Effective as of May 4, 2022
WeHire is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice informs you how WeHire collects, uses, secures and shares your information (“Personal Data”, as defined under the applicable law) collected by WeHire when you interact with WeHire in the following ways (“Interactions”):
● Visit WeHire’s websites that display or link to this Privacy Notice;
● Visit WeHire’s branded social media pages;
● Visit WeHire’s offices;
● Receive communications from us, including invitations, resources, materials, emails, phone calls, texts or fax;
● Register for, attend or take part in WeHire’s events, webinars or contests; or
● Ask questions about the recruiting software WeHire provides (“Service”).
Personal Data does not include information that has been anonymized or aggregated so the information cannot be traced to a specific individual. If you do not feel comfortable with any part of this Privacy Notice, please cease your Interactions with us.
Please note that WeHire’s website may include links to other organizations’ websites whose privacy practices may differ from those of WeHire. If you submit Personal Data to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy notices. WeHire encourages you to carefully read the privacy notices of any website you visit.
This Privacy Notice may change from time to time. If WeHire make a change to this Privacy Notice that WeHire believe materially affects how WeHire process your Personal Data, WeHire will provide notice of such change on WeHire’s website. By continuing your Interactions after those changes become effective, you accept the provisions of WeHire’s revised Privacy Notice.
In addition, WeHire may provide you with “just-in-time” disclosures or additional information about the data collection, use and sharing practices. These notices may provide more information about WeHire’s privacy practices, or provide you with additional choices about how WeHire processes your Personal Data. The notices and information are subject to this Privacy Notice unless specifically indicated otherwise in the notice.
Except as described in this Privacy Notice, WeHire will not give, sell, rent or loan any Personal Data to any third party. WeHire may collect and process the following Personal Data in connection with WeHire’s Interactions with you:
● Personal Data You Voluntarily Provide. WeHire will collect Personal Data when you voluntarily provide it to WeHire (including to WeHire’s service providers or other parties who collect it on WeHire’s behalf). For example, WeHire collect Personal Data when you request information about WeHire’s Service, subscribe to marketing communications, complete surveys, or sign up for a WeHire event or webinar. WeHire may also collect Personal Data from you offline, such as when you attend one of WeHire’s events, or during phone calls with sales representatives. The Personal Data WeHire collect may include contact information (such as your name, address, telephone number or email address), professional information (such as your job title, department or job role), and contact preferences. WeHire also collect information you choose to provide to WeHire when requesting information or completing any “free text: boxes in WeHire’s forms (for example, for event sign-up), or the nature of your request or communication.
● Log Data. When you use the Service, WeHire automatically records information from your device, its software, and your activity using the Service (“Log Data”). This may include the device’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, the web page visited before you came to WeHire’s website, information you search for on WeHire’s website, locale preferences, identification numbers associated with your devices, your mobile carrier, date and time stamps associated with transactions, system configuration information, metadata concerning your Files, and other interactions with the Service. WeHire may use your IP address to identify the general geographic area from which you are accessing the website. While an IP address may reveal your ISP or geographic area, WeHire cannot determine your identity solely based upon your IP address.
● Location Data. WeHire may collect geolocation and proximity of your device if location services are enabled on your device (e.g., GPS-based functionality on mobile devices used to access WeHire’s website), and may use that information to customize the Interactions with location-based information and features. If you access WeHire’s website through a mobile device and you do not want your device to provide WeHire with location-tracking information, you can disable the GPS or other location-tracking functions on your device, provided your device allows you to do this.
● Cookies. WeHire use “cookies” to collect information and improve WeHire’s Interactions with you. A cookie is a small data file that WeHire transfer to your device. WeHire may use “persistent cookies” to save your registration ID and login password for future logins to WeHire’s website, such as, to register for webinars. WeHire may use “session ID cookies” to enable certain features of the Service, to better understand how your Interactions with WeHire and to monitor aggregate usage and web traffic routing on WeHire’s website.
WeHire collect information about you from the following third-party sources:
● Third-Party Services. You may choose to register events sponsored by WeHire’s partners where WeHire will share your information with WeHire’s marketing partners. WeHire will provide notice of the intent to share your data with WeHire’s partners at the point of personal data collection. To engage in marketing activities, WeHire may collect Personal Data disclosed by you on message boards, chat features, blogs and other services or platforms to which you are able to post information and materials (including third party services and platforms). WeHire process such information to better understand you, to maintain and improve the accuracy of the information WeHire store about you, and to better promote or optimize WeHire’s Interactions with you, including providing information about WeHire’s Service.
Your Personal Data may be used for the following purposes:
1. a) Respond to Requests. WeHire may process your Personal Data when you contact us, such as with questions, concerns, feedback, disputes or issues, to respond to your request or provide information requested by you. WeHire share this information with third parties upon your request, or WeHire’s service providers or partners to the extent necessary to facilitate the Interactions. Without your Personal Data, WeHire cannot respond to you or ensure your continued use and enjoyment of the website.
2. b) Ensure the Security of the Service. WeHire is committed to ensuring your safety and continued enjoyment of WeHire’s website. To do so, WeHire may process your Personal Data to help monitor, prevent and detect fraud, enhance security, monitor and verify identity or access, and combat spam or other malware or security risks, combat spam, malware, malicious activities or security risks; improve and enforce WeHire’s security measures; and to monitor the security of WeHire’s website.
3. c) Facilitate and Evaluate Use of the Online Properties. WeHire may use your Personal Data to provide you with the online services, to facilitate your use of the online services (such as facilitating navigation and the login process, preserving information between sessions and enhancing security), to improve quality, to evaluate page response rates and determine content.
4. d) Improve the Accuracy of WeHire’s Records. WeHire may use the Personal Data WeHire receives from you or third parties to better understand you and/or maintain and improve the accuracy of the records WeHire holds about you.
5. e) Post Testimonials. WeHire may use Personal Data to post testimonials on WeHire’s website. Prior to posting a testimonial, WeHire will obtain your consent to use your name and testimonial. You can request your testimonial be updated or deleted at any time by sending a request with your name, testimonial location and contact information.
6. f) Personalize your Experience. WeHire may provide you plugins, and other options to personalize your experience. WeHire also may use cookies and similar tracking technology for such purposes. By personalizing WeHire’s Interactions, it enables to more easily use WeHire’s website because WeHire keep track of your preferences (e.g. your language selection, your time zone, etc.). Without processing your Personal Data for such purposes, you may not be able to access or personalize part or all of WeHire’s Interactions.
7. g) Marketing: WeHire may use information WeHire obtain from you, your interactions with WeHire and WeHire’s website, and from third party sources to provide you with marketing and promotional communications, to deliver targeted and relevant advertising and marketing to you, to determine the effectiveness of WeHire’s marketing and promotional campaigns, to better understand you and your preferences, and to position and promote WeHire’s Services. WeHire’s marketing will be conducted in accordance with your advertising / marketing preferences and as permitted by applicable law.
8. h) Quality Control and Training. WeHire may use or access Personal Data for the purposes of quality control related to the website and staff training.
9. i) Conferences and Events. WeHire and WeHire’s partners may use Personal Data to communicate with you about WeHire’s events or WeHire’s partner events. After the event, WeHire may contact you about the event and related products and services, and may share information about your attendance with your company and WeHire’s conference sponsors and partners, where legally permitted to do so. If a partner or conference sponsor directly requests your Personal Data at their conference booths or presentations, your Personal Data will be handled in accordance with their privacy practices. WeHire recommend that you review the privacy practices of such partners and sponsors.
10. j) Provide Online Communities and Blogs: WeHire may use Personal Data and other information disclosed by you on WeHire’s message boards, chat features, blogs and other services or platforms to which you are able to post information and materials for the purposes of providing you and WeHire’s customers with a forum to discuss WeHire’s Services, responding to your request, providing you with support, improving WeHire’s website or any other purposes set forth in this Privacy Notice. Any information that is disclosed in those forums becomes public information and may therefore appear in public ways, such as through search engines or other publicly available platforms, and may be “crawled” or searched by third parties. It could also be read, collected or used by other users to send you unsolicited messages. Please do not post any information that you do not want to reveal to the public at large.
11. k) Other Legitimate Business Purposes. WeHire may use your Personal Data when it is necessary for other legitimate purposes such as protecting WeHire’s confidential and proprietary information. If, in the future, WeHire uses your Personal Data in any way that is not described in this Privacy Notice, WeHire will disclose this to you. At that time, you can choose not to allow WeHire to use your Personal Data for any purpose that is incompatible with the purposes for which WeHire originally collected it or subsequently obtained your consent. If you choose to limit the ways WeHire can use your Personal Data, some or all of the website may not be available to you, and WeHire may not be able to interact with you.
WeHire only disclose your Personal Data to those who really need access to perform their tasks and third parties who have a legitimate purpose for accessing it. WeHire may share Personal Data with third parties in the following situations:
1. a) Service Providers, Business Partners and Others. WeHire may share your Personal Data with third parties, such as vendors, consultants, agents and other service providers who work on WeHire’s behalf. Examples include vendors and service providers who provide assistance with marketing, billing, processing credit card payments, data analysis and insight, technical support and customer service. Unless described in this Privacy Notice, WeHire do not share, sell, rent, or trade any of your Personal Data with third parties for their own promotional purposes.
2. b) Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement Requests; Protection of WeHire’s Rights. WeHire may use or disclose Personal Data stored in your WeHire account and other Personal Data about you to third parties when WeHire have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with a law, regulation or legal requests including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements; (ii) protect the safety of any person from death or serious bodily injury; (iii) prevent fraud or abuse of WeHire or its user, or (iv) protect WeHire’s property rights.
3. c) Vital Interests: WeHire may disclose information when WeHire believe it necessary to protect the vital interests of any person.
4. d) Business Transfers. If WeHire is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of WeHire’s assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction, but WeHire will notify you (for example, via email and/or a prominent notice on WeHire’s website) of any change in control or use of your Personal Data, or if either become subject to a different Privacy Notice. WeHire will also notify you of choices you may have regarding the information.
5. e) With Your Consent: WeHire may disclose your Personal Data for any purpose with your consent.
If you sign up to receive marketing or informational announcements from us, such emails will include the capability to opt-out of receiving such emails in the future. Marketing and informational announcements include any communications to you that are only based on advertising or promoting products and services. Transactional communications about an Interaction, or WeHire’s Services are not considered “marketing” or “informational” communications.
If you Interact with WeHire or provide your Personal Data to us, your Personal Data may be transferred to, processed and maintained on servers or databases located outside of the country or jurisdiction where you are located. Such countries or jurisdictions may have data protection laws that are less protective than the laws of the jurisdiction in which you reside. If you do not want your Personal Data transferred to or processed or maintained outside of the country or jurisdiction where you are located, you should not use this website, WeHire’s resources, or the Services.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the United Kingdom or Switzerland, WeHire comply with applicable laws to provide an adequate level of data protection for the transfer of your Personal Data to the US. WeHire adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles. For more, see Section 13 below.
Where applicable law requires WeHire to ensure that an international data transfer is governed by a data transfer mechanism, WeHire will use an appropriate lawful transfer mechanism.
The security of your Personal Data is important to us. WeHire employ appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security that is appropriate for WeHire’s Interactions with you. WeHire follow generally accepted standards to protect the Personal Data submitted to us, both during transmission and once WeHire receive it. No method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, however. Therefore, WeHire cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on WeHire’s website, you can contact WeHire at WeReply@wehirecloud.com.
If you would like to correct or update the Personal Data you provided to WeHire in relation to WeHire’s Interactions with you or in connection with WeHire’s Service, please contact WeReply@wehirecloud.com. WeHire will use responsible efforts to respond to your inquiry as soon as practicable. When updating your Personal Data, WeHire may ask you to verify your identity before WeHire can act on your requests.
Individuals located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom during data collection, or that are California residents should refer to the relevant sections below for more information about their access, correction and other rights in relation to their Personal Data.
WeHire may retain and use your Personal Data as necessary to comply with WeHire’s legal obligations, or resolve disputes. Consistent with these requirements, WeHire will try to delete your Personal Data within the time limits imposed by applicable law, if any upon request. When WeHire have no justifiable business need to process your Personal Data, WeHire will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your Personal Data has been stored in backup archives), then WeHire will securely store your Personal Data and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
While retention requirements can vary by country, WeHire generally applies the retention periods noted below.
● Marketing. WeHire store Personal Data used for marketing purposes indefinitely until you unsubscribe. Once you unsubscribe from marketing communications, WeHire add your contact information to WeHire’s suppression list to ensure WeHire respect your unsubscribe request.
● Web Behavior Data. WeHire retains any information collected via cookies, clear gifs, flash cookies, webpage counters and other technical or analytics tools up to one year from expiry of the cookie or the date of collection.
● Telephone Records. As required by applicable law, WeHire will inform you that a call will be recorded before doing so. Any telephone calls with you may be kept for a period of up to six years.
Our website and Services are not directed to persons under 18. WeHire does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 18. Any individuals under the age of 18 must have consent to Interact with WeHire or use the Services from their parent or guardian. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided WeHire with Personal Data without their consent, he or she should contact WeHire at WeReply@wehirecloud.com. If WeHire becomes aware that a child under 18 has provided WeHire with Personal Data, WeHire will take steps to delete such information from WeHire’s files.
A business subject to California Civil Code section 1798.83 is required to disclose to its California customers, upon request, the identity of any third parties to whom the business has disclosed Personal Data information within the previous calendar year, along with the type of Personal Data disclosed, for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. Please note that under California law, businesses are only required to respond to a customer request once during any calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make either type of request described above, please contact WeHire at WeReply@wehirecloud.com.
This section only applies to Interactions with individuals who are in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom or Switzerland (collectively, the “Designated Countries”) at the time of data collection.
WeHire may ask you to identify which country you are in when you Interact with us, or WeHire may rely on your IP address to identify which country you are located in. When WeHire relies on your IP address, WeHire cannot apply the terms of this section to any individual that masks or otherwise hides their location information from WeHire so as not to appear located in the Designated Countries. If any terms in this section conflict with other terms contained in this Notice, the terms in this section shall apply to Designated Countries users.
WeHire is a data controller with regard to any Personal Data collected from users pursuant to an Interaction. A “data controller” is an entity that determines the purposes and the manner in which the Personal Data is processed. Any third parties that handle your Personal Data in accordance with WeHire’s instructions are WeHire’s service providers and are “data processors.” You are a “user.” Users are individuals providing Personal Data to WeHire via an Interaction, such as signing up for WeHire’s newsletter(s), or otherwise accessing or using WeHire’s resources that WeHire provide.
a) Marketing. WeHire will only contact individuals located in the Designated Countries by electronic means (including email or SMS) based on WeHire’s legitimate interests, as permitted by applicable law, or the individual’s consent. To the extent WeHire can rely on legitimate interest under the applicable law, WeHire will only send you information about WeHire’s Services and other materials that are similar to those which were the subject of a previous Interaction with you. If you do not want WeHire to use your Personal Data in this way please go to the email settings for your account to opt out, click an unsubscribe link in your emails, or contact WeHire at WeReply@wehirecloud.com. You can object to direct marketing at any time and free of charge.
b) Additional Privacy Rights. WeHire provides you with the rights described below when you Interact with us. WeHire may limit these privacy rights requests (i) where denial of access is required or authorized by law, (ii) when granting access would have a negative impact on others’ privacy, (iii) to protect WeHire’s rights and properties, or (iv) where the request is frivolous or burdensome. If you would like to exercise your rights under applicable law, please contact WeHire at WeReply@wehirecloud.com. WeHire may seek to verify your identity when WeHire receives your privacy rights request to ensure the security of your Personal Data.
● Right to withdraw consent. For any consent-based processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw your consent. A withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of WeHire’s processing or the processing of any third parties based on consent before your withdrawal.
● Right of access/right of portability. You may have the right to access the Personal Data that WeHire holds about you, and in some limited circumstances, have the Personal Data provided to you so that you can provide that Personal Data to another controller.
● Right to rectification. You may request to correct any of your Personal Data in WeHire’s files.
● Right to erasure. In certain circumstances, you may have a right to the erasure of your Personal Data that WeHire holds on you.
● Right to restriction. You have the right to request that WeHire restrict WeHire’s processing of your Personal Data win certain circumstances.
● Right to object to processing. You have the right to object to WeHire’s processing at any time and as permitted by applicable law if WeHire process your Personal Data on the legal bases of: consent; contract; or legitimate interests. WeHire may continue to process your Personal Data if it is necessary for the defense of legal claims, or for any other exceptions permitted by applicable law.
● Notification to third parties. When WeHire fulfills your individual rights requests for correct (or rectification), erasure or restriction of processing, WeHire will notify third parties also handling the relevant Personal Data unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort.
Upon your request, WeHire will identify such third parties.
● Right to Lodge Complaint. In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, WeHire commit to resolve complaints about WeHire’s collection or use of your Personal Data. European Union and Swiss individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding WeHire’s Privacy Shield policy should first contact WeHire at WeReply@wehirecloud.com.
If you have questions, or would like to exercise any of the above rights you may reach WeHire at WeReply@wehirecloud.com.
c). The EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks. WeHire complies with the EU-U.S. and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of Personal Data transferred from the European Union and Switzerland to the United States. In addition, where applicable law requires WeHire to ensure that an international data transfer is governed by a data transfer mechanism, WeHire will use an appropriate lawful transfer mechanism.
If there is any conflict between the terms in this Privacy Notice and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. In the context of an onward transfer, WeHire has responsibility for the processing of Personal Data it receives under the Privacy Shield and subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf.
If you are a European data subject with an unresolved complaint or dispute arising under the requirements of the Privacy Shield Framework, WeHire agree to refer your complaint under the Framework to an independent dispute resolution mechanism. WeHire’s independent dispute resolution mechanism is the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (“ICDR”), operated by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”).
Please note that if your complaint is not resolved through these channels, under limited circumstances, a binding arbitration option may be available before a Privacy Shield Panel. You also have a right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority situated in a Designated State of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of alleged infringement.
d) Legal Bases for Processing Personal Data. WeHire’s legal bases for collecting and using the Personal Data described above will depend on the type of Personal Data collected, the specific context in which WeHire collect it and the purposes for which it is used. WeHire rely on the following legal bases under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation in processing your Personal Data.
| Section & Purposes of Processing | Legal Basis for Processing |
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5(a) Respond to Requests 6(a) Service Providers, Business Partners and Others |
Processing is based on WeHire’s contract obligations or to take steps at the request of theindividual prior to entering into a contract. |
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5(c) Facilitate and Evaluate Use of the Website 5(d) Improve the Accuracy of WeHire’s Records 5(f) Personalize your Experience 5(h) Quality Control and Training 5(i) Conferences and Events 5(j) Provide Online Communications and Blogs 5(k) Other Legitimate Purposes |
Processing is based on WeHire’s legitimate interest to better understand you, to maintain and improve the accuracy of the information WeHire store about you, and to better promote or optimize WeHire’s Services. |
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5(e) Post Testimonials 6(e) With Your Consent |
Processing is based on your consent. |
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5(b) Ensure the Security of the Service 6(b) Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement Requests; Protection of WeHire’s Rights 6(c) Vital Interests 6(d) Business Transfers |
Processing is necessary for compliance with WeHire’s legal obligations, the public interest, or in your vital interests. |
If you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Notice, please contact WeHire at WeReply@wehirecloud.com.
Attention: WeHire’s Data Processor Officer
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