Dubai Career Consultants (“we,” “our,” “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled responsibly and transparently.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, and protect your information when you interact with our website, services, consultations, programs, and digital platforms.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information:
a) Personal & Professional Information
- Full name
- Email address
- Phone number / WhatsApp number
- Country of residence
- Professional details, including industry, experience, current role, and salary range
- Employment and educational information
- CVs/resumes
- LinkedIn profiles
- Career preferences and job-search information
- Other career-related documents or information voluntarily provided by you
b) Payment Information
- Payments may be processed securely through third-party payment providers.
- We do not directly store your complete credit/debit card or banking credentials where payments are handled by third-party payment processors.
- Payment providers may collect and process information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
c) Technical Information
When you use our website or digital services, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device information
- Website usage data
- Pages visited
- Time spent on pages
- Clicks and interactions
- Cookies or similar technologies
2. How We Use Your Information
We may use your information to:
- Deliver purchased services, including CV building, LinkedIn optimization, career consultation, recruiter outreach, programs, cohorts, and other career-related services.
- Prepare and personalize career-related documents and recommendations.
- Communicate with you regarding service delivery, sessions, resources, updates, and support.
- Provide access to digital resources, communities, programs, or workshops.
- Improve our services, website, resources, and customer experience.
- Send relevant updates, resources, announcements, or marketing communications where permitted.
- Maintain internal, operational, accounting, and compliance records.
- Prevent fraud, misuse, or unauthorized activity.
Where applicable, you may opt out of marketing communications.
Dubai Career Consultants does not sell or rent your personal data to third parties for their independent marketing purposes.
3. Recruiter Outreach & CV Sharing
Certain services offered by Dubai Career Consultants may include recruiter outreach or CV distribution.
Where you purchase or participate in such a service, we may share relevant professional information with our internal network of recruiters and HR professionals, including information contained within your CV or professional profile.
This may include:
- Name and contact information
- CV/resume
- Professional experience
- Skills and qualifications
- Current or desired role
- Location and relocation preferences
- Other information included in your professional profile
This information is shared for the purpose of increasing your professional visibility and connecting your profile with potential recruitment opportunities.
Recruiter outreach does not guarantee that a recruiter will contact you, shortlist your profile, arrange an interview, or provide a job offer.
4. Other Sharing of Information
In addition to recruiter outreach where applicable, we may share information:
- With trusted service providers supporting our operations, such as email platforms, cloud storage providers, scheduling tools, communication platforms, website providers, analytics services, and payment processors.
- Where required by applicable law, regulation, court order, or legal process.
- To protect our legitimate rights, users, business, or services where legally permitted.
- With your consent or at your direction.
Third-party providers process information according to their respective terms and privacy practices.
5. Data Storage & Security
We take reasonable administrative, organizational, and technical measures designed to protect personal information against:
- Unauthorized access
- Loss
- Misuse
- Alteration
- Unauthorized disclosure
Access to personal information is limited to individuals who reasonably require it for service delivery or business operations.
However, no method of online transmission or electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
6. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for purposes including:
- Providing and supporting our services
- Maintaining client and transaction records
- Operational and administrative requirements
- Accounting and financial requirements
- Resolving disputes
- Meeting applicable legal or regulatory obligations
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the purpose for which it was collected.
7. Your Rights
Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to:
- Request access to personal information we hold about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Request deletion of your personal information where applicable.
- Request information about how your personal data is being used.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Opt out of applicable marketing communications.
Certain information may need to be retained where required for legal, accounting, contractual, fraud-prevention, or legitimate business purposes.
Requests can be submitted using the contact information provided below.
8. Cookies & Tracking Technologies
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Improve website functionality and user experience.
- Remember preferences.
- Understand website usage and visitor behavior.
- Measure the effectiveness of content or marketing activities.
You can manage or disable certain cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect some website functionality.
9. Third-Party Platforms & Links
Our website, emails, programs, or other communications may contain links to or use third-party websites and platforms.
These may include job portals, social networks, payment providers, communication platforms, cloud services, and other external resources.
Dubai Career Consultants is not responsible for the independent privacy practices, security, availability, or content of third-party platforms.
We encourage you to review their respective privacy policies before providing personal information.
10. International Data Processing
Because we provide digital services and may work with technology providers, recruiters, HR professionals, and clients across different locations, personal information may be processed or accessed outside your country of residence.
Where applicable, we take reasonable steps to ensure personal information is handled in accordance with applicable data-protection requirements.
11. Children’s Privacy
Our services are intended for professionals aged 18 years and above.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 18 through our professional career consulting services.
12. Career Consulting Disclaimer
Dubai Career Consultants is a career consulting service and not a recruitment or placement agency.
Sharing your professional information with recruiters as part of an applicable service is intended to increase visibility and does not guarantee recruiter responses, interviews, employment, job offers, placements, salaries, or visa outcomes.
Recruitment and hiring decisions remain entirely with the respective recruiters and employers.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our services, business practices, technologies, or applicable requirements.
Any updated version may be published on this page with a revised effective date.
Your continued use of our services following an update will be subject to the updated Privacy Policy, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
14. Contact Information
For questions, concerns, or requests relating to this Privacy Policy, please contact:
Dubai Career Consultants