Privacy Policy - USA
United States
We at TheMIGroup, (referred to as "TheMIGroup,", "MI", "we," "us," or
"our") recognize the importance of protecting the privacy of certain
information ("Information") collected about our clients' employees who
become our customers and prospective customers. This privacy statement
discloses what Information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct
or change it. At TheMIGroup, it is our intention to give you an
understanding about how we collect Customer Information and the use we
make of it in the course of our business. Information obtained and
shared with you through this website is confidential unless the context
expressly indicates otherwise. Information may be requested/collected
to enable or enhance the delivery of services to you, and to make the
experience of using this site faster and more effective. This is our
Privacy Policy for the US, online and offline.
Compliance with Safe Harbor Principles
With respect to Personal Information collected from residents of
European Union member countries and
Switzerland, TheMIGroup has filed a Safe Harbor
certification with the US Department of Commerce and adopted a Privacy
Policy that is compliant with the U.S.-EU
and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor principles. To
learn more about the Safe Harbor program and to view TheMIGroup’s certification,
please visit http://export.gov/safeharbor/. A copy of the
Privacy Policy may be obtained by contacting TheMIGroup at privacy@themigroup.com, 973-463-0712 (telephone in U.S.) or 973-463-0730 (fax in U.S.)
Information We Collect and the Reason We Collect it
While most of the Information collected by TheMIGroup is supplied by
our clients, our suppliers, and our customers as part of the relocation
process, we may, at times, ask you to update or confirm a subset of that
information on this website. To do this, you may be asked to register
to use this site. Additionally, your information may be shared with
third party suppliers (e.g. home inspectors, moving companies) where
necessary to support the services we deliver. This Information will be
used solely for the purposes of providing services in accordance with
our contracts with our clients, which may include making Information
available to your employer. In addition, we may collect Personal
Information from client and potential client contacts. That information
may be used by TheMIGroup to market our services to those clients and
potential clients.
TheMIGroup may disclose personal Information about you ("Personal
Information") in special cases when we have reason to believe that
disclosing this Information is necessary to identify, contact or bring
legal action against someone who may be violating TheMIGroup's terms of
use or terms of service, or may be causing injury to or interference
(either intentionally or unintentionally) with any of TheMIGroup's
rights or property, other MI Customers, or anyone else. TheMIGroup may
disclose or access a Customer Personal Information when we believe in
good faith that the law permits it and for administrative and other
purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our
products and services.
Usage Tracking
When you enter this site, we collect your IP (internet protocol)
address for the purpose of system administration, to report traffic
patterns through the site, and to audit the use of our site. The IP
address identifies your service provider, but does not identify you as
an individual. When a user requests a page on this site, our servers log
the request, the IP address of the user, and their browser type. We do
not ordinarily link IP addresses with anything personally identifiable.
We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is
necessary to enforce compliance with the terms of use, terms of service
or to protect our service, site, clients, Customers, or others. If you
leave our site following links to our preferred alliance partners and
suppliers, your destination may be logged for reporting purposes in
accordance with agreements we may have with our clients and/or our
suppliers. If you receive an error message while using the site some
Information about you may be logged to allow us to provide better
service in resolving the issue.
Use of Cookies
What are cookies? "Cookies" are pieces of information that may be
placed on your computer by a website for the purpose of facilitating
and enhancing your communication and interaction with that website.
Cookies make web-surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while
you are at the site. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and as
such, you'll find them at most major websites. TheMIGroup uses cookies
to maintain session information and to enhance the speed of this website by reducing the number of times you retrieve similar information.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. While you can
reset your browser to refuse all cookies (or indicate when a cookie is
being sent) disabling cookies will prevent access to the site. Most
cookies expire after a defined period of time, and you can delete your
cookie files at any time. TheMIGroup never stores personally
identifiable Information (such as credit cards, passwords or social
security numbers) in cookies.
What Happens When You Link to a Third-Party Site?
This site contains links to third-party websites. For example, if a
user "clicks" on an external link the "click" may transfer the user off
TheMIGroup site. These other sites may include sites of advertisers,
sponsors and partners that may use TheMIGroup's logo as part of a
co-branding agreement. These other sites may send their own cookies to
users, collect data, or solicit Information. Such linked sites are not
under the control of TheMIGroup, and we are not responsible for the
terms of use, policies or contents of any linked site, or any link
contained in a linked site. TheMIGroup has provided these links as a
convenience. TheMIGroup's inclusion of links to these sites does not
imply any endorsement of the material on such sites or any association
with their operators. TheMIGroup's policy does not extend to anything
that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, which is beyond
TheMIGroup's control. We urge you to review the terms of use and privacy
policy of any linked site before sharing any Personally Identifiable
Information with them. Please keep in mind that whenever you give out
information online (for example, via message boards or chat) that
information can be collected and used by people you don't know. While
TheMIGroup strives to protect Customers' Personal Information and
privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you
disclose online, and you disclose such information at your own risk.
How We Protect Your Information
The security for all Information associated with our users is of
utmost concern to us. We exercise commercially reasonable care in
providing for secure transmission of your Personal Information between
your PC and our servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the
Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we
strive to protect your Personal Information, TheMIGroup can't ensure or
warrant the security of any Information you transmit to us or from our
online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we
receive your transmission, TheMIGroup uses industry standard efforts to
safeguard the confidentiality of your Information, such as firewalls and
Secure Socket Layers. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the
Internet. TheMIGroup suppliers are hereby required to notify TheMIGroup
of any breach of information concerning our clients and/or customers.
In the event you cease to be a user of ours for any reason, we will
maintain and disclose your Information consistent with the privacy
policies and practices that apply to our then current users.
How to Control Usage Of Your Information
In case some Personal Information about you changes (such as zip code
or e-mail address), we will provide a way for you to correct, update or
remove the Personal Information that you give us. We also will give you
the opportunity to control the communications we direct to you. We
offer you the opportunity to "opt out" of having Personal Information
shared with parties outside of TheMIGroup and/or its affiliated
companies. Please understand that if you opt out of having Personal
Information shared, we may be unable to provide our services to you. If
you wish to "opt-out" please email us at privacy@themigroup.com. If you
wish to update Personal Information please contact your MI
representative.
Who to Contact
If you have any questions regarding this privacy statement or the practices of this website, please contact us via email at privacy@themigroup.com.
Your Acceptance of These Terms
By using this site, you signify your agreement to TheMIGroup's
Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use
this site. We may change this Policy at any time by posting modified
terms and conditions. Your continued use of this site and/or its
affiliates' sites following the posting of changes to these terms and
conditions will mean you accept those changes.
This Privacy Policy was revised and effective as of February 28, 2008.