HPS Staffing is committed to respecting the privacy of our users. We strive to provide a safe, secure user experience. This Privacy Statement sets forth the online data collection and usage policies and practices that apply our Web site. By using the HPS Staffing Web site, you consent to the policies and practices described in this Statement.
Your data will be stored and processed in the United States. If you access the HPS Staffing Web site from outside the United States, your usage of that site constitutes consent to the transfer of your data out of your country and to the United States.
Our site may contain links to other Web sites over which we have no control. HPS Staffing is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other Web sites to which you choose to link from a HPS Staffing Web site. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other Web sites so you can understand how they collect, use and share your information. This Privacy Statement applies solely to the information we collect on a HPS Staffing Web site, and does not apply to information we collect in any other fashion.
Collection and Retention of Information
In some areas of our Web site, HPS Staffing requests or may request that you provide personal information, including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, contact information and any other information from which your identity is discernible.
In addition, HPS Staffing may indirectly collect information about you when you use certain third party services on our Web site. For example, if you register on our site by using your Microsoft Passport user name and password, you authorize us to have access to and store the information in your Passport account profile; such information will be subject to, and treated in accordance with, the policies and practices described in this Statement.
We also gather or may gather certain information about your use of our site, such as what areas you visit and what services you access. Moreover, there is information about your computer hardware and software that is or may be collected by HPS Staffing. This information can include without limitation your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses.
In the future, HPS Staffing might add additional features to our site. Please remember that if you post any of your personal information in public areas of HPS Staffing, such as in online forums or chat rooms, such information may be collected and used by others over whom HPS Staffing 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 HPS Staffing.
Since we believe that managing your career is a life-long process, we retain indefinitely all the information we gather about you in an effort to make your repeat use with us more efficient, practical, and relevant. Of course, you can correct or update your HPS Staffing account profile and resume at any time. Moreover, you can delete your resume from our online database or close your HPS Staffing account at any time, in which event we will remove all our copies of your resume and HPS Staffing account profile information except for an archival copy which is not accessible on the Internet.
Use of Information by HPS Staffing
We use the information we gather on a HPS Staffing Web site, whether personal, demographic, collective or technical, for the purpose of operating and improving the HPS Staffing Web site, fostering a positive user experience, and delivering the services that we offer.
We may use your contact information in order to send you e-mail or other communications regarding updates at the HPS Staffing site, such as new HPS Staffing opportunities and additional listings, which may be of interest to you. The nature and frequency of these messages will vary depending upon the information we have about you. In addition, at the time of registration on the HPS Staffing site, you have the option to elect to receive additional communications, information and promotions including without limitation free informational newsletters from HPS Staffing relating to topics that may be of special interest to you, such as career management advice.
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 or contact you for further information.
Disclosure of Information to Others
We do not disclose to third parties your personal information, combined personal and demographic information or information about your use of a HPS Staffing Web site (such as the areas you visit or the services you access), except as set forth in the following four subparagraphs.
1. By registering and/or posting your resume on the HPS Staffing Web site, you give consent to HPS Staffing to disclose such information to third parties such as employers, recruiters, data aggregators (for database storage/management only).
2. We may disclose such information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf. Examples may include hosting our Web servers, analyzing data and providing 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.
3. We may disclose such 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 HPS Staffing or its affiliated companies; (c) prevent a crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users or the public.
4. We may disclose and transfer such information to a third party who acquires all or a substantial portion of HPS Staffing's business, 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 HPS Staffing becomes the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, HPS Staffing or its trustee in bankruptcy may sell, license or otherwise dispose of such information in a transaction approved by the bankruptcy court.
HPS Staffing may also share aggregated anonymous information about visitors to each of its Web sites with its clients, partners and other third parties so that they may understand the kinds of visitors to HPS Staffing's site and how those visitors use the site.
Since HPS Staffing is a career site, we give you the option of putting your resume in our database. We attempt to limit access to our searchable resume database (or copies thereof) only to paying employers, recruiters, hiring managers, headhunters, and human resource professionals, as well as law enforcement and national security agencies, but cannot guarantee that other parties will not gain access to this database. We are not responsible for the use made of resumes by third parties who access such resumes while they are in our searchable database. You may remove your resume from our searchable database at any time. However, employers, recruiters and others who have paid for access to that database or to obtain a copy of that database, as well as parties who have otherwise gained access to the database, may have retained a copy of your resume in their own files or databases. We are not responsible for the retention, use or privacy of resumes in these instances.
HPS Staffing uses "cookies" to help personalize and maximize your online experience and time online. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by a Web page server. Cookies are not used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer, 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. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize HPS Staffing pages, or register for services, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information (such as user name, password and preferences). Because of our use of cookies, we can deliver faster and more accurate results and a more personalized site experience. When you return to the HPS Staffing site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized. We also use cookies to track click streams and for load balancing.
You may have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline all cookies if you prefer. Alternatively, you may be able to modify your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis. If you choose to decline cookies, however, that may hinder performance and negatively impact your experience on the HPS Staffing Web site.
HPS Staffing Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information on HPS Staffing; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about our Web site usage
Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides.
Updating Your Information
You may review, correct, update or change your HPS Staffing account profile information at any time. Simply log into your HPS Staffing account, go to your Account Profile, review your account information and, if you wish, edit it with the options provided. HPS Staffing professionals will review and post your changes
If you opted to receive newsletters, e-mails or other communications from HPS Staffing at the time you registered with HPS Staffing, but subsequently change your mind, you may opt-out by editing your Account Profile as described above. If you previously opted not to receive such communications, you may later opt-in by editing your Account Profile.
HPS Staffing has implemented reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.
When you register or post your resume online at HPS Staffing, your personal information is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") protocol. SSL makes it difficult for your personal information to be intercepted or stolen while being transmitted.
HPS Staffing is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
Changes to Privacy Statement
If we decide to change the Privacy Statement for HPS Staffing, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it. If at any time, you have questions or concerns about HPS Staffing's Privacy Statement, please feel free to email us at info@HPSStaffing.com or call us at 1-800-706-5493 and speak to one of our representatives.
HPS Staffing is a name under which HPS Staffing, LLC, a Georgia corporation with its principal place of business at 7000 Central Parkway, Suite 1440, Atlanta, Georgia, 30328, and certain of its affiliated companies worldwide, do business. ("Affiliated companies" means entities that control, are controlled by or are under common control with HPS Staffing, Inc.) HPS Staffing, LLC. is the legal entity which determines the purposes and means of processing the information gathered from the HPS Staffing Web site. The information we gather from the HPS Staffing Web site may be shared within HPS Staffing, LLC. and its affiliated companies.
We welcome your comments concerning this Privacy Statement. If you believe that we have not adhered to this Statement, please contact us by e-mailing us at information@HPSStaffing.com or by calling us at 1-800-706-5493. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
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