Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) sets out how MediaCareers.ca (henceforth, “Website” or “MediaCareers.ca”) uses and protects any information that you give MediaCareers.ca when you use this website.

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for (www.MediaCareers.ca). This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this web site. It will notify you of the following:

  1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the web site, how it is
    used and with whom it may be shared.
  2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
  3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
  4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We also have access to all Job Seeker and Employer accounts. These include things such as job seeker resumes and contact information. For employers, these include company contact information and a list of all the jobs posted on our job site. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Automatically- Collected Information

We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.

Third-Party Use of Personal Information

We currently use the following third-party service providers:

Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email contact form on our website:

  • See what data we have about you, if any.
  • Change/correct any data we have about you.
  • Have us delete any data we have about you.
  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Registration

In order to fully use this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about the products/services on our site in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide demographic information (such as gender or age) about yourself, but it is not required.

Cookies

This site uses cookies from Google to deliver its services, to personalize ads and to analyse traffic. Information about your use of this site is shared with Google. By using this site,  you agree to its use of cookies.

We use cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the sites pages, or register with any of our site’s services, a cookie enables (website/company name) to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.

How to Control Cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish by checking your browser settings on each device - for details, see aboutcookies.org. 

Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users  deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.

We use Google’s advertising technology (such as Google’s AdSense program: Interest – based advertising) to serve relevant ads when you visit our website. Google uses cookies to gather general data (which does not include any personal information like your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements for goods and services that are likely to be of interest to you. You can learn more and opt out of this cookie by visiting the Google Advertising and Privacy

Anonymous Data

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

We may serve other third party advertisements that use cookies and web beacons in the course of ads being served on our site to ascertain how many times you’ve seen an advertisement. No personally identifiable information you give us is provided to them for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information on our website.

Affiliate Program Participation

We may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into our Website and/or our social media channels. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions. MediaCareers.ca is a participant in the ShareASale and Shopify Program, these affiliate advertising programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees. As part of this program, this website may post customized links, provided by ShareASale and Shopify, to track the referrals to their website. These programs utilize cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

Newsletters

We may engage in newsletter submissions, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

Sharing

We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person. We may disclose personal information about its users if required to do so by the law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to court orders, or other legal process. We may also disclose personal information about its users to law enforcement officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce our Terms & Conditions; respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third parties; or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of MediaCareers.ca, its members or the general public.

Links

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Surveys and Contests

From time-to-time our site may request information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site. 

Rights Related to Your Personal Information

You may opt out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails and/or in your account management dashboard. You may also notify us by submitting a request via our Contact Form to be removed from our mailing list. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.