Last Updated: May 2020
This Privacy Statement (the "Statement") governs how Citi collects, uses and discloses Personal Information (as defined below) from and about users of this Website and the other services of the Citi Alumni Network (collectively with the Website, the “Services”). We advise you to read the Privacy Statement in its entirety, including the jurisdiction-specific provisions in the appendix to this Privacy Statement which will apply to users in certain jurisdictions.
As used herein, the term "Personal Information" means any information:
Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Terms & Conditions (“Terms”). Please note that if you are a Citi customer, additional privacy policies and statements may apply to you as a customer of a particular Citi business, and this Privacy Statement does not replace or revise any other privacy policy or statement that may be applicable to Personal Information collected or used by Citi through that specific customer relationship with Citi.
We invite You to click below to get answers to questions regarding this Privacy Statement.
Citi collects and may use certain Personal Information about You in order to operate and provide you with access to the Website and provide the Services.
Your Personal Information will be controlled by Citibank N.A. and/or the Citi entity which operates the Website You are accessing (and/or if You are Citigroup Personnel, the Citi entity which employs You or contracts with You). A list of certain Citi entities can be found at: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/831001/000083100115000043/citi-exhibit2101x12312014.htm. If You would like additional information regarding the applicable Citi entity or entities, please contact alumni@citi.com.
If You submit any Personal Information to the Website and it is posted, Your user name and any other Personal Information contained in Your Submitted Material will be visible and publicly available to authorized Citi Personnel who administer or maintain the Site ("Authorized Citigroup Personnel") and, if you grant access to such Personal Information, to other Users who are registered with the Website ("Registered Alumni Users"). Citi is not responsible for the Personal Information You choose to submit to this Website and, by providing such Personal Information, You are agreeing that it may be freely copied and used (or reused) by Citi and others. As such, You should not include any Personal Information in Your Submitted Materials (other than Your user name which will appear automatically) that You do not want to be used in this manner.
A cookie is a piece of data stored on Your hard drive containing information about You. We may use unique identifiers such as cookies and similar technologies to collect from you: browser, device information and browsing information such as time spent on the Website, pages visited, language preferences, and other traffic data. These cookies may contain or reflect segment or other interest-based data in a de-identified form including interests across other sites. We may also collect from you various attributes associated with your device (such as IP address, installed fonts, language and browser settings, and time zone) in order to create a device fingerprint or identifier so that we can recognize your device.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in Your browser. However, You may not be able to use all the features of the Website if cookies are disabled.
We occasionally use third party companies to set cookies on our websites and gather cookie information on our behalf. In some cases, We will also use another company to operate web servers for our sites. We use the cookie information gathered by these companies in the same manner as stated above. Third parties are prohibited from using these cookies for their own purposes or sharing the information gathered in connection with the cookies with others.
In addition to Content, which is addressed in the Terms, Citi collects certain non-personally identifiable information in connection with Your use of the Website. For example, Citi may collect click stream data, data on how You navigate the Website, and anonymous demographic information. Some of these types of information are also described in Section 1, above. We may use non-personally identifiable information for website administration, analytics, market research, advertising and promotions or any other legitimate business use. We may share such information with various affiliated and unaffiliated entities for such purposes.
Any Personal Information that you submit that is designated by the Website as being accessible through the Directory of Registered Alumni Users' contact information on this Website ("Directory") will be available to Authorized Citigroup Personnel and, if you grant access to such Personal Information in the Directory, to other Registered Alumni Users and Other Citigroup Employees and may be used by any of them to contact you directly for any purpose not specifically prohibited by the Terms, including for any networking, social and business-related purposes.
Any Personal Information that you submit about Yourself for publication on the Website and that is designated by the Website as being accessible through the Directory will be available to all other Registered Alumni Users, Other Citigroup Employees, and Authorized Citigroup Personnel and may be used by any of them for any purpose not specifically prohibited by the Terms. Any Personal Information that You submit about You that is not for publication on the Website and is designated by the Website as not being accessible through the Directory will be available only to Authorized Citigroup Personnel.
We may share your Personal Information with certain Citi entities for their use in accordance with this Privacy Statement. A list of certain Citi entities who may access your Personal Information can be found at:
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/831001/000083100115000043/citi-exhibit2101x12312014.htm
In addition to other uses described herein, Citi will use your Personal Information with your consent and/or when we have a legal obligation or for legitimate business purposes, including:
We use and disclose your Personal Information with your consent and/or when we have a legal obligation or legitimate interest to do so:
If Citi appoints third parties to host, maintain, manage, or to provide other services in relation to the Website or the Services, then your Personal Information may be accessed and used by these third parties to the extent necessary to fulfill their hosting, maintenance, managerial, and/or other functions.
The Site is controlled and operated by us from the United States and are not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country, or territory other than those of the United States. Information about you may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and, by using the Site, you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your Personal Information.
The Website may contain links to other websites. Please note that Citi is not responsible for the privacy or information security practices of other websites. You should carefully review the applicable privacy and information security policies and statements for any other websites to which you click through to via the Website. This Privacy Statement applies solely to Your Personal Information collected by this Website.
We seek to use reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural measures to safeguard Personal Information within our organization against loss, theft, and unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while We strive to protect Your information, We cannot guarantee its security.
You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of Your password and other Website registration information, and for controlling access to Your email communications at all times. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us at alumni@citi.com.
From time to time, We may revise this Privacy Statement. Updates may be made for any number of reasons, including to reflect industry initiatives, changes in the law, and changes to the scope of the Services, among other reasons. You can tell when We last updated the Privacy Statement by checking the "Last Updated" legend at the beginning of the Privacy Statement. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Statement on the Website.
We retain Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
If You no longer wish to participate in the Services, You may contact alumni@citi.com to request that Your profile on this Website be deemed inactive. Even if Your profile data is deemed inactive, Citi may retain your profile data in accordance with applicable law.
Citi will use reasonable efforts to notify You by email before deleting Your profile. If Your profile is deleted, other data and Information that You have included on the Website may still remain on the Website and be visible to other Users.
In certain countries, You may have certain rights with respect to the Personal Information which Citi holds about You, including the right to access or correct (and sometimes, object to or delete) the information.
Supplemental provision regarding the EEA Some of the non-EEA countries are recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection according to EEA standards (the full list of these countries is available here. For transfers from the EEA to countries not considered adequate by the European Commission, we have put in place adequate measures, such as binding corporate rules, to protect your Personal Information. You may obtain a copy of these measures by writing to Dharmisha Kapdee, Compliance Director, at dharmisha.kapdee@citi.com. You may also:
Supplemental provision applicable to Users registering from the UAE Your use of the Website signifies that you agree to waive your material privacy rights under the laws of the UAE. You also agree not to hold Citi liable for any publicity, any publication of news, or comments pertaining to the secrets of Your or any other person's private or family lives on the Website. Your use of the Website signifies Your consent allowing Citi to disclose any information that You may consider a secret to anybody at any time. You agree not to hold Citi liable for any disclosure of such information, that You may think to be a secret, to anyone. Please do not use the Website if you disagree with any part of this Privacy Statement.
Supplemental provision applicable to Users registering from Korea Your consent of the Privacy Statement and Terms upon joining the Citi Alumni Site is deemed that you agreed that Your Personal Information will be controlled, not by Citibank Korea Inc. nor other subsidiaries and affiliates in Korea ("Citi Korea"), but by Citigroup Inc. NY, USA and/or Citi entity which operates the Website You are accessing. Citi Korea is solely responsible for the use of Your Personal Information within Korea, when it is used by Citi Korea, under the applicable Korean laws including; Personal Information Protection Act, Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc., and other relevant Korean laws. Your Personal Information and the Submitted material can be shared with Citi Korea but Citi Korea will not collect and use such personal information and material for any marketing purpose without your prior consent. When Citi Korea obtains Your Personal Information via the Website, the use will be controlled by and be bound to the necessary process and procedure following the applicable Korean laws.
Supplemental Provisions for California Residents
None of the foregoing, however, prohibits Citi from charging you a different price or rate, or from providing a different level or quality of goods or services to you, if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to Citi by your data.
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