Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to Xscope Consulting Ltd and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Xscope Consulting Ltd include www.xscopeconsulting.com. The Xscope Consulting Ltd application is a recruiting application. By using the Xscope Consulting Ltd application, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

1. Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered, Xscope Consulting Ltd may collect personally identifiable information.

With respect to visitors of the Site, we collect the following categories of information from your browser or directly from you when you visit our Site:

• Internet activity, such as your browsing activity on the Site, your IP address, cookies, installed plug-ins, javascript objects, and geolocation data
• Identifiers if you wish to download certain reports like our salary guides, in which case you will need to provide your first and last name, email
• Professional information if you wish to download certain reports like our salary guides, in which case you will need to provide your job title

With respect to job applicants, Candidates and our employees, we collect the following categories of information from you:

• Identifiers, such as your name and contact information (email, address (mailing and home) and phone number), and any login ID or email address and password created by you
• Professional or employment-related information, such as your job search criteria and preferences, your availability to work, your employment experience, educational history, your skills, reference information, background check information, pay / compensation expectations, ability to work in the United States, languages spoken, and other information contained in your resume
• Emergency contact information consisting of full name and phone number
• Information protected against security breaches such as bank information if you work with us and elect to be paid via direct deposit consisting of bank account numbers and direct deposit information

With respect to Customers, we collect the following categories of Personal Information from you or from our service providers such as job boards:

• Identifiers such as your name, business phone number, and work email
• Professional or employment-related information such as your company name, department, and job title
• Information protected against security breaches such as bank and payment information if we render services to you, depending on how you elect to pay for services rendered

With respect to vendors and independent contractors, we collect the following categories of Personal Information from you or Xscope Consulting’s business contacts who may wish to recommend you:

• Identifiers such as your name, business phone number, and work email
• Professional or employment-related information such as your company name, department, and job title
• Information protected against security breaches such as bank account information, so we can pay you for providing products or services to Robert Half

With respect to marketing recipients and prospective customers, we collect the following categories of Personal Information from you, from our service providers such as job boards, or from information that is publicly available on the internet:

• Identifiers such as your name, business phone number, and work email
• Professional or employment-related information such as your company name, department, and job title

By providing your mobile phone number to us, you opt in and consent to receive text messages from us, which includes but is not limited to text messages sent through an automatic telephone dialing system. Consent to receive marketing text messages is not required as a condition of working with us. If you do not wish to receive marketing text messages, do not provide us with your mobile phone number.

2. Use of your Personal Information

Xscope Consulting Ltd collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested.

Xscope Consulting Ltd may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Xscope Consulting Ltd and its affiliates.

“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an identifiable individual. We may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:

• Through your browser or device: Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your devices, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, date, and Internet browser type and version. We use this information to ensure that the Sites function properly.
• Using pixel tags and other similar technologies: Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used to, among other things, track the actions of Site users and email recipients, market our services to you, measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about Site usage and response rates.
• Analytics: We use third-party analytics providers such as Google Analytics and Inspectlet on the Sites. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about the use of the Services and report on activities and trends. Google Analytics may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and opt-out by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. We have also engaged Inspectlet to analyze the activities of visitors to this Site, and Inspectlet’s authorized use of cookies and other tracking technologies enable it to have access to the Personal Information of visitors to this Site. Such access to and use of Personal Information by Inspectlet is governed by Inspectlet’s privacy policy, available at https://www.inspectlet.com/legal#privacy.
• Site Security: We use the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google to protect the Site and your submissions via internet submission forms on this Site. reCAPTCHA uses the following to evaluate your use of the Site: IP address, your device type and information about your device, cookies placed on your device (such as from Google), language and date information, installed plug-ins, and javascript objects. Your use of reCAPTCHA on the Site is subject to the Google Terms and Privacy Policy.
• IP address: Your “IP Address” is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. An IP Address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user accesses the Sites, along with the time of the visit and the pages visited. We use IP Addresses for purposes such as calculating usage levels, diagnosing server problems, and administering the Sites. We may also derive your approximate location from your IP Address.

  Please note that we may use and disclose Other Information for our business purposes.

• Using Cookies:

  What Are Cookies?

  Cookies are pieces of information stored on the computer or mobile device that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Site, pages visited, registrations, submissions, demographics, information requests, language preferences, and other traffic data. We use the information for security purposes, to recognize your device, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience. We also gather statistical information about the use of the Site to enhance its functionality, understand how it is used and assist us with resolving questions about it. We may also use cookies and other technologies in online advertising campaigns to track responses to our ads. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers allow you to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or accepting a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular site. If, however, you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Site.

  Cookies cannot spread viruses or harm your computer. With respect to how long a cookie stays on your computer or mobile device, some cookies are session cookies that expire once you close your browser while others are persistent cookies that stay on your device until you delete them or they expire.

  Strictly Necessary Cookies

  These cookies are necessary for the Sites to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the Site will not then work. These cookies do not store any Personal Information.

Categories	Cookies (Retention Period)
__cfduid	Cookie associated with sites using Cloudflare used to speed up page load times. According to Cloudflare, it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information.

• Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our Sites. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. The data stored by these cookies never shows personal details from which your individual identity can be established. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. The data stored by these cookies never shows personal details from which your individual identity can be established. Other similar technology we use includes web beacons that are used on some of the Sites’ pages and in emails we send. They allow us to count users who visited these pages. Web beacons collect limited information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides. We may also carry web beacons placed by third-party advertisers. We also use web beacons or similar technology to learn whether or not emails sent to you have been opened. Web beacons are only used to track the effectiveness of a particular marketing campaign. Web beacons do not store any Personal Information.

Categories	Cookies (Retention Period)
utag_main	This cookie name is associated with the Tealium data platform and is used for web analytics.
_vis_opt_test_cookie	This cookie name is associated with the product Visual Website Optimiser, by USA based Wingify. The tool helps site owners measure the performance of different versions of web pages. This cookie tests if the browser is set to allow cookies.
_gid	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017, no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.
_vwo_uuid_v2	This cookie name is associated with the product Visual Website Optimiser, by USA based Wingify. The tool helps site owners measure the performance of different versions of web pages. This cookie ensures a visitor always sees the same version of a page and is used to track behaviour to measure the performance of different page versions.
_ga	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a customer identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default, it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.
_vis_opt_s	This cookie name is associated with the product Visual Website Optimiser, by USA based Wingify. The tool helps site owners measure the performance of different versions of web pages. This cookie distinguishes between new and returning visitors.
_vwo_uuid	This cookie name is associated with the product Visual Website Optimiser, by USA based Wingify. The tool helps site owners measure the performance of different versions of web pages. This cookie ensures a visitor always sees the same version of a page and is used to track behaviour to measure the performance of different page versions.
JSESSIONID	This domain is controlled by New Relic, which provides a platform for monitoring the performance of web and mobile applications.

• Advertising and Social Cookies

These cookies may be set through our Sites by our advertising partners. These cookies collect Personal Information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. Personal Information and data stored by these cookies are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. We also use social media cookies to allow you to share our content on social networking sites through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Disabling these cookies may result in seeing advertising that is not as relevant to you or you not being able to link effectively with Facebook, Twitter, or other social networks and/or not allowing you to share content on social media.

Categories	Cookies (Retention Period)
_fbp	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third party advertisers
lang	This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. This sub-domain is connected with LinkedIn’s marketing services that enable website owners to gain insight into types of users on their site based on LinkedIn profile data, to improve targeting.
MUID	This domain is owned by Mircosoft – it is the site for the search engine Bing.
uid	This domain is owned by Criteo. The main business activity is: Advertising
IDE	This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real-time bidding advertising exchange
ELOQUA	This domain is owned by Oracle for the delivery of online marketing services that were previously branded under the Eloqua name.
fr	This domain is owned by Facebook, which is the world’s largest social networking service. As a third-party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the ‘Like’ button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviourally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies. Contains browser and user unique ID combination, used for targeted advertising. 3 months
igodigitaltc2	This domain is owned by ExactTarget Marketing Cloud, which provides online marketing services.
bcookie	This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third-party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason, it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.
TAPID	This domain is owned by Tealium and is used for its audience streaming service which enables targeting and personalisation of content on a domain.
bscookie	This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third-party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason, it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain.
s	This domain is owned by Yahoo. The main business activity is: Search / Advertising

• Retargeting

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads regarding our services when you access and use other websites, based on information relating to your use of the Sites. To do so, these companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser (including through the use of pixel tags). By utilizing the Sites, you consent to the use of a cookie or other tracking technologies to serve you retargeted advertising. Data collected may be shared with our third-party vendor for cross device linking and advertising purposes. We haven’t engaged with the third party yet and will update as soon as possible

3. Sharing Information with Third Parties

Xscope Consulting Ltd does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

Xscope Consulting Ltd may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is transferred to the third party. Xscope Consulting Ltd may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Xscope Consulting Ltd, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Xscope Consulting Ltd may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Xscope Consulting Ltd or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Xscope Consulting Ltd; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Xscope Consulting Ltd, or the public.

4. Opt-Out of Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

In connection with any personal information, we may disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know:

• The categories of personal information that we disclosed about you is for business purpose only.

You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to opt-out of the disclosure of your personal information. If you exercise your right to opt-out of the disclosure of your personal information, we will refrain from disclosing your personal information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for the disclosure of your personal information. To opt out of the disclosure of your personal information, visit this Web page.

4.1. Opt-Out & Unsubscribe from Third Party Communications

We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt-out of receiving any or all communications from third-party partners of Xscope Consulting Ltd by contacting us here at: www.xscopeconsulting.com/contact-us

5. Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

• Delete your personal information from our records; and

• Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

• Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfil the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;

• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;

• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;

• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;

• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;

• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;

• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;

• Comply with an existing legal obligation; or

• Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

6. Children Under Thirteen

Xscope Consulting Ltd does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this application.

7. E-mail Communications

From time to time, Xscope Consulting Ltd may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Xscope Consulting Ltd or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Xscope Consulting Ltd, you may opt out of such communications by “clicking the UNSUBSCRIBE button” or “replying STOP”.

8. External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted. We Strongly advise you to visit and review the Privacy policy of every site you’re redirected to.

9. Change to this statement

Xscope Consulting Ltd reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our application, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the application and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgement of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

10. Contact Information

Xscope Consulting Ltd welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Xscope Consulting Ltd has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Xscope Consulting Ltd at: www.xscopeconsulting.com/contact-us

or email address: info@xscopeconsulting.com

Effective as of January 26, 2022