Privacy Policy
Effective February 6, 2023
This Privacy Notice (the “Privacy Notice”) applies to the U.S. website linking to this Privacy Notice and owned or operated by the Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee (“JATC”). This Privacy Notice describes the privacy practices of JATC and does not cover the practices of other companies or organizations, including those that may advertise or sponsor content, products, or services on JATC's website.
A. WHAT INFORMATION WE OBTAIN
When you use the JATC website, we may obtain various types of information related to you and your use of the JATC website. This may include information that directly identifies you such as your name, address, or contact information (“personal information”). The information we obtain generally consists of information (1) you give us about yourself and (2) automatically collected about your interactions with the JATC website, and our content or ads on third-party websites or other media.
1. Information you give us
We may ask you to provide information about yourself when you use the JATC website.
The information you give us may include details such as:
- Transactional and activity information (e.g., searches).
2. Information automatically collected
The JATC website automatically logs certain information about visits to the website, such as the number and frequency of visitors, technical information about browsers and devices used to access the website, and information about crashes or other technical issues.
Additionally, we and third parties may automatically collect certain information through automated means about your activities over time across the website. The tools that collect this information vary but can include technologies such as cookies, web beacons, and tags. These technologies may be included in our web pages, emails, and other digital content. The tools may assign or collect unique cookie IDs or other identifiers associated with your browser or device. The tools may collect information while you are using our website or while they are running in the background of your device.
The information automatically collected may include:
- Information about your computer, device, browser and operating system (e.g., type, model, or version).
- Internet protocol ("IP") address, which may be used to derive your general geographic area.
- Information about your interactions with the JATC website, including browsing activities and clickstream data that reflect the content you have accessed, clicked on, or viewed.
- Information about how you accessed the JATC website, including details about websites visited immediately before or after accessing the JATC website.
- Information about your interactions with email messages and other communications, such as whether you opened or forwarded the email or clicked on links contained in the email.
C. HOW WE USE INFORMATION WE OBTAIN
With respect to information that you provide, we use that information:
1. To provide you with the JATC website, including:
- Maintaining, operating, improving, and developing the JATC website and related content.
- Learning about visitors of the JATC website and analyzing how you and others interact with and respond to the JATC website.
2. To protect our rights or the rights of others, including:
- Performing audits, assessments, and testing or troubleshooting activities.
- Backing up our systems and enhancing the overall security of the JATC website.
D. HOW WE PROVIDE INFORMATION TO OTHERS
We may provide the information we obtain to:
- Service Providers. In connection with the operation and provision of the JATC website, we engage various vendors to provide services or handle transactions on our behalf, such as analytics, and digital content performance measurement. These service providers use the information we provide to them as necessary or appropriate for the performance of their services.
- Content Measurement Companies. We and third parties seek to measure the performance of content on the JATC website. We may include third-party measurement software on the JATC website to enable market research or to measure digital and video content consumption.
- Social Media Platforms. If you interact with social media widgets on the JATC website, share content using social media share buttons, or access features of the JATC website that contain content or features provided by social media platforms, the relevant social media platforms may collect personal information. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of the social media platforms with which you engage, and we encourage you to review the privacy policies or notices published these social media platforms.
- Other Parties When Required by Law or As Necessary to Protect Our Rights.
- With Your Consent or Otherwise at Your Direction. In addition, we may provide your information to others with your consent or at your request.
E. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS AND CHOICES
We recognize that you may want some choice and control over the personal information we have about you. You may review and potentially change this information by contacting us at
Cookies
When you visit the JATC website, certain information is recorded which is generally anonymous and does not reveal your identity. This information is recorded in cookies, text files that your device downloads when you visit a website. When you return to a website, it recognizes these cookies and your browsing device.
Cookies allow the JATC to improve the way the JATC website works, help us understand how our website is being used, and can help us deliver online advertising that we believe is most relevant to you on our website. You may be able to change the settings to have your browser refuse certain cookies, place an opt-out cookie on your browser, or notify you before accepting cookies. If you choose to do so, some features of the JATC website may become difficult to use or unavailable.
Do Not Track Signals/Global Privacy Control
Our website is not designed to currently take steps to respond to the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) to the extent required by applicable law, and allow eligible individuals to convey opt-out preferences when we detect the signal.
F. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we make reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
G. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY RIGHTS
The JATC website is not intended for use by children, especially those under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.
I. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES, MOBILE APPS, OR OTHER SERVICES
The JATC website may contain links to websites or other services operated by companies and organizations, both affiliated and not affiliated with the JATC. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any non-JATC operated websites and we encourage you to review the privacy policies or notices published by relevant third parties.
J. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changes in our privacy practices or applicable laws. In accordance with applicable law, we may make such changes without prior notice. We will publish the updated version on the JATC website and indicate at the top of the Privacy Notice when it was most recently updated. Your use of the JATC website will be governed by the then-current version of the Privacy Notice.
Where changes to this Privacy Notice have a fundamental impact on the nature of the processing or otherwise have a substantial impact on you, we will give you advanced notice so that you have the opportunity to exercise your rights. Notice may be by positing a notice on the JATC website, by email to you at the email address that you most recently provided to us, or by other means consistent with applicable law.
K. CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice please contact us by email at