Privacy Policy for UN Jobs Careers
Effective Date: June 15, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how UN Jobs Careers (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit and use our website, www.unjobscareers.org (the “Site”), and the services we provide. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data transparently and securely.
By using our Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
1. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information to provide and improve our services to you.
a. Personal Data You Provide Directly: When you register for an account, apply for a job, subscribe to our newsletters, or contact us, you may provide us with personally identifiable information, including but not limited to:
- Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number.
- Account Information: Username and password.
- Professional Information: Resume/CV, cover letter, work experience, educational background, skills, certifications, professional references, and any other details you choose to include in your profile or application.
- Communication Content: Any information you provide when you communicate with us (e.g., customer support inquiries).
- Voluntary Information: Any other information you choose to provide (e.g., demographic data, preferences).
b. Usage Data (Automatically Collected): When you access or use the Site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and Browse activity. This Usage Data may include:
- Your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address.
- Browser type and version.
- Pages of our Site that you visit.
- The time and date of your visit.
- The time spent on those pages.
- Unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
- Referring/exit pages, and other clickstream data.
c. Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected data for various purposes, primarily to provide and improve our services:
- To Provide and Maintain Our Service: This includes managing your account, providing job listings, career resources, and any other services you request.
- To Facilitate Job Applications: When you apply for a job through our Site, we share your application data (including your CV/resume and cover letter) with the respective United Nations (UN) agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), or other international organizations that posted the job.
- To Personalize Your Experience: To tailor job recommendations, content, and communications based on your profile and interests.
- To Communicate With You: To send you job alerts, newsletters, updates, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you, based on your preferences.
- For Analytics and Improvement: To understand how our Site is used, monitor its performance, identify technical issues, and make improvements to its functionality and user experience.
- For Security and Fraud Prevention: To detect, prevent, and address technical issues or fraudulent activity.
- To Comply with Legal Obligations: To meet any applicable legal or regulatory requirements.
3. How We Share Your Information
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
- With Job Posters/Organizations: When you apply for a job listing through our Site, your application details, including your personal and professional information, are shared directly with the relevant UN agencies, NGOs, or international organizations that posted the job.
- With Service Providers: We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (e.g., hosting, data analytics, email delivery, customer support). These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
- For Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
- For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Protect and defend the rights or property of UN Jobs Careers.
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service.
- Protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public.
- Protect against legal liability.
4. Data Retention
We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.
5. Data Security
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We implement various security measures, including encryption and access controls, to protect your data.
6. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain data protection rights. These rights may include:
- The Right to Access: Request copies of your personal data.
- The Right to Rectification: Request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The Right to Erasure: Request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Restrict Processing: Request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Object to Processing: Object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Data Portability: Request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Withdraw Consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the email address provided below.
7. Links to Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us (e.g., official job application portals on UN agency websites). If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
8. Children’s Privacy
Our Service is not intended for anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us: