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McKinsey & Company and its affiliates ("McKinsey" or "we") is committed to protecting the privacy of the personally-identifiable information that we collect from you as you use this Web site (the "Site"). The scope of McKinsey's commitment is detailed in this Privacy Policy. By submitting information, you agree to McKinsey's use of such information as described herein. Please see our Terms of Use for more information about our on-line policies in general.
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What personally-identifiable
information is collected?
How may McKinsey use my personally-identifiable information?
Are cookies and IP addresses used?
Is personally-identifiable information disclosed to third parties?
Links to third-party sites
How can I access, change, and/or delete information?
Security
Transborder hosting and transfer of information
Children's on-line privacy protection
Consent; Changes to Privacy Policy
Contact our Privacy Department
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| What personally-identifiable information is collected? |
McKinsey collects personally-identifiable information
on certain areas of the Site when users register, request publications
or other information, sign up for conferences and events, apply
for jobs, and participate in user posting areas, such as bulletin
boards, discussion forums, and surveys. The personally-identifiable
information collected may consist of information that you provide,
such as names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and
fax numbers, and, for recruiting purposes, any other personally-identifiable
information on your resume. In addition, McKinsey collects certain
information that you do not visibly enter, such as your IP address,
browsing pattern on the Site, click stream, and the status of cookies
placed on your computer by McKinsey, as described below.
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| How may McKinsey use my personally-identifiable
information? |
McKinsey uses your personally-identifiable information
to fulfill your requests for information, to process your requests
to participate in conferences and events, to evaluate any job applications
or other employment-related inquiries that you may submit, or for
such other business purposes as you may initiate or request. We
may keep any of your personally-identifiable information on file
and use it to contact you for recruiting purposes. McKinsey also
uses personally-identifiable information to perform statistical
analyses of user behavior in order to measure interest in specific
areas and information posted on our Site. McKinsey uses personally-identifiable
information collected from cookies and IP addresses as described
below. McKinsey may provide your personally-identifiable information
to any of its affiliates worldwide for such purposes.
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| Are cookies and IP addresses used? |
The Site uses cookies to identify you and your
interests and to track usage of the Site. Cookies are small pieces
of text stored on your computer that help us know which browser
you are using and where you have been on the Site and on Web sites
to which you may link in order to use some of our features. By
accepting our cookie, you will be permitted access to certain pages
of the Site without having to log in each time you visit. A user
who does not accept the cookie from the Site may not be able to
access certain areas of the Site. McKinsey also logs IP addresses,
or the location of computers on the Internet, to help diagnose
problems with our server and to administer the Site. If you prefer
not to accept a cookie, you can set your web browser to warn you
before accepting cookies, or you can refuse all cookies by turning
them off in your web browser.
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| Is personally-identifiable information disclosed
to third parties? |
McKinsey shall not intentionally disclose or
transfer (and shall take reasonable steps to protect the confidentiality
and security, and to prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure
of) your personally-identifiable information to third parties (i.e.,
persons or entities that are not affiliates of McKinsey), whether
for such third parties' marketing purposes or otherwise, subject
only to the following four exceptions:
1. McKinsey may disclose your personally-identifiable information
to third parties in the event that such disclosure is required
by the laws, rules, or regulations of any nation, state, or other
applicable jurisdiction;
2. McKinsey may disclose your contact information to third parties
as appropriate for McKinsey to make transmissions or deliveries
to you;
3. McKinsey may disclose your personally-identifiable information
if, in connection with submitting the information, you consent
to such disclosure; and
4. McKinsey may disclose contact information for you in response
to inquiries by bona-fide rights owners in connection with allegations
of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights arising
from information you have posted on the Site or otherwise provided
to McKinsey.
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| Links to third-party sites |
We may provide links to third-party Web sites
as a service to our users. In addition, some of the content appearing
to be on this Site is in fact supplied by third parties, for example,
in instances of framing of third- party Web sites or incorporation
through framesets of content supplied by third-party servers. Please
be aware that we cannot control and are not responsible for the
information collection practices of such third-party Web sites,
which may differ from those of this Site. We encourage you to review
and understand the privacy policies on these Web sites before providing
any information to them.
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| How can I access, change, and/or delete information? |
You may access, correct, update, and/or delete
any personally-identifiable information that you submit to the
Site. You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations
on the Site. To do so, please either follow instructions on the
page of the Site on which you have provided such information or
subscribed or registered or contact us at McKinsey & Company,
Legal Department, 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022.
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| Security |
McKinsey has implemented generally accepted
standards of technology and operational security in order to protect
personally-identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration,
or destruction. Only authorized McKinsey personnel are provided
access to personally-identifiable information, and these employees
are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite
these precautions, McKinsey cannot guarantee that unauthorized
persons will not obtain access to your personally-identifiable
information.
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| Transborder hosting and transfer of information |
Personally-identifiable information collected
on the Site may be transferred from time to time to McKinsey offices
or personnel, or to third parties, located throughout the world,
including offices located outside the European Economic Area (EEA),
and the Site may be viewed and hosted anywhere in the world, including
countries (such as the United States) that may not have laws of
general applicability regulating the use and transfer of such data.
By using the Site and submitting such information on it, you voluntarily
consent to such transborder transfer and hosting of such information.
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| Children's on-line privacy protection |
McKinsey understands the importance of protecting
children's privacy, especially in an on-line environment. The Site
is not intentionally designed for or directed at children 13 years
of age or younger, and McKinsey will not intentionally collect
or maintain information about anyone under the age of 13.
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| Consent; Changes to Privacy Policy |
By using the Site, you consent to the collection,
use, and storage of your information by us in the manner described
in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. We reserve the
right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time.
We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy
Policy. This Privacy Policy was last updated on July 23, 2003.
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| Contact our Privacy Department |
If you have any questions about our Privacy
Policy, please contact us at McKinsey & Company, Legal Department,
55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022.
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