Purpose
jobvector would like to be your permanent career attendant. When your perspective in life changes, you advance professionally or aspire new targets, jobvector keeps the right career opportunity ready for you. Our aim is to buil a long-term relationship, to develop a product and a service that are available to you 24 hours a day and 7 days a week and to provide you the oppotunity to take your career, your life and your future into your own hands.

jobvector wants to ease your job search. With us you have the possibility to apply for job vacancies or to benefit from the services of Myjobvector and the Career Center when searching for a job. Zweck der Lebenslauf-Datenbank und des JobAgenten ist, Sie über Stellenangebote zu informieren, oder Sie mit Stellenanbietern in Verbindung zu bringen.

As in any relationship, confidence plays a prominent role. With jobvector you can be certain that we stand up for your privacy and right of data protection. It is our aim to offer you a secure, risk-free service. We vouch for the confidentiality of information that is given to us and for the exclusive use of this information for the aforementioned purpose.

If you feel we are not obeying this declaration or the obligation of secrecy, please contact us directly. We will get in touch with you immediately.

What type of informationen is recorded by us?
1. myJobvector
When you register at myJobvector, we will store your email address in order to provide you with the jobvector services (mail service, newsletter, career information and requests for contact).
If you want to submit your CV to myJobvector, we will ask you to provide personal contact details and you will have the option to decide whether you want to publish documents like testimonials and certificates. The data (not public) we store for your application together with your anonymized CV are clearly marked with a box number. Your data is handled on a strictly confidential basis and will not be passed on to employers without your formal approval. Furthermore you have the possibility to unlock these data for a potential employer - only if you have expressly authorized it.

Employers have the option to read the anonymized CV and select CVs according tho their criteria, to recruit new employees. Yet the employers do not have access to your personal details (name, address, email, phone, certificates). All data you enter into fields not marked as non-public data on the CV form, are visible to employers. You should keep this in mind when you enter information on your previous or current employer as well as when filling in free text fields.

Important: Only jobvector has access to your personal data and will not pass these on to employers under any circumstances. Employers only see an anonymized version of your CV. If an employer is interested in you, he can get in touch with you via jobvector. Only after you have assigned the employer access to your personal data will the employer get to know your identity. .

It goes without saying, that you can completely delete your CV.

Understandibly we cannot guarantee the confidential treatment of your data by employers. Please bear that in mind when you enter data in your anonymized CV or reveal your personal data to an employer.

2. Cookies
jobvector only uses what is known as Session cookies to facilite easy user guidance.

3. Log Files and statistics
We store internet protocol addresses (IP addresses) for a limited space of time in the log files as far as this is necessary for security purposes. We create anonymous statistics to measure the number of visitors on our website (traffic) or for accounting purposes, to quantify the number of clicks we receive from our cooperation partners. We do not compile user profiles or combine profiles with information that could be related to individuals.

Illegal content
You alone are responsible for the content you have published with us or the texts you have sent us. Please make sure you do not send us attachments containing viruses or worms. Personal data you submit to jobvector in general should not contain any of the following: Information about diseases, unless these are relevant for the particular job (except in case of infectious diseases), information about pregnancy, information about ethnic origin, religious or philosophical creed, membership in a trade union, sexual orientation, villainizing or degrading information, information that does not have a clear connection to the job specification. The information you send us must be genuine and must not infringe upon the rights of a third party, violate public regulations or offend morality ("Illegal content"). Please note that you undertake to indemnify us against all claims made against us as a consequence of your failure to prevent illegal content appearing in any information you provide.

To whom will your personal data be disclosed?
The anonymized CVs are accessible to jobvector customers (in general employers or recruiters) and may additionally be sent to interested customers by email or as hardcopy to increase the distribution and thereby enhance the response. The mentioned distribution does not include a disclosure of your personal data.
However, jobvector cannot prevent the use of the CV database by others than employers and recruiters.

Editing and deleting your CV data
If you want to edit or delete your data or CV in the application database simply login to myJobvector and use the according functions. Deleting deposited CVs can be done in myJobvector. If you want us to delete your CV or personal data, we will be happy to assist you. Likewise we will inform you about your personal password in case you lose it.
jobvector shall be entitled to discontinue these services or delete your data partially or completely without notice at any time. A claim for publication of your data is not recognized. Additionally we will delete your data when it has not been updated over a longer period of time. We will inform you thereof beforehand via email.

Data security
We make provisions for the security of your data and to prevent external misuse. This includes measures like encryption (SSL encryption), firewalls, software for the prevention of hacking and manual security precautions. SSL encryption is active when the key symbol is displayed at the bottom of your browser and the address starts with "https://". Data transfer is then secured via a SSL (Secure Socket Layer) with 128 bit encryption that prevents any third party from illegally reading your data. When the encryption is not active, you should closely consider whether you want to send sensitive information via the internet.
We only store the personal data you have entered in myJobvector. No additional personal data is stored.
Please note, that it is not allowed to use the internet for private purposes from your workplace or during working hours. Some employers monitor illicit internet activity. Be aware that there is always a risk of undesired access, when you are connected to a network.
Please note that our pages utilize JavaScript technology.

Malfunction of the service, discontinuation or alteration of the service or deletion of data
jobvector does not guarantee that the service will be available at certain times. jobvector doe not exclude malfunctions, interruptions or a possible breakdown of the online service. The servers of jobvector are backed up regularly and diligently. As far as data is transmitted, no matter by which means, to jobvector, we recommend you make a backup. jobvector reserves the right to delete a published record at any time without giving reasons. The customer is not entitled to claim a publication. jobvector reserves the right to alter, extend, limit or discontinue this service at any time. A liability of jobvector for deleted data or loss of data is therefore excluded.

Links
Our website contains links to other websites. Please note that we are not liable for the practices of data protection of these websites. We recommend you read the statement on data protection of every site carefully. This statement on data protection only applies to data, that was entered in our website.

Publications of alterations
In case we change our policy on data on data protection, we will display these changes on our homepage. Therefore our customers and visitors will always be informed about the data we record, how we use it and whether we disclose this data to a third party.

Miscellaneous
In case you have any questions or concern about our commitment to data protection, please send an email to support@jobvector.com .

Düsseldorf, 1st December 2004