Global Colleague Privacy Policy

Global Colleague respects your privacy. We are committed to protect the privacy of our clients, customers, and employees through this Policy. By using our website, you indicate your understanding and acceptance of the terms of this Policy as posted at the time of your use.

Our Promise Not to Sell or Rent Your Information

Global Colleague is committed not to sell or rent its client, candidate, employee, or any mailing lists to anyone. We will never disclose, rent or sell your name or personal information to any third party. Only authorized employees and personnel of Global Colleague or its subsidiaries are permitted to have access to your information. All employees are required to adhere to our strict privacy policies. Global Colleague management considers violation of client confidentiality to be a serious infringement of Global Colleague policies. We consider this data to be strictly confidential and all our employees sign confidentiality agreements, which are strictly enforced. We do not disclose an individual's personal information to any third party, except as required by law.

Safe Harbor Compliance:

Global Colleague adheres to "Safe Harbor Principles", under U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor as well as U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor, with respect to the transfer of all personal information from the European Union and Switzerland to the United States, and ensures ongoing compliance as required under the Principles. Global Colleague has self-certified with the United States Department of Commerce ("USDOC") that its privacy policies comply with the Safe Harbor Principles. The principles, the list of self-certifying organizations, and other Safe Harbor information are available from the USDOC's Web site at - http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/doc_safeharbor_index.asp

We adhere to the Safe Harbor Principles.

1.Notice

Global Colleague is primarily involved in providing legal support services and collects data from-

• Clients

In connection with providing such services, Global Colleague receives personal information of its clients. Our clients also provide us the personal information of their customers/clients. We adopt confidentiality measures and protect all such personal information and maintain its privacy. All the information and data received by Global Colleague is only in its capacity and role as a legal support service provider, and the data is analyzed and processed as per the instructions of the client.

• Candidates

Global Colleague’s human resources department retains and maintains the contact information, resumes, and other information requested of all job candidates who apply for positions or contract work at Global Colleague.

• Visitors to Our Web sites

Unless otherwise stated in another, more specific policy on the Web pages you are viewing, we collect general information and data from visitors visiting our web site. The information collected is mainly in respect to your domain name, the Web pages your internet browser visits when browsing our site, the name of the Web page from which you entered our site and data, such as the number of hits per week, per Web page. The information collected is purely used for the purposes to monitor and understand how our website is being used. By collecting this information Global Colleague can improve the quality of its Web site. We do not provide the information collected to outside parties, except for those described in the section "Third-parties", below.

Third-parties

Global Colleague may use third-party storage or service-provider companies to perform some functions, including the processing of data. We ensure that such companies are under a duty of confidentiality to Global Colleague.

2. Choice

The information collected by global Colleague is only utilized for the purpose described in our "Notice" section. The visitor has the choice to opt out of any use of information that is collected by Global Colleague. The visitor can notify any such option at Policies@GlobalColleague.com to withdraw permission to use of their personal information. When you choose to opt out, the data is not necessarily deleted or erased, but we will not utilize this data or forward it for any purpose.

3. Onward Transfer (Transfers to Third Parties)

Global Colleague may, at the direction of its clients, transfer, process, and store information in countries, including the United States in which Global Colleague maintains offices, or with its subsidiaries/Associate Enterprise. Data submitted to Global Colleague may be transferred to, processed, or stored in countries only in connection with rendering of client services.

4. Access

Global Colleague can be contacted at Policies@GlobalColleague.com in case our visitors find that they need to update any of their personal information with us.

5. Data Security

Global Colleague has adopted and takes all reasonable and appropriate organizational procedures to protect personal and identifiable information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. All the employees of Global Colleague are trained and informed to maintain the confidentiality and security of such data. All personal information is kept in a safe and secure environment. Employees are given access to the information only on a need-to-know basis. Proper password protection is used for all computers in the Global Colleague offices. Global Colleague has also adopted and has in place proper physical and managerial measures to safeguard the sensitive personal information.

6. Data integrity

Global Colleague collects information strictly for the purposes mentioned in our Notice Section. We take reasonable efforts to ensure that the data collected by us is accurate, complete, current, and reliable for the intended use. However we do not take responsibility of accuracy of data provided or supplied to us by any third party or our clients.

7. Enforcement

Global Colleague has its own independent recourse mechanisms that are easily available to investigate and resolve any complaints. We have implemented internal policies and procedures, and in-house verification procedures. We verify adherence to the Safe Harbor Principles via self certification. In case of complaints or queries raised by individuals regarding processing their personal information, you may contact us at the email address: privacy@GlobalColleague.com.

In case the complaint is not resolved between Global Colleague and the complainant, Global Colleague shall cooperate with European Data Protection Authorities / Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner as an independent recourse mechanism available for investigating unresolved complaints.

Policy Location

The Global Colleague Privacy Policy is located on our website, at: http://www.GlobalColleague.com/privacy.html

Other Policies

Our Web site may provide links to the Web sites of our affiliates, who have their own privacy policies that apply to those websites.

Revisions

We constantly update the features of our Web site to better serve you and all our customers, so this policy may also be revised from time to time. Global Colleague reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy without advance notice at any time and for any reason, and any modifications are effective when they are posted here. Nothing contained herein creates or is intended to create a contract or agreement between Global Colleague and any user visiting the Web site or providing identifying information of any kind. By using our Web site, you indicate your understanding and acceptance of the terms of the policy posted at the time of your use.

Contact Information

Please note that your questions or queries regarding our Privacy Policy may be addressed to:

Policy Administrator

Policies@GlobalColleague.com