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Notice of Privacy Policy - Effective 01/01/2006
Introduction
StreetSmart Solutions respects your privacy. We
make use of any personal information that you
provide to us for the purpose of serving you
better. We have created this privacy policy
(“Privacy Policy”) to demonstrate our firm
commitment to online privacy. This “Notice of
Privacy Policy” discloses the information
gathering and dissemination practices for
StreetSmart Solutions’ websites and our
password-protected Internet service platforms
which are available primarily to us, our
clients, our employees and their families. This
Privacy Policy applies to all information that
you provide to StreetSmart Solutions and that
StreetSmart Solutions maintains electronically,
whether you provide the information through what
is collectively referred to as “StreetSmart
Solutions’ websites” or through other means.
Additionally, this Privacy Policy applies to any
personal information obtained from your use
(and, if applicable, your family’s use) of
StreetSmart Solutions’ websites. This Privacy
Policy does not apply to any information that
you may provide to third parties including
Professional Employer Organizations that
StreetSmart Solutions represents or other sites
linked to StreetSmart Solutions' websites. You
should contact such third parties directly to
determine their respective privacy policies. As
used herein, the terms “StreetSmart Solutions,”
“we,” “our” and “its” when referring to
StreetSmart Solutions, Inc. and its related
companies are used only for convenience and are
not intended to be an accurate description of
ownership, operation or corporate/legal
relationships.
What information does
StreetSmart Solutions collect?
If you are an employee or client of StreetSmart
Solutions, we collect and maintain a variety of
personal information about you and, if
applicable, your company and employees. This
information may be collected through our
website or through paper forms submitted by you.
For employees, the information we maintain
includes, among other things:
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your name,
your phone number and address (street and
e-mail)
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age,
marital status and occupation
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information
about your job history and employment status
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information
about your salary and benefits, including
health benefits, your time off, your
retirement plans, your social security or
taxpayer identification number
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your
recruiting and training history
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information
about your family members such as their
names, addresses and social security numbers
We may make some or
all of this information available for your or
your worksite employer's use on our website. For
clients, examples of this information include:
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your
location
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your number
of worksite employees
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the gross
payroll of worksite employees assigned to
your location
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your SIC
codes
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information
about insurance and other benefit plans
Depending on the
use that you make of StreetSmart Solutions’
websites, we may also collect your Internet
Protocol (IP) Address (which is the unique
address of your computer), information about
your interests and preferences, and, if you
decide to send us your resume, information
included in your resume. From time to time, we
may conduct surveys or offer contests or other
promotional events, and gather additional
personal information from you in connection with
those events. StreetSmart Solutions may store
and analyze log files from user sessions.
What is this
information used for?
We use your personal information in the course
of your employment or client relationship with
StreetSmart Solutions. Among other things, we
use this information to provide you with the
services available on our website. For example,
we allow you to edit and update personal
information online and allow you to download
forms that have been pre-populated with your
personal information. We also use your
information for other things which may include,
but are not limited to, the following:
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Contacting You.
StreetSmart Solutions uses your personally
identifiable information to communicate with
you in the course of your employment or
client relationship. We may also contact you
to tell you about products and services
provided by StreetSmart Solutions' strategic
alliances and other third-party
organizations. While we must be able to
contact you for matters relating to your
employment or your client relationship, if
you do not wish to receive email
communications from StreetSmart Solutions
regarding strategic alliance offers or other
third-party products and services, you may
opt out of receiving such communications by
following the procedure set forth in such
e-mail. StreetSmart Solutions will continue
to contact you for matters relating to your
employment or your client relationship.
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Use of IP
Address.
IP addresses are numbers that are
automatically assigned to your computer,
and, if associated with other individually
identifiable information, could be
considered personal information. We use your
IP address to help diagnose problems with
our server and to administer and improve
StreetSmart Solutions' websites. Your IP
address is also used to help identify you
and to gather broad demographic information,
some of which we aggregate and then share
with our strategic alliances or potential
strategic alliances companies. We also use
your IP address to keep track of the
information you have seen on our sites.
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Use of
Cookies.
Cookies are a standard technology used by
commercial web services to store small
pieces of information on your hard drive by
sending a small string of text to your
browser. They make your use of StreetSmart
Solutions' websites more pleasing and
efficient by “personalizing” your user
interface, for example, or identifying which
parts of a site you have previously visited.
They also enable us to pre-populate, or
automatically fill out, forms and schedules.
They enable us to tailor the information you
receive and to assist third party
organizations with whom we have strategic
alliances by identifying you as an
StreetSmart Solutions client, employee or
StreetSmart Solutions website user. Most web
browsers automatically accept cookies,
unless you have configured yours not to
accept them. In order for us to provide you
with services on our website, your browser
must accept cookies, as they are essential
for site administration and security.
StreetSmart Solutions does not use cookies
either to collect individually identifiable
information or to collect non-individually
identifiable information using a cookie that
is combined with a personal identifier.
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Other
General Information.
StreetSmart Solutions may also collect the
name of the domain from which you access the
Internet (e.g., aol.com); the date and time
you access StreetSmart Solutions' websites;
and the Internet address of any website from
which you link directly to StreetSmart
Solutions' websites; as well as collecting
and storing other information in a user’s
log file. A user’s log file tells
StreetSmart Solutions where a user comes
from when entering an StreetSmart Solutions
website; which part of the StreetSmart
Solutions website the user visits as well as
where the user goes when leaving the
StreetSmart Solutions website; and how much
time the user spends in the StreetSmart
Solutions websites. In addition, StreetSmart
Solutions may collect e-mail addresses and
other personal information from persons who
are not current employees or clients of
StreetSmart Solutions.
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Rewarding
Use of StreetSmart Solutions websites.
StreetSmart Solutions may use information it
collects in order to reward or provide
incentives to employees, client companies or
other StreetSmart Solutions website users
for visiting StreetSmart Solutions websites;
using services provided on the StreetSmart
Solutions websites; or for visiting the
websites of StreetSmart Solutions’s
strategic alliances.
With whom is
this information shared?
StreetSmart Solutions shares personal
information only as described below:
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Other
StreetSmart Solutions Companies and
Third-Party Contractors.
We may share your information among related
companies of StreetSmart Solutions, even if
the related company is not a party to your
client service or employment agreement. In
addition, we may from time to time transfer
our database of employee information to
third-party contractors who analyze such
information on behalf of StreetSmart
Solutions for the purpose of, among other
things, targeting e-mails to employees
regarding strategic alliance offers, or who
mail marketing materials to employees
regarding strategic alliance offers.
Additionally, we may from time to time
transfer our database of employee
information to a third-party contractor who
provides employment verification services on
behalf of StreetSmart Solutions. Such
third-party contractors are contractually
bound to hold all such information in
confidence and do not share such information
with any parties other than StreetSmart
Solutions.
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Your
Worksite Employer.
If you are an employee, most of your
personal information is also available to
your individual worksite employer. However,
StreetSmart Solutions does not provide
information regarding your physical and/or
mental health to any third party for any
purposes, unless compelled by a governmental
or legal authority.
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Governmental Authorities, Compliance with
Law and Protection of StreetSmart Solutions
and Others.
We provide information to governmental
authorities when required to do so by law
(for example, we report information
regarding your compensation and withholding
to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and
state taxing authorities). StreetSmart
Solutions will also provide personally
identifiable information to third parties if
compelled to do so by an appropriately
empowered governmental or legal authority,
or, as necessary, to protect StreetSmart
Solutions' rights or the rights of third
parties.
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Benefit
Plan Providers.
StreetSmart Solutions will also provide
personally identifiable information to its
third-party benefit providers in conjunction
with the administration of its benefit
plans.
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Medical
Emergencies.
If necessary to respond to an apparent
medical emergency, StreetSmart Solutions may
disclose selected employee information.
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Strategic
Alliances.
StreetSmart Solutions has entered into
marketing agreements, strategic alliances
and other relationships with third-party
organizations that may offer or provide
products and services to you, sometimes
under discounted or preferential terms. We
sometimes agree to give these third parties
(including potential parties to strategic
alliances) aggregated, non-personally
identifiable information about our clients,
employees or visitors. If you initiate an
inquiry with respect to a third party’s
product or service by clicking on the icon
or link relating to such product or service
on StreetSmart Solutions' websites, we may
furnish such third party with certain
personal information regarding you for the
purpose of, among other things,
pre-populating forms or facilitating the
exchange of information between you and the
third party. If you do not wish to
have any of your personal information
furnished to such third-parties, do not
access any of the third-party products and
services included on StreetSmart Solutions’
websites.
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Business
Transfers.
As StreetSmart Solutions continues to
develop its businesses, it may sell various
aspects of its business. If StreetSmart
Solutions sells a portion of its business,
it will transfer personal information
associated with that business as part of
such a sale. Also, in the unlikely event
that StreetSmart Solutions or substantially
all of its assets are acquired, personal
information regarding employees and clients
will be one of the transferred assets.
What access do
you have to information you provide?
You have access to much of your personal
information through our website, where you can
view and update most of the personal information
we maintain.
Security
measures
StreetSmart Solutions makes access to your
personally identifiable information subject to
certain security measures, including
technological controls such as "firewalls", in
accordance with industry standards. When the use
of an StreetSmart Solutions website involves the
transmission of confidential information about
you or StreetSmart Solutions, we use Secure
Socket Layer (SSL) technology to establish a
secure connection between your PC and our
server. SSL allows the transmission of encrypted
information from your PC to our server and back
again and is the industry standard for Internet
platform security. No data transmission over the
Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so
while StreetSmart Solutions strives to protect
your personal information, we cannot ensure or
warrant the security of any information that you
transmit to StreetSmart Solutions.
Disclaimer of
responsibility for privacy policy and content at
linked sites
StreetSmart Solutions’s websites may provide you
with links to other websites. We are not
responsible for those sites and cannot control
the use of information that you submit once you
reach those sites, nor can we control the
content of what is offered on those sites or on
links from those sites. You should contact such
third-party websites directly to determine their
privacy policies.
Use of
information from third parties
We may use information about you provided to us
by third parties (such as credit reporting
agencies or strategic alliances) in order to
offer you their services and products, to
improve our own services, or to evaluate your
eligibility for our services.
This is not a
children’s website
StreetSmart Solutions does not knowingly solicit
data from children, and we do not knowingly
market to children.
Applicable only
to U.S. residents
StreetSmart Solutions' websites are designed for
and intended only for the use of client
companies located in the United States and
employees who are U.S. citizens or are residents
of the United States If you are a client company
that is located outside of the United States,
you are not authorized to access StreetSmart
Solutions' websites.
StreetSmart
Solutions employees and privacy
StreetSmart Solutions trains all StreetSmart
Solutions employees about the importance of
privacy. It is StreetSmart Solutions' policy to
give access to your information only to those
employees who require it to carry out the
responsibilities of their jobs.
Changes in these
policies and practices
StreetSmart Solutions reserves the right to
change its privacy policies and practices
periodically, without providing individual
notice, by updating this Privacy Policy notice.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on
January 1, 2006. You agree that it is your
responsibility to monitor such updates and that
your continued use of StreetSmart Solutions'
websites after such revisions have been made
constitutes your full acceptance of such revised
terms and conditions.
More information
If you have any questions about this Privacy
Policy, please write to:
StreetSmart Solutions
357 Marshall Avenue, Suite 104
St. Louis, Missouri 63119 Toll-Free
866.966.9887
Local 314.961.8553
Fax 314.961.5545
Email address: mwilliams@stsmrt.com |