Privacy Policy

Welcome to Employment Echo. We respect your privacy and are committed to handling personal information responsibly, securely, and transparently.

This Privacy Policy applies when you visit www.employmentecho.co.za, create an account, use our CV builder, subscribe to alerts, browse opportunities, or interact with Employment Echo features.

Depending on how you use Employment Echo, we may collect:

• Account information: such as your name, email address, login details, and profile preferences.
• Job alert information: such as categories, locations, opportunity types, and alert preferences.
• CV builder information: information you choose to add when creating or editing a CV.
• Application tracking information: such as saved jobs or application statuses, if you use those features.
• Technical and usage information: such as device information, browser type, pages visited, search terms, referral URLs, and analytics data.
• Communication information: such as messages or requests you send to us.

We may use personal information to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve Employment Echo services.
• Display opportunity listings and help users find relevant opportunities.
• Send job alerts, updates, or important service messages where you have subscribed or requested them.
• Operate account, dashboard, CV builder, saved jobs, and application tracking features.
• Measure website performance, understand usage patterns, and improve user experience.
• Protect the website from misuse, spam, fraud, or security risks.
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms or policies.

Employment Echo may use cookies and similar technologies to keep the website working, understand how visitors use the site, and support advertising.

• Essential cookies: used for basic website functionality, security, login sessions, and preferences.
• Analytics cookies: used to understand traffic, performance, and user behaviour on the website.
• Advertising cookies: used by advertising partners, including Google AdSense, to show ads, measure ad performance, and where applicable, personalize ads.

You can manage or block cookies through your browser settings. Some features may not work correctly if essential cookies are disabled. You can learn more about Google’s advertising cookie practices from Google’s advertising policies.

We do not sell personal information. We may share information only where reasonably necessary, including with:

• Service providers that help us operate hosting, authentication, analytics, email, security, payments, or support tools.
• Advertising and analytics partners where cookies or similar technologies are used.
• Employers, recruiters, or application platforms when you choose to apply through an external link or submit information directly to them.
• Legal authorities, regulators, or other parties where required by law or necessary to protect rights, safety, or security.

Employment Echo links to employer websites, application platforms, WhatsApp channels, social platforms, and other third-party services. Once you leave Employment Echo, the privacy practices of those third-party websites apply.

You should review the privacy policy and terms of any external website before submitting personal information or applying for an opportunity.

We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. However, no website, online service, or transmission method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.

Account, CV, alert, and application tracking information may be kept while your account or related feature remains active, unless you request deletion where applicable.

Under South Africa’s privacy framework, individuals may have rights relating to access, correction, deletion, objection to processing, and complaints to the Information Regulator. These rights may depend on the context and the applicable law.

• Request access to personal information we hold about you.
• Ask us to correct inaccurate or outdated information.
• Ask us to delete information where we are no longer authorized or required to keep it.
• Opt out of marketing messages where applicable.
• Object to certain processing where the law allows.

Employment Echo is intended for users who are old enough to search for opportunities, create CVs, or use career resources responsibly. If a parent or guardian believes that a child has provided personal information without appropriate permission, they may contact us to request assistance.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we may update the effective date or publish a notice on the website.

If you have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, contact Employment Echo: