Terms of Use

Over 20 years of Success

1988 TriNet founded by Martin Babinec in San Leandro, California with money from friends and family.

1995 TriNet first places in INC. Magazine's list of fastest-growing privately held U.S-based companies.

TriNet conducts its first online benefits enrollment.

TriNet receives its accreditation from ESAC, the nationally recognized entity that sets financial, responsibility standards and certification standards for HR service firms. TriNet has been recertified every year since 1995.

1997 TriNet signs its first Canadian-based customer.

1999 TriNet joins the INC. 500 Hall of Fame, an honor bestowed by the magazine for five consecutive years of rapid growth as a privately held company.

2000 TriNet launches HR Passport™, its secure online portal for self-directed manager and employee HR and payroll related transactions.

2002 TriNet moves to its new, larger corporate office location in San Leandro as a result of its rapid employee growth.

TriNet acquires assets of Boston-based outsourcer HR Logic and adds 62 new customers.

2003 TriNet completes its acquisition of the E3 Group and continues to expand its business operations.

TriNet acquires the west coast assets of ALTRES, a Hawaii-based PEO, and transitions over 60 new customers to its service platform.

2005 TriNet secures an equity investment from General Atlantic, LLC, one of the world's leading private equity investment firms with more than $17 billion under management.

2006 TriNet acquires the Outsource Group and brings aboard 200 new customers.

2007 TriNet acquires John Parry & Alexander (JPA), an HR outsourcing and consulting services company based in Walnut Creek, California, and adds over 20 new customers.

2008 TriNet celebrates its 20th anniversary.

Information We Collect

If you are a non-customer, the only information TriNet.com collects from you is your e-mail–and only if you decide to use the features in our "HR Knowledgebase" site. TriNet will never sell, borrow, or trade the e-mail addresses in our possession to any other company for the purpose of contacting you regarding commercial services.

Usage Tracking

We track user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites, but this tracking is never associated with non-registered individual users. We compile aggregate data mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), and what browser and computing platform you are using.

In addition, we use cookies on certain pages of our site. We may also offer certain features that are only available through the use of a cookie. Cookies enable you to enter your password less frequently during a session. Cookies can also help us provide you information that is targeted to your interests. Cookies are stored on your hard drive, not on our site. Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted at the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features on our site, and you may be required to reenter your password more frequently during a session.

If you send us personal correspondence, such as e-mails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you. If you submit questions via the "Ask an HR Specialist " section of our site, we may post your question on the site, and reprint it in various articles and customer communications. We will never include the name or contact information of people who submit questions, regardless of which channel we use to distribute content.

Use of Information

We use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to customize our site's content, layout, and services. We believe these uses allow us to improve our site and better tailor it to meet our users' needs.

We may also use information about you to deliver information to you that, in some cases, is targeted to your interests, such as new services and promotions. By accepting the User Agreement you expressly agree to permit us to provide these services, and you agree to receive this information.

We may use your e-mail address, mailing address, and phone number to respond to your requests for proposals, and to contact you regarding administrative notices, new product offerings, and communications relevant to your use of the site.

We use information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the site, to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement. At times, we may look across multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and we may evaluate information about you to look for users using multiple User IDs or aliases.

Disclosure of Information

Unfortunately, due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this User Agreement. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. By your use of the TriNet web site, you hereby accept these terms and you authorize us to disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability. Therefore, although we use Internet-standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will remain private always.

As a general proposition, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. The following describes some of the ways that personally identifiable information about you may be disclosed.

Legal Requests

We cooperate with law enforcement and other third parties to enforce laws, intellectual property and other rights. Therefore, local, state, federal and international law enforcement can request and may receive your personally identifiable information.

Suppliers and Other Service Providers

We may use third party Suppliers and Service Providers to facilitate our services. For example, we may outsource the operations of one or more aspects of our site to a Supplier or Service Provider who performs services according to our requirements. In all cases, we restrict how these Suppliers and Other Service Providers may access, use and disclose information received from our site. We do not permit these Suppliers and Other Service Providers to access information about you, other than that information necessary for them to complete the services for which they are contracted. Under no circumstances do we allow them to disclose, sell, lend or in any other way transmit data about you to third parties.

Control of Your Customer Log In Password—for Customers Only

Except as specifically permitted by this section, you may not disclose your password to any third party nor share it with any third party. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over personally identifiable information about you and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password. You may, however, disclose your password to certain third parties with whom we have entered into specific contractual and technical arrangements designed to safeguard your password ("Authorized Password Users"), in order to enjoy the benefits of those third parties' services in relation to our services.

Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Identifiable Information—for Customers Only
Once you receive a username and password for "Customer Log In," you can review and change the information you submitted during registration. You must promptly update your registration information if it changes.

We will retain in our files information you have requested be removed in some circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement. Further, such prior information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical constraints and the fact that we back up our systems. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests.

Security

We use Internet-standard efforts, such as firewalls and Secure Socket Layers (SSL), to safeguard the confidentiality of personally identifiable information about you. Using SSL means that data such as names and passwords cannot be easily deciphered by outside users. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.

Changes in this Privacy Policy

TriNet reserves the right to change the terms of this User Agreement at any time without prior notice given to users of this site. Please check here regularly to be sure you learn and understand any changes to the policy.

Legal Disclaimer

TriNet.com contains a great deal of content regarding legal and human resource matters. This content has been prepared for educational and information purposes only. The content does not provide legal advice or legal opinions on any specific matters. Transmission of this information is not intended to create, and receipt does not constitute, a lawyer-client relationship between TriNet, the author(s), or the publishers and you. You should not act or refrain from acting on any legal matter based on TriNet.com content without seeking professional counsel.