Privacy & Data Security
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.
Employment Background Solutions is committed to protecting your privacy and the privacy of your applicants and employee. It is an Employment Background Solutions policy that company and personal information such as name, address, phone number, e-mail, and search results is kept private and confidential. We do not sell or rent your company or personal information to others. We use customer information only for the purposes of setting up your profile, delivering our service, enhancing the operation of our site, and administering our systems. We may use third parties to assist in delivering our employment background check service, to serve site content, or to help administer customer emails. In such cases, we only provide access to the information needed to do their job, and we require that they abide by our strict privacy policy.
When you visit our online web site, we may collect usage information, such as the URL you came from, your IP address and domain type (e.g., .com or .org, etc.), your browser type, the country, state and telephone area code where your server is located, the pages of our site that were viewed during a visit, and any search terms that you entered on our site. This information is used for internal purposes only and helps us to continually improve our web site and online service delivery.
Securing personal information is a shared responsibility
Given the sensitive nature of personal data it is critical that careful consideration be given to how that information is treated before, during and after a search has been completed. The goal is to minimize any potential compromise of an applicant’s information that might lead to identify theft or fraudulent use of another person information.
As an end user:
There are a series of very simple steps that you, as an end user should take with respect to increasing the security level of your use of EBS. Data breaches can be minimized by steps such as:
- Password protect you computer and enable auto sleep function (See your security settings for your computer),
- Do not share your user name or password,
- Change your user passwords on a regular basis (Contact us if you need assistance with this),
- Secure any printed file documents properly,
- Limit access of information to a “Need to know / Right to know” standard,
- Employ Internet security features such as firewalls, encryption or security software,
- Be sure to shred ANY documents that contain sensitive personal information before discarding them.
If you need assistance or suggestions on upgrading your security levels contact your system administrator or I.T. department.
From EBS:
Our focus on privacy and security of data is reflected in both our technology and the manner we operate. We have built our entire system so that neither customers nor employees can access company, employee or applicant information without an appropriate password. In addition, we employ SSL data encryption when data is transmitted over the Internet, and have installed firewall's to prevent external "hacking" into our system. We also periodically commission external security experts to attempt to gain unwarranted access to our system, to ensure that no security breaches exist. Our emphasis on privacy and security is equally reflected in the way we work. Each employee and all contractors of Employment Background Solutions receive a thorough background check. In addition, security training is part of every new employment orientation.