Career Readiness Report – Privacy Notice
Updated: February 17, 2025
Introduction
Career Readiness Report (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is dedicated to providing valuable insights and resources to support career readiness. We are committed to maintaining your trust by protecting your personal data and ensuring its security.
This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal data. It also outlines the choices you have regarding the use of your information. Please read this Privacy Notice carefully to understand our practices. If you do not agree with the data practices described here, please do not use our website or services.
Important Note: Our website and services are not intended for use by children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from children under 13.
We recognize that privacy is an ongoing responsibility and will update this Privacy Notice as necessary. We reserve the right to amend this Notice at any time, without prior notice, by posting the updated version on this site. We encourage you to review this Notice periodically to stay informed.
What is Personal Data?
Personal data is any information that can be used to identify an individual. This includes direct identifiers like name, email address, and indirect identifiers such as IP address or location data. We define personal data broadly to encompass all information that could reasonably identify you.
We collect and use personal data to provide our career readiness programs and services, as described below.
How We Collect and Use Data
We collect and use personal data to deliver information, services, and resources related to career readiness. The information we gather helps us enhance your experience, improve our offerings, and communicate effectively with you.
We collect and use the following types of information:
- Personal Information You Provide:
- When you create an account or interact with our services, we collect information such as your name, email address, professional experience, career goals, and areas of interest.
- We may ask you to provide additional information to better understand your needs and tailor our resources.
- You can update or delete your profile information at any time.
- We use this data to provide you with personalized career readiness resources, recommendations, and relevant opportunities.
- We use your information to reply to communications you send us.
- We use your information to communicate essential information about transactions, such as an electronic receipt for a purchase or a confirmation of a webinar registration.
- We may inform you about Career Readiness Report events, programs, and services of potential interest, unless you have opted out of such communications (see “Communication” below).
- If you voluntarily participate in a survey, interview, or focus group, the information you provide is used in aggregate, unless otherwise noted, to improve our services.
- Website Usage and Automatically Collected Data:
- We collect information about your interactions with our website using cookies, IP addresses, and other tracking technologies.
- This includes data such as your browsing activity, search terms, and device information.
- We use this data to analyze website usage, improve our services, and enhance security.
- We may use information about your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, analyze trends, track visitor engagements, and gather information that assists us in identifying visitor preferences. We also may use your IP address to enhance our security and investigate an actual or potential security incident.
- Find out more about how we use cookies.
- Event Participation:
- If you register for our webinars, workshops, or other events, we collect your registration information, including contact details and any preferences you share.
- We may also collect information about your participation and feedback.
- If you are a presenter at one of our events, we will collect information about you including your name, employer, and contact information. We may also collect information provided by event attendees who evaluated your presentation and associate it with your record in our database.
- We keep a record of your participation in Career Readiness Report events as an attendee or presenter, which may be used to provide you with information about other relevant Career Readiness Report products and services, or to help us better understand your interests and tailor our offerings to meet your needs.
- Correspondence:
- If you contact us via email or other means, we may retain your communication for record-keeping and to respond to your inquiries.
Purposes for Processing Your Data
We process your data to:
- Provide and improve our career readiness programs and services.
- Personalize your experience and offer relevant resources.
- Communicate with you about our offerings and updates.
- Analyze website usage and trends.
- Ensure the security of our website and services.
Payment Card Information
If you make a purchase, payment card information is processed through a secure, PCI/DSS-compliant payment processor. We do not store your payment card details.
What Happens If You Don’t Provide Us Your Personal Data
You can browse our website without providing personal data. However, certain services, such as creating an account or registering for events, require personal information.
Communication
- We may contact you via email or other means for transactional or marketing purposes.
- You can opt out of marketing communications at any time by using the unsubscribe link in our emails or by contacting us.1
- We send transactional emails to individuals with whom we have a business relationship; these emails regard a service you purchased or requested, and you may not opt-out of these emails.
Third-Party Sharing
- We may share your data with trusted service providers who assist us in operating our website and delivering services.
- We2 do not sell your personal data to third parties.
- We may share basic registration information, including your name, title, institution name, and email with the designated presenter(s) and attendees for the sole purpose of planning for the event, tailoring presentations, communication related to group assignments, and follow-up.
- We may disclose your personal data without your permission to the extent that it is required to do so by United States, European Union, or national law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise, or defend Career Readiness Report’s legal rights.
Data Subject Rights: Your Choice
- Access and Correction: You have the right to access and correct your personal data. Contact us to request access or make changes.
- Withdraw Consent: You can withdraw your consent for marketing communications at any time.
- Data Deletion: You can request that your account be deleted.
- To exercise these rights, please contact us at the email listed below.
Security
We implement security measures to protect your personal data. However, no system is entirely secure. We will notify you in the event of a data breach.
Data Retention
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Notice.3
Changes to Our Privacy Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. We will post any changes on this page.
Questions, Concerns, or Complaints
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Notice, please contact us at:
Contact Information:
info@careerreadinessreport.com