Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Recruiter Alley. (“Recruiter Alley,” “we” or “us”) collects, uses and discloses the information we collect about our users (“you”), when you use our website, including info@recruiteralley.com, www.recruiteralley.com and related pages (the “Site”) and the services available through the Site (the Site and our services, together are the “Services”).

This policy applies to personal information about individuals and does not apply to the information collected, used or disclosed with respect to corporate or commercial entities. By using the Services, you consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Privacy Policy. Your use of the Services, and any dispute over privacy, is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms & Conditions, including its applicable limitations on damages and the resolution of disputes. Please read this Privacy Policy to learn more about the ways in which we collect, use and share the information we collect about you.

Information We Collect

We may collect information about you directly from you and from third party sources, as well as automatically through your use of the Services.

Information We Collect Directly From You We may collect information directly from you. For example, if you register for or use our Services, we may collect your name, email address, phone number, photograph, zip code, company name, current or past employers, dates of employment, employee referral information, income information, resumes, current salary, desired salary, desired job title, job location preferences, and any other information that you submit as part of your profile or that may be useful in helping us to match job seekers and employers; if you pay for our Services, we will collect your payment information, including payment card number and billing address.

We will also collect any other information that you provide to us. This may include social networking links and media or news links or information about your contacts and connections if you share such information with us, such as to participate in a referral program or to list a reference. If you give a reference for someone else, we will collect information about that reference. If you participate in a survey or questionnaire, we will collect information about your answers and interaction with that survey or questionnaire.

Information We Collect From Other Sources We may also collect information about you from other sources, including recruiters and employers, publicly available information, social networking platforms, and other third parties. You may be able to connect other social networking accounts (e.g., LinkedIn) with your Recruiter Alley account in order to share your contacts and connections with us. If you do this, we will collect information about your contacts and connections (and any other information you grant us permission to access). We will use this information as set forth below. You may also be able to log in to our Site through third party platforms (e.g., LinkedIn). If you connect to our Services through a third party platform, we will ask your permission to obtain certain information about you from that platform, (e.g., email address, profile information and friends or contact list).

In addition, we may collect information about you from a contact of yours or other Recruiter Alley users, such as when someone lists you as a reference or suggests you for a position.

Information We Collect Automatically We track clickstream data, viewing data, searches submitted through the Services, and other data to monitor utilization and to improve user experience. We also automatically collect certain usage information through cookies, web beacons, log files, java script and other technologies, including: domain name; browser type and operating system; web pages viewed; link clicked; searches, including search terms; IP address; date and time stamp and the length of time using the Services; referring URL (of website that led you to our Site). Generally, we use this information to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Site, analyze trends, track users’ movement on our Site, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the Services, and to deliver customized, personalized content. We also may track and use your location information to customize information that we provide to you, and to display targeted ads on the Services and on third party websites. Please see the “Third-Party Ad Networks” section below for more information.

How We Use The Information We Collect

As permitted by applicable law, we retain and use the information we collect about you for the following reasons:

  • Provide Services. To provide our Services to you, including to share information between and among job seekers, recruiters, and employers; to communicate with you about your use of our Services; to respond to your inquiries; to fulfill your requests; to authenticate users; to process payments; and for other customer service purposes.
  • Improve Services. To understand how users access and use the Services, both on an aggregated and individualized basis, in order to improve the Services and respond to user desires and preferences.
  • Personalize Content. To match users with potential employers; to tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you; to offer location customization and personalized help and instructions; and to otherwise personalize your experiences while using the Services.
  • Marketing. To send marketing and other promotional information, including information about jobs and third party products and services in which we think you may be interested.
  • Referrals. To make suggestions to you about your connections that may be potential referral candidates for open positions at your current place of employment or at other places; to allow you to refer others to positions at your employer; to communicate with you and other Recruiter Alley users about those referrals; and to allow you to reach out to potential references at a company to whom you wish to submit a job application.
  • Legal Requirements. As necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements (including this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use), protect or defend our rights, investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, and situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.
  • Business Operations. We may also use information in the normal course of our business, such as for accounting, reporting, evaluation, and internal auditing.
  • Aggregate or De-identified Information. We may also use aggregate or de-identified information about users for other marketing, research and other purposes.

Disclosure of Information

We may disclose the information we collect about you, including your personal information, as explained below. You can make certain profile information private by logging into your account and adjusting your profile visibility.

  • Recruiter Alley Users. We may disclose the information we collect about you with other Recruiter Alley users. For example, if you are a jobseeker, we may disclose your information to recruiters, employers, and other users; or we may disclose your information to job seekers who wish to submit an application to a company you work with. This may include your phone number and/or email address, which those recruiters, employers, or job seekers, as applicable, may use to contact you. If you are a recruiter or employer and you have created a profile or job opportunity, all information that you post will be public and visible to jobseekers seeking job opportunities and other visitors of the Site. In addition, user profiles may be visible to other users in accordance with their profile settings. Job seekers may make certain profile information private by adjusting their profile settings. Please see the Recruiters, Employers and Job Seekers section below for more information.
  • Potential Employers. If you provide us with your information, we may disclose this information to potential employers with whom you have directed us to share that information.
  • Publicly Available Information. Recruiter Alley users have the option to create a public profile with their names, positions, work history, education, social media profiles, and other information. These profiles may also include users’ phone numbers or email addresses so that recruiters and employers can contact them. This information may also be indexed and displayed through third party public search engines. Certain information, such as your resume and certain profile information, may be available publicly through the Services and indexed through a search engine; job seekers may make certain profile information private by adjusting their profile settings.
  • Affiliates. We may share the information we collect about you with any current or future subsidiaries or affiliated companies, who may use it consistent with this Policy.
  • Service Providers. We may share the information we collect about you with our contractors and service providers who perform functions on our behalf, such as payment processing and data hosting.
  • Legal Process. We also may disclose the information we collect about you in order to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal process, such as in response to a subpoena.
  • To Protect Us and Others. We also may disclose the information we collect about you where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of our Terms & Conditions or this Privacy Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
  • Business Transfers. We may disclose the information we collect about you to another entity in connection with, including during negotiations of, an acquisition or merger, sale or transfer of all or part of our business or assets, a bankruptcy proceeding, or as part of any other similar business transfer.
  • Third-Party Services. If you sign up for third-party email job alert services on our site, we will share your personal information with the third party to provide you with such services.

De-identified Information. We may also share information that is not reasonably capable of being associated with you with other users to help them better understand the types of users applying for a certain job. For example, we may share that a user with a certain job title, educational history, years of experience, areas of expertise, and salary range has applied for a certain job with other job seekers.

“Cookies” and Tracking Technologies

We and our third party providers use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about the use of the Services, which we may combine with other information we collect from you. We use this information to enhance and personalize your experience while using the Services, to understand how users use our Services, and to improve our Services. We may also use cookies and tracking mechanisms to serve our remarketing campaigns so that third-party vendors, including Google, Twitter and Facebook, show our ads on sites across the Internet. We may also use targeted advertising services to tailor our advertisements (both on the Website and on other sites) to your interests. You can opt out of these remarketing campaigns as described below.

Cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that websites transfer to your computer, through your web browser, for record-keeping purposes. Use of cookies makes web-surfing easier by performing certain functions such as saving your passwords and your preferences regarding use of the particular website. Cookies also allow us to track your activities on the Services and provide you with personalized content and advertising. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. The “Help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your computer from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. If you disable cookies, however, the Services will not function properly.

Web beacons. Web beacons (a.k.a. clear GIFs, pixel tags, and web bugs) are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, which are used to track the online movements of website users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, web beacons are embedded invisibly on webpages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We may use web beacons in connection with the Services to, among other things, track the activities of visitors to the Services, help us manage content, and compile statistics about usage of the Services. We and our third party service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML emails to our users, to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.

Third Party Analytics. We use tools and applications to evaluate usage of our Site. We use these tools to help us improve our Services, performance and user experiences.

Recruiters, Employers and Job Seekers

As noted, we may disclose the information we collect about you with other Recruiter Alley users. For example, we may disclose job seeker information to recruiters and employers, who are believed by us to be legitimately seeking applicants for available positions. If you elect to allow recruiters to contact you, we will disclose your phone number or email address to them and they will use that information to contact you through phone call, text, or email.

Recruiters and employers may also share jobseeker information with others in connection with their search for candidates for available positions, and their use is not subject to this Privacy Policy. We may share recruiter and employer information, including profile, posted content or job opportunity details, with jobseekers seeking job opportunities and other visitors of the Site. In addition, your profile may be indexed and displayed through third party public search engines, whose use of your information is not subject to this Privacy Policy, and your activity on the Services (e.g., searches, clicks, profile views, etc.) may be disclosed to jobseekers. This privacy policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, the treatment of user information by other users.

Individual users can adjust their profile settings within their account, to limit how certain information is shared or to prevent recruiters from calling, texting, or emailing them. If you ever have any questions or concerns about how recruiters or employers are using your personal information on Recruiter Alley, please contact us at info@recruiteralley.com.

Newsletters and Communications From Us

We may send newsletters or other promotional or informational emails to you. These emails may include promotions for our Services and the services of third parties. If you click on a link in an email promoting a third-party service, that link may take you to the third party’s website. Please see the Third Party Websites section below for more information. You may opt-out of such communications by following the opt-out instructions contained in the email, or by changing your Account Settings. In your Account Settings, you may indicate from which distribution lists you would like to have your name removed. Please note that it may take up to 10 business days for us to process opt-out requests. If you opt-out of receiving emails about recommendations or other information we think may interest you, we may still send you emails about your account or any Services you have requested or received from us.We may send newsletters or other promotional or informational emails to you. These emails may include promotions for our Services and the services of third parties. If you click on a link in an email promoting a third-party service, that link may take you to the third party’s website. Please see the Third Party Websites section below for more information. You may opt-out of such communications by following the opt-out instructions contained in the email, or by changing your Account Settings. In your Account Settings, you may indicate from which distribution lists you would like to have your name removed. Please note that it may take up to 10 business days for us to process opt-out requests. If you opt-out of receiving emails about recommendations or other information we think may interest you, we may still send you emails about your account or any Services you have requested or received from us.

You may also withdraw your consent to our collections, uses and disclosures of your information at any time, subject to legal, contractual and other restrictions, provided that you give reasonable notice of withdrawal of consent to us. On receipt of notice of withdrawal of consent, we will inform you of the likely consequences of the withdrawal of consent, which may include our inability to provide certain services for which that information is necessary.

Third Party Websites

Our Services and emails may contain links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website over which Recruiter Alley has no control and will bear no responsibility. Often these websites require you to enter your personal information as you apply for a job directly with the hiring company. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such websites as their policies may differ from ours.

Children

Our Services are not targeted to children under thirteen (13) years of age and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will promptly delete such personal information from our systems.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is current as of the Updated Date set forth above. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any changes to this Privacy Policy on our Site, at https://www.recruiteralley.com. If we make a material modification to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by sending an email to the email address you have provided in your account (if any), and by other means where appropriate.

Contact Us

If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you should contact our privacy officer at (281) 654-8593 (jobseekers), info@recruiteralley.com (recruiters) or at 3120 Southwest Freeway, Houston, TX 77098, ATTN: Legal.