MWK Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice applies to the information that Stanford University’s Career Education (“CareerEd”) collects and uses when you visit the Meaningful Work Kit website (mwk.stanford.edu) ("Site"). This Notice describes how this information is processed, as well as the choices that are available to you regarding the use of the personal information you provide.
What We Collect and Use
Personal information is any information related to an identified or identifiable individual. We are committed to protecting your privacy, and only collect personal information that you voluntarily provide through the Site, which includes only information entered in the pre-assessment questionnaire and your responses to assessment exercises in free text form. We do not require you to input any personal information.
How We Store Data
A random string is created to identify your browser session and is associated with both your questionnaire data and your exercise answers. This string is stored only on our servers and does not travel with you when you browse other sites. It is only known by the session cookie (see "Cookie Policy" section below), which is deleted either by clearing your cache or closing your browser.
Your IP address is logged in the web server for security purposes but is in no way associated with your answers and is not used to identify you as an individual. Logs are retained for 30 days. Stanford University is committed to processing your personal information in a secure manner and use of specific technical and organizational measures to prevent any personal information from accidental or deliberate compromise.
What We Do With Your Data
CareerEd will only collect your responses to our questionnaire for the purposes of understanding the type of user affiliation (i.e. college student, business owner, etc.).
Your assessment exercise answers and data are only kept during your session use while on the Site so you have the ability to save and export your results at the end of the assessment. Your answers are not stored longer than while you use the Site. Your anonymized usage data from your responses, such as the frequency of MWK cards that are selected and which pages are loaded and completed is aggregated for CareerEd to understand trends in career preferences. We may share insights from this aggregated data with the public. Your personal information is only used for this intended purpose.
Data Transfer
CareerEd will not disclose, share or sell your personal information, non-aggregated data or questionnaire and assessment responses with any third parties.
If you are located outside the United States (U.S.) and you access and use this Site, all responses are transferred to the U.S. but your responses and location are not identifiable.
Minor Information
The Site is not intended to be used by persons under the age of 16. CareerEd does not knowingly collect personal information from such persons through this Site.
Cookie Policy
Definition: A cookie is a file designed to contain a small amount of user and website information stored on a user’s computer. The file interacts with the user and the website to provide a webpage tailored to the user through its awareness of information held within the file. Cookies in general also have the ability to carry all or parts of the information stored within the file to other websites that the user may visit or to third parties.
This Site only uses the cookie to store the browser session for functional purposes. When you close the browser, the cookie, and thus the association between your browser and your data, is destroyed. Disabling cookies will render the Site unusable, and therefore is not recommended. If you are not comfortable with enabling cookies, we recommend that you do not use the Site.
We do not use any third-party cookies.
Updates to Privacy Notice
CareerEd reserves the right to modify this Privacy Notice at any time. Your continued use of the Sites after any change in this Privacy Notice will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Notice, please contact privacy@stanford.edu. Current Stanford faculty, staff and students should open a case at https://privacyrequest.stanford.edu. To contact the CareerEd Site managers, please email meaningfulwork@stanford.edu.
Effective Date
The effective date of this policy is October 5, 2022.