Your Privacy Rights
Xpat Jobs is committed to protecting the privacy of our users, and strives
to provide a safe, secure user experience. This Privacy Policy sets forth
the online data collection and usage policies and practices that apply to
this web site.
By registering or by using this site, you explicitly accept, without limitation or qualification, the collection, use and transfer of the personal information provided by you in the manner described in this Policy. Please read this Policy carefully as it affects your rights and liabilities under law. If you disagree with the way we collect and process personal information collected on the Web site, please do not use it.
Scope of this Policy
This Policy applies to Xpat Jobs.com (the “Site” or Sites”),
which is owned by Amroth Media Ltd. and controlled by Amroth Media Ltd. It
is Xpat Jobs’s policy to comply with data protection legislation. This
regulates the processing of information relating to you and grants you various
rights in respect of your personal data.
The Sites contain links to other web sites over which we have no control. Xpat Jobs is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other web sites to which you choose to link from this site. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other web sites so you can understand how they collect, use and share your information./p>
We also do not control the data use practices of either (a) employers or others who may access your information on this site, or (b) third party Ad Networks and other third parties with whom we work to serve you personalized ads on our sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and opt-out choices of those third parties so you can understand how they collect, use and share your information.
Information We Collect and Retain
You do not have to give us any personal information in order to perform job
searches or to read the content portions of our Site. We collect the following
general types of information about you when you visit our Sites: personal
information, demographic information, behavioural information, and indirect
information. Sometimes we collect combinations of all these types of information.
In each case, it is indicated on the web site whether any personal or demographic
data must be provided to use the requested service or not.
Personal information is information that can be used to identify you, or any other individual to whom the information may relate, personally. We do not collect personal information unless you choose to provide it to us. Some examples of personal information that we collect in some areas of our Site, depending on the services you use and local law, are:
• Your name
• Address
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Contact information
• Information about third parties, such as references or contacts, that
you provide to us if you have their express written consent to do so
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Demographic information is information that is not unique to you in the sense
that it refers to selected population characteristics, such as your ZIP code
or postal code, age, preferences, gender, race or ethnicity, occupation, career
history, interests and favorites.
We also collect behavioural information regarding how you use our sites and mobile applications, the areas of our site that you visit, what services you access, and information about your computer hardware and software including your IP address, geolocation, browser and operating system type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is necessary for analysing the use of resources, troubleshooting problems, preventing fraud, and improving our services.
In addition, Xpat Jobs may collect indirect information about you when you use certain third party services on our web site. For example if you provide a title of ‘Mrs.’ we will assume you are female.
We may personalize the advertising that you are shown on our sites or other sites with which we have a business relationship. In order to provide this personalization, in addition to information we collect about you on our sites, we acquire information (including personal, demographic, behavioural and indirect information) about you from third parties who provide it to us.
How Information is Used
We use the information we gather on the web site for the purposes of providing
our services, responding to any queries you may have, operating and improving
the web site, fostering a positive user experience and delivering the products
and services that we offer to jobseekers and employers. Our services include
the display of personalized products, content, and advertising relating to
your career experience and interests, either on our site or other sites with
which we have a business relationship. The information we gather on any Xpat
Jobs web site may be shared within the Amroth Media group of companies on
a worldwide basis, in order to deliver these products and services. Some Xpat
Jobs companies may be located in countries that do not have legislation that
guarantees adequate protection of personal information as defined by your
country of residence.
By registering with Xpat Jobs, by managing your profile, or opting in when presented with choices, you have consented for us to use your information, subject to local law, in the following ways:
• to allow you to create an account;
• to create a profile for you based on information that you have provided
to us;
• to contact you about Xpat Jobs Site updates, informational and service-related
communications, including important security updates;
• to provide you additional communications, information, and promotions
such as newsletters and career advice;
• to inform you of other products or services available from Xpat Jobs
or its affiliates (“Affiliates” means entities that control, are
controlled by or are under common control with Amroth Media Ltd.)
• to enable you to provide feedback, to contact us and for us to respond
to you;
• to receive job alert emails from Xpat Jobs or its partner sites.
• to conduct surveys, questionnaires, promotions and contests, and to
provide the results thereof such as success stories and contest winners;
• to provide information about you and your potential interest in job
postings to employer customers;
• to provide products and services to employer customers to complete
the recruitment and hiring process, such as accessing the searchable CV database;
• to provide products and services that enable users to network, post
information on bulletin boards, view and compare profiles, and career background
and experience;
• to generate internal reports about the use of our site; and
• to provide ‘forward to a friend’ features.
Some of our products and services, such as our searchable CV database and networking, enable third parties to see your personal information and to contact you. Profile information may be used for networking with other community members or may be visible to employers who are using the Xpat Jobs Sites.
Information you post in public areas of the site or placed in the searchable CV database will be accessed, used, and stored by others around the world, including those in countries that might not have legislation that guarantees adequate protection of personal information as defined by your country of residence. By providing your personal information for inclusion in our database, you acknowledge that you consent to your information being used as described here. While Xpat Jobs takes measures to safeguard your information from unauthorized access or inappropriate use by third parties, Xpat Jobs does not control these third parties and we are not responsible for their use of information you post or otherwise make available in public areas of the Xpat Jobs Sites. Accordingly, you should ensure that you do not post sensitive information, including personality profiles, to any Xpat Jobs Site.
Disclosure of Information to Others
We disclose to third parties within your country and abroad your personal
information, combined personal, demographic, behavioural or indirect information,
as set forth below.
1. We may share your information with third parties who help us in the delivery of our own products and services to you. We disclose information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include hosting our web servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. These companies and individuals may be located in a country whose data protection legislation is different from your country, and they will have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any other third party or use that data for any other purpose. We will remain the data controller and be responsible for any information shared in this way.
2. We may disclose such information to third parties if you consent to such disclosure. For example, on upload your CV becomes searchable, all parties with access to our searchable CV database (or copies thereof) will have access to your CV. If you indicate by configuring your profile that you would like to receive information about the opportunities, products or services of third parties, we supply your contact information to select third parties such as employers, recruiters, data aggregators, marketers or others for the purpose of sending you e-mail or otherwise communicating with you. We use data we have about you (such as the interests and preferences you have expressed) to determine whether you might be interested in the opportunities, products or services of a particular third party.
We also share aggregated anonymous information about visitors to the Sites with Xpat Jobs’s clients, partners, other Site visitors, and other third parties so that they can understand the kinds of visitors to the Sites and how those visitors use the Sites in order to serve advertisements to you on our Sites or other sites with which we have a business relationship. We may also aggregate data regarding job qualifications, schooling, age, experience level or other information relevant to the job search or competition among job seekers for any such job. Such aggregated data does not identify users individually, and may be made available to employers or fellow job seekers or community members.
We supply technology, hosting, hiring management and related services to other leading companies to power recruitment areas on their Web sites (sometimes referred to as “Hosted Career Sites”). Personal and/or demographic information supplied by you in Hosted Career Sites becomes part of the Xpat Jobs database, but it is not accessible by anyone other than you, Xpat Jobs, and the company concerned without your consent. If you attempt to register with Xpat Jobs after registering with a Hosted Career Site, Xpat Jobs will recognise your information and you will be able to use the information you provided to the Hosted Career Site in your account registration.
Information gathered on a page in a Hosted Career Site area or on a co-branded page may be retained by both Xpat Jobs and the other company. In that instance, the use of such information by the other company will be subject to the privacy policy of that company and Xpat Jobs is not responsible for that company's use of your personal or demographic information.
If you apply for a position through a Hosted Career Site or a co-branded site, you may be asked to provide information on your age, gender, race where permitted by law. You should understand that, if provided, this information should only be used by employers in accordance with applicable law. However, Xpat Jobs is not responsible for the actions of such employers. All such information provided will be kept separate by Xpat Jobs from your expression of interest in any job opportunity. Providing this information is strictly voluntary and you will not be subject to any adverse action or treatment from Xpat Jobs if you choose not to provide this information.
If you apply for a position on Xpat Jobs through a Hosted Career Site, you may be asked to provide information on your gender, race, other protected status, or for a government identity number where permitted by applicable law. Some employers are required by law to gather this information from job applicants for reporting and record-keeping requirements. You should understand that if provided, this information may only be used by employers only in accordance with applicable law and they should not use it in making any negative employment decisions. All information provided will be kept separate from your expression of interest in any job opportunity. Providing this information is subject to local law.
3. We disclose information if legally required to do so, or at our discretion pursuant to a request from a governmental entity or if we believe in good faith – after considering your privacy interests and other factors – that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (b) protect our rights or property or our affiliated companies; (c) prevent a crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users or the public. Because Amroth Media Ltd is a UK company and information collected on our Sites is stored in whole or in part in the UK, your information may become subject to U.K. Law.
4. We may disclose and transfer such information to a third party who acquires any or all of Xpat Jobs’s business units, whether such acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation or purchase of all or a substantial portion of our assets. In addition, in the event Xpat Jobs becomes the subject of an insolvency proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, Xpat Jobs or its liquidator, administrator, receiver or administrative receiver may sell, license or otherwise dispose of such information in a transaction approved by the court. You will be notified of the sale of all or a substantial portion of our business to a third party by email or through a prominent notice posted on the Sites.
Again, in each of these situations, the recipients of your data may potentially be located in any country in the world. If you are a resident in any EU member state, for example, you must be aware that the EU authorities do not generally consider that the regulations of non-EU countries ensure an adequate or equivalent level of protection as compared to the EU data protection regulations.
An Important Note about Your CV
When you create or post a CV to the Sites, that CV is stored in our searchable
CV database in the UK. You may control the status of your CV by setting it
to private or public.
If you set your CV as private, it is not searchable by potential employers or other with access to our CV database. You may still use your CV to apply online to a job. If you do apply online to a job, your CV will be transferred to the relevant employer, who may retain a copy of your CV or distribute it to third parties, subject to local law. We cannot control their use or retention of your CV information.
If you allow your CV to be searchable, then all parties with access to our searchable CV database (or copies thereof) will have access to your CV. Employers or other parties with access to our searchable CV database may be located in countries whose data protection legislation may not be equivalent to the laws in your country. For example, your CV may be viewed and accessed by employers outside the European Economic Area who have access to our searchable database. By making your CV searchable, you are expressly consenting to such transfers of data.
We attempt to limit access to our searchable CV database to legitimate users such as paying employers, recruiters, hiring managers, headhunters and human resource professionals, as well as law enforcement and national security agencies, but cannot guarantee that other parties will not gain access to this database. We cannot control the use made of CVs by third parties who access such CVs while they are in our searchable database. You may remove your CV from our searchable database at any time; details of how to do this are given below. However, employers, recruiters and others who have paid for access to that database, as well as parties who have otherwise gained access to the database may have retained a copy of your CV in their own files or databases. We cannot control the retention, use or privacy of CVs or profiles that have been downloaded by third parties. Accordingly, you should not put sensitive information, personality profiles, or other information you would not want made public, in your CV.
If you provide us with details of a reference, it is your responsibility to ensure that the person is aware that you have forwarded his/her details and has consented in writing for you to do so.
Your CV must not contain sensitive data relating to your (i) racial or ethnic origin (ii) political beliefs (iii) philosophical or religious beliefs (iv) membership of a trade union or political party (v) physical or mental health or genetic makeup (vi) addictions, sexual life (vii) the commission of criminal offences or proceedings and associated penalties or fines, or (viii) any Social Security Number or national identification number, if you set your CV as private unless you have previously sent to us your written consent that we may process your sensitive personal data, if Xpat Jobs determines this to be a requirement of applicable law. If your CV does contain such data and you set your CV as public, then you agree that we may retain this information and use it in accordance with this Statement. We cannot control third parties’ access to such information from our searchable database.
Posting Your Information to Public Areas of Xpat Jobs
Please remember that if you post any of your personal information in the searchable
CV database, such information may be collected and used by others over whom
Xpat Jobs has no control. We cannot control the use made by third parties
of information you post or otherwise make available in public areas of Xpat
Jobs.
Your Choices About Your Information
Because managing your career is a life-long process, we retain all the information
we gather about you in an effort to make your repeat use with us more efficient,
practical and relevant until you change or remove your personal data as described
below. You may have access to, review, correct, update, change or delete your
account profile information or CV at any time. Simply log into your account,
go to your profile or CV, and make the necessary changes. You may delete your
CV from Xpat Jobs’s online database at any time by accessing your account.
Before providing you with a copy of your personal information or correcting,
updating or deleting such information, we reserve the right to verify and
authenticate your identity and the personal information to which you have
requested access. Access to or correction, updating or deletion of your personal
information may be denied or limited by Xpat Jobs if it would violate another
person’s rights and/or as otherwise permitted by applicable law. We
will respond to information access requests within 30 days of receipt. If
we require additional time to provide access to your information, we will
acknowledge receipt of your request within 30 days and promptly supplement
our response within the time period required by applicable law. We will respond
to information access requests within 30 days of receipt. If we require additional
time to provide access to your information, we will acknowledge receipt of
your request within 30 days and promptly supplement our response within the
time period required by applicable law.
If you wish to delete or close your account or account profile information altogether, please contact accounts@xpatjobs.com An email will be sent to you to confirm that your personal information has been deleted (save for an archival copy which is not accessible by you or third parties on the Internet). The archival copy is retained only for as long as Xpat Jobs reasonably considers necessary for audit and record purposes. We will also retain logs, demographic, indirect, and statistical information that may relate to you but do not identify you personally. If your personal information was previously accessed by others using our Sites, we are not able to delete the information or copies thereof from their systems.
If you are a job seeker with a public CV and have not logged onto the web site for an extended period, we may make your CV unsearchable. Separately, and regardless of your CV privacy setting, if you do not log into your account for a significant period of time, it will expire and be scheduled for deletion. Our current expiration and deletion period is 36 months; we may extend or reduce this period in order to adjust to changing hiring patterns. If we change the period, we will update this notice. You will always receive an email from us before we delete your CV, and you always have the ability to delete your CV at any time by logging into your account. Deletion of expired accounts occurs on a periodic basis and includes the deletion of all applicable account data including CVs and contact information.
If you do not want your information to be processed as described by this policy, you make revoke your consent to our Privacy Policy. If you wish to do so, please contact us at accounts@xpatjobs.com However, please note that if you do withdraw your consent, you may not be able to use the relevant services and your account and profile information will be deleted.
Important Information
Security
You are responsible for ensuring that your log-in credentials (your username
and password) are kept confidential.
Xpat Jobs has implemented technical and organisational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorised access, use, alteration or disclosure. Notwithstanding such measures, the Internet is an open system and we cannot guarantee that unauthorised third parties will not be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. Moreover, one of our primary purposes is to provide you with a platform to broadcast the information in your CV and profile widely in order to maximise your career opportunities. Such an environment does present a risk that unauthorised third parties will view this data, so you should refer to our Security Centre for additional information on conducting a safe job search. Further, your CV should not contain any sensitive data including personality profiles or data that you would not want made public. You should be aware that CVs you complete at your current place of work may be monitored by your current employer.
Children
Xpat Jobs is not intended for, nor do we knowingly collect information from,
children under the age of 18.
Changes to Privacy Statement
If we decide to materially change the substance of this Privacy Statement,
we will, where required, contact you via the email address that you maintain
in your profile. We will also post those changes through a prominent notice
on the web site so that you will always know what information we gather, how
we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it.
Use of Cookies
Cookies: Xpat Jobs uses "cookies" to help personalise and maximise
your online experience and time online, including for storing user preferences,
improving search results and ad selection, and tracking user trends.
A cookie is a text file that is either stored in your computer’s memory temporarily (a “session” cookie) or placed on your hard drive (a “persistent” cookie) by a Web page server. Cookies are not used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
When you return to the Xpat Jobs site, cookies enable us to retrieve the information you previously provided, so you can easily use the features that you customised. Because of our use of cookies, we can deliver faster and more accurate results and a more personalised site experience. For example, if you personalise Xpat Jobs pages, or register for services, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information (such as user name, password and preferences).
We predominately use “session” cookies, which are not permanently stored on your hard drive. Session cookies expire after two hours of inactivity or when you close your browser. When you carry out a job search or apply online a large amount of data is processed by our system and transferred through each page of the search or application process. This information includes your job search criteria, data that identifies your CV, covering letter, the job you are applying for, your right to work in the relevant country and the results of any questionnaire you have completed as part of the online application process as well as demographic information that is not unique to you. “Session” cookies allow us to keep track of this data until you have completed your search or application. We also use cookies to identify users who have been banned from using our forums for behaviour that contradicts our terms of use and to track click streams, for load balancing and to enable you to navigate through the site using redirection pages.
We use “persistent” cookies primarily to ensure that we do not show you pages that you have already seen and to personalize your site experience and save you time. “Persistent” Cookies enable us to recognize whether you have responded to any poll or seen an advertisement or information notice placed on the site so that we do not show you the poll, advertisement or notice again the next time you visit our site. If you are a recruiter and have an alliance arrangement in place with Xpat Jobs we also use “persistent” cookies to recall your alliance status and display your correct pricing information when you access our site. The “persistent” cookies we use will remain on your computer after you have left our site and will expire when you log out of the Site or 60 days after your last visit for security cookies, 90 days after your last visit for poll response and alliance cookies, or two years after your last visit for advertisement and information notice cookies.
We also allow other companies to display advertisements to you while you are visiting our Sites. Because your web browser must request these advertisements from the other companies’ servers, these companies can view, edit or set their own cookies, just as if you had requested a web page from their site. Xpat Jobs has no control over, and is not responsible for, the practices of those third party advertisers. Xpat Jobs encourages you to review the policies of such advertisers. We use other third party ad servers as well; a way to opt out of third party cookies is to modify your browser settings to decline cookies as described at the end of this statement.
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