Privacy Policy

At Comity Recruitment (“Comity Recruitment”), protecting your privacy is very important to us. Our goal is to treat the personal information you provide to us with the utmost respect and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy explains how personal information about you may be collected, used, or disclosed as a consequence of your activities on this Site. We urge you to read it carefully.

By accessing, using, and/or downloading materials from, or sending or posting materials to, this Site, you agree on your own behalf and on behalf of each entity on whose behalf you act, to the terms of this Privacy Policy and to the practices for the collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information as described here.

Acceptance of Terms

  • The following is a condition of use of this website.
  • The submission of information or use of the website is deemed acceptance of these terms.

Information Processing and Storage

  • All information supplied by candidates (individuals seeking engagement, including temporary workers) and clients (organisations paying fees or using free services) is edited, coded, and retained within our computerised data systems.
  • Editing and coding are used to standardize the information into acceptable and retrievable formats.
  • All information supplied is retained until we are requested to remove it or at our discretion.

Security Measures

  • Access to our computerised systems is protected by differing levels of passwords.
  • Data processors have restricted access to information.
  • Additional security procedures are designed to control access to data (e.g., printing of data lists), and we have imposed a restriction on staff taking home copy files.

Risks

  • These safeguards do not guarantee security of data (e.g., hacking).
  • Some aspects of the personal data stored may be transmitted via electronic mail, including to countries outside of the EEA, and may or may not be encoded.

Personal Information Collection, Use, and Distribution

There are times when we may ask for or you may choose to provide information about yourself or your business to assist us in meeting your needs. This information may be used for the following purposes:

  • Answering your questions
  • Providing you with requested services
  • Giving producers and developers of the Site useful information for new features, content, and services
  • Providing advertisers with aggregate (not individual) information
  • Informing you of additional services or job opportunities that may interest you

Information Collected

To provide these services, we may ask for the following personal information:

  • Name
  • Mailing address
  • Postal code
  • Email address
  • Phone number (Registration Information)

Surveys and Communication

  • We conduct online surveys to better understand the needs and profiles of our visitors. You will be given the option to participate.
  • If you indicate interest, we will send you updates via email about new site developments, services, or offerings.

Third-Party Sharing

  • Your personal information may be disclosed to third parties for the purpose of fulfilling and completing your requests.
  • We may also aggregate statistics about visitors, sales, traffic patterns, etc., and provide these statistics to third parties without including personal identifiers.

Legal Requirements

  • We may use, disclose, or communicate your personal information if required by law, including court orders.

CV Collection Policy

  • You may choose to provide us with your CV for viewing by our staff and potential employers.
  • Your CV will only be used for job placement with third parties and is protected by confidentiality agreements.
  • If at any time you wish to remove your CV from our database, you may do so by contacting us.

Third-Party Sites

  • Some job postings may redirect you to external sites, where you provide your CV directly to the employer or recruiter, and your information will be subject to their privacy policy.

Purchase of Records

From time to time, we may “purchase” records from recruitment websites. These records are processed and protected similarly to other data collected.

  • We cannot be held responsible for inaccuracies in data obtained from third-party sources.
  • We will take immediate steps to erase or amend any inaccurate or misrepresented data.

Client Information

  • We consider all information provided by candidates (including CVs and application forms) as exclusively for assisting employers in finding potential workers.
  • Various laws require us to retain some information even after a candidate requests removal from our database.

Data Security and Protection

  • Comity Recruitment uses encryption and/or authentication tools to protect web-based personal information where appropriate.
  • Emails you send to us may not be secure. For sensitive information, we recommend providing it via post or telephone.
  • We instruct our employees to use your personal information only in adherence with this Privacy Policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

  • Comity Recruitment reserves the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy at any time.
  • Material changes will be posted with a notice on our home page for 30 days. Please review these updates.

Website Links

This Site may contain links to other sites, including those of our business partners, vendors, and advertisers. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those sites.

Cookies

  • Cookies are used to help us recognize you and measure statistics regarding your use of this Site.
  • Some features of the Site will not function if you do not accept cookies.

Data Collection

Comments

  • When visitors leave comments, we collect data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string for spam detection.
  • An anonymized string may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it.

Media

  • Avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS), as location data can be extracted by other visitors.

Contact Forms

  • If you leave a comment, we may store your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience.

Data Retention and Rights

Data Retention

  • Comments and metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.

User Rights

  • If you have an account, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you.
  • You can also request that we erase any personal data, except for data we are required to keep for legal purposes.

Spam Detection

  • Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.