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Last Updated 8 April 2024
PRIVACY POLICY
Introduction
This Privacy Policy applies to all the products, services, websites, and mobile apps provided by Wakbod LLC. The “Site” herein refers to WakMate.com.
Personal Information We Collect.
Personal information implies all the data relating to a living individual who is or can be reasonably identified from the information either alone or with other information.
We collect data from guest visitors who visit the Site, users who register to use the Site as Candidates, Employers, and any other users who access any part of the Site, including Employers’ personalized pages on the Site.
We may collect:
(i) Contact Information
We may request your contact information such as email address, name, phone number, etc through a form on the Site, through your engagement with our sales team or customer support team, or anywhere through your interaction with the Site.
(ii) Cookie Information
We may use cookies, both first-party and third-party, as well as tracking services that use cookies and page tags to collect data about the visitors that visit the Site. This data may include usage as well as user statistics of the visitors who visit the Site. This may include the webpages that you visit, what you click on, the time you perform the actions, your preferred language on the website, the jobs you apply for, the resumes you create, the number of job posts you create, the assessments you take, the assessments you create, among other actions you undertake on the Site.
(iii) Device and Browser Data
We collect data from the devices as well as applications that you use to access the Site. The data may include your IP address, version of the device operating system, type of browser, type of device, device MAC address, network and browser signals. For users on mobile devices, we may also collect data on the device UUID.
(iv) Event Data
We may keep log files that record data every time a device accesses our servers. The log files may contain information about the originating IP addresses, the internet service providers, the files accessed on the Site, the device operating system, device types, and timestamps.
(v) Referral Links
We may record information about the sources that referred you to the Site, including but not limited to links on other websites, emails, etc.
(vi) Integration Data
We collect information from third parties with whom we have integrated the Site such as our payment processors, Google, LinkedIn, among other third-party websites.
Account Information
You need an account on the Site in order to use the services that we offer. We collect personal information during registration on the Site. We also collect information that you provide when you refer a job advertisement to another individual. We may also collect information from LinkedIn and Google when you use the platforms to sign up.
Use or Share of Personal Data
Your submission of personal information to the Site, whether as a Candidate or Employer, means that you agree to our Terms of Service. It also means that you have consented to our collection and use of your personal information.
We use the information to tailor job advertisements to you. We may also use the information to send you personalized marketing adverts. We may also use the information to determine the success of our services and job adverts to you, and also to improve the same. You can withdraw your consent at any given time.
We use your contact information to respond to any of your inquiries, provide you with any information that is related to the services that we offer you, provide you with customer support, and send you promotions and any marketing information.
We use your account information to offer you our services, bill you for the services we offer you, provide customer support to you, and to reach out to you about your account or the services that we offer. The communication may include announcements, billing messages, changes to the services we offer you, modifications to our policies, and welcome emails for first-time registrations, among others. Since these communications are necessary in our provision of the services to you, you cannot opt out of them.
We use your device data to troubleshoot errors and to make improvements to our services. We also use the device data to enable account verification and sign-in, and to enforce our security policies.
We use the information collected from third parties and other partners integrated into the Site to ensure that you can sign up for our services from Google and LinkedIn. We also use the information to verify that you have paid for our services where necessary.
We use Event Data to investigate any security issues such as unauthorized access to your account, among other security issues.
We use referral information to monitor the success of the integrations that we make with other third-party platforms, and to measure the success of our referral processes.
We may use your information to respond to any legal requests. We may also use your information to prevent or address unlawful activities on the Site.
The information you share publicly on the Site may be indexed by search engines. The Site provides you the option of hiding your personal information away from the public, editing the same, and deleting the information altogether. However, we cannot delete the public information from search engines in case they already indexed it.
We may share a Candidate’s information with Employers, and vice versa, and the use of the shared information is subject to our Terms of Service.
Data Retention
We retain your personal information as long as your account remains active. You may request the deletion of your account information anytime. The deletion of your information is subject to our Terms of Service.
Minors
Our services are not meant for use by minors. Minors are individuals below the age of 16, or below the age considered as adults in certain countries or jurisdictions. WakMate.com does not knowingly allow minors to use the Site, nor does it knowingly collect personal information related to minors. In case it comes to our attention that certain information belongs to minors, we will delete it without notice. Please inform us immediately in case you have information on any data collected that is related to a minor.
Your Rights
You have a right to request information about yourself, correct the same, update the information, or delete it altogether subject to our Terms of Service. These rights may be subject to exceptions or limitations in your local jurisdiction’s law.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy anytime. In case of any changes to the Privacy Policy, we will send a notice to all account holders of the Site.
