Legal Terms, Conditions, and Privacy Policy
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Former Big 4 Accountants a provider of Accounting/Financerecruitment and Consulting, is dedicated to the protection of your personal information. We may collect information about you in connection with our recruitment and consulting services.
Former Big 4 Accountants takes the security of your information seriously and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information about you. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes our privacy practices regarding the collection, use and transfer of personal information collected by Former Big 4 Accountants in connection with our recruitment and Consulting Services including information collected offline; through our web sites, including but not limited to ibig4.com, formerbig4.com, formerbig4accountants.com.
By using the Online Systems, you signify your agreement with this Policy. If you do not agree to this Policy, do not use our Online Systems.
Former Big 4 Accountants collects personal information about you (such as name, e-mail address and physical address) when you provide it to us, including, for example, when you register to use our Online Systems, submit or build a profile, respond to employment opportunities, provide information about yourself to our employees or contact us via e-mail/ postal mail. We also collect personal information about you from third parties.
In the course of our Services, we also may collect the following personal information about potential candidates: name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, resume information, citizenship, information from former employers and other references, and other information to the extent we have acquired or the individual has provided us with such information.
As permitted by applicable laws, we may obtain background verification information. In the course of our Services we may collect information related to race for diversity purposes. We may also use photos of you that you provide to us or that you make publicly available on the Internet (e.g., LinkedIn) for internal reference purposes only.
We encourage you not to provide us sensitive information (unless explicitly requested), such as Social Security numbers and payment card numbers.
If you submit any personal information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Policy.
We use the information we collect in support of our recruitment and consulting services.
Former Big 4 Accountants collects other information that does not reveal your specific identity (“Other Information”), such as: App usage data;Information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies.
Information such as your preferred means of communication is collected when you voluntarily provide this information. Unless combined with personal information, this information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Online Systems.
DISCLOSURE TO CLIENTS, SERVICE PROVIDERS,PARTNERS, AND OTHERS. Disclosure to clients. In the course of our Services, we may disclose your personal information to clients who have engaged our services:
Disclosure to service providers. Former Big 4 Accountants works with third parties who provide services that may include, but are not necessarily limited to, website hosting and IT consulting services; data analysis; resume verification; background checking; attorneys, accountants, and other services. As part of providing those services, such third parties will be provided with access to personal information. In addition, our software development partners may use personal information for purposes of modifying, improving, refining and validating their technology and research and development.
Former Big 4 Accountants may also use or disclose personal information in order to: (i) comply with applicable laws; (ii) respond to inquiries or requests from public or government authorities (iii) comply with valid legal process; (iv) protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of Former Big 4 Accountants, users of the Online Systems or the public; (v) permit us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain; (vi) enforce our Terms of Use; or (vii) respond to an emergency. We cannot and do not assume any responsibility for the actions or omissions of third parties, such as clients, including the manner in which they use personal information received either from Former Big 4 Accountants or from other independent sources.
Business transfers. Former Big 4 Accountants reserves the right to disclose or transfer any and all personal information that we collect from visitors, or that we otherwise collect in connection with our Services, to a third party in connection with a strategic alliance with such third party.
Your provision of personal information to us is voluntary, although if you do not provide certain personal information you may not be able to participate in our Recruitment and/or Consulting Services.
You may contact us (see contact info below) if you wish to receive certain information as to whether or not personal information relating to you is held by us and to obtain a copy of such information. We will aim to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practical, and may need to contact you in order to be sure that we are deleting the appropriate information. We may need to retain certain information about you, such as your e-mail address, in order to honor opt-out or similar requests.
Former Big 4 Accountants has reasonable organizational and security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of personal information about users of the Online Systems which is under our control. Unfortunately, however, no security system, or system of transmitting personal information over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is not secure, please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us (see contact info below).
This Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or practices of our Vendors or third parties. On the Online Systems, you may have the opportunity to follow a link from or to other websites maintained by Former Big 4 Accountants affiliates, Vendors, or other third parties. The inclusion of a link or shared credentials log in (i.e. LinkedIn log in) on our Online Systems does not imply our endorsement of LinkedIn. Because these other websites may not be hosted or controlled by Former Big 4 Accountants, this Policy does not address the privacy practices of those websites.
The Online Systems are not directed to individuals under the age of eighteen (18), and we request that these individuals do not provide personal information.
We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Policy or as required or allowed by applicable laws.
Former Big 4 Accountants reviews its privacy practices from time to time, and those practices are subject to change. We ask that you periodically review this page to ensure continuing familiarity with the most current version of this Policy. You can determine when this Policy was last revised by checking the “Revised Date” legend at the bottom of the Policy.
Questions regarding this Policy should be directed to Former Big 4 Accountants: recruiting@formerbig4.com or, if by postal mail:Former Big 4 Accountants; 1800 Century Park East, Suite 600; Los Angeles, CA 90067Revised Date: April 2, 2015
