ITAP FUSION Privacy Statement
ITAP FUSION is committed to respecting the privacy of our clients and users. We
treat your personal information with the utmost respect and in accordance with this
Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement explains our online procedures for how
your personal information may be collected, used or disclosed by using the ITAP
FUSION website. By creating an account on the ITAP FUSION website, by submitting
your resume, or by otherwise accessing this site, you agree to the terms of this
Privacy Statement, as well as to the policies and practices described in the ITAP
FUSION Privacy Statement.
The ITAP FUSION site may contain hyperlinks to other websites that we have no control
over. Users are warned that ITAP FUSION assumes no responsibility for the privacy
policies or practices of external websites that you may choose to link to from the
ITAP FUSION website. This Privacy Statement applies only to the information which
is collected on the ITAP FUSION website.
Protection of Personal Information
The federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic
Documents Act ("PIPEDA") governs the collection and management of personal
information by commercial organizations. ITAP FUSION provides information of job
seekers to employers, with ITAP FUSION’s headquarters, servers and databases being
located in Alberta, Canada. This Privacy Statement therefore adopts the standards
required by PIPEDA and applies to all personal information submitted to or collected
by ITAP FUSION.
The type of information that is protected includes almost any information about
an identifiable individual, and information which of ITAP FUSION may require to
fulfill its function, including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number
credit card number, (if applicable), contact information, billing information and
any other information from which your identity may be confirmed. ITAP FUSION may
collect demographic information that is not unique to the user such as the user’s
postal code, preferences and interests. This may be undertaken in order to enhance
the user’s experience on the ITAP FUSION website and to provide you requested information
about ITAP FUSION’s third party partners. We may collect a combination of the two
types of information. Examples of areas on the ITAP FUSION website where we may
collect personal or combined personal and demographic information are pages where
you can open an ITAP FUSION account, sign up for a service, post a resume, enter
a contest or purchase a product.
By using the ITAP FUSION website, the user consents to situations where ITAP FUSION
may indirectly collect information about you (the user) if you as user any third
party services on ITAP FUSION’s website. That information may be used for the purpose
providing further employment related services to the user.
ITAP FUSION may also collect certain information about your use of our site, including
areas visited, number of visits and what services are being accessed. Additionally,
there may be information about your computer hardware and software that may be collected
by ITAP FUSION, including your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times
and referring website addresses. This information will only be used for lawful purposes
and for the purpose of making the ITAP FUSION site better, more secure and more
effective for users.
The user, may at their discretion, provide descriptive, cultural, behavioral, preferential
and/or life style information about themselves. Such information may be utilized
for the purpose of determining the user’s potential interest in receiving email
or other communications about particular products or services that ITAP FUSION or
its third party partners may provide.
The user should be aware that if you post any personal information in public areas
of ITAP FUSION, such as in online forums or chat rooms, that personal information
can be collected and used by others over whom ITAP FUSION has no control. ITAP FUSION
is not responsible for the use made by third parties of information that a user
may post or otherwise make available in public areas of ITAP FUSION.
A user’s job application history will be retained by ITAP FUSION for twelve (12)
months. Resumes may be updated at any time. You can also delete your resume from
our online database or close your ITAP FUSION account at any time. If the user chooses
to delete one’s account, at the users request all copies of your resume and ITAP
FUSION account profile information except for an archival copy will be removed from
our databases. The archival copy, which is not accessible on the Internet, does
not contain any personal identifying information about the individual user.
Use of Information by ITAP FUSION
Registration information is collected primarily for the purpose of identifying you
as the user of this site. ITAP FUSION may use the information that is gathered on
the ITAP FUSION website, whether personal, demographic, collective or technical,
for the purposes of operating and improving the ITAP FUSION website, fostering a
positive user experience, and to better deliver the products and services that ITAP
FUSION offers.
ITAP FUSION may also use the information that is gathered to inform users of job
opportunities or other related information to the user. ITAP FUSION may also use
information to inform users of other products or services available from ITAP FUSION,
to contact you about your opinion of current products and services or potential
new products and services that may be offered. Registration information may also
be used to provide advertisers and business partners with aggregate but not personally
identifiable information about our customers and their preferences, including statistical
information.
ITAP FUSION may use your contact information in order to send you e-mail or other
communications regarding updates at the ITAP FUSION site, such as new ITAP FUSION
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 individual users. In addition, at the time of registration for ITAP FUSION,
the user has the option to receive additional communications, information and promotions
(including without limitation to free informational newsletters from ITAP FUSION)
relating to topics that may be of special interest to the user, such as career management
advice.
Any feedback a user submits in that area becomes the property of ITAP FUSION; ITAP
FUSION can use any feedback (such as success stories) for marketing purposes or
to contact you for further information.
Statement of Disclosure of Collected Information to Others
ITAP FUSION will not disclose to third parties a user’s personal information, combined
personal and demographic information or information about an individual’s use of
the ITAP FUSION website (such as the areas you visit or the services you access),
except as set out below:
- If the disclosure of such personal information is necessary in case of an emergency
where the life, health or security of an individual is threatened.
- ITAP FUSION may also disclose personal information without the knowledge or consent
of a user to a lawyer or other agent of ITAP FUSION to collect a debt, to comply
with a subpoena, warrant or other court order that such disclosure may be required
for the enforcement of any law, or that may be required or authorized by law.
- Consent for disclosure will generally take place electronically on the ITAP FUSION
sight.
- ITAP FUSION may disclose information to third parties if the user consents to such
disclosure. For example, if the user indicates that one would like to receive information
about the products or services of third parties at the time you register for a ITAP
FUSION account, ITAP FUSION may supply your contact information to third parties
such as employers, recruiters, data aggregators, marketers, others for the purpose
of sending you e-mail or otherwise communicating with the user. ITAP FUSION may
use data that it has about the user (such as the interests and preferences you have
expressed) to determine whether you might be interested in the products or services
of a particular third-party.
- ITAP FUSION may disclose information to companies and individuals we employ to perform
functions on our behalf. Examples may include hosting our web servers, analyzing
data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments and providing
customer service. These companies and individuals may have access to a user’s personal
information as necessary to perform only their functions. The companies and employees
under our guise may not share that information with any other third party.
- ITAP FUSION may disclose information if legally required to do so, if requested
to do so by a governmental entity, including a governmental entity of Canada or
the United States, or if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary
to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal processes; (b) protect
the rights or property of ITAP FUSION or its affiliated companies; (c) prevent a
crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users
or the public.
- ITAP FUSION may disclose and transfer information to a third party who acquires
all or a substantial portion of ITAP FUSION's business, whether such acquisition
is by way of merger, consolidation or purchase of all or a substantial portion of
our assets. Additionally, in the event ITAP FUSION becomes the subject of a bankruptcy
proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, ITAP FUSION or its trustee in bankruptcy
may sell, license or otherwise dispose of such information in a transaction approved
by the Bankruptcy Court.
Anonymous Information
Anonymous information is used primarily by ITAP FUSION and our business partners
to measure the number of visits, average time spent, pages viewed, and other statistics
about visitors to the ITAP FUSION site. We also use this data to monitor site performance
for system administration purposes, to make the site easier and more convenient
to use, for law enforcement purposes, and to report collective information but not
individual personally identifiable information to our advertisers.
ITAP FUSION may also share aggregated anonymous information about visitors to its
website with its clients, partners and with other third parties so that they may
understand the kinds of visitors who visit ITAP FUSION's site and the utilities
being sought.
ITAP FUSION supplies technology, hosting and related services to other companies
to recruitment areas on their website. Personal and/or demographic information supplied
by the user in a career site hosting recruitment area becomes part of the ITAP FUSION
database, but it is not accessible by anyone other than the user, ITAP FUSION and
the company concerned without the user’s consent.
Information collected on a page in our website hosting recruitment area, or on a
co-branded page (such as that of a contest co-sponsored by ITAP FUSION and another
company), may become the property of the other company or of both ITAP FUSION and
the other company. In that instance, the use of such information by the other company
may be subject to the Privacy Policy of that company. In any event, ITAP FUSION
is not responsible for that company's use of your personal or demographic information.
The user must ensure that one understands the Privacy Policy of that site outside
of the ITAP FUSION webpage.
Resumes
Resumes will be accessed by employers, recruiters, human resource professionals
and other registered uses of the ITAP FUSION database. There are two ways of uploading
a resume onto the ITAP FUSION website:
The user can store one’s resume in ITAP FUSION’s database, but not allow it to be
searchable by potential employers. Not allowing your resume to be searchable means
that you can use it to apply for a job online, but employers and recruiters cannot
have access to search for it through ITAP FUSION’s resume database. If the user
allows one’s resume to be searchable, then all parties with access to ITAP FUSION’s
searchable resume database (or copies thereof) will have access to the user’s resume.
In addition, the user can also elect to make one’s resume confidential; this means
that the user’s contact info and current employer will be not be displayed to all
parties with access to ITAP FUSION’s searchable resume database.
ITAP FUSION will make every effort through contractual means, and through the use
of user IDs and passwords to restrict access to our searchable resume database (or
copies thereof) only to paying employers, recruiters, hiring managers, headhunters
and human resource professionals. Additional access may be granted to law enforcement
and national security agencies, but cannot unequivocally guarantee that other parties
will not gain access to ITAP FUSION’s database. ITAP FUSION assumes no responsibility
or liability whatsoever for the use made of resumes by third parties who access
resumes while they are in our searchable database. The user may remove one’s resume
from ITAP FUSION’s database at any time. It should be noted, that employers, recruiters
and others who have paid for access to ITAP FUSION’s 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 the user’s resume in their files or databases external
to ITAP FUSION. ITAP FUSION assumes no responsibility or liability whatsoever for
the retention, use or privacy of resumes in these instances.
ITAP FUSION will ensure that it uses a best efforts approach to protecting that
information in accordance to our Privacy Statment. By using this website the user
acknowledges that there may be instances that are beyond the control of ITAP FUSION
and will not hold ITAP FUSION, its partners, affiliated companies or its employers
liable for such an instance of unauthorized access to ITAP FUSION’s database. ITAP
FUSION cannot guarantee that all employers, recruiters and other persons with access
will adhere to the limitations that ITAP FUSION places on them, or that unauthorized
persons would not gain access to the database, despite ITAP FUSIONs best efforts.
Use of Cookies
HTTP cookies, sometimes known as web cookies or just cookies, are parcels of text
sent by a server to a web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each
time it accesses that server. HTTP cookies are used for authenticating, tracking,
and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences or the
contents of their electronic shopping carts.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. ITAP
FUSION may use "cookies" to help personalize and maximize your online experience
and time online.
Cookies are also subject to a number of misconceptions, mostly based on the erroneous
notion that they are computer programs. In fact, cookies are simple pieces of data
unable to perform any operation by themselves. In particular, they are neither spyware
nor viruses, despite the detection of cookies from certain sites by many anti-spyware
products.
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 ITAP FUSION pages, or register
for services, a cookie helps our server to recall the user’s specific information
(such as user name, password and preferences). The use of cookies allows ITAP FUSION
to deliver faster and more accurate results and a more personalized site experience.
When the user returns to the ITAP FUSION site, the information the user previously
provided can be retrieved and this will quickly enable the features that you customized.
ITAP FUSION may also use cookies to track click streams and for load balancing.
The user has 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.
Alternatively, the user may be able to modify one’s browser setting to notify you
each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an
individual basis. If the user chooses to decline cookies, however, that may hinder
performance and negatively impact your experience on the ITAP FUSION website.
Use of Web Beacons
ITAP FUSION web pages may contain electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes
called single-pixel gifs) which allow ITAP FUSION to count users who have visited
those pages and to deliver co-branded services. A web beacon is not used to access
your personally identifiable information on ITAP FUSION; it is a technique ITAP
FUSION may use to compile aggregated statistics about our website 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 or Deleting User Information
The user maintains the right to delete one’s personal information from the ITAP
FUSION website. The user may review, correct, update or change one’s ITAP FUSION
account profile information at any time by simply logging into your ITAP FUSION
account, going to your Account Profile and editing it with the options provided.
You can request that your ITAP FUSION account be deleted by contacting ITAP FUSION.
If a user opts to receive newsletters, commercial e-mails or other communications
from ITAP FUSION or third parties at the time you registered with ITAP FUSION, 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.
Security
ITAP FUSION has implemented reasonable technical and organizational measures designed
to secure your personal information from accidental loss, unauthorized access, use,
alteration or disclosure. ITAP FUSION cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties
will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for
improper purposes.
Emails sent to ITAP FUSION may not necessarily be secure when they are transmitted.
If your communication is sensitive you may wish to provide it by post or telephone.
It is important and the responsibility of the user to safeguard their own User ID
and password information and not share it with anyone, in order to safeguard your
personal information on the site.
When you make any payment to ITAP FUSION online, your credit card information is
protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer ("SSL")
protocol. SSL makes it difficult for your credit card information to be intercepted
or stolen while being transmitted. ITAP FUSION uses a service company to process
its credit card transactions. For further information on this company's privacy
and security practices, please click here.
ITAP FUSION regularly reviews its security measures and employees receive regular
privacy training.
Children
ITAP FUSION is not intended for children under 16 years of age. ITAP FUSION does
not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16.
Changes to Privacy Statement
ITAP FUSION reserves the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Statement at
any time. If ITAP FUSION decides to change its Privacy Statement, ITAP FUSION will
post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather,
how we might use that information and to whom ITAP FUSION will disclose it. If at
any time, you have questions or concerns about ITAP FUSION's Privacy Statement,
please feel free to email us at info@itapfusion.com
or call us at 1-780-777-3312 and speak to one of ITAP FUSION’s representatives.
Contact Information
ITAP FUSION is a name under which its principal place of business
Box 161, Glenevis, Alberta, T0E 0X0
info@ITAPFusion.com and
www.ITAPFusion.com
Tel: (780) 628-7479 Fax: (780) 475-5078. ITAP FUSION is the legal entity which determines the
purposes and means of processing the information gathered at the ITAP FUSION website.
The information we gather on the ITAP FUSION website may be shared within 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
info@itapfusion.com or by calling us at (780) 628-7479 We will use commercially
reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
Thank you for using ITAP FUSION.