Privacy Policy
The Career Center at Hiram College is committed to providing its users with privacy for personal information students/alums provide in electronic databases.
Data collection and access to student data is governed by federal policy (FERPA, the Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) and the Hiram College Statement of Student Rights Under FERPA.
Hiram CareerNet
Hiram CareerNet, an employment database that is provided by Symplicity, a software company, is available for student and alumni use on the Career Center website. Students use Hiram CareerNet to write their profile, post resumes, and search job postings. Employers use Hiram CareerNet to post employment opportunities and view students’ resumes through resume books. Employers may also receive resumes from students who choose to apply.
The Hiram College Career Center may access some of the job seekers’ personal information in order to send email using communication tools on the site, to publish resumes in the school’s resume books, and to send resumes to registered employers on behalf of the students/alumni.
NACELink
The Career Center partners with the National Association of Colleges and Employers, a nonprofit professional organization for college career centers and employers, and Direct Employer, a nonprofit association of employers, to provide additional job listings and employer through NACELink. The Hiram College Career Center and NACE are committed to maintaining the privacy of personal information provided by students, alumni, and employers as users of the Career Center.
Employers use NACElink Network to post employment opportunities and search the central resume database directly on NACElink.com, through the Hiram College website or NACE’S website (NACEWeb), where there is a direct link to NACElink Network.
Students/alums use the NACElink Network through the Career Center to post resumes and review job opportunities. NACE’s commitment to all participants – schools, employers, students/alums– is to maintain the confidentiality of all information collected on NACElink Network.
NACE will not sell, transmit, or disclose, in any fashion, this information to any other organization. NACElink Network 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 the same privacy policy as NACE. NACE and Symplicity have access to the data in aggregate form.
Cookies
Cookies, which are small text files recorded in a participant’s hard drive, are employed by thousands of sites to enhance participant’s web viewing experience. Cookies allow
sites to “remember” participants across pages of a site and across multiple visits to a site. When participants access NACElink Network, it will set a cookie while they are on the site. Once participants log out of the site or close their browser window the cookie is deleted. Thus, NACElink Network will not store information as to the number of times a participant visits the site. It will be necessary for participants to login each time they access NACElink Network.
Security
When users submit personally identifiable information via the Career Center website, the information is protected both on and off-line. The user and employer data is password protected. . All personally identifiable information collected by Symplicity, the software firm that runs Hiram CareerNet, and NACE is stored in limited-access servers. NACElink Network uses firewalls and has technical, administrative, and physical security measures and safeguards in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under NACE’s control. NACE and NACELink are not affiliated with Hiram College, and Hiram College cannot guarantee any portion of the statement above that depends on NACE’s representations and its compliance with those representations
Disclaimer:
The Career Center connects students and alumni to employers for their mutual benefit. In the provision of these services, the Career Center makes no representation regarding the opportunities posted on its website and is not responsible for any aspects of the employment.
It is the responsibility of students and alums to be prudent when exploring an employment opportunity. Students are urged to use common sense when applying and not to disclose social security numbers or bank card information to unknown employers.
The Hiram College Career Center also provides hyperlinks to the websites of external organizations that provide employment information and job postings. The Career Center does not have any control over the content or privacy practices of these external organizations. Users are encouraged to review the privacy policies of these organizations on their websites and again, to use good judgment when applying to jobs.