SURCONS (“us” or “we”) understands that your privacy is important to you. SURCONS is committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personally-identifiable information, being any information that is capable of identifying you as an individual person, as you use this Site and the SURCONS Recruitment Portal. The scope of SURCONS commitment is described in this Privacy Policy. By submitting personally-identifiable information, you consent to SURCONS use of such personally-identifiable information as described herein. Please see our terms of use for more information about our on-line terms and policies in general.

 

What personally-identifiable information is collected?

 

SURCONS collects personally-identifiable information on certain areas of the Site when users register for or apply for jobs through the SURCONS Recruitment Portal, register for SURCONS.com newsletters and alerts, sign up for conferences and events, and participate in user posting areas (such as bulletin boards, discussion forums and surveys). The personally-identifiable information collected may consist of information that you provide, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, and background information required to apply for a job. For recruiting purposes, the information collected may include other personally-identifiable information that you include on your resume and information that you submit as part of your application. In addition, SURCONS collects certain information that you do not visibly enter, such as your IP address, browsing pattern on the Site, click stream data, HTTP protocol elements, and the status of cookies placed on your computer by SURCONS.

 

How may SURCONS use my personally-identifiable information?

 

SURCONS uses your personally-identifiable information to fulfill your requests for information, publish your letters to the editor or comments, process your requests to participate in conferences and events, evaluate any job applications, recruit personnel, distribute newsletters and alerts to you, and for such other purposes as you may initiate or request. We may keep any of your personally-identifiable information on file and use it to contact you.

 

How are cookies used?

 

Cookies are small packets of information that are stored by your web browser. They are put on your web browser by the websites that you visit. These packets of information do not contain personal information about you but they do allow us to know if you visit the same website twice or if you visit related websites.

 

The laws in many European Union countries require you to provide a form of consent before cookies are placed on your web browser unless the cookie is necessary for the website to work.

 

There is no agreed standard for how companies comply with these laws. We do the following:

 

- We only use cookies where they are necessary for our services or where you have provided your express or implied consent.

 

- We respect your wishes, and you can inspect, delete, or block any cookies used by us by selecting the appropriate control in your web browser.

 

- We support technologies that have been developed and are being developed for your web browser that allows you to be more selective about the cookies that your web browser will accept.

 

What are “cookies” used for on this website?

 

SURCONS uses cookies to identify you and your interests and to track your use of the Site. We also use cookies to control access to certain content on our Site and to process any requests that you make with us.

 

To administer our website and for research purposes, SURCONS has also contracted with third parties to track and analyze anonymous usage and volume statistical information from our visitors and members. Such information is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. These third parties use persistent cookies to help us to improve the visitor experience, manage our site content, and track visitor behavior.

 

SURCONS has also contracted with a third party to send e-mail to our registered members. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, the third party sets cookies. All data collected by this third party on behalf of SURCONS is used solely by or on behalf of SURCONS and is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis.

 

Is personally-identifiable information disclosed to third parties?

 

SURCONS shall not intentionally disclose or transfer (and shall take reasonable steps to prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure of) your personally-identifiable information to third parties (i.e., persons or entities that are not affiliates of SURCONS) without your consent, whether for such third parties’ marketing purposes or otherwise, except as follows. SURCONS may provide access to your personally-identifiable information to third party vendors engaged by SURCONS to provide services related to the Site; provided that such vendors will first agree to maintain the strict confidentiality of such information and provide the same level of data security as provided by SURCONS. SURCONS may also be compelled to surrender personal user or customer information to legal authorities without express user consent if presented with a court subpoena or similar legal order, or as required or permitted by the laws, rules, and regulations of any applicable jurisdiction. Also, in the event of a violation of the Terms of Use of or any other terms on this Site, including but not limited to a violation of any restrictions on use of materials provided in or through this Site, SURCONS may disclose personal user information to affected parties and legal authorities in furtherance of potential or on-going legal proceedings.

 

Surveys

 

If you participate in a survey, all of our research results are reported as totals or in other aggregated form, and no information about you as an individual respondent is made public.

 

User forums

 

You should be aware that whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by others. SURCONS is not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users publicly disclose in any such forums on the Site.

 

Link to third-party sites

 

SURCONS may provide links to third-party websites or information as a service to our users. If you use these links, you will leave this Site. Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by SURCONS of the third party, the third party website, or the information contained therein, and SURCONS shall not be responsible or liable for your use thereof. Such use shall be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to those sites.

 

How can I access, change, and/or delete information?

 

You may access, correct, update, and/or delete any personally-identifiable information that you submit to the Site. You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations on the Site. To do so, please either follow instructions on the page of the Site on which you have provided such information, subscribed or registered or contact us at the address provide at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

 

Security

 

SURCONS has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally-identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized SURCONS personnel and third party vendors are provided access to personally-identifiable information, and these employees and vendors are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, SURCONS, however, cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personally-identifiable information.

 

Transborder hosting and transfer of information

 

Personally-identifiable information collected on the Site may be transferred from time to time to SURCONS offices or personnel, or to third parties, located throughout the world, and the Site may be viewed and hosted by SURCONS or its vendors anywhere in the world, including countries that may not have the same data protection laws than what is found in your country of residence. By using the Site and registering such information on it, you voluntarily consent to such transborder transfer and hosting of such information.

 

Date Retention Policy

 

SURCONS stores personally-identifiable information for various purposes as notified to you in this policy. For each of these different purposes, SURCONS only retains the personally-identifiable information for so long as it is serving its notified purpose.

 

Children

 

SURCONS understands the importance of protecting children's privacy, especially in an on-line environment. The Site is not designed for or directed at children 13 years of age or younger, and SURCONS will not intentionally collect or maintain information about anyone under this age.

 

Consent; changes to privacy policy

 

By using the Site, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your information by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was last updated on December 5, 2016.

 

 

Contact our privacy department

 

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or if you require any assistance in navigating or reading the materials on this Site or any other SURCONS Sites, please contact us at:

 

 

info@surcons.com