPI sites, you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. CPI is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites that may be linked to this site.
There may be links to other sites from CPI web pages that take you outside our service. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal information. Personally identifying information which you choose to provide to another party or web site will be subject to their privacy policy.
Access
If you have any questions about the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information by CPI or our agents, you may contact our Privacy Officer. Except in limited circumstances, as specifically provided by applicable privacy legislation, we will tell you whether we hold personal information about you, the source of the information and allow you access to your personal information. We will provide an account of the use that has been made or is being made of the information and the third parties to which it has been disclosed upon request.
CPI will only refuse access to information about you in those circumstances permitted or required by applicable privacy legislation. If access is denied, CPI will provide you with the reasons for the refusal.
Correct/Update/Cancellation of Account
Account Update or Removal
You may review, correct, update or change your Networking profile information at any time. Simply log into the Online Career Center , go to the My Profile section of the Networking Homepage, review your account information and, if you wish, edit it with the options provided. Click here to access your Networking home page.
In the event you have questions about the accuracy of factual information we have collected about you, you will have access to that information in order to verify and update it. If we have disclosed inaccurate information about you to a third party, we will contact the third party in order to correct the information.
Cancellation
At any time, you may access your account to update your personal information by signing-in to the CPI Portal Site. If you would like to be completely removed from our database and no longer receive our services, you may delete your account.
Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions or concerns about the information contained in this privacy statement, please contact our Office at: info@cpiworld.com , 104 South Estes Drive, Suite 301 - S Chapel Hill, NC 27514 or call 919/967-9527.
If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you may contact:
In Canada :
Office of the Privacy Commissioner at info@privcom.gc.ca
Web Site: http://www.privcom.gc.ca
In the United States :
Federal Trade Commission at 1-877-FTC-HELP
Web Site: http://www.ftc.gov
In the European Union:
DATA-PROTECTION-OFFICER@cec.eu.int
Web Site: http://europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/fsj/privacy/
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