Privacy Policy
General
Kroll Inc. (“Kroll”) respects your concerns about maintaining the privacy of your data that is submitted to us through your use of the Kroll (www.kroll.com) web site. This Privacy Policy only applies to the Kroll web site and does not apply to data collected on any other web site, including other web sites to which this site may link. Kroll maintains separate web sites for certain of its subsidiaries and operating units, which are governed by different privacy policies applicable to those entities.
Non-Personal Information Collected from Web Site Visitors
Through this web site, Kroll collects, stores and uses non-personal information for internal purposes. Uses of this information include improving the design and functionality of the web site.
Kroll and its suppliers also collect, store and use individual data to maintain and issue a unique session ID for individuals while they are at this site. This includes using “cookies”, small text files that are placed on your computer in order to identify your web browser and the activities of your computer on our web site.
Non-personal information includes:
- the browser type with which you access the Internet;
- the date and time you accessed the Kroll web site;
- your Internet (IP) address and that of the web site from which you accessed the Kroll web site; and
- information you view while visiting the Kroll web site, number of visits, and time spent on the web site and individual pages.
Personal Information Collected on This Site
Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we will not use or otherwise disclose any of the personal data that you provide.
How Kroll Collects Your Information
In specific instances, Kroll processes personally-identifiable information that you submit via this web site. Personal information is submitted via this web site through an “Event” registration, “Employment” submission (by online form or online resume submission), or through another form or e-mail sent to this site.
You may choose not to submit personal information via an “Event” registration, “Employment” submission, or form or e-mail via this web site. By sending personal information to Kroll via this web site, you acknowledge that Kroll will process certain personally-identifiable data about you. You therefore consent to our use of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
How Kroll Uses Your Information
We will never sell or provide personal data to a third party, except as provided in this Privacy Policy, without your express consent. We may process your personal data that we receive through a submission from you to Kroll, via this web site.
We may use your personal data in aggregate form for internal statistical purposes, for the direct marketing of Kroll events, or for employment purposes, in the case of employment form or resume submission. The information collected on Kroll registration or subscription forms may be used for direct marketing, including of other Kroll events. If you do not wish to be contacted for further Kroll events, you must check the “opt-out” box on the registration form.
Kroll has the right to disclose any user information without your prior permission if Kroll has a good faith belief that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of Kroll, its clients, suppliers, or the public; or respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third parties. We may also disclose user information as we deem necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, court order or governmental request. In this we will adhere to the privacy laws and regulations in the relevant jurisdictions. In the highly unlikely event that a liquidator, administrator or receiver is appointed over Kroll or all or any part of our assets, we may transfer your information to a third-party purchaser of the business if that purchaser undertakes to only use your personal data as set out in this Privacy Policy.
Kroll sometimes employs or contracts with other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, such as supporting our systems infrastructure, providing marketing support, arranging conferences, etc. User information collected from this site may be used by such third parties in the course of providing their services to Kroll. Such information will be used solely for the purposes of providing such contracted services for Kroll. Kroll may aggregate User Information and may disclose aggregated information to third parties for marketing and promotional purposes.
o Accuracy:
Kroll does not vouch for, and is not responsible for, the accuracy of data about you that may be supplied to us through your email or through any other submission of personal information through this web site. If you wish to correct any inaccurate information please contact us at the address below.
o Security:
Kroll will take all appropriate measures to assure the online security of transmissions to this web site. Kroll’s web site and any data transmitted to or from it are protected by a secure socket layer (SSL) key which encrypts the data in transit.
o How long will information be held for?
Kroll will store any information collected via this web site for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Personal information is then destroyed.
o International Data Transfers:
Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), information which you provide will be transferred to countries (including the United States) which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the EEA.
You expressly agree to such transfers, storage and processing of personal information.
Kroll reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time without notice. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here so that you will always know how we will use the information that is collected about you.
Should you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact:
Ray Howell
Kroll Inc.
1166 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
212-593-1000
(Effective 10/2009)
