We operate an online employment marketplace and related services spanning the Asia-Pacific region with operations in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Hong Kong.

This Privacy Policy covers our businesses which operate under the following brands:

a. SEEK in Australia and New Zealand;

⁠b. Jobstreet by SEEK (excluding Jobstreet Express) in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines;

c. Jobsdb by SEEK in Thailand and Hong Kong; and

d. SmartHire in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. 

As we operate in different markets across the Asia-Pacific region, aspects of this Privacy Policy address certain region-specific requirements under applicable Privacy Laws (please see section 18 for more information). It is important that you read this Privacy Policy in full to ensure you understand all aspects that apply to you.

This section sets out which legal entity in the SEEK Group is responsible for the Personal Information we Process. 

If you are a Candidate, when you apply to a role advertised on our Platforms, we are Processing your job application (and any Personal Information included within that application) jointly with the Advertiser to whom you are applying. For such Processing of Personal Information, we and the Advertiser are data controllers (or equivalent concept in your region) of your Personal Information.

In all other cases in which we collect your Personal Information, we do so solely as a data controller of such information. The relevant data controller (or the equivalent concept in your region) of your Personal Information is as follows: 

a. For SEEK Users, SEEK Limited. 

b. For Jobstreet Users and/or Jobsdb Users, the Designated Entity and SEEK Limited either as joint data controllers or as independent data controllers (depending on applicable Privacy Laws).

c. For SmartHire Users, the Designated Entity and SEEK Limited either as joint data controllers or as independent data controllers (depending on applicable Privacy Laws).

We collect different types of information about you depending on how you interact with us and use our products and services. For example:

• To sign up as a Registered User on our Platforms and/or access SmartHire services (whether you are a Candidate or an Advertiser), you will need to provide basic information such as your name and email address.

• If you are a Candidate, if you choose to create a Profile and/or if you are applying for a job, depending on the Advertiser, we may collect additional Personal Information about you on behalf of the Advertiser.

The main types of information (including Personal Information) we may collect includes but is not limited to:

a) If you are a Registered User:

b) If you are an Unregistered User:

We may collect your Usage and Device Data, Contact Data and/or Location Data if you engage with us as an Unregistered User. For example, if you contact us via phone, email or online.

c) If you are a Young User:

For Young Users who are under the minimum age provided for under applicable Privacy Laws, you represent and warrant that your parent or legal guardian has been informed of and agreed to this Privacy Policy. Where legally required, you are responsible for obtaining valid consent from your parent or legal guardian before providing us with your Personal Information (Parental Consent). We may ask you to provide us with evidence of the Parental Consent and we reserve the right to delete any Personal Information collected from you if we cannot verify that you have the necessary consent to provide us with your Personal Information and/or use our Platforms. We will not be held liable or responsible where you have failed to obtain Parental Consent.

d) Other categories of Personal Information:

We may also collect other Personal Information that you provide through your engagement with us, for example, in connection with surveys or promotions.

In most cases, we do not need to collect your Sensitive Information when you engage with us. You should not disclose any Sensitive Information to us which is not necessary or relevant to disclose. Candidates should be especially mindful of this during a job application process.

However, there may be some situations where we do collect and handle your Sensitive Information. For example, a Candidate may decide to provide an Advertiser with specific health information (e.g., vaccination status information) when completing a job application. This information will be collected by us on behalf of the Advertiser.

We will only collect Sensitive Information where:

a. you consent to us collecting and processing your Sensitive Information by voluntarily including such information within documents and other information provided by you to an Advertiser as part of a job application process or where you voluntarily include such information within your Profile;

b. you have provided your explicit consent to SEEK Pass (our third party verification provider) to share your Sensitive Information with us; or

c. there is another legal basis permitting us to collect such information.

We collect your Personal Information in a few different ways.

a. Directly from you

We collect your Personal Information directly from you (including but not limited to) when you register and create an account with us, use any of our products and services (including when you communicate with us) or simply visit our Platforms.

b. SEEK Group

We may also receive or collect your Personal Information from another entity within the SEEK Group from time to time in accordance with the privacy policy of those related entities and/or relevant Privacy Laws or other relevant law (as applicable).

c. Indirectly

We may also collect your Personal Information via third parties, for example:

• When you register and sign in to your account with us via Google, Facebook or Apple. ⁠ ⁠When you register or sign in using your Google or Facebook login details or Apple ID, you give Google, Facebook or Apple (as applicable) permission to share your data with us, such as your name and email address. If you already have an account registered with the same email address, your existing account will be linked with the login details of your Linked Accounts. When using your Apple ID, you can choose to hide your email address from us and Apple will instead provide us with a random email address which will be linked to your account. ⁠ ⁠Please be aware that by updating your email address by accessing the ‘Settings’ section in your account, this will not unlink your account from the login details of your linked account. You can unlink your Google login details in your “Linked Accounts” page of your Google Account. You can unlink your Facebook login details in the “Apps and Websites” settings in your Facebook Account. You can unlink your Apple login details using the “Sign in with Apple” or “Apps Using Apple ID” settings of your Apple ID account settings. If you unlink your Linked Account, we will still hold the Personal Information you shared via the Linked Account when you first registered your account.

• When we work with third parties, for example, our Service Providers and Partners (which includes recruitment software providers).

• If you are a Candidate, we may collect additional Personal Information about you via Advertisers if this information is captured in our Platforms during a job application process.

• We may also collect your Personal Information from government, law enforcement and regulatory authorities where necessary and as required. This may include, but is not limited to, police, immigration, customs, and border security agencies.

d. From your online activities

We use Cookies to collect your Usage and Device Data when you use the platforms of any entity within the SEEK Group (Related Platforms) and when you interact with our advertisements on third party websites. For more information on Cookies and Usage and Device Data, see section 11 below.

We collect Personal Information from you which we have a legal basis to collect and is necessary for the purposes set out below:

a) To provide Users with products and services

b) Marketing and communication purposes

c) As part of SEEK Group’s business operations

d) To meet our regulatory, compliance and legal obligations

It is important for us to Process your Personal Information in order to provide our products and services to you. If you do not want your information to be Processed for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, you may need to cease using our Platforms, products or services or engaging with us.

You can choose not to share your Personal Information with us. However, if you choose not to provide us with the necessary Personal Information, we may not be able to provide you with some or all of our products or services.

We also require your Personal Information to meet our legal obligations. Where the legal basis for the Processing of your Personal Information is to comply with our legal obligations, a failure by you to provide us with certain Personal Information may cause us and/or you to be in breach of these legal obligations.

We may share your Personal Information in several different ways.

a) SEEK Group

We may share your Personal Information with any entity or business in the SEEK Group for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

b) Advertisers

If you are a Candidate, you agree that we may share your Personal Information with Advertisers when you apply to a job advertisement on our Platforms.

By applying to a job advertisement, you agree that we may share the information in your Profile and in your application with the relevant Advertiser and that your information may be stored in:

• our Advertiser Centre on behalf of the Advertiser;

• the Advertiser’s careers platform; or

• the Advertiser’s chosen recruitment software.

We do not take responsibility for, and cannot ensure the security of, your Personal Information stored by the Advertiser outside of our Platforms.

Any questions you have relating to a job advertised with us, your job applications and/or the status of your job applications should be directed directly to the Advertiser.

Depending on your Profile visibility settings, we may also share your Profile with Advertisers via our Talent Search database product, which enables Advertisers to view a Candidate’s Profile (and any Personal Information included within that Profile) when searching for Candidates. Please see section 13 for more information on your Profile visibility settings and when and where your information may be accessible by an Advertiser.

To apply for some job advertisements, parts of your Profile will be shared with the Advertiser. When this is required, notwithstanding the Profile visibility settings chosen by you when creating your Profile (whether it be Standard, Limited or Hidden as described in section 13), both your job application and parts of your Profile (which can include your General Data, Contact Data, Background Data, Third Party Data and Location Data) will be shared with the Advertiser.

Some Advertisers may also require you to answer a list of questions selected by that Advertiser as part of your job application. By answering the Advertiser’s questions, you acknowledge that we will provide your answers to that Advertiser and may use your answers to populate your Profile and enable Advertisers to surface that information in your Profile when using Talent Search.

We will notify you when your Profile will form part of your application. We will also specify which parts of your Profile will be sent to the Advertiser with your application.

Please note that if you choose to share your Profile, your resume or any other application information with Advertisers, these Advertisers may intentionally or unintentionally share this information with other parties (including where you apply to a job advertisement listed by a recruiter who then shares your information with the underlying employer for the advertised job). The use or sharing of your information (personal or otherwise) by these Advertisers, and storage of your information in Advertisers’ systems external to our Platforms, is not within our control and we cannot accept responsibility for their conduct or the security of their systems. Advertisers are required by us to comply with all applicable laws, including relevant obligations relating to the use and disclosure of Personal Information that are outlined in the applicable Privacy Laws and any other relevant laws, including those governing health information.

Candidates should contact Advertisers directly to request access to, or the deletion of, any Personal Information that they have provided as part of a job application or that has been provided to Advertisers through Talent Search.

c) Third parties

Service Providers and Partners

We may share your Personal Information with third parties, such as our Service Providers, contractors and Partners from time to time but only for the purposes of:

• assisting us to deliver the products and services we offer to you;

• enabling you to access the products or services they offer;

• conducting surveys, trials and customer research; or

• for any other purpose outlined in Section 6 of this Privacy Policy.

Government authorities

We may share your Personal Information with relevant governmental authorities, law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies or competent officers which/who have legal authority to request the disclosure of Personal Information. This includes any obligation to comply with court orders or other legal obligations that we may have.

Mergers, acquisitions or restructures

In the event of any merger, acquisition or restructure, we may share your Personal Information with the transferee or successor of any entity within the SEEK Group, or any prospective purchaser of any business or asset within the SEEK Group (together with its relevant advisors).

d) Links to third party sites

On some Platforms, we may make available links to other websites or mobile applications which are not owned or controlled by us (Third Party Websites). We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites. Users are strongly recommended to refer to the privacy policies of Third Party Websites before using them.

We may share your Personal Information outside of your Home Location under the following circumstances:

a. with SEEK Limited (the ultimate holding company of the SEEK Group, registered in Australia), the entity responsible for hosting and operating the Platforms and the storing of your Personal Information, on secure servers located in Australia and the United States of America;

b. with a Service Provider, Partner or other third party who provides services to us from an overseas location including Australia, New Zealand, United States of America, Netherlands, Germany, France, Ireland, Singapore and India;

c. where your Personal Information is shared with any entity or business within the SEEK Group for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy;

d. where your Personal Information is shared with Advertisers located outside of your Home Location. Advertisers located overseas may have access to your Personal Information via a job application and/or via access to your Profile through Talent Search. Advertisers will be able to view your Personal Information when searching for Candidates within your Home Location or preferred locations. Please see section 13 for more information on your Profile visibility settings and when your information will be accessible by an Advertiser; and

e. where we consider it necessary to comply with any legal or regulatory obligations.

We take reasonable steps to ensure the security of our systems and to protect your Personal Information from misuse, interference and loss as well as unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. Any Personal Information which we hold is stored on secure servers and protected in controlled facilities.

We follow accepted industry standards to protect your Personal Information. However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is guaranteed to always be secure. Third parties with whom we share your Personal Information (including Advertisers) are asked by us to comply with all relevant obligations relating to the use and disclosure of Personal Information that are outlined in applicable Privacy Laws and any other relevant laws. Where you are asked by a third party to provide your information directly to them (for example, where you apply for a job via an Advertiser’s career’s platform), the use of your information by these third parties will be governed by their own privacy policies and is not our responsibility or within our control.

You can also play an important role in keeping your Personal Information secure, by maintaining the confidentiality of any password and accounts used on the Platforms. Please notify us immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of, or breach of security relating to, your account.

a. IP Addresses

Our web servers gather your Internet Protocol (IP) address to assist with the diagnosis of problems or support issues with our services, and to monitor the use of our Platforms, including the monitoring of the location of our Users.

b. Cookies and similar technologies

We use Cookies to provide Users with a better browsing experience. These Cookies collect details such as preferences and click activity for measurement and for features such as remembering your details for ‘Auto Login’ (provided you have chosen this option) and remembering your search criteria for the ‘My Last Search’ function. We use this information for a variety of purposes, including to customise and improve your experience of our services (e.g. by remembering your details if you have selected the ‘Auto Login’ option on one of our apps), to improve website performance, to analyse, develop and test our services and new functionalities, to make business decisions, aiding in error reporting, to assist with online payments, and to report to our advertisers and business Partners on results achieved through our services.

This information may be received from or shared with any entity within the SEEK Group and our Service Providers and Partners. This is done for the purpose of providing you with improved products and services.

We also use Cookies and similar technologies (e.g. device IDs) to tailor display advertisements from any entity within the SEEK Group, our Partners and Advertisers that appear on our Platforms, Related Platforms or other third party websites and apps (Advertising Locations) to your interests, actions and behaviour on those Advertising Locations (which may be collected through the use of Cookies on those Advertising Locations), your Profile and/or information provided as a user on the Advertising Locations. Display advertisements may be targeted to Candidates, Advertisers, or other types of visitors to those Advertising Locations.

We also collect and use device IDs to recognize you and your device(s) on, off and across different services and devices where you have engaged with our products and services. To do this, we share your device ID with our Partners and Service Providers. 

Our Partners and Service Providers may place Cookies on some of the pages Users visit on the Platforms. These Cookies are designed to collect non-personal information to analyse Users’ interests and searches on our Platforms to help deliver more relevant display advertisements when Users visit our Platforms and other websites. The non-personal information collected by these Cookies may be shared with other third parties for purpose of managing and targeting display advertisements and for market research analysis.

You can limit the use of your information for purposes of targeted display advertising by updating your browser settings to block Cookies or by updating the display advertising settings in the system settings of your mobile device.

If you do not wish to have Cookies active while you browse our Platforms, you may “opt out” by modifying the privacy options in your browser. However, doing so will prevent access to some areas of the Platforms and limit your use of some of our products and services.

c. Our Apps

In addition to the above, where Users access our mobile applications (Our Apps) we use third party software development kits (SDK’s) and services which collect information relating to your use of Our Apps, including tracking of app installs and re-engagement. This information is used to tailor and measure display advertisements to install and/or use Our Apps which appear on third party sites/apps and are targeted towards Users’ usage preferences.

If you want to opt-out from the collection and usage of information for display advertisement targeting you can do so by disabling tracking permission for the app (Settings > Privacy > Tracking) on your iOS version 14.5+ device, by enabling “Limit Ad Tracking” (Settings > Privacy > Tracking) on your iOS device older than version 14.5 or by enabling the “Opting out of interest-based ads” option (Settings > Privacy > Tracking) on your Android device.

d. Third Party Measurement

To better understand our Users, we utilise third party Service Providers to measure and assess our Platforms’ traffic. A Cookie is used to collect the following information on the usage of our Platforms:

• The number of page views (or page impressions) that occur on the Platforms;

• The number of unique visitors to the Platforms;

• How long these unique visitors (on average) spend on the Platforms when they do visit; and

• Common entry and exit points into the Platforms.

For Unregistered Users of our Platforms, this aggregated information is collated and provided to us to assist in analysing the usage of our Platforms. For Registered Users, this information is connected across different sessions on various devices to our Platforms to provide a more accurate total of the number of users prior to aggregation. This data is also accessible by media organisations and research companies, for the purpose of conducting industry comparisons with other organisations.

We retain your Personal Information for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and retained as set out in this Privacy Policy or until such time as you request us to delete your Personal Information, after which we will take reasonable steps to delete your Personal Information (if required under applicable Privacy Laws).

If you have applied to a job advertisement on our Platforms and therefore provided your Personal Information to Advertisers, you will need to contact those Advertisers directly to request that your information be deleted from the Advertiser’s systems.

We may retain your Personal Information even after you have requested that it be deleted if retention is reasonably necessary for us to comply with our legitimate interests, legal and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes between Users, prevent and remediate any fraud and/or abuse, store in testing or backup systems (for a period of time) or to enforce this Privacy Policy and/or any of our other Terms and Conditions. Where information is held in testing environments, this information is held in closed and secure environments and the information is only used for the purpose of internal software testing. Information held in backup systems is only held for the purposes of restoring systems in the event of a data loss.

a. General

You can make certain requests in relation to Personal Information that we hold about you. Some of these requests only apply in certain circumstances, as set out in more detail below.

• Access: You have the right to ascertain whether we hold Personal Information about you and request access to such Personal Information. For Candidates, you may access your information at any time by logging in to your account and accessing the ‘Settings’ section and your Profile page. For Advertisers, you may access your information at any time by logging in to your account and accessing the ‘Account Details’ section. Alternatively, any User can obtain access to their Personal Information by contacting us.

• Correction/Rectification: You have the right to correct any Personal Information held about you that is inaccurate or incomplete. If you are a Candidate (excluding those who only subscribe to Job Alerts and do not have a Profile), you can change or update your Profile at any time by logging in to your account and accessing the ‘Profile’ section or adjusting your settings within the ‘Settings’ section. For Advertisers, you may access your information at any time by logging in to your account and accessing the ‘Account Details’ section. Alternatively, any User can correct or update their Personal Information by contacting us.

• Deletion: For Candidates, you can request that we delete your Personal Information held by us within your account by logging in to your account and accessing the ‘Settings’ section or by electing to delete Personal Information accessible on your Profile page. Alternatively, any User can contact us to request that we limit the Processing of or delete their Personal Information, or to withdraw their consent to our Processing of their Personal Information.

When contacting us directly and making a request under this section, we may ask you to provide information to verify your identity before proceeding with the request. Depending on the circumstances and requirements under applicable Privacy Laws, we may not be able to fulfill a particular request from you. We will engage with you where we are unable to fulfill a particular request.

You can also contact us to request access to any additional Personal Information rights that may be available to you under applicable Privacy Laws. We will respond to your request as soon as reasonably practicable, and in accordance with applicable Privacy Laws.

You are responsible for providing accurate, complete, and up-to-date information to us about yourself and any other person whose Personal Information you provide to us and for updating this Personal Information as and when it becomes inaccurate or out-of-date. For Candidates, we reserve the right to disable and/or delete your Profile or certain information included within your Profile (including a stored resume or cover letter) at our sole discretion. We may take such steps if for example, information is found or believed to be untrue or being stored for improper purposes.

b. Opt Out/Unsubscribe

You may opt-out of communications from us, as set out in more detail below.

• for job application updates and notifications on new job opportunities, you can update your preferences within the ‘Settings’ area of the Platforms (not available to Advertisers);

• for receiving marketing and promotional messages from us, you can click ‘unsubscribe’ in the footer of any marketing or promotional email which will link you to a ‘Preference Centre’ where you can update your notification preferences, or by replying ‘stop’ to an SMS that you receive from us; or ⁠ ⁠Please note that clicking ‘unsubscribe’ in the footer of an email will only unsubscribe you from the particular type of marketing or promotional message you have received (e.g. messages about Career Advice) and in order to opt out of receiving all marketing or promotional messages from us you will need to update your notification preferences within our ‘Preference Centre’. Opting out of emails will not opt you out of receiving SMS and vice versa. Opting out of marketing or promotional messages sent from SEEK will not opt you out of receiving marketing messages from other businesses within the SEEK Group. 

  you can contact us via the contact details outlined in section 15.

For more information on how to unsubscribe from our emails and notifications including Job Alerts subscriptions, please refer to this Help centre article.

We will comply with any unsubscribe request as soon as reasonably practicable, and in accordance with applicable Privacy Laws.

c. Candidate Profile

• Visibility Settings

Upon registration, all Candidates are asked to create a personal Profile by providing certain personal information and selecting one of the visibility settings - ‘standard’, ‘limited’ or ‘hidden’ - as described below. Candidates without Profiles will also be required to create a Profile when they first apply for a job on our Platforms.

A Profile may include a resume, employment and educational history, contact details, salary expectations, preferred job classifications, licences, certificates, skills, languages, a personal summary, locations and your Approachability Signal.

In the “About your next role” section of your Profile page:

A. You can turn your Approachability Signal on or off. You can only turn on your Approachability Signal when your Profile visibility setting is set to ‘standard’ or ‘limited’ (see below for more details); and

B. You can select the preferred locations for your next job. If you apply to a job advertisement where the job location is not listed in your preferred locations, the new location will automatically be added to your list of preferred locations.

Advertisers can use Talent Search to search for Candidate Profiles and contact relevant Candidates. These Advertisers may be located outside of your Home Location. However, a Candidate will only be visible to Advertisers when they are searching for Candidates in locations listed by that Candidate as a preferred location (including Home Location) and any location which the Candidate has inserted in a resume and stored on their Profile page.

Advertisers may use Talent Search to search for and contact potential Candidates, and Candidates can decide how much of their Profile they wish to share with Advertisers by selecting one of visibility settings set out in the table below. Notwithstanding the visibility settings chosen by you when creating your Profile, by applying to a job advertisement, both your job application and parts of your Profile will be shared with the relevant Advertiser. Candidates can amend their Profile prior to applying (see section 8(b) of this Privacy Policy).

Candidates can modify their Profile visibility settings at any time, by logging in to their account and accessing the ‘Profile visibility’ section under the Profile page.

To delete your Profile, you will need to delete your entire account with us as per section 13 of this Privacy Policy.

• Sharing your Profile

You can share a summary version of your Profile via a shareable link (Shared Profile). Once logged into your Profile, Candidates can elect to share their Shared Profile by generating a shareable link, then copying and sharing that shareable link to their Profile.

Your Shared Profile will include your name, personal summary, career history, education, skills and languages, licences and certifications (and any credentials verified with SEEK Pass).

In sharing a link to your Shared Profile, you acknowledge that anyone with the link to your Shared Profile:

A. will be able to see the information from your Profile listed above; and

B. will be able to reshare and reuse that link.

You may turn OFF the ability for people to access your Shared Profile in the Profile visibility settings for your Profile at any time. Whilst sharing your Profile is turned ON, those with the link to your Shared Profile will continue to be able to view and share the information about you as set out above. Anyone with your link can view your Shared Profile. However, your Shared Profile is not otherwise searchable by the public.

When you share your Shared Profile, you will not be sharing your:

A. Contact information, such as email, phone number or live in location.

B. ‘About your next role’ information, such as your availability, right to work and approachability status; your preferred work type, location, classification and salary expectation; and your resume.

Your Shared Profile is a live document. If you make changes to your Profile, those changes will be reflected in your Shared Profile in real time. For more information in relation to your Shared Profile please visit our Help centre article.

We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time. You should review this Privacy Policy periodically so that you are updated on any changes. In some circumstances, depending on the nature of the changes, you will be notified of the changes to this Privacy Policy prior to them taking effect if required to do so under applicable Privacy Laws.

By continuing to use our Platforms, products or services, you agree to any modifications that are made to this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy or if you wish to contact us regarding our use or handling of your Personal Information, you can do so by contacting us via the below channels. You can also contact us and request a copy of this Privacy Policy in hard copy or in another format that suits your particular needs.

Any privacy complaint received by us will be referred for prompt investigation and a response will be provided to you as soon as possible. If you are still unsatisfied with the resolution of any complaints made, you can seek further redress through your local data protection regulator.

This Privacy Policy may be translated into the local language in the relevant territory. In the event of a conflict between this Privacy Policy in the English language version and the localised version, the English language version shall prevail. The localised version shall be deemed to be automatically amended to conform with and made consistent with the English language version.

If you are a citizen or habitual resident of the applicable jurisdiction described below, the following jurisdiction-specific terms will supplement, and should be read together with, this Privacy Policy. In the event of a conflict between the jurisdiction-specific terms that are relevant to your jurisdiction and the rest of the Privacy Policy, the relevant jurisdiction-specific terms will prevail.

a) European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK)

If you are based in the EEA or the UK, then in addition to what is set out in this Privacy Policy, the following applies to you in accordance with the GDPR or the UK GDPR (as applicable).

You may contact us using any of the methods set out in section 15 above to request that we:

• provide you with a copy of the Personal Information we hold about you in a portable and machine-readable form; or

• share your Personal Information with a nominated third party.

b) Hong Kong

We intend to use the name and contact details of Registered Users for the purpose of direct marketing in relation to the following products and services, and your consent (which includes an indication of no objection) is required for us to do so:

• our products and services including information about our features, job placement and related career information, newsletters, surveys and other event information;

• products and services offered by businesses within the SEEK Group; and

• products and services offered by Advertisers and Partners.

Please refer to section 13 in respect of your options to unsubscribe from direct marketing.

c) Thailand

If you are based in Thailand, then in addition to what is set out in this Privacy Policy, the following applies to you in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019) and any regulations, rules, guidelines, notifications and orders issued by virtue of said legislation, as may be amended from time to time (collectively, referred to as “PDPA”).

Retention Period

We will retain your personal data for as long as is required in order to fulfil the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise required by any applicable law.

Data Subject Rights

Subject to the limitations and conditions of the PDPA, you are entitled to the following rights in respect of your Personal Information.

d) Philippines

For Users based in the Philippines, you can click the following links to view the National Privacy Commissioner's Seal of Registration.

a) SEEK Limited Seal of Registration b) JobStreet.com Philippines. Inc Seal of Registration

If you are based in the Philippines, subject to the limitations and conditions of the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (DPA) and any regulations, rules, guidelines, notifications and orders issued by virtue of the DPA, as may be amended from time to time, you are entitled to the following rights in respect of your Personal Information.

e) New Zealand

Some of the third parties to whom we may disclose your Personal Information (as listed above in Section 8) may be 'foreign persons or entities' for the purposes of New Zealand's Privacy Act 2020 (for example, they may be companies incorporated outside New Zealand).

You authorise us to make those disclosures and acknowledge that those recipients may not be subject to Privacy Laws that provide comparable safeguards to those under the Privacy Act 2020.

f)    Malaysia

Parental Consent

In the event you are agreeing to this Privacy Policy in order for a minor to access and use our Platforms, products or services, you hereby consent to the provision of Personal Information of the minor to be processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy and you personally accept and agree to be bound by the terms in this Privacy Policy. Further, you hereby agree to take responsibility for the actions of such minor, and that minor's compliance with this Privacy Policy.

Right to limit processing of your Personal Information

You may request to limit the processing of your Personal Information by using the contact details provided under the Contact Us section above. However, this may affect our provision of our products and services to you.

g)    Singapore

If you are based in Singapore, then all references to Privacy Laws in this Privacy Policy should be construed as including a reference to Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA 2012) and any of its related subsidiary legislation, regulations, rules, advisory guidelines, notifications and/or orders as may be amended from time to time.

Reliance on Deemed Consent and/or Various Exceptions under PDPA 2012

All references to consent in this Privacy Policy shall also include a reference to deemed consent by you to the collection, use and/or disclosure of your Personal Information by us when you register and create an account with us, use our products and services, visit our Platforms or simply engage with us over the phone, via email, in person or by any other means. Subject to PDPA 2012, we shall be entitled to rely on such deemed consent by you for the collection, use and/or disclosure of your Personal Information for the purposes stated in the sections above.

Apart from deemed consent, we may also rely on other exceptions to the requirement of consent under PDPA 2012 where appropriate, including but not limited to situations where:

a)   The use of the Personal Information (which includes sharing of such Personal Information between entities within the SEEK Group) is in relation to (i) improving, enhancing or developing our new goods or services; (ii) improving, enhancing or developing our new methods or processes for business operations in relation to our goods and services; (iii) learning or understanding behaviour and preferences of our customers (including groups of customers segmented by profile); and/or (iv) identifying goods or services that may be suitable for customers (including groups of customers segmented by profile) or personalising or customising any such goods or services for customers (the Business Improvement Exception);

b)   Where the collection, use and/or disclosure of Personal Information is in relation to data obtained from or disclosed by a public agency and is consistent with the purpose of the disclosure by the public agency (Public Agency Exception); and/or

c)    Where the use and/or disclosure of Personal Information is for the purposes of research, including but not limited to market research, provided that (i) the research purpose cannot be reasonably accomplished unless the Personal Information is provided in an individually identifiable form; (ii) there is a clear public benefit to using the Personal Information for the research purpose; (iii) the results of the research will not be used to make any decision that affects you; and (iv) in the event the results of the research are published, we will publish the results in a form that does not identify you. An additional condition applies to the disclosure of Personal Information, where it must be impractical for us to seek your consent for disclosure (the Research Exception).

For the avoidance of doubt therefore, we may also rely on the Business Improvement Exception; the Public Agency Exception and/or the Research Exception (where appropriate, and subject to the PDPA 2012) in addition to all the legal bases set out in section 6 above, in respect of the processing of your Personal Information for the specified purposes stated in that section.

Collection, Use and/or Disclosure of NRIC numbers (or copies of NRIC)

As set out in section 4 above, we will only collect, use and/or disclose Sensitive Information with your explicit consent or if there is another legal basis permitting us to do so.

Where such Sensitive Information pertains to your National Registration Identification Card (“NRIC”) number (or its equivalent, e.g. passport numbers, Foreign Identification Numbers, Work Permit numbers, Birth Certificate numbers etc.), we will only collect, use and/or disclose such NRIC numbers if (a) this is required under law (or an exception under PDPA 2012 applies); or (b) if such collection, use and/or disclosure is necessary to accurately establish or verify your identify to a high degree of fidelity.

We will generally not retain your physical NRIC unless this is required by law, and will also assess the suitability of using alternatives to NRIC numbers where suitable (e.g. using only partial NRIC numbers), taking into account our business needs and provision of goods and services to you.

Right to Withdraw Consent

Subject to PDPA 2012, and in addition to all the rights as set out in section 13 above, you are also entitled to the following right in respect of your Personal Information.

Transfer of Personal Information outside of Singapore

Further to section 9, where your Personal Information is transferred out of Singapore, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that your Personal Information continues to receive a standard of protection that is at least comparable to that provided under PDPA 2012. 

By registering and creating an account with us, using our products and services, visiting our Platforms or simply engaging with us over the phone, via email, in person or by any other means, you accept and agree that your Personal Information may be transferred (in or outside Singapore) to third parties including those set out in sections 8 and 9 above, to be used for the purposes stated in those sections. We will implement reasonable security arrangements which may include administrative, physical, and technical measures, such as ensuring that only the appropriate amount of personal data is held, restricting access to confidential documents on a need-to-know basis, implementing access limitation and encryption protocols to prevent unauthorised access, compartmentalisation of data, transferring Personal Information only on secure computer networks, and/or other relevant measures to protect your Personal Information.