1. Introduction and Scope

Welcome to ZEMEN JOBS (“we”, “us”, or “our”). We operate the premier Ethiopian job board platform located at https://zemenjobs.com/ (the “Service”). We deeply respect your privacy and remain entirely committed to protecting your personal data.

This comprehensive Privacy Policy explicitly explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information when you visit our website, register as a job seeker, or utilize our platform as an employer. By accessing or using our Service, you formally consent to the data practices described in this document.

2. The Information We Collect

To provide a highly effective employment matching service, we must collect specific categories of personal data. We categorize this data based on your use of the platform:

A. Information from Job Seekers

• Account Details: Your full name, email address, secure password, and optional telephone number.
• Professional Profile Data: Your detailed employment history, educational background, professional skills, uploaded CV/resume documents, and optional profile photographs.
• Application History: Records of the specific jobs you apply for through our platform.

B. Information from Employers & Recruiters

• Corporate Identity: Company name, verified business email addresses, industry sector, and official physical addresses.
• Payment & Billing Data: Transaction histories and billing information required when purchasing premium job posting packages or CV database access.

C. Automated Usage & Device Data

• Technical Metrics: Your IP address, browser type, operating system, and specific device identifiers.
• Platform Analytics: The specific pages you visit, the time spent on our site, geographic location data, and precise timestamps of your activity.

3. How We Use Your Information

Zemen Jobs strictly utilizes your collected data to facilitate successful employment connections and optimize our digital platform. Specifically, we use your information to:

• Provide, operate, securely host, and constantly maintain our job board platform.
• Enable seamless user registration, profile management, and instantaneous job applications.
• Algorithmically and manually match qualified candidates with actively hiring employers and verified recruiters.
• Send critical service-related communications, including application confirmations, job alert newsletters, and security updates.
• Analyze site traffic to aggressively improve website speed and user interface design.
• Actively prevent fraudulent job postings, eliminate spam, and enhance our overall network security.
• Comply absolutely with all applicable Ethiopian and international digital laws and regulations.

4. Third-Party Advertising and Cookies

To keep essential features of Zemen Jobs free for job seekers, we actively monetize our platform using carefully selected third-party advertising networks, specifically including Google AdSense.

General Cookie Usage

By actively using our website, you formally consent to the deployment of cookies. Cookies represent small text files placed securely on your device. We use them to retain your job search preferences, keep you logged into your account, and provide anonymized traffic data to essential third-party applications like Google Analytics and Google AdSense.

5. Sharing & Disclosure of Information

We do not sell your personal data to data brokers. However, the fundamental nature of a job board requires sharing specific information to facilitate hiring:

• Employers & Recruiters: When you actively apply for a job vacancy, or if you choose to make your CV “Public” in our database, verified employers gain access to your professional data to evaluate your candidacy.
• Service Providers: We share highly encrypted data with trusted third-party providers who host our servers, manage our email communications, and process payments. They operate under strict confidentiality agreements.
• Legal Compliance: We will disclose your data if strictly required by a court order, government regulation, or official law enforcement request.
• Business Transfers: In the event of a corporate merger, acquisition, or sale of Zemen Jobs assets, user data may be transferred with prior transparent notice.

6. Data Security and Retention

Security Measures: We actively utilize appropriate, industry-standard technical and organizational security measures. This includes SSL data encryption, secure cloud hosting, and strict administrative access controls to protect your personal information from unauthorized access. However, no internet transmission remains 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute perfection.

Data Retention: We retain your personal and professional data only for as long as functionally necessary to provide our Service, meet legal tax/accounting requirements, and resolve potential disputes. If you delete your account, your data is either securely wiped or permanently anonymized from our active servers.

7. Your Legal Data Rights

Operating within the jurisdiction of Ethiopia, we strictly adhere to the Personal Data Protection Proclamation of Ethiopia (2024). Under this law, you hold powerful rights regarding your personal information:

• Right to Access: You may request a complete copy of the personal data we currently hold about you.
• Right to Rectification: You may instantly correct or update any inaccurate information via your user dashboard.
• Right to Erasure: You may request the permanent deletion of your profile and CV from our systems.
• Right to Restrict Processing: You may object to specific data processing activities, such as receiving marketing emails.

8. Children’s Privacy & Future Updates

Age Restrictions: Our Service is explicitly designed for adult professionals. It is not directed toward individuals under 18 years of age. If we discover that we have inadvertently collected personal data from a child without verified parental consent, we will delete that information immediately.

Policy Revisions: We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect new legal requirements or platform features. We will boldly post all updates directly on this page and revise the “Effective Date” at the top. We will notify active users via email regarding any massive, material changes to our data practices.

Contact Our Privacy Team

To exercise your data rights, report a security vulnerability, or ask questions regarding this policy, please contact our administrative team at: privacy@zemenjobs.com.