Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy page also includes our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of the Personal Data we receive from users and customers of BestofCV, in accordance with the laws of the Netherlands and the European Union (GDPR) regarding the data protection. By using our website, “www.bestofcv.com” (referred to as BestofCV, Website, etc.), you agree to our policies and the collection and use of information in agreement with this policy. If you disagree with the Privacy Police, please do not use BestofCV.

1.Which personal data is used in BestofCV?

When you sign up/register as a user, you provide us with your basic information and when you want your profile to be reviewed, you also provide us your resume, cover letter and/or online portfolio or data that might help BestofCV to provide you assistance in your job seeking & career development. Furthermore, if you wish to use one of the services of BestofCV, we might also ask for payment details including your address and VAT number.

The mandatory personal data to create an account includes your first and last name, e-mail address, and password. You are required to provide data which is necessary to create a personal account and use BestofCV. Your refusal to provide this data determines that you cannot use BestofCV.

We recommend that you keep your account data updated at all times.

We also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit BestofCV. This Data may include information such as your IP address, your location, browser type, browser version, and the pages of BestofCV that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics (hereinafter Personal Data).

2.How BestofCV use your Personal Data?

• Services: Our Services are designed to make it simple and easy for you to acquire Services. To make that possible, we store, use and transmit your data to internal staff and third-party service providers to enable us to register new customers, process payments and deliver our Services.
• Usage: We also use your data, especially usage data, technical data, and data on how you use our Services, including the actions you take in your account (such as site visits, page interaction information, and search history), to evaluate and improve our Services.
• Cookies and other Technologies: We use technologies like cookies to provide, improve, protect, and promote our Services. For example, cookies help us with things like remembering your username for your next visit, understanding how you interact with our Services, and improving your experience based on that information.
• Marketing: We also use your data to provide you with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (i.e. e-mail) with information about goods and services which are similar to those that have been promoted to you in the past. We will contact you by electronic means only if you have provided your consent for such communication. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, select the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any e-mail communication from us.

3.How long does BestofCV keep your data?

The data and information that identify you as an individual will be kept on our servers as long as they are needed, but no longer than 10 years since the last usage of BestofCV. You always have the right to contact us via info@bestofcv.com mail address to have your Personal Data erased from our database.

4.Does BestofCV share my data?

We may share information as described below:

• BestofCV uses trusted third parties (i.e. IT services, analytics services, etc.) to help us provide, improve, protect, and promote our Services. These third parties will access your information only to perform tasks on our behalf in compliance with this privacy policy. Information may be shared with public authorities where we are required to do so by law.
• We do not disclose personal information to third parties for purposes that are materially different than what it was originally collected for. Should this change in the future, we will provide individuals with the option to opt-out.
• In line with our Services also defined in “Terms of Use” page, we share your CV and Cover Letter with “Recruitment Agencies” and “Recruiters” to help you out with your career search and development. In this circumstance, their own “Privacy Policies” apply for processing your “Personal Data”. On the other hand, we will only share your Personal Data with EU Recruitment Agencies and GDPR applies them as well.

5.How does BestofCV protect my data?

Protection of your data is important to us. We have a software developer always testing BestofCV for vulnerabilities. Your Personal Data is only stored in BestofCV computers when we are working on it. All BestofCV computers are protected with professionals software to avoid any kind of intruding. After we complete our works, all your Personal Data is stored in an offline server where nobody can reach your Personal Data.

We have implemented measures and procedures that adequately protect the privacy of individuals and ensure that data protection is integral to all processing activities.

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

6.What are your rights regarding your Personal Data?

If you are a user of BestofCV, you have the right to access, correct, restrict, or erase your personal information stored on our platform at any time. You can also exercise any of these rights at any time by contacting us at info@bestofcv.com. Your rights include the following:

• Accessing your data: Upon request, we shall provide any information relating to your data and our processing of your data in a concise, transparent, intelligible, and easily accessible form using clear and plain language. The information shall be provided in writing or by other means, including, where appropriate, by electronic means within 30 days of a written request.
• Correcting your data: You have the right to ask us to rectify any inaccurate or incomplete personal data on our platform. If we have given your personal data to any third parties, we will notify those third parties that the Company has received a request to rectify your personal data, unless doing so proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. Those third parties should also rectify the personal data they hold - however, we are not in a position to audit those third parties to ensure that the rectification has occurred.
• Erasing your data: You have the right to ask us to erase personal data on our platform. If we have given your personal data to any third parties, we will notify those third parties that the Company has received a request to erase your personal data, unless doing so proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. Those third parties should also delete the personal data they hold - however, we are not in a position to audit those third parties to ensure that the deletion has occurred.

If we have given your personal data to any third parties, we will tell those third parties that the Company has received a request to erase your personal data, unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. Those third parties should also rectify the personal data they hold - however, the Company will not be in a position to audit those third parties to ensure that the rectification has occurred.

• Restricting the use of your data: We only process your personal data where we have the legal basis for doing so. You have the right to ask us to suspend or otherwise restrict the processing of your personal data where:

You challenge the accuracy of the personal data;

• The processing is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it;
• We no longer need the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but you want us to hold it as you need it to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; or
• You have objected to our use of your data, but we need to verify whether we have legitimate grounds to use it.

If we have given the personal data to any third parties, we will tell those third parties that we have received a request to restrict the use of your personal data, unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. Those third parties should also rectify the personal data they hold - however, we will not be in a position to audit those third parties to ensure that the rectification has occurred.

• Withdrawing your consent: Where we are relying on consent to process your personal data (for example consent to receive marketing) you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

7.Cookies, Pixels, Conversion Tracking

BestofCV uses “Cookies” to collect information. 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 BestofCV.

Within BestofCV, cookies are used to facilitate features and functions which improve your browsing experience. They are also used to measure the performance of the website and how visitors navigate their way around. BestofCV uses them to save your log-in information so that it will make your access to the website faster and easier.

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user's device. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences and improving the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests, job seeking process & professional development.

To improve BestofCV services, better understand your needs, preferences and provide you the best experience using BestofCV, we may use third-party cookies and pixels which allows us to:

• Create better content that you will enjoy and will improve your job searching process & career.
• Deliver you exclusive discounts, promotions and seasonal offers that will save you time and money.
• Conduct testings for simplifying our services and creating the best features which will skyrocket your career.
• Show you tailored content for your region and unique examples, tips, and tutorials following the local recruiting trends.
• Measuring our services performance in order to improve & deliver the best experience.

If you have decided not to provide your consent to the use of cookies that require it, or if you have revoked that consent, then you will only be provided with website features whose use does not require such cookies. Areas of the website that can potentially incorporate content from third parties, and which therefore place third-party cookies, will not be available to you if that is the case. If you do not want to accept cookies at all, then you can also configure that in your browser.

Disabling/enabling cookie

You can accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you will not be able to use all the interactive features of BestofCV if cookies are disabled. Most recent web browsers allow control over the cookies saved through the browser settings.

8.Change of Privacy Policy

Occasionally BestofCV might make changes to the Privacy Policy. When such changes are made, BestofCV will make sure to provide you with prominent notice as appropriate under the circumstances, e.g., by displaying a prominent notice within BestofCV or by sending you an email. In some cases, we will notify you in advance. Please, therefore, make sure you read any such notice carefully.

9.Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, you can contact us any time via info@bestofcv.com email address.

If you feel, know, or see that we are missing something in our Privacy Policy, please feel free to notify us via same email address.