Data Privacy Policy

Privacy notice for form submissions on the CAREERWISEDC.ORG website

CareerWise Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice discloses the privacy practices for www.CareerwiseDC.org and Career Wise’s other online platforms (collectively, the “Online Platforms”). This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:

  1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
  2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
  3. Privacy notice and terms and conditions for our electronic communications and mobile messaging.
  4. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
  5. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection

Information You Provide
We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you.

When you apply for positions through our Online Platform, we collect information that you voluntarily supply to us including your name, address, email, mobile number, date of birth, high school, grade level, expected graduation year, extra-curricular activities, equal opportunity information, contact information and communication preferences for your parent or guardian, and your resume and cover letter.

We may use the information collected from you:

  • to present our Online Platform and its contents to you;
  • to provide services to you;
  • to improve the content of our Online Platform or services, including our advertising;
  • to enhance users’ experiences when visiting our Online Platform or using our services;
  • to customize the content and layout of our Online Platform or our services for a customer or for each individual user;
  • to provide you with information about our services that you request from us;
  • to provide you with notices in furtherance of our providing our services to you;
  • to send you targeted messages, publications, news, or information about events or other opportunities;
  • to use third-party service providers to send and distribute e-mail and to perform other marketing and support functions on our behalf or otherwise to assist us in providing our services to you;
  • to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
  • to notify you about changes to our Online Platform or any services we offer or provide;
  • to allow you to participate in interactive features on our Online Platform or services;
  • for identity management, security, and auditing;
  • for any other purpose for which you provide it; or
  • in any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

To the extent we are able to do so, we may link your non-personally identifiable information with your personally identifiable information.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us.

If you provide us with contact information, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about new services, or changes to this Privacy Notice.

Automated Collection

While you browse our Online Platform, we may collect information, that by itself typically cannot be used to identify or contact you, through the use of cookies or other now known or later developed technologies to assist us in observing the behavior of users visiting our Online Platform or using our services. Such information may include your web browser type and browser language, internet protocol address, device information (including type, specifications, settings, and operating system), geographic location (if you have given your consent), and, in addition to information on where you arrived from, navigational actions you may take on our Online Platform or our services such as which pages you view and which links you click.

A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. If you wish to limit, block or delete cookies from our Online Platform – or any other website – you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different so check the ‘Help’ menu of your particular browser or the browser settings for your mobile device to learn how to change your cookie preferences. If you do this, however, certain features of our website may not work correctly or cannot be provided to you.

Sharing Information

Except as disclosed in this Privacy Notice, we do not share, rent or sell personally identifiable information you have given us to any third party without your permission. We provide prospective employers with some of your information that you have provided to us in order to be considered for hiring by these prospective employers. We may also share your information with your school counselor. We rely on service providers to help us deliver our services. We may provide your personal information to service providers or contractors to perform functions on our behalf, including, but not limited to, communicating news; performing Online Platform or services development or maintenance; providing functionality or other services for our Online Platform and our services; sending postal mail, email or other communications; removing outdated and repetitive information from our lists; analyzing our data, developing, enhancing, marketing or providing any of our services; or assisting us with other marketing and support functions.

During the course of our business we may also share with third parties aggregated demographic and statistical information that is not personally identifiable.

We may also disclose an individual’s personal information:

  • to a person who in our reasonable judgment is seeking the information as an agent of the individual or company;
  • if, in our reasonable judgment, it is necessary enforce compliance with our internal policies or the agreement for our services; or to protect our Online Platform, services, users, or others;
  • in situations where sharing or disclosing your information is required in order to provide you with information that you have requested;
  • in connection with a legal action or other proceeding, including without limitation, in response to a court order or a subpoena;
  • in response to a law enforcement agency’s request;
  • to another entity as part of a merger, bankruptcy, a sale of assets or all or part of a business, or any other corporate change or re-organization; or
  • to a third party or parties, where the individual consents to such disclosure or disclosure is required or permitted by law.

Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our Online Platform:

  • See what data we have about you, if any.
  • Change/correct any data we have about you.
  • Have us delete any data we have about you.
  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Electronic Communication. By using the Online Platforms and providing personal information through registration on your profile page, you agree that we may communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of the Online Platforms. If we learn of a security system’s breach, you consent that we may attempt to notify you electronically by posting a notice on or through the Online Platforms or sending an email to you.

Children’s Information

Our Online Platform is not intended for children under the age of 13. In particular, we do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information on our website from children under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. If we learn that, despite these measures, a child under the age of 13 has submitted personally identifiable information to us through our Online Platform, we will take reasonable measures to delete such information from our records and to not use such information for any purpose (except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or others as required by law).

Security

We are committed to protecting the security of any personal information you provide to us. We maintain commercially reasonable safeguards to maintain the security and privacy of personal information that you provide to us. In spite of these protections, we cannot guarantee the security of any data submitted over or stored on the internet. After your information reaches us, however, it is stored on servers protected by procedures and technology designed to block reasonably foreseeable intrusions by unauthorized third parties. After you have submitted your information online to us, we recommend that you end your browser session before leaving your computer.

Do Not Track

Some web browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature. This feature lets you tell websites you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. These features are not yet uniform across browsers nor is there a common agreement about how to implement these features or interpret user intent. Our services are not currently set up to respond to those signals.

Privacy Notice Changes

We may amend this Privacy Notice from time to time. Should this Privacy Notice be amended in any way, changes will be posted to this Online Platform. As we may make changes from time to time without notifying you, we suggest that you periodically consult this Privacy Notice. Your continued use of our Online Platform or our services after the effective date of any modification to the Privacy Notice will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy notice, you should contact us immediately via email.

Last Revised: March 19, 2020

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