LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS LIBRARY CONTENT

The Specialized Technology Resources (“STR”) Labor and Employment Standards Library (“law library database”) is developed for the purpose of providing legal text extracts that inform the viewer regarding social compliance requirements. It offers a particular focus on labor and environmental health & safety requirements that help outline labor related human rights. STR frequently updates its law material. While we do our best to maintain a comprehensive database, the availability of law text can vary from country to country for a variety of reasons, such as: the existence of laws for a particular country, the general accessibility of laws, accessibility of translations, and historical client demand. The information contained within this website is not an exhaustive or detailed account of all potentially applicable legal requirements, nor should it be construed as such. STR reserves the right to at anytime add, delete, change, modify, or suspend any of the existing content or design of the law library database. In addition, from time to time the site will not be available due to routine site maintenance.

STR works with regional translators, law firms, international organizations, and our field experts to translate laws into English. However, this database was designed as a reference tool and while we make every reasonable effort to ensure the accuracy of the translated text, only the official language text would be accepted in a court of law. The translations provided within this website do not serve as legal advice or interpretation of any country laws. While STR tries to ensure that all information, law text extracts, and translations contained within the database are accurate, STR is not responsible for any discrepancies, inaccuracies, errors or omissions in the information provided in this site. The law library database should in no way be considered legal advice or interpretative counsel.

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Certain hypertext links within the law library database site may connect the user to web sites that are not under STR’s control. STR has no responsibility for any material on any web site that is not under its control.

Content within the law library database originates from independent sources and country legal systems; it does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of STR.

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PRIVACY POLICY

YOUR PRIVACY AND SECURITY

As your privacy is important to us, STR has prepared this Statement of Privacy and Security (“Statement”) so that you may better understand how we use and protect your personal information. Please take the time to review this page and contact us at privacy@strus.com with any questions or concerns.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may ask you to register and provide personal information, such as when you register an account with us, access product information, features or programs, or sign into a page that requires authorization. We may also collect credit card information to bill you for products and services that you purchased.

This personal information may include your name, company information, e-mail address, user ID, domain name, URL, credit card number, mailing address, and telephone number.

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION INFORMATION

We automatically collect on our server logs certain information about your computer hardware and software when you visit the STR website or use our products and services. This information may include such things as your IP address, cookie information, globally unique identifier, system, operating system, a description of any STR products registered and how such products are used, browser type, domain names, access times, service provider and referring website addresses.

WEBSITE USAGE INFORMATION

We may track information about how you use our website, products or services through cookies, globally unique identifiers, Internet tags or web beacons, and track navigational data (e.g., log files, server logs, click stream). These allow us to track how you interact with the STR website, products and services and to help us tailor communication to you. We also collect information such as the URL of the website you previously visited, and when you use our website. We also keep track of the pages you visit within the STR website and any transaction details (e.g., downloads, orders, requests, referrals, products or services). You can set your browser to notify you when a cookie is sent or to refuse or delete cookies altogether, but certain features of the website may not work without cookies.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

Personal Information

We collect, integrate, and use your personal information to help enhance and personalize your use of our website, products and services. This will enable: (1) you to quickly find the services or information on our website; (2) STR to create content and other services on the website most relevant or customized to you; (3) us to alert you about upgrades and updates with respect to STR website, services and products, special offers, promotions, newsletters, latest product announcements, upcoming events, programs and other new services from STR; and (4) us to invite you to participate in product and service surveys or programs. We may use this information to communicate with you either via the Internet, e-mail, mail or telephone. From time to time we may send you “service e-mails” that inform you about system downtimes, product problems or recalls, password reminder e-mails, etc.

We also use anonymous and aggregated data to create statistics and reports for various business purposes.

We may aggregate anonymous data and share the anonymous data with our co-marketing partners in order to offer all our customers potentially desirable products and services as well as to improve our content and services.

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, processing transactions or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information (such as an e-mail address) that they need to deliver the service. Our service providers are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

From time to time we supplement the information we collect from our website with information from offline or third party sources. We use this information to enhance or overlay the “profile” of customers and business contact information. This supplementary data is therefore tied to corporate contact information and in some cases personally identifiable information. We also may internally compare lists collected from our website to remove duplicate entries.

E-Mail Messaging

We will periodically send our registered users e-mail messages about our products, services and updates. When sending you an e-mail, we may use an image called a single pixel GIF that allows us to format messages tailored to your computer’s capabilities. We also use this technology to determine, in the aggregate, how many people open our e-mails. When you initiate a response by clicking on a link within an e-mail, you are redirected onto the Internet. We then record your individual response to help us deliver information that is more relevant to your interests.

Disclosure of Information

We keep your personally identifiable information confidential. We do not disclose it to third parties or others that do not have a need to know such information except under certain circumstances. Set forth below are additional circumstances where we may share your personal information:

1) Certain of our employees, independent contractors and service providers may have access to your personally identifiable information necessary for the sole purpose of helping us run our business. These employees and contractors have confidentiality and security obligations.

2) We may share your personal information with our affiliates, subsidiaries and third party service providers as we deem appropriate.

3) We may disclose your personally identifiable information to another business entity should we plan to merge with or be acquired by that business entity; or to any organization involved in a merger, transfer, or sale of our assets or business.

4) To protect and defend the rights or property of STR.

5) We may also share your personally identifiable information to respond to law enforcement requests, court orders or other legal processes or if we believe that such disclosure is necessary to investigate, prevent or respond to illegal activities, fraud, physical threats to you or others, national security threats or as otherwise required by any applicable law or regulation.

If you post any information in public areas of our website that we choose to create, such as forums or message boards, it will be available to the public and we may remove, reuse and/or republish such information at our discretion

In the event that we disclose your personally identifiable information as set out above, we will require third-party organizations that have access to your personally identifiable information to protect and maintain your personally identifiable information in compliance with the terms and conditions of this Statement.

Prohibited Disclosures

Except as set forth above, we will not disclose your personally identifiable information to any third party, including advertisers, without your explicit consent. In addition, we will not share, trade, rent, or otherwise disclose your personal information, our e-mail list or address list to third parties for their promotional purposes.

Publicizing of Subscriber Organizations

The STR law library database product and service reserves the right to publish a list of or otherwise make known the names and/or marks of organizations (including enterprises) which have members who are subscribers to the STR law library database. If there are any cases in which subscribers wish to have their respective organizations remain anonymous while retaining subscription benefits to the law library database, they can make written requests to privacy@strus.com.

CONTROL OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

If you register an account with us, we offer choices for the collection, use and sharing of personal information. In addition, you may also stop the delivery of future communications including newsletters, special offers and updates from us by unsubscribing at any time. For instance, each email you receive contains instructions explaining how to stop receiving such e-mails. You may also contact us using any of the methods listed below to opt-out:

Email: privacy@strus.com
Postal Mail:
STR Privacy Officer
STR
10 Water Street
Enfield, CT 06082

We may choose to make available additional opt-out methods from time to time.

If you have registered an account with us and your personal information changes (such as zip/postal code, phone, or e-mail or postal address), or if you no longer desire our products or services, we will provide a way for you to change or delete/deactivate it.

PROTECTION OF INFORMATION

We are committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access. These systems are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption technologies.

If you have questions or complaints regarding this Statement, you should first contact us at privacy@strus.com with any questions or concerns. All customer complaints will be individually reviewed by STR.

CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT

We will occasionally update this Statement. When we post changes to this Statement, you will see a notice of the update on our website. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how we will use your personal information, we will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. In any case we will not make any changes that are less protective of your personal information collected in the past without your consent.

We encourage you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

Thank you for your interest in STR and its affiliates and subsidiaries.