Talent Acquisition and Recruiting Insights

Recruitment.com Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 02.10.2023

  1. Introduction

Your privacy is critically important to us.

Recruitment.com is operated by: TalentSites LLC, 2810 N. Church St., #36879, Wilmington, Delaware, USA

It is TalentSites's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://www.Recruitment.com/ (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "https://www.Recruitment.com/"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties.

This Privacy Policy sets forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

  1. Website Visitors

TalentSites follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. We use this information to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movement on the website, and gather demographic information.

TalentSites only discloses Personal Data, including logged in user and commenter IP addresses, under the same circumstances described below.

  1. Gathering of Personal Data

Certain visitors to TalentSites's websites choose to interact with TalentSites in ways that require TalentSites to gather information that relates to an identifiable person, or “Personal Data.” The amount and types of information that TalentSites gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. If you provide Personal Data for a certain reason, we may use the Personal Data in connection with the reason for which it was provided. For instance, if you contact us by email or submit a contact form, we will use the Personal Data you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem. We might ask visitors who sign up for our newsletter at to provide their name and email address. If you subscribed to the newsletter, we would use the Personal Data to send you email campaigns.

  1. How We Use Your Data

TalentSites uses your Personal Data to provide you information on services, understand website traffic to improve TalentSites, and send you e-mails described in the section above. As you visit sections of our website, we may use cookies to track your activity and show you ads based on what you viewed on our site. In addition, TalentSites, LLC, an affiliate of Toptal, LLC, may share your data with Toptal to send you communications about their services. If we are using your data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent, such as from the “opt-out” link at the bottom of the newsletter or by e-mailing us at [email protected].

As we develop our business, we might acquire businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets.

We may share your Personal Data with third parties as part of running Recruitment.com. This includes website analytics companies, providers of digital advertising services, our hosting and cloud computing service providers, providers of customer relationship management software, marketing and sales software solutions, providers of billing and processing payments functions and providers of background check services. When we engage another company to perform a function of this nature, we only provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties may access, process, or store Personal Data in the course of performing their duties to us and solely in order to perform the services we hired them to provide.

Recruitment.com may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law, for example, as part of our compliance with sanctions about specific regions and specifically designated individuals, or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of Recruitment.com, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability.

  1. Data Retention

Recruitment.com keeps your Personal Data only for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and processed, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting or reporting requirements. If you elected to receive marketing communications from us, we retain information about your marketing preferences until you opt out of receiving these communications in accordance with our policies.

To determine the appropriate retention period for your Personal Data, we will consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we use your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. In some circumstances we may anonymize your Personal Data so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case it is no longer Personal Data.

  1. Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, and we use commercially reasonable means to protect your Personal Data.

  1. Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. You should review the Privacy Policy and any other terms and conditions of every site you visit for information about how they use your information.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites, products, or services.

  1. Aggregated Statistics

TalentSites may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. TalentSites may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, TalentSites does not disclose your Personal Data except as described in this Privacy Policy.

  1. Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, TalentSites uses "Cookies" along with similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising, and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. TalentSites uses cookies to help TalentSites identify and track visitors, their usage of https://www.Recruitment.com/, and their website access preferences. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using TalentSites's websites, with the drawback that certain features of TalentSites's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you acknowledge and agree to TalentSites's use of cookies described in our cookie policy .

  1. Region Specific Information

You may be able to exercise certain rights and access certain information depending on your location. Please review the following sections for more details. You can reach out to [email protected] with questions about your information.

  1. EU and UK Individuals

  1. Scope

This section applies solely to individuals in the United Kingdom and European Union, provided however that reference to the EU also includes certain non-EU countries including, where applicable, Switzerland and the European Economic Area countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway. Our Privacy Policy describes why and how TalentSites collects, uses, and stores your Personal Data, the lawful basis on which your Personal Data is processed, and what your rights and our obligations are in relation to such processing (please see the “Your Rights” section below).

  1. Data Controller

TalentSites is the data controller for processing your Personal Data. The data controller is responsible for deciding how Personal Data about you is used. Please contact us with any questions at [email protected] or at the address provided in the Contact Information section below.

  1. Your Rights

Subject to applicable EU and UK law and where possible, you have the following rights in relation to your Personal Data:

  • Right of access. You may ask us to confirm whether we are processing your Personal Data and, if so, provide you with a copy of that Personal Data along with certain other details. This may include the purposes of the processing, the categories of Personal Data, the recipients of the Personal Data, the right to lodge a complaint, and available information on the source of the Personal Data. If you require additional copies, we may charge a reasonable fee.
  • Right to rectification. If your Personal Data is inaccurate or incomplete, you may ask that we erase, amend, or rectify it. If we shared your Personal Data with others, we will tell them about the correction where possible. If you ask us, we will also tell you with whom we shared your Personal Data so you can contact them directly.
  • Right to erasure. You may ask us to delete or remove your Personal Data in certain circumstances, such as where our processing is based on your consent. We may retain certain information consistent with applicable law, such as to prevent fraud, or where we have a compelling legitimate ground to do so. If we shared your data with others, we will tell them about the erasure where possible. If you ask us, we will also tell you with whom we shared your Personal Data with so you can contact them directly.
  • Right to restrict processing. You may ask us to restrict or ‘block’ the processing of your Personal Data in certain circumstances. We will tell you before we lift any restriction on processing. If we shared your Personal Data with others, we will tell them about the restriction where possible. If you ask us, we will also tell you with whom we shared your Personal Data so you can contact them directly.
  • Right to data portability. You may ask to obtain the Personal Data that you consented to give us or that was provided to us as necessary in connection with our contract with you. We will give you your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
  • Right to object. You may ask us at any time to stop processing your Personal Data, and we will do so unless we have a compelling legitimate ground for the processing. We will comply with requests to stop processing your Personal Data as your requests apply to direct marketing.
  • Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling. You have the right to be free from decisions based solely on automated processing of your Personal Data, including profiling, which produce a significant legal effect on you, unless such profiling is necessary for entering, or the performance of, a contract between you and us, or with your explicit consent. We use automated decision-making to ensure that we comply with various laws and regulations restricting what regions, individuals, and entities we are able to work with. We also use automated decision-making to ensure applications from Freelancers and Job Applicants meet our minimum necessary requirements. You may contact us at [email protected] to obtain an explanation of the decision or for a personal review, if possible.
  • Right to withdraw consent. If we rely on your consent to process your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, but this will not affect any data that we already processed.
  • Right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority. If you have a concern about our privacy practices, including the way we handled your Personal Data, you can report it to the data protection authority that is authorized to hear those concerns.

You may exercise your rights by contacting us as indicated under the “ Contact Information ” section below.

  1. Legitimate Interest

“Legitimate interests” means our interests in conducting and managing our organization and delivering the best Services to you. This Privacy Policy describes when we process your Personal Data for our legitimate interests, what these interests are and your rights. We will not use your Personal Data for activities where the impact on you outweighs our interests unless we have your consent or those activities are otherwise required or permitted by law. You have the right to object to processing that is based on our legitimate interests. For more information on your rights, please see the “ Your Rights ” section above.

  1. Data Transfers

TalentSites is based in the United States. Your Personal Data will be transmitted to servers in the United States as necessary during your use of TalentSites or to respond to your requests as described in this Privacy Policy, and your Personal Data may be transmitted to our service providers supporting our business operations (described above). The United States may have data protection laws less stringent than or otherwise different from the laws in effect in the country in which you are located. Where we transfer your Personal Data across the border of the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, we will take steps to ensure that your Personal Data receives an adequate level of protection where it is processed, and your rights continue to be protected.

  1. California

Our Privacy Policy describes above why and how TalentSites collects, uses, and stores your Personal Data, the lawful basis on which your Personal Data is processed, and what your rights and our obligations are in relation to such processing.

If you are a California resident, you, or a person verifiably authorized to act on your behalf, have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act and its successor legislation, the California Privacy Rights Act, collectively the “CCPA.” For the purpose of this section, certain words, including “sale,” “share,” “business purpose,” and “personal information” have the meanings defined in the CCPA. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we use “Personal Data” to cover “personal information” as defined in the CCPA.

We update our Privacy Policy based on our current practices. As required by the CCPA, the information in this section is relevant for the last twelve-month time period. During that time, we collected the categories of Personal Data listed in the relevant section above (i.e., Freelancers, Clients, Job Applicants, or Site Visitors) from the sources listed in those sections (i.e., from you, third parties, or automatically). During the last twelve-month period, we have not sold or shared Personal Data.

During the last twelve-month period, we disclosed for business purposes the following categories of Personal Data:

  • Identifiers (i.e., names, email addresses, or online identifiers and IP addresses).
  • Internet activity (i.e., information regarding your interaction with our websites or advertisements).
  • Geolocation data (i.e., information regarding where you access our site from).
  • Professional or employment information (i.e., job title, employer, or prior titles and employers).

For information about who we may share or disclose your Personal Data to, please review the “How We Use Your Data” section above.

Your rights under the CCPA include the following, which you may execute by contacting us at [email protected] where possible and allowed by law:

  • Right to request deletion of your Personal Data. You may ask us to delete or remove your Personal Data. If we shared your Personal Data with others, we will tell them about the deletion where possible. If you ask us, we will also tell you with whom we shared your Personal Data with so you can contact them directly.
  • Right to request TalentSites correct inaccurate Personal Data. If your Personal Data is inaccurate or incomplete, you are entitled to ask that we correct or complete it. If we shared your Personal Data with others, we will tell them about the correction where possible. If you ask us, we will also tell you with whom we shared your Personal Data so you can contact them directly.
  • Right to know what Personal Data is sold or shared and with whom. TalentSites is not in the business of selling your Personal Data. You may ask us to clarify what Personal Data, if any, is shared and with whom we share it , along with certain additional details.
  • Right to access your Personal Data. If you ask us, we will confirm whether we are processing your Personal Data and, if so, provide you with a copy of that Personal Data along with certain other details. If you require additional copies, we may charge a reasonable fee.
  • Shine the Light Requests. You may also request that we provide you with a list of the categories of Personal Data, if any, that we disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year and the identity of those third parties.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination. TalentSites will not discriminate against you if you exercise any of your rights under the CCPA.

If you would like to exercise your rights or have questions about your rights or information, please contact us at [email protected] or at the post addresses included in the Contact Information section below.

  1. Privacy Policy Changes

TalentSites may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in TalentSites's sole discretion. TalentSites encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

  1. Contact Confirmation

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email at [email protected] or via mail at TalentSites LLC, 2810 N. Church St., #36879, Wilmington, Delaware, USA.