Privacy Policy

Depending on how you use our platform, we may collect:

• Full name
• Email address
• Telephone/mobile number
• Nationality
• Country of residence
• Date of birth, where required or voluntarily provided
• Residential address, where applicable
• CV/resume
• Employment and work history
• Educational qualifications
• Professional qualifications, licences, and certifications
• Skills, experience, and professional interests
• Current or previous job information
• Profile photograph, where provided
• Information included in application forms or supporting documents
• Any other information you voluntarily provide in connection with a job application

We may also automatically collect certain technical information, such as IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, pages visited, and information about how you interact with our website.

We may use your personal data to:

• Create and maintain your candidate profile.
• Process and manage your job applications.
• Assess your qualifications and suitability for employment opportunities.
• Match your profile with available or future job vacancies.
• Communicate with you regarding applications, interviews, vacancies, and recruitment opportunities.
• Provide your information to relevant hiring companies for recruitment and employment purposes.
• Improve and maintain our recruitment platform and services.
• Protect the security and integrity of our website and systems.
• Comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

We will only process personal data for legitimate and specified purposes and will seek to limit the data collected to what is reasonably necessary for those purposes.

The primary purpose of the Al Rassam recruitment platform is to connect candidates with potential employers.

When you submit your profile or apply for a vacancy, you understand and acknowledge that the personal information contained in your profile, CV/resume, application, and other relevant documents may be shared with the hiring company or prospective employer responsible for the relevant vacancy.

This information may include your:

• Name and contact details
• CV/resume
• Education and qualifications
• Employment history
• Skills and professional experience
• Certifications and licences
• Other information relevant to evaluating your suitability for the position

Hiring companies receiving candidate information may process that information independently for recruitment, assessment, interviewing, selection, onboarding, and related employment purposes.

We expect hiring companies and other authorised recipients to handle candidate information in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws.

We may use trusted third-party service providers to operate and maintain our platform and recruitment services. These providers may process personal data on our behalf for purposes such as:

• Website and hosting services
• Cloud storage
• Recruitment technology
• Communications
• Data security
• Website analytics
• Technical support

Where required by applicable law, we will take appropriate measures to ensure that such service providers process personal data only for authorised purposes and maintain appropriate security measures.

Because Al Rassam may serve candidates and employers across Qatar and the GCC, personal data may, where necessary, be processed or stored in countries other than the country in which you reside.

Where personal data is transferred outside the applicable jurisdiction, we will take reasonable and legally required steps to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place and that the transfer complies with applicable data protection requirements.

We generally do not request sensitive personal information unless it is necessary for a legitimate recruitment or employment-related purpose or is required by applicable law.

If you voluntarily provide sensitive information through your CV, application, or other communication, you acknowledge that such information may be processed for the purposes for which you provided it, subject to applicable law.

You should avoid submitting sensitive personal information that is not relevant to your job application.

Depending on the circumstances and the applicable law, we may process personal data on the basis of:

• Your consent;
• The steps necessary to provide recruitment services or respond to your requests;
• A legitimate and lawful business purpose;
• Compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation; or
• Another lawful basis permitted under applicable data protection legislation.

Where consent is relied upon as the legal basis for processing, you may withdraw your consent where permitted by applicable law. Withdrawal of consent will not affect processing that was lawfully carried out before withdrawal.

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Operate and secure the website;
• Remember user preferences;
• Understand website usage;
• Analyse website performance; and
• Improve our services and user experience.

You may manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. Certain website features may not function properly if cookies are disabled.

We take reasonable technical, organisational, and administrative measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, accidental loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

However, no website or electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

We retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including recruitment, maintaining candidate records, responding to enquiries, resolving disputes, complying with legal obligations, and protecting our legitimate interests.

When personal data is no longer required, we will take reasonable steps to delete, anonymise, or securely dispose of it, subject to applicable legal requirements.

Depending on your country of residence and the applicable law, you may have rights including:

• The right to know whether we process your personal data.
• The right to access your personal data.
• The right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
• The right to request deletion or erasure of personal data in applicable circumstances.
• The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
• The right to object to certain processing.
• The right to request restriction of certain processing.
• The right to request information about how your personal data is processed.

Requests will be handled in accordance with the applicable law and may be subject to legal exceptions or verification requirements.

You are responsible for ensuring that the information you provide to Al Rassam is accurate, complete, and up to date.

Where you provide personal information relating to another person, you should ensure that you are legally entitled to provide that information.

You should also ensure that your CV and application contain only information relevant to the recruitment process.

Our website may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to those third-party websites. We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of any third-party website before providing personal information.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our services, technology, or applicable legal requirements.

The updated version will be published on this page together with the revised effective date.