PRIVACY POLICY
1. Information collection
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Information you provide to us
When you use the service, you may provide us with information about you. This may include your personal information such as name, age, phone number, gender, residence city and email address. For employers, we also need information such as a trade license and Identification card to verify your company or startup so that they can start posting jobs using a verified company/ startup.
- Information Collected Automatically
- To provide and improve the Service, address your inquiries, process your registration, verify the information you provide is valid, and for compliance and internal business purposes.
- To contact you with administrative communications and Afriwork newsletters, marketing or promotional materials (on behalf of Afriwork or third parties) and other information that may be of interest to you. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive such communications from us, please follow the instructions in the Your Choices and Rights section, below.
- To tailor content we display to you and offers we may present to you, both on the Service and elsewhere online.
- To enforce and comply with the law, including to conduct an investigation, to protect the property and rights of Afriwork or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal, fraudulent, unethical or legally actionable activity.
- To Honor Our Contractual Commitments to You. Much of our processing of Personal Information is to meet our contractual obligations to our investors, or to take steps at Users' request in anticipation of entering into a contract with them.
- For Our Legitimate Interests. In many cases, we handle Personal Information on the grounds that it furthers our legitimate interests in commercial activities
- Employers and employees are obliged to share job match information regarding the operations of Afriwork about job match.
- For Our Legitimate Interests. In many cases, we handle Personal Information on the grounds that it furthers our legitimate interests in commercial activities, such as the following, in ways that are not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the affected individuals:
- Providing our Site and Service.
- Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity.
- Measuring interest and engagement in our Services.
- Short-term, transient use, such as contextual customization of ads.
- Improving, upgrading or enhancing our Services.
- Developing new products and services.
- Ensuring internal quality control and safety.
- Authenticating and verifying individual identities.
- Debugging to identify and repair errors with our Services.
- Auditing relating to interactions, transactions and other compliance activities.
- Enforcing our agreements and policies.
- Analyzing and improving our business.
- Communications, including marketing and responding to your inquiries about our services.
- Addressing information security needs and protecting our Users, Afriwork, and others.
- Managing legal issues.
| Categories of personal information we collect | Examples of personal information collected | Categories of sources of personal information | Business purpose for collection of personal information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identifiers | Name, date of birth, phone number, gender, residence city, residence country and email address | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | Providing and Improving the Service, Identification, Communications, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Contact/ Account profile information | Email address, phone number | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | Providing and Improving the Service, Identification, Communications, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance, and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Company or startup information | Commercial license, representative letter, Identification card, | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | For business verification process, Security, Legal, compliance, and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Internet or Other Network or Device Activities, Including Information from Cookies | Unique device and app identifiers, browsing history or other usage data, the browser and operating system you are using, the URL or advertisement that referred you to the Service, the search terms you entered into a search engine that led you to the Service, areas within the Service that you visited, which links you clicked on, which pages or content you viewed and for how long, other similar information and statistics about your interactions, such as content response times, download errors and length of visits to certain pages and other information commonly shared when browsers communicate with websites | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | Providing and Improving the Service, Identification, Communications, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
| Other information that identifies or can be reasonably associated with you | User-generated content, (e.g. feedback and job postings), photographs, examples of your work, information on work previously performed via the Service and outside the Service, skills, tests taken, test scores, hourly pay rates and earnings information. | Directly from You or Your use of the Service; Third Parties (such as affiliates, agents, service providers and other users) | Providing and Improving the Service, Identification, Communications, Marketing, Analytics, Security, Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Obligations. |
Like other online companies, we receive technical information when you use our Services. We use these technologies to analyze how people use the Service, to improve how our Site functions, to save your log-in information for future sessions, and to serve you with advertisements that may interest you.
Afriwork uses cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, the desktop app, and the mobile app, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The technology used to collect information automatically from Afriwork Users may include cookies, web beacons, and embedded scripts. In addition, we and our marketing partners, affiliates, analytics, and service providers may use a variety of other technologies (such as tags) that collect similar information for security and fraud detection purposes and we may use third parties to perform these services on our behalf.
2 Use of information and analytics
We use information collected through the Service to provide and improve the Service, process your requests, prevent fraud, provide you with information and advertising that may interest you, comply with the law, and as otherwise permitted with your consent.
We use information we collect
3 Data retention
Unless you request that we delete certain information, we will only retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting, or reporting requirements, as well as ongoing fraud prevention, backup, and business continuity purposes.
4 Information sharing and disclosure
We do not “sell” your Personal Information as that term is traditionally defined, and we do not share your Personal Information with third parties for those third parties’ marketing purposes unless we first provide you with the opportunity to opt-in to or opt-out of such sharing. However, we may use third-party technologies on our Site for the purposes of advertising or marketing to you and understanding how you interact with our ads. This may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information for targeted advertising under applicable data protection laws.
5 Security
Afriwork takes reasonable steps to help protect and secure the information it collects and stores about the afriwork users. We maintain reasonable administrative and technical safeguards designed to protect personal information that we receive against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss alteration, access, disclosure or use.
6 Link to other sites
Our Service contains links to other websites. These links might be in the company profile information or an applicant's portfolio links in their profile either way we allow both. If you choose to click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s website. The fact that we link to a website is not an endorsement, authorization or representation of our affiliation with that third party, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies or practices. We do not exercise control over third party websites. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit Personal Information from you. We encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit.
7 Contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us support@freelanceethiopia.com