Privacy Policy

Last Revised: April 19, 2024

Kelly Partners Group Holdings Limited (“we”, “us”, or “Kelly+Partners”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes the information we collect from or about you during any written, electronic, and oral communications, whether collected online or offline, including your interactions with, and/or use of KellyPartners.com, KellyPartners.com.au/en-us, and the associated mobile websites and applications directed at or intended for United States of America clients and users (collectively, “Site”), and when you interact with us on social media platforms or on the web. It describes how we use and share that information and describes the steps we take to protect your privacy.

PLEASE READ THIS PAGE CAREFULLY, AS BY USING OR ACCESSING THE SITE OR OTHERWISE SUBMITTING INFORMATION TO US YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THE SITE OR PROVIDE SUCH INFORMATION.

This Privacy Policy is specifically intended for information that we collect from clients and users in the United States of America. If you are accessing our websites or services from the United Kingdom, please visit our UNITED KINGDOM PRIVACY POLICY. If you are accessing our websites or services from Australia, please visit our AUSTRALIA PRIVACY POLICY (https://www.kellypartners.com.au/privacy-policy).

This Privacy Policy applies only to our collection and use of the information we collect, it does not apply to third-party websites or mobile apps. We will only use your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Please note that the Site may contain links to third-party websites, such as social media pages, third-party resources, and other digital properties. These links are intended for your convenience only. These third-party websites and services are not related to Kelly+Partners and may have separate privacy policies and data collection practices. We have no responsibility for these websites or their privacy practices and encourage users to read the privacy policies of all websites they visit.

We may periodically change this Privacy Policy, so please check them from time to time as your continued use of the Site signifies your acceptance of any changed terms. 

  1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The following are the categories and specific types of personal information that we may collect:

  • Name
  • Mailing address
  • Email address
  • Phone (or mobile) number
  • Driver’s license number
  • Employment History
  • Your mobile device information (e.g., device model, operating system version, device date and time, unique device identifiers, mobile network information)
  • How you use our sites and mobile application(s), search terms, pages you visit on our Site and the length of time visited, the type of browser or device operating system you use, the domain name of the website from which you linked to the Site, and application performance
  • Geo-location
  • Media Information (e.g., Advertising engagement in social, digital, and broadcast media)
  • IP Address
  • Special status designations (e.g., Teacher, College Student, Military)
  • Language Preferences
  • Demographics (e.g., age, sex, race)
  • Date of Birth

If you choose not to provide information, we may not be able to provide you with requested products, services or information.

  1. HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION

We collect personal information when you provide it directly.

We collect personal information when you interact with the Site, sign up to receive marketing emails from us, provide personal information to us via third party sources (including social media platforms, online employment applications, and mobile applications), and provide to us through other channels, such as over the phone, via email, via file sharing, or in person.

We collect information from third-party sources.

In addition to personal information you may provide to us directly, when you interact with any Site page or Kelly+Partners account on a social media platform, we may collect the personal information that you or the platform make available to us on that page or account, including your social media account ID and/or user name associated with that social media service, your profile picture, email address, friends list or information about the people and groups you are connected to and how you interact with them, and any information you have made public in connection with that social media service. The information we obtain depends on your privacy settings on the applicable social media service. We comply with the privacy policies of the social media platform and will only collect and store such personal information in accordance with the privacy policies of those social media platforms. When you access the Site or our services through social media channels or when you connect the Site to social media services, you are authorizing us to collect, store, and use such information and content in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We collect personal information using automated technologies

We may also automatically collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns as you navigate through and interact with the Site.

We use cookies, Google analytics, Google tags, pixels/web beacons, and similar technologies to operate our website and to help collect data.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third party websites or other online services. We use such technologies on our Site to track your visits and activity on the Site, combat fraud, analyze how our services perform, improve our services, and fulfill other legitimate business purposes.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device to store data that can be recalled by a web server in the same domain that placed the cookie. The text in a cookie often consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies your device, but it can contain other information as well. We use the following types of cookies: 

  • Essential Cookies are required to make our Site function properly and cannot be turned off in our systems. If you block these cookies, portions of our Site may not function properly.
  • Performance and Functional Cookies which collect passive information about your use of the Site or our services and/or which remember your name or choices. These allow us to count visits and sources of traffic on our Site so we can measure and improve performance and functionality. They help us know which pages of our Site are most and least popular, which features are used most, and how visitors move around the Site.
  • Social Media Cookies allow you to share information using social media sharing buttons on social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, or Twitter. This information may then be used by the social media network to deliver targeted advertising to you.
  • Targeted Advertising Cookies may be sent through our Site by our advertising partners. These may be used by advertising companies to make advertising messages more relevant and personalized to you based on your inferred interests. Please see Targeted Advertising in the Your options and legal disclosures section for information about how you can opt out of these cookies.

We may combine information collected automatically from your interactions with our services and your activity on third-party sites with other data (including personal information).

If you wish to opt out of allowing certain cookies, you may do so by changing your browser settings so that cookies from our Site cannot be set or leaving the Site. Please note that if you delete, block, or otherwise restrict cookies, or use a different computer or Internet browser, you will need to renew your cookie management choices.

Google Analytics

We may also use third-party solutions to conduct web analytics, such as Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., which uses cookies to help analyze how users use this website. The information generated by such web analytic about your use of this Site (such as your IP address, the URL visited, the date and time the page was viewed) will be transmitted and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information to monitor your use of this Site, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services related to website activity and internet usage. Google may transfer this information to third parties where required by law, or where such third parties process information on Google’s behalf. For more information about Google’s privacy policy in respect of Google Analytics. You may opt out of Google Analytics.

Google Tags And Microsoft Clarity

We also allow third-party companies (e.g., Google) to place tags on our digital properties once approved through our tagging process. The tags may collect information from your interactions on the Site. Our Privacy Policy does not cover these third-party companies. We utilize Microsoft Clarity to identify and understand how you and other users navigate through the Site in order to provide you with a better Site experience. Please contact these third-party companies (e.g., Google and Microsoft) directly for more information about their privacy policy and your choices regarding their collection and use of your information.

Pixels/Web Beacons

Pages of our Site and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Geolocation

We or our third-party service providers may collect geolocation data from your mobile device. You may choose to “Opt-Out” of this functionality by turning off this preference in your device’s applicable settings (please see Section 7 (Communication Preferences) below for more detailed information). If you choose to opt out of location collection, certain functionality of the Site or associated services may not be available. We may use and share your mobile device’s geolocation together with personal information or other information to provide you with personalized notifications or messaging by email, push notification, online or in-app advertising, or by other means described in this Privacy Policy.

Do Not Track

Some newer web browsers have the ability to send a "Do Not Track" signal to the websites you visit to indicate that you do not want your activity to be tracked. The Site does not currently process or respond to Do Not Track signals at this time.

  1. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only use your personal information for business and commercial purposes. This includes, without limitation:

  • to provide you with the services you have subscribed to;
  • to provide and/or improve the Site and/or our services and products;
  • to review and evaluate an employment application and potential employment status;
  • to perform customer service functions, including processing, evaluating, and responding to your requests and inquiries;
  • for security and fraud prevention;
  • for marketing and promotional purposes;
  • to perform Site analytics;
  • to enforce our TERMS (https://www.kellypartners.com.au/en-us/terms-of-business) or this Privacy Policy;
  • to communicate with you, including to update you with any changes to our Site or terms, responding to your questions or other requests, sending you notifications, updating you about new Site features and any of your services requests;
  • to comply with applicable law; or
  • otherwise with your consent.

We may aggregate information collected from our users (such as the number of users in a particular region or having particular characteristics).

  1. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We take your privacy seriously and do not disclose your personal information to third parties except to the extent necessary to provide the services and/or products to you. This includes: with associated firms within our organization or our third-party service providers in order to provide you with the Site, any services you subscribe to, and/or products or services; to take actions based on your requests; for the purpose of management and analysis; to a buyer or other successor in interest; when such disclosure is appropriate, in our reasonable opinion, to comply with the law, a court order, or a subpoena; or otherwise as approved by you. We also may share personal information with third-party service providers who perform services for or on our behalf based on our instructions, including, to provide backend services, conduct analysis, and assist us in providing the services to you.

We do not authorize these third-party service providers to use or disclose the information except (a) as necessary to perform services on our behalf, (b) when such information has been aggregated and de-identified, or (c) to comply with legal requirements. Additionally, we may disclose your personal information to prevent or investigate a possible crime (such as fraud or identity theft), to protect the security of this Site, to enforce or apply our online TERMS (https://www.kellypartners.com.au/en-us/terms-of-business) or other agreements, or to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users, or others. Please note that we may disclose, without restriction, aggregated and deidentified or anonymized information about our users, which is information that does not identify any specific individual.

We do not sell personal information.

  1. DATA SECURITY

We have implemented appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative measures designed to secure the personal information that you provide us from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.

  1. RETENTION

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, this includes to provide the services to you, comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies. Kelly+Partners will also retain Site and services usage data for internal analysis purposes.

  1. COMMUNICATION PREFERENCES

We may send you communications related to your transactions, security, or the administration of this Site. We may also send you other messages or updates about Kelly+Partners, our Site, our services, and promotions or other activities. If you do not wish to receive non-transaction/security related communications from Kelly+Partners, you may opt-out by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in the communication or contact us where specified in the “Contact Us” section, below. Please note that unsubscribing to communications from us will limit your knowledge and use of our services. In order to cancel a registered subscription with us you will need to log-in to your account and cancel such registration and subscription in the Site.

Some of the third parties that display our ads on their services may provide you with additional choices to opt out of targeted advertising. For example, social media providers may allow you to control your advertising preferences directly through their services. Please review the privacy policies of the third-party services you use for more information.

Please note that “opt-out” and “unsubscribe” requests may not take effect immediately and may take a reasonable amount of time to receive, process and apply, during which time your information shall remain subject to the prior privacy settings. Additionally, you should be aware that any information provided to third parties prior to your election to opt-out or unsubscribe will not be retrieved or rescinded, unless required by applicable law.

  1. TARGETED ADVERTISING

We do not participate in targeted advertising at this time, nor do we not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads (including ads served using non-cookie technologies) from members of the NAI on the NAI’s website, available at: https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1. You can also visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s website, available at https://youradchoices.com/, to use its Consumer Choice Tools.

  1. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

None of our services, products, or this Site are intended for use by anyone under the age of 18 or who otherwise lack capacity to consent on their own behalf (“incapacitated dependent”). If you are a parent or a guardian and believe we may have collected information about your child or incapacitated dependent, please contact us immediately as described in the "Contact Us" section of this Privacy Policy. For more information, please see our TERMS (https://www.kellypartners.com.au/en-us/terms-of-business).

  1. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF INFORMATION

For users and clients in the United States of America, we and our processors, sub processors and third-party vendors are located in the United States of America. At this time we do not transfer or store such information outside of the United States of America.

  1. INTEGRATED OR LINKED THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

The Site or services may be linked to, rely on and/or be integrated with websites, applications, interfaces, services and platforms operated by other companies in order to facilitate certain services and/or functionality. For example, we use a third-party secure file sharing service, currently Citrix, to securely share files with/from our clients. In such cases, in order to complete the transaction or engage the service you may be requested to create an account, or otherwise share information about yourself, with such third-party service provider. All information shared with such third-party service providers, including payment information, is provided directly by you to them and is subject to such third-party’s privacy terms and policies. For your convenience, please find Citrix’s Privacy Policy. Kelly+Partners is not a party to your engagement of such third-party service providers, nor do we receive any of the information that you provide to them directly in order to set up or manage your account with them.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices (or otherwise) of such websites, applications, interfaces, services and platforms operated by third parties that you provide your information to directly, even when such are linked to, rely on and/or integrated with the Site or services.

We encourage you to read the privacy policies of all websites you visit and services you obtain. This Privacy Policy applies only to our collection and use of the information we collect, it does not apply to third-party websites or mobile apps. We will only use your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

  1. CONTACT US

We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns about privacy. You can contact us at:

Kelly Partners Group Holdings Limited
Attention: Head of Legal

29575 Pacific Coast Highway, Suite B

Malibu CA 90265

info@kellypartners.com.au

(888) 962-3883

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