1. What personally identifiable information of yours or third party personally identifiable information that is collected from you through the web site 2. The organization collecting the information 3. How the information is used 4. With whom the information may be shared 5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information 6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under Careerious control 7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Client Services by email at info@careerious.com
When you arrive at careerious.com you may visit various areas of our site and click on certain links and buttons to search for and review additional information about career opportunities, potential candidates and the Careerious Program.
Generally speaking, we gather statistical information by logging IP address, browser type, operating system, referring/exit page, date/time stamp, and aggregate survey results. The logged information is only used in the aggregate and is not tied to personally identifiable information. For example, we will keep a record of the aggregate number of visitors who access each area of our site, which areas of our site receive the heaviest traffic and what services offered through Careerious are utilized most frequently. The information collected by us will assist in the continual process of updating and improving our site so that your visit to Careerious will be as rewarding and complete as possible. From time to time we may share this aggregate statistical information with our participating employers and partners in an effort to enhance their understanding of how Careerious is being used by visitors so they may take steps to help make your experience on our site and their site a very positive one.
Becoming a Careerious Member allows Individuals to enjoy Career Feedback Reports and Employers to receive special products, pricing and promotions that are not available to non-members. Membership was created to help Individuals learn more about their work-related personality and motivation characteristics and learn what jobs and employers fit them best. Membership was created for Employers to help them learn more about their JobFingerprint™ job profiles, candidates and employees. Careerious.com is primarily a career survey and job matching site comprised of a Careerious for Individuals service for individual career seekers and a Careerious for Employers service for employers. In order to provide our unique service to members, we are required to collect relevant psychometric, job search and recruitment-related information during member registration. For career seekers, this information includes the results of their Careerious Online Survey, employment history, past education, skills, certifications and contact information and it is stored in our central server database behind a hardware firewall at the careerious.com server. We call this the career seeker’s PersonalFingerprint™ personal profile information. For employers, this information includes their job description criteria, candidates, hiring criteria, including education, personality, motivation, experience criteria and contact information and it is stored in our central server database behind a hardware firewall at the careerious.com server. We call this the employer’s JobFingerprint™ job profile and Registration information. The psychometric survey involves 146 questions and employment/education-related criteria which compare members against employers’ corresponding job-related criteria in the database, based on personality, interests and other job-related criteria. The career reports individual members receive as part of the Careerious application process are theirs alone and completely confidential. Members always control who has access to their personally identifiable information. Participating Careerious employers may access members’ PersonalFingerprint™ personal profile data and the interpretation of raw survey scores to create their own reports, but not their personally-identifiable information without that member’s consent. When a member applies to an employer using the Careerious web site, they are consenting to allow that employer the ability to request their personally identifiable information. Employers will use this information during their hiring process to make more accurate hiring decisions, based on how candidates’ PersonalFingerprint™ personal profiles match against their JobFingerprint™ job profiles.
Members agree that their information may be transferred across national boundaries and may be stored and processed in any of the countries in which Careerious and its affiliates and subsidiaries maintain offices, including, without limitation, the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Philippines and Australia. Careerious will comply with the various Privacy and Data Protection Acts and Laws in the countries in which it operates.
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with an appropriate law enforcement investigation, current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.
Careerious collects but does not store credit card information when you purchase any of our products using a credit card.
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys, email communications or contests. Participation in these surveys, email communications or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose their job search-related information. Information requested may include any job search-related information, such as contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code). Information collected will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use, satisfaction and services of this site.
When you take that next step and register as a member of Careerious, we will receive specific information about you, such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, etc. In return for the service you receive from Careerious, from time to time we may contact you in an effort to determine the level of satisfaction with the services provided through careerious.com, or we may contact you about opportunities that fit your JobFingerprint™ job profile or PersonalFingerprint™ personal profile. However, we WILL NOT, under any circumstances, provide your email address or any other personal or job search-related information to third party organizations you have not directly applied to, without your direct consent at the time said information is being provided or as described in this privacy policy.
Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information. Users who no longer wish to receive contact from Careerious or from our partners may opt-out of receiving further communications from a particular party by replying with unsubscribe in the subject line in the email or email us at info@careerious.com
USERS OF OUR SITE ARE ALWAYS NOTIFIED WHEN THEIR PERSONALLY-IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION IS BEING COLLECTED BY ANY THIRD PARTIES. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with services that require a third party, or not. Personally-identifiable information collected by Careerious will not be sold, rented or provided in any other way to third parties except as described in this privacy policy.
Careerious may, on occasion, with your consent, share some or all of your personally identifiable information with third party service providers for processing (such as when employers use other third party recruitment software providers). In order to process credit card transactions, Careerious must share your credit card information with our credit card processors to complete our billing process. These third parties may be located in other jurisdictions. Therefore, your information may be processed and stored in other jurisdictions and, as a result, other governments, courts, or law enforcement or regulatory agencies may be able to obtain disclosure of your information through foreign laws. All such third party processors are bound by contract not to use the members personally identifiable information for their own purposes including their own marketing purposes or provide it to any third parties.
We may disclose and ultimately transfer personally identifiable information in the context of a business transaction involving the reorganization, acquisition or merger of our business or the sale of all or some of our assets provided that the personal information disclosed is required to be used for the purposes permitted by this Privacy Policy by the entity acquiring this information. In such event, after a reorganization, acquisition, merger or sale has occurred, we will use reasonable efforts to notify you (either by posting notice on the Site or by email to you at the last known email address) that such a business transaction has occurred.
When you register with careerious.com, you will be able to refer friends and/or employers who you think might be interested in our unique services. In Careerious for Individuals, you are able to refer people using tools such as the Job Fit Report. Using Careerious for Employers, you can refer other employers as well. Careerious does not store the referred person or employer’s email address until they register as members of Careerious themselves. We do not sell referral email addresses to any third parties. We at Careerious strongly encourage all our members not to engage in spamming activities. The referred party may contact Careerious at info@careerious.com to request the removal of this information from our database.
We use "cookies" when users of our site log on to their member account with their User Name. These cookies permit us to remember a user who has visited different areas of our site, so that the user will not have to re-enter his or her password on multiple occasions. Once you shut down your internet browser, these cookies expire and no longer have any effect. In addition, we use cookies to process the Careerious Referral Program. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on the site.
If we decide to revise or change our privacy policy, we will post those changes prominently on careerious.com so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we may disclose it. Please check the site for information concerning revisions or changes to our privacy policy.
If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
We also send the user site and service announcement updates. Members are not able to unsubscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service. We communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email.
As a Member, you can elect to be excluded from any surveys, contests or announcements which may be sent out by Careerious at any time. Careerious for Individuals members may do this by going to the "preferences" area of the "Individuals Home" page and de-select the option, or simply using the opt-out feature on any email sent to you from Careerious. Careerious for Employers members may do this by going to the “Account” tab. In these areas we may use your information to make you aware of additional products and services which may be of interest to you, or to contact you regarding site changes. You may access and edit all of your personal information at any time. We will retain your personal information for as long as you remain a member or for as long as legally required. Members may terminate their account with Careerious by sending a request to our customer service department through the 'Contact Us' section of our site or by emailing us at info@careerious.com
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Careerious is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
This Web site takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the Web site, your information is protected both online and off-line.
While we use some of the best firewall hardware in the industry to protect our DLL files and sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers’ information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a physically-secure environment.
Despite our best efforts, we are not and will not be responsible in the event that a third party (for example, a hacker) evades our security measures and gains access to the central database, and, subsequently, your personal information.
You are solely responsible for safeguarding and maintaining the secrecy of your account, passwords and/or any account information in your possession or control.
If you have any questions about the security at our Web site, you can send an email to info@careerious.com
We take your privacy concerns seriously at Careerious. That's why we maintain an area on our site where you can provide us with your thoughts and opinions on this issue as well as our service and your experience in using our site. Any information that you submit through this area becomes the property of Careerious . We may use the information submitted for marketing purposes (for example, success stories or revelations obtained as a result of using the Careerious job matching service), to further improve our site and the services we offer or we may to contact you for further input.
If, at any time, you have questions or concerns about your privacy, please feel free to contact us at info@careerious.com by mail at 20 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 401, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4P 1A9 or by telephone at 1-416-482-2252.
Effective: July 1, 2000. Last Updated: January 29, 2008.