Please also check the ILO Privacy Notice below
In order to pursue its mandate and mission, the BIS processes information about individuals (“Personal Data”). The BIS takes your privacy seriously. This Privacy Notice describes how the BIS collects and processes Personal Data, and how, in doing so, the BIS complies with its Personal Data Protection Policy.
The nature of the Personal Data the BIS collects depends on your relationship with the BIS. Typically, the BIS may process the following Personal Data: contact information (eg name, email, address, postcode, phone number); online information (eg cookies and IP address, if you visit the BIS websites); or contractual information (eg personal details in relation to services provided to the BIS).
The BIS collects and processes personal data only for the legitimate purposes set out herein below and only processes the Personal Data, which is relevant to achieve these purposes.
The BIS processes Personal Data in accordance with the following principles:
Lawfulness, Fairness and Transparency: The BIS shall process Personal Data for legitimate purposes, in a fair and transparent manner. Legitimate purposes for the processing of Personal Data are:
Purpose Limitation: Personal Data shall be collected for one or more specified and legitimate purposes, and not further processed in a manner incompatible with those purposes.
Data Minimisation: Processing of Personal Data shall be adequate, relevant and reasonably limited to what is necessary in relation to the legitimate purposes for which Personal Data is processed.
Storage Limitation: The BIS shall retain Personal Data for the duration specified in its applicable retention schedule(s) adopted by the BIS.
Accuracy: Personal Data shall be recorded as accurately as possible and, where necessary, updated to fulfil the legitimate purpose(s) for which it is processed.
Integrity and Confidentiality: Personal Data shall be recorded as accurately as possible and, where necessary, updated to fulfil the legitimate purpose(s) for which it is processed.
Accountability: The BIS has established appropriate accountability and oversight mechanisms.
Your Personal Data will be kept for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which they were collected or to comply with legal or internal policy requirements. The BIS applies criteria to determine the appropriate periods for retaining your Personal Data depending on their purpose and in accordance with the BIS retention policies.
Your Personal Data are protected by appropriate technical and organisational safeguards against unauthorized processing and against accidental loss, destruction, damage, alteration, disclosure, access, or use.
The BIS may share your Personal Data with third parties (eg suppliers or service providers). The BIS will only transfer Personal Data to third parties where they comply with a standard of protection of Personal Data equivalent at least to the level of protection established by the BIS Personal Data Protection Policy.
More information about privacy .
This policy is based on our fundamental goal to provide our visitors with quality information and resources while maintaining individual anonymity and personal privacy. The following statement outlines the privacy policy of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). It applies to all “ILO web sites” - that is to all sites under the “ilo.org” domain.
When you access our web pages, the visitor information and the essential and nonessential technical information listed below is automatically collected - we refer to those categories collectively as “access” information. No other information is collected through the ILO web site except when you deliberately decide to send it to us (for example, by clicking on a link to send us an e-mail). The information you might choose to send us is listed below as “optional information.”
Automatically collected access information
Optional information
Providing information is your choice
There is no legal requirement for you to provide any information at our website. However, our website will not work without routing information and essential technical information. Failure of your browser to provide nonessential technical information will not prevent your use of our website but may prevent certain features from working. For any optional information that is requested at the website, failure to provide the requested information will mean that the particular feature or service associated with that part of the web page may not be available to you.
Use of cookies
The ILO web site uses “cookies,” a small data file transferred by a website to your computer’s hard drive, to collect anonymous traffic data. We send cookies when you surf www.ilo.org
, respond to online surveys or polls, or request information. Accepting the cookies used on our site does not give us access to your Personally Identifiable Information, but we can use the cookies to identify your computer. The aggregated information collected permits us to analyze traffic patterns on our site. This helps us provide you with a better experience by improving the content and making our site easier to use.
Visitor information is used to route the requested web page to your computer for viewing. In theory, the requested web page and the routing information could be discerned by other entities involved in transmitting the requested page to you. We do not control the privacy practices of those entities. Essential and nonessential technical information helps us respond to your request in an appropriate format (or in a personalised manner) and helps us plan website improvements. Optional information enables us to provide services or information tailored more specifically to your needs or to forward your message or inquiry to another entity that is better able to do so, and also allows us to plan website improvements.
We may keep access information on our systems indefinitely after the web page is transmitted, but we do not try to obtain any information to link it to the individuals who browse our web site. However, on rare occasions when a “hacker” attempts to breach computer security, logs of access information are retained to permit a security investigation and in such cases may be forwarded together with any other relevant information in our possession to law enforcement agencies.
We use information you provide about yourself only to complete your specific request. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that request. Similarly, we use the information you provide about someone else when making a request only to complete that request. Again, we do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that request.
We generally use return e-mail addresses only to answer the e-mail we receive. Such addresses are generally not used for any other purpose.
Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without a clear notice on the particular site and without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
The ILO does not sell any personally identifiable information volunteered on the ILO site to any third party. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online, consistent with the policies of the ILO.
All ILO employees who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are under the obbligation to respect the confidentiality of official business matters, including personal data.
Should you have other questions or concerns about our privacy policies and practices, please send us an e-mail at info@ilo.org