Niaar Privacy Notice
Consistent with our core value of Care for People, Niaar (“we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your Personal Data. We conduct our business in compliance with applicable data privacy laws and regulations and adhere to the highest ethical standards. Protecting individuals and their Personal Data is a top priority.
This Privacy Notice applies to Niaar, its website Niaar.net, and any other external websites that link to this Notice. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your Personal Data and your rights regarding this information.
What is Personal Data?
“Personal Data” means any information related to an identified or identifiable individual. This can include identifiers such as a name, identification number, location data, online identifier, or factors specific to physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity.
What This Notice Covers:
- What Personal Data We Collect
- How We Use Your Personal Data and the Legal Basis for Processing
- Your Rights Over Your Personal Data
- How We Share Your Personal Data and With Whom
- How We Protect Your Personal Data
- How Long We Store Your Personal Data
- International Data Transfers
What Personal Data Do We Collect?
We collect Personal Data from various sources, including directly from you when you interact with us on our Sites. The categories of Personal Data we may collect include:
- Contact Information: Name, postal address, telephone number, and email address.
- Job Applicant Information: Résumé, name, address, contact details, photos/videos, work and education history, identity documents, and test results (as applicable). Further details are outlined in our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
- Content Provided by Users: Any other personal information you voluntarily submit.
- Automatically Collected Data: Information gathered through cookies, web server logs, and similar technologies (e.g., device type, operating system, IP address, browser type, and usage patterns).
How We Use Your Personal Data and Legal Basis for Processing
We use your Personal Data for the following purposes and the corresponding legal basis for processing:
- Legitimate Interests: For employment purposes, recruitment, service personalization, responding to inquiries, improving our Sites, ensuring IT security, and conducting internal business operations.
- Contract Performance: To fulfil contracts with you or your organization.
- Legal Obligations: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and requests from legal authorities.
- Consent: Where required by law, we may request your explicit consent for specific processing activities. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us or using the Data Subject Access Rights Form available on our Sites.
Your Rights Over Your Personal Data
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the following rights:
- Access: To know how we process your Personal Data and obtain a copy of the data.
- Correction: To request updates or corrections to inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Deletion: To request erasure of data no longer needed for its original purpose, subject to legal requirements.
- Restriction: To restrict our processing under certain circumstances.
- Objection: To object to processing based on legitimate interests.
- Portability: To receive your data in a usable format and transmit it to another entity.
- Withdrawal of Consent: To revoke previously granted consent for processing activities.
To exercise these rights, please complete the Data Subject Access Rights Form available on the Notice landing page of our Sites.
How We Share Your Personal Data and With Whom
We may share your Personal Data under the following circumstances:
- Service Providers and Business Partners: To process secure payments, optimize services, analyse data, and send communications.
- Niaar Group Companies: For marketing, reporting, and business operations.
- Legal Authorities: To comply with legal obligations or protect rights.
- Asset Transfers: In the event of a merger, sale, or transfer of assets, your data may be shared with the acquiring entity.
Some recipients may be located outside your jurisdiction. See Section 7 for details on international data transfers.
How We Protect Your Personal Data
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. These measures are reviewed and updated regularly to ensure the ongoing security of our processing activities.
How Long We Store Your Personal Data
We retain your Personal Data as required by applicable laws and in accordance with our data retention policies. The retention period depends on the purpose of processing and any legal obligations.
International Data Transfers
Your Personal Data may be transferred to countries outside your jurisdiction, including those with different data protection standards. We ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as contractual commitments, to protect your data in compliance with applicable laws.
International Data Transfers
We may update this Privacy Notice periodically to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. Significant changes will be communicated to you through appropriate channels. You can request a copy of the latest Privacy Notice by contacting us.