privacy policy
This Privacy Policy provides information on the collection, use, and sharing (collectively referred to as ‘processing’ or ‘process’) of personal information by Joulent Inc. and its affiliates (“Joulent”, “we” or “us”) in connection with your use of Joulent’s websites, including all subdomains, and social media pages that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, “sites”), your interactions with Joulent during in-person meetings or at Joulent events, and in the context of other online or offline sales and marketing activities. This Privacy Policy also explains the privacy rights you have in relation to these processing activities.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into, and is part of, our Terms of Use which governs your access to and your use of the sites. This Privacy Policy does not cover data or information we receive from third parties, and it does not cover third party products and services.
By accessing the sites or by otherwise interacting with us, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the sites or provide us with your personal information. Each time you use the sites, the current version of this Privacy Policy will apply. Accordingly, when you use the sites, you should check the date of this Privacy Policy (which appears at the top) and review any changes since you last reviewed the Privacy Policy.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect two types of information: “personal information,” which is information that can be used to identify you (such as your name, address, email address, or business contact details), and “aggregate information,” which is information that cannot be used to identify you (such as frequency of visits to the sites and your browser type).
INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you use our sites or otherwise interact with us. For example, you may provide us with your business contact information and other professional and business details, and the content of your communication, when you choose to submit such information to us through email, by phone, an online form, or other method. Additional examples include:
- name and physical address, email addresses, and telephone numbers;
- public information about your work and education history, including professional affiliations;
- information you provide on your public social media profiles related to your professional and educational history, such as LinkedIn;
- company and business data such as the name, size and location of the company you work for and your role within the company as well as publicly available company information and activity associated with company data;
- video conference recording and chat transcript data;
- unique IDs such as your mobile device identifier or cookie ID on your browser;
- IP address and information that may be derived from IP address, such as geographic location;
- information about a device you use, such as browser, device type, operating system, the presence or use of “apps”, screen resolution, and the preferred language; and
- behavioral data of the internet connected computer or device you use when interacting with the sites, such as advertisements clicked or viewed, sites and content areas, date and time of activities or the web search used to locate and navigate to a site.
Certain online information about you or device information may originate from the use of cookies and similar technologies on our sites or sites of third parties. For more information on cookies and similar technologies, please see the “Cookies and Analytics” section below.
INFORMATION WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT
When you use our sites, we automatically receive and collect information, including personal information, from your device. This includes the following:
- Information about your device, such as the operating system, hardware, system version, Internet Protocol (IP) address, device ID, and device language.
- Your country and general location, time zone, and language used.
- The specific actions that you take when you use our sites, including but not limited to the pages and screens that you view or visit and how you interact with our sites.
- The time, frequency, connection type, and duration of your use of our sites.
- Identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser (as further described below).
- Pages you visited before or after navigating to our sites.
EMPLOYMENT
If we have collected your personal information in response to a job opening, you are giving us permission to use and retain your personal information for the purpose of evaluating your application for employment consideration for the specific position that you applied to, as well as other roles at Joulent. This personal information may be processed and stored by a third-party talent tracking solution provider as well as with vendors, consultants, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work relating to the recruitment process on our behalf.
AGGREGATE INFORMATION COLLECTED
Aggregate information is information that does not identify you. Aggregate information may be collected when you use our sites, independent of any information you voluntarily enter. Additionally, we may use one or more processes to de-identify information that contains personal information such that only aggregate information remains. We may collect, use, store, and transfer aggregate information without restriction.
COOKIES AND ANALYTICS
Like most websites, our sites may use “cookies.” Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to help us identify you when you come to our sites.
Our sites may use cookies for reasons including, but not limited to:
- Analyze our web traffic using an analytics package.
- Identify if you are signed in to the sites.
- Test content on the sites.
- Store information about your preferences.
- Recognize when you return to the sites.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages, functions, and features you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This setting may prevent you from taking full advantage of the sites.
We may use third parties, such as Google Analytics or other analytics providers, which collect data, to analyze traffic to our website. To disable Google Analytics, please download the browser add-on for the deactivation of Google Analytics provided by Google at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. To learn more about privacy and Google Analytics, please consult the Google Analytics overview provided by Google at http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html. You may find additional information about Google Analytics at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You have the option to opt out of Google’s use of cookies by changing your settings through Google Ad Settings via the Google advertising opt-out page.
We may also use cookies, pixels, beacons, or other web tracking technologies to track the amount of time spent on our sites or social media and whether or not certain content, such as a video was viewed. We may work with a third party to collect and process this information for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy.
Although we do our best to honor the privacy preferences of our visitors, we are not able to respond to Do Not Track signals from your browser.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
In general, we collect information and personal information from you so that we can provide our sites, operate our business, and provide information that you request from us. This includes but is not limited to the following:
- Communicate with you and respond to your inquiries;
- To engage in transactions with customers, suppliers, and business partners, and to process orders for products and services;
- Provide, operate, improve, maintain, and protect our sites;
- Analyze your activity on the sites;
- Provide you with technical and other support;
- Send you updates, marketing communications, and other information about Joulent, our products and services, and our sites;
- Send you notices and alerts;
- Conduct research, analytics, and monitor and analyze trends and usage;
- Enhance or improve user experience, our business, and our sites, including the safety and security thereof;
- Personalize our sites to you;
- As necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, subpoena, legal process, or governmental request;
- Enforce contracts, including investigation of potential violations thereof;
- Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; and
- Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Joulent, our users, or the public as required or permitted by law.
HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
Like most companies, we share information, including personal information, in certain circumstances with third parties through operation of our sites and our business. Below we explain when that happens.
WITHIN JOULENT
Your personal information may be shared throughout Joulent’s organization, including with our subsidiary and affiliate organizations.
SERVICE PROVIDERS
We may transfer personal information to third parties for the purpose of providing the sites or operating our business. For example, we may share personal information with third-party service providers for website management, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, e-mail delivery, and other similar service providers in order for those service providers to perform business functions on behalf of Joulent.
REQUIRED TRANSFERS
We may also transfer your personal information to third parties under the following circumstances: (i) to comply with a legal requirement, law, subpoena, judicial proceeding, court order, governmental request, or legal process; (ii) to investigate a possible crime, such as fraud or identity theft; (iii) in connection with the sale, purchase, merger, asset sale, financing, reorganization, liquidation or dissolution of Joulent, including the evaluation thereof; (iv) when we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of Joulent or other persons, or (v) as otherwise required or permitted by law, including any contractual obligations of Joulent.
AS DIRECTED BY YOU AND WITH YOUR CONSENT
Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, we share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Joulent only at your direction or when we have your consent to do so.
YOUR CHOICES
If you no longer wish to receive our marketing and promotional communications, you may opt-out by following the instructions included in each communication.
RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We retain personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, or as needed to provide the sites and operate our business. We will also retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your information to comply with applicable law), resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and as otherwise described in our Privacy Policy.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Our sites are not intended for use by children under the age of 18 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18 in connection with the sites.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
We take the security of your personal information very seriously. We use reasonable administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to secure the personal information you share with us. Despite these safeguards and our additional efforts to secure your information, we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your personal information.
THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
The sites may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by third parties, which may include social media features, such as social media buttons or links. We provide such hyperlinks for your reference and convenience only. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their content or the privacy or other practices of such websites. It is up to you to read and fully understand their privacy policies. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators. If you are submitting information to any such third-party through our sites, you should review and understand that party’s applicable policies, including their privacy policies, before providing your information to the third-party.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to amend this policy at any time without any prior notice to you. Each time you use our sites the current version of this Privacy Policy will apply. When you use our sites, you should check the date of this Privacy Policy (which appears at the top of the Privacy Policy) and review any changes since the last version.
QUESTIONS
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at contact@joulent.com.
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