Privacy

Effective Date: March 31st, 2022

On SkipTheDrive.com (https://www.skipthedrive.com or “our site”), we take privacy seriously. We want our users to feel comfortable using our site and to know exactly what their rights are. We also want to be fully transparent as far as the information that’s collected, how it’s stored, and what you can do if you’d like any of your personal information modified or deleted. Skip The Drive LLC is the owner of our site.

We have revised our privacy policy in order to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It is our intention that this privacy policy will be written in a succinct way that will be clear to all, without any confusing legalese!

We are currently working with existing vendors to enhance privacy and security capabilities. We are committed to using updated privacy guidelines and best practices.

This policy extends to our website skipthedrive.com and our email.

Who we are and how you can contact us

This privacy policy explains how Skip The Drive LLC (data controller) processes your personal information.

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us using the information below.

Contact Page

4100 Carmel Rd. Ste. B, #198
Charlotte, NC 28226
United States

admin@skipthedrive.com

Also feel free to contact our data protection officer (Pete Metz).

Types of data we collect

Account data

The purpose of processing Account data is to provide you with requested services and satisfy your needs.

If you create an account on our site, or if we create an account on your behalf, we will store the following information:

  • username
  • password
  • account nickname
  • email address
  • first and last name
  • website URL
  • biographical information
  • social media profile info
  • your profile picture
  • organization info

Legal basis for processing Account data is our Terms of Use that you accept.

The storage period for processing Account data is until the termination of our Terms of Use with you.

Job posting data

The purpose of processing Job posting data is to provide you with requested services and satisfy your needs.

If you’re posting a job on our site, you’ll do this through a form. No account is needed for this. The personal information that is collected is below:

  • company email address
  • company name
  • location of job
  • job title
  • job description
  • PayPal transaction information

Note: Most of the information you submit with your job posting will be publicly displayed on our site so that job seekers can search for (and apply to) the job. The email address you specify within the Email Address field on the submission form will not be publicly displayed. We may store PayPal data elements related to your transaction, such as transaction ID and email address. We do not store any PayPal passwords on our server.

Legal basis for processing Job posting data is our Terms of Use that you or your company accepts.

The storage period for processing Account data is until the termination of our Terms of Use with you and during the limitation period prescribed by the legislation.

Contact information stored with us

The purpose of processing email address and the data you send to us is to provide you with requested services and satisfy your needs.

If you’re sending us a message concerning paid job posting or general inquiry, you’ll do this through a form. No account is needed for this. The personal information that is collected is below:

  • email address
  • data in the messages you sent us

Legal basis for processing email address and the data you send to us is our Terms of Use that you accept.

The storage period for processing Account data is until the termination of our Terms of Use with you and during the limitation period prescribed by the legislation.

Cookies

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. We use cookies to compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. The way this benefits users is that it can remember actions they took (such as dismissing a popup form), so that the same form will not be displayed again until the cookie has expired.

Cookie Example – An example of how a cookie works could be with an email opt-in form. Suppose an opt-in form pops up, and you dismiss that form. What happens is that a cookie is placed within your browser that indicates the day and time that the form was dismissed. It might also specify the cookie expiration. While the cookie is not expired, the popup form will not show as that visitor visits our site. Once the expiration date has passed, the form will launch again.

We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

Some of the cookies that might be placed on your site include:

  • Mailchimp – We use Mailchimp for our newsletter opt-in forms. If you dismiss a form or submit your email address, this will be remembered until the cookie expires.

The purpose of processing log information and details of visitor behavior patterns is to personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs); to improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you); to improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs).

Legal basis for processing log information and details of visitor behavior patterns is your consent to cookie usage.

The storage period for processing log information and details of visitor behavior patterns is 38 months after the last time you visit our site.

Mailing lists

The purpose of processing email-addresses is to offer you various alerts that may be useful for you.

Legal basis for processing your email-addresses and statistics is your consent to receive emails.

We use third-party services for storing and sending email:

Newsletters

We use Mailchimp to store email addresses and to deliver emails for our newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter. For more information, please see Mailchimp’s privacy notice. You can unsubscribe to general mailings at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any newsletter email, or by emailing our data protection officer (Pete Metz).

Job Alerts

We use MailGun to deliver email to those who sign up for job alerts. Just like with our newsletter, we gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter. For more information, please see MailGun’s privacy notice. You can unsubscribe to general mailings at anytime by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any newsletter email, or by emailing our data protection officer (Pete Metz).

The storage period for processing your email-addresses and statistics is 2 years after your last communication with us, unless you have withdrawn your consent to receive emails.

Account information deletion due to inactivity

We may, at our sole discretion, decide to purge your data from our system in order to be proactive with protecting your personally identifiable information. This decision would be made if we feel there’s no good reason to store your data any longer (i.e. a job posting that has expired, or low engagement with email newsletters and/or job alerts).

Who do we share your data with?

We may share anonymized personal information with other organizations, particularly Talroo, who may use this data to analyze job seeker behavior.

If you’ve signed up for job alerts, your information will be sent to MailGun. Their privacy policy can be found here.

If you’ve signed up for our newsletter, your information will be sent to MailChimp. Their privacy policy can be found here.

If you’ve consented to cookie usage, your information will be sent to Google. Their privacy policy can be found  here.

To back up the information we process through our website we use Google Drive. Their privacy policy can be found  here.

Our web hosting service provider is GoDaddy. Their privacy policy can be found  here.

Our site uses GoatCounter for analyzing website traffic. No cookies are used with this service and no personal data is persistently stored. Their GDPR policy can be found here.

Residents of the EEA, please note that your personal information will be maintained, stored and processed at a destination outside the European Economic Area.

We also share your personal data with technical service provides established outside the European Economic Area in the United States that do not provide an adequate level of data protection. Such transfers will be pursuant to the Standard Contractual Clauses for the transfer of personal data to processors established in third countries under Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, which are a part of Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) between us and our technical service provides.

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive payment information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway provider’s database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.

After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.

Your rights

You are entitled to view, amend, or delete your personal information that we hold, the right to restrict their processing. You also have the right to data portability and to withdraw your consent at any time in case we process your personal information based on your consent.

Email your request to our data protection officer (Pete Metz) at admin@skipthedrive.com.

Residents of the EEA are also entitled to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Automated decisions

We do not use automated decision-making assessing personal aspects relating to you.

Third party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website, within email communications, or via social media. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Because we value your privacy, we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

As part of the California Online Privacy Protection Act, all users of our site may make any changes to their information at any time by logging into their control panel and going to the ‘Profile’ page.

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.

Third party job providers

When users click on job listings, they may be redirected to a third-party website, employer, or job aggregator. Any information submitted by the user to those sites, as well as any cookie or tracking information used by the third-party-websites will be the sole responsibility of the user, and we will not be held accountable. We will not be held accountable for any data collected from users by third-party sites, nor will we be held accountable for any tracking information that third-party websites may incorporate (such as cookies).

Terms and Conditions

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website at https://www.skipthedrive.com/terms-of-use/

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page. In case of any significant changes within the Privacy Policy, we will post a prominent notice on the Site prior to changes becoming effective.