Privacy Policy

Under RA 10173, we process your personal data under the following lawful grounds:

• Consent: When you voluntarily register, create a profile, upload a resume, or connect outreach credentials.
• Performance of a Contract: To deliver requested services, such as routing job applications, matching candidates with employers, and facilitating hiring workflows.
• Legitimate Interests: To secure our systems, prevent fraudulent job postings or spam, verify platform activity, and enhance user experience.
• Legal Compliance: To satisfy statutory tax, accounting, or Philippine regulatory requirements when applicable.

We collect information necessary to connect jobseekers with opportunities and empower employer hiring:

• Account Credentials: Name, email address, password, and profile image (including Google OAuth / Firebase single sign-on data).
• Candidate & Professional Data: Job titles, work history, education, skills, portfolio links, social profile URLs (LinkedIn, GitHub, Portfolio), uploaded PDF resumes, and custom application notes.
• Employer & Company Details: Registered company name, industry, location, company logo, job postings, team member roles, and recruitment stages.
• Outreach & SMTP Configuration: Custom SMTP credentials (host, port, username, and AES-256 encrypted password) provided by jobseekers wishing to send direct cold outreach emails from their personal email addresses.
• Financial & Billing Records: Credit balance and transaction history. Note: Payment transactions via QR Ph, GCash, Maya, or debit/credit cards are securely handled directly by certified third-party payment gateways; JobLink Philippines does not store raw financial card or e-wallet PINs.
• Drafts & Device Data: Auto-saved resume drafts stored locally in your browser via LocalStorage, plus standard access logs, IP addresses, and session cookies for security and authentication.

Your information is used strictly for legitimate career and hiring purposes:

• Matching candidate profiles with relevant open positions and employer searches
• Facilitating seamless job applications and employer-candidate messaging
• Delivering user-initiated cold outreach emails with attached resumes through encrypted SMTP conduits
• Processing credit top-ups and subscriptions for premium outreach and recruitment features
• Delivering critical account alerts, job recommendations, and platform updates
• Protecting candidates from recruitment scams, malicious postings, and unauthorized account access

JobLink Philippines provides intelligent features (such as AI Talent Scout, Smart Outreach drafting, and AI Job-Match assistance) to streamline the job search experience:

• Real-Time Assistance: Data sent to our AI services is processed ephemerally and securely via encrypted connections to generate insights, match rankings, or email drafts.
• No Public Model Training: Your private resumes, personal contact details, and application materials are never used to train public or foundational artificial intelligence models.
• Human Oversight: AI suggestions and drafts remain entirely within your control; outreach emails and applications are only submitted upon your explicit review and approval.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data. We disclose information only in the following controlled scenarios:

• To hiring managers and employers when you apply for a job or mark your candidate profile as publicly visible
• To team members authorized within an employer's company workspace
• To trusted technical infrastructure partners (cloud hosting, database providers, email delivery services, and payment processors) under strict confidentiality agreements
• To government or legal authorities only when required by valid subpoena, court order, or Philippine law

We implement comprehensive organizational and technical security safeguards:

• All platform traffic is encrypted in transit using industry-standard TLS / HTTPS
• User SMTP credentials configured for outreach are encrypted at rest using AES-256 encryption
• Strict database access rules and authentication controls prevent unauthorized exposure of candidate files and employer databases
• Continuous system monitoring to detect and thwart automated scraping, credential attacks, and fraudulent listings

You maintain full control over your account lifecycle:

• Active Accounts: We retain your data as long as your account is active to provide ongoing services.
• 30-Day Recovery Window: When you request account deletion, your profile and postings are immediately unlisted and hidden. You may restore your account within 30 days simply by signing back in.
• Permanent Removal: After the 30-day grace period, your personal data, resumes, saved items, and application records are permanently and irreversibly purged from our primary databases.
• Statutory Exceptions: Limited transaction and billing receipts may be preserved in anonymized form solely to satisfy legal, tax, or fraud-prevention obligations under Philippine law.

Under the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012, you hold the following enforceable rights:

JobLink Philippines is intended for jobseekers and employers who have reached the legal age of majority (at least 18 years old) or the lawful minimum working age under Philippine labor standards. We do not knowingly collect or process personal data from children under 15 years of age.