Cardinal Refer

Privacy Policy

Introduction

Cardinal Refer, a service provided by Refer Services, Inc. ("we," "us," or "our"), respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit cardinalrefer.com and use our services.

Information We Collect

  • Identity Data, such as your name, email address, phone number, and address.
  • Profile Data, including your username and password, job preferences, skills, education, and work history.
  • Engagement Data, including jobs you've viewed, applied to, messages exchanged with recruiters.
  • Technical Data, such as your IP address, login data, browser type and version, location, and other technology on devices you use to access this website.
  • Usage Data, including information about how you use our website and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data, such as your preferences in receiving marketing from us and third parties.

How We Use Your Data

We use your data to:

  • Provide and maintain our services.
  • Notify you about changes to our services.
  • Allow you to participate in interactive features when you choose to.
  • Provide customer support.
  • Gather analysis or valuable information so we can improve our services.
  • Monitor the usage of our services.
  • Detect, prevent and address technical issues.
  • Provide you with news, offers, and general information about opportunities and services that may interest you.

Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), Refer Services’ legal basis for collecting and using your personal data depends on the specific data and context in which we collect it. We may process your personal data because:

  • We need to perform a contract with you.
  • You have given us permission to do so.
  • The processing is in our legitimate interests and it's not overridden by your rights.
  • For payment processing purposes.
  • To comply with the law.

Retention of Data

We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Disclosure of Your Data

We may disclose your personal data to:

  • Service providers and partners who assist us in operating our website and business.
  • A buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or sale of assets.
  • Comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to government or regulatory requests.
  • Enforce our terms and conditions.
  • Protect our operations or those of our affiliates.
  • Protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others.
  • Allow us to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain.

International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to the United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Data Security

We have implemented security measures designed to protect your data from accidental loss and unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. We cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted through our website.

Your Data Protection Rights

You have the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data.
  • Request correction of your personal data.
  • Request erasure of your personal data.
  • Object to processing of your personal data.
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data.
  • Request transfer of your personal data.
  • Withdraw your consent.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you have the right to:

  • Request that a business that collects your personal information disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information collected.
  • Request that a business delete any personal information about you that it has collected.
  • Request that a business that sells your personal information, not sell your personal information.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to collect and use personal information about you, including to serve interest-based advertising.

Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our services and your experience, see which areas and features of our services are popular, and count visits. Web beacons are electronic images that may be used in our services or emails and help deliver cookies, count visits, and understand usage and campaign effectiveness.

We use different types of cookies:

  • Essential cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features.
  • Preference cookies: These cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
  • Analytics cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website, by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
  • Marketing cookies: These cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy [Insert link to Cookie Policy].

Children's Privacy

Protecting the privacy of minors is a top priority for us. Our platform and services are intended for users who are 16 years old or older. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under this age, nor do we allow them to create accounts. If you are under 16, please do not submit any personal information on our website. We encourage parents and guardians to monitor their children’s online activities and to guide them in understanding our Privacy & Cookies Policy, especially by instructing them not to share personal information on our site. If we learn that we have unintentionally collected data from a child under 16, we will promptly delete and securely dispose of that information.

Breach Notification

In the event of a data breach that compromises your personal information, we will take prompt action to address the issue. We will notify affected users via email as soon as possible, in accordance with local laws and regulations. Our notification will include details about the nature of the breach, the type of data involved, and any steps you should take to protect yourself. We are committed to maintaining the highest standards of security and transparency in safeguarding your personal information.

Integration with Third-Party Links

When you use third-party apps, platforms, or services connected to our offerings, those providers may collect data about your interactions and access information from your public profile on our site. Your use of these external apps is governed by their terms, privacy policies, and cookie policies. We recommend reviewing these policies carefully. In some cases, you may need to create an account or sign in on their websites. By integrating and using third-party apps, you permit Wellfound to share your login credentials and necessary data with these apps to facilitate their use within our services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Effective Date" at the top.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

The present version of this Privacy Policy was last updated on August 22nd, 2024.