Privacy Policy
Last updated 17/02/10
We at NIjobs.com care about your privacy and we respect your privacy rights.
NIjobs.com has created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm commitment
to privacy. The following outlines this commitment to users as we want to
be able to provide everyone with a user experience that is safe and secure.
NIjobs.com wants to ensure, to our best efforts, that any information you
give us remains private and are used only for the purposes outlined in this
Policy.
By using the Website and/or the NIjobs.com Service, you permit the collection
and use of your personal information as outlined below and you signify your
agreement to this Privacy Policy ( last updated on 17.02.2009 ).
If you do not agree with these terms, you should not use the Website and/or
an NIjobs.com Service.
About our Privacy Policy
Site Security
How we Collect Information on NIjobs.com
Uses Made of the Information
NIjobs.com Services
Disclosure of your Information to Other People
Security and Control of your Personal Data
Links to Third Party Websites
IP Addresses and Cookies
Access to Information and Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal
Data
Copyright Statement
Changes to our Privacy Policy
User Feedback and Complaints
About our Privacy Policy
- Our website NIJOBS.COM which includes any webpage containing this domain
name, including any page that is enabled for use by a mobile device or
any webpage redirected from another domain name (the “Website" )
and the services provided on the Website (for a more complete description
of the services see our Terms and Conditions )
(the "NIjobs.com Service ")
are operated by NIjobs.com, 239 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7EN, Northern
Ireland
(" we ", "us " and "our ").
The Website and the NIjobs.com Service help people find, advertise, apply
for or express interest in vacancies, and provide employment, consultant
or contractor related information.
- This policy, our Terms and Conditions and any
other documents referred to in either of them set out the basis on which
any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will
be processed by us. If you are a Customer (i.e. a recruiter) then the NIjobs.com
Customer Terms also form part of your agreement with us. Please read the
following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your
personal data and how we will treat it.
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Site Security
NIjobs.com is committed to protecting the information you provide us with.
To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure of information under our control,
NIjobs.com has appropriate security management systems in place to safeguard
the information we collect.
Firewalls, Intrusion Detection and Virus Scanners are used on all parts
of the NIjobs.com website. Encryption during transmission is also used
on sections of the site where security is particularly important.
While NIjobs.com makes every effort to protect all personal information,
we recognise that unfortunately no data transmission over the Internet can
be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result NIjobs.com cannot ensure or
warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, you do so at
your own risk.
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How we Collect Information on NIjobs.com
- When registering as a user of the Website or during your time as a user
of the Website you will be asked to provide information to us. We will
inform you at the time of collecting information from you whether you must
provide the information to use the Website or a particular NIjobs.com
Service, or whether the provision of information requested by us is optional
. We will inform you at the time of collecting information from you whether
the information that you provide to us will be accessible to other users
of the Website or by third parties, so that you can decide whether to provide
the information to us.
- We may collect and process the following data about you:
- if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence;
- information that you submit in response to surveys or polls;
- details of applications for employment positions that you make using
the Website;
- details of resumes or curricula vitae which you make available on the
Website for third parties to browse in connection with employment, consultant
or contractor positions;
- details of your visits to the Website including, but not limited to,
traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether
this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources
that you access;
- proof of identity that we request from you before we disclose personal
information to you that we hold (in order to establish that we are disclosing
the personal data to you and not to someone pretending to be you); and
- personal details that you submit to us, such as your name, address,
telephone number, email address, gender and date of birth.
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Uses Made of the Information
- NIjobs.com's Customers post information about employment, consultant
or contractor vacancies on the Website, whether on their own behalf or,
if a recruitment or consultancy, on behalf of third parties (“Job Specifications").
These Job Specifications can then be accessed and read by other users of
the Website. You can search for registered Customers of the Website, whether
they are direct employers or agencies. NIjobs.com does not vet or monitor
the Job Specifications in terms of their terms and conditions applicable
to the use of your personal information.
- We use information held about you in the following ways:
- to provide registered Customers of the Website with the information
that you submit to the Website in response to a Job Specification. Submission
of information by you to a particular Job Specification is treated by
us to be permission to forward to that information to the Customer or
Customers that have posted that Job Specification only;
- if you choose to be a registered user of the Website, we will display
details of the personal information about you that you submit to the
Website for registered Customers of the Website, so that Customers are
able to evaluate whether you are a suitable candidate for a vacant position
(whether or not a Job Specification); you will be able to control the
type of personal information about you which will be displayed in this
way through your user account;
- to ensure that content from the Website is presented in the most effective
manner for you and for your computer;
- to provide you with information, products or services that you request
from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to
be contacted for such purposes;
- to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service,
when you choose to do so; and
- to notify you about changes to our service.
- We may also use your email address to send you updates or news regarding
the Website or a NIjobs.com Service, but you may choose not to receive
emails of this type by accessing your "My Career Manager Account" page
of the Website and updating your notification settings . Additionally,
we or a registered Customer may use your email address to contact you where
you are a registered user or if you have responded to a Job Specification.
- We do not request (nor encourage you) to submit sensitive data to the
Website, (ie data relating to racial or ethnic origin, political or religious
opinions, membership of a trade union, physical or mental health or condition
or sexual life, the commission of any offence or related documentation).
If, however, you choose to do so then you consent to our processing this
data in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy.
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NIjobs.com Services
Client Profiles
NIjobs.com vacancy advertising clients are given the option to have a
profile page on site. This includes information related to their company
such as; company logo, contact details, company profile, web address and
related links. This information is disclosed for your convenience and information,
however if you access some of the links and web addresses disclosed on these
pages, you will leave the NIjobs.com website.
Some NIjobs.com clients are advertised on site under featured employer
member pages; which means NIjobs.com host a number of their web pages on
our server to provide users with an experience similar to the recruiter's
own website.
There are featured links on these member pages, which when accessed you
will leave the NIjobs.com domain.
My Career Manager
My Career Manager is a facility on NIjobs.com for jobseekers to set up
their individual job search requirements (job alerts) and register their
CV online;
• Job Alerts
The Job Alert service matches a jobseeker's requirements for employment
with the profile of vacancies advertised on our site. For jobseekers who subscribe
to this service, you receive an email listing of those jobs which match the
criteria you have registered. Vacancies that match this criterion by 50% or
more are sent in the form of a job alert. You decide how often you wish to
receive these alerts and can change your search criteria at any time.
• CVs
Jobseekers may decide to register their CV in our database, through My Career
Manager. Users can choose to make their CV searchable for inclusion in our
CV database product. This product allows your CV to be viewed by recruiters
who have subscribed to this service. It also means that you can attach your
CV to your online job application(s).
You may choose from the following options when uploading your CV
Keep CV Private – Select this option is you wish to store
your CV in your Career Manager account but don't want recruiters to find
your CV. Employers can contact you if you choose to make your CV searchable.
You have 2 options when making your CV searchable.
Allow recruiters to search this CV ( Hide details )
Select this option if you want recruiters to find your CV but wish to keep
your contact details private. Recruiters can contact you via NIjobs.com
if they have a position that matches your selected criteria.
Allow recruiters to search this CV ( Show details )
Select this option if you want recruiters to find your CV and relevant
contact details. Recruiters will be able to contact you by phone or by
email should a position arise that matches your experience and requirements.
We endeavour to grant access to the CV database only to recruiters who agree
to abide by our Terms
and Conditions . However, should a third party gain access to
your CV by evading our security measures, we cannot be held responsible.
You may remove your CV from our database at any time. However, recruiters
who have already accessed your CV may have kept a copy of it in their own
files. Please note that we cannot be held responsible for the retention,
use, or privacy of your CV in these instances.
In the interest of your privacy and the maintenance of an up-to-date CV
database, CVs are removed from the NIjobs.com CV database if they have
not been updated for a period of 12 months. If you wish your CV to remain
in the searchable database, you must update your details at least once every
12 months.
• Career Update Service
The Career Update service within My Career Manager offers users
the ability to register their personal details to receive a monthly email
detailing career information and site service information.
If, at any time, you do not wish to remain a registered user of any of the
above facilities within My Career Manager, you can unsubscribe and/or delete
your personal information from our databases. NIjobs.com also offers you
the ability to change at any time the personal information you give during
registration
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Disclosure of your Information to Other People
- Except as set out in this Policy, we do not disclose to any third party
personal information that you provide to us unless we have your permission
or we believe the law permits or requires it.
- If you provide personal information to us you understand and agree that
we may disclose your personal information to third parties expressly mentioned
in this Policy and the following third parties:
- if you have indicated at registration, or at any time during your time
as a user of the Website, that you are happy to receive information or
promotions from selected third parties about goods and services which
may be of interest to you, you consent to us sending you such offers
or information. You may opt out of receiving such offers or change your
preferences at any time by accessing the “Email notifications" tab on
the "Your Account" page of the Website or alternatively, if
you have problems doing this, you can contact
us ;
- any member of our group of companies, which means our subsidiaries,
our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries;
- to the prospective seller or buyer of any business or assets related
to the Website or all or part of NIjobs.com Limited;
- to a third party if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal
data with that third party in order to comply with any legal obligation,
or in order to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions and
other agreements, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of NIjobs.com
Limited, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information
with third parties for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk
reduction.
- We will notify you when information about you may be provided to third
parties in ways other than explained above, and you will have the option
to prevent such information sharing at the time that we notify you.
- We do not disclose personal information about you to third parties (including
advertisers or marketing companies), but we may provide them with aggregate
anonymised information about the Website's users. For example, we may inform
them that 500 men aged under 30 have registered as users of the Website,
or we might inform third parties regarding the number of unique users who
visit a particular Job Specification on the Website, the demographic breakdown
of our registered users of the Website or the activities that visitors
to the Website engage in while on the Website. We may also use such aggregate
anonymised information to help Customers improve their Job Specifications.
- We may provide your personal data to third parties for purposes that
you agree to elsewhere in this Privacy Policy where those third parties
based outside of Ireland or outside the European Economic Area (which may
not provide the same protection for such information as offered in the
Ireland), and you consent to a transfer of your personal information to
third parties identified in this Privacy Policy for purposes identified
in this Privacy Policy.
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Security and Control of your Personal Data
- We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data
is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
- Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables
you to access certain parts of the Website, you are responsible for keeping
this password confidential. You must not to share your Website password
with anyone.
- Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not
completely secure. Although we will endeavour to protect your personal
data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the
Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your
information, we will use strict procedures and security features to endeavour
to prevent unauthorised access. You acknowledge that we are not
responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet, and
you hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of or related
to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorised manner.
- You should be aware that when you disclose personally identifiable information
and agree to make that information available to our Customers on the Website
(e.g. by submitting a CV to a recruiter Customer using the Website) that
the information disclosed in your communication may be used by the Customer.
These third parties may use your information (for example they may contact
you, arrange an interview with you, review your suitability for a particular
position) and such third activities are beyond our control.
- As a registered user of the Website and/or the NIjobs.com Service,
you can modify your personal information at any time by accessing your
‘'My Career Manager Account" section of the Website or alternatively
if you have problems doing this, you can contact
us . It is your responsibility to keep your personal information up
to date at all times.
- If you have submitted information directly to Customer in respect of
a particular Job Specification then you understand that we process that
information as an agent of the Customer (whether or not as a registered
user of the Website and/or the NIjobs.com Service). We may hold a back-up
copy of the information that you submit, but only as an agent of the Customer.
If you wish to modify or deal with your personal information submitted
information directly to Customer in respect of a particular Job Specification
then you should contact the Customer directly, as they have responsibility
for that personal information. As agent of the Customer, we will comply
with the Customer's instructions in respect of that personal information.
If you wish to understand the Customer's data protection or privacy policy
with regards to the dealings that it has with your personal information
then you should contact the Customer directly to establish such terms.
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Links to Third Party Websites
- The Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites
of our partner networks, Customers, advertisers and affiliates as well
as third party websites to which we have no affiliation. If you follow
a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their
own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability
for these policies.
- We also use third party advertisements to support our site. Some of these
advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they
advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as
Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP
address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some
cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting
purposes or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited.
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IP Addresses and Cookies
- We may collect information about your computer, including (where available)
your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration,
statistical purposes. This is statistical data about our users' browsing
actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
- For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet
usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your
computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's
hard drive. On revisiting the Website our computer server will recognise
the cookie, giving us information about your last visit. They help us to
improve the Website and to deliver a better and more personalised service.
They enable us:
- to estimate our audience size and usage pattern;
- to store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise
the Website according to your individual interests and make your usage
of the Website more enjoyable; and
- to speed up your searches.
- You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser
which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select
this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Website.
Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies,
our system will issue cookies when you log on to the Website.
- For information on how to control your cookies go to www.allaboutcookies.org .
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Access to Information and Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal Data
- At any time, you can make a written request to have access to all the
personal information that we hold about you. We will provide this information
to you and may request a small administrative charge.
- You may inform us of any changes in your personal data and in accordance
with our obligations to you, we will update or delete your personal data
accordingly.
- Please note Paragraph 5.6 of this Privacy Policy regarding personal data
submitted directly to our Customers.
Marketing
To provide the best user experience NIjobs.com may invite you to provide
us with information regarding your personal or professional interests and
experiences with our products or services. Providing this additional information
is optional.
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Copyright Statement
Copyright is implied irrespective of whether a copyright symbol or a copyright
statement is displayed. Content on the NIjobs.com website can be downloaded
for personal non-commercial use . Where use of other materials is desired
the source must first approve and also be acknowledged.
Permission to reproduce the NIjobs.com copyright does not extend to any
material on this site which may be the property of a third party. Authorisation
to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.
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Changes to our Privacy Policy
Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted
on this page and, where appropriate, may be notified to you by us to your e-mail.
You should visit this page periodically to review any changes to the Privacy
Policy.
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User Feedback and Complaints
Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed
and should be addressed to info@nijobs.com .
