At hireCNC Inc. (“hireCNC”), your right to privacy is very important to us. We provide individuals and employers with the ability to connect with each other through the hireCNC proprietary software platform, so that individuals can offer their services to businesses, and businesses can post job opportunities and information about their workplace for individuals to consider. In order to provide you with this service effectively, we collect certain specific information from you, and we also automatically collect information and data relating to the usage of our services by all our users, including you. Because we are committed to protecting your privacy rights and the information you provide to us, we have developed this privacy policy. It explains how we will protect your information and describes how we will use and share it.
This policy is concerned with the protection of your personal information only. Personal information includes any data that can be used to identify you as an individual, including your name, income, personal opinion, interests, home contact information, identification numbers, user IDs, passwords, ethnic origin, and age. Under Canadian law, in a business context, personal information does not include the name, job title, business address, or business telephone number of any employee in an organization.
This policy describes the following practices:
This privacy policy may change from time to time to reflect hireCNC’s internal needs, customer feedback, or changes in applicable privacy legislation. hireCNC will post all such changes on our website, so please visit this page regularly.
NOTE: hireCNC services are not intended for children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect or maintain any personal information or non-personally-identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18 nor is any part of our website or service directed to children under the age of 18. We will close any accounts used exclusively by such children and will remove and/or delete any personal information we believe was submitted by any child under the age of 18. If any user wishes to post information on the hireCNC platform respecting children under the age of 18, such user is solely responsible for ensuring that such information is posted in a legal manner, and has obtained all consents necessary to post such information.
We comply with all applicable privacy laws respecting our processing and storage of any personal information that may be used in conjunction with the services we provide, and we deal with your data under these general principles:
This Privacy Policy contains more detail as to how we live up to these principles.
In order to use the services provided by hireCNC, you will be required to provide specific information about yourself, such as your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address. We will always inform you when we need information that personally identifies you, and we will keep this information in strict confidence. Additionally, you may, on occasion, voluntarily provide hireCNC with information that can be classified as personal information – all such personal information will be stored and maintained in accordance with this privacy policy.
We collect information about you in the following ways:
As part of your use of hireCNC’s services
Whether you are an individual offering your services or a business posting a position or project, you will likely need to provide or obtain a certain amount of personally identifiable information through the hireCNC platform in order to effectively utilize the services. The amount of information you provide with respect to such usage is wholly up to you; however, you acknowledge that failure to provide the minimum amount of information required by hireCNC as being necessary to effectively offer and accept employment or contract services and job postings may result in an inability to use the services.
Additionally, we will require your name, address, telephone number and (where applicable) certain financial account or credit card information, for billing and payment purposes. This information is kept confidential and stored securely by hireCNC and its payment provider.
hireCNC also reserves the right to monitor messages sent by you, or data posted by you, through the services, in order to ensure that your use of the services is appropriate, lawful, and in accordance with the agreement that you have entered into with hireCNC.
hireCNC’s software and services contain features that automatically collect information from users, such as usage statistics and other tracking information. Although this information will not identify you personally, it nevertheless provides certain information about you that may, in combination with other information, result in personally identifying information; in such cases, we would treat it as personal information. Additionally, use of hireCNC’s website and/or software may result in the collection of technical information such as your computer's IP address, operating system, browser name/version, the referring web page, requested page, date/time, and sometimes a "cookie" (which can be disabled using your browser preferences); such information is used to help us understand the overall usage pattern of our website and software.
Customers and business partners often contact us directly. When you contact any hireCNC employee by telephone, e-mail, in person, or through our website, you will be asked to provide consent to the collection of personal information if your personal information will help us deliver the information, products, or services you require.
From time to time, hireCNC may invite you to provide us with information for specific purposes. We may ask for this information through feedback features on our website or software; we may send out e-mail inviting feedback or offering products and services; or we may ask you for information concerning support of our products or services. Your response to these communications may require you to submit personal information and opinions.
Occasionally, hireCNC will obtain information about you from third parties, such as mailing list providers, third party service providers, ISPs, or third party application or account providers. Third-party providers are responsible for obtaining consent for the release of personal information to us from those individuals identified on mailing lists, surveys, or through other collection methods. Additionally, businesses and individual may have personally identifiable information posted through publicly available sites, such as business websites or social media sites; as such information is publicly available, hireCNC will have the same rights to access such information as any other third party accessing such sites.
Third party collection of your information
Due to the nature of the services provided by hireCNC, third parties may collect information from you through the use of websites that are accessed by you through the services (for instance, a business may post their website in a job posting, and individuals may click on the link in the job posting). Additionally, these websites may ask you to provide additional information directly to third parties. Third party products or services provided through these websites are not owned or controlled by hireCNC, and are governed by the third party’s terms and conditions and/or privacy policy. You are encouraged to read the terms and other policies published by such third parties on their websites or otherwise.
Subject to any exceptions stated above in the collection of information section, should hireCNC collect any of your personal information, we will follow these practices regarding the distribution of that information.
hireCNC uses reasonable precautions to protect your personal information and store it securely. Access to your personal information is restricted to those persons who need it (including individuals and businesses utilizing the hireCNC site) and who are subject to the access restrictions available through hireCNC’s site (that is, some areas of the site are for public viewing, while others may be restricted to authorized viewers). hireCNC takes reasonable steps to prevent the unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information.
hireCNC only uses and discloses your personal information if it helps us facilitate your needs, improve our products and services, meet legal and regulatory requirements, or — to the limited extent possible — manage our internal business operations. Additionally, if there are any disclosure or use restrictions in your consent to the collection of your personal information, hireCNC will abide by those restrictions (subject to the consent exceptions listed below). For example, your credit card or financial information will only be used to bill you for the services that you have authorized or used, or to pay you for the services performed, as applicable.
hireCNC may combine your information with other information into an aggregate form, so your information no longer personally identifies you. We may then disclose the aggregate information to third parties, so they can obtain an overall picture of hireCNC’s products, services, customer sectors and/or usage patterns.
hireCNC provides your information to third parties only for purposes to which you have consented, and we require such third parties to keep your information confidential.
In a few situations, hireCNC may be required to disclose your information without your prior consent. For example, hireCNC may disclose your information if we are required to do so by law, or if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to:
hireCNC will always try to provide you with prior notice of such disclosure; however, such notice may not always be possible or reasonable given the circumstances.
Additionally, the nature of the services provided requires the routine use of your information in the provision of the services. Your personal information will only be used to the limited extent necessary to provide the services that you have requested, and may include the following uses:
hireCNC has established the following practices regarding the maintenance of your personal information.
If, for any reason, you wish to review your personal information that hireCNC has in its possession, you can contact our Privacy Officer, who will be pleased to provide you with all your personal information that hireCNC has on file.
Sometimes, it will be necessary for you to update your personal information hireCNC has on file. For example, if you change payment account information, you must update your information in order to keep receiving the services provided by hireCNC. In many cases, you will be able to do so by changing your personal settings on your account.
If you wish to make any changes or corrections to your personal information that cannot be done yourself through your personal settings, please contact our Privacy Officer who will implement the changes. This will help us ensure our records are always up-to-date.
Additionally, you always have the choice of whether you wish to receive information – such as e-mail updates – from hireCNC. In some cases, you may do so simply by changing the preferences on the platform through which hireCNC provides the services.
If you do choose to opt out of communications respecting products and services provided by hireCNC, you may not obtain all the benefits we could otherwise provide, such as updates or warnings. hireCNC will not have any liability to you for your loss of those benefits or any negative effects respecting your use of hireCNC’s services.
A situation may arise where you desire to have all of your personal information that is contained in hireCNC’s records deleted or destroyed. If this is what you wish, please contact our Privacy Officer, who will take care of removing your personal information from all of hireCNC’s records. However, there may be situations where we are obligated to retain one archival copy of your information to allow us to comply with laws or respond to legal processes. We will inform you of all such situations, and will only use your retained personal information to the limited extent necessary to comply with such laws or respond to legal processes. Because of the nature of the services, your information may have been shared with third parties, such as where you have applied to a job posting on the hireCNC site. The obligation to destroy your personal information relates only to your personal information within hireCNC’s possession; hireCNC has no obligation to pursue any third party to destroy your information, and it is solely your responsibility to pursue such third parties directly.
hireCNC welcomes your comments about this privacy policy, and we would be happy to provide any additional information you require. Please contact our Privacy Officer at:
This privacy policy supplements any agreements you already have with hireCNC Inc., such as your Applicant Agreement, Employer Agreement, website terms and conditions, and any other agreement. Our privacy policy does not replace the terms of those agreements. By agreeing to those terms and using hireCNC’s website, products, software and services, you are consenting to the collection and use of your personal information by hireCNC Inc. in accordance with this privacy policy. This policy was written in accordance with the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
hireCNC’s platform is hosted and powered by software owned and provided by a third party service provider, being jobiqo GmbH, located in Austria, that acts as a Sub-Processor hereunder (as defined below). Accordingly, although hireCNC is a company located in Canada, and hireCNC’s services are governed by the laws of Ontario, Canada, hireCNC will abide by the Data Protection Laws (defined below) and the terms of this Data Processing Agreement (“DPA”) in the processing of any Personal Data, in addition to the terms of the Privacy Policy above. To the extent of any conflict between the application of this DPA and the Privacy Policy in relation to applicable Data Protection Laws, the terms of this DPA will prevail.
In relation to the services offered by hireCNC, each user of the platform submitting data is the Data Controller in respect of this DPA, and hireCNC is the Data Processor in respect of this DPA.
“Data Controller” means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; in this DPA, each user of the platform submitting data is the Data Controller.
“Data Processor” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller; in this DPA, hireCNC is the Data Processor;
“Data Protection Laws” means data protection or privacy laws of any country applicable to the processing of the personal information of an individual covered by this DPA, including the laws of the European Union and specifically the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”);
“Data Subject” means an identified or identifiable natural person;
“DPA” means this Data Protection Agreement.
“Personal Data” means any information relating to a Data Subject, and specifically information where a Data Subject can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that Data Subject;
“Personal Data Breach” means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data, transmitted, stored or otherwise processed;
“Processing” has the meaning given in applicable Data Protection Laws from time to time (and related expressions, including process, processed, processing, and processes shall be construed accordingly);
“Protected Data” means Personal Data received from or on behalf of Data Controller in connection with the performance of the Data Processor’s obligations under this DPA and its agreement to provide services to the Data Controller; and
“Sub-Processor” means any agent, subcontractor or other third party (excluding its employees) engaged by the Data Processor for carrying out any processing activities on behalf of Data Controller in respect of the Protected Data.
The parties agree that Data Controller is a Controller and that the Data Processor is a Processor for the purposes of processing Protected Data pursuant to this DPA. The Data Processor shall at all times comply with the applicable Data Protection Laws and this DPA in connection with the processing of Protected Data. Data Controller shall ensure all instructions given by it to the Data Processor in respect of Protected Data (including the terms of this DPA) shall at all times be in accordance with the applicable Data Protection Laws.
Name: Jobiqo GmbH
Purpose: Provision of access to job board and/or matching software for job portals and job boards in the form of a Software-as-a-Service solution underpinning hireCNC’s services.
Personal Data Access: Storage of Personal Data pursuant to the Software-as-a-Service solution underpinning hireCNC’s services.
The Data Processor shall not process and/or transfer, or otherwise directly or indirectly disclose, any Protected Data other than to the extent contemplated in the agreement between the Parties without the prior written consent of Data Controller. For transfers of Personal Data of any Data Subject covered by the GDPR out of the EU/EEA, the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (“EU SCCs”) shall apply.
The Data Processor shall, in accordance with Data Protection Laws, make available to Data Controller such information that is in its possession or control as is necessary to demonstrate the Data Processor’s compliance with the obligations placed on it under this DPA and to demonstrate compliance with the obligations on each party imposed by Article 28 of the GDPR (and under any equivalent Data Protection Laws equivalent to that Artic
