PRIVACY & SECURITY

Services, information, and community offerings are provided through workplace.org. The workplace.org site is maintained by The WorkPlace, Inc. It is designed to provide access to information and services that facilitate the transition from high school to careers and college. The WorkPlace, Inc. recognizes the importance of protecting your privacy rights. Any information shared between users and careerconnections-ct.com is securely managed and safeguarded in accordance with all applicable laws and the policies and guidelines set forth below.

What information does careerconnections-ct.com gather?

The choice of how much personally identifiable information you disclose to us is completely at your discretion. It is not mandatory for you to answer any question, but please realize that in order to serve you better, you will need to provide certain information to access some areas of our site, obtain or register for special services, or complete transactions initiated by you. If you choose not to provide information, we may not be able to permit access to such areas, provide those special services, or complete such transactions.

Information gathered through traffic monitoring
Like many other Web sites, careerconnections-ct.com is equipped with a program that monitors traffic by automatically recording every visitor's host, domain name, pages visited, length of user sessions, browser type and/or IP address. This program tracks the number of times the site is hit, how many visitors come to the site, which parts of the site they frequent, and the length of time of each visit. This information does not contain personally identifiable information and is used to evaluate areas of interest and to improve the careerconnections-ct.com site.

Information gathered through registration, login, and obtaining services
careerconnections-ct.com collects full name, home address, email address, telephone number, and other personally identifiable information that is voluntarily provided by the user. A user's email address and other personally identifiable information collected from contest registrations or online surveys are used only as described in this Privacy Policy and for the purposes of offering you goods and services that, in the opinion of careerconnections-ct.com, may facilitate the transition from high school to careers or college. By providing such information, the user consents to careerconnections-ct.com's Privacy Policy, including the uses of the information described in this Policy.

What about Cookies?

A cookie is a small text file placed on a user's computer hard drive when a user visits a Web site. The cookie gives the user a unique, random ID, and this ID enables our site to readily recognize each visitor on a subsequent visit to the site. For example, a cookie may indicate the preferences selected by a visitor on a prior visit, and facilitate more efficient browsing on subsequent visits by using such preferences to customize the content and/or layout of our site for the visitor. careerconnections-ct.com may use cookies in this fashion. Visitors are free to change their web browsers to prevent the acceptance of cookies. careerconnections-ct.com's cookies do not contain personally identifiable information collected by careerconnections-ct.com.

What we will use the information for
Listed below are some of the ways in which your information may be used:

• to improve careerconnections-ct.com's services
• to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor
• to notify visitors about updates, services, and/or special offers from careerconnections-ct.com
• to ask for your participation in brief surveys
• to generate aggregate statistical studies
• to complete any registration or other transactions you may do at the site
• to share with contractors who assist careerconnections-ct.com with programming and technical aspects of hosting and Web site operation. All contractors subscribe careerconnections-ct.com's confidentiality and privacy conditions.

What we will not use the information for
We respect your privacy! Except as described above, or as otherwise provided or permitted by law, your information collected by careerconnections-ct.com will not be sold, rented, loaned, or otherwise used.

careerconnections-ct.com Linked Sites

careerconnections-ct.com provides, for the convenience of our users, the opportunity to link to Web sites of organizations not related to careerconnections-ct.com, Inc. If you click on a hypertext link that takes you to a Web site outside of careerconnections-ct.com, we are not responsible for their privacy policies or information collection practices and uses.

What choices does the user have?

You will always have the ability to opt not to receive email or other means of communication from careerconnections-ct.com. careerconnections-ct.com respects your privacy and realizes that not everyone likes to receive information. You will have the ability upon registering at the site to opt out from receiving email or other communications. If you receive such email or communications and would prefer not to in the future, you may remove your name from careerconnections-ct.com's lists by contacting us at info@careerconnections-ct.com.

Who can I contact for more information?

If you have questions or would like to be deactivated from careerconnections-ct.com's lists, you may contact us by email at info@careerconnections-ct.com or Career Connections Coordinator, The WorkPlace, Inc., 350 Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604. careerconnections-ct.com will use reasonable efforts to help you.

Security

The importance of security for all personal information associated with our users is of utmost concern to us. You must have a secure browser–one that supports secure transmission of data across the Internet–to purchase items at careerconnections-ct.com. For more information, use your browser's help feature.

We take great care in providing secure transmission of your information from your computer to our servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

Your careerconnections-ct.com password is protected so that only you can access it and view the member information. We recommend that you do not tell your password to anyone. careerconnections-ct.com will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or email. Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and any account information.