Privacy Policy
Updated January 28, 2018
This Privacy Policy describes the how Global Recruiter (“Global Recruiter,” “we” or “us”) collects, uses and discloses the information we collect about our users (“you”), when you use our website, including www.GlobalRecruiter.org, and related pages (the “Site”) and the services available through the Site (the Site and our services, together are the “Services”). This policy applies to personal information about individuals and does not apply to the information collected, used or disclosed with respect to corporate or commercial entities. By using the Site or the Services, you consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Privacy Policy. Your use of our Site or Services, and any dispute over privacy, is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including its applicable limitations on damages and the resolution of disputes. Please read this Privacy Policy to learn more about the ways in which we collect, use and share the information we collect about you.- Information We Collect
- How We Use The Information We Collect
- Disclosure of Personal Information
- “Cookies” and Tracking Technologies
- Do Not Track Disclosure
- Third-Party Ad Networks
- Recruiters, Employers, and Job Seekers
- User Reviews and User Generated Content
- How To Access and Update Your Personal Information
- Newsletters and Communications from Us
- Security
- Third Party Websites
- Your California Privacy Rights
- Children
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
- Contact Us
Information We Collect
We may collect information about you directly from you and from third party sources, as well as automatically through your use of our Site and Services. Information We Collect Directly From You We may collect information directly from you. For example, if you register for or use our Services, we may collect your name, email address, photograph, zip code, company name, current or past employers, dates of employment, employee referral information, income information, resumes, and any other information that you submit as part of your profile or that may be useful in helping us to match job seekers and employers; if you pay for our Services, we will collect your payment information, including payment card number and billing address. We will also collect any other information that you provide to us, including information about your contacts and connections if you share such information with us. Information We Collect From Other Sources We may also collect information about you from other sources, including recruiters and employers, publicly available information, social networking platforms, and other third parties. You may be able to connect other social networking accounts (e.g., LinkedIn, Google+) with your Global Recruiter account in order to share your contacts and connections with us. If you do this, we will collect information about your contacts and connections (and any other information you grant us permission to access). We will use this information as set forth below. You may also be able to log in to our Site through third-party platforms (e.g., LinkedIn, Google+). If you connect to our Services through a third party platform, we will ask your permission to obtain certain information about you from that platform, (e.g., email address, profile information, and friends or contact list). In addition, we may collect information about you from a contact of yours who may have shared your information with us, such as for referral purposes. Information We Collect Automatically We may track clickstream data, viewing data, searches submitted through the Site and Services, and other data to monitor utilization and to improve the user experience. We also automatically collect the certain usage information through cookies, web beacons, log files, javascript and other technologies, including: domain name; browser type and operating system; web pages viewed; link clicked; searches, including search terms; IP address; date and time stamp and the length of time using Site or Services; referring URL (of website that led you to our Site). Generally, we use this information to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Site, analyze trends, track users’ movement on our Site, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the Site and our Services, and to deliver customized, personalized content. We also may track and use your location information to customize the information that we provide to you and to display targeted ads on our Site and on third-party websites. Please see the “Third-Party Ad Networks” section below for more information.How We Use The Information We Collect
As permitted by applicable law, we retain and use the information we collect about you for the following reasons:- Provide Services. To provide our Services to you, including to share information between and among job seekers, recruiters, and employers; to communicate with you about your use of our Services; to respond to your inquiries; to fulfill your requests; to authenticate users; to process payments; and for other customer service purposes.
- Improve Services. To understand how users access and use our Site and Services, both on an aggregated and individualized basis, in order to improve our Site and Services and respond to user desires and preferences.
- Personalize Content. To tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you, to offer location customization, and personalized help and instructions, and to otherwise personalize your experiences while using the Site or Services.
- Marketing. To send marketing and other promotional information, including information about jobs and third party products and services in which we think you may be interested.
- Referrals. To make suggestions to you about your connections that may be potential referral candidates for open positions at your current place of employment.
- Legal Requirements. As necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements (including this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use), to protect or defend our rights, to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, and situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.
- Business Operations. We may also use information in the normal course or our business, such as for accounting, reporting, evaluation, and internal auditing.
- Aggregate or De-identified Information. We may also use aggregate or de-identified information about users for other marketing, research, and other purposes.
Disclosure of Information
We may disclose the information we collect about you, including your personal information, as explained below. You can make certain profile information private, by logging into your account and adjusting your profile visibility.
- Global Recruiter Users. We may disclose the information we collect about you with other Global Recruiter users. For example, if you are a job seeker, we may disclose your information to recruiters and employers. If you are a recruiter or employer and you have created a profile or job opportunity, all information that you post will public and visible to job seekers seeking job opportunities and other visitors to the Site. In addition, user profiles may be indexed and displayed through third-party public search engines. Job seekers may make certain profile information private by adjusting their profile settings. Please see the Recruiters, Employers and Job Seekers section below for more information.
- Publicly Available Information. Certain information, such as your resume and certain profile information, may be available publicly through the Site and indexed through a search engine; job seekers may make certain profile information private by adjusting their profile settings.
- Affiliates. We may share the information we collect about you with any current or future subsidiaries or affiliated companies, who may use it consistent with this Policy.
- Service Providers. We may share the information we collect about you with our contractors and service providers who perform functions on our behalf, such as payment processing and data hosting.
- Other Third Parties. As permitted by applicable law, we may share the information we collect about you with unaffiliated third parties, including so that those third parties may market to you. If you are a California resident, please see the “Your California Privacy Rights” section below for more information.
- Legal Process. We also may disclose the information we collect about you in order to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal processes, such as in response to a subpoena.
- To Protect Us and Others. We also may disclose the information we collect about you where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
- Business Transfers. We may disclose the information we collect about you to another entity in connection with, including during negotiations of, an acquisition or merger, sale or transfer of all or part of our business or assets, a bankruptcy proceeding, or as part of any other similar business transfer.
“Cookies” and Tracking Technologies
We and our third-party providers use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about the use of our Site and Services, which we may combine with other information we collect from you. We use this information to enhance and personalize your experience while using the Services, to understand how users use our Services, and to improve our Services. We may also use cookies and tracking mechanisms to serve our remarketing campaigns so that third-party vendors, including Google, Twitter, and Facebook, show our ads on sites across the Internet. We may also use targeted advertising services to tailor our advertisements (both on the Website and on other sites) to your interests. You can opt out of these remarketing campaigns as described below. Cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that websites transfer to your computer, through your web browser, for record-keeping purposes. Use of cookies makes web-surfing easier by performing certain functions such as saving your passwords and your preferences regarding use of the particular website. Cookies also allow us to track your activities at our Site and provide you with personalized content and advertising. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. The “Help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your computer from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. If you disable cookies, however, our Site will not function properly. Web beacons. Web beacons (a.k.a. clear GIFs, pixel tags, and web bugs) are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, which are used to track the online movements of website users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, web beacons are embedded invisibly on web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We may use web beacons, in connection with our Site, to among other things, track the activities of Site visitors, help us manage content, and compile statistics about Site usage. We and our third-party service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML e-mails to our users, to help us track e-mail response rates, identify when our e-mails are viewed, and track whether our e-mails are forwarded. Third Party Analytics. We use tools and applications to evaluate usage of our Site. We use these tools to help us improve our Services, performance and user experiences. We do not share your personal information with these third parties. However, these third parties may combine the information that we provide about you with other information that they have collected. This Privacy Policy does not cover such third parties’ use of the data.Do Not Track Disclosure
Our Site does not respond to Do Not Track signals. You may, however, disable certain tracking as discussed above (e.g., by disabling cookies). You may disable certain tracking as discussed above in the “Cookies” and Other Tracking Technologies section (e.g., by disabling cookies).Third-Party Ad Networks
We may display targeted ads and personalized content to users on the Site and within the Services, as part of Global Recruiter direct online display advertising, based on our user information as well as your activities within the Services.. We also use third parties such as network advertisers to display advertisements on our Sites or other websites, based on your visits to our Site as well as other websites. We also may provide these third-party advertisers with information about your usage of our Site and Services, as well as aggregate or non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our Site and users of our service.To opt out of targeted marketing by us please use as follows:
- US Users: For more information and to opt out of ad networks operated by members of the Digital Advertising Association (DAA), visit the DAA AdChoices page: www.aboutads.info/choices.
- Canadian Users: Users in Canada should go to the DAA’s Canadian AdChoices page: http://youradchoices.ca/choice….