Privacy Policy
We, GreenerTides, explain in this Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) how we collect, process and/or use information that we receive via our website, emails we send, and mobile applications (collectively, the “Platform”) that link to this Policy, as amended from time to time. This Policy describes how GreenerTides collects, processes, uses, shares and secures the personal information you provide. It also describes your choices regarding use, access, and correction of your personal information. For purposes of this Policy, personal information shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Unless we specify otherwise, this Policy applies only to information we collect, process and use through the Platform. This Policy does not apply to information that we collect through other channels, such as information that we collect offline, from other websites or from emails you send us, unless we notify you at the time of collection that this privacy policy applies.
For the purposes of this Policy, “GreenerTides,” “we,” or “us” shall mean the following entities:
- GreenerTides Ltd.
Information We Collect
We collect information about you to provide our services. In order for us to best provide our services to you (and to help make it feasible for us to do so), it is essential that we are able to collect and use the information as described in this Policy. If you are a registered user of the Platform the data collection is largely necessary for fulfilling our contractual obligations towards you and, where neither of those is the case, alternative legal grounds serve as our legal basis for processing (i.e., consent, legal obligation, and legitimate interests—see details below).
Information You Give Us When you fill out registration forms, submit your resume, or provide us with other personal information actively, we collect that information for processing and use in accordance with this Policy. Because we change our offerings and features from time to time, the options you have to provide us with personal information may also change, but here are some examples of situations in which you will have the opportunity to provide personal information to us:
Creating an account, signing up for email alerts, completing a form related to one of our products or services, completing your profile or preferences, contacting us for technical support or customer service. Depending on how you interact with our Platform, the personal information we collect from you may vary. For example, to create an account we may ask only for an email address and password. In other circumstances, such as when you complete a form related to a particular service offering, we may ask you to provide other information, which may include your name, phone number, and/or postal address. We also collect and store certain information associated with actions you take. For example, when you search for jobs, we store the titles, locations and general salary range (if available) of jobs you search for and click on. We also store information about the job postings you apply to. Because much of this information is necessary for us to provide you with our service, if you don’t share this information you may not be able to use some features of the GreenerTides platform.
If you enter credit card information on the Platform in connection with a purchase, that information is sent directly from your browser to the third-party service provider we use to manage credit card processing and we do not store it on our servers. The service provider is not permitted to use the information you provide except for the sole purpose of credit card processing on our behalf.
When you submit personal information to a third party and are informed at the time of collection that your information may be shared with us, we may collect that information for lawful marketing purposes. Employers with free employer accounts may provide us with work email addresses of their employees for use to send an email asking those employees to leave candid reviews of the employer on the Platform.
Categories of personal information collected by GreenerTides may include Job Postings (your job postings on GreenerTides), Account Information (Name, Email Address, Current Job Title, Past Job History), Sales & Support History (Purchase History, Payment Details, and other sales support interactions), Job Applications (jobs you have applied to), Job Interests & Activity (job preferences and your activity interacting with jobs, e.g. saving a job), Security & Login Information (Your login events, password changes, email changes and mobile device information), Site Activity (Pages you viewed and “like activity”), Marketing Activity (Marketing programs you have joined, content downloaded, etc.), User Feedback (Feedback you have provided GreenerTides via email, app/website and other channels), and/or Content You Contributed (Employer reviews, Salary Reports, Benefit reviews, Employer photos). We may also collect Additional Personal and Demographic Information you may elect to give us, as set forth in further detail below.
How We Use Information
As a registered user of our Platform, GreenerTides processes your information in accordance with our contractual obligations based on the Terms of Use and, where this is not the case, alternative legal grounds serve as our legal basis for processing (i.e., consent, legal obligation, and legitimate interests) including personal information for the following purposes:
- to provide you with personalised content, services and offers of services offered by GreenerTides, as well as other promotional content and services (for example, GreenerTides and its affiliates may use your previous search and browsing history (e.g. the jobs you click on) to determine relevant search results and provide you with recommended jobs on GreenerTides or on sites of GreenerTides affiliates, or GreenerTides may reach out to you about jobs or companies you may be interested in;
- to moderate and display the employer reviews and other content you have submitted for the benefit of our other users;
- to customise and improve the features, performance, and support of the GreenerTides site;
- to communicate with you or initiate communication with you (for marketing or service-related purposes) on behalf of third parties through your GreenerTides account or through other means such as email, telephone (including mobile phone), or postal mail, including through the use of contact information that you provide;
- to us or (where it is lawful for us to do so) that we otherwise obtain from third-party resources;
- to permit GreenerTides to contact GreenerTides users with respect to such recommendations, subject to visibility settings you control;
- to provide relevant advertising, including interest-based advertising from us and third parties, which may mean that we share non-personally identifiable information, such as your job title, to third-party advertisers;
- to transmit your application and save your application materials;
- to allow GreenerTides and GreenerTides affiliates to process your personal data for the purpose of improving for internal operations, including detecting and preventing fraud and spam, troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, and service improvement (this includes use of your IP address and mobile device information to help diagnose problems with our service and to administer the Platform);
- to create aggregated statistical data that does not identify you individually and that we can commercialise (for example, we use mobile device data and IP addresses to create anonymised, aggregate demographic information); for other purposes that you separately authorise as you interact with GreenerTides.
When we collect any information that does not identify you as a specific natural person (“Non-Personal Information”), we are permitted to use and disclose this information for any purpose, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Policy, except where we are required to do otherwise by applicable law. Examples of Non-Personal Information include: physical location information; demographic information, including gender, dates of birth, ZIP/Post codes, etc.; or any personal information that has been anonymised, aggregated or de-identified. If we combine any Non-Personal Information with your personal information (such as combining your ZIP/Post code with your name), we will use and disclose such combined information as personal information in accordance with this policy. Similarly, if applicable law requires that we treat certain Non-Personal Information as personal information, we will use and disclose this information as personal information in accordance with this policy.
The Legal Basis on Which GreenerTides Processes Your
Personal Data GreenerTides collects and processes your personal information on the basis of different legal grounds, depending on the nature of the personal information being provided and the type of processing involved.
Performance of a ContractA second ground relied upon by GreenerTides for other types of processing of your personal information is that it is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by GreenerTides. Such legitimate interests may include where GreenerTides sends you marketing about our products and services or where we believe you have a reasonable expectation that we will perform a particular type of processing on your behalf.
Legitimate InterestA second ground relied upon by GreenerTides for other types of processing of your personal information is that it is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by GreenerTides. Such legitimate interests may include where GreenerTides sends you marketing about our products and services or where we believe you have a reasonable expectation that we will perform a particular type of processing on your behalf.
Compliance with a Legal ObligationA third ground relied upon for certain types of processing is that it is necessary in order to allow GreenerTides to comply with a legal obligation. An example of this would be where GreenerTides is required to retain business records for fixed periods of time or transmit them to a user in order to comply with local legal requirements.
ConsentFinally, in certain limited situations, GreenerTides relies on your consent in order to process your personal information. Where GreenerTides requires your consent in order to collect and process certain personal information, we seek your consent at the time of provision, and such processing will only be performed where consent is secured unless GreenerTides has another lawful basis on which to rely. For example, your consent may be sought where you submit feedback to GreenerTides, or in certain instances where you initiate a marketing message or other communication with GreenerTides.
How Long We Keep Your Personal Information
We keep your personal information only so long as we need it to provide the Platform to you and fulfil the purposes described in this Policy. This is also the case for anyone that we share your personal information with and who carries out services on our behalf. Retention periods can vary significantly based on the type of information and how it is used. Our retention periods are based on criteria that include legally mandated retention periods, pending or potential litigation, our intellectual property or ownership rights, contract requirements, operational directives or needs, and historical archiving. When we no longer need to use your personal information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements, we’ll either remove it from our systems or depersonalise it so that we can’t identify you.
Security Safeguards
Security. We employ measures to safeguard the information we collect online. However, no company can fully eliminate security risks, so we cannot make guarantees about any part of our services. You are responsible for keeping your username and password secret. Once you have registered with us, we will never ask you for your password. Please create a unique password for your GreenerTides account and do not use it for any other web services or applications. Do not share your password with anyone else.
Tips For Responsible Job Searching
We actively monitor the Platform for job postings that violate our Terms of Use. If we detect fraudulent activity, we remove the job posting from the Platform. However, fraudulent job postings can sometimes appear and we urge you to exercise caution in your job search. Please consider the following tips when conducting your search:
- Do not send money to a prospective employer.
- Do not give out personal or financial account information to a new employer via email.
- Do not cash checks or transfer funds for your employer.
- Beware of job postings that ask you to send your resume to a free email service address (e.g., gmail, yahoo, etc).
- Do not include sensitive information such as your National Insurance number in your resume.
- Beware of job listings with spelling errors and bad grammar.
- If something sounds too good to be true, it almost certainly is.
- Do your homework. Be sure to research any job opportunity that interests you.
- If you see a suspicious job posting, please contact us. If you think you have been the victim of fraud, immediately report the fraud to your local police and contact GreenerTides.
Privacy of Minors
To access or use the Platform you must be at least 16 years of age or, if older, the age of majority in your jurisdiction, otherwise you may not use the Platform. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please contact us. If we become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, we remove such information and terminate the child’s account.
Updates to Our Privacy Policy
We may revise this Policy from time to time by posting an updated version on the Platform. The revised Policy will be effective immediately for unregistered users and users registering accounts or otherwise acknowledging the Policy on or after the revision date. For other users who registered accounts before the revision date, it will also become effective immediately. However, they can object to the new Policy within thirty (30) days after the revision date. If we make a change that we believe materially reduces your rights or increases your responsibilities, we will notify you by email (sent to the email address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this website prior to the change becoming effective. We may provide notice of changes in other circumstances as well. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. Your continued use of the Platform is subject to the most current effective version of this Policy. If you object to the Policy after it becomes effective for you, you may no longer use the Platform.