Privacy Notice for this Jefferson Wells website as of April 8th
2007
In general, you may visit this Web site without
providing any personal information to us. If you choose to provide
information voluntarily, we will use that information in accordance with
our data privacy principles and notice for individuals.
GLOBAL DATA PRIVACY PRINCIPLES
Jefferson
Wells, as a member of the Manpower group of companies, has long recognized
the importance of maintaining the privacy of personal and sensitive
information of our clients, employees, job applicants, and business
partners. The nature of our business requires us to collect and
handle such information, and we have a responsibility to protect this
information for as long as it is in our possession. At Jefferson
Wells, respecting privacy is a part of our core values, along with being
committed to providing services in an ethical and professional manner.
To support these efforts, Jefferson
Wells has implemented a set of Global Data Privacy Principles (Principles)
that guide our individual and collective efforts as they relate to privacy
and the handling and protection of personal and sensitive information.
These Principles are based on internationally recognized fair information
practices and principles and are in the spirit of our Code of Conduct.
We respect
your privacy by:
- Offering
privacy notices that explain how and why we handle personal information.
- Respecting
your choices about our collection, use and sharing of information,
where appropriate.
- Collecting,
using and retaining only personal information that is relevant and
useful to our business interactions.
- Using
reasonable efforts to keep personal information accurate and
up-to-date.
- Using
information security safeguards to protect personal information.
- Limiting
access to and disclosure of personal information.
- Retaining
only the personal information needed to fulfill our legal and business
obligations.
- Offering
you the ability to view and update the information we have about you,
where appropriate.
- Providing
an opportunity for you to ask questions and register complaints about
privacy.
For more information
on our privacy practices for individuals, please see the following notice:
Data Privacy Notice for Individuals at this Jefferson Wells website
Jefferson Wells Inc. (Jefferson
Wells) cares about the privacy of our applicants, employees and
clients. This notice contains information about how we handle your
personal information. We collect and process your personal
information for the following purposes where necessary:
- to
maintain our contractual or business relationship with you,
- for
employment-related services where applicable,
- to
tell you about the products and services we offer,
- to
contact and correspond with you,
- for
the management and defence of legal claims and actions, compliance
with court orders and other legal obligations and regulatory
requirements, and as otherwise permitted by law.
Jefferson Wells processes
sensitive personal information only if required to meet its legal
obligations, with your consent, or if otherwise permitted by law.
Jefferson Wells may
disclose your personal information for these purposes to other Jefferson
Wells and Manpower entities, affiliates, suppliers, subcontractors who
perform services on our behalf, clients if you are seeking employment, an
acquiring organization if Jefferson Wells is involved in the sale or
transfer of some or all of its business, and where we are otherwise
required to do so, such as by court order.
Personal information
pertaining to you may be transferred outside of the European Union and outside
the countries recognized by the European Union as having the laws
guaranteeing an adequate protection of personal data. In each case, Manpower has taken steps to ensure that
all information transferred receives an adequate level
of data protection.
If you have any
questions, problems or requests for information concerning your personal
data or data privacy, please contact us by emailing us at
us.privacy@jeffersonwells.com or by writing to us at:
Jefferson Wells International, Inc.
Attention: Global Data Privacy Director
200 South Executive Drive, Suite 440
Brookfield
, Wisconsin 53005
U.S.A.
AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED INFORMATION
Technical Information – Like many
other Web sites, this Web site automatically collects certain technical
information regarding Web site users, such as the Internet Protocol (IP)
address of your computer, the IP address of your Internet Service Provider,
the date and time you access the Web site, the Internet address of the Web
site from which you linked directly to the Web site, the operating system
you are using, the sections of the Web site you visit, the Web site pages
accessed and information viewed, and the materials you post to or download
from the Web site. This technical information is used for Web sites
and system administration purposes and to improve the Web site. Your
technical information may be disclosed to others and permanently archived
for future use.
Cookies – This Web
site uses “cookies”, a technology that installs information on
a Web site user’s computer to permit the Web site to recognize future
visits using that computer. Cookies enhance the convenience and use
of the Web site. For example, the information provided through
cookies is used to recognize you as a previous user of the Web site, to
track your activity at the Web site in order to respond to your needs, to
offer personalized Web page content and information for your use, to
automatically populate online forms with your personal information for your
convenience, and to otherwise facilitate your Web site experience.
Advertisements displayed on the Web site may
also contain cookies or other technologies. Those advertisements may
be provided by third party advertising companies, and Jefferson Wells does
not have any control over, or any responsibility or liability for, the
cookies or other technologies used in the advertisements or for use and
disclosure of information collected through advertisement cookies.
You may choose to decline cookies if your
browser permits, but doing so may affect your use of this Web site and your
ability to access or use certain Web site features.
INFORMATION USED
Tracking Information – Jefferson
Wells may use non-personal information to create aggregate tracking
information reports regarding Web site user demographics and the use of
this Web site, and then provide those reports to others. None of the
tracking information in the reports is connected to the identities or other
personal information of individual users.
OTHER MATTERS
Security – Jefferson
Wells works to keep our servers, applications and databases secure and free
from unauthorized access and use, by using physical, administrative and
technological measure to protect the information we maintain.
Unfortunately, no one can guarantee 100% security. If you have
particular security concerns about certain personal information, please do
not transmit that personal information over the Internet.
Other Web sites – This Web
site may contain links to other Web sites or Internet resources. When
you click on one of those links you are contacting another Web site or
Internet resource that may collect personal information about you
voluntarily or through cookies or other technologies. Jefferson Wells
has no responsibility, liability for, or control over those other Web sites
or Internet resources or their collection, use and disclosure of your
personal information. You should review the privacy policies of those
other Web sites and Internet resources to understand how they collect and
use personal information.
Privacy Notice Changes – Jefferson
Wells may change, supplement or amend this Notice as it relates to your
future use of this Web site from time to time, for any reason, by posting a
revised Notice on this Web site.
This notice was last updated on 8 April
2007. |