Privacy Policy

Last modified: September 20, 2010

At Illinois Works for the Future we recognize that privacy is important. This Privacy Policy applies to the Illinois Works for the Future Website, which is owned and operated by the Chicago Jobs Council.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us.

Information we collect and how we use it

To use the Illinois Works for the Future website, you do not have to register or provide any personal information to us. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:

Information you provide for an e-mail subscription — When you sign up to receive e-mail from Illinois Works for the Future, we ask you for personal information (such as your name and  email address).

Information you provide – Tell a friend. If you choose to use our e-mail-a-friend service to tell a friend about our website and our contacts, we will ask you for your friend’s email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the website. Illinois Works for the Future retains this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.

Cookies – When you visit the Illinois Works for the Future Website, we send one or more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters – to your computer or other device that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service, such as tracking user trends.

Log information – When you access Illinois Works for the Future’s website, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.

User communications – When you send email or other communications to Illinois Works for the Future, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.

Links – Illinois Works for the Future may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to monitor aggregated use of our site.

Other sites – This Privacy Policy applies to Illinois Works for the Future Website only. We do not exercise control over the sites we link to. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.

Illinois Works for the Future and Chicago Jobs Council only processes personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:

- Providing our services;
- Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services; and
- Ensuring the technical functioning of our site.

Children’s online privacy

This site is not intended for children. If you use this site, you are affirming that you are age 13 or older.

Choice/opt-out

When you sign up to receive e-mail from Illinois Works for the Future, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.

If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use personal information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy, unless we have obtained your prior consent.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some site features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.

Information sharing

Illinois Works for the Future only shares personal information with other organizations or individuals outside of IWF in the following limited circumstances:

We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to:

- satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request,
- detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or
- protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Illinois Works for the Future, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

If Illinois Works for the Future or Chicago Jobs Council becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will ensure the confidentiality of any personal information involved in such transactions and provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who visited the site or who downloaded a particular publication. Such information does not identify you individually.

Please contact us at the address above for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.

Information security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. We restrict access to personal information to Chicago Jobs Council employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

Questions and changes to this Privacy Policy

Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes). The version of this Privacy Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date.

If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this website or at the address above.