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1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
Student Employment Council, Inc.(“Zippyjobs” or “we” or “us”) is committed to protecting the personal information of our users (“you” or “user”). This Privacy Statement sets forth our current privacy practices with regard to the information we collect when you or your computer interact with our website. By accessing Zippyjobs, you acknowledge and fully understand Student Employment Council’s Inc. Privacy Statement and freely consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Website Privacy Statement.
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2. PARTICIPATING MERCHANT POLICIES
Related services and offerings with links from this website, including vendor sites, have their own privacy statements that can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding links within each respective website. Online merchants and others who participate in Student Employment Council, Inc. services are encouraged to participate in industry privacy initiatives and to take a responsible attitude towards consumer privacy. However, since we do not have direct control over the policies or practices of participating merchants and other third parties, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of those sites. We recommend and encourage that you always review the privacy policies of merchants and other third parties before you provide any personal information or complete any transaction with such parties. |
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3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
This Privacy Policy governs your interaction with the web site and your registration for and use of the online services (collectively, the "Services"). Student Employment Council, Inc. collects certain information from and about its users three ways: directly from our Web Server logs, the user, and with Cookies.
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a. Web Server Logs.
When you visit our Website, we may track information to administer the site and analyze its usage. Examples of information we may track include:
• Your Internet protocol address.
• The kind of browser or computer you use.
• Number of links you click within the site.
• State or country from which you accessed the site.
• Date and time of your visit.
• Name of your Internet service provider.
• Web page you linked to our site from.
• Pages you viewed on the site.
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b. Use of Cookies
Student Employment Council, Inc. may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web Server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Hence, this simplifies the process of delivering relevant content and eases site navigation by providing and saving your preferences and login information as well as providing personalized functionality..
Student Employment Council, Inc. reserves the right to share aggregated site statistics with partner companies, but does not allow other companies to place cookies on our website unless there is a temporary, overriding customer value (such as merging into Zippyjobs a site that relies on third-party cookies).
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our Website.
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c. Personal Information Users
Visitors to our website should only register for our website if you wish to search for jobs or post jobs. When you register, we will request some personal information such as name, address, email, telephone number or facsimile number, and other relevant information. If you are posting a job, we will request financial information. Any financial information we collect is used only to bill you for the services you purchased. If you purchase by credit card, this information may be forwarded to your credit card provider. For other types of registrations, we will ask for the relevant information. You may also be asked to disclose personal information to us so that we can provide assistance and information to you. For example, such data may be warranted in order to provide online technical support and troubleshooting.
Student Employment Council, Inc will not voluntarily disclose the personally identifiable information we collect from you to third parties without your permission except to the extent necessary including:
• To fulfill your service requests for services
• To protect ourselves from liability,
• To respond to legal process or comply with law, or
• In connection with a merger, acquisition, or liquidation of the company.
Student Employment Council, Inc. reserves the right to ask you for information regarding your experiences as a college student, your interests, preferences, you views on topics or social issues, your opinion concerning the features of our site, and the types of jobs or candidates you are interested in etc. However, you may choose to provide or not to provide at your sole discretion answers to our requests. In certain instances, information with respect to our Users may be received from one or more of our other business partners.
Please note that Student Employment Council, Inc. cannot control the acts of users of the Services. All members and visitors should be aware that, when they disclose personally identifiable information in a resume or profile or other medium, the information may be collected and used by others to send that person unsolicited email from other parties outside Zippyjobs. In the event that you encounter any Zippyjobs user who is improperly collecting or using information about you or other users, please contact us.
Some of these Web beacons may be placed by third party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications. These Web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer. This allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or emails and compile anonymous information in relation to those page views, which in turn enables us and our service providers to learn which advertisements and emails bring you to our website and how you use the site. Student Employment Council, Inc. prohibits Web beacons from being used to collect or access your personal information.
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5. ACCESSING WEB ACCOUNT INFORMATION
We will provide you with the means to ensure that personally identifiable information in your web account file is correct and current. You may review this information by contacting us by sending an email to our support attendant.
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6. PUBLIC FORUMS
This site makes message boards, and business related classifieds available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
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7. CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
Student Employment Council, Inc. has the discretion to occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the “updated” date at the top of this Privacy page. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.
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8. CHILDREN
The Zippyjobs website is not available to children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 16 years of age.
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9. SECURITY
Student Employment Council, Inc. has implemented reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. Although we make good faith efforts to protect the information collected on Zippyjobs, we cannot guarantee complete security.
When you place an order online at the Site, your credit card information is protected through the use of encryption. The encryption technology makes it difficult for your credit card information to be intercepted or stolen while being transmitted. Student Employment Council, Inc. uses a service company to process its credit card transactions. For information on this company’s privacy policy and security practices, please click here www.paypal.com.
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10. CONTACTING US
If you have questions regarding our Privacy Statement, its implementation, failure to adhere to this Privacy Statement and/or our general practices, please contact us or send your comments to :
Student Employment Council, Inc.
Attention: Privacy Statement
1629 K Street, NW Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006.
Student Employment Council, Inc. will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly respond and resolve any problem or question.
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