Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July 17, 2023

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use:

  • Our website: careercubs.com

This Privacy Policy also applies to information that we collect when you apply for a job via an application form on our website.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, you should not use our website.

By using and/or accessing our website or otherwise providing us with your personal data, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. Your use of our website is also governed by our Terms of Use.

Throughout this Privacy Policy we will refer to our website as “Services”.

Below we explain how we collect, use and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so — for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you or to make our Services better. We collect this information from two sources: if and when you provide information to us and automatically through operating our Services. Let us go over the information that we collect.

Information You Provide to Us

It is probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us directly. Here are some examples:

  • Communication with us: You may provide us with information when you contact us via a form on our website.
  • Job applicant information: If you apply for a job via a form on our website, you may provide us with information such as your name, contact information, resume or CV, references and other employment-related data as part of the application process.

Information We Collect Automatically

We also collect some information automatically:

  • Information from cookies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, usage and access preferences for our Services. For more information about our use of cookies for tracking, including how you can control the use of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.

How and Why We Use Information

Purposes for Using Information

We use information about you for the purposes listed below:

  • To improve our Services. For example, by monitoring and analyzing how users interact with our Services in order to create new features or add new content that we think our users will enjoy or make our Services easier to use.
  • To protect our Services and the public. For example, by detecting security incidents, detecting and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, fighting spam, complying with our legal obligations and protecting the rights and property of Career Cubs.
  • To communicate with you. For example, by replying to messages that you send us via a form on our website.
  • To process job applications. For example, by evaluating job applicants (including verifying their identity, experience and other information submitted) and communicating with them by phone, email or social media platforms.

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that: (1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under our Terms of Use or other agreements with you, or (2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation, or (3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person, or (4) We have a legitimate interest in using your information — for example, to provide and update our Services, to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience, to safeguard our Services, to communicate with you, to measure, gauge and improve the effectiveness of our Services and to understand our visitor retention and attrition, to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services and to personalize your experience, or (5) You have given us your consent — for example before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyze them later on, as described in our Cookie Policy.

Sharing Information

How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information.

We share information about you in limited circumstances, and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy. These are spelled out below:

  • Employees, freelancers and independent contractors: We may disclose information about you to our employees, freelancers and independent contractors who need the information to help us provide our Services or to process the information on our behalf. We require our employees, freelancers and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for any personal information that we share with them.
  • Third-party vendors: We may share information about you with third-party vendors who need the information in order to provide their services to us. This includes vendors who help us provide our Services to you (such as postal and email delivery services that help us stay in touch with you, email support services that help us communicate with you and those who help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers). We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments in order to share information with them.
  • Legal and regulatory requirements: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request.
  • To protect rights, property and others: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Career Cubs, third parties or the public at large.
  • Business transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that Career Cubs goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.
  • Aggregated or de-identified information: We may share information that has been aggregated or de-identified, so that it can no longer reasonably be used to identify you.

How Long We Keep Information

We generally discard information about you when it is no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it — described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information — and we’re not legally required to keep it.

If you are a job applicant, we will keep your personal data during the application process, and for a certain period thereafter. To determine that period, we take into account a number of factors, like our legal and regulatory obligations (such as equal opportunity obligations) and whether we may need to retain personal data for internal business purposes like analyzing our applicant pool.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so. We monitor our Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.

Your Rights

If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (aka the “GDPR”), data protection laws give you certain rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

  • Request access to your personal data
  • Request correction or deletion of your personal data
  • Object to our use and processing of your personal data
  • Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data
  • Request portability of your personal data.

EU residents also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

How to Reach Us

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact us about any of the rights mentioned in the Your Rights section above, please contact us via our contact form.

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Ads and Analytics Services Provided by Others

Ads appearing on any of our Services may be delivered by advertising networks. Other parties may also provide analytics services via our Services. These ad networks and analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about your use of our Services and across other websites and online services. These technologies allow these third parties to recognize your device to compile information about you or others who use your device. This information allows us and other companies to, among other things, analyze and track usage, determine the popularity of certain content and deliver ads that may be more targeted to your interests. Please note that this Privacy Policy only covers the collection of information by Career Cubs and does not cover the collection of information by any third-party advertisers or analytics providers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Career Cubs may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. Career Cubs encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will provide notice, such as by updating the “Last Updated” date. Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy.

Attribution

The above Privacy Policy is adapted from Automattic’s Privacy Policy, which they have made available under a Creative Commons ShareAlike license.

You can find a copy of that Privacy Policy and other legal documents on GitHub.

We revised the wording to reflect our policies.