Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

MENTERN.com values the trust our users and customers place in us when they give us access to their personal data. The Privacy Policy describes how we work to maintain that trust and protect that information.
In particular, this Privacy Policy details our collection, use and disclosure of personal and non-personal data you give to MENTERN.com when you access or use MENTERN.com's online and/or mobile services and websites, and software provided by MENTERN.com on or in connection with such services or websites (collectively, the "Site").

1.1 The MENTERN.com Entities Responsible for Your Information
All references to Mentern Candidate and Employer are defined as provided for in the MENTERN.com Terms of Service Introduction.
With respect to Mentern Candidates, for the purposes of this Privacy Policy, "MENTERN.com" or "we" means MENTERN.com, Inc. With respect to Employers, "MENTERN.com" or "we" means MENTERN.com, Inc. MENTERN.com is the controller for the Personal Data we process, unless otherwise stated in these terms or provided for in a separate agreement.

1.2 Personal Data and Non-Personal Data

Personal data ("Personal Data") refers to any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual, and non-personal data ("Non-Personal Data") refers to any information that does not identify you as a specific individual. Please note that at all times MENTERN.com will adhere to the applicable statutory definition in determining what is and is not Personal Data for the purposes of this Privacy Policy. Where this Privacy Policy refers to "information" or "your information" this may include both Personal and Non-Personal Data.

1.3 The Scope of MENTERN.com's Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy covers only data that we collect through the Site, and not any other data collection or processing, including, without limitation, the data collection practices of any affiliate or other third party, including any third-party operators of web pages to which the Site links, and any information that we collect offline or through any websites, products, or services that do not display a direct link to this Privacy Policy.
Occasionally, we may refer to this Privacy Policy in notices on the Site, including special purpose web pages, mobile applications, or other resources, for example, if we invite you to submit ideas to improve the Site. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected by us through such special purpose resources, as modified in the particular notice (e.g., with respect to the types of data collected or our uses or disclosures of such information). MENTERN.com may amend this Privacy Policy at any time.

1.4 Changes to the Privacy Policy

Please review the "Last Updated" legend at the top of this page to determine when this Privacy Policy was last amended. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective on the "Last Updated" date indicated above. By using the Site or providing information to us following such changes, you will have accepted the amended Privacy Policy. If MENTERN.com is going to use Personal Data collected through the Site in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection, then MENTERN.com will notify users via email and/or by posting a notice on MENTERN.com's Site for 30 days prior to such use or by other means as required by law.

1.5 MENTERN.com's approach to privacy and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Please note this Privacy Policy describes, in a comprehensive manner, how MENTERN.com processes your data.

2. Information Collected

You provide different types of information in order for MENTERN.com to provide our services, products and features to you.

2.1 Information You Provide to MENTERN.com

From Your Account we collect data from you when you create an MENTERN.com account, request information, subscribe for a service, participate in a survey, post a rating or review, post a question or answer, post a resume, complete an MENTERN.com Assessment, upload content or otherwise actively send us data on our Site. This may include, but is not limited to, your user name, password, first and last name, email address, telephone number (including mobile phone number), street address, gender, occupation, interests, messages you send to users, and any other data included in a submitted profile or resume, including but not limited to application materials and answers to screener questions submitted by Employers through MENTERN.com and answers you give to any questionnaires sent to you, which you answer.through Your Activity on MENTERN.com.

In addition, as part of the standard operation of the Site, MENTERN.com may collect and analyze information from your computer or mobile device and actions taken on the Site, including, but not limited to, your resume, your searches on MENTERN.com, salary interest or experience, the general salary range or experience level of the jobs you get offered (where indicated), your activity time on the Site and each page, page views, clicks, taps, session activity, browser type, operating system, type of device, MAC address, IP address and the domain name from which you accessed the Site. When you submit a photo to MENTERN.com, this may include the provision of the location data of where the photo was taken. MENTERN.com seeks your consent at the time of such provision, and such processing will only be performed where consent is secured.

When Providing Businesses Information

If you are an Business Member, MENTERN.com may request that you provide certain Personal Data to MENTERN.com in order to verify your account. This information may include, but may not be limited to, your Employer Identification Number (EIN), Business Registration information, or a utility bill, the name and email address of an Employer representative.
This information will be used for internal purposes only, subject to any request by law enforcement or a court order. In connection with chargeable services, we will also collect payment information (e.g., the last four digits of credit card numbers and related verification information). Please note that MENTERN.com only has access to the last four digits of Employer credit card numbers, and does not store full credit card numbers.

2.2 Information Collected

When You Access MENTERN.com from some Third-Party Websites - When You Log In or use MENTERN.com from some Third-Party Sites

You may also create an account or log in to your MENTERN.com account using third-party websites including, but not limited to, Facebook or Google. If you do not already have an MENTERN.com account but log in to MENTERN.com using your Facebook or Google account, this creates an MENTERN.com account using the same email address used in your Facebook or Google account. If you agree to provide this information to MENTERN.com, Facebook or Google will authenticate you and redirect you to MENTERN.com's Site. Please note, when you log in to MENTERN.com using your Facebook or Google account, Facebook or Google will cookie you in order to authenticate you as a Facebook or Google user.

By accessing MENTERN.com through your Facebook or Google account, you understand that Facebook or Google will share certain data detailed in the above paragraph for the purposes of authentication to permit you to access our Site in a secure manner. You may stop this at any point from your Facebook or Google account. This information will be considered MENTERN.com account information for purposes of your use of the Site.

You have the ability to disable the connection between your Facebook or Google account and your MENTERN.com account at any time by accessing your privacy settings on your Facebook or Google account. Facebook and Google may also ask for your permission to share certain other details with MENTERN.com, including but not limited to your name, profile picture, public profile information, and email address. Once you give this permission, the requested information will be shared with MENTERN.com, which may use this information to provide Services to you, including populating your MENTERN.com profile. The shared information will remain associated with your MENTERN.com profile until you modify or delete it. For those users that avail of MENTERN.com Family specifically, Facebook may ask for permission to share your friends list, and MENTERN.com may use some of this data to connect you with other users of MENTERN.com Family.

PLEASE NOTE THAT YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FACEBOOK OR GOOGLE OR ANY OTHER THIRD-PARTY WEBSITE IS GOVERNED SOLELY BY YOUR AGREEMENT WITH SUCH THIRD-PARTY WEBSITE.

2.3 Any Other Personal Data MENTERN.com May Receive from Third Parties

Any Personal Data that MENTERN.com may obtain from other third-party sources will be processed by MENTERN.com in accordance with this Privacy Policy and all applicable laws.

2.4 Storage of Your Information

MENTERN.com shall retain users' Personal Data to the extent such retention is adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which they are processed. In particular, MENTERN.com shall not retain Personal Data for any longer than necessary for the purposes of performing the processing outlined in this Privacy Policy.

If you create a MENTERN.com account, your information may be collected and stored in a manner that connects to your account email address. MENTERN.com may also create and assign to your device an identifier that is similar to an account number. We may collect the name you have associated with your device, device type, telephone number, country, and any other information you choose to provide, such as user name, email address, or postal/zip code.

For example, while using a mobile device to access MENTERN.com, MENTERN.com may provide a Mentern Candidate with relevant job postings that are located within the same zip code as where this activity is taking place. The collection of this data is solely used in accordance with the purposes outlined in sections 4, 5 and 9 of this Privacy Policy, to the extent applicable. MENTERN.com may also store the information detailed in this section 2 of the Privacy Policy on its equipment or the equipment of third parties that MENTERN.com has a relationship with. Such storage services will be governed by appropriate protections, as required by applicable rules.

2.5 What Personal Data is Required

MENTERN.com will indicate to you at the point of provision as to whether or not particular Personal Data provided by you is required in order to provide particular MENTERN.com services or features to you. Where Personal Data that is required is not provided by you then the particular feature or service may not be available to you.

2.6 The Legal Basis on Which MENTERN.com Collects Your Personal Data

MENTERN.com collects and processes your Personal Data on the basis of different legal grounds, depending on the nature of the Personal Data being provided and the type of processing involved. More information is provided on this here.

Performance of a Contract

Some of the Personal Data processed by MENTERN.com is performed on the basis that it is necessary for the performance of our agreement with you, or in order to take steps at the request of the user prior to entering such an agreement. An example of this would be where MENTERN.com allows a Mentern Candidate's profile to be viewed by an Employer.
Legitimate Interest. A second ground relied upon by MENTERN.com for other types of processing of your Personal Data is that it is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by MENTERN.com. Such legitimate interests will include where MENTERN.com sends you marketing about our products and services, where we believe you have a reasonable expectation that we will perform a particular type of processing on your behalf, or where such processing is strictly necessary for fraud detection and prevention. MENTERN.com will only rely on such a ground where an assessment has been performed balancing the interests and rights involved and the necessity of the processing in order to provide our services, products and features to you.

Compliance with a Legal Obligation

A third ground relied upon for certain types of processing is that it is necessary in order to allow MENTERN.com to comply with a legal obligation. An example of this would be where MENTERN.com is required to retain business records for fixed periods of time in order to comply with local legal requirements.

Consent

Finally, in certain limited situations, MENTERN.com relies on your consent in order to process your Personal Data. Where MENTERN.com requires your consent in order to collect and process certain Personal Data, we seek your consent at the time of provision, and such processing will only be performed where consent is secured. For example, your consent will be sought where you provide your location when you use MENTERN.com's Job Spotter, or in certain instances where you initiate a job alert with MENTERN.com (detailed in section 4 of this Privacy Policy). You can withdraw your consent, as detailed in section 14 of this Privacy Policy where applicable, or by sending an email to info@ MENTERN.com (remove spaces when sending email).

3. Limitation of Use or Disclosure of Personal Data

3.1 Where a Mentern Candidate Wants to Close a Mentern Candidate Account

When a Mentern Candidate closes an account, the Mentern Candidate will no longer have access to any of the data we make available under that account name, including but not limited to, search history, job search preferences, saved jobs, jobs the Mentern Candidate has interacted with, job alerts, resume, and any other data associated with the account. If the Mentern Candidate uses the same email address to set up a new account, this data from a previous account will not become available to the Mentern Candidate again. Please also note that closing your Mentern Candidate account may result in you losing access to all MENTERN.com products and the ability to utilize the "Log in with MENTERN.com" feature found on certain third party sites.

MENTERN.com reserves the right to keep any materials in a closed account as necessary to preserve and protect its rights to the extent permitted by law (for example, to preserve records of a dispute) or to comply with its obligations under local law (for example, if requested to retain by law enforcement). A closed account does not mean that all of the data is expunged from the MENTERN.com systems, although it will not be readily available under the Mentern Candidate's original account name. When the Mentern Candidate presses the close account button on the dashboard, MENTERN.com will begin to process that instruction within 24 hours and will have completed the operation within 40 days.

If a Mentern Candidate wishes to access or delete their Personal Data held by MENTERN.com, they should follow the steps listed in section 10 of this Privacy Policy, and such a request will be processed in accordance with applicable rules.

3.2 Where an Employer Wants to Close an Employer Account

Employers may close an account at any time by contacting MENTERN.com Customer Support. Please note that MENTERN.com must preserve business records pertaining to that account to comply with its obligations under law. Alternatively, if an Employer agent wishes to access or delete their Personal Data held by MENTERN.com, they should follow the steps listed in section 10 of this Privacy Policy, and such a request will be processed in accordance with applicable rules.

3.3 Where a Mentern Candidate Wants to Delete a Job Application

If a Mentern Candidate wants to delete a job application performed on MENTERN.com's Site, they are advised to contact the prospective Employer directly to request deletion of their application. For job applications which you, the Mentern Candidate submit through MENTERN.com (including the use of an MENTERN.com Apply button) to an Employer, (with related materials submitted), please note: 1) that your applications and materials may be controlled by an Employer; 2) we may direct you to that Employer for Personal Data deletion requests where that Personal Data is held by that Employer; and 3) MENTERN.com depends on the Employer or the Employer's agent to provide MENTERN.com with the correct destination for all applications.

3.4 Where the Employer Contact Details Provided to MENTERN.com Are Incorrect

In the event that the electronic destination provided to MENTERN.com is incorrect, your application materials will not be sent to the intended recipient of the application. MENTERN.com has no liability for such applications. MENTERN.com will make every effort to verify the electronic contact of any and all Employers that gain access to the MENTERN.com site.

3.5 @MENTERN.com email Addresses

When communicating through MENTERN.com's message relay system, you will see an email address with an @MENTERN.com ending. You understand that you retain no ownership rights in these email addresses, which are specific to Employers' Job Listings, but are owned by MENTERN.com. However, MENTERN.com's relay system will show the name associated with your account or job application in the "To:" or "From:" field.

Please also note that since these message proxy and relay services depend on the functionality of third-party providers, there may be technical delays on the part of those email service providers.

4. Purposes, Uses and Disclosures of Information

We may use any information collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy, including Personal Data, for the purposes set forth in this sections 4, 5 and 9 of this Privacy Policy, to the extent applicable. MENTERN.com uses such information to help Mentern Candidates find jobs and to help Employers find candidates.

In order to do this we use your Personal Data to:

1) provide our services, products and features to you, to help Mentern Candidates find jobs and Employers find candidates;
2) to measure and improve those services, products and features; and
3) to protect our users and provide them with customer support.
More detail on these purposes, uses and disclosures of your information is set out below.

4.1 Creating an Account, Sending You Job Alerts and Other Promotional Materials

If and to the extent permitted by applicable law, MENTERN.com may use your contact information to (i) create an account; (ii) send you job alerts and (iii) send you information about MENTERN.com, including promotional materials. MENTERN.com may use third-party partners to perform these activities on MENTERN.com's behalf.

A job alert is defined as an email sent to you that you sign up for containing a Job Opportunity in response to query on behalf of an Business Memeber's ("Job Alert"). Job Alerts may also include jobs that MENTERN.com recommends for you from time to time, or other actions you may want to take on the Site.

MENTERN.com may also share your information with third parties (including operators of third-party websites and/or social networking sites) in order to show you targeted advertisements and other content that has been customized for you. Such advertisements will only relate to MENTERN.com's services, products, and features, all of which focus on helping Mentern Candidates find jobs and Employers find candidates. If you wish to opt out of receiving any marketing messages from MENTERN.com please see section 14 of this Privacy Policy.

4.2 Giving You Relevant Search Results and Recommended Jobs

In order to optimize our services, products and features for you, MENTERN.com may use your previous search and browsing history (e.g. the jobs you click on), or application materials and answers to screener questions, to identify you and determine relevant search results and provide you with recommended jobs or reach out to you about jobs you may be interested in.

We may also use demographic and/or profile data to tailor your experience on the Site, to show you content that MENTERN.com thinks you may be interested in, and display content according to your preferences. MENTERN.com may return different results for the same search query and has full discretion with respect to the job listings it presents in response to any particular search.

4.3 Your Contact Information

When you give MENTERN.com contact information (such as your name and email address) and other forms of Personal and Non-Personal Data, you agree that MENTERN.com may utilize this information for the purposes outlined in sections 4, 5 and 9, to the extent applicable. In particular, you agree that MENTERN.com may, as part of its services to you, communicate with you, or initiate communication with you on behalf of a third party, through your MENTERN.com account or through other means such as email, telephone (including mobile phone), or postal mail, including through the use of contact information that you may provide to MENTERN.com or that MENTERN.com may otherwise obtain from third-party resources.

4.4 Your Resume Information

Your information, including Personal Data, gets placed on the Site when you upload or edit a resume. MENTERN.com reserves the right to charge third parties a fee for accessing your information, including Personal Data, as part of MENTERN.com's services. At your direction, MENTERN.com may also provide your resume to third parties if they express an interest in obtaining said information for the purposed of exploring your applicability for a Job Opportunity. The extent to which your information is made available to third parties depends on the privacy settings in accordance with this Privacy Policy. When a Mentern Candidate creates an account on MENTERN.com, their profile is made public to those Employers that have created an account on MENTERN.com. This is detailed below.

Private Resumes

Private resumes are only made available to all Business Members. Where this occurs, you make your resume, your name and other Personal Data that you place on your resume available to third parties. Those third parties may be interested in you as an employee, and may forward your resume to other third parties.

Mentern.com make every effort to maintian the Privacy of your information but cannot guarnatee with compete certainty that a third party may make a successful effort to 'scrape' or 'harvest' the Mentern data from Mentern.com, resulting in you receiving unsolicited contact from parties unaffiliated with MENTERN.com and for whom MENTERN.com has no responsibility. Please note that although MENTERN.com expressly prohibits the scraping of its Site any resume you post may be copied by a third party in violation of these terms.

For public resumes, you also authorize MENTERN.com to remove your name from your public resume, in certain instances. MENTERN.com may also change the display of your resume from public to private in certain instances to maintain the quality of the resume database.

4.5 Matching Mentern Candidates With Business Members

You acknowledge that MENTERN.com may determine whether the words of your resume or any other individuals' resume match the words of certain job descriptions, and vice versa, in order to improve the Site or any other MENTERN.com product or service (including by displaying or otherwise making available potentially relevant job descriptions and resumes to Mentern Candidates and Business Members).

MENTERN.com may also provide information collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy, including Personal Data, to Business Members that may be interested in contacting you. By applying to a job, answering screener questions, providing your contact information to show interest in a job, or by replying to a message from an Business Member, you agree to the disclosure of your information to that Business Member. MENTERN.com may also provide the results of any MENTERN.com Assessments you complete to Business Members. MENTERN.com may also use information provided to MENTERN.com via your MENTERN.com Profile to pre-populate application information for you and for similar purposes.

If you have an MENTERN.com account or an MENTERN.com-hosted resume, you agree that MENTERN.com may contact you or suggest you or your public resume to Business Members that might be interested in a person who matches your behavior on MENTERN.com.
In addition, if you are located in the United States and you set your Resume to public, this means that MENTERN.com may share all of the aforementioned information about yourself with recruiters working for or on behalf of Business Members.

4.6 Sending Messages on MENTERN.com

MENTERN.com provides two-way message proxy and relay services to the users of our MENTERN.com products ("Relay Service"), including: MENTERN.com Resume, MENTERN.com Chat and other electronic communication services whether in the form of text, video or audio. By utilizing any Relay Service, you acknowledge that you are asking MENTERN.com to send these messages on your behalf. This includes your resumes, cover letters, applications, messages, questionnaire answers, responses, offer letters and other materials.

We process, monitor, review, store and analyze such content, including via automated means, for data analysis, quality control, enforcement of the Site Rules and other MENTERN.com policies, content moderation, and to improve the Site or any other MENTERN.com product or service. Examples of such improvements would be optimizing our search results, ensuring you are provided with personally relevant product features and communications, and preventing fraud and spam.

As a result of this activity, or due to technical malfunction, in certain circumstances such content may be delayed or may not be delivered to the intended recipient. MENTERN.com may (but is not obligated to) notify you in such an event. By using a Relay Service or otherwise providing User Content through the Site, you consent to this activity and acknowledge that this activity is necessary for maintaining the quality of the Site and for providing the Relay Service.

4.7 Sending You Text Messages About Employer Appointments

MENTERN.com may offer you the opportunity to receive a text message from MENTERN.com when an Employer has scheduled an interview or event with you in response to your posted profile via MENTERN.com's email relay. In such an event, your entry of your cell phone number on the MENTERN.com profile form you are representing and confirming it is your number and you have the right to accept text messages at the number. MENTERN.com will only send you a text message reminder for such interviews or messages through MENTERN.com's email relay, and you agree to accept such text messages on your cell phone including messages sent by automated telephone dialing system. To unsubscribe at any time, reply to the text with STOP or contact MENTERN.com Customer Support.

4.8 Preventing Fraud and Spam

MENTERN.com may also use information collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy to help diagnose problems with the Site and MENTERN.com's service, to prevent potentially fraudulent or illegal activities, and to protect individuals from other activities that may be detrimental to you or others. MENTERN.com may investigate and disclose information from or about you or your use of MENTERN.com if we have a good faith belief that such investigation or disclosure (a) is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process (including subpoenas, search warrants, court orders) and law enforcement instructions and orders (b) is helpful to prevent, investigate, or identify possible wrongdoing in connection with the use of the Site or (c) may protect our rights, reputation, property, safety, or that of the public or (d) as necessary to meet national security requirements.

For example, MENTERN.com is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission in the United States, the Data Protection Commission of Ireland, and many other regulatory bodies.

We may use a variety of methods to detect and address anomalous activity and screen content to prevent abuse such as spam or fraud. However, such detection methods are not perfect and false positives may occur. These efforts may on occasion result in a temporary or permanent suspension or termination of some functions for some users.

Preventing Fraud and Spam in Messages

MENTERN.com also reserves the right to drop messages from our relay system that MENTERN.com determines do not adhere to Site Rules or any of the terms of this agreement. MENTERN.com further reserves the right to conduct investigations to determine whether you are perpetrating a scam, spamming MENTERN.com or its users, or otherwise conducting fraudulent activity on MENTERN.com by various means, including but not limited to investigating your functionality by setting up profiles and names that belong to MENTERN.com.

MENTERN.com also reserves the right to turn over any information gathered via such investigations to the police or other third party if MENTERN.com has a good faith belief that you are using the Site in violation of these terms.

MENTERN.com reserves the right to verify and confirm the identity of any party associated with an email relay. This includes but is not limited to verifying the identity of the sender of an email with the Employer agents associated with that email address on the relevant Job Listing.

4.9 Facilitating Payment

If you provide credit, debit or other payment card and related details to us in order to make a payment, MENTERN.com will use such information only for the purpose of processing the payment (e.g., the last four digits of credit card numbers and related verification information). Any credit card and related billing and payment information that you provide to MENTERN.com may be shared by MENTERN.com with companies who work on MENTERN.com's behalf, such as payment processors and/or credit agencies, solely for the purposes of checking credit, effecting payment to MENTERN.com and servicing your account.

4.10 Automated Processing of Your Personal Data

In order to optimize the performance of the MENTERN.com Site and services for users, MENTERN.com performs automated processing of Personal Data evaluating certain specific aspects relating to a user, in particular to analyze or predict aspects concerning a user's personal preferences or interests in terms of MENTERN.com's Site and services. Where it occurs, such processing is carried if it is necessary for the performance of our agreement with our users, to allow MENTERN.com to provide its services to Mentern Candidates and Business Members, or in other cases on the basis of a user's consent.

For example, in certain cases such processing allows MENTERN.com to match Mentern Candidates with Business Members effectively, to provide Mentern Candidates with job alerts and recommended jobs that the Mentern Candidate is likely to be more interested in, to display search results, or to perform certain spam and fraud detection activities to protect our users. Such processing is subject to the safeguards detailed in this Privacy Policy to protect the privacy of our users, and you may contact info @ MENTERN.com.com (remove spaces) to contest any decision generated by said automated processing.

4.11 Transfer of Information to MENTERN.com Affiliated Entities

Any information shared by you with MENTERN.com may be shared with or transferred to any MENTERN.com affiliated entity (including MENTERN.com Hire, Inc.), no matter where located, for the purpose of providing you services and improving the Site, and other purposes as described in this Policy. This includes MENTERN.com affiliated entities located outside the European Union ("EU") or Switzerland.

Such transfers are performed in full compliance with applicable data protection rules and subject to appropriate safeguards, primarily through the use of extensive data protection agreements, in order to ensure adequate protection of users' Personal Data. The services provided to you and the functionality of the Site could not be provided without such a transfer. If you do not wish your information to be transferred in this way you should not use this Site.

4.12 Transfer of Information to Third Parties

Transfers to Business Members

MENTERN.com allows access of Mentern's Personal Data to Business Members who have expressed an interest in any one or more Mentern Candidates, and as described in sections 2 and 4 of this Privacy Policy. Such Personal Data will be processed in accordance with these terms and those of the relevant Business Members. Mentern Candidates that apply to jobs through MENTERN.com that are outside their own country may involve sending their Personal Data to countries with lower levels of data protection.

Business Member account holders agree to comply with all their responsibilities under applicable data protection rules with respect to the collection, processing and storage of Personal Data, as well as providing adequate protection of all data subject rights provided for under all applicable data protection rules.

Transfers to Service Providers and Vendors

We may use third parties to perform services in connection with our operations, to improve the Site and our services, products, and features, to protect our users and better understand their needs, and to optimize the services and the users' experiences. These third parties may include (but are not limited to) service providers and vendors.
These third parties may provide data points including how much time you spend on specific pages, which links you choose to click, and data that helps determine user preferences. This information enables us to build and maintain our services with user feedback. These third parties may use cookies and other technologies to collect data on your behavior and devices such as the device type, browser information, and preferred language. An example of one of these third parties is Hotjar. To opt-out of Hotjar's cookies, please see the link in our Cookie Policy.
MENTERN.com may transfer your Personal Data in limited situations to certain third-party vendors that assist MENTERN.com with protecting our users and maintaining the quality of our services, products and features provided to those users. An example would be vendors MENTERN.com uses for fraud detection purposes. Examples of those vendors include: SiftScience and Emailage.
MENTERN.com may also share any credit card and related billing and payment information that you provide to MENTERN.com with companies who work on MENTERN.com's behalf, such as payment processors and/or credit agencies, solely for the purposes of checking credit, effecting payment to MENTERN.com and servicing your account. Examples of those vendors include: CVENT.
MENTERN.com may additionally share your Personal Data with service providers when you download, install and/or use the MENTERN.com App. This may be done for a variety of purposes, including facilitating user log-in through third party accounts or ad attribution. When you download or install an MENTERN.com App, you acknowledge and accept that your Personal Data may be transferred to these service providers. Examples of the types of technologies that may support this behavior include software development kits (SDKs), pixels, javascript snippets, or cookies.

In the course of providing these services, those companies may have access to Personal Data, and this may involve transfers of such Personal Data to other countries. Such transfers are only made for the purposes set forth in sections 4, 5 and 9 of this Privacy Policy, to the extent applicable and necessary. Those companies are also contractually required to treat such Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and in accordance with all applicable laws with respect to such transfers and any processing performed by those third parties on such Personal Data.

Transfers to Cloud Service Providers

Please also be aware that we may also use third-party cloud service providers that provide hosting, data storage and other services pursuant to standard terms and conditions that may be nonnegotiable these service providers have informed us or the general public that they apply security measures they consider adequate for the protection of information within their system, or they have a general reputation for applying such measures. However, we will not be liable (to the fullest extent permitted by law) for any damages that may result from the misuse of any information, including Personal Data, by these companies.

Transfers of Publicly Available Information

When users post content on MENTERN.com in a manner that is intended to make that content publicly available and searchable by individuals, MENTERN.com reserves the right to aggregate and share that information with third parties. For example, for the publishing of demographic statistics, at MENTERN.com's discretion. MENTERN.com also reserves the right to share information aggregated from public sources in this capacity.

Third-Party Sites You Link to from MENTERN.com

You may also use certain third-party sites or services that you link to from MENTERN.com's Site. In such cases, all information you provide to a third party is provided to that third party and not to MENTERN.com, and is subject to the third-party's privacy policy and terms of service. Please see section 8 of this Privacy Policy titled Links to Third-Party Sites for more information.

Referrals

Transfers of Personal Data for individuals in the EU and Switzerland

Please see sections 11 and 12 of this Privacy Policy for information related to this.

5. Additional Uses and Disclosures of Non-Personal Data

In addition to the other uses and disclosures of information set forth in this Privacy Policy, and notwithstanding anything in this Privacy Policy to the contrary, we may use and disclosure, for any purpose, any Non-Personal Data, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. If we combine any Non-Personal Data with Personal Data, then we will only use and disclose such combined information for the purposes described in sections 4 and 9 of this Privacy Policy while it is so combined.

6. Security

MENTERN.com seeks to use reasonable security measures to help protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the Personal Data under MENTERN.com's control. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. In addition, please note that emails, messages sent via your web browser, and other similar means of communication with other users, are not encrypted. Therefore, while we strive to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its security.

Please also be aware that we may use third-party cloud service providers that provide hosting, data storage and other services pursuant to standard terms and conditions that may be nonnegotiable these service providers have informed us or the general public that they apply security measures they consider adequate for the protection of information within their system, or they have a general reputation for applying such measures. However, we will not be liable (to the fullest extent permitted by law) for any damages that may result from the misuse of any information, including Personal Data, by these companies. Please see section 11 of this Privacy Policy for liabilities pertaining to the transfer of Personal Data of individuals in the EU and Switzerland.

7. Cookies

"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive.

8. Links to Third-Party Sites

The Site may make available links to other websites. When you click on such links, you may leave our Site. The Site may also make available Company Pages, which may contain information provided by third-party Employers.

WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INFORMATION COLLECTION, USE, DISCLOSURE OR OTHER PRIVACY PRACTICES OF ANY THIRD PARTY, INCLUDING OUR AFFILIATES, THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS, ANY EMPLOYERS (INCLUDING ANY EMPLOYER THAT PROVIDES A COMPANY PAGE), ANY THIRD-PARTY SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM, ANY THIRD PARTY MAKING AVAILABLE THE DEVICES OR OPERATING SYSTEMS FOR WHICH THE SITE IS AVAILABLE, AND ANY THIRD PARTY OPERATING ANY WEBSITE TO WHICH THE SITE CONTAINS A LINK. YOU MAY HAVE RIGHTS DIRECTLY ENFORCEABLE AGAINST THESE THIRD PARTIES SO YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THEIR PRIVACY POLICIES TO LEARN MORE.

9. Acquisitions and Other Reorganizations

Information collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy, including Personal Data, may be disclosed to one or more third parties in connection with any change of ownership or control in MENTERN.com's business (whether by merger, sale, or otherwise), or any other reorganization or joint venture, or assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceeding), and any such information may be used by such third party in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Equally, information collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy, including Personal Data, may be disclosed to one or more third parties in connection with any acquisition or merger carried out by MENTERN.com of such third parties.

10. Exercising Rights With Respect to Personal Data

MENTERN.com users that provide their Personal Data in the EU, and those that provide their Personal Data in any other jurisdictions that adopt laws affording equivalent protections to those in the EU, may avail of the rights detailed below.

10.1 The Right to Rectify Your Personal Data

MENTERN.com users are able to edit and update most of their Personal Data held by MENTERN.com on the Site, and if you have any queries or complaints we encourage you to contact us here.

Alternatively, if you do not wish to do this you may make a formal request to have MENTERN.com rectify any inaccurate Personal Data on your behalf by sending an email to info @ MENTERN.com.com from the email address associated with your account.

10.2 The Right to Object to or Restrict the Processing of Your Personal Data

If you have any queries or complaints about how we process your Personal Data we encourage you to contact us here.

Alternatively, if you do not wish to do this you may make a formal request to object to, or restrict, processing of your Personal Data by MENTERN.com. In order to do so please send an email to info@ MENTERN.com.com from the email address associated with your account.

10.3 The Rights of Access to and Portability of Your Personal Data

MENTERN.com users are able to access most of their Personal Data held by MENTERN.com on the Site, and if you have any queries or complaints we encourage you to contact us here.
Alternatively, if you do not wish to do this you may make a formal request to access your Personal Data held by MENTERN.com. In order to do so, please send an email to info @ MENTERN.com.com from the email address associated with your account, and paste the following sentence in your email: "I am requesting to access my personal data."

MENTERN.com will provide your Personal Data to you in a portable format to allow it to be transmitted to third parties. If you have interacted with MENTERN.com using more than one email address, please send a subsequent from the additional email addresses so that we may provide this personal data as well.

10.4 The Right to Delete Your Personal Data

MENTERN.com users are able to edit and update most of their Personal Data held by MENTERN.com on the Site, and if you have any queries or complaints we encourage you to contact us here. Alternatively, if you do not wish to do this, you may make a formal request delete your Personal Data held by MENTERN.com. In order to do so, please email to info@ MENTERN.com.com from the email address associated with your account, and paste the following sentence in your email: "I am requesting to delete my personal data."

Once your request has been confirmed, MENTERN.com will initiate the necessary steps to execute this exercise, including the deletion of your MENTERN.com account. Where the deletion request relates to Personal Data that you previously requested be made public on MENTERN.com (e.g. a Mentern Candidate posting a public resume), we will make reasonable efforts to inform any other controllers of this request. If you have interacted with MENTERN.com using more than one email address, please send a subsequent from the additional email addresses so that we may delete this personal data as well.

PLEASE NOTE: by requesting the deletion of your Personal Data, you will no longer be able to create an account with MENTERN.com using the same email address. If you simply wish to close your account, please click the "close my account" button in your account page.

10.5 Some Limitations

Such rights of rectification, objection, restriction, access, portability and deletion are subject to certain limitations, as provided for by applicable laws. Individual requests will be completed within the time allotted by relevant regulations, which starts to run from the point of MENTERN.com confirming your request. Where permitted, please note there may be a charge for subsequent requests from the same individual, which will be determined by MENTERN.com and only imposed to the extent permitted by applicable law.

11. Personal Data from Individuals in the EU and Switzerland

11.1 Privacy Shield Principles and Framework

MENTERN.com Ireland transfers certain Personal Data to MENTERN.com, Inc. in the U.S.. MENTERN.com, Inc., complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of Personal Data transferred from the EU member countries and Switzerland to the United States. MENTERN.com has certified that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles of Notice, Choice, Accountability for Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, and Purpose Limitation, Access, Recourse, Enforcement and Liability. If there is any conflict between the policies in this Privacy Policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/.

11.2 Principle of Onward Transfer

In the context of an onward transfer of data to a third party, a Privacy Shield organization has responsibility for the processing of Personal Data it receives under the Privacy Shield and subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. MENTERN.com shall remain liable under the Principles if its agent processes such Personal Data in a manner inconsistent with the Principles, unless MENTERN.com proves that it is not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.

11.3 GDPR Protections

MENTERN.com Ireland's transfers made according to the Privacy Shield Framework are performed based on agreements that also incorporate the protections and requirements provided for under Chapter V (and Article 28, where appropriate) of the GDPR. This incorporates EU data protection requirements to ensure adequate protection of such personal data transfers.

12. Independent Dispute Resolution For Individuals in the EU and Switzerland

In compliance with the US-EU and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Principles, MENTERN.com commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your Personal Data. EU and Swiss individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy should first contact MENTERN.com by emailing info @ MENTERN.com.com (remove spaces when sending email).

MENTERN.com has further committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Principles to the BBB EU PRIVACY SHIELD, a nonprofit alternative dispute resolution provider located in the United States and operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed, please visit http://www.bbb.org/EU-privacy-shield/for-eu-consumers for more information and to file a complaint.

There may be a possibility, under certain limited conditions, for EU and Swiss individuals to invoke binding arbitration before the Privacy Shield Panel.

13. Do Not Track Requests

We do not respond to the browser "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal if enabled by the user in their web browser. When we set or read cookies on non-MENTERN.com sites that have integrated our job search and display features, we do so, for example, to provide a personalized job search experience to users on those sites. We do not share any information about your use of MENTERN.com with those third parties. When third parties that we have integrated into MENTERN.com sites (as described in the MENTERN.com Cookie Policy) set or read their own third-party cookies, they may or may not respond to the DNT signal.

14. Opting Out of Receiving Marketing Communications

If you no longer want to receive marketing materials from us based upon your Personal Data, going forward, you may opt out of receiving such marketing related messages by clicking unsubscribe (or an equivalent action) where applicable, or by sending an email to info @ MENTERN.com.com (remove spaces when sending email). Please note that we may still send other messages to you.