Privacy Policy
Last updated: April 6, 2025
1. Introduction
At SkillCareerHub ("we," "our," or "us"), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or use our services.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the site or use our services.
2. Information We Collect
2.1 Personal Data
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on our website, express interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, participate in activities on the website, or otherwise contact us. The personal information we collect may include:
- Name, email address, postal address, phone number, and other contact information
- Username and password for account creation
- Professional or employment-related information, including resume details, work history, and qualifications
- Preferences and interests related to job searches and career development
- Payment information if you make purchases through our platform
2.2 Automatically Collected Information
When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including:
- IP address, browser type and version, operating system, device information
- Pages you visit, time and date of your visit, time spent on those pages
- Referring website addresses
- Other diagnostic data
We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies to help customize our website and improve your experience.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website and services
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website and services
- Understand and analyze how you use our website and services
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you about updates, security alerts, and support messages
- Send you marketing and promotional communications (with your consent)
- Process your job applications and connect you with potential employers
- Find and prevent fraud, and respond to trust and safety issues
4. Legal Basis for Processing
We process your personal information for the purposes listed above. Our legal basis for processing your personal information will depend on the specific context in which we collect it. We will normally collect personal information from you only:
- Where we need it to perform a contract with you (e.g., when you create an account or purchase a service)
- Where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection rights
- Where we have your consent to do so
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation
5. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share your information in the following situations:
5.1 Business Transfers
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
5.2 Third-Party Service Providers
We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work.
5.3 Business Partners
We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
5.4 Legal Obligations
We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, judicial proceedings, court orders, or legal processes.
6. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and store certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier.
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 portions of our service.
We use the following types of cookies:
- Essential cookies: Necessary for the website to function properly
- Functionality cookies: Remember choices you make and provide enhanced features
- Analytics cookies: Collect information about how visitors use our website
- Advertising cookies: Gather information about your browsing habits to make advertising relevant to you
7. Google AdSense and Analytics
We use Google AdSense to serve advertisements and Google Analytics to analyze website traffic. These services may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about your use of our website.
Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
For more information on how Google uses your data, visit Google's Privacy Policy.
8. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information:
- Right to access: Request copies of your personal data
- Right to rectification: Request correction of inaccurate information
- Right to erasure: Request deletion of your personal data
- Right to restrict processing: Request restriction of processing of your data
- Right to data portability: Request transfer of your data to another organization
- Right to object: Object to processing of your personal data
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.
9. Data Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.
10. Data Retention
We will only keep your personal information for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it.
11. Children's Privacy
Our website and services are not directed to individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we can delete the information.
12. 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 and updating the "Last updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:
- By email: [email protected]
- By visiting our Contact Page
- By mail: SkillCareerHub Privacy Team, [Your Physical Address]