Career Advice & Hiring Resources

Introduction

Welcome to Nerdy Hire. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Important Information and Who We Are

Purpose of This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Nerdy Hire collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide when you create an account, apply for a job, post a job listing, subscribe to our service, or engage with our platform.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

The Data We Collect About You

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title.
Contact Data includes email address, telephone numbers, and mailing address.
Profile Data includes your username and password, job applications, job listings, profile picture, professional history, skills, qualifications, and job preferences.
Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and services.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

Purposes for Which We Will Use Your Personal Data

We have set out below a description of the ways we plan to use your personal data:

To register you as a new user
To provide job search and application services
To provide job posting and recruitment services for employers
To manage our relationship with you
To administer and protect our business and this website
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you
To use data analytics to improve our website, services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements.

Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

Request access to your personal data
Request correction of your personal data
Request erasure of your personal data
Object to processing of your personal data
Request restriction of processing your personal data
Request transfer of your personal data
Right to withdraw consent

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us via our contact page:

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on the date indicated at the top of this page. Historic versions can be obtained by contacting us.