Privacy Policy

Clark University Career Services provides access to a web-based software program, known as “The Clark Recruiter,” which is a Symplicity/NACELink website, owned and operated by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Clark University Career Services and NACE are committed to maintaining the privacy of personal information for students, alumni, and employers.

Employers use NACElink to post employment opportunities. This is accessed through Clark University Career Services web site, which provides a web-based system for job and internship posting for its job seekers and employers. Students and alumni use NACElink though their college/university career centers to post resumes, review job opportunities, and apply to these openings.

NACE's commitment to all users—schools, employers, students and alumni—is that NACE will maintain the confidentiality of all information collected on NACElink and NACE will not sell, transmit, or disclose in any fashion this information to any other organization. NACElink is the host server, storing and maintaining the data. NACE also has a partner, Symplicity, which will provide backup hosting services to NACE's servers and is as committed to privacy as NACE. NACE and Symplicity only have access to the data in aggregated form.

Student/Alumni Users
NACE receives and collects personal identifiable information about a student/alumni user (name, contact information, demographic information, educational information, employment history, etc.) via NACElink after the user register for services and when the user uploads resumes, cover letters, and other documents which contain personal information. Clark University Career Services may access some of the user’s personal information to send e-mail to a job seeker using communication tools on the site.

Employers/search firms that use NACElink can have access to the user’s resume and the personal information contained therein for recruiting, interviewing, and hiring purposes. Employers may also have access to limited information from the user’s profile only if the profile matches an employer's search criteria. NACE and Clark University Career Services are not responsible for what employers do with personal information about the user that is available or accessible to them. While NACE and Clark University Career Services endeavor to restrict access to this database including only eligible employers, NACE cannot guarantee that other parties will not, without our consent, gain access to the database.

Employers
Clark University Career Services and NACE will collect information from employers utilizing NACElink. This information includes contact information (such as phone number or e-mail address), unique identifiers (NACE membership, account numbers, or password to NACElink), financial information (such as a credit card number), and demographic information (location, type of organization, size of organization). The financial information collected will be used only to bill an organization for fees. NACE has a contract with VeriSign to verify credit card numbers. The employer’s credit card information will be deleted as soon as the transaction is completed and will not be stored on NACE's or Symplicity’s servers. Employers will need to re-enter the information every time a new financial transaction occurs. NACE will receive and collect information from employer’s job postings (including job descriptions, employment qualifiers, and salary information) and interview schedules.

Technical Issues

Updating Account Information
NACElink allows you to change or correct your personal information at any time. To do so, simply login to your account, go to your profile, and you will find options for editing the information.

Cookies
Cookies, which are small text files recorded in a user's hard drive, are employed by thousands of sites to enhance users' web viewing experience. Cookies cannot damage user files, nor can they read information from a user's hard drive. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's computer. Cookies allow sites to "remember" the user across pages of a site and across multiple visits to a site. When the user accesses NACElink, it will set a cookie while the user is on the site. Once the user logs out of the site or closes the browser window, the cookies are deleted. Thus, NACElink will not be storing information as to the number of times that the user accessed the site and the user will be required to log in each time that the user accesses NACElink.

Security
NACE takes precautions to protect the user's information. When users submit sensitive information via the web site, the information is protected both online and off-line. When students/alumni submit resumes or information about their academic record, that information is encrypted and protected. In addition, the job seeker and employer data is password protected, so only the user can access this information. All personally identifiable information NACE collects about you is stored in limited-access servers. NACElink has technical, administrative, physical security measures, and safeguards in place to and uses firewalls to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under NACE's control.

General Disclaimer
NACElink contains links both within and outside the control of Clark University Career Services. Unless otherwise noted, responsibility for the content, accuracy of information, quality, and safety or suitability of any information found at linked sites resides solely within the sites.

Clark University Career Services has associated itself with NACE and NACElink in order to provide improved career services to students and alumni. Many of the provisions contained in this Statement are based upon representations made by NACE and NACElink. While Clark University Career Services believes NACE and NACElink provide a valuable service to students and alumni, NACE and NACElink are not related to Clark University Career Services. Therefore, Clark University Career Services cannot guarantee, nor does it otherwise accept responsibility for, any portion of this Statement that depends upon NACE's representations and its compliance with those representations.

Effective: September 2008