Privacy Commitment
Information Disclosure
Except as described in this privacy
policy, we do not use or disclose, to any outside parties, any personal
information that you provide, such as your name, e-mail address, telephone
number, and employment information, except when we are permitted or required
by law, including the Personal Information Protection Act (British Columbia)
and other applicable privacy laws. We do not sell, rent or exchange lists
of job seekers or employers with other companies.
We do employ other companies to perform functions on our behalf, e.g.
web site development. These other companies will have access to your personal
information as necessary to perform their functions on our behalf, but
they may not share that information with any third party or otherwise
use that information.
When you sign up to use a service of Hcareers, we may use that information
to administer and build your Hcareers’ account, to provide the services
that you have requested, to understand the needs of our clients and to
ensure a high standard of service to our clients, and we may make it available
to employers and recruiters in connection with those services. We may
also use that information to make you aware of additional news and services
that may be of interest to you. You may choose to opt out of receiving
these additional news and services by replying to the notice and instructing
us to remove you from further notices.
Visitor Information
Hcareers monitors our website visitor
information, such as which pages you visit most frequently and which site
referred you. This data does not include any personally identifying information.
We use this information in order to optimize our website and to assess
its usage. We may provide such information to our website contractors
for these purposes.
Resumes
To help you find or apply to jobs,
Hcareers gives you the option of putting your resume in our database.
You can either store your resume in our database, but not allow it to
be searchable by employers (which means that you use it only apply to
specific jobs online), or you can allow your resume to be searchable by
all employers and recruiters who pay for access to our resume database.
Please know that we use our best efforts to grant access to our resume
database only to paying employers and recruiters, but we cannot guarantee
that other parties will not, without our consent, gain access to this
database. You may remove your resume at any time, but know that anyone
(authorized or unauthorized) who has had access to our database may have
retained a copy of your resume. Please know that we are not responsible
for the retention, use, or privacy of resumes in these instances, or for
the use or privacy of resumes by any of such parties while resumes are
in the database.
To Update Your Account
To update your personal information
at any time on Hcareers, please log-in to your account and go to the "User
Options" where you may edit your information.
Cookies
Cookies are small files that your
Web browser places on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies for remembering
your user names and passwords etc. Cookies enable us to understand how
our site is used and to make improvements. You have the option of setting
your browser to reject cookies, but this will negatively impact your experience
on our site.
Feedback
Hcareers allows you to submit feedback
to us. This feedback becomes the property of Hcareers and we may use this
feedback for marketing, e.g. success stories.
Private Label Sites
Hcareers hosts private label employment sites (Custom Job Banks) on
behalf of other companies and permits online applications to job
postings. All online applications to job postings on a private label
site are placed directly into the employers' Hcareers Inbox to be
viewed by anyone privy to or who otherwise gains access to the
employers Hcareers User Id & password. Please know that we are not
responsible for the retention, use, or privacy of information accessed
by others through Custom Job Banks or online applications to job
postings.
Children
Hcareers does not collect information
about children and further believes that children should get their parents'
consent before giving out personal information. If you are concerned about
this, we encourage you to use web filtering technology to supervise your
child's access to the site.
Changes to our Privacy Commitment
Any changes to our Privacy Commitment
will be posted here and will be effective upon posting. If, at any time,
you have questions or concerns about Hcareers' privacy commitment, please
feel free to e-mail us at privacy@hcareers.com.
General
This privacy policy does not apply to the practices of companies or other
entities that Hcareers does not manage or control. This privacy policy
does not apply to information regarding corporations or other non-individuals.
We cannot guarantee the confidentiality or security of any information
sent by you to us via the website.
This privacy policy will be governed by the laws of the Province of British
Columbia and the laws of Canada applicable therein, excluding any conflict
of laws rules that would apply another body of law. This privacy policy
constitutes and contains the entire agreement between you and Hcareers
with respect to its subject matter and supersedes any prior oral or written
agreements.
If any provision of this privacy policy is held to be illegal or unenforceable,
that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary
so that this privacy policy will otherwise remaining full force and effect
and enforceable.