Please Accept our Privacy Policy
The privacy of our online visitors and customers is very important to us. This online privacy policy explains what information we collect about you, how we use, and how we protect it.
We use your personal data to provide and improve our Services. Data in the context of our online and mobile Privacy Policy generally refers to information that we collect through your internet or mobile activities or which third parties may collect on our behalf. Such data may or may not be personally identifiable to you. By using our Services, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
The effective date of this policy is provided above. Any updates or changes to the policy will be posted on this web site along with the date of the modifications. Your continued use of this website constitutes your acceptance of any changes to this policy.
JobSparx is a job marketing company and job board. Our services are intended for individuals seeking employment and for employers or recruiters seeking candidates for employment.
This Privacy Policy applies to any and all visitors to our site and your use of the Services offered by Houston Employment Weekly Corporation d/b/a JobSparx or our affiliates and service providers (collectively “JobSparx” “Company” “we” “us” or “our”), and the features therein, websites, including, without limitation, jobsparx.com website, tools, data, (collectively, “Services”). Your use our Services is also subject to our Cookie Policy and our Terms of Use.
If you disagree with any part of our Privacy Policy or Terms of Use then you may not access any of our Services.
Our Company website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
“Account” means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
“Business”, for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), refers to the Company as the legal entity that collects Consumers’ personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers’ personal information, or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers’ personal information, that does business in the State of California.
“Company” (referred to as either “Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to JobSparx. For the purpose of the GDPR, the Company is the Data Controller.
“Country” refers to United States of America.
“Consumer”, for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means a natural person who is a California resident. A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual who is in the USA for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the USA who is outside the USA for a temporary or transitory purpose.
“Cookies” are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
“Data Controller”, for the purposes of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), refers to the Company as the legal person which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.
“Device” means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cell phone or a digital tablet.
“Do Not Track” (DNT)” is a concept that has been promoted by US regulatory authorities, in particular the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites.
“Personal Data” is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
For the purposes of GDPR, Personal Data means any information relating to You such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.
For the purposes of the CCPA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with You.
“Sale”, for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer’s personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.
“Service” refers to the Website.
“Service Provider” means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used. For the purpose of the GDPR, Service Providers are considered Data Processors.
“Usage Data” refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
“Website” refers to jobsparx.com
“You” means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Under GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), You can be referred to as the Data Subject or as the User as you are the individual using the Service.
You directly provide Our Company with most of the data we collect. We collect and process personal information and data about you when:
You Provide Personal Information to Us
JobSparx collects personal information online that you provide to us, such as when you set up an account, log in, complete applications, and when you use our products and services. We may also monitor, record and maintain records of your online and offline communications with us, including when you contact us through our website or mobile app or otherwise communicate with us, such as by email, phone, chat and postal mail.
We Obtain Personal Information from Others
We obtain personal information from third parties such as credit bureaus and others to tailor your online experience.
We Gather Information Online
JobSparx uses tools (some of which may be hosted or provided by our third-party vendors), such as cookies, click stream auditing and other methods, to gather information for internal uses, such as Web analytics and to personalize our content and advertising. We may also use these tools to secure and operate our website and for fraud prevention and verification purposes. For example, we and our third-party vendors may also use tools that enable us to record, review, and analyze your communications with us by email, phone, text, or chat, or through our website or mobile app, as well as your online and account-related activity, such as online banking transactions and other actions taken within or through your account. We do this to maintain records of account-related activity and transactions, detect, prevent and respond to actual or suspected security incidents, errors, fraud or misuse, and for other quality, training, verification, security and support purposes.
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Usage Data
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that a Website stores on a visitor’s Web browser to remind the site about the visitor the next time they visit the site. When you visit our website, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.
For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.
How do we use Cookies?
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance our visitor’s experience by making navigation easier and providing important security features. For certain applications, cookies are a requirement because they help protect the privacy of our user. We track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. Our Company uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:
Functionality – Our Company uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences and keeping you signed in. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
Advertising – Our Company uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. Our Company sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.
Understanding how you use our website
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to jobsparx.com or other websites.
Web Beacons or GIF tags
Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit JobSparx, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics to gather data about user behavior. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to jobsparx.com and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings Ads Settings. Alternatively, users can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info
Third-party vendors and ad networks are serving ads on jobsparx.com
Cookies or Browser Cookies
A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
Cookies cannot be used to capture your e-mail address, obtain data from your hard drive or gain confidential or sensitive information about you. Additionally, cookies cannot be read by a Web site other than the one that set the cookie. Some Web sites, however, use cookies to obtain information from your browser. You can set your browser to notify you before accepting a cookie, so that you can control whether you accept or reject a cookie. You will need to manage your cookie settings for each device and browser you use. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preference.
Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
Tracking and Performance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Third-Parties
Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.
For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.
We may use or disclose Your personal information and data we collect for one or more of the following business purposes and to one or more of the following recipients:
To Fulfill the Reason for Which the Information is Provided
To create, maintain, manage, customize, and/or secure your account with us including remembering account login details. For example, if you provide us with personal information to create an account, we will use that information to create and manage your account. To correspond with you and allow job seekers and employers to correspond. We will also use the information to provide you with information, products, services and support that you request from us.
To Employers and Recruiters
We disclose your personal information when you direct us to or intentionally use JobSparx to share your personal information in connection with the Services that we provide to you or when you intentionally interact with third parties. For example, if you are a job seeker and apply to a job posting on our Website, we will share your personal information with that prospective employer and/or its agent or representative (including but not limited to, external ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems) or any other external systems used by the direct employer to manage the hiring of employees or other categories of workers.
Payments
We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors). We may use Your data to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collections. When Our Company processes your order, it may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, credit reference agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases and to validate and process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments, and prevent transactional fraud.
To Service Providers
We may share Your personal information with Service Providers that assist us with our Services such as to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, maintenance, for payment processing, fraud detection, marketing, to contact You and more. We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy and security policies of these third parties.
To Improve and Customize
To customize your website experience and to deliver content and other offerings relevant to your interests. To improve our website including the ability for our Website to function and display properly. To analyze behavior, trends and statistics regarding use of our Services and webite and the job market. For testing, analysis and website and product development.
For Business Transactions
We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
Protect Product Integrity
To maintain the integrity of our services, databases and other technology assets and business.
Prevention and Protection
Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company. Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with our Service. Protect against fraud and legal liability. As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients or others including malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecute those responsible for that activity.
To Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other Legal Requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
Comply with a legal obligation
Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
Protect against legal liability
To Affiliates and Business Partners
We may share Your information with Our affiliates and business partners for purposes including but not limited to, offering You job opportunities, products, services or promotions or to help enhance, provide or develop our Services.
We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.
We will retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, and to satisfy any applicable legal, regulatory, or reporting requirements (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. To determine the appropriate retention period, we evaluate the intended use, amount, and sensitivity of the personal information.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of Your city, state, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
**A GDPR Privacy Policy is required for companies that process the personal data of individuals in the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA), particularly if they offer goods or services to them or monitor their online behavior. This requirement applies even if the processing or storage of data occurs outside the EU.
We are based in United States of America. Our Services are controlled and operated by JobSparx from within the United States of America. We make no representations that any of the Services we provide are appropriate or available for use in locations outside of the United States of America. Those who choose to access the Services from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with all United States of America laws as well as local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR
We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:
Consent: You have given Your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific purposes.
Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with You and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.
Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect Your vital interests or of another natural person.
Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Company.
Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company.
In any case, the Company will help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Your Rights under the GDPR
The Company undertakes to respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Data and to guarantee You can exercise Your rights.
You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are within the EU, to:
Request access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the information We have on You. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of Your Personal Data directly within Your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact Us to assist You. This also enables You to receive a copy of the Personal Data We hold about You.
Request correction of the Personal Data that We hold about You. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information We hold about You corrected.
Object to processing of Your Personal Data. This right exists where We are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processing and there is something about Your particular situation, which makes You want to object to our processing of Your Personal Data on this ground. You also have the right to object where We are processing Your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.
Request erasure of Your Personal Data. You have the right to ask Us to delete or remove Personal Data when there is no good reason for Us to continue processing it.
Request the transfer of Your Personal Data. We will provide to You, or to a third-party You have chosen, Your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which You initially provided consent for Us to use or where We used the information to perform a contract with You.
Withdraw Your consent. You have the right to withdraw Your consent on using your Personal Data. If You withdraw Your consent, We may not be able to provide You with access to certain specific functionalities of the Service.
Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights
You may exercise Your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting Us. Please note that we may ask You to verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, We will try our best to respond to You as soon as possible.
You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data. For more information, if You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact Your local data protection authority in the EEA.
This PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS and applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice. This Privacy Notice supplements the information contained in the JobSparx Privacy Policy and applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (”consumers” or “you”) and use our Services.
The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights. These rights are not absolute and certain exceptions apply under the CCPA, such as when you provide personal information in your capacity an employee, owner, director, officer, or contractor of a company, partnership, sole proprietorship, non-profit, or government agency in the context of JobSparx providing a service to that company, partnership, sole proprietorship, non-profit, or government agency.
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Consumer or Device. The following is a list of categories of personal information which we may collect or may have been collected from California residents within the last twelve (12) months.
Please note that the categories and examples provided in the list below are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact collected by Us, but reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been collected. For example, certain categories of personal information would only be collected if You provided such personal information directly to Us.
Category A: Identifiers.
Collected: Yes.
Examples: A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
Category B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).
Collected: Yes.
Examples: A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.
Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Collected: No.
Examples: Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).
JobSparx does not request or require you to provide protected classification characteristics. However, please carefully consider the information contained within your resume/CV and application materials to ensure that you are not providing any protected classification characteristics that are not necessary for your job application or job search.
Category D: Commercial information.
Collected: Yes.
Examples: Records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies, such as details about payments to and from you, details regarding the services that you have subscribed to or purchased, and details about your company or organization (such as contact information and website URL).
Category E: Biometric information.
Collected: No.
Examples: Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.
Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
Collected: Yes.
Examples: Interaction with our Service or advertisement including browsing history, Login data, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement, browser type and version, device information, cookie data, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices used to access the Website, and other similar activity concerning an interaction with our Services.
Category G: Geolocation data.
Collected: YES.
Examples: Approximate physical location, Time zone setting and approximate latitude and longitude location.
Category H: Sensory data.
Collected: No.
Examples: Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
Category I: Professional or employment-related information.
Collected: Yes.
Examples: Current or past job history or performance evaluations, Job searches, candidate searches, job applications, and any information provided in a resume/CV or job seeker profile (including, but not limited to current or prior work experience and education).
Category J: Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).
Collected: No.
Examples: Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.
Category K: Inferences drawn from other personal information.
Collected: No.
Examples: Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
Under CCPA, personal information does not include:
Publicly available information from government records
Deidentified or aggregated consumer information
Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, such as:
Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data
Personal Information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994
Sources of Personal Information
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
Directly from our visitors, clients or their agents. For example, from data that our clients provide to us related to the services for which they engage us. When you (job seeker, advertiser or visitor) fill in forms, create an account, submit your resume/CV, or correspond with us by post, phone, e-mail or otherwise.
Indirectly through information we collect from our visitors and users in the course of providing services to them through automated technologies or your interactions with us, including from observing your actions when you use our Website.
Directly and indirectly from activity on our website. For example, from submissions through our website or website usage details collected automatically, employment application or site usage details collected automatically.
Automatically from You. For example, through cookies We or our Service Providers set on Your Device as You navigate through our Service.
From Service Providers. For example, third-party vendors to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, third-party vendors for payment processing, or other third-party vendors that We use to provide the Service to You.
Use of Personal Information for Business Purposes or Commercial Purposes:
We may use or disclose personal information We collect for “business purposes” or “commercial purposes” (as defined under the CCPA), which may include the following examples:
To operate our Service and provide You with our Service.
To provide You with support and to respond to Your inquiries, including to investigate and address Your concerns and monitor and improve our Service.
To fulfill or meet the reason You provided the information. For example, if You share Your contact information to ask a question about our Service, We will use that personal information to respond to Your inquiry. If You provide Your personal information to purchase a product or service, We will use that information to process Your payment and facilitate delivery.
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
As described to You when collecting Your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
For internal administrative and auditing purposes.
To detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, including, when necessary, to prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Please note that the examples provided above are illustrative and not intended to be exhaustive.
If We decide to collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information We collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes We will update this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of Personal Information for Business Purposes or Commercial Purposes
We disclose your personal information when you intentionally interact with third parties and when you direct us or intentionally use JobSparx to share your personal information in connection with the services that we provide to you. For example, if you are a job seeker and apply to a job posting on our Website, we will share your personal information with that prospective employer and/or its agent or representative (including but not limited to, external ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems) or any other external systems used by the direct employer to manage the hiring of employees or other categories of workers.
We may use or disclose and may have used or disclosed in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information for business or commercial purposes:
Category of personal information for a business purpose: Identifiers.
Categories of Third Parties: Our affiliates, service providers and third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide to you along with advertising partners and advertising networks
Category of personal information for a business purpose: California Customer Records personal information categories.
Categories of Third Parties: Our affiliates, service providers and third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide to you.
Category of personal information for a business purpose: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Categories of Third Parties: Our affiliates, service providers and third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide to you.
Category of personal information for a business purpose: Commercial information
Categories of Third Parties: Our affiliates, service providers and third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide to you.
Category of personal information for a business purpose: Internet or other similar network activity
Categories of Third Parties: Our affiliates, service providers and third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide to you along with advertising partners and advertising networks
Category of personal information for a business purpose: Geolocation data
Categories of Third Parties: Our affiliates, service providers and third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide to you along with advertising partners and advertising networks
Category of personal information for a business purpose: Professional or employment-related information
Categories of Third Parties: Data and web analytics providers, Vendors and service providers and Professional advisors
Category of personal information for a business purpose: Inferences drawn from other personal information
Categories of Third Parties: Our affiliates, service providers and third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide to you.
Please note that the categories listed above are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact disclosed, but reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been disclosed.
In addition, JobSparx may disclose any or all of the personal information identified in the categories above to the following categories of third parties for a business purpose, depending on how you interact with our Services and/or where JobSparx has an obligation to make such disclosure: Social networks, where you interact with such parties directly, third party partners that are integrated into our services, where you interact with such partners directly, government entities, where required by law or in order to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, other third parties, where required by law or in order to protect our rights, or the rights of our customers or others. third parties, in connection with a merger, sale, or asset transfer, third parties, where you have expressly consented to the disclosure your Personal Information
Sale of Personal Information
As defined in the CCPA, “sell” and “sale” mean selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by the business to a third party for valuable consideration. This means that We may have received some kind of benefit in return for sharing personal information, but not necessarily a monetary benefit.
Our third-party vendors and, if applicable, providers in their relationship network, may use the information they collect for purposes that are unrelated to showing you ads about our services. When this information is used for a purpose other than showing ads about our services or other services we have requested, it may constitute a “sale” of personal information under the CCPA. Pursuant to the CCPA, in the preceding twelve (12) months, we may have sold the following categories of personal information for the purpose of showing you ads about JobSparx services: Categories Identifiers, Internet or other similar network activity and Geolocation data.
In this limited frame of reference, we may sell your personal information to third-party advertising partners or advertising networks. The CCPA prohibits third parties who purchase the personal information we hold from reselling it unless you have received explicit notice and an opportunity to opt-out of further sales.
Please note that the categories listed below are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact sold, but reflects our good faith belief to the best of our knowledge that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been shared for value in return.
We may sell and may have sold in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information:
Category A: Identifiers
Category B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))
Category D: Commercial information
Category F: Internet or other similar network activity
Share of Personal Information
We may share Your personal information identified in the above categories with the following categories of third parties:
Service Providers
Payment processors
Our affiliates
Our business partners
Third party vendors to whom You or Your agents authorize Us to disclose Your personal information in connection with products or services We provide to You.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors under the age of 16 through our Service, although certain third party websites that we link to may do so. These third-party websites have their own terms of use and privacy policies and we encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and instruct their children to never provide information on other websites without their permission.
We do not sell the personal information of Consumers We actually know are less than 16 years of age. If You have reason to believe that a child under the age of 16 has provided Us with personal information, please contact Us with sufficient detail to enable Us to delete that information.
Your Rights under the CCPA
If You are a resident of California, You have the following rights:
The right to notice.
You have the right to be notified which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.
The right to request.
Under CCPA, You have the right to request that We disclose information to You about Our collection, use, sale, disclosure for business purposes and share of personal information. Once We receive and confirm Your request, We will disclose to You:
The categories of personal information We collected about You
The categories of sources for the personal information We collected about You
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information
The categories of third parties with whom We share that personal information
The specific pieces of personal information We collected about You
If we sold Your personal information or disclosed Your personal information for a business purpose, We will disclose to You:
The categories of personal information categories sold
The categories of personal information categories disclosed
The right to say no to the sale of Personal Data (opt-out).
You have the right to direct Us to not sell Your personal information. To submit an opt-out request please contact Us.
The right not to be discriminated against.
You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of Your consumer’s rights, including by:
Denying goods or services to You
Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties
Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to You
Suggesting that You will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
The right to delete Personal Data.
You have the right to request the deletion of Your Personal Data, subject to certain exceptions. Once We receive and confirm Your request, We will delete (and direct Our Service Providers to delete) Your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies. We may deny Your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for Us or Our Service Providers to:
Complete the transaction for which We collected the personal information, provide a good or service that You requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with You, or otherwise perform our contract with You.
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. Seq.).
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if You previously provided informed consent.
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on Your relationship with Us.
Comply with a legal obligation.
Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which You provided it.
In order to exercise any of Your rights under the CCPA, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us:
By visiting our contact page this page on our website and include the statement “California Privacy Rights” in the body of your request.
By sending us an email to legal@jobsparx.com and and include the statement “California Privacy Rights” in the subject and body of your request.
Only You, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that You authorize to act on Your behalf, may make a verifiable request related to Your personal information.
Your request to Us must:
Provide sufficient information that allows Us to reasonably verify You are the person about whom We collected personal information or an authorized representative.
Describe Your request with sufficient detail that allows Us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.
We will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving Your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.
Any disclosures We provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
Do Not Sell My Personal Information
You have the right to opt-out of the sale of Your personal information. Once We receive and confirm a verifiable consumer request from You, we will stop selling Your personal information. To exercise Your right to opt-out, please contact Us.
The Service Providers we partner with (for example, our analytics or advertising partners) may use technology on the Service that sells personal information as defined by the CCPA law. If you wish to opt out of the use of Your personal information for interest-based advertising purposes and these potential sales as defined under CCPA law, you may do so by following the instructions below.
Please note that any opt out is specific to the browser You use. You may need to opt out on every browser that You use.
You can opt out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by our Service Providers by following our instructions presented on the Service:
The NAI’s opt-out platform: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices
The EDAA’s opt-out platform http://www.youronlinechoices.com
The DAA’s opt-out platform: http://optout.aboutads.info
The opt out will place a cookie on Your computer that is unique to the browser You use to opt out. If you change browsers or delete the cookies saved by your browser, You will need to opt out again.
Mobile Devices
Your mobile device may give You the ability to opt out of the use of information about the apps You use in order to serve You ads that are targeted to Your interests:
“Opt out of Interest-Based Ads” or “Opt out of Ads Personalization” on Android devices
“Limit Ad Tracking” on iOS devices
You can also stop the collection of location information from Your mobile device by changing the preferences on Your mobile device.
“Do Not Track” Policy as Required by California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals.
However, some third party websites do keep track of Your browsing activities. If You are visiting such websites, You can set Your preferences in Your web browser to inform websites that You do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of Your web browser.
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent’s consent before We collect and use that information.
Your California Privacy Rights (California’s Shine the Light law)
Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California’s Shine the Light law), California residents with an established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their Personal Data with third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes.
If you’d like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us using our contact page.
California Privacy Rights for Minor Users (California Business and Professions Code Section 22581)
California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 allows California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, services or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted.
To request removal of such data, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with Your account.
Be aware that Your request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via a prominent “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:
By visiting our Contact Us page on our website.
By Phone: 281-440-7733
By mailing us at:
JobSparx
P.O. Box 681106
Houston, Texas 77268