Brill Street Website Privacy Policy

Welcome to www.brillstreet.com (the "Site"). You may visit this Site without providing any personal information to us. However, certain features included on the Site may request and otherwise collect information about you that can be used to identify or contact you, such as your name, e-mail address, phone number, etc. (“Personal Information”). This website privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how Brill Street + Company, Inc. (“We”, “Brill Street”) may use and disclose Personal Information that we may collect about you through the Site. Please read this Policy in connection with our Terms of Use.

Collections and Uses of Personal Information

When you use or register with the Site, we may ask for certain Personal Information. The categories of Personal Information we may request include your name and contact information (email, address and phone number). Depending on the nature of your inquiry or activities on the Site, we may also ask for your internship search criteria and preferences, your employment experience, educational history, your skills, background information, and other information contained in your resume. The Site may also use cookies (a small file containing a string of characters that uniquely identifies your browser) to track your online activities, including, but not limited to, registration, submissions, and information requests. You may choose to decline cookies if your browser permits, but doing so may affect your use of this Site and your ability to access or use certain Site features.

We use Personal Information and other data collected through the Site to register you with Brill Street, to provide you with information regarding intern assignment opportunities and career-related information, and to otherwise provide you with requested information or services. We may also from time to time use your Personal Information to send you automated email messages or marketing materials regarding our services, including assignment availability information. You may opt out of receiving such marketing email messages by sending a message to the email address below.

Disclosures of Personal Information

As described in the Terms of Use, Brill Street may disclose Personal Information to third parties. Brill Street may disclose your Personal Information to third parties without your consent in the following circumstances:

We may disclose information to our clients and potential clients where appropriate, in our reasonable discretion, in connection with the provision of intern staffing services, maintenance of our contractual or business relationship with you, and response to inquiries from such clients and potential clients.
We may disclose information to companies and individuals we employ to perform business functions and services on our behalf. Such functions may include, for example, database management and other technology services, hosting our web servers, analyzing data, managing and warehousing historical data, and providing legal, accounting or marketing services.
We may disclose information to the extent necessary or appropriate to government agencies, advisors, and other third parties in order to comply with applicable laws, the service of legal process, or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to (a) respond to a court order or request from a federal or state regulatory authority or to comply with any law or regulation requiring such disclosure; (b) protect the rights or property of Brill Street; (c) prevent or aid in the investigation of a crime or protect national security or (d) protect the personal safety of the users or the public.
We may disclose information in connection with an audit of our books and records, a merger, reorganization, dissolution, liquidation, or sale of some or all of Brill Street’s assets, stock or business.

Automatically Collected Information

The Site may automatically collect certain non-personally-identifiable information regarding Site users, such as the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer, the IP address of your Internet Service Provider, the date and time you access the Site, the Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to the Site, the operating system you are using, the sections of the Site you visit, the Site pages accessed and information viewed, and the materials you post to or download from the Site. This non-personally-identifiable information is used for Site and system administration purposes and to improve the Site and services provided by Brill Street. Your non-personally-identifiable information may be disclosed to others and permanently archived for future use by Brill Street or third parties.

Security

Brill Street uses physical, administrative and reasonable technological measures to keep its servers, applications and databases secure and free from unauthorized access and use. By using this Site, you acknowledge that Brill Street cannot and does not guarantee the security of your Personal Information. If you have particular security concerns regarding your Personal Information, please do not transmit such information through the Site. Contact our Webmaster (below) for alternative means of communication with Brill Street.

Right to Review and Modify Personal Information

You have the right, at any time, to review and/or modify any of your Personal Information that you provide during registration, or any other voluntarily provided information. You may also remove yourself from our active databases of e-mail lists, if any. To do so, you should send an e-mail to the e-mail address listed below requesting that (a) we provide a copy of your profile of Personal Information, (b) we update or modify certain Personal Information, or (c) you be removed from our databases of active e-mail lists. We will endeavor to comply with your request as soon as reasonably possible. To protect your confidentiality, we can only send a requested profile to the e-mail address listed in the profile. In any event, our back-up files will maintain copies of your Personal Information. We reserve the right to contact former customers or users of the Site from time to time.

Children

Our Site is not generally intended for use by children under the age of 13, and Brill Street does not knowingly collect Personal Information from children in this age group. If we become aware that a user under the age of 13 has registered or is attempting to register, we will notify the user that he or she is not eligible for registration. We will then expunge any related Personal Information from our records.

Revisions to the Policy

If we change this privacy policy we will post any updates here for your review. If we change material terms in this Policy, we will provide notice of the revised policy for 30 days on the home page at www.brillstreet.com with a link back to this page.

This Policy was last updated on May 08, 2008. If you have any questions about our website privacy policies, please contact us at:

Mailing Address
Webmaster
Brill Street + Company, Inc.
445 West Erie Street, Suite 200
Chicago, IL 60610

Email Address
webmaster@brillstreet.com