Privacy Policy Statement
Reader notice: This page is intended to promote transparency and responsible use of the website. It should be read together with the other policy pages published on this website.
1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy Statement explains how Genuine Jobs Alert ("we", "our", or "the website") handles information when you visit https://www.genuinejobsalert.com, contact us, submit an opportunity tip, interact with our pages, or use any content published on the website.
Genuine Jobs Alert is a career information website that shares job opportunities, internships, scholarships, fellowships, grants, tenders, remote work opportunities, and career guidance for readers in Africa and worldwide. This policy is intended to help readers, applicants, employers, partners, advertisers, and regulators understand our privacy practices in a clear and transparent manner.
This policy should be read together with our Terms of Usage, Disclaimer Policy, Cookie Policy, Editorial Policy and Corrections Policy, and any consent message displayed on the website.
2. Information we may collect
Information you provide directly: your name, email address, message content, correction request, job opportunity tip, removal request, or any other information you choose to send through a contact form, email, comment feature, or other communication channel.
Technical and usage information: your IP address, browser type, device information, approximate location derived from your IP address, pages visited, referral source, date and time of visit, interaction with links, and similar website usage data that may be collected by hosting, security, analytics, advertising, or platform services.
Cookie and advertising information: cookies and similar technologies may be used to remember preferences, improve performance, understand traffic, measure content, serve advertisements, prevent abuse, and support security.
Third-party information: where we refer readers to employer websites, scholarship portals, application systems, government portals, international organization pages, or other external websites, those third parties may process information under their own privacy policies.
3. How we use information
- To operate, maintain, secure, and improve the website.
- To respond to messages, correction requests, removal requests, opportunity tips, complaints, and general inquiries.
- To publish, verify, update, correct, or remove job, scholarship, fellowship, tender, grant, remote work, and career guidance content.
- To monitor website performance, readership patterns, broken links, and user experience.
- To prevent spam, scraping abuse, fraudulent submissions, phishing attempts, impersonation, and other misuse of the website.
- To comply with applicable laws, platform requirements, advertising requirements, and legitimate administrative needs.
4. Google AdSense, advertising, and third-party vendors
We may use Google AdSense and other third-party advertising services. Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites.
Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this website and/or other websites. Users may visit Google's advertising settings to manage personalized advertising preferences.
Other third-party vendors or ad networks may also use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve ads, measure ad performance, prevent fraud, and improve relevance. These third parties may have their own privacy policies and opt-out mechanisms.
We do not control how Google or other third-party advertising networks independently process data. Their processing is governed by their own policies, settings, and legal obligations.
5. Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small files placed on a browser or device. They may be used for essential website functions, performance, analytics, advertising, fraud prevention, and preference management.
You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. However, some features of the website or third-party services may not work properly if cookies are disabled.
For more detailed information, please read our Cookie Policy.
6. Third-party links and application portals
Our posts often include links to external employer pages, scholarship portals, government websites, university pages, international organization websites, application forms, and other third-party sources.
When you click an external link, you leave our website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, recruitment processes, application forms, fees, eligibility decisions, or data handling practices of third-party websites.
Before submitting personal information to any employer, recruiter, scholarship body, university, government portal, or external application system, read that third party's privacy policy and verify that the opportunity is genuine.
7. Sharing of information
We do not sell readers' personal information. We may share limited information only when necessary to operate the website, respond to a request, comply with legal obligations, protect the website, prevent fraud, or work with service providers that help us host, secure, analyze, advertise, or manage the website.
Where a reader submits a correction, takedown, or opportunity tip, we may use the information provided to assess the request, contact the relevant source, update the content, or maintain an internal record of the request.
8. Data retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including website administration, correspondence, legal compliance, dispute handling, security, and record keeping.
Emails and contact form submissions may be retained for administrative and accountability reasons unless deletion is requested and no legal, security, or operational reason requires continued retention.
9. Security
We take reasonable administrative and technical steps to protect information from unauthorized access, misuse, alteration, or loss. However, no website, email system, browser, platform, or internet transmission is completely secure.
Readers should avoid sending highly sensitive documents, bank details, passwords, national identification documents, passport scans, medical information, or confidential employer information unless strictly necessary and through a trusted official channel.
10. Children and young users
The website is designed for general career information and is not intended to collect personal information from children without appropriate parental or guardian involvement where required by law.
Young users should seek guidance from a parent, guardian, teacher, or trusted adult before applying for opportunities, sharing documents, paying any fee, or communicating with recruiters or third parties online.
11. Your privacy choices and rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, or a copy of personal information that we hold about you.
To make a privacy request, contact us at contact@genuinejobsalert.com. We may need enough information to verify and respond to the request.
12. Updates to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy Statement from time to time to reflect changes in our website, legal requirements, advertising tools, cookies, analytics services, or editorial practices.
The "Last updated" date above shows when the policy was most recently revised.
13. Contact
For privacy questions, correction requests, or data-related concerns, contact Genuine Jobs Alert at contact@genuinejobsalert.com.