The EmployMeGulf company (EmployMeGulf.com) is committed to safeguarding your privacy while providing our services. We encourage you to periodically review this statement as it may change from time to time at our sole discretion. Questions concerning your personal information should be directed to our Privacy Officer by email at: Privacy@EmployMeGulf.com
What This Privacy Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy explains the kinds of personal information collected by EmployMeGulf.com regarding individuals, and discusses how EmployMeGulf.com gathers, uses, processes, retains, and shares with third parties, the personal information that it collects, and other relevant matters.
This Privacy Policy has been created to give thorough and clear explanation concerning the data we gather, the ways in which we utilize data that we gather, and our privacy procedures, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) of the European Union (EU) and, whenever relevant, and as mandated by the applicable privacy laws.
Informed Consent
Through your use of the EmployMeGulf.com website and/or application for any reason (such as to utilize the content and/or services offered, as well as to pay for different services offered on the EmployMeGulf.com website and/or the application), you hereby confirm that you have read, understand and agree to the conditions stated in this Privacy Policy, and you give your informed consent for all of the uses that are made or might be made by EmployMeGulf.com with the personal information that you provide on the company’s website (including the transfer of your personal information to third parties for the reasons stated in this Privacy Policy) and/or of the personal information that will be gathered regarding your use of the company’s website, whether by itself or through third parties working on behalf of EmployMeGulf.com.
By your decision to submit your personal information to EmployMeGulf.com through its website and/or via the application and/or using any of the methods described in this Privacy Policy, you hereby declare and obligate the following:
A. Personal information that you provide to EmployMeGulf.com belongs to you and is accurate, complete and correct.
B. EmployMeGulf.com will retain the personal information that you provide in the company’s data stores, and the company will be entitled to utilize that personal information and transfer it to third parties that cooperate with EmployMeGulf.com or act on its behalf, in adherence with the conditions this Privacy Policy sets forth.
Minors
You warrant and represent that (1) you are over 18 years of age; and (2) you are of legal competence to enter into this Policy. Our Service is not intended for or directed to people who are less than 18 years of age and we do not knowingly gather or request information from them. In the event that we receive verifiable knowledge that a user is less than 18 years of age, our Company will take action to delete such user’s Personal Information immediately. If you have reason to believe or become aware that a person is less than 18 years of age and has provided us with any information, please contact us at: Privacy@EmployMeGulf.com
When We Collect Your Personal Information
EmployMeGulf.com collects personal information about you when you actively submit information to us (such as when you contact us through various means, including by email, telephone, postal delivery, online chat or social media, and/or when you provide your details in an application operated by our company), and we also gather information whenever you utilize our services, products or service channels, including through observation of your usage of our websites.
Use of “Cookies”
We utilize tracking technologies on our website, including pixels and cookies, which are used in order to collect data automatically, by service providers on our behalf or by ourselves.
Whenever you utilize our Services or access our website, small text files called “cookies” are installed by a web server on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies help you to navigate our website or Services more efficiently, allow certain features to be activated automatically, make your interaction with our Services easier and faster, display the website content in the relevant language based on the country you’re in, among other features, and are also used for the purpose of remarketing (which is discussed below).
To learn more about cookies, please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org
The majority of Internet browsers give you the option to get a warning before cookies are stored, to remove cookies from the hard drive of your computer or to block the acceptance of cookies. The instructions to do this are often found in the device preferences, security and privacy settings, “clear browsing history” tab or other locations on the device and/or browser. It is important to understand that if you decide to disable cookies, your experience online could be limited, since certain features might not operate correctly on our website without cookies.
Besides the cookies that we use to monitor the performance of our campaigns and to operate our website, we might also allow third parties to utilize certain tracking technologies, such as cookies, as discussed below.
Operation and Essential Functionality:
Source: Google Tag Manager
Reason: This cookie is required to load scripts into our website pages.
Privacy Policy/Opt Out:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
https://policies.google.com/technologies/managing?hl=en
Cookies Related to Performance and Analytics:
Sources: Google.com and Google Analytics
Reason: This cookie is utilized to track and analyze how our Services are being used, for internal purposes, and may involve obtaining your IP address. For more details about our use of Google products, click here.
Privacy Policy/Opt Out:
google.com/policies/privacy/partners
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Targeted Marketing:
Sources:
Facebook Remarketing
Google AdWords Remarketing
Yahoo
Outbrain
Taboola
Privacy Policy/Opt Out:
https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
https://policies.google.com/privacy
https://policies.google.com/technologies/managing?hl=en
https://policies.yahoo.com/xa/en/yahoo/privacy/index.htm
https://policies.yahoo.com/xa/en/yahoo/privacy/topics/cookies/index.htm
https://www.outbrain.com/legal/
https://www.taboola.com/privacy-policy#users
https://www.taboola.com/cookie-policy
Please note that you may be able to adjust the security and privacy settings on your Internet browser so that you may control the response of your browser to cookies. To learn more, you might review your browser’s support or help page.
Furthermore, you might be able to opt out of cookies and browser-enabled, interest-based advertising from particular advertisers at the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (“DAA”) website – DAA opt-out page and at the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) website – NAI consumer opt-out.
Kinds of Data Collected
We gather particular kinds of data whenever you browse or access or utilize the Services in any fashion and this data could be categorized in the following two ways:
1. Information That Is Personally Identifiable (“Personal Information” or “Personal Data”), subject to the legal definitions that apply, such as name, online identifiers, email address, as discussed further below.
2. Aggregated Data that Is Non-Identifiable (“Non-Personal Data”), such as particular aggregated data concerning your usage of the Services or technical data which is transmitted from the device you are utilizing.
Please note that the Company will not combine Non-Personal Data that is gathered with Personal Information that you give us voluntarily, but in the event these two kinds of data are combined, the combined data will be treated as Personal Information.
Feel free to review the information provided below that further discusses the kinds of data we gather whenever you utilize the Services offered on our website or whenever you browse our website, along with the reasons for gathering the information and the manner in which we utilize it.
Technical Data and Internet Protocol Address (IP)
Whenever you utilize our Services or access our website, we may gather Non-Personal Data that is technical in nature, such as the kind of Internet browser you are using, the operating system, date and time you accessed the website, kind of device you used, your estimated geographic location, click stream while on the website, language preference, or other Non-Personal Data.
Furthermore, whenever you make use of our Services or access our website, we will gather, either by third party service providers or directly, your Internet Protocol address (IP address). Please be aware that certain jurisdictions do not consider an IP address to be Personal Information; however, the European Economic Area (EEA) and many other jurisdictions do consider an IP address to be information that is personally identifiable. Consequently, such information is treated by the Company as Personal Information, in keeping with the laws that apply.
This data will be processed for several reasons, such as providing, managing, operating, protecting, maintaining, improving and customizing our website as well as the Services that the website offers. We may also gather and use data in order to audit and track traffic flow and statistics about usage, as well as for the purpose of remarketing, subject to your consent, where mandated by the applicable law, as explained below in the “Cookies” section.
This information is processed in accordance with the consent you give via our notice about cookies.
Application Information
If you would like to receive Services from our Company, you will need to give us or an agent who is acting on behalf of our Company, certain information, which may include: your first name and last name, telephone number, email address, country of birth, date of birth, marital status, occupation, etc.
There are various methods in which you could provide us with your information, such as a telephone call, voicemail, entering your details in an application or form online operated by the Company, via email, social network, online chat, mail delivery, or other means.
Additionally, when completing your application, you warrant and represent that you will give us accurate information that is not false or misleading. You also represent and warrant that you are responsible to keep your username and password, which we will provide to you for your account during the application procedure, along with your details, confidential.
The reason we gather and process information that you enter in your application is so our Services can be provided to you.
The legal basis for gathering and processing information according to the GDPR (for EU persons) is the execution of a contract.
Contact Details
Our Company will gather and process the details that you give us (such as your name and email address) whenever you decide to contact us voluntarily for any purpose, such as questions you might want to ask or to receive assistance, using any method of available communication (for instance, mail, online form, email, etc.).
Your contact details and contact history will be processed by our Company in order to provide you with the service or support you have asked for and to respond to questions you may have. Furthermore, these details may be stored by our Company if we think it is in our legitimate interests, such as to defend legal claims made against our Company.
The legal basis for processing your details and contact history, according to the GDPR (for EU persons) is the execution of a contract.
Recorded Telephone Calls
Your telephone calls could be documented in writing and/or recorded if you contact us or an agent acting on behalf of our Company, and this could include when you contact our customer service representatives.
Telephone calls are processed and recorded for the purpose of providing our Services, preventing fraud, or monitoring the quality of services you receive.
The legal basis for documenting, processing or recording your telephone calls, according to the GDPR (for EU persons) is the execution of a contract.
Payments Details
We will ask you to provide certain data such as the credit card number and other details if you make a payment for our offered Products or Services.
This information will be used by our Company for the purpose of processing the payment to receive our Services.
The legal basis for gathering this information according to the GDPR (for EU persons) is the execution of a contract.
Newsletter and Marketing Materials
If you choose to register to receive our marketing materials, such as our newsletter, you will be asked to give us your email address and other details, such as your first name and last name, job title and the company you work for. Please note that our Company utilizes services provided by Upland for our email marketing. You may read Upland’s privacy policy at: https://uplandsoftware.com/privacy/
Our Company will only use this information so that marketing materials can be sent to you.
You may easily unsubscribe (i.e., “opt-out”) by contacting us at CSR@EmployMeGulf.com or by other means we will make available (e.g., an “unsubscribe” link within the applicable email).
The legal basis for sending you a newsletter or marketing materials, according to the GDPR (for EU persons), is because when you signed up to receive our newsletter or other marketing materials, you gave your consent. Additionally, our Company has a legitimate interest to send you content and updates if you are our Customer or partner.
Use and Disclosure of Personal Information
We use your Data for legitimate business operational and marketing purposes, which may include:
- Processing orders and inquiries
- Improving our website and services
- Enhancing our customer service
- Providing you with the requested services and/or products
- Resolving disputes, collecting fees, and troubleshooting problems
- Conducting market research surveys
- Providing you with information about the products and services that we offer
You may stop the delivery of marketing emails by following the instructions accompanying a particular communication or by contacting us at: Privacy@EmployMeGulf.com
EmployMeGulf.com may share information about users with business partners, sponsors and other third parties who may use that information for marketing purposes. We provide this type of information in aggregate form so that no individual user is identified. If you prefer not to receive online marketing information from third-party companies, please contact our Privacy Officer by email at: Privacy@EmployMeGulf.com
EmployMeGulf.com sends messages to its subscribers via email regarding its products, new services, improvements, notice of scheduled services, etc. Our subscribers may opt-out of receiving this information by suspending their subscription with us.
Important Notice
A. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Customer hereby grants to EmployMeGulf.com the right to use, copy, store, transmit, modify, create derivative works of and display the Customer Data solely to the extent necessary to provide the Services to the Customer. As said, EmployMeGulf.com will use all Customer Data for the immigration process and will store and use this data for this cause. EmployMeGulf.com does not provide an archiving service. EmployMeGulf.com agrees only that it will not intentionally delete any Customer Data from any Service prior to termination of the Customer’s applicable Subscription Term. EmployMeGulf.com expressly disclaims all other obligations with respect to storage.
B. Despite the provisions of section A above, EmployMeGulf.com may share or disclose your private, aggregated or otherwise personal information with third parties for industry analysis and demographic profiling and to deliver targeted advertising about other products and services and for marketing purposes. You may opt-out of receiving marketing messages by using the opt-out mechanisms and links from our website or emails.
C. You have the option to delete your personal information completely from our systems without leaving any trace or stored data. This personal data delete option will be filled upon specific client’s request.
Protection of Your Personal Information
EmployMeGulf.com has appropriate technical and organizational measures in place to provide a high level of security to protect the personal information our company has about you against unauthorized access or use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction and accidental loss. Data collected by EmployMeGulf.com is stored behind “firewalls” so as to prevent loss, changing or misuse of information under our control. Websites and applications operated by EmployMeGulf.com which contain sensitive personal information are protected using the Secured Sockets Layer (SSL 128) protocol which encrypts information on the Internet and is widely accepted and used to protect financial and other sensitive online transactions. The security tools and procedures our company has in place also locate and help to prevent access from unauthorized users.
Furthermore, whenever we transfer or share your personal information with third parties, our company also requires that they utilize technical and organizational procedures in order to maintain a high level of security for your information. Nonetheless, please note that there may be situations in which our company is obligated by law or other requirements beyond our control to transfer your personal information to public authorities or other third parties and in these situations, our company is limited in its ability to affect the measures taken by those third parties to protect your information.
EmployMeGulf.com agrees to use commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to prevent unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure of any service or customer data. EmployMeGulf.com has implemented appropriate administrative, technical, and physical security procedures to help protect the personal information you provide to us. However, EmployMeGulf.com will have no responsibility for errors in transmission, unauthorized third party access or other causes beyond the control of EmployMeGulf.com.
Although EmployMeGulf.com makes reasonable efforts to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, or alteration by third parties, you should be aware that there is always some risk involved in transmitting information over the Internet. Consequently, EmployMeGulf.com cannot guarantee that the information that you provide on our websites and/or applications that we operate will be completely secure.
Websites operated by EmployMeGulf.com may include links to different websites. Please note that when ‘clicking’ any of these links, your computer will be directed to another separate website. We advise that you read the Privacy Protection Notice on these sites, since theirs may differ from ours.
Access to Data and Contact Info
You may request a correction to or a copy of the personal information we hold about you by contacting the Privacy Officer at Privacy@EmployMeGulf.com or writing to:
Privacy Officer
EmployMeGulf.com
Level 1, The Chase
Carmanhall Road, Sandyford
Dublin D18 Y3X2 IRELAND
Data Controller
EmployMeGulf.com serves as the Data Controller of the personal information about you.
In the event that you have enrolled to receive services offered by EmployMeGulf.com, but a portion of that service is provided by a third party, the third-party will serve as a separate “Data Controller”.
If you would like to realize your rights about personal information or should you have any questions about activities related to the processing of your personal information, please feel free to contact EmployMeGulf.com at the company’s address provided above, or by sending an email to: Privacy@EmployMeGulf.com
Sharing Personal Data with Third Parties
Our Company does not share with third parties any of the Personal Information that we gather from you, with the following exceptions:
1. Legally Required – In the event we are required by the applicable regulation, law, legal procedure, or government request (such as compliance with tax authorities or a court order, etc.), we may disclose your information in this type of situation.
2. Your Consent – If you consent to a particular disclosure, we may share your information with third parties. Keep in mind that after we disclose your details to another company, those details will become subject to the privacy procedures of the other company.
3. Business Partners and Service Providers – Our Company may share your details with third parties that provide services on our behalf, such as authorized immigration consultants, analytic services, etc.
4. Affiliated Companies and Corporate Transactions – We might share your details with our parent company, our other subsidiaries, joint ventures, or any of our companies which are under common control with the Company (“Affiliated Companies”) only when and if appropriate or required for the reasons explained in this Policy, along with any corporate transactions, such as a merger, consolidation, sale of a significant segment of our business, or asset sale. If such an event should occur, we will put forth our best efforts to make sure that our Affiliated Companies or acquiring company assumes the obligations and rights that this Policy describes.
5. Rights of Third Parties – Our Company might disclose your details to prevent harm to the property (such as intellectual property), rights (such as legal rights), or safety of our Company, our users or any relevant third party.
We reserve the right to utilize, share or transfer (for business reasons or other purposes) processed and aggregated Non-Personal Data to third parties, including, inter alia, affiliates, for different reasons, such as commercial purposes. This data could be gathered, processed and evaluated by us and transferred to third parties in an aggregated, combined, collective fashion (for instance, your data is aggregated with other users immediately).
Information Security
We utilize administrative, technological and physical security measures for the Services that we believe comply with industry standards and applicable laws for the purpose of preventing unauthorized access to your information and to safeguard it from being lost accidentally, destroyed unlawfully, and improperly disclosed or used.
Data Protection in the European Union
For issues concerning European regulations for privacy protection, please contact our Privacy Officer by sending an email to: Privacy@EmployMeGulf.com
Consequences of Not Providing Your Personal Information
There is no obligation for you to provide your personal information to EmployMeGulf.com. It should be noted, however, that EmployMeGulf.com may not be able to provide you with the services and/or products that you request from our company unless you submit your personal information.
Although you are not required to provide EmployMeGulf.com with your personal information, there are certain situations in which providing your personal information is a necessary condition for establishing a contractual relationship between you and EmployMeGulf.com. Therefore, a decision by you not to provide EmployMeGulf.com with your personal information may prevent our company from entering into a contractual agreement with you and consequently, we may not be able to provide you with the services and/or products that you asked to receive from our company.
Notwithstanding the aforementioned, these rules will apply concerning particular users: In general, with the exception of any lawful requirement for users to provide our company with specific information, you are not legally obligated to provide EmployMeGulf.com with your personal information, and you have the freedom to decide whether or not to do so. In the event that you decide not to provide EmployMeGulf.com with your personal information in accordance with the company’s requirements, EmployMeGulf.com may be prevented from responding to your request and/or may not be able to provide you with the services and/or products that you ask to receive.
You May Request That Your Personal Information Not be Used for Marketing
EmployMeGulf.com seeks to take into account the needs and personal preferences of its potential and current customers in order to provide them with relevant content and offers. With this goal in mind, EmployMeGulf.com conducts analyses of personal information using certain technologies and techniques in order to reach conclusions regarding content and offers that you may find personally relevant. Furthermore, to the extent that you agree to be sent marketing offers from EmployMeGulf.com, our company can refine its offers made to you by using the conclusions drawn from these analyses of your data.
You have the right to request at any time and without cost that EmployMeGulf.com not use your personal information for direct marketing purposes, by sending an email with the subject line “Unsubscribe” to: Privacy@EmployMeGulf.com Please note that if you decide on this option, your personal information (such as your contact details) will still be saved by EmployMeGulf.com, but our company will not use your information to send marketing materials, as discussed in the previous paragraph.
You Have Rights Regarding Your Personal Information
You have several rights regarding your personal information, such as the following:
The Right to Review Your Personal Information – You have the right to ask our company to confirm if it has personal information about you and if it does, you can also request to be sent a copy of your personal information, pending our company’s confirmation of your identity so as to prevent the transfer of your personal information to an unauthorized third party. You may request a review of your personal information by sending an email to: Privacy@EmployMeGulf.com
The Right to Limit How Your Personal Information Is Used – It is your right to insist that limits be placed on how our company uses your personal information contingent upon your personal information being required by our company to fully provide you with the services and/or products you enrolled to receive from our company. You may request that our company place limits on how we use your personal information by sending an email to: Privacy@EmployMeGulf.com
The Right to Have Your Personal Information Deleted – You have the right to request that our company delete your personal information, contingent upon the following caveats:
A. you provided consent for your personal information to be processed and you are now cancelling your consent to process your personal information, subject to there not being a legal basis that justifies processing your personal information;
B. your personal information is not required for the purpose that it was processed and/or collected;
C. you are objecting to the processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes (as discussed above in the section, “You May Request That Your Personal Information Not be Used for Marketing”);
D. you have your own reasons for objecting to the processing of your personal information, if the legal basis for it to be processed is the carrying out of a task or tasks for the public good, implementing official authority granted to our company or satisfying the legitimate interests of our company and/or a third party, such as producing a profile about you by virtue of the above lawful bases, and there are no decisive legitimate reasons to process your personal information that outweigh your rights, freedoms or interests;
E. your personal information needs to be deleted due to legal requirements placed upon our company;
F. personal information was gathered in the context of offering services to a minor; or
G. your personal information was collected and/or processed in an illegal manner.
You may request that our company delete your personal information from its system by sending an email to: Privacy@EmployMeGulf.com
Please note that this right will not apply in situations in which our company has a duty to process your personal information because of laws imposed upon our company, to seek protection from lawsuits, in the interest of public health, or to fulfill commitments for carrying out the official authority of our company or the public interest.
The Right to Object to Your Personal Information Being Used – At any time, you have the right to object, for your own reasons, to your personal information being processed, given that the legal basis for your personal information being processed is the carrying out of a task or tasks for the public good, implementing official authority granted to our company or satisfying the legitimate interests of our company and/or a third party, such as producing a profile about you by virtue of the above lawful bases, and there are no decisive legitimate reasons to process your personal information that outweigh your rights, freedoms or interests. In the same manner, it is also your right at any time to object to the processing of your personal information for use in direct marketing (this includes the creation of a profile about you for marketing purposes) and in such a case, our company will no longer process your personal information for the purpose of direct marketing. You may send objections regarding the use of your personal information to: Privacy@EmployMeGulf.com
The Right of Mobility for Your Personal Information – It is your right to be sent in an acceptable, structured format that can be read on a device your personal information that you provided to our company and to transfer your personal information to a different Data Controller. You also have the right to request that our company send your personal information to the other Data Controller (if that is technically possible). It is important to note that your right to have your personal information sent to you or to a different Data Controller only applies to your personal information that was processed with your consent or to take steps at your request prior to signing a contract or based upon the requirement to implement a contract to which you are a party. It must also be stressed that it is not acceptable to impinge upon the right of our company to keep a copy of your personal information as determined by European regulations concerning privacy protection. You may request that our company send your personal information to you and/or transfer it to a different Data Controller by sending an email to: Privacy@EmployMeGulf.com
The Right to File a Complaint – You have the right to file a complaint regarding our company’s Privacy Policy and/or concerning your personal information by contacting our Data Protection Officer by email at Privacy@EmployMeGulf.com or by writing to:
Data Protection Officer
EmployMeGulf.com
Level 1, The Chase
Carmanhall Road, Sandyford
Dublin D18 Y3X2 IRELAND
Transfer of Personal Information to International Organizations or Other Countries
You understand that your personal information may be transferred beyond the borders of the country where you are living, including to states where the regulations permit a lower protection level for personal data than the level of protection determined by the regulations in your country of residence. In such a situation, EmployMeGulf.com will utilize measures to provide a proper protection level for your personal information as discussed in this Privacy Policy and as the applicable laws require. It should also be noted that your personal information may be transferred outside of the European Union (EU) zone (in other words, to countries that are not members of the European Union and which do not include Norway, Lichtenstein or Iceland). It is also possible under certain circumstances that your personal information may be transferred to international organizations.
In the event that you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), we will take appropriate steps to make sure that your data gets an adequate level of information security when it is transferred outside of the EEA. Please note that if you are a resident of a jurisdiction that requires your consent in order for your data to be transferred, this Policy includes your express consent for such transfer of your Personal Information.
Through your use of the website(s) and/or application operated by EmployMeGulf.com, and by providing your personal information to our company, you hereby give your informed consent to EmployMeGulf.com to process and/or store and/or retain and/or transfer your personal information beyond the borders of your country of residence.
Length of Time for Retaining Your Data
Our Company retains the Non-Personal Data that we gather for as long as necessary to fulfill our contract with you, provide the Service, perform our business purpose, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, comply with legal obligations that we have, in compliance and in accordance with the laws that apply, or until a person asks us to delete his/her Personal Information, as discussed earlier. Furthermore, we are entitled at our sole discretion and at any time to correct, restore or delete information that is inaccurate or incomplete.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is the right of EmployMeGulf (EmployMeGulf.com) to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time at the company’s sole discretion. In the event that this Privacy Policy is updated, EmployMeGulf.com will make these changes known by posting the updated Privacy Policy on our company’s websites and/or applications operated by our company. Unless otherwise stated, any updates made to this Privacy Policy will become effective on the date that they are posted on the particular EmployMeGulf.com website and/or application operated by our company. Additionally, EmployMeGulf.com will take steps to inform you when significant changes have been made to our company’s Privacy Policy by posting an announcement regarding the major policy change(s) on our websites and/or applications operated by our company and/or by other methods of communication that would normally be used in such situations, and EmployMeGulf.com will also seek to receive your consent regarding the significant changes made to its Privacy Policy that are related to our company’s use of your personal information in accordance with the requirements of the relevant laws. Therefore, we encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy to check for any updates that may have been made and so that you will be informed about our company’s Privacy Policy related to your personal information.
How to Contact Us
Please feel free to contact our Data Protection Officer at: Privacy@EmployMeGulf.com
