Partner Portal Terms of Agreement

This document sets the terms and responsibilities between Business Services Collaborative Member (“Member”) and the San Diego Workforce Partnership for the Partner Portal (“Service”).

Background

The Partner Portal is a tool to support the work of the Business Services Collaborative (BSC). The BSC aims to set the groundwork for leveraging talent and funding to create a cohesive network of entities serving businesses in the Southern Border Region. It does so by linking hundreds of job development professionals to focus on:

  • Coordinated business engagement
  • Diversity in collaboration
  • Exchange of information
  • Leverage partner talent pipelines
  • Professional development opportunities

The goal of the Partner Portal is to provide a centralized location for these activities, and to refer qualified candidates to developed job leads. This Terms of Agreement informs you of our policies regarding member commitments and responsibilities, expected behaviors, the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use this portal, and the choices you have associated with that data.

We utilize your data to provide and improve the Partner Portal. By using the Partner Portal, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with these terms of agreement. Unless otherwise defined in this document, terms used here have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from https://sdwp-jobs.force.com/Partner/

Commitment and Responsibilities

By agreeing to these terms, the Member will be granted access to the Partner Portal with the understanding that the member will:

  • Attend quarterly BSC meetings (or send representative from your organization)
  • Be an active participant in the Partner Portal by posting jobs, referring candidates, and/or participating in group discussions
  • Refer only qualified candidates, pre-screened to match the opportunity and vetted to BSC standards
  • Act as intermediary between job seeker and job developer, matching candidates to opportunities.
  • Pre-screen employers to mitigate against offensive workplace conditions and behaviors
  • Only share job seeker information with applicable employer with an open opportunity
  • Do not share job seeker information with non-Members unless agreed upon by job owner and match owner

Expected Behaviors

There is an expectation that the engagement and communication between members of the BSC and user of the Partner Portal be in a respectful manner. This includes during collaborative meetings, through email communications, and when utilizing communication feature in the Partner Portal (e.g., chatter, messages, tags, etc.). Members are expected to provide thoughtful answers to Member questions, engage and network with colleagues, and share best practices and knowledge with others.

The Workforce Partnership retains the right to exclude or remove someone from the Collaborative and the Partner Portal for inappropriate behavior. This includes using crude or offensive language, using the portal to promote services or products of a company with which you have a relationship, consistently referring job seekers that do not meet minimum qualifications, posting job opportunities with employers that violate common workplace expectations.

All conduct that violates these expected behaviors will be reported to the Steering Committee for adjudication. In most instances, Members will be given one warning to correct the inappropriate behavior. Members will be notified in writing of the adjudication outcome.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using the Partner Portal, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number
  • Address, City, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code

Cookies and Using Data

We may also collect information on how the Partner Portal is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of the portal that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking and Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on the portal and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amounts of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

  • Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
  • Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
  • Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Use of Data

The Partner Portal uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain the Service
  • To notify you about changes to our Service
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
  • To provide customer care and support
  • To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
  • To monitor the usage of the Service
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues

Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to other partners of the San Diego Workforce Partnership for the purposes of improving the Partner Portal services or contributing to the effectiveness of the San Diego Workforce Partnership in providing its services to businesses and job seekers, and this data may be maintained on computers and/or servers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

Disclosure of Data

The Partner Portal may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To protect and defend the rights or property of the Partner Portal
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  • To protect against legal liability

Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us,but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. In order to learn more about the data security provided by Salesforce.com (SFDC), please see their informational page on this subject: https://trust.salesforce.com/en/trust-and-compliance-documentation/salesforce-services/.

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate and perform maintenance on our Partner Portal (“Service Providers”), to provide the Partner Portal on our behalf, to perform Service-related services, or to assist us in analyzing how our Partner Portal is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Links to Other Sites

The Parter Portal may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Partner Portal, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at business@workforce.org.

Duration

Participating in the Partner Portal indicates agreement with these terms. This Agreement is at-will and may be modified or extended by mutual consent of Member and the Workforce Partnership.