PRIVACY POLICY
Ensuring your privacy is important to us. We want to assure you
that only with your permission will we share your resume with a potential
employer or contact your references.
The purpose of this privacy statement is to confirm your acknowledgement
and consent to the following purposes for which Meritas Recruiting
may use and disclose the information that you disclose to us.
By submitting personal information, you grant Meritas Recruiting
Inc. the right to use personal data for recruitment and selection
purposes.
Collection and Use of Your Information
Your personal information is only collected, used and disclosed
by Meritas Recruiting in accordance with this Privacy Policy or otherwise
as permitted by law.
In very general terms, we will collect, use and disclose your personal
information in order to attempt to place you on a contract assignment
or in the employment of one of Meritas Recruiting' clients. For
this purpose and as part of this process, we will take a number of
steps, typically including, but not necessarily limited to:
- Obtaining your résumé and references (and
any updates thereof);
- Interviewing you;
- Speaking with your references;
- Verifying information and
performing other searches and checks, done either by Meritas Recruiting
or by an independent agency on behalf of Meritas Recruiting;
- Evaluating
all information about you to analyze your suitability to potential
positions;
- Disclosing any information about you as provided
by you, by your references and by other sources to any present
or future client of Meritas Recruiting who, based on your qualifications,
work requirements, desires and other factors and determined solely
in the discretion of Meritas Recruiting, has or may have a position
to which you are or may be suited. We will not disclose
your information to a present or future client without speaking
to you first and receiving your verbal consent.
Information Collected
In order for us to assist you and our clients in the most effective
way and to attempt to secure the best, most suitable position for
you, we require certain information about you. We will obtain some
of this information from you, and will obtain other information from
external sources. In order to serve you, we require the following
information from you:
- Your contact information [full name including all past
and present aliases, address(es), phone number(s), fax number(s),
email address(es)];
- Your résumé (and any updates
thereof);
- Reference contact details [name, business name,
business address, business telephone number, your relationship
with them and their position with the business]. We assume that,
before providing us with any contact details for your references,
you have obtained their permission to do so.
- A description
of the types of positions that interest you.
In using our services, we may also ask you to provide us with the
following additional information:
- Educational records;
- Reference letters; and
- Results of specialized testing
or professional designation testing.
Notes we take when we interview you will also form part of the information
we have on our file about you.
We, either directly or using external service-providers, may collect,
use and disclose some or all of the following information for our
file about you from sources other than yourself:
- Verification of education and professional qualification;
- Verification
of employment history;
- Criminal record check, if required
by the position;
- Information obtained through reference and
background checks.
In some cases Meritas Recruiting will initiate the collection of
this information. In other cases the information will be obtained
at the request of our client. Regardless, we will not collect, use
or disclose any such information unless we feel that it is reasonable
to do so.
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