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McKinsey uses your personally-identifiable information to fulfill your requests for information, to process your requests to participate in conferences and events, to evaluate any job applications or other employment-related inquiries that you may submit, or for such other business purposes as you may initiate or request. We may keep any of your personally-identifiable information on file and use it to contact you for recruiting purposes. McKinsey also uses personally-identifiable information to perform statistical analyses of user behavior in order to measure interest in specific areas and information posted on our Site. McKinsey uses personally-identifiable information collected from cookies and IP addresses as described below. McKinsey may provide your personally-identifiable information to any of its affiliates worldwide for such purposes.

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McKinsey shall not intentionally disclose or transfer (and shall take reasonable steps to protect the confidentiality and security, and to prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure of) your personally-identifiable information to third parties (i.e., persons or entities that are not affiliates of McKinsey), whether for such third parties? marketing purposes or otherwise, subject only to the following four exceptions:

1. McKinsey may disclose your personally-identifiable information to third parties in the event that such disclosure is required by the laws, rules, or regulations of any nation, state, or other applicable jurisdiction;

2. McKinsey may disclose your contact information to third parties as appropriate for McKinsey to make transmissions or deliveries to you;

3. McKinsey may disclose your personally-identifiable information if, in connection with submitting the information, you consent to such disclosure; and

4. McKinsey may disclose contact information for you in response to inquiries by bona-fide rights owners in connection with allegations of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights arising from information you have posted on the Site or otherwise provided to McKinsey.

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McKinsey has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally-identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized McKinsey personnel are provided access to personally-identifiable information, and these employees are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, McKinsey cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personally-identifiable information.

Personally-identifiable information collected on the Site may be transferred from time to time to McKinsey offices or personnel, or to third parties, located throughout the world, including offices located outside the European Economic Area (EEA), and the Site may be viewed and hosted anywhere in the world, including countries (such as the United States) that may not have laws of general applicability regulating the use and transfer of such data. By using the Site and submitting such information on it, you voluntarily consent to such transborder transfer and hosting of such information.

McKinsey understands the importance of protecting children's privacy, especially in an on-line environment. The Site is not intentionally designed for or directed at children 13 years of age or younger, and McKinsey will not intentionally collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 13.

By using the Site, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your information by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy was last updated on July 23, 2003.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at McKinsey & Company, Legal Department, 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022.