Privacy Policy – 18th
June 2010
1. Introduction
This website JobsWanted.ie, all pages containing that address and
the services provided on this website, including any page that is enabled for
use by a mobile device, (the "JobsWanted Website") are owned and operated by
txtAjob.ie We are incorporated in Ireland
and our registered office is at
4 BrownsBarn Court, Kingswood
Dublin 22,Ireland. Our
VAT number is IE9729147A. ("JobsWanted.ie", "JobsWanted", "our", "we" or "us").
If you do not agree with these terms, you should not use the JobsWanted Website.
We at JobsWanted.ie respect your right to privacy and aim to comply
with our obligations under the data protection legislation currently in force in
Ireland. The purpose of this Website Privacy
Policy is to outline how we deal with any personal data that we collect from you
or that you provide to us while visiting the JobsWanted Website. We use your
information only as set out in this Privacy Policy. Naturally, if you are not
happy with this Website Privacy Policy you should not use the JobsWanted
Website.
This policy (together with our Terms and Conditions and our
Advertising Terms And Conditions and any other documents referred to in them)
sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you
provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to
understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will
treat it.
By visiting the JobsWanted Website, you are accepting the terms of
this Website Privacy Policy and you permit the collection and use of your
personal data as outlined in this Website Privacy Policy.
2. How we Collect Information relating to
JobsWanted.ie
When registering as a user of JobsWanted or during your time as a
user of JobsWanted you will be asked to provide information to us. We will
inform you at the time of collecting other information from you whether you must
provide the information to use JobsWanted or a particular JobsWanted 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 JobsWanted 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:
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if
you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence;
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information that you submit when you register for the JobsWanted Website
including your name, email address and telephone number;
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information that you submit when you use the JobsWanted Website, for example in
response to a blog post, in a message to us, when posting an advertisement,
entering a competition or through any website communication channel;
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the
functionality that you use through the JobsWanted Website including comments on
our blog; or
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details of transactions you carry out through JobsWanted.
Such information is only collected from you if you voluntarily
submit it to us, and is only kept for as long as it is required for us to
provide you with a high quality service, to comply with law or our contractual
obligations or for reasonable record-keeping purposes.
"Other Data"
Like most websites, we gather statistical and other analytical
information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to the JobsWanted
Website. This data comprises information that cannot be used to identify or
contact you, such as demographic information regarding, for example, browser
types, alphanumeric IDs, operating system, traffic data, location data, IP
addresses, information regarding the volume and status of data transmission,
click-through statistics, the name of the domain and host from which you access
the Internet, the date and time you accesses portions of the JobsWanted Website,
and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of the JobsWanted
Website. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and
patterns, and we do not use them to identify any individual, except if required
by the law or for the purposes of fraud protection, IT security and credit risk
reduction.
3. Purposes for which we hold your Information
Personal Data
Users of the JobsWanted Service use the website to create
advertisements for themselves or their buisness and to write comments on the
JobsWanted.ie Blog.These advertisements and comments can then be accessed and
read by other users of the website. If you choose to place an advertisement
using the JobsWanted Service, we will display a limited amount of personal
information, such as your name and telephone number, so that interested parties
may contact you. Additionally, we may use your email address to contact you on
behalf of interested parties wishing to respond to your advertisements by email.
We may use your advertisements, and the advertisements that you view to
personalise the website and identify popular sections. We may also display
recently posted advertisements to users of the JobsWanted Website.
We will process any personal data that you provide to us for the
following purposes:
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to
provide you with the services you have ordered;
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to
carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you
and us;
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to
deliver and maintain a high quality service and to improve and develop the
services provided and the Website generally;
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to
allow you to access JobsWanted and to participate in interactive features of our
service, when you choose to do so;
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to
provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or
that we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such
purposes;
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to
contact you if required in connection with your order or to respond to any
communications you might send to us;
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to
inform you about changes to our service, our agreement with you or website that
we believe will be of interest to you;
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as
JobsWanted.ie is being actively developed we might contact you to get feedback
on the service provided;
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for
the purposes of compiling statistics;
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to
determine whether you are in compliance with our agreement with you and to
impose sanctions where necessary;
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as
proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you that we hold
about you (in order to establish that we are disclosing the personal information
to you and not to someone pretending to be you);
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to
process payments from or to you;
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compare information for accuracy, and verify it with third parties.
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for
safety purposes, to provide you with customer support and to resolve technical
or other problems; and
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to
determine whether you or other users are in compliance with our agreement
relating to the JobsWanted Website, including the policies appearing on the
JobsWanted Website.
If you avail of our services offered on the the JobsWanted Website
we may use your email address to send you updates or news regarding the
JobsWanted Service. If you do not wish to receive emails of this type, please
contact us at info@JobsWanted.ie
Other Data:
We use the Other Data gathered from visitors to the JobsWanted
Website in an aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors
come from and to help us better design and organise the JobsWanted Website.
Cookies
This website uses "cookies". A cookie is a little piece of data
stored by the browser on the hard drive of your computer, at the request of our
server. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard
drive. On revisiting JobsWanted our computer server will recognise the cookie,
giving us information about your last visit. We may use cookies (including flash
cookies) to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your personal
preferences so you do not have to re-enter them each time you connect to the
JobsWanted Website - our cookies are not available to other websites. Cookies
help us to improve JobsWanted and to deliver a better and more personalised
service. They enable us:
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to
estimate our audience size and usage pattern;
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to
store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise
JobsWanted according to your individual interests; and
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to
speed up your use of the JobsWanted Service and searches.
You are always free to decline our cookies, if your browser
permits, by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse
the setting of cookies. You are always free to ask your browser to indicate when
a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at
your discretion. Note that if you decline our cookies or ask for notification
each time a cookie is being sent, this may affect your use of the JobsWanted
Website. For information on how to control your cookies go to
www.allaboutcookies.org.
We also participate in the Google Adsense programme and we allow
Google and other third parties that participate in Google Adsense to use a type
of cookie called the "DoubleClick DART" cookie also on our Website. Please note
that Google is a third party and Clause 4 below applies to Google's use of
cookies via our website. Google uses cookies to serve ads to you on the Website.
A persistent cookie gets entered by your web browser into the cookie folder on
your computer's hard drive. A persistent cookie remains in that cookie folder,
which is maintained and governed by your web browser, after you close your
browser program. The DoubleClick DART cookie is a persistent cookie used by
Google in the ads served on the websites of its partners, such as websites
displaying AdSense ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. The
DoubleClick DART cookie consists of the name of the domain that set the cookie
("ad.doubleclick.net"), the lifetime of the cookie, and a "value." DoubleClick's
DART technology used by Google generates a unique series of characters for the
"value" portion of the cookie.
When you visit a Google partner's website and either view or click
on an ad, a DoubleClick DART cookie may be dropped on your browser. The manner
in which the "DoubleClick DART" cookie works enables Google and its partners to
display ads to you on the Website and/or other sites on the Internet. You may
opt out of the use of the DoubleClick DART used by Google. Instructions on how
to opt-out are available from Google and are set out in this Google ad and
content network privacy policy:
http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html and
more information regarding the "DoubleClick DART cookie" please visit:
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/faq.aspx
4. Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
and Advertising
We may provide Other Data to third parties, where such information
is combined with similar information of other users of the JobsWanted Website.
For example, we might provide third parties with aggregate anonymised
information regarding the number of unique users who visit the JobsWanted
Website, the demographic breakdown of our community users of the JobsWanted
Website, or the activities that visitors to the JobsWanted Website engage in
while on the JobsWanted Website. The third parties to whom we may provide this
information may include potential or actual advertisers, providers of
advertising services (including website tracking services), commercial partners,
sponsors, licensees, researchers and other similar parties.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you
visit the JobsWanted Website. These companies may use information (not including
your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this
and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services
of interest to you on the JobsWanted Website or on other third party websites
that you visit. Further information about the use of cookies in delivering these
advertisements is contained in Clause 3 above.
We may also use such aggregate anonymised information to help
advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women
in the southeast of Ireland) when displaying advertisements on the
JobsWanted Website. We may make use of the personal data we have collected from
you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their
advertisement to that target audience. You agree to these practices.
We will not disclose your personal data to third parties unless you
have consented to this disclosure or unless the third party is required to
fulfill your order (in such circumstances, the third party is bound by similar
data protection requirements). We will disclose your personal data if we believe
in good faith that we are required to disclose it in order to comply with any
applicable law, a summons, a search warrant, a court or regulatory order, or
other statutory requirement. Please note that if you post personal information
on public sections of the JobsWanted Website then you are consenting to giving a
third party user of the JobsWanted Website to use your data; we are not
responsible for the manner in which those third parties may choose to allow them
use your data.
If you provide personal data to us, you understand and agree that
we may disclose your personal data to the following third parties:
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to
our hosting provider which acts as an agent of JobsWanted And txtAjob.ie;
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to
our payment processing service providers (including Visa And Mastercard
and the mobile telephone companies that
you may select) ;
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if
you have indicated at any time while using the JobsWanted Service 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. If you wish to opt out of receiving such offers,
please contact us at info@JobsWanted.ie
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any
member of our group of companies, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate
holding company and its subsidiaries;
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to a
prospective seller, shareholder or buyer of some or all of the shares in
JobsWanted.ie or txtAjob.ie, the JobsWanted Website and/or any of our
businesses;
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to a
third party if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data with
than third party in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to
enforce or apply our agreement with you or any other relevant agreements, or to
protect the rights, property or safety of JobsWanted.ie, the JobsWanted Website
and/or our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with third
parties for the purposes of fraud protection, IT security and credit risk
reduction.
We will notify you when information about you may be provided to
third parties in ways other than explained in this Policy and you will have the
option to prevent such information sharing at the time that we notify you.
We reserve the right to transfer information (including your
personal data) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation,
receivership, purchase or transfer of all or substantially all of the business
or assets related to the JobsWanted Website or all or part of JobsWanted.ie and
txtAjob.ie provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this
Privacy Policy.
You agree that you have access to other users' personal information
when you use the JobsWanted Website, or as a result of any related communication
or transaction. You agree that you will only use another user's personal
information to contact the person for the purposes of buying or selling the
goods or services to which the users' personal information is connected. If
other user subsequently agrees that you may use their personal information for
any other purpose then that is a matter for you and the other person to agree.
Unless you have the other JobsWanted Website user's express permission or our
express written permission you may not disclose or contact another user for any
purpose other than to conduct interviews for the purpose of offering employment
advertised on the JobsWanted Website.
5. Security, Transfer and Control of personal
data
We will take all reasonable steps (including appropriate technical
and organisational measures) to protect your personal data that we hold in
accordance with this Website Privacy Policy. However, the nature of the internet
is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you
transmit to us via the internet. No data transmission over the Internet can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure and any transmission is at your own risk. 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
and related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorised manner.
If we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which
enables you to access certain parts of the JobsWanted Website, you are
responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a
password with anyone.
You should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose personally
identifiable information and agree to make that information public on the
JobsWanted Website (e.g., name, telephone number) via advertisements, blog
postings, tweets or in other areas of the JobsWanted Website, then that
information, along with any substantive information disclosed in your
communication, can be collected, correlated and used by third parties. These
third parties or other website users may use your information to send you
unsolicited messages. Such activities are beyond our control. Please do not post
any personal information on the JobsWanted Website that you wish to keep
private.
It may be necessary to transfer your personal information to other
group companies or service providers located in countries outside of the
European Economic Area (EEA). This may happen where our servers or suppliers and
service providers are based outside of the EEA or where you use our services and
products while visiting countries outside of the EEA. The data protection and
other laws of these countries may not be as comprehensive as those in
Ireland
or the EU but in these instances we will take steps to ensure that your privacy
rights are respected. You agree that we may transfer your personal data on that
basis.
6. 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 data that we hold about you. You may inform us of any changes in
your personal data and, in accordance with our obligations under the data
protection legislation; we will update or delete your personal data accordingly.
To make this request or to have your personal data updated, amended or removed
from our database, please contact us at
info@JobsWanted.ie
We will provide this information to you and may request a small administrative
charge.
7. Changes to the JobsWanted Website Privacy
Policy
Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be
posted on this page and may be, where we consider it appropriate, notified to
you by e-mail. You should visit this page periodically to review any changes to
the Privacy Policy.
8. Links
When you pay us you will leave the JobsWanted Website and you will
instruct one of our payment processing service providers (which include Visa and
Mastercard and various mobile telephone companies) to make a payment to us on
your behalf. Please note that these providers have their own privacy policies
and terms of use and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for
these policies, their terms or for the activities on those websites.
JobsWanted may, from time to
time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks,
advertisers and affiliates as well as third party websites to which we have no
affiliation. Users of the JobsWanted Website may post links to other websites
also. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these
websites have their own privacy policies and terms of use and that we do not
accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or for the activities
on those websites.
9. Access by children
If you are aged 16 or under you must get one or your parents or a
guardian's permission before providing personal data to us by using the
JobsWanted Website. If you do not have this permission you should not use the
JobsWanted Website. We may ask you at any time to confirm and produce this
permission in writing.
10. Questions or Comments
If you have any questions, concerns, comments or complaints about
this Privacy Policy and/or our collection or use of personal information, or if
you wish us to stop processing your personal information for any particular
purpose or purposes, then please contact us at
info@JobsWanted.ie
or send a letter to JobsWanted, 4 BrownsBarn Court, Kingswood Dublin 22,Ireland. Our
VAT number is IE9729147A.
