MAID FINDER P PRIVACY
POLICY
Last Updated on April
5, 2013
At the Maid Finder.
("Maid Finder"), it is extremely important to us to provide as
much privacy protection as possible. We treat your personal information with
the utmost respect and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy
explains how personal information about you may be collected, used, or
disclosed as a consequence of your activities on the MaidFinder.ae web site. We
urge you to read it fully.
By registering on this
site, by creating a profile, or submitting your resume, or submitting any
information through the use of this site, or by otherwise accessing this site,
you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and consent to the policies and
practices described for the collection, use or disclosure of personal
information.
1. Protection of Personal Information
1.
The type of personal information that is protected includes
almost any information about an identifiable individual, such as your name, address, telephone number,
age, sex, marital status and nationality. Personal information may not,
however, include certain types of business or employment related information.
It does not, for example, include the name, title, business address or
telephone number of an employee of an organization. Information contained in a
profile that you may elect to create and your Résumé you may post to this site
may constitute personal information and would be subject to this Privacy
Policy.
2.
Maid Finder does not collect, use or disclose your personal
information without your consent except where required or allowed by law.
2. Information We Collect
1.
Maid Finder limits the collection of your personal information
to that which is required or permitted by law. Maid Finder collects such
personal information as is required for the purposes identified by us in this
Privacy Policy or identified by us at the time that we collect the information
from you.
2.
Maid Finder requests certain information from you if you elect
to register
as a user of this site.Registration Information includes your full name, email address.
3.
If you are a registered user of the site you will create a
Profile (“Profile”) or post your Résumé (“Résumé”) to the site.
The extent of the information that is collected in your Profile depends on what
you choose to place in your Profile. At a minimum, if you create a Profile, Maid
Finder will require that you provide your full name, postal code, and email
address. Your Profile may contain additional information such as your phone
number, experience, education, skills or any other information about yourself
that you decide to provide. The same information may be provided by you if you
post a Résumé.
3. Use of the Information by Maid Finder
Profile Information
1.
Profile Information is collected primarily for the purpose of
identifying you as a user of this site.
User Information
1.
User Information, which generally includes the Profile
Information, is used primarily to update you on the site and by email regarding
new site developments and information about our services or those of our
affiliates, to answer your questions and to provide you with services that you
have requested.
2.
User Information may also be used to determine appropriate new
features, content or services for this site, to provide advertisers and
business partners with aggregate but not personally identifiable information
about our customers and their preferences, including statistical information
about the source of visitors, sales, traffic patterns and use of services.
3.
If you are a registered user of this site and have provided us
with Registration Information, we may use your Registration Information and
User Information to provide tailored job opportunities or other information to
you.
Profiles and Résumés
1.
Profiles are accessed and viewed by other members of the Maid
Finder service. If you post a Résumé, it may be accessed and viewed by Families
(“Families”). You will be provided with the choice of either allowing
all parties who use our service to access your profile and to contact you, or
of limiting access to those who see you profile.
2.
Maid Finder makes every effort through contractual means and
through the use of email addresses and passwords to restrict those who have
access to our service from using Profiles and Résumés other than for the
purpose of fulfilling a job posting. However, Maid Finder cannot guarantee that
all employers, recruiters and other persons with access will adhere to the
limitations that we impose on them, or that unauthorized persons will not gain
access to the database. If at any time you would like your Profile removed from
our site, you may do so by navigating to the “Account Information” section of
the site, while being logged in. This will also remove your Résumé. If at any
time you would simply like your Résumé removed from our site, you may do so by
navigating to the “Edit Profiles” section of the site. However, Families or Job
Seekers and others who have subscribed for access to the service, or for whose
job posting you may have applied, may already have retained a copy of your
Profile and Résumé in their own systems and databases.
3.
In addition to the provisions of this Privacy Policy, the
collection, use and disclosure of your Profile and Résumé is governed by the
terms and conditions of use of this site, a copy of which can be obtained from
the home page of this site.
Communication with Maid
Finder
1.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of the correspondence
but we do not make any use of the email address or other contact information, other
than to respond to the communication.
Improper Use of
Personal Information
1.
Although we use all reasonable means to ensure that the
information you provide to us is not used by third parties for purposes other
than those described in this Privacy Policy, Maid Finder is not responsible for
any improper use of your personal information that is beyond our reasonable
control
4. Retention
of Information
1.
You may choose to delete your Profile or Résumé from our records
at any time. Certain Registration Information regarding your account with us
will normally be retained such as your name, email address and postal code
should you wish to create a Profile or post a Résumé or access our services
subsequently.
2.
We maintain record retention practices and policies which apply
to personal information that is no longer necessary or relevant for the
identified purposes, or that is no longer required or permitted by law to be
retained.
3.
Maid Finder has appropriate procedures in place with respect to
the destruction, deletion, and disposition of personal information when it is
no longer required for the purposes of the Services, subject to applicable law.
4.
All personal information destroyed or erased from our records is
done so securely with due regard to the sensitivity of the information.
5. Your Consent
1.
We do not collect, use or disclose your personal information
without your consent except where required or permitted by law.
2.
We may also disclose personal information without knowledge or
consent to a lawyer or other advisor representing Maid Finder, to collect a
debt, to comply with a subpoena, warrant or other court order or rules, is
required for the investigation or enforcement of laws, or as may otherwise be
required or authorized by law. Where a request for personal information is made
by an organization claiming lawful authority for the request, Maid Finder will
take reasonable steps to ensure that the requesting party properly identifies
its legal authority.
3.
We will generally obtain your consent electronically on our
site. However, it may also be obtained in writing or verbally. In determining
the appropriate form of consent, we will consider the sensitivity of and
reasonable expectations regarding the personal information.
4.
We will not require you to consent to the collection, use or
disclosure of personal information as a condition to the supply of any products
or services, except to the extent reasonably required to fulfill the purposes
identified in this Privacy Policy or otherwise identified at the time that we
collect your personal information.
6. Disclosure
of Information
1.
We will not sell, trade, rent or license personal information
that you provide to us.
2.
Maid Finder uses a third party service company to process credit
card transactions if employers, recruiters and others who have subscribed for
access to the service. This will not affect job seekers using our site. The
third party service provider is required to comply with privacy laws and
principles comparable to ours. All credit card transactions are completed using
secure electronic encryption..
3.
With the exception of credit card transactions, Maid Finder
never transfers any personal information to third parties for processing or
storage.
7. Access and Accuracy and Update of Personal Information
1.
We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal
information is as accurate, complete and up-to-date as is appropriate for its
purposes and to minimize the possibility that inappropriate information may be
used to make a decision about you
2.
Maid Finder provides you with the means to access, update, edit
or delete the Registration Information and certain other personal information
you have provided to us at any time on your own by going to the “Edit Profiles”
section Sitter on the site and changing or deleting your Registration
Information and other personal information as desired. We ask that you
regularly log in to the site and update your personal information and in
particular your contact information to ensure its accuracy.
3.
You can update or delete your Profile or Résumé at any time by
logging on to the site and making the required changes. However, Families or
Job Seekers who subscribe to the service or any member whom you have contacted,
may already have retained a copy of your Profile or Résumé in their own systems
and databases.
4.
If you decide at any time that you do not want to receive any
updates to which you have subscribed, you can log in to the site and change
your personal preferences or email a request to [email protected] indicating your preference not to receive updates.
5.
Upon request made in writing, Maid Finder will inform you of the
existence, use and disclosure of your personal information, at minimal or no
cost to you, in accordance with processes and procedures that we have put in
place for such requests. If you are unsure whether we have a record containing
your personal information and would like to confirm what personal information
we have, please send an email to [email protected] with your request, identifying all email addresses which you
may have given us. If there is a cost involved at all, we will inform you at
that time.
6.
We may require additional information from you in order to
verify your identity following an access request. Such personal information
will only be used for the purpose of identity verification and will itself be
subject to protection under the terms of this Privacy Policy.
7.
Maid Finder will respond to all requests for access within 30
days or as otherwise required or permitted by law.
8.
In some circumstances, we may not be able to provide access to
all of the personal information that we hold about you. We may not provide
access to information if doing so would likely reveal personal information
about a third party, could be expected to threaten the life or security of an
individual, reveal confidential commercial information, if the information is
protected by a legally recognized privilege, if it was created as part of a
settlement or dispute resolution process, or if it was collected in relation to
the investigation of a breach of an agreement or a contravention of law. Maid
Finder will provide reasons to you if it refuses an access request.
9.
An individual shall be able to challenge the accuracy and
completeness of the information and have it amended as appropriate.
8. Safeguards
1.
Where Maid Finder considers it appropriate, having due regard to
the sensitivity of the particular information that we collect, use or disclose,
Maid Finder uses encryption or authentication tools, among other methods,
practices and procedures, to protect certain your personal information
irrespective of which format it is stored in. Our practices and procedures for
safeguarding your information are regularly reviewed.
2.
E-mails you send to us are not necessarily secure when they are
transmitted to us. If your communication is sensitive or includes confidential information,
such as a credit card number, you may want to provide it via the telephone
instead.
3.
It is important that you keep your email address and password
information secure and that you not share it with anyone, in order to safeguard
your personal information on our Site.
4.
There are occasionally fraudulent “phishing” emails targeting
individuals who the perpetrators believe might be registered users of this
site. We never send an email which requests users to visit a Web page or place
a call and provide their email address, password or any personal information.
We will never ask you to confirm your user ID or password via email. If you
ever receive such an email, do not log in from any referred link and do not
provide any personal information.
5.
We work to protect the security of credit card information
during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which
encrypts information you input. We do not reveal credit card numbers when
confirming an order.
6.
Employees are instructed to only use personal information in
adherence with the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy and applicable
law. The only employees who have access to your personal information are
administrative personnel. Employees who misuse customer personal information
may be subject to disciplinary action.
9. Changes To Our Privacy Policy
1.
Maid Finder reserves the right to modify or supplement this
Privacy Policy statement at any time. If we make any material change to this
Privacy Policy, we will update this site to include such changes and post a
notice on our home page, for a period of 30 days, with a link to the updated
Privacy Policy. Please read any such notice and the new policy statement. If
you return to this site after a period of more than 30 days, please check this
Privacy Policy to confirm that you are aware of the details of the most recent
update. Please look at the top of this Privacy Policy to check the date that it
was updated and to confirm that you are familiar with the terms of the most
recent update. Your continued use of this site after we post such notice will
constitute your acceptance of the new terms and their application to your use
of this site and the personal information disclosed for such use, including
personal information previously furnished us, as if they were the initial
terms, and your consent to the use of your personal information as described in
this privacy policy and elsewhere at our Website.
2.
We will always seek your consent if we want to use your personal
information for purposes other than for those set out in this Privacy Policy or
to which you have previously agreed.
10. Other Associated sites
1.
This site may contain links to other sites, including those of
our business partners, vendors and advertisers. While we try to link only to
sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, please understand
that we are not responsible for the content of, or the privacy practices
employed by, other sites.
11. Contact Us
1.
Maid Finder will make information about its policies and
practices relating to management of personal information readily available.
Please direct any questions about our privacy policies and procedures, any
requests for access to our records of your personal information and any other
privacy related concerns or complaints to [email protected]. All privacy related complaints will be acknowledged, recorded,
investigated and responded to in accordance with applicable law.
2.
If you contact us by telephone, please note that telephone calls
may be recorded for training or quality assurance purposes.
We
welcome any suggestions or comments about our Privacy Policy.