Privacy and Policy

Privacy & Policy

Effective Date: 01/08/23

Dear User, Your privacy is important to Careerbn.com. Please read this Privacy Notice carefully as it forms part of the Terms of Use which govern the use of the Careerbn.com Services and the Careerbn.com Websites. This Privacy Notice explains-: 1. The type of personal information about you which is processed by Careerbn.com when you use the Careerbn.com Services and/or the Careerbn.com Websites; 2. How Careerbn.com processes the personal information about you when you use the Careerbn.com Services and the Careerbn.com Websites; 3. The purposes for which Careerbn.com collects and processes your personal information; 4. Your right to access and correct your personal information; 5. The class of third parties to which Careerbn.com may disclose your personal information to; 6. Whether it is obligatory or voluntarily for you to supply the personal information and the consequences of failing to provide your personal information when it is obligatory; and 7. How Careerbn.com safeguards the confidentiality and security of your personal information. In this Privacy Notice:- “Careerbn.com“, “Careerbn.com Services“, “Careerbn.com Websites“, “You“ and “Employers” shall have the same meaning as users. “Careerbn.com Profile” means the profile created by users of the Careerbn.com Website that may include personal information, resume, credentials, certifications and photo. “personal information” is data that can be used to identify an individual. “processing” includes but is not limited to collecting, holding, storing, recording, organizing, adapting, using, disclosing, correcting and destructing. “Verified Employer Account” means the access given to the Employers, or Authorized Personnel to the Recruitment Management System of Careerbn.com. 1. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION We may collect, use and/or process information that you have provided to us in the following circumstances: 1. When you register for the Careerbn.com Services 1. Each time when you register with Careerbn.com for any of the Careerbn.com Services, you will be asked to provide certain personal information about yourself in order to create a personalized Careerbn.com account. 2. The personal information collected during the registration process includes but is not limited to your email address, name, nationality, identity card number, passport number, district, country. 3. Whenever the personal information requested by Careerbn.com is marked as “Required Field”, you must provide and agree to the processing of this personal information by Careerbn.com. It is not mandatory for you to provide your personal information to us. However, if you do not agree to provide this personal information and/or not agree to us processing it in the manner set out in this Privacy Notice, then Careerbn.com will be unable to provide the relevant services to you and your application for such services will be rejected. 4. Some Employers may also require you to answer a list of questions selected by that Employer as part of your online application. By answering the Application questions you acknowledge that Careerbn.com will provide your answers to that Employer and may use your answers to populate your Careerbn.com Profile and enable Employers to surface that information when using Talent Search. Careerbn.com may also use your answers to improve our recommender, including through improving our search and matching capabilities. 2. From your use of the Careerbn.com Services and/or the Careerbn.com Websites 1. We collect personal information directly from you when you choose to engage any of the Careerbn.com Services and/or to use the Careerbn.com Websites. The following are examples of personal information Careerbn.com may collect directly from you:- 1. Age; 2. Date of birth; 3. Telephone number or mobile number; 4. Your image; 5. Academic qualifications; 6. Identification documents given by the school/college/university/institute; 7. Resume; 8. Personal interests and preferences; 9. Working experience; 10. Credit card or debit card details; 11. Other information associated with a resume for job applications 2. If you choose to add referees to your Careerbn.com Profile, Careerbn.com will ask you for their names, telephone numbers, emails, position titles and other relevant particulars. This information will be enclosed as part of your job application and employers may contact them to get references for your applications. 3. If you choose to use Careerbn.com Services to tell a friend about its services or Careerbn.com Websites, Careerbn.com will ask for your friend’s name and e-mail address. An e-mail inviting your friend to use the Careerbn.com Services or to visit the Careerbn.com Websites will be sent to him/her automatically. 4. If you wish to stop Careerbn.com from processing this type of personal information about you, Careerbn.com will no longer be able to provide the relevant services to you. 5. In addition, Careerbn.com may ask your permission to post your testimonial or success story. If you agree to post your material on Careerbn.com Websites, you should be aware that any personal information you submit can be read, collected, or used by other users of the Careerbn.com Websites and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. 3. When you visit the Careerbn.com Websites 1. When you visit any Careerbn.com Websites our web servers automatically collect information about your visit to these websites, including your Internet Protocol (IP) address, the time, date and duration of your visit. Your IP address is a unique identifier for your computer or other access device. 2. Careerbn.com may track your visits to any Careerbn.com Websites by placing a “cookie” on your computer or other access device when you enter. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or other access device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more effectively, as well as to provide information to the owners of the websites. 3. Cookies allow Careerbn.com to save preferences for you so that you will not have to re-enter them the next time you visit. Cookies also help Careerbn.com collect anonymous click stream data for tracking user trends and patterns. Careerbn.com may use the anonymous click stream data to help the Advertiser to deliver better-targeted advertisements. 4. You can remove cookies by following directions provided in your internet browser’s “help” file. You should understand that areas of certain websites will not function properly if you set your internet browser to not accept cookies. 5. Our partners and service providers use cookies to collect information about the usage of Careerbn.com Websites. The use of cookies by our partners and service providers is not covered by our privacy policy. We do not have access or control over these cookies. 2. PURPOSES OF COLLECTING AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION 1. The purposes for which Careerbn.com processes your personal information are as follows:- 1. To verify your identity; 2. To assess and/or verify your employability and credit worthiness; 3. To provide the Careerbn.com Services which you have requested (including using artificial intelligence (“AI”) and data analytics in relation to personal information in order to improve Careerbn.com’s ability to provide these services); 4. To administer and manage the Careerbn.com Services provided to you; 5. To contact you in respect of Careerbn.com Services; 6. To facilitate the provision to you of tailored educational offerings and improve your career prospects by supplying your information to our strategic partners; 7. To improve placement opportunities for you or for tailoring specific services to you; 8. To verify your academic and professional qualification by contacting the school/college/university/institute/ professional qualifying bodies; 9. To contact the referee and/or the guarantor whom details have been provided by you; 10. To process your order for the Careerbn.com Services which you have requested; 11. To investigate and resolve any of the Careerbn.com Services, billing queries, complaints or other enquiries that you submit to Careerbn.com regarding Careerbn.com Services; 12. To manage staff training and quality assurance; 13. To monitor and improve the performance of the Careerbn.com Websites and the Careerbn.com Services; 14. To maintain and develop the Careerbn.com Websites and Careerbn.com Services; 15. To gain an understanding of your information and communication needs in order for Careerbn.com to enhance and customize the Careerbn.com Services; 16. To conduct research and development and statistical analysis in connection with the Careerbn.com Services to identify trends and develop new services that reflect your interests; 17. To assist Careerbn.com in understanding your browsing preferences on the Careerbn.com Websites so that Careerbn.com can tailor content accordingly; 18. To detect and prevent fraudulent activity. 2. You may not be possible to limit the processing of your personal information for the purposes set out in Clause 2.1 above. Whilst the provision of your personal information to us is voluntary, if you do not consent to Careerbn.com processing your personal information for the said purposes, you must terminate your relevant agreement with Careerbn.com for the Careerbn.com Services and stop using the Careerbn.com Websites. 3. In addition, Careerbn.com may use your personal information for the following purposes:- 1. To promote and market to you: 1. Other Careerbn.com Services; or 2. Services of third parties which Careerbn.com thinks may be of interest of you; 2. To send you seasonal greeting messages and/or message informing you of a critical performance error in the Careerbn.com Websites and/or the Careerbn.com Services. 3. To send you tips, advice and survey information to maximize your career development including but not limited to using the Careerbn.com Services and/or the Careerbn.com Websites. 4. Careerbn.com will ask for your consent before processing your personal information other than those set out in Clauses 2.1 and 2.3. 3. CAREERBN.COM PROFILE 1. Careerbn.com gives you the option of putting your Careerbn.com Profile in the Careerbn.com Resume Database provided that you use Careerbn.com’s preset format for uploading your information. There are two ways of doing so:- 1. You can store your Careerbn.com Profile in the Careerbn.com Resume Database, but not allow it to be searchable by potential Employers or Advertisers. Not allowing your Careerbn.com Profile to be searchable means that you can use it to apply for a job online, but Employers or Advertisers will not have access to search it through the Careerbn.com Resume Database. 2. You can allow your Careerbn.com Profile to be searchable by Employers or Advertisers. When you opt to make your Careerbn.com Profile searchable, your full profile, resume and personal information will be visible to Employers or Advertisers or who download your Careerbn.com Profile from Careerbn.com Resume Database. 2. Careerbn.com uses its best effort to restrict access to the Careerbn.com Resume Database only to those who have subscribed to the Careerbn.com Services, these parties may retain a copy of your Careerbn.com Profile in their own files or databases. 3. Careerbn.com will take reasonable steps to ensure that parties other than those mentioned above will not, without Careerbn.com’s consent, gain access to the Careerbn.com Resume Database. However, Careerbn.com is not responsible for the retention, use or privacy of Careerbn.com Profile by any third parties. 4. Notwithstanding Clause 3.1, Careerbn.com reserves the right to have full access to your Careerbn.com Profile for the purpose set out in Clause 2.1 to perform Careerbn.com Services. 4. CHOICE AND ACCESS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION 1. You may have different privacy concerns. Careerbn.com’s goal is to be clear of what information it collects, so that you can make meaningful choices about how it is used. For example:- 1. You can control who you share your personal information with; 2. You can review and control your subscription to various marketing preferences, Careerbn.com Services; 3. You may view, edit or delete your personal information and preferences at any time. 4. You may choose not to receive any marketing materials from Careerbn.com; 5. You may also subscribe to additional Careerbn.com Services by logging into a CareerBNbn.com account; 2. You can delete your personal Careerbn.com account at any time in which event Careerbn.com will remove all access to your account, resume and Careerbn.com Profile in the database. The deletion of your personal Careerbn.com account does not affect Careerbn.com Profile that you had already sent to Employers or were previously downloaded by Employers, Advertisers. 5. RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION 1. Careerbn.com will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes set out in Clause 2 above and any legal or business purposes. 6. SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION 1. Careerbn.com is committed to keeping personal information secure. Careerbn.com has appropriate technical, administrative and physical procedures in place to protect personal information from loss, theft and misuse, as well as against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. 2. 6.2 No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can contact us via the contacts as listed in Contact Us link. 7. TO WHOM PERSONAL INFORMATION IS DISCLOSED 1. Personal information mentioned in Clause 1 above may be disclosed to the classes of third parties as follows in order for Careerbn.com to effectively manage its business including to render the Careerbn.com Services to you to achieve the purposes described in Clause 2:- 1. The Employers; 2. The Institutions; 3. The Advertisers; 4. Third parties contracted by Careerbn.com to assist Careerbn.com in delivering all or part of the Careerbn.com Services to you, including without limitation, to the following:- 1. Profiling/assessment services; 2. Online advertising services; 3. Mapping services; 4. Maintenance and repair services; and 5. Market research and website usage analysis services. 5. Strategic partners that work with Careerbn.com to provide the Careerbn.com Services or that help market and promote Careerbn.com Services and/or Careerbn.com Websites; 6. Strategic partners that provide ancillary services such as education offerings for the purposes of improving your career prospects and/or professional qualifications. 7. The school/college/university/institute you studied at and your referees so as to verify your academic qualification; 8. The school/college/university/institute that are authorized to review their curriculum for better modules delivery; 9. Professional qualifying bodies where you obtained your accreditation; 10. Where you log in to a Careerbn.com Website using Facebook Connect – your Facebook friends who have also logged in in to our site using Facebook Connect or other APIs such as Google; 11. Regulatory bodies, governmental bodies or other authorities if required or authorized to do so to discharge any regulatory function, under any law or in relation to any order or judgment of a court; 12. Regulatory bodies, governmental bodies or other authorities for the purpose of detection or prevention of crime, illegal/unlawful activities or fraud or for the apprehension or prosecution of offenders, or for an investigation relating to any of these; 13. Any party involved in or related to a legal proceeding (or prospective legal proceeding), for purposes of the legal proceedings; 14. Careerbn.com’s professional advisors on a need to know basis for the purpose of those advisors providing advice to Careerbn.com; 15. Other third party service providers, including but not limited to data analytics service providers, data storage and cloud service providers and/or any service providers that assist us in carrying out our business activities; 16. Any third party which acquires all or part of the assets or business of Careerbn.com (including accounts and trade receivables) for the purpose of that third party continuing to provide all or that part of the Careerbn.com Services which it acquired; and 17. Otherwise permitted under any data protection legislation. 2. Other than set out above, you will receive notice when personal information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information. 3. Careerbn.com does not sell or rent any personal information collected to any other parties. 8. YOUR OBLIGATIONS REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION 1. You are responsible for providing accurate, not misleading, complete and up-to-date information to Careerbn.com about yourself and any other person whose personal information you provide us and for updating this personal information as and when it becomes inaccurate, misleading, incomplete and out-of-date by contacting Careerbn.com. 2. In the circumstances you may need to provide to Careerbn.com personal information about someone other than yourself (for example, your referee or guarantor). If so, we rely on you to inform these individual that you are providing their personal information to Careerbn.com, to make sure they consent to you giving us their information and to advise them about where they can find a copy of this Privacy Notice Careerbn.com/privacy_policy. 9. TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION OUTSIDE OF YOUR LOCAL JURISDICTION 1. From time to time Careerbn.com may transfer and disclose your personal information outside of our local jurisdiction to Careerbn.com’s service providers and/or strategic partners involved in providing part of the Careerbn.com Services and/or to our related companies (“overseas entities”). 2. We will only transfer and disclose your personal information outside your jurisdiction for the purpose of assisting Careerbn’s.com and/or its overseas entities to deliver, improve and develop the products and services offered by us. Careerbn.com may also receive Personal Information from Careerbn’s.com overseas entities from time to time in accordance with the privacy policy of those overseas entities and/or the local Privacy Act (as applicable). 10. LINKED SITES 1. Careerbn.com Websites that may contain links to third party sites. 2. Careerbn.com is not responsible for such third party sites. Any personal information made available by you on such sites will not have the benefit of this Privacy Notice and will be subject to the relevant third party’s privacy policy (if any). 3. You can login to our site using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect. This service will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign-up form. Services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about your activities on this website to your profile page to share with others within your network. 4. Where you use Facebook Connect to log in to our site you consent to Careerbn.com displaying your name, employer, job title and Facebook profile picture to your Facebook friends who have also logged in to Careerbn.com using Facebook Connect. You can unlink your Facebook and Careerbn.com accounts at any time. 5. Our website includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook button and widgets, or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These features may collect you IP address, which page that you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookies to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and widgets are either hosted by third party or hosted directly on our site. your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it. 11. YOUR CONSENT 1. In using the Careerbn.com Services and/or the Careerbn.com Websites, you consent to the collections and use of the personal information by Careerbn.com in the ways described hereinabove (which may change from time to time) unless and until you inform Careerbn.com to the contrary. 2. Further, you consent to your referees, the school/college/university/institute where you have studied, the professional qualifying bodies where you received your accreditation and Employers to disclose your personal information to Careerbn.com. 12. CONTACT INFORMATION 1. If you still have questions about this Privacy Notice, please contact us here on the Careerbn.com Websites. Careerbn.com requests your name, phone number, email address and comments so that Careerbn.com may respond to your concerns effectively and works to improve the Careerbn.com Services and/or Careerbn.com Websites. 2. You have rights to request access and/or to correct your personal information and/or limit the processing thereof at any time hereafter in line with applicable law and/or any applicable data protection law. We must point out that, in limiting the Processing as requested, the same consequences described in Clause 2.2 above could apply. You are also requested to correct and/or amend your personal information to the extent you realize it is incorrect. With respect to all of the above, you may: 1. Check whether we hold or use your personal information and request access to such data; 2. Request that we correct any of your personal information that is inaccurate, incomplete or out-of-date; and 3. Withdraw, in full or in part, your consent given previously, in each case subject to any applicable legal restrictions, contractual conditions and a reasonable time period as well as the consequences as mentioned above. 4. You may also contact Careerbn.com’s Data Privacy Officer for further enquiries at info@careerbn.com or via telephone at +60327789511