Privacy Policy

1/24/2025
This is the Privacy Policy for Employers Council’s websites (“Websites”). Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. We understand that you need to be in control of your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains the manner in which Employers Council collects personal information from you and the purpose for that collection. This Privacy Policy is designed to ensure that you are aware of how your personal information is being used and to provide you with choices about that use. By visiting our Websites or submitting your personal information, you accept the terms described in this Privacy Policy. From time to time, we may modify this policy. We will notify you of any significant change by posting a notice on our home page and sending an email to our database. Your continued use of our Websites after any modification indicates your agreement to the new terms.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
The personal information we collect typically includes: your name and your work contact information which may include your work email address, physical address, mailing address, and phone number.

We collect personal information directly from you, such as when you email our member experience team or fill out a form on our Websites, and indirectly through automated technologies that track your interactions with our Websites. Additionally, we may receive information about you from third parties, such as social media platforms or advertising partners.

To provide a better experience for you, we may receive information from the following third parties:

Online social networks: If you follow our brand on social media sites, for example, Facebook or LinkedIn, we may collect personal information when you communicate with us within social media sites. Additionally, if you fill out a form posted in one of our social media ads or posted within our social profiles, that information will be collected.

Automated technology: Personal information is also collected through automated technologies and shared with us when you visit our Websites, use our Apps, open an email, or click on one of our advertisements.

We automatically create website and mobile application log files, which are created when you access our Websites. In addition, automated data collection technologies—such as cookies—are used by us to analyze trends, administer the Websites, and track users’ movements around our Websites. We, and our third-party service providers, also use these technologies to gather information about our users as individuals and in the aggregate.

A “cookie” is a small text file that is stored on an individual computer or device and downloaded to the computer when they visit a website. Cookies then send information back to the originating website on subsequent visits. We use Facebook Conversion Pixel, Google Analytics, Google Ads Conversion tracker, and other Google services that place cookies on a browser across our Websites. These cookies help us increase our Websites’ effectiveness for our visitors. These cookies are set and read by Google and Facebook. To opt-out of Google and Facebook tracking, please visit this page (http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/ or https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217).

We use Google Ads and Facebook remarketing to market our Websites across the web. We place a cookie on a browser, and then a third party (Google & Facebook) read these cookies and may serve an ad on a third-party site. You may opt-out of this ad serving on Google’s opt-out page or visiting Facebook’s help center. If you are concerned about third party cookies served by networks, you should also visit the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page (http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/). Any user data may be accessed and/or deleted via My Activity.

We may use additional analytics tools, such as Hotjar, to track and analyze user interactions on our Websites. These tools help us better understand user behavior and improve the overall user experience. Some tools may not provide individual opt-out options, but you can manage cookie settings or use browser privacy features to limit data collection.

We may share your personal information with companies (including our affiliates) that perform services on our behalf and otherwise as follows:

Third-party service providers: Our service providers are required by contract to protect the confidentiality of the personal information we share with them and to use it only to provide specific services on our behalf. This could include companies that help with our marketing efforts, process credit card payments, analytics providers, and advertising networks.

Business Transfers: Your personal information may be transferred to another entity (either an affiliated entity or an unrelated third party) in connection with a merger, reorganization, dissolution, or similar corporate event. If such a transfer were ever to occur, the acquiring entity’s use of your personal information will still be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Government and Legal Disclosures: We may disclose the personal information we collect through our Websites, when we, in good faith, believe disclosure is appropriate to comply with the law (or a court order or subpoena); to prevent or investigate a possible crime, such as fraud or identity theft; to enforce our Terms and Conditions or other agreements that govern your use of our Websites; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our company, our users, or others.

We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not release, sell, or rent this information except as described in this policy. We will use your information to respond to you about the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with third parties outside of our organization except as described in this policy and as necessary to fulfill your request. Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt-out of any future contacts from us at any time. For email communication you can opt out via the footer of a received email from Employers Council, by clicking the “Manage Preferences” or “Unsubscribe” links. You can do the following at any time by contacting us at 800.884.1328 or via email at info@EmployersCouncil.org:

• See what data we have about you, if any.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Ask us to delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

When you contact us, please include your name and information on how you wish to be contacted. We may request further information from you to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.

Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit personal information via our Websites, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect personal information, that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

External Sites
We are not responsible for the content of external internet sites. You are advised to read the privacy policy of external sites before disclosing any personal information.

Remember The Risks Whenever You Use The Internet
While we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us, and you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords or other account information. In addition, other Internet sites or services that may be accessible through our site have separate data and privacy practices independent of us, and therefore we disclaim any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions. Please contact those vendors and others directly if you have any questions about their privacy policies.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 800.884.1328 or via email at info@EmployersCouncil.org.