Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Candidates - Please note that we will not share your personal details such as name, email and phone contacts with any third party unless with your written consent, or if you decide to share it yourself in applying  to jobs or accepting an employer’s contact regarding a job. On registration, your anonymous profile with professional information, job preferences, is automatically visible to employers in their searches, but  they will not see your name and contact details unless you decide to share these information with them. You may make your profile invisible to your current employer or any other registered employer on our website by adjusting your privacy settings on your dashboard once you login. After registering you may receive job alerts based on your preferences. You may opt in or out of job alerts at any point by adjusting your Job Alerts on your dashboard. On registration you agree that the GulfSpecialists team or a very limited number of Partner recruitment agencies working with GulfSpecialists may contact you directly by email or phone in relation to recruitment purposes, in relation to your registration on the website, or in order to update you about GulfSpecialists – the site and use of it. On registration you agree that members of the GulfSpecialists team or Partner Agencies are permitted to invite you to connect on LinkedIn.

The GulfSpecialists platform is property of CADUCEUS FZ LLE (“We”). We are committed to protect your privacy in accordance with the local regulations and the
international standards..

This policy, together with our website terms of use, sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed and used by uswithout sharing it unless the conditions mentioned above apply. It also informs you that our website uses cookies. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting or registering on www.gulfspecialists.com and all associated domains you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

We may collect, process and use the following data about you:

Information you give us. You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our site www.gulfspecialists.com (our site) or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes but is not limited to information you provide when you: register to use our site, subscribe to our service, build a profile (candidates & employers), connect your LinkedIn data (candidates & employers), upload CVs and cover letters (candidates), post a job (employers), make a job application (candidates), manage applicants (employers), display your profile for employer searches (candidates),  refer our site (candidates & employers), read our blog (candidates & employers), engage with our social media (candidates & employers) share our site or content from our site (candidates and employers) and when you report a problem with our site.

Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:

• technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
• information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.

Information we receive from other sources.

• We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. In this case we will have informed you when we collected that data that it may be shared internally and combined with data collected on this site. We occasionally work with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.

INFORMATION THIRD PARTIES MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

Currently GulfSpecialists.com hosts advertising banners from third parties. Some of the advertisements you see on the Site are selected and delivered by third parties, such as ad networks, advertising agencies, advertisers, and audience segment providers. When you click on these banners these third parties may collect information about you and your online activities, either on the Site or on other websites, through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies in an effort to understand your interests and deliver to you advertisements that are tailored to your interests. Please remember that we do not have access to, or control over, the information these third parties may collect. The information practices of these third parties are not covered by this privacy policy.

COOKIES

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. You hereby consent to the use of cookies in your use of our website(s).

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

Candidates - Please note that we will never share your personal details such as name, email and phone contact with registered employers unless you decide to share it yourself in applying  to jobs or accepting an employer’s contact regarding a job. We will share your personal information with partner recruitment agencies for the purpose of contacting regarding job opportunities, and you expressly agree to this by registering your profile with GulfSpecialists.com.

We use information held about you in the following ways:

Information you give to us. We will use this information:

• to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
• to provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about;
• to provide you with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you. If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please contact us at info@gulfspecialists.com;
• to notify you by email about changes to our website or service;
• to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer
• to send you our email newsletters (candidates and employers) and job alerts (candidates). You can unsubscribe from these emails at any time either by following the link in the email footer or updating your email preferences in your GulfSpecialists account.
• to send your job applications (candidates) to the relevant employer
• to update you on the status of your applications (candidates)
• to alert you to new and existing application(s) (employers)
• to communicate with you in order to operate our commercial terms (employers)

Information we collect about you. We will use this information:

• to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
• to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
• to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
• as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
• to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
• to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.

Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

As we are a company, we may share your personal information with any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries.

We may share your information with selected third parties including:

• Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with you.
• Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others.
• Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.
• Credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

• In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
• If GulfSpecialists.com or CADUCEUS FZ LLE or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce our terms and conditions of supply and terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of GulfSpecialists.com or CADUCEUS FZ LLE, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

 It is important that you understand and acknowledge that the data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the United Arab Emirates. Currently the GulfSpecialists servers and data are stored by a company with legal location and servers in Ireland. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the United Arab Emirates who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things,  the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We may or may not inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by contacting us at info@gulfspecialists.com.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

You have the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised. Any access request may be subject to a fee of USD 15 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

The Website Policies and Terms & Conditions may be changed or updated occasionally to meet the requirements and standards. Therefore the Customers’ are encouraged to frequently visit these sections in order to be updated about the changes on the website. Modifications will be effective on the day they are posted.

CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@gulfspecialists.com.