University
of California, Berkeley
Privacy Statement for Job Applicants
Policy
The University of California, Berkeley is committed to protecting
the privacy and accuracy of your confidential information to the
extent possible, subject to provisions of state and federal law.
Other than as required by laws that guarantee public access to certain
types of information, or to process your job application, or in
response to subpoenas or other legal instruments that authorize
access, personally-identifiable information is not actively shared.
In particular, we do not sell personal information collected on
our web servers.
Information
collected
Web servers typically collect, at least temporarily, the following
information: Internet Protocol (IP) address of computer being used;
web pages requested; referring web page; browser used; date and
time. UC Berkeley may collect statistics identifying particular
IP addresses from which our websites are accessed. In the Office
of Human Resources, the program we use to analyze these server logs
is called DeepMetrix LiveStats, which does not identify users by
any personal information; please read the DeepMetrix
privacy policy.
Use
of collected information
UC Berkeley may use personal information collected from websites
for the purpose of future communication to you regarding your job
application and to process your job application.
UC Berkeley may use browser-IP-address information and anonymous-browser history to report information about site accesses and for profiling purposes. This information is generally used to improve web presentation and utilization. The campus also may use IP address information for troubleshooting purposes.
Some UC Berkeley online activity sites may use "cookies" in order to deliver web content specific to individual users’ interests or to keep track of online purchasing transactions. Sensitive personal information is not stored within cookies.
Distribution
of collected information
UC Berkeley will not disclose, without your consent, personal information
collected about you, except for certain explicit circumstances in
which disclosure is required by law.
UC Berkeley will not distribute or sell personal information to third-party organizations.
Access
to your own information
Questions regarding your rights to review, modify, or delete your
previously provided personal information should be directed to the
campus organization to which you provided the information. Any disputes
will be resolved under existing records regulations applicable to
UC Berkeley.
Responsibility
for sites linked to
While using a UC Berkeley website, you may encounter hypertext links
to the web pages of organizations not directly affiliated with UC
Berkeley. UC Berkeley does not control the content or information
practices of external organizations. We recommend you review the
privacy statements of these organizations.