Limited Brands Privacy and Security Statements
LimitedBrands.com Privacy Policy
Information Collected
When you visit this Web site, LimitedBrands.com may collect information in two ways - through information automatically gathered from your computer or through information you voluntarily provide at this Web site. As to automatically gathered information, LimitedBrands.com collects navigational information about where visitors go on our Web site, how many visits are made to the site, when the site is visited and other non-personally identifiable information (for example, this can include domain type, browser version, service provider, IP address). Voluntarily provided information is collected online if you elect to make an "Information Request" in our Investment Services section or request an "Online Press Kit" in our Press Room section. Whenever either of these requests are made, we will collect your name, e-mail address, mailing address, company and phone number, as well as any specific comments or questions that you provide. We also offer general "contact us" features on this Web site, in which you will be asked to provide your name and e-mail address. We will also collect your e-mail address from you if you ask to receive our "E-mail Alerts." In addition, our Web site provides members of the press an opportunity to request additional information from our "Media Relations Contact," which requires requesting parties to provide their names and e-mail addresses.
Use of Collected Information
The navigational information that is automatically gathered when you visit LimitedBrands.com is used on an aggregate basis to evaluate the effectiveness of our Web site, to analyze trends and to administer the site. This navigational information allows us to determine such things as which areas of LimitedBrands.com are most visited and difficulties our visitors may experience in accessing our Web site. LimitedBrands.com does not associate any navigational information with individual users. The information you provide in an "Information Request," a request for a "Press Kit," a request to receive "E-mail Alerts," a general "contact us" feature or "Media Relations Contact" is used by LimitedBrands.com to provide you with the information you request and to advise you of news related to Limited Brands, Inc. and its financial and investor information. If at any time you would like to stop receiving "E-mail Alerts," please follow the removal instructions located at the bottom of each "E-mail Alert" or re-visit the sign-up page for "E-mail Alerts" and select the "no" option. LimitedBrands.com does not sell, rent or trade the information you voluntarily provide to us on this Web site to unrelated third parties. If personal information about you was collected on this Web site prior to December 19, 2002, LimitedBrands.com has not and will not provide such information to its sister companies. However, personal information collected on this Web site after December 19, 2002 may be shared with our Brands (for example, Victoria's Secret, The Limited, Bath and Body Works, Express), so that our Brands may send you promotional materials about their products. We use third parties to help us monitor site activity, and to respond to your requests for specific information. If personally identifiable information (for example, name, address, e-mail address, telephone number) is provided to any of these third parties, we will require that such information be maintained by them in confidence. You should also be aware that we may disclose specific information about you if necessary to do so by law or based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to conform or comply with the law or is necessary to protect the users of our Web site, the site, or the public. If you are visiting LimitedBrands.com from a location outside of the U.S., your connection will be through and to servers located in the U.S. Information you provide will be maintained in Web servers and internal systems located within the U.S.
Links
This LimitedBrands.com Web site contains links to other Web sites, which may be operated by affiliates of Limited Brands, Inc. or may be operated by unrelated third parties. The Web sites to which LimitedBrands.com provides links may use cookies and may collect information about your browsing and internet navigational history. The linked Web sites may also allow opportunities for you to voluntarily provide information. The linked sites, including those operated by affiliates of Limited Brands, Inc., may have different privacy policies than that of LimitedBrands.com. Therefore, before you provide any personal information, we recommend that you review the privacy policy associated with the Web page where you will be submitting your information.
Cookies
LimitedBrands.com uses a browser feature known as a cookie which assigns a unique identification to your computer. Cookies are typically stored on your computer's hard drive and are used by LimitedBrands.com to help track clicks as you go through the pages within the LimitedBrands.com Web site. Cookies may also be used to determine browser plug-ins so that we may optimize your experience on our site.
Applicability of Privacy Statement
This privacy policy statement applies only to the information collected online at LimitedBrands.com.
Security
LimitedBrands.com limits access to the personal information collected at this Web site to employees and service providers with a valid business need for the information. Our employees are advised about the importance we place on privacy, and we hold our employees responsible for upholding our privacy standards.
Questions/Changes in Policy
If you have questions or concerns with respect to our Privacy Policy, you may direct those questions to us at the "Contact Us" section of this Web site. If elements of our Privacy Policy change, we will post the policy changes in our Privacy Policy on this Web site. If you are concerned about how your personal information is used, please visit our site often for this and other important announcements about LimitedBrands.com.
Career Opportunities Privacy Policy
Careers.LimitedBrands.com has created this Web site to assist you in your goal of becoming an associate. While this Web site will help to implement that goal, we also know that you care how information about you is used and shared, which is why we have posted this Privacy Policy. Simply stated, the following Privacy Policy explains what information we collect from you on this Web site and how we use that information.
What personal information about you do we gather?
The information we learn from you helps us fulfill your goal of becoming one of our associates or possibly the goal of one of your friends if you elect to tell us about one of your friends. The information we gather also allows us to continually improve your experience at Careers.LimitedBrands.com. We gather information through two means: information automatically gathered when you visit this Web site and information that you voluntarily provide to us.
When you visit this site, Careers.LimitedBrands.com gathers navigational information about where you go on our Web site, how many visits are made to the site, when the site is visited and broad demographic information (for example, this can include domain type, browser version, service provider, IP address). This information is used only on an aggregate basis to evaluate the effectiveness of our site, to analyze trends and to administer the site. Careers.LimitedBrands.com will not associate any of this information with individual users. This navigational information allows us to determine such things as which areas of Careers.LimitedBrands.com are most visited and difficulties our visitors may experiences in accessing our site. Such information, thus, allows us to improve the quality of our visitors' experience by recognizing and delivering more of the desired information about associate hiring and resolving access difficulties. In addition, to further enhance your online experience on our site we may determine the existence of third party plug-ins on your browser.
If you elect to voluntarily create a profile through our Web site to assist in your goal of becoming an associate, you will be providing your name, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address and information with respect to work experience, educational background and position sought. If you elect to create a profile for a friend you are referring, you will provide their name, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address and additional employment-related information. Such information will be provided through and to servers located in the U.S. and all the information you provide will be processed and maintained on web servers and internal systems located within the U.S. When you elect to create a profile, you will also create a password that will be associated with your e-mail address. If at any time you need to make changes to the information you have submitted regarding your preferences, you may simply return to "your profile" (after clicking on "career opportunities" and "job search"), enter your e-mail address and password, which will allow you to gain access to your profile and revise those sections of the profile that relate to your previously stated preferences.
You may also choose to further protect your privacy online by registering your profile anonymously, but you will still be required to provide an e-mail address. Should you choose to apply anonymously, we may contact you by e-mail for additional information. You may forward any job posted on Careers.LimitedBrands.com to a friend by clicking on the "send this job to a friend" link. If you elect to send a job to a friend, you will provide your friend's e-mail address and your e-mail address. The content of the subject line is not modifiable to prevent spamming. We collect this information only for the purpose of forwarding the job description to your friend and to let them know who sent it. None of the information you provide for sending a job to a friend is recorded or used for any other purpose.
How will Careers.LimitedBrands.com use the information you provide?
Any information you provide to us at Careers.LimitedBrands.com is used to enable Limited Brands to consider your interest in becoming an associate at any of the following Brands: Express, The Limited, Victoria's Secret, Victoria's Secret Beauty, Victoria's Secret Direct, Victoria's Secret Production, Bath and Body Works, The White Barn Candle Co., Mast Industries, Aura Science and Henri Bendel. Therefore, authorized personnel at each of these Brands will have access to the information you submit for the purpose of considering your interest in becoming an associate. We may also use your e-mail or mail address to contact you for additional information. In addition, you may opt-in to request that we contact you about job opportunities that may occur in the future which fit your profile and preferences. If you make such a request, we will use your e-mail or mail address to contact you about these future opportunities. Even if you do elect to be contacted, you may change this election later by gaining access to "your profile" (click on "career opportunities" and "job search") and enter your e-mail address and password and turn off or "un-check" the box indicating whether you want to be notified of future opportunities.
If you have created a profile for a friend that you are referring, we will contact the referred friend by phone or e-mail to advise them of your referral. The referred friend may elect to either have their profile removed or allow us to retain the profile that was created. If a referred friend allows us to retain the profile that you created, the referred friend will have the opportunity to review the profile, create a password and then subsequently have access to revise the profile at any time by clicking on "career opportunities, "job search" and "your profile", and entering their e-mail address and password. If the referred friend elects to allow us to retain the profile, authorized personnel at each of the Brands will have access to the information regarding the referred friend for the purpose of considering their interest in becoming an associate and may contact the referred friend by mail or e-mail for additional information. In addition, at the time the referred friend reviews their profile, they may opt-in to request that we contact them about job opportunities that may occur in the future which fit their profile and preferences. If the referred friend makes such a request, we will use the e-mail or mail address of the referred friend to contact them about these future opportunities. Even if the referred friend allows us to retain their profile and contact them later, the referred friend may change this election later by "un-checking" the election box to be contacted (click on "career opportunities," "job search" and "your profile" and enter their e-mail address and the password they created).
We will use third parties to help us process profiles and preferences, monitor site activity, maintain the database based in the U.S and provide plug-ins at your request. If personally identifiable information (e.g. name, address, e-mail address, telephone number) is accessible to any of these third party service providers, we will require that such information be maintained by them in strictest confidence. Information you voluntarily supply will be stored in a database, which will be accessed by authorized personnel of Limited Brands and its Brands to assist in fulfilling your goal of becoming one of our associates. Careers.LimitedBrands.com does not sell, rent or trade the information you voluntarily provide to us on this Web site nor do we provide such information to unrelated organizations for their use in recruiting or marketing.
Careers.LimitedBrands.com contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. When you leave our site, we encourage you to read the privacy policies of each site. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this Web site. When you "create a profile" , you are providing the information to us and it is this privacy policy that controls use of such information. You should be aware that we may disclose specific information about you if necessary to do so by law or based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to conform or comply with the law or is necessary to protect the users of our Web site, the site, or the public.
Use of Cookies
Careers.LimitedBrands.com uses a browser feature known as a cookie, which assigns a unique identification to your computer. Cookies are typically stored on your computer's hard drive and allow us to make our site more responsive to those interested in associate positions by giving us the ability to track your clicks as you go through the pages within the Careers.LimitedBrands.com site. The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.
What security measures does Careers.LimitedBrands.com provide?
Careers.LimitedBrands.com accepts profiles only from Web browsers that permit communication through Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. For example, 4.0 versions or higher of Netscape Navigator and versions 3.0 or higher of Internet Explorer. This means you'll be unable to inadvertently submit a profile through an unsecured connection. SSL is the encryption software standard in the industry and allows the information you provide to us in your profile or your referred friend's profile to be encrypted while being transferred to us. Further, we have in place organizational and physical security arrangements in relation to all personal data we retain and we impose necessary security measures on outside service providers who assist with this Web site. Our employees are advised about the importance we place on privacy.