Who we are
Referso Jobs (jobs.referso.com) is run by Referso (“we”, “us”). We decide how your personal data is used and are responsible for it (the “controller” under the GDPR, and the “personal data controller” under Vietnam's Decree 13/2023/ND-CP). Contact us about anything on this page at contact@referso.com.
What we collect
When you just browse, we don't ask who you are. Like any website, our servers receive your IP address and browser details with each request; we use them only to deliver the page and protect the service from abuse, and keep them in short-lived technical logs.
When you create a job alert (“Save this search” or “Get free job alerts”), we store:
- your name and email address;
- the search you saved (keywords, location, filters) and how often you want emails (daily or weekly);
- a record of your consent: when you ticked each box and which version of the wording you saw;
- the IP address you signed up from, the approximate location it points to (country, region and city, worked out on our own servers from a public IP-to-location database, never by asking another service), and your browser's user-agent;
- whether you confirmed your email, and when alerts were last sent.
Why we use it
| Data | Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| Name, email, saved search, frequency | Send you the job alerts you asked for, and let you see and manage your saved search. | Your consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a); Decree 13 Art. 11) |
| Consent record, IP address, approximate location, user-agent | Prove that you consented and when; detect and block sign-ups made with someone else's email or by bots. | Our legal obligation to demonstrate consent (GDPR Art. 7(1)) and our legitimate interest in preventing abuse (Art. 6(1)(f)) |
| Technical request data (IP, browser) | Deliver pages, keep the service secure, stop abuse. | Legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)) |
We don't use your data for advertising, we don't build profiles to make decisions about you, and we don't sell or “share” it in the sense of the California Consumer Privacy Act.
How long we keep it
- Your alert (name, email, search): until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it.
- Your consent record (including IP and location): for as long as your alert exists, then up to 3 years so we can show that emails were sent with consent, after which it is deleted.
- Sign-in session: 3 days. Email links: 24 hours, single use.
Where it is stored
Our servers are in the United States. If you are in the European Economic Area, the UK or another country with transfer rules, your data is transferred there under appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses. For users in Vietnam, we handle cross-border transfers as required by Decree 13/2023/ND-CP.
Your rights
Wherever you live, you can ask us to:
- tell you what personal data we hold about you and give you a copy;
- correct it, or delete it;
- stop or restrict using it, or object to how we use it;
- withdraw your consent at any time (unsubscribing does this for alerts), without affecting what we did before;
- receive your data in a portable format.
Email contact@referso.com from the address you signed up with. We answer within 30 days (72 hours for requests under Vietnam's Decree 13 where it applies), and we won't treat you differently for exercising your rights. You can also complain to your local data protection authority, for example an EU supervisory authority, the UK ICO, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the California Privacy Protection Agency, or Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security (A05).
Job listings
Job listings come from employers' own public career pages. They describe positions, not people. If a listing contains personal data that shouldn't be there, or you want one removed, email contact@referso.com with the link.
Children
Referso Jobs is for people aged 16 and over. We don't knowingly collect data from children; if you think we have, tell us and we will delete it.
Changes and contact
If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top, and tell alert subscribers by email before any change that affects how we use their data. Questions: contact@referso.com.
IP geolocation by DB-IP (CC BY 4.0).
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