Privacy Policy for Hyskilled

This Privacy Policy relates to the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data, including special or sensitive personal data, by Hyskilled (“Hyskilled Inc.,” “we,” or “our”). Personal Data is information relating to an individual (“you” or “your”) as more fully defined herein below. Hyskilled is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that you have a secured experience on our website and while using our products and services (collectively, “Products”).

This policy covers the Hyskilled website and all the subdomains under hyskilled.com. Please read our terms of service.

This policy outlines Hyskilled, its subsidiaries, and affiliated companies’ handling practices and how we collect and use the information you provide in the course of your use or access of our systems through online interfaces (e.g., website, mobile applications, etc.) (collectively “Company Systems”). In this Privacy Policy, “Personal Data” means any information that can be used to individually identify a person and may include, but is not limited to, name, email address, postal or other physical addresses, title, and other personally identifiable information. By using our services or products, it will be deemed that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by this policy detailed hereunder.

We will be the processor of the Personal Data that is provided, collected, and/or processed pursuant to this policy, except where otherwise expressly stated.

Applicability of the Policy

– This policy shall apply to all information we collect through the Company Systems and/or in the course of your use of the services of Hyskilled.
– This policy does not apply to, nor does Hyskilled take any responsibility for, any information that is collected by any third party either using Company Systems or through any links on the Company Systems or through any of the advertisements or through BOTS.

Information We Collect

We will only collect information that you share with us. You can choose what information you want to share with us. We will collect your information only if you choose to share it through the Company Systems. We will collect the following information about you or related to your use of the Company’s Systems:

– Any personal or PII that you may submit or may be required to submit for registration and continued use of the Company Systems or to receive the services by Hyskilled;
– Your name, title, gender, date of birth, email address, telephone number (Home/work/mobile telephonic number), profile/display picture, login name, screen name, nickname, or handle, country/state/postcode or city of residence, postal or other physical address, name(s) of the school/university (including grades and graduation year), name(s) of the workplace, job position/designation (including salary), resume/CV, information related to social profiles, such as Facebook, Google, GitHub, etc., IP addresses, and other information collected passively (as further detailed in the “Passive Collection” section below), may be collected; and
– Any other information you may choose to further provide us, without limitation, any information to update your account and profile, if required, to fill out any forms, provide your feedback to surveys, write any articles on the Company Systems, or to use any features of Company Systems.

We collect and/or process your Personal Data as a part of the following activities related to our Products:

– Account registration, use of certain Product features, creating or taking tests, generating reports based on information collected from use of our Products.
– Requesting service and support for our Products and providing such support, registering for an event, participating in an online survey, participating in discussion groups or forums.
– Registering for newsletter subscriptions, customizing the content you see as per relevance.

Please do not include any personal information, personally identifiable information, or sensitive personal information unless specifically requested by Hyskilled as part of the registration or other applicable processes. If Hyskilled determines that any information you have provided or uploaded violates the terms of this policy, Hyskilled shall have the right, in its absolute discretion, to delete such information without incurring any liability.

We may also periodically use your information received from your affiliated entities, business partners, and other third-party sources and combine it with your account information. For example, if you access or log into our Company Systems via a third-party source like Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, we may receive your registration information, updated information, and combine that with information we collect through our Company Systems or add it to your account information on our Company Systems.

If You are governed by the United States laws, to the extent permitted by applicable laws, we may obtain reports from public records of credit history checks, criminal database checks, including the National Criminal Database and county courts in each state, national government-restricted lists, sex offender registrations. If you are outside of the United States, to the extent permitted by applicable laws, Hyskilled may obtain reports of the respective criminal background or registered sex offender checks. To obtain such reports as stated herein, we may use your information, like your full name and date of birth.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is designed to give EU citizens more control over their data. It aims to use an all-encompassing privacy and security law to safeguard Personal Data. Irrespective of their location, GDPR applies to all the relevant controllers or processors who deal with the Personal Data of EU citizens.

For more information, please refer to GDPR.

Processing your Personal Data

We will use your Personal Data only in accordance with this policy. To enable us to fulfill the contract between us for the services you have requested, we need to process your Personal Data for purposes including the following:

– Account registration.
– Use of our website.
– Creating or taking online tests.
– Generating reports based on information collected from use of our Products.
– Requesting service and support for our Products and providing such support.
– Registering for hackathons.
– Participating in discussion groups or forums.
– Customizing the content you see as per relevance.
– Referring your profile to relevant job opportunities.

We process Personal Data for purposes such as:

– Providing reports based on information collected from the use of our Products.
– Keeping you up-to-date about the latest Product announcements, software updates, software upgrades, system enhancements, special offers, and other information.
– Providing support and assistance for our Products.
– Providing the ability to create a personal profile.
– Providing the ability to contact you if required.
– Providing customer feedback and support.
– Providing and administering opt-in events or other marketing or promotional activities on Hyskilled.
– Being able to conduct questionnaires and surveys to provide you with better products and services.
– Supporting recruitment inquiries.
– Personalizing marketing communication and website content based on your preferences, such as in response to your request for specific information on products and services that may be of interest to you.
– Meeting contract or legal obligations.

We may allow employers to view your anonymized profile and contact you for a relevant job opportunity. We provide them with a channel to contact you for a relevant job opportunity. We share your PII with employers only with your explicit consent or when you reply back to the conversation channel. If you wish to opt-out of this feature, please send us an email at support@hyskilled.com.

We may also process your personal data where it is in our legitimate interests to seek professional advice, including, in connection with any legal proceedings (including any prospective legal proceedings), for obtaining legal advice or for establishing, exercising, or defending legal rights.

Consent

How do we use your information?

Hyskilled will use your Personal Data only in accordance with this policy. If you do not wish us to continue using your Personal Data in this manner, you can request the deactivation of your account from account settings.

We will only process your Personal Data if we have a lawful basis for doing so, which includes but is not limited to the following:

– Consent, contractual necessity (i.e., processing that is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, such as your user agreement with us that allows us to provide you with the Products), and our legitimate interests or the legitimate interest of others (e.g., our users) such as:
– Providing you with the websites and services, together with any support you may request.
– Responding to your inquiries or fulfilling your requests.
– Diagnosing Website and Service technical problems.
– Sending you information that we believe may be of interest to you, such as Service announcements, newsletters, educational materials, and event information.
– Sending you administrative information such as notices related to the Services or policy changes.
– Understanding how the Websites and Services are being used to enhance and optimize them.
– Preventing, detecting, mitigating, and investigating fraudulent or illegal activity.
– Complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes with users, enforcing our agreements.
– Protecting, investigating, and deterring against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, or illegal activity.

Your Rights

Rights: You have certain rights with respect to your Personal Data as mentioned below.

– Access: You can request more information about the Personal Data we hold about you. You can also request a copy of the Personal Data.
– Correction: If you believe that any Personal Data we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can request that we correct or supplement such data. You can also correct some of this information directly through your user profile or profile/account settings after logging into Hyskilled. Please contact us as soon as possible upon noticing any inaccuracies or incompleteness.
– Objection: You can contact us to let us know that you object to the collection or use of your Personal Data for certain purposes.
– Erasure: You can request that we delete some or all of your Personal Data from our systems. While this will