Your Privacy Rights – The PA Resource Privacy Policy

The PA Resource is committed to protecting the privacy of our users, and strives to provide a safe user experience. This privacy policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, shared, and secured, as well as your choices regarding use, access, and correction of your personal information.

By using this site or application, you agree to the collection, use and transfer of your data as described in this Privacy Policy.

If you do not want your information to be collected, used, and transferred as described by this policy, you may revoke your consent to our Privacy Policy. To revoke your consent, please click here to contact us. If you revoke your consent, your account and profile information will be removed from our website.

Information collected on our sites and applications is stored in the United States; therefore, your information may become subject to U.S. law.

Scope of this Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies to information we collect or use on sites and applications owned or controlled by The PA Resource, or its affiliated companies (“The PA Resource“). Affiliated companies are entities that control, are controlled by or are under common control with The PA Resource.

We link to other websites over which we have no control. The PA Resource is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those sites so you can understand how they collect, use, and share your information.

Information We Collect

We collect information about you when you use our sites and applications. We collect information directly from you such as your contact information, resume, profile information, or business information. We receive and store this information when you enter it on our website, send it to us, or provide it to us in any other way.

For example, depending on the services you use, we collect:

•Credit card number and billing information (for services requiring payment);

•Information imported by you or your connections from third party applications with your permission;

•Your race, ethnicity, or gender, if you choose to provide it;

•Information about your business, such as company name, company size and business type.

Referrals: We may also collect from you personal information about others. For instance, if you choose to use our service to share site content with a friend, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. The PA Resource temporarily stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email. Similarly, if you allow us to import your contacts from a personal directory or another site or application, we will only use this information for the specific reason for which it is provided.

Passive Collection: We also gather certain information automatically when you visit our site or use our mobile applications. This information may include Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type, device ID, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data to analyze trends in the aggregate and administer the site. We may combine this information with information in your account to help prevent fraud.

User Data Supplementation: We may collect information about you from publicly-available websites. We may use this information to create a profile, even if you do not have an account with us, or append it to an existing profile that you have with us. You will have the opportunity to claim collected information relating to you and to change its visibility setting or remove the information as described in this privacy policy. However we cannot guarantee that we will not later collect from publicly-available websites other information that pertains to you.

Single Sign-on: If you choose to sign in to a The PA Resource site or application with Facebook or similar sites and services, we import the requested information from your account and we make it part of your profile. Because The PA Resource sites and applications are intended to allow you to share your information and to allow others to find you, we make certain information about you publicly available by default. Such information may, for example, be accessed by everyone on the Internet, including users without accounts, and may appear in public search engine search results. However, you can control the visibility of your information by managing your privacy settings within your The PA Resource account. You can also restrict the information available to others by deleting information you do not want visible or by not providing it at all.

When you post information on another user’s profile or comment on another user’s post, the public availability of that information will be subject to the other user’s privacy settings.

How We Use Information

We use the information we collect to provide our services, respond to you, operate and improve our sites and applications, and foster a positive user experience.

By registering with The PA Resource, by managing your profile, by publicly posting information, or by opting in when presented with choices, you have consented for us to use your information in the following ways:

•to create a profile for you based on information that you have provided to us, information collected or imported from other sites or applications, or information provided to us by third parties such as your contacts or advertisers;

•to add information gathered from public websites to your profile;

•to provide personalized, targeted, or location-based content, services, and advertising from us and third parties;

•to allow you to contact other users or to invite others to join or create an account;

•to allow you to import information about yourself or your contacts from other sites or applications or to export your information to other sites or applications;

•to make purchases;

•to contact you about feature updates, informational and service-related communications, including important security updates;

•to provide you with additional communications, information, and promotions such as newsletters and career advice;

•to inform you of other products or services available from The PA Resource or its affiliates;

•to enable you to contact us and for us to respond to you;

•to conduct surveys, promotions and contests, and to publish the results thereof;

•to help your friends, contacts, and potential employers find your profile and connect with you;

•to provide information about you and your potential interest in job postings to employer customers;

•to display targeted messages from employers based on the content of your resume or profile;

•to provide products and services to employer customers to complete the recruitment and hiring process;

•to provide products and services that enable users to network, post information on bulletin boards, view and compare profiles;

•to generate internal reports about the use of our sites and applications;

•to provide customers with reports about the characteristics and trends of the job market including availability of talent;

•to allow you to share jobs and profile information with your connections;

•to give search engines access to public information;

•to detect, investigate and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal; and

•to make suggestions and draw inferences about you. For example, we may make suggestions about people you may know or additional jobs, products or services that might be of interest to you. Or, if you identify yourself as “Mrs.” we will assume you are female.

Some of our products and services, such as our resume and profile database, social media search, and networking, enable third parties to see your personal information and to contact you. Profile information may be used for networking with other community members or may be visible to anyone using The PA Resource sites and applications.

Information you post in public areas of The PA Resource sites or applications or make visible in the resume and profile database may be accessed, used, and stored by others around the world, including those in countries that might not have legislation that guarantees adequate protection of personal information as defined by your country of residence. While The PA Resource takes measures to safeguard your information from unauthorized access or inappropriate use, The PA Resource does not control these third parties and we are not responsible for their use of information you give to us. Accordingly, you should not post sensitive information, personality profiles, or any other information you would not want made public, to any The PA Resource site or application or to a public website.

Our services include the display of personalized products, content, and advertising relating to your career experience and interests online. We use data we have about you to determine whether you might be interested in the opportunities, products or services of a particular third party. We show you targeted ads online. These ads are targeted based on information we collect about you and information about you we acquire from third parties including public websites and data providers. Please see your account notification settings to customize the notification you receive and the About Our Ads page in our Privacy Center to learn more about targeted ads.

How We Share Information

We provide you with a platform to broadcast information about yourself to maximize your career opportunities. The information we gather may be shared within the The PA Resource group of companies on a worldwide basis. We do not share contact information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes unless you affirmatively agree to such disclosure.

1. We share your information with third parties who help deliver our products and services to you. Examples of third parties who provide services on our behalf include those hosting our web servers, including resume database storage, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. These companies will have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not use that data for any other purpose. We will hold them liable for any information shared in this way.

2. We may disclose information to third parties if you consent. For example:

(a) if you make your resume searchable or if we collect information you’ve made available on a public website then all parties with access to our resume or profile database products will have access to your information;

(b) if you opt in to receive information about the opportunities, products, or services of third parties, we supply your contact information to those third parties so they may contact you;

(c) if you previously chose to receive newsletters, commercial e-mails or other communications from The PA Resource or third parties, but subsequently change your mind, you may opt out of receiving those messages by updating your email preferences in your account profile or by using the unsubscribe mechanism included in the communication.

By applying to a job, providing your contact information to show interest in a job, or by replying to a message from an employer, you consent to the disclosure of your information to that employer.

We also share aggregated information (including location data) about The PA Resource site visitors and application users with third parties to serve advertisements to you online. We may also aggregate data regarding job qualifications, schooling, age, experience level or other information relevant to the job search. This aggregated data does not identify users individually, and may be made available to employers or fellow job seekers or community members. If we create a co-branded site with another company, information will be retained by both companies and subject to the privacy policies of both companies which will be published on the co-branded sites.

3. We may disclose to third parties information that we have collected from other websites.

4. We disclose information if legally required to do so, or at our discretion pursuant to a request from a governmental entity or if we believe in good faith – after considering your privacy interests and other factors – that such action is necessary to: (a) meet legal requirements or comply with legal process; (b) protect our rights or property or our affiliated companies; (c) investigate fraud, prevent a crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users or the public.

5. We may disclose and transfer personal information to a third party who acquires any or all of The PA Resource’s business units, whether such acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation or purchase of all or a substantial portion of our assets. In addition, in the event The PA Resource becomes the subject of an insolvency proceeding, such information will be disposed of in a transaction approved by the court. You will be notified of the sale of all or a substantial portion of our business to a third party by email or through a prominent notice posted on the site.

Cookies and Online Advertising

Cookies: The PA Resource and its partners use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer websites, track users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Cookies help personalize and maximize your online experience and time online, including for storing user preferences, improving search results and ad selection, and tracking user trends. A cookie is a text file stored on your computer. Cookies store bits of information that we use to help make our site work. They can’t run any code and don’t contain viruses. No one can read our cookies except us. You can control your cookies at the browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website or service.

We use cookies to improve your experience on our sites. We use the following types of cookies:

•Security: These cookies allow us to secure access to your account.

•Preference: These cookies are used to store your preferences like language choice and display of job search results.

•Analytics: We track traffic patterns so we can identify popular content and potential problems.

•Features: We track which jobs you search for, view, and apply to so we can show you more jobs like those. We also use cookies to split some users into test groups to test new features.

•Advertising: We use non-identifiable information about you to show you advertising.

Some cookies will remain on your computer after you have left our site. Security cookies will remain for 60 days after your last visit. Poll response cookies will remain for 90 days, and The PA Resource cookies relating to advertisements and site notices will remain for up to two years, unless you choose to delete them.

We also allow other companies to display advertisements to you while you are using our sites and applications. Because your web browser must request these advertisements from the other companies’ servers, these companies can view, edit or set their own cookies, just as if you had requested a web page from their site. The PA Resource has no control over, and is not responsible for, the practices of those third party advertisers. The data stored in these cookies is anonymous and the information is not linked to your personally identifiable information without your permission. The cookies placed by our third party ad servers will remain on your computer after you have left our site for up to 20 years unless you choose to delete them.

The PA Resource also uses web beacons (sometimes called pixels, clear GIFs or action tags) and JavaScript. We may receive a confirmation when you open an email from The PA Resource if your computer supports this type of program.

Social Media Widgets

Our site includes social media features and widgets such as the Share This button. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

An Important Note About Your Resume

When you create or post a resume, we store it in our resume and profile database in the United States. You may control the status of your resume by setting it to visible, limited, or private. Visible and limited resumes can be viewed by anyone with access to our resume and profile database. We cannot control the retention, use or privacy of resumes that have been viewed or downloaded by others.

Private resumes will not be visible in our resume and profile database, but information we acquire about you from a public website may be visible. You may still use your private resume to apply online to a job. If you do, your resume will be transferred to the relevant employer, who may retain a copy of your resume or distribute it to third parties.

We attempt to limit access to our resume and profile database to legitimate users, but cannot guarantee that other parties will not gain access to this database. We cannot control the use made of resumes by third parties who access the database. Once your resume has been disclosed, The PA Resource is not able to retrieve it from the third parties who accessed it.

You may remove your resume and profile from our database at any time. If you do not have an account with us, we may require you to provide us with information about yourself so we can locate your profile and delete it. However anyone who viewed your resume or profile may have kept a copy of it in their own files or databases. Accordingly, you should not put sensitive information, personality profiles, or other information you would not want made public, in your resume or profile.

If you provide us with details of a reference, it is your responsibility to ensure that the person is aware that you have forwarded his/her details and has consented in writing for you to do so.

Resumes or profiles you give to us must not contain sensitive data relating to your (i) racial or ethnic origin (ii) political beliefs (iii) philosophical or religious beliefs (iv) membership of a trade union or political party (v) physical or mental health or biometric details or genetic makeup (vi) addictions or sexual life (vii) the commission of criminal offences or proceedings and associated penalties or fines, (viii) the commission of any unlawful or objectionable conduct and associated penalties, or (ix) any Social Security Number or national identification number. If your resume or profile does contain this information, then you agree that it is at your own risk. We cannot control third parties’ access to such information from our database.

Access to Your Personal Information

Because managing your career is a life-long process, we retain all the information we gather about you in an effort to make repeat use of our sites more efficient, practical and relevant until you change or remove your personal information as described below. We may retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Upon request The PA Resource will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. You may access, review, correct, update, change, or delete your resume or profile at any time. To do so, sign in to your account, go to your resume or profile, and make the desired changes. If you do not have an account, or if you believe that someone else has provided us with your contact information, please contact us.

Some The PA Resource customers store their resume databases on The PA Resource servers. The PA Resource is a data processor for personal information received in this way. If you would like to access, review, or correct your personal information, you should contact our customer (your potential or existing employer) with any such requests. We will cooperate as appropriate with requests from our customers to assist with such responses. For more information on private resume databases, see below.

Access to, or correction, update, or deletion of your personal information may be denied or limited by The PA Resource if it would violate another person’s rights and/or as otherwise permitted by applicable law. If you wish to delete your account information altogether, please contact us. We will send you an email to confirm that your personal information has been deleted. We will retain an archival record of your account activity, but it does not contain personal information and is not accessible by you or third parties on the Internet). We will also keep logs and information that may relate to your activity on the site.

We will respond to information access requests within a reasonable timeframe. If we require additional time to provide access to your information, we will acknowledge receipt of your request within a reasonable timeframe and promptly supplement our response within the time period required by applicable law.

If you do not sign in to your account or interact with our services, including continuing to receive emails from us, for a significant period of time, your account will expire and be scheduled for removal from our site. Expired accounts are deleted on a periodic basis. Our current expiration period is approximately 36 months; we may extend or reduce this period in order to adjust to changing hiring patterns. If your account contains a resume, you will receive an email from us before we delete your resume in this manner.

The PA Resource Policy For Private Resume Database Hosting

The PA Resource provides a variety of services to our customers related to hosting private databases (“Hosted Databases”), and the use of certain The PA Resource applications in connection with such databases. These Hosted Databases are hosted by The PA Resource, either on The PA Resource’s own servers or on third party servers (subject to contractual terms), and are not a part of The PA Resource’s web site(s). The PA Resource does not own the data that is in the Hosted Databases and submitted to our applications. These Hosted Databases may contain personal information about individuals, including candidates for employment and existing employees of our customers. Such data may include contact details, work history, educational history, work preferences, and other data, depending on the particular customer and application at issue, and, in some instances, may include personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”).

The PA Resource serves as a data processor for the customers who own these Hosted Databases and utilize our applications on such data, and we therefore conduct our activities strictly in accordance with their instructions and pursuant to our contractual arrangements with them. The PA Resource’s customers act as data controllers with respect to all such Hosted Databases. The data in such databases, including any such data submitted to our applications, is subject to the customer’s privacy policies. If you are a candidate for employment with one of our customers, or an employee of one of our customers, you should refer to the customer’s website or human resources manager to understand the privacy practices that apply to your data. Moreover, if you would like to access and review your Personal Information, you should contact our customer (your potential or existing employer) with any such requests. We will cooperate as appropriate with requests from our customers to assist with such responses.  The PA Resource is not responsible for its customers’ privacy policies or practices.

Security

You are responsible for keeping your username and password secret.

The security of your personal information is important to us. We utilize a variety of safeguards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received. The PA Resource takes appropriate measures to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, the Internet is an open system and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.  The PA Resource is dedicated to providing the safest possible environment for you to search for jobs and manage your career. To assist with that goal, we ask that you keep a few simple security precautions in mind when evaluating job postings on The PA Resource and job opportunities that you may receive unsolicited via email.

For example, it’s possible that you may encounter fraudulent job opportunities when searching for jobs online, or you may receive fraudulent email that has had the sender’s email address forged to make it appear as if it came from The PA Resource. Such practices are a violation of The PA Resource’s Terms of Use and may be a criminal violation of federal and/or state law.

Regrettably, all online companies are susceptible to occasional scams. While The PA Resource makes every effort to prevent this abuse, it is not immune to such activity.  If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, please contact us as described in this Privacy Policy.  You should be aware that resumes and profiles may be monitored by your current employer.  When you place an order online at The PA Resource, your credit card information is encrypted with industry standard encryption.

Children

The PA Resource is not intended for, nor do we knowingly collect information from, individuals under the age of 18.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our information practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the email address specified in your account) where required, or by means of a notice on this website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Contact Information

If, at any time, you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us online or at:

Privacy Office
The PA Resource