Privacy Policy

Effective Date: June 7, 2025

At A’ridJobs (https://www.aridjobs.com), we value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit or interact with our website.

1. Who We Are Our website address is: https://www.aridjobs.com. A’ridJobs is a job board platform that helps individuals find career opportunities, create professional CVs, and connect with potential employers.

2. Comments When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

An anonymized string (also called a hash) may be generated from your email address and provided to the Gravatar service to determine if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy. After your comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

3. Media Uploads If you upload images to the website, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site may be able to download and extract such location data from images.

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience, analyze site usage, and provide advertising. Cookies are small text files stored on your device. 

• Essential Cookies:

  • If you leave a comment, you may opt in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies. These last for one year.
  • On the login page, we set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. It is discarded when you close the browser.
  • Login cookies last for 2 days; “Remember Me” cookies last for 2 weeks. Screen display cookies last 1 year.
  • If you publish or edit an article, a cookie is saved in your browser (no personal data) and expires after 1 day.

• Advertising and Third-Party Cookies:

  • We use Google AdSense to serve advertisements on our website. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies (like the DoubleClick cookie) to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website and/or other sites on the Internet.  
  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info. 
  • Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles) from other websites. Embedded content behaves in the exact same way as if you visited those other websites directly. These external websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, especially if you are logged in to those services.

5. How We Use Your Data We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To operate and maintain our website and provide the services you request.
• To enable interactive features like comments and user profiles.
• To improve our website and services.
• To provide relevant advertising through Google AdSense.
• To detect and prevent spam and other malicious activity.
• To fulfill legal and regulatory obligations.

6. Who We Share Your Data With We do not sell or rent your personal data to independent third parties. However, your data is shared with certain third parties as necessary for the operation of our services and for advertising purposes:

• Google AdSense and its Partners: When ads are served on our site, your data (such as IP address, cookie data, Browse activity) may be shared with Google and its advertising partners for the purpose of serving personalized and non-personalized advertisements, ad measurement, reporting, and fraud prevention. This is necessary for Google to display ads on our site.
• Gravatar Service: An anonymized string generated from your email may be sent to Gravatar for profile picture display with comments.
• Password Resets: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email for security purposes.
• Automated Spam Detection: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

7. How Long We Retain Your Data

• Comments and related metadata are stored indefinitely to auto-approve follow-up comments and for moderation purposes.
• For registered users, we store the personal information provided in your user profile. You can view, edit, or delete your personal data (except your username) at any time. Website administrators can also view and edit this information.  

8. Your Data Rights You have the right to:

• Request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you.
• Request deletion of your personal data (excluding any data we are obligated to keep for legal, administrative, or security reasons).

To request this, please contact us at: info@aridjobs.com

9. Where Your Data Is Sent Your data may be processed and stored on servers located outside of your country of residence, including in the United States, where Google’s primary servers are located. We take appropriate measures to ensure that your data is handled securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

10. Updates to This Policy We may update this policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Changes will be posted here, with the updated “Effective Date” at the top of the page. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.