Privacy Policies

Job Applicant Personal Data Protection Policy

This is the policy of AsiaTeachers for handling personal data collected from or about job applicants.

In this policy, the terms “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the AsiaTeachers entity which is collecting personal data from you or about you.

What personal data we collect

Personal data is data that can be used to identify a natural person. We collect personal data about you and other persons, such as your family members. Examples of personal data include your name, nationality, date of birth, sex, contact details (address, email address, telephone numbers), NRIC, FIN or passport number, photograph, marital status, current occupation, health or medical records, character references and testimonials and in photographs.

If you provide the personal data of anyone else (such as your family members), it means that you have obtained his/her consent to our collection, use and disclosure of his/her personal data for the purposes set out in this policy or that you validly give us such consent on their behalf.

Our purposes for collection, use and disclosure of personal data

The personal data that we collect from you or about you is or may be used for the following purposes:

  • assessing and processing your job application;
  • contacting you in respect of your job application;
  • validating all references provided and conduct screening and background checks;
  • assessing you for other job openings in the AsiaTeachers;
  • complying with our internal policies, procedures and directives;
  • reviewing and improving our recruitment policies and processes;
  • if applicable, applying for an employment pass or work permit; and/or
  • any other purposes relating to or arising out of the above.

We may disclose the personal data collected from you or about you to third parties, whether located in Singapore or elsewhere, in order to achieve the purposes stated in this policy. Such third parties include:

  • our service providers, contractors and agents, including those which provide administrative, data processing, computer or other services to us;
  • third parties that introduced or referred you to us or that you submit your job application to, including employment agencies, referral agencies, business introducers, online job portals or similar service providers;
  • regulatory authorities, any statutory bodies or public agencies for the purposes of complying with their respective requirements, policies and directives or to seek information about you; and/or
  • medical clinics that conduct pre-employment medical examinations on you.

In addition to the data you provide, we may obtain from third parties (including referees) further data relating to you which is relevant to your potential employment with us. In doing so, we may disclose your personal data to such third parties.

We may take photographs and make videos and/or sound recordings in and around our premises from time to time. You may be captured in such photographs and recordings. We may use such photographs and/or recordings in our publications, websites and other communication channels, as well as in third party media, or display them in and around our premises and/or the premises of the AsiaTeachers.

CCTV may be in operation in and around our premises as necessary in the interests of security.

We may also collect, use and disclose personal data where required or permitted by law for any purpose.

In summary, this means:

  • the collection, use and/or disclosure of your personal data would be for the purpose(s) for which you have given consent;
  • steps would be taken to ensure accuracy and completeness of your personal data when your personal data is used or disclosed to third parties;
  • security arrangements would be made to protect your personal data; • your personal data would be retained only if necessary for legal and business purposes; and/or
  • anyone who receives your personal data from us is either in a jurisdiction which has comparable data protection laws or is otherwise bound to protect your personal data.

Retention of personal data

We will retain personal data for a reasonable period in accordance with our legal and business purposes. Personal data obtained from unsuccessful job applicants will usually be destroyed within one (1) year of not being placed or matched successfully.

Use of Cookies

When you interact with us on our websites, we automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser. We may employ cookies in order for our server to recognise a return visitor as a unique user including, without limitation, monitoring information relating to how a visitor arrives at the website, what kind of browser a visitor is on, what operating system a visitor is using, a visitor’s IP address, and a visitor’s click stream information and time stamp (for example, which pages they have viewed, the time the pages were accessed and the time spent per web page).

Cookies are small text files placed stored in your computing or other electronic devices which allow us to remember you. The cookies placed by our server are readable only by us, and cookies cannot access, read or modify any other data on an electronic device. All web browsers offer the option to refuse any cookie, and if you refuse our cookie then we do not gather any information on that visitor.

Should you wish to disable the cookies associated with these technologies, you may do so by changing the setting on your browser. However, you may not be able to enter certain part(s) of our website.

Third-Party Sites

Our website may contain links to other websites operated by third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of websites operated by third parties that are linked to our website. We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of such third party websites. Some of these third party websites may be co-branded with our logo or trademark, even though they are not operated or maintained by us. Once you have left our website, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third party website to determine how they will handle any information they collect from you.

Amendments and updates

We may amend this policy from time to time and will make available the updated policy on our website at www.asiateachers.com. Each time we collect, use or disclose personal data, the latest version of this policy in force at the time will apply.