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Effective Date of Privacy Statement: May 22, 2018.
Most recent update: May 22, 2018.

JA Europe appreciate your interest in this Web site and other related or linked JA Europe sites (Site). Your privacy is important and we want you to understand our practices with respect to gathering information from visitors to the Site and with respect to the uses we make of that information. Please check each portion or page of the Site that you visit.

Information and Uses

When someone visits the Site, our web servers automatically gather information that allows the site to communicate with the visitor's computer during the visit. We also track such information as the number of visits to the site, which parts of the site visitors select, analytics to measure and observe user behavior, IP address (the Internet address assigned to your device from your Internet Service Provider), device type, domain type, browser type (e.g., Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer), date and time of day, device screen size. We use such information for purposes including helping us design and administer the Site.

Privacy concerns focus on Personal Information, that is, information that could identify a specific individual such as names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers. If during your visit you personalize the Site, complete an order form, enter a contest, provide survey feedback or submit other information to us, you may provide us with Personal Information. We may collect and use that Personal Information to process your survey feedback for the purpose of improving your experience at our branded sites, or to tell you about JA Europe programmes which we think may be of interest to you—including via email, to communicate with you for other purposes. We may also use that Personal Information as necessary to protect our rights and the rights of others, including by enforcing our Terms & Conditions, and for any other purpose disclosed to you at the time we collect your information or pursuant to your consent.

As explained below in the section on Dissemination of Information to Third Parties, we do not distribute or sell Personal Information to third parties for the purpose of allowing them to market their products and services to you; We will make a reasonable effort to remove your Personal Information from our database in such a way that you will not receive future communications from us, if that is your wish. If you notify us that Personal Information previously submitted to our site is no longer accurate, we will make a reasonable effort to make appropriate corrections. To facilitate our efforts to meet your request, it would be helpful if you could let us know the context in which you provided Personal Information, e.g. in connection with promotion of a specific product or service.

Information Placed on Your Computer

We may store some information (commonly known as a "cookie") on your computer when you look at or use the Site. This information facilitates customizing your use of the Site and helps to avoid the need for you to re-enter your details every time you visit it. You can erase or block this information from your computer if you want to. (The ‘help’ screen in your browser or computer user manual should tell you how to do this.)

Hyperlinks

This site has links to sites that JA Europe does not own, control or maintain. We cannot be responsible for their privacy policies and practices and we make no representations or warranties about the privacy practices of those sites. Similarly, we cannot be responsible for the policies and practices of any site from which you linked to our Web site. We recommend that you check the privacy policy of other sites and contact the operator if you have concerns or questions.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

Communicating via the Internet and sending information to you by other means necessarily involves your Personal Information passing through or being handled by third-parties, but JA Europe does not sell or distribute your Personal Information to third parties for purposes of allowing them to market their products and services to you.

Personal data collected by JA Europe may be transferred among its various divisions and affiliated organizations, around the world, as well as transferred to select partners.
We may share your information with other parties when required by law or as necessary to protect our work. 

We may also share information with third parties in aggregated or non-personally identifiable form.
In addition to the sharing described in this Privacy Statement, we may also share information about you with other third parties when you consent to such sharing.

Your Choices

You have a number of choices about how we handle information we collect or receive about you.
Email.  You may opt out of receiving future promotional email communications from us by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in the footer of promotional email communications and updating your preferences.  Please note that we may continue to send you transactional or service-related emails regarding your account.

Data Transfers

We may transfer the Personal Information we collect about you to countries other than the country in which the information was originally collected. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information
Such transfers may involve the transfer of Personal Information from countries within the European Economic Area to countries outside the E.E.A. By submitting data on the Site, the visitor provides explicit consent to these transfers, including transborder transmission of data.

Sensitive Information

JA Europe does not seek any sensitive information from visitors to our Site, unless legally required to do so, for example, in connection with recruiting or hiring. Sensitive information includes a number of types of data relating to: race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or other similar beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual life or criminal record, or genetic or biometric data. We suggest that you do not provide sensitive information of this nature. However, if you do provide such information, JA Europe accepts your explicit consent to use that data in the ways described in this Privacy Statement or in the ways described at the point where such information is disclosed.

Opt Out/Modify Information

You can request the removal or modification of your Personal Information by sending an e-mail to the Data Privacy Office.  We will then make a reasonable effort to accommodate your request. As previously noted, it would be helpful to let us know the context in which you provided Personal Information.

Conditions of Use, Notices and Revisions

If you choose to visit our Site, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Statement and our General Terms of Use of our Site, including any limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes and application of law provisions. We reserve the right to change this statement at any time without notice.

Contacting JA Europe about the content of this Privacy Statement

If you have any questions about the content of this Privacy Statement, please contact JA Europe's Data Privacy Office at the following address:

JA Europe
Data Privacy Office
Rue Montoyer 46
1000 Brussels
Belgium
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When we make material changes to this Privacy Statement, we will post the changes on this page and update the revision date at the top of the Privacy Statement. We encourage you to view our Privacy Statement regularly for updates.

Cookies

Our Services may use online technologies called “cookies” and “web beacons,” as well as other local storage technologies.  This section explains what these technologies are and how they may be used.
Cookies and Other Local Storage Technologies
Generally speaking, “cookies” are text files that are placed in your device’s browser, and that can be used to help recognize your browser across different web pages, websites, and browsing sessions.  Your browser or device may offer settings related to cookies.  For example, you may be able to configure your browser not to accept cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being sent.  For more information about whether these settings are available, what they do, and how they work, visit your browser or device’s help material.  If you decide not to accept cookies from us, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the features of the Services.
Cookies are stored on your device or in “local storage.” We also use other types of local storage technologies, such as Local Shared Objects (sometimes called “Flash cookies”), in connection with our Services.  These technologies are similar to cookies in that they are stored on your device and can be used to maintain information about your activities and preferences.

Cookie Name Cookie Expiration Description (explanation of what the cookie does)
_ga 2 years This 3rd party Google Analytics persistent cookie is used to distinguish users when collecting information about page visits. This cookie helps us to identify website areas to be improved.
_gat 10 minutes This 3rd party Google Analytics session cookie is used by Google Analytics to monitor requests rate toward their servers. This cookie helps JA Europe to identify website areas to be improved.
JSESSIONID End of session This 1st party JA Europe session cookie is used to maintain information about each visit to the website and enable core site functionality. This cookie only lasts for the duration of user’s visit, being deleted as soon as a user closes a web browser.
_atuvc, _atuvs 2 years These 1st party __atuvc and _atuvs cookies are persistent cookies that are created and read by the AddThis social sharing site in order to make sure user sees the updated count if user shares a page and return to it before JA Europe share count cache is updated. No data from that cookie is sent back to AddThis.

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These 3rd party cookies are created by the AddThis social sharing site. AddThis collects some information such as which web page you came from, which type of browser you are using, and your general geographic location. If you use the AddThis tool to share content they aggregate data about what pages are shared, when, and how. They also assign your web browser a unique identifier. This ID doesn’t, and can’t, say anything about you. It’s a random series of numbers and letters used to distinguish users from each other.

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These 3rd Google cookies are used to track user’s preferences so that related content or adverts can be shown. This helps us to show you customized ads on Google.
UIDR, UID 30 days AddThis also makes use of Scorecard Research tracking which sets the UID and UIDR 3rd party cookies for browser behaviour research.
YouTube cookies 30 days We may embed videos that are externally hosted on YouTube using YouTube’s privacy enhanced mode. In accordance with YouTube’s embedding videos information page in this mode YouTube will not set cookies on your computer until you click on the YouTube video player. Further, YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos under this mode. As these cookies are set by YouTube, we have no direct control over their usage. Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page. For further information from YouTube please read YouTube’s privacy policy.

It has been a great pleasure to spend a day with Danny. It’s quite unusual to have student alongside for a whole day but I must admit that in a way, it makes one think about what one is really doing and if it’s understandable for external people! I did also appreciate the fact that he’s been very discreet and didn’t bother us during the whole day.

I’m confident that this experience can lead to a better understanding of the reality and daily life in a private company. I’m aware that it is difficult for student to be dropped for one day in the business life and all I can recommend to them is to try and learn as much as possible about the company they’re going to spend a day with. What the company is doing, who is who,.. Of course, it would be great if more companies would join this programme. I even think that it would be valuable for politicians as well, not only for students.

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Sometimes you just have to take opportunity the present themselves. This was the case with my participating in Leaders-for-a-Day, I got a call from JA Europe one day and four days later I was sitting on a plane heading to Brussels, on my way to shadow a top leader for a day. 

It actually all started because I took the Entrepreneurial Skills Pass (ESP) exam this summer. JA Europe contacted me long time ago and we shared some emails. I thought that maybe that was it, but then they called me and they invited me to this huge event.

I arrived at my hotel and met 36 other very ambitious students from all over the Europe. We then took part in a warm-up-session which went very well and the day after, each of us was well prepared to meet our leader. 

My top leader was Barbara Wynne from Accenture, who welcomed me to experience her day-to-day work-life. What an inspiring woman. Together, we went to meetings with business people around Brussels, held meetings with her clients and got to know one another. We learned as much as we could about each other and she taught be as much as she could about her company, Accenture. When the office day was over, we went to a cocktail with the rest of the JA Europe alumni and their respective leaders. Here, we were able to learn about the different experiences of participants, even the leaders shared their stories. Leaders-for-a-Day was such a great day, helping me learn so much. It just goes to show that sometimes you have to jump at  opportunities that present themselves – I am certainly glad I did.

 

I was expecting that during this day I will see the normal day of leader and I will have some experience. However, this day gave me a lot more than that. After one day with Inge Boets from Porter Novelli I realized that I want more from my life than before. When I was at one meeting with her and topic marketing strategies came out I was paralyzed. I had to put it on paper and so my motivation appeared. After coming home I tell myself that I have to study marketing at University after graduating and so that is what I’m going to do. I want to further my study experience and my motivation for that is on that paper with marketing tactics and strategies.

And so now I know that marketing is not only about earning money and about ways how to profit. For example, working with clients is really impressive thing. It is a real study for me. Moreover, when I saw how kind is Inge to her team I thought that I would like to work for company like Inge’s, too. Every person in that company has job which fits her/him the most. Every person in that company is special in something else and Inge knows about that. Thanks to this the company works perfectly and it is getting better every day. In addition to her team, she perfectly knows their clients, too. In my opinion, all these awesome things must have taken years and years of experience. And I really appreciate that I could spent with her one day.

It was pleasure to meet her and JA team as well. In very short time I learn many things, which helped a lot to improved my current studies in Secondary School where I study marketing in tourism. Thanks to JA Company I experienced a special day with the special leader and I can’t even say how much I am thankful for that. I was concerned that this opportunity would be unforgettable. And it really is. Thank you so much for that!

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