Mpect, Inc., and its subsidiaries (collectively referred to as “Mpect”), respect your right to privacy. Mpect has created this privacy statement (“Privacy Statement”) to demonstrate our firm commitment to your right to privacy. This Privacy Statement outlines our personal data-handling practices for this Web site. This Privacy Statement is readily available on our home page and at the bottom of every Mpect Web page. Some Mpect entities or programs may have their own, possibly different, privacy policies. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each of the Mpect Web sites or program information you visit or review.
This Web site may contain links to other sites for your convenience and information. If you access those links, you will leave the Mpect Web site. Mpect does not control those sites or their privacy practices, which may differ from Mpect’s practices. Mpect is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other Web sites outside the Mpect of companies. The personal data you choose to provide or that is collected by these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Statement. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any company before submitting your personal data. Mpect may make message boards, news groups, and/or public forums available to users on its Web sites. Any information that you disclose in these areas becomes public information that may be accessed by third parties; therefore, you should use caution before deciding to disclose any personal data in these forums.
This Privacy Statement complies with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal data from European Union member countries and Switzerland. In processing personal data, Mpect complies with the following Safe Harbor Principles, as more specifically described in this Privacy Statement: Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer (to third parties), Security, Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement (including verification). More information about the U.S. Department of Commerce Safe Harbor Program can be found athttp://www.export.gov/safeharbor.Mpect abides by the privacy laws in the countries where we do business.
Mpect collects personal data to operate effectively and to comply with government regulations (e.g., employment, tax, insurance). Mpect collects and maintains Personal data from its current and former employees, from individuals it may potentially employ or place for permanent or temporary employment with Mpect customers, from current and former contingent workers (including temps and other non-employees) of Mpect and at times, it may collect or be exposed to personal data from its customers or vendors. Through certain of the Mpect Web sites, Mpect collects personal data that is voluntarily provided by users when a user signs up for an Mpect job board account or other Mpect Web site that allows for users to set up an account or otherwise submit information for the purpose of searching for temporary or permanent employment opportunities, submits his or her resume for inclusion in an Mpect database or responds to a specific listed employment position. The information Mpect collects will be used only as described in this Privacy Statement and/or in the way we specify at the time of collection. We will not subsequently change the way your personal data is used without your consent. Some of the ways we may use your personal data include, but are not limited to: • Provide the ability to contact you; • Comply with human resource requirements; • Comply with government regulations, • Provide payroll and human resources functions, including employee benefits programs; • Support recruitment inquiries; • Facilitate the job search process and help us find you a suitable job match; • Gauge the number of users and usage of the site; • Store information about your preferences; • Recognize you when you return; • Provide information on goods and services requested or which may interest you; • Conduct Mpect marketing, advertising and promotions; • Notify you of events, surveys, workshops and training sessions run by Mpect; and • Notify you about changes to our services. Personal data about you may be included in the following: • Resumes/Curricula vitae; • Online submissions to Mpect job boards; • Our interview notes; • Information obtained through reference and background checks; • Educational or professional accreditation records; • Information necessary to provide payroll services, including banking details, tax deductions and vacation allowances; • Information about you and your beneficiaries, as required, to enroll in any benefits packages; • Reference letters; and • Test results, including without limitation medical and fitness testing, psychological testing and drug and alcohol testing. Mpect notifies all identified individuals about the purposes for which personal data is collected and used. In appropriate situations, however, personal data may be “anonymized” so that the identity of individuals cannot be known. In these cases, Mpect will not notify you regarding the purpose for which personal data is collected and used by Mpect.
A cookie is a small data file placed on the hard drive of your computer when you visit certain Web sites. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you have visited. A Web bug is a graphic on a Web page or email that gathers information about the computers used to view the Web page or email. A Web bug can collect your computer’s IP address and the time you viewed the Web site or email. Neither a cookie nor a Web bug can read data from your hard disk or read cookie files created by other Web sites other than as described above. Some parts of Mpect’s Web sites use cookies and Web bugs to track user traffic patterns on the Mpect sites. Mpect does this tracking in order to determine the usefulness of our Web site information to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information. If you prefer not to receive cookies or Web bugs while browsing our Web site, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies or Web bugs and refuse them when your browser alerts you to their presence. You can also refuse all cookies and Web bugs by turning them off in your browser, although you may not be able to take full advantage of Mpect Web sites if you do so. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use/navigate through many parts of Mpect Web sites, except that access to certain Mpect Web pages require a login and password. You can find information on popular browsers and how to adjust your cookie preferences at the following Web sites: Microsoft Internet Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.htm Mozilla Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/psm/help_21/using_priv_help.html Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416 Apple Safari: Blocks cookies by default and accepts cookies only from your current domain. To change click Safari, Preferences, Security and choose your preference.
By using this Web site, you consent to the collection and use of your personal data as described herein. If we decide to make changes to this Privacy Statement, we will post the changes on this site so that you will always know what information we collect and how we use it.
Mpect may disclose your personal data to any member of the Mpect of companies. This includes our subsidiaries and our ultimate holding company. As a global company, Mpect operates a number of Web sites around the world. Any data and information that you volunteer or that is otherwise collected on one of our sites in any one country may be sent electronically to a server for one of these sites in another country. This sharing of personal data with Mpect affiliates may include combining the personal data gathered by certain Mpect Web sites with information independently gathered on other Mpect Web sites into one or more database(s) useable by Mpect, including all of its affiliates. We safeguard your privacy interests around the world by ensuring that this Mpect site adheres to our data protection principles described in this Privacy Statement. Such export is a requirement of providing the data to Mpect. Companies in Mpect may use the information internationally in connection with processing requests by potential customers or potential employers of contract workers or temporary employees. Mpect may disclose personal data about you to potential employers (direct placements) or potential customers if you are a contract worker we are seeking to assign to a customer.
We may respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process by disclosing your personal data and other related information, if necessary. We also may disclose your personal data when we choose to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We only provide these third parties with the minimum amount of personal data necessary to provide the services on our behalf, and the third parties are not permitted to use your personal data except for the limited purpose of completing the requested service or transaction. Circumstances may arise where, whether for strategic or other business reasons, Mpect decides to sell, buy, merge or otherwise reorganize businesses. Such a transaction may involve, in accordance with applicable law, the disclosure of personal data to prospective or actual purchasers, or the receipt of it from sellers. It is Mpect’s practice to seek appropriate protection for information in these types of transactions. We may collect and possibly share personal data and any other additional information available to us in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Mpect’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. Mpect will only share personal data about you that is relevant to our legitimate business purposes or as required to meet legal or regulatory requirements. Your personal data is never sold, rented or leased to any external company, unless you have granted us permission to do so.
Mpect does not disclose personal data about its employees without specific authorization from or notice to the employee, as provided in this Privacy Statement, or as required by law. In addition, Mpect does not collect more personal data than is needed to fulfill the purposes set forth in this Privacy Statement, unless consented to by the individual concerned.
Should you withdraw consent to the use of your information for any of the above-identified purposes, we will stop using your information for such purposes as soon as it is reasonably possible to do so. Mpect will also notify you if withdrawing consent affects our ability to service you.
As a part of our providing services to our customers, we may share personal data from our customers with other third parties as instructed by the customer. We may share the personal data with others solely for the purposes of managing the work we are contracted to manage and for no other reason and will abide by any contractual obligations contained in any customer agreement related to the sharing of personal data we receive from the customer.
Mpect takes reasonable steps to ensure that personal data is accurate, complete and current. All current and former employees of Mpect, applicants for specific jobs within Mpect and current and former contingent workers (including temps and other non-employees) of Mpect, as well as individuals we may potentially employ, are asked to inform Mpect immediately in the event of changes in personal data.
Mpect is committed to protecting the personal data you share with us. Mpect uses reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Mpect supports online security using secure server technology because we want your data to be safe. There are state-of-the-art security arrangements and facilities on Mpect work sites to maintain data security. We contractually bind our employees to comply with your privacy and confidentiality rights.
This site is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. Mpect does not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that data from our systems.
Mpect conducts an annual self-assessment in order to verify that this Privacy Statement is published and implemented within Mpect and that it conforms to the Safe Harbor Principles.
In compliance with the Safe Harbor Principles, Mpect commits to resolve any complaints about our collection or use of your personal data. European Union and Swiss citizens with inquiries or complaints regarding this Privacy Statement should first contact Mpect .
Mpect has further committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Principles and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Principles to an independent dispute resolution mechanism, the BBB EU Safe Harbor, operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed by Mpect, please visit the BBB EU Safe Harbor Web site at http://www.bbb.org/us/ safe-harbor-complaints for more information and to file a complaint.
Mpect needs your help in keeping the personal data you have shared with us accurate and up to date. You may at any time make a written request for access to the personal data that Mpect holds about you, in order to review its accuracy and completeness. You have the right to have your personal data amended as appropriate. All access requests are subject to relevant access rules and exceptions set out in the laws of the country in which the personal data is located.
If we change our Privacy Statement, we will post the revised Privacy Statement here, with an updated revision date. If we make significant changes to our Privacy Statement, we may also notify you by other means, such as sending an email or posting a notice on our home page.
MPECT Inc. wants to ensure that your visit to our website is smooth, reliable and as useful to you as possible. To help us do this, we use cookies and similar technologies, such as tags/beacons and javascripts (“cookies”), to make our website relevant to your interests and needs.
Cookies are small text files that are automatically placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. They are stored by your internet browser. Cookies contain basic information about your internet use. Your browser sends these cookies back to our website every time you revisit it, so it can recognize your computer or mobile device and personalize and improve your browsing experience.
The cookies we use fall into 3 categories. These categories are described below:
Essential and functional cookies:
Essential cookies are necessary to help you access and move around our site and use all its features. We also use functional cookies, for example to remember your language preferences to save you the trouble of having to change these every time you enter our website. Without these cookies, our website would not work properly and you would not be able to use certain important features.
Analytics cookies:
We use cookies to help us understand how visitors arrived at our website, how and how long they use it and how we can improve their experience. This type of so-called "analytics" cookies can provide us with anonymous information to help us understand which parts of our website interest our visitors and if they experience any errors. We use these cookies to test different designs and features for our sites and we also use them to help us monitor how our visitors reach our sites.
Advertising, marketing and social media cookies:
We only place advertising, marketing and social media cookies if you have given us your permission to do this.
Advertisement and marketing cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make our content and advertising as relevant to you and your interests as possible. These cookies are also used to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns by tracking the number of clicks. The cookies are usually placed by third party advertising networks. They remember the websites you visit and use this information to give you access to interesting and exciting content on our website and to show you more personalized adverts when you visit other websites. These cookies also help improve your browsing experience, for example by helping to prevent the same advertisement from continuously reappearing to you.
Additionally, social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter can use cookies to see if you are logged in and allow you to "like" content or forward it to your friends. Depending on your settings, these third parties may use your information for their own purposes, such as advertising. If you would like to know more how these social media platforms use data, please refer to the privacy notices of these platforms.
You can withdraw your consent to advertising, marketing and social media cookies by not using our website.
As explained above, we only place advertising and targeting cookies (including tracking cookies) if you have given us your consent for doing this. If you have given us your consent but would like the cookies that we have placed to be removed, you can do this by deleting them via your browser. Search for "cookies" under your web browser's “Help menu” or visit www.allaboutcookies.org for more information on how to do this.
You can also enable or disable (types of) cookies via your browsing settings. For example, you can have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, delete individual cookies or delete all cookies. Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of advertising cookies. See the Digital Advertising Alliance Consumer Choice and Your Online Choices pages for useful information on how to do this.
Please note that, if you choose to delete MPECT Inc. cookies, your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be degraded or restricted.
You can find more information about the way we handle personal data in our Privacy Policy.
