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JOBSTREET.COM is committed to protecting your privacy. This JOBSTREET.COM Statement of Privacy applies to JOBSTREET.COM family of Web sites and governs data collection and usage at all JOBSTREET.COM sites and services. Please read the JOBSTREET.COM Statement of Privacy below and also any supplementary information at the end of this statement for additional details about particular JOBSTREET.COM sites and services that you may use.

JobStreet.com is an online recruitment web site intended for users aged 18 years and above. At JobStreet.com, we take your privacy seriously! Please read this Statement of Privacy to be more aware about our policy on collecting, using and disclosing personal information.

Scope of coverage
This Statement of Privacy covers how JobStreet.com treats personal information collected and received, including information relating to the past use of our products and services. “Personal Information” refers to information that personally identifies you by your name, email address or phone number and other information that is not otherwise available publicly. This Statement of Privacy applies only to the practices of JobStreet.com and the people we employ or manage. Other websites or services linked to/from this website will have their own statements of privacy which can be viewed by clicking on their respective privacy links.

Collection of your Personal Information
JobStreet.com collects personal information, such as your name, e-mail address, home or work address or telephone number, work experience and other such data associated with a resume for job applications. When you register with JobStreet.com and sign in to our services, you are no longer unknown to us.

JobStreet.com keeps track of your transactions with us and some of our affiliated business partners, including information about your use of the products and services we offer.

JobStreet.com also keeps track of the pages our users visit within JobStreet.com in order to determine which of our sites and services are the most popular. We also use this data to deliver customised content and advertising to users whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

JobStreet.com uses the collected information for the following general purposes: customising the advertisement and content you see, fulfilling your requests for products and services, improving our services, contacting you, conducting research and providing anonymous reports for our internal and external clients.

JobStreet.com may also collect certain information about your computer hardware and software. This information may include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. We use this information for operating the service, maintaining the quality of the service and providing general statistics.

JobStreet.com uses MyJobStreet to provide registration and sign-in services. If you create a MyJobStreet account, you are simultaneously registering with JobStreet.com and opening a MyJobStreet account. All the registration information you provide is stored by us in your MyJobStreet profile. For more information about a MyJobStreet account, please visit: http://myjobstreet.jobstreet.com/

Please keep in mind that when you apply for jobs advertised on JobStreet.com, your resume data in your MyJobStreet account and any other information that you disclosed during your job application will be made available to the companies you are applying to. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to browse that are linked from JobStreet.com so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. We are not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on such websites outside the JobStreet.com domain name.

Use of your Personal Information
JobStreet.com does not sell, rent or share your personal information with other people or non-affiliated third parties except to provide you with the products or services you have requested. When you give us permission, or under these circumstances:

When you apply to jobs through our services, your resume data in your MyJobStreet account and any other information that you disclosed during your job applications will be made available to the companies you are applying to.
You can also optionally make your resume searchable by employers and recruiters who pay for access to our resume database and your resume. Employers and recruiters may retain a copy of your resume in their own files or databases. Though we endeavor to ensure that employers and recruiters comply with the relevant privacy laws, JobStreet.com is not responsible for the retention, use, or privacy of resumes by any third parties. You may remove your resume from our searchable database at any time and still apply online to jobs.
JobStreet.com works with business partners to provide some services. We provide the information only to trusted business partners who work with us or on our behalf under confidentiality agreements. Our business partners may use your personal information to help us communicate with you about offers from them or JobStreet.com. However, our business partners do not have any independent right to share this information;
We observe the process of law and will establish or exercise our legal rights or defend ourselves against legal claims;
We believe in sharing information in order to investigate, prevent or act on illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of JobStreet.com's terms of use, or as otherwise required by the law;
In the event that JobStreet.com is acquired by or merged with another company, we shall transfer your personal information to the new company. However, JobStreet.com will notify you prior to the transfer and before you become subjected to a different privacy policy.

Personal information collected on this site may be stored and processed in any country in which JobStreet.com or its business partners, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

Control of your Personal Information
JobStreet.com offers you various choices for the use and sharing of your personal information, as well as subscription to various marketing preferences, products or services. You may go to the MyJobStreet account page to edit your personal information and preferences at any time. You may choose not to receive any marketing material from JobStreet.com or from any of our affiliated partners. You may also subscribe to additional products or services from this account.

In addition, you may visit MyJobStreet to view, edit or delete your personal information or discontinue your subscription to marketing preferences, products or services from the JobStreet.com database.

In both cases described above, you will be asked to make your requests while logged into a MyJobStreet account, so that JobStreet.com can associate your preferences with a particular service. This security safeguard prevents someone else from making choices about the usage and control of your personal information. If you do not have a MyJobStreet account, you can create one now by clicking here.

You may also stop the delivery of future promotional emails from JobStreet.com by following the specific instructions in the emails you receive or in the MyJobStreet account page. The instructions explain how to stop receiving such e-mails. However, there are some JobStreet.com services that send out periodic emails to inform you of technical service issues, product surveys, new feature announcements and news about our products and services. You will be unable to unsubscribe from these emails as they are considered an integral part of the service you have chosen.

You may delete your MyJobStreet account at any time. When you choose to delete your account, JobStreet.com will erase all your personal information from our database.

Security of your Personal Information
JobStreet.com is committed to protect the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use, or disclosure. For example, your personal information is stored on computer systems that are located in controlled facilities. When JobStreet.com transmits highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Use of Cookies
JobStreet.com uses cookies to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage server. Cookies are assigned to you uniquely, and can only be read by a web server that issued you the cookie.

Cookies cannot run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Their primary use is to provide a convenience by saving you time. For example, if you personalise our pages or register with our services, a cookie will help JobStreet.com to remember you on your subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, and so on. When you next return to JobStreet.com, the information you previously provided is retrieved so you can easily use our features that you had customised.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers will accept cookies automatically, but you can usually set your browser to decline cookies. However, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to experience the full interactive features of JobStreet.com's services or other websites you visit.

JobStreet.com Newsletters
When you subscribe to a JobStreet.com Newsletter, we shall request your email address. JobStreet.com uses your email address to send you the newsletter(s) you have requested. You may subscribe and unsubscribe to the newsletters by following the prominent instructions mentioned in each of the newsletters.

Exercising Your Choices As JobStreet.com Users
During the MyJobStreet account registration process, you are given the choice to subscribe to the JobStreet.com LiNa Job Matching service, subscribe to the JobStreet.com StreetSmart newsletter, subscribe or purchase new products and services, subscribe to third-party newsletters, and receive offers from JobStreet.com sent on behalf of our affiliated business partners.

If you have made your choice to receive or purchase any or all of the abovementioned, you may remove yourself and your personal information from the recipient’s list at any time by logging into your MyJobStreet account through www.jobstreet.com, and then make the necessary changes at the ‘Other Tools’ section of the webpage.

Critical Performance Errors
You may occasionally see a message informing you of a critical performance error in JobStreet.com. This message will ask you to send data to JobStreet.com. If you agree, our technical support team or user care team will use the data to help determine what caused the error.

Before you choose to send your data to JobStreet.com, you have the opportunity to review that data. If you choose to send the data, in some cases your personal information may also be sent together. However, this personal information is deleted before we review the error data you send.

TRUSTe Certification
JobStreet.com is a member of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organisation whose mission is to build trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. Because JobStreet.com wants to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy, we have agreed to disclose our information practices and have our privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.

Enforcement of this Statement of Privacy
If you have questions regarding this statement, you should first contact JobStreet.com at policy@jobstreet.com. If you do not receive any acknowledgement for your inquiry or your inquiry was not addressed satisfactorily, you should then contact TRUSTe at www.truste.org/users/users_watchdog.html. TRUSTe will serve as a liaison with JobStreet.com to resolve your concerns.

Changes to this Statement
JobStreet.com will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and user feedback. When we post changes to this Statement, you will see the word "updated" next to the Privacy Statement link on the front page of JobStreet.com. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how JobStreet.com will use your personal information, we shall prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. JobStreet.com encourages you to review this Statement periodically to be informed of how we are protecting your personal information.

Contact Information
JobStreet.com welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that we have not adhered to this Statement, please contact us by telephone, email or post:

JOBSTREET.COM Privacy
JobStreet.com
#1 Ground Floor Office, Equatorial Hotel, 1 Jalan Bukit Jambul, 11900 Penang, Malaysia.

Tel: 604-6445912
Email: policy@jobstreet.com

This Privacy Statement is effective until Mar 2005.