Expat Jobs Privacy Policy

Under the GDPR, we process your personal data based on one or more of the following legal grounds:

• Consent: When you create an account, upload a Resume, or subscribe to communications, you provide your consent for us to process your data for those purposes. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
• Contractual necessity: Processing is necessary to provide you with the services you have requested, such as matching you with job opportunities or enabling employers to find your profile.
• Legitimate interests: We may process your data where it is in our legitimate business interests to do so, such as improving our services, ensuring site security, or promoting job opportunities through our official social media channels, provided your rights do not override those interests.

When you register, we store some information about you in your account, but it is protected by your password and may only be accessed by you. It does not form part of our candidate database and cannot be searched or accessed by Expat Jobs customers. You can delete your account at any time.

If you choose to create a profile and upload a Resume to our database, we rely on you to ensure that your details are kept up to date. You should update your CV at least every six months, particularly if your contact details have changed.

Please note that Expat Jobs reserves the right to remove from our database, Resumes which include any content that we consider to be illegal or offensive.

We do not disclose information about your individual visits to the Expat Jobs site, or personal information that you provide, such as your name and personal contact details unless you have given us your permission or we believe that the law requires it. N.B. that by registering with Expat Jobs you are granting us permission to disclose this information. We may record and share aggregated information with our clients. Additionally, if you input your information on a co-branded registration page or job application page, eg a Expat Jobs client-company registration page then the information that you give becomes the property of both Expat Jobs and the client. Expat Jobs is not responsible for the information that the client receives.

Expat Jobs will also use the aggregate data to identify employment trends across different industries, such as salary averages. This information will not be capable of being linked to any personally identifying information about users.

Expat Jobs may share non-personal job posting information — such as job titles, job descriptions, company names, locations, and links to job listings on expatjob.com — with third-party platforms, including LinkedIn, through their official APIs. This sharing is done solely for the purpose of promoting job opportunities published on our platform and driving traffic to relevant listings. No personal user data (such as candidate names, resumes, contact details, or application data) is shared with these platforms through this process.

By posting a job on Expat Jobs, employers acknowledge and agree that their job listing information may be shared on our social media channels, including our LinkedIn Company Page, as part of our standard promotion activities.

Like many websites, we routinely capture your IP address information to determine your location. This helps us work out whether you are visiting the site from within the UK, EU or rest of the world, and means we can show you content that's specific to your location and ask the right questions about your eligibility to work in the specific country you are wishing to work in, should you wish to apply for a job on Expat Jobs. Expat Jobs automatically receives and records information on our web server logs from your browser including your IP address. Expat Jobs records IP addresses for anonymous statistical purposes, administration of our website and servers, and to improve our services.

An IP address, or 'internet protocol address', is a unique identifying number given to every device connected to the internet. Like a car license plate, an IP address is a special serial number used for identification.

Information may be gathered from your registration form and your use of our website through "cookies". The information gathered may be used by Expat Jobs internally, for purposes relating to your use of the website and for marketing activities, and may be passed to carefully selected third parties to use for marketing activities. If you do not wish to receive marketing material from Expat Jobs or from carefully selected third parties you should tick the appropriate box on the submission form. If you subsequently decide you no longer wish to receive direct marketing/information from Expat Jobs or no longer wish us to pass your information to third parties you should notify us using the Contact page of our website or delete your Resume.

Expat Jobs may set and access cookies on your computer. You can choose whether or not to accept cookies, however, if you do not accept Expat Jobs cookies, some of our services may not be available to you. This policy does not apply to companies that Expat Jobs does not own or control, or to people that Expat Jobs does not employ.

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right of access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification: You can ask us to correct any inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Right to erasure: You can request that we delete your personal data. You can also do this directly by logging in to your account and choosing to delete it.
• Right to restrict processing: You can ask us to limit how we use your data.
• Right to data portability: You can request your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
• Right to object: You can object to the processing of your data for certain purposes, including direct marketing.
• Right to withdraw consent: Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us through the Contact page of our website. We will respond to your request within 30 days.

The site is protected against unauthorised access using the latest security devices and 'firewalls'.

Similar to the spam you receive in your personal email inbox, fraudsters have started creating false job offers in an attempt to gather personal details. We consistently monitor job postings on the site and we are committed to ensuring that jobs listed on Expat Jobs.com are legitimate and comply with our terms & conditions.

You may amend your personal details at any time. These options are available when you login to our website.

You may unsubscribe from any employment or promotional information that we may send to you by in any of the following ways:

• Using the unsubscribe function at the bottom of the email
• Amending your account details by logging in to our website
• Contacting us on the Contact page of our website

Expat Jobs uses Google Analytics to help Analyze how users use the site. The tool uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors' use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Expat Jobs.

We will never (and will not allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of visitors to our site. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither we nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any Personally Identifiable Information from any source, unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our website.

You may choose to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically default to accept them, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our Website.

Any further queries should be directed through our contact form.

You can remove any of the information that Expat Jobs stores about you, at any time, by logging in to your Expat Jobs account and choosing to delete the account.