(as of June 1, 2020)
Introduction and Acceptance of Privacy Policy
Information We Collect
How We Use Personal Information Collected
Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we do not disclose, display or share your Personal Information to or with third parties without your permission. We use Personal Information we collect on the Site or through use of the Services for the following purposes:
Who We Share Your Personal Information With
Updating Account Information
Important Tips for Job Seekers to Use When Dealing With Prospective Employers
Opt-In/Opt-Out Policy
Cookies & Other Tracking Technologies
The types of cookies and similar technologies used by us and our partners in connection with the Site and Services can be classified into one of five categories, namely 'essential cookies', 'functionality cookies', 'analytics cookies', 'advertising cookies', and ' social media cookies'. Cookies do a lot of different tasks to ensure you enjoy your visit to our Site, for example, they are used to remember your preferences on sites you visit and to help you navigate between pages more efficiently. We have set out some further information about each category, and the purposes of the cookies we and third parties set in the following table.
Type of cookie | What it does |
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Cookies necessary for essential purposes | These cookies are essential to provide you with the Site and Services and any services available through this and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like transactional pages and secure login accounts, would not be possible. |
Functionality Cookies | Functionality cookies record information about choices you've made and allow us to tailor the Site and Services to you. These cookies mean that when you continue to use or come back to the Site, we can provide you with our Services as you have asked for them to be provided. These cookies allow us to:
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Analytics Cookies | We use analytics cookies to analyze how the Site and Services are accessed, used, or is performing in order to provide you with a better user experience, to allow our employer customers to see how you interact with their content on the Site and through use of our Services, and to maintain, operate and continually improve the Site and Services. We also use Google Analytics, which is a web analytics tool that helps us understand how Users engage with the Site and Services. Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track user interactions, as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how Users use our Site and Services. This information is used to compile reports and to help us improve our Site and Services. The reports disclose website trends without identifying individual visitors. For more information on Google Analytics, see here. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Analytics cookies allow us to:
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Advertising and Targeting Cookies | We allow third party companies, including advertising companies, to place cookies on our Site. These cookies enable such companies to track your activity across various sites where they display ads and record your activities so they can show ads that they consider relevant to you as you browse the Internet. Cookies also allow us and third parties to know whether you have seen an ad or a type of ad, and how long it has been since you've last seen it. This information is used for frequency capping purposes, to help tailor the ads you see, and to measure the effectiveness of ads. |
Social Media Cookies | On some pages of our Site, third parties that provide applications through our Site will set their own cookies in order to track the success of their applications or customize applications for you. Because of how cookies work, we cannot access these cookies, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used by us. Some pages of our Site will also contain embedded content, such as video content from YouTube, and these sites will set their own cookies. These cookies are used when you share an article using a social media sharing button on our Site (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, or Google Plus) as the social network that has created the button will record that you have done this. If you are logged in to your account with the third party, the third party will be able to link information about you with your actions via cookies. |
Children Under 13 Are Prohibited from using the Site and Services
Security
Your California Rights
Privacy Policy Changes
Questions or Concerns
If you are a User located in the EU or UK, please read this additional information about how we process your Personal Information. This is in addition to what we have described above.
We are the data controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and applicable data protection laws.
Legal Basis for Processing your Personal Information
Personal Information | Use | Legal Basis for Processing |
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Account data such as your name and contact details. | To create your account for the Services in accordance with your request. | We need this information to fulfil our contractual obligations with you to provide and support the Services. |
Information that you provide to us, such as your work and academic history and demographic information. This information may be provided to us through documents you upload or responses you give to our surveys. | To allow you to prepare and search for job opportunities, and interact with our career coaches. We also use this to send job postings to you in accordance with our contract with you. |
We need this information to fulfil our contractual obligations with you to provide and support the Services. It is in our legitimate business interests to provide you with a relevant service and to analyze how Users are interacting with our Site and Services so that we can improve our products and provide a better service |
Analytics data, such as through spot light ads, cookies, JavaScript, web beacons, GIF and/or pixel tags. | To provide data analytics on platform usage and your engagement with our Site and Services. | It is in our legitimate business interests to analyze how Users are interacting with our Site and Services so that we can improve our products and provide a better service. |
Marketing analytics data. | If you click on a link or interact with content that advertises the Services, we will store this information and certain marketing analytics with your profile. | It is in our legitimate business interests to analyze how Users are interacting with our Site and Services so that we can improve our products and provide a better service. |
Market research. | If you do not opt out of market research surveys. | It is in our legitimate business interests to better understand concerns of our Users. |
Marketing data. | If you elect to participate in surveys or sign up to receive our promotions. | With your consent. |
Contact information. | To send you materials about our Services such as job postings you sign up for. | We need this information to fulfil our contractual obligations with you to provide and support the Services. You can opt out of certain communications channels – see section 7 of the Privacy Policy above. |
Customer Support Ticket ID and User Communications with Support. | To allow you to provide feedback on our services and to provide troubleshooting such as addressing and remedying technical issues. | We need this information to fulfil our contractual obligations with you to provide and support the Services. It is in our legitimate business interest to ensure the proper functioning of our Services. |
Technical data, such as operating software, device hardware and IP address. | We use this information to improve our services and optimization, for security and verification purposes and to identify and address bugs. | It is in our legitimate business interest to ensure the security of our Services, to manage registrations and to improve our Services. |
Data Transfers
How Long We Retain Your Data For
In accordance with the appropriate statutory limitation periods as provided by local law, we may retain your information for longer than stated above for as long as such Personal Information is needed for the following reasons:
Your Rights
Under the GDPR you have a number of rights with regard to your personal data (as defined in the GDPR). In certain circumstances, you have the right:
Questions or Concerns