Privacy Policy

VA4Hire (“us,” “we,” or “our”) compiled this Privacy Policy to explain how we collect, use, protect, or handle the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of our site users. PII, as described in the United States privacy law and information security, are the information we can only use; or with other information, to identify, contact, or locate a person, or to recognize an individual in context.

By using the site and accepting the user agreement, you agree to this Privacy Policy, too. If you do not agree to this privacy notice, please do not use the VA4Hire site (https://www.va4hire.ph/).

Information Collection

We collect your personal information once you register on our site, fill out a form, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey, use live chat, open a support ticket, or give feedback on our services. Personal information may include your name, phone number, email and mailing addresses, and finance (e.g., bank account numbers).

Information Use

We do not rent, sell, or share personal details about you with other people or firms for marketing purposes without your permission. Yet, we may use and share your non-personal information for our marketing purposes. For example, we may use them to control the times you see an ad, deliver ads that interest you most, and measure the effectiveness of such campaigns.

We may use the information we collect from you for the following reasons:

Improve our website and serve you better
Personalize your experience and let us bring contents tailored to your interests
Let us better respond to your customer service requests
Manage your transactions fast
Follow up with you after any correspondence (by way of email, phone inquiry, or live chat)
Ask for review and feedback on our services
Run a contest, promotion, survey, or other site feature

Information Protection

We scan our website often for security holes and known vulnerabilities to make your visit to our site as safe as possible. Your PII are in secured networks and only people, authorized to such systems and required to keep the information confidential, can access them. Likewise, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.

For your convenience, we may store your credit card information to speed up future orders and automate the billing procedure.

Using Cookies

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (with your consent). They help the site or the service provider's systems recognize your browser and capture and remember vital information. For example, we use cookies to help us understand your preferences based on earlier or current site activity that lets us give you improved services.

We use cookies for these purposes:

In your browser settings, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time you will get a cookie, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. Since the browser is a little different, look at your browser's Help menu to learn the right way to change your cookies.

Disabling Cookies

If you turn the cookies off, a few of the features that make your website experience more efficient may not function.

Do Not Track Signal

Please understand that we do not alter our data gathering and usage systems whenever we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser

Third-Party Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise, transfer to outside parties your PII unless we send you advance notice. This excludes hosting partners and parties that assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users as long as they agree to keep the data confidential. We may give details when appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our Privacy Policy, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.

However, we may offer non-personally identifiable visitor information to other parties for marketing, advertising, or further uses.

Third-Party Links

Sometimes, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, are not liable for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback users may have about them.

VA4Hire’s Project Management Portal

The Project Management Portal of our site aims to ease the communication and exchange and/or sharing of information between employers/business owners and workers (job seekers, freelancers). VA4Hire reserves the right to monitor communications in the said portal to prove compliance with our Terms of Use, with global or state laws, and/or with our other stated policies.

California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)

CalOPPA is the first state law in the United States that requires commercial websites and online services to post a privacy statement. The law calls for every person or firm that operates online and collects PII from consumers to post a conspicuous privacy notice on its website. They should state what information they collect and with whom they share such data.

In compliance with CalOPPA, we agree to the following:

We will tell you of any change to this Privacy Policy. You can change your personal information by sending us an email or by logging in to your account.

Fair Information Practices

The Fair Information Practices principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States. Further, the concepts they include have played a vital role in forming data protection laws around the globe. Understanding and knowing how to implement them is critical to complying with the various privacy laws that protect personal data.

To be in line with Fair Information Practices, we will tell you by email or on our website within Seven (7) Business Days if a data breach occurred.

We agree to the Individual Redress Principle that asks individuals to have the right to pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to obey the law. This principle asks individuals to have enforceable rights against data users and recourse to courts or government agencies to probe and/or prosecute non- compliance by data processors.

CAN-SPAM Act

This law aims to set the rules for campaign emails, launch requirements for commercial messages, give recipients the right to stop getting emails, and explain tough fines for abuses.

We collect your email address for the following reasons:

To align with the CAN-SPAM Act, we agree to the following terms:

Include the physical address of our business (or our site headquarters)
Identify the message as an ad in some reasonable way
Never use false or misleading subjects or email addresses
Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance (if we use one)
Respect and perform the unsubscribe requests of the users
Let users opt out by contacting us

If you want to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can send us a message at info@va4hire.ph, and we will remove you from all correspondences.

Children Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

We do not, on purpose, collect PII from children under 13 years old. The Federal Trade Commission, a US consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA rule that states what website operators and online services must do to protect the online privacy and safety of children. If a parent or guardian learns that his or her child gave us personal information without his/her consent, he or she should contact us at info@va4hire.ph. Yet, if we learned that a child under 13 has given us his/her PII, we will use our best efforts to delete such information from our files right away.

Auxiliary Privacy Notices

General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (GDPR)

(Exclusive for European Residents)

This section serves to show our compliance with global laws such as the GDPR or General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union law. Other laws we comply with are the CCPA or the California Consumer Protection Act and the Nevada law.

You have the right to access the personal data we keep about you and to request us to fix, change, or remove them. If you wish to practice this right, please get in touch with us using the contact information below this section.

In addition, European residents must note that we treat your details to conform to contracts we might have with you (e.g. if you placed an order through the site). You may also pursue our legitimate business interests. In the same way, please note that we will send your information outside of Europe to places such as Canada and the United States.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) (Exclusive for California Residents)

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

We are not in the business of selling your data. VA4Hire regards your personal information as a vital part of our partnership with you. However, a few circumstances, listed below, may compel us to share your data with a few third- party providers

Business Ownership Transfer

In the course of improving our business, we may buy or sell our assets. As such, we may go through a sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution, or any similar circumstance. Your personal data may be part of transferred assets.

Other Service Providers

VA4Hire may at times contract with other companies to do important business functions. These partners may include website analytics, digital marketing, hosting and cloud computing, payment processing, and other services. When we hire other companies to work in such capacities, we give them only needed information based on their duties. We make sure that they access and use your personal data solely to complete their work.

Our partner that does background check may ask for other details. We keep your information in internal databases for hiring and job selection procedures. VA4Hire also gathers technical information using cookies.

Lawful Requirements

VA4Hire may give your personal data if so required by law to meet a legal obligation,

Data VA4Hire Gathers

We collect your personal details as part of our specialist recruitment system and for on-boarding with clients. The following details may help serve these purposes.

Complete name
Contact information
Address
Location
Work history
Education
Photograph
Social media data
Family background
Billing data
Identification instrument(s)

Rights of California Consumers

The CCPA granted you rights on data collection and deletion on January 1, 2020.

You can opt out of the “sale” of your personal information.
You have the right of access. Users can ask us what data about them we have collected over the last 12 months, why we collected them, and get a copy.
You can ask us to delete the data we have about you.
You must not experience discrimination for making such a data inquiry.

Nevada Law (Exclusive for Nevada Residents) (Exclusive for California Residents)

Under the Nevada law, Nevada residents may opt out of the sale of “personally identifiable information” for monetary consideration to a person that licenses or sells such information to other people. “Personally identifiable information” includes first and last name, address, email address, phone number, Social Security number, or any identifier that allows a specific person to be contacted either physically or online.

We do not engage in such activity. However, if you are a Nevadan who has purchased or leased goods or services from us, you may send a request to opt out of any possible future sales under Nevada law by messaging info@va4hire.ph. Please note that we will take all reasonable steps to confirm your identity and the authenticity of your request. Once verified, we will keep your request in the event our methods change.

Contacting Us

If you have questions on this Privacy Policy, contact us by email at info@va4hire.ph.

Last edited on March 10, 2021.