Smart Jobhunt Privacy Policy

Last updated: 01-Dec-2020

We (the administrators and employees, referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this Privacy Policy) at SmartJobHunt.com (hereinafter called “our website”, “this website” or “this website”) are your data controllers. We take the personal privacy of our visitors very seriously. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your non-personally identifiable and personally identifiable information that you may provide us through our website.

We have developed this policy in order for you to understand how our website collects, records, communicates, uses, and secures personally identifiable information. It also sets forth under what circumstances we may disclose this information to certain third parties.

This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through our website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

The following outlines our privacy policy.

Privacy Notice

Introduction

Like most other commercial websites, our website collects non-personally identifiable information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The purpose of collecting such non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use our website.

As a general rule, our website does not collect your personal information unless you chose to provide that information to us. When you choose to provide us with your personal information, you are giving our website your permission to use that information for the stated purposes listed in this privacy policy. If you choose not to provide us with that information, it might limit the features and services that you can use on this website.

Generally, the information requested by our website will be used to provide a website feature or service to you, such as commenting, support, or providing future content better tailored to your interests.

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect through our website. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Non-personally Identifiable Information and Log Files

Our website follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites.

All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files includes, but not limited to, internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring pages, entry & exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks.

In addition, we use third-party services such as Google Analytics to collect, monitor, and analyze such information. We may also use other analytical tools and social media services & apps in the future without any further notice to collect, monitor, and analyze such information.

We may share this information internally with our website employees or third-party contractors as needed. This information is only used to improve the website and enhance our visitors’ experience. Raw data logs are retained temporarily only for the website administration.

This information is not personally identifiable information. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Personally Identifiable Contact Information

Certain visitors to our website may choose to interact with us in ways that require us to gather personally identifiable information. The amount and type of information that our website gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. Some of the services, including but not limited to contact form, opt-in forms, sales pages, and blog comment sections, on our website allow you to send us an email. We will use the information you provide, such as email address and name, only to respond to your inquiry.

Keep in mind that email transmissions are not encrypted by default, so we suggest you do not send sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, or bank account information via such contact forms. If such sensitive information is required, it will be via a secured web page on our website that clearly states the page and its transmission of information is secure and encrypted.

All electronic messages received from visitors are deleted when no longer needed.

Aggregated Statistics

We may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to this website through Internet Service Provider’s web servers or Web Analytics tools like Google Analytics. We may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, this information does not include your personally identifiable information.

Social Media Websites and Applications

Our website uses social media plug-ins and scripts from some third-party websites (including but not limited to Facebook and Pinterest). We use those third-party services to interact with visitors and to build our community on social media. We also use these third-party services to measure the number of visitors to our website, to interact with visitors on the site, and to make our website more useful to visitors.

In such cases, the third-party application may request an email address, username, password, internet protocol (IP) address, and geographic location for account registration or sign-in purposes. Our website does not use those third-party websites or services to collect personal information from individuals. Any personal information collected by the third-party website will not be stored or transmitted by our website. Our website has no control over or access to specific login information or any other sensitive personal information provide to third-party websites.

Information for Tracking and Customization (Cookies)

Like any other website, our website uses cookies to provide a customized user experience on the site.

A cookie is a small file that a website transfers to your computer that allows your browser to remember information about your last session on that website. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser only if your browser’s preferences allow it. Your computer shares the cookie information only with the specific website that created the cookie, and no other website can request that information.

Our website collects and temporarily stores certain information about your visit in the browser cookies. It helps us to better align our content and the website design with your needs.

These cookies are used to store information including, but not limited to, visitors’ preferences and pages that the visitor accessed. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management for your web browser, you can go to your browser websites.

Google and Other Third Party Vendors’ Cookies

Third-party services like ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on our website, which are sent directly to users’ browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

We use Google Analytics to collect, record, and analyze non-personally identifiable data. You can read about Google Analytics Cookie usage by visiting https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage and Google Analytics Privacy Policy by visiting https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

You can also visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites to understand how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

Our website is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program (https://affiliate-program.amazon.com), an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.You can read about Amazon’s privacy policy here – https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=468496. It includes Amazon’s policy about cookies. You may opt-out of personalized advertising from Amazon by visiting Advertising Preferences – https://www.google.com/settings/ads.

We use Rakuten Marketing’s affiliate network to monetize our website. You can read about their privacy policy here – https://rakutenmarketing.com/legal-notices/website-privacy-policy/

We may use Google and/or its partner Ad network services in the future. Google uses cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You can read about Google’s Advertising policy regarding cookies and other technologies by visiting https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads. You may opt-out of personalized advertising from Google by visiting Ads Settings – https://www.google.com/settings/ads.

In the future, we may use other advertising networks or participate in other affiliate programs. We may also use other third-party websites to enhance the features of our website.

Our website has no access to or control over the cookies that are used by third-party websites and advertisers.

Third-Party Websites Privacy Policies

Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

Our website’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we advise you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party websites for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity. Our website does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Security

Our website takes the security of your personal information very seriously. We take many precautions to ensure that the information we collect is secure and inaccessible by anyone outside of our organization. These precautions include access controls to limit access to that information to only internal personnel who require access to that information. We also use numerous security technologies to protect all data stored on our servers and related systems. We take the following specific steps to protect your information:

  1. Use internal access controls so only limited personnel has access to your information.
  2. Anyone with access to user information is trained on all relevant security and compliance policies.
  3. Servers that store visitor information is regularly backed up to protect against loss.
  4. All information is secured through modern security technologies like secure socket layer (SSL), encryption, firewalls, and secure passwords. All-access safeguards described above are in place to prevent unauthorized access by outsiders to information stored on or transmitted by our systems.

You should note that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Privacy Policy Changes

We at SmartJobHunt.com have sole discretion to change this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change it at any time with or without notice. However, please be assured that if the Privacy Policy changes in the future, we will not use the personal information you have submitted to us under this Privacy Policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with this Privacy Policy, without your prior consent.

We encourage our website visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to the Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Choice, Access, and Redress

Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data, and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.

You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the contact form (https://www.smartjobhunt.com/contact-us/) given on our website:

  1. Ask for a list of personal information we have about you if any.
  2. Request a change, correction, or deletion of your personal information.
  3. Request that we avoid collecting anything in the future (opt-out).

If you do not wish to have cookies stored on your machine, you have the option to turn cookies off in your browser. However, keep in mind that turning off cookies may impact how this website functions. Disabling browser cookies will also impact how other websites you visit store browser cookies as well.

Whenever we collect any sensitive information (such as social security numbers or credit card information), the information is encrypted and securely transmitted. You are able to confirm this by looking for the ‘lock’ icon in the browser address bar, and also confirm that the URL link starts with ‘https.’

If you believe at any point that we are not following this privacy policy as stated, please contact us immediately.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions.