How we use your information

We use personal information for the following purposes:

• Talent matching and recruitment:

  • To evaluate your profile, CV, and answers to questions.

  • To match you with open roles at U.S. or other client companies.

  • To communicate with you about opportunities, interviews, and hiring decisions.

• Providing and improving our services:

  • To operate, maintain, and improve the Site and our matching and recruiting services.

  • To personalize content, user experience, and recommendations.

• Communication and marketing:

  • To send you service-related information (e.g., important updates or changes).

  • With your consent or where allowed by law, to send newsletters, career insights, marketing communications, and information about events or opportunities.

• Security, compliance, and legal purposes:

  • To protect the security and integrity of our systems, prevent fraud or abuse, and enforce our terms.

  • To comply with legal obligations and respond to lawful requests from authorities.

We process personal information only where we have a valid legal basis to do so, which may include your consent, performance of a contract (for example, in connection with a candidate placement), compliance with legal obligations, or our legitimate interests in operating and improving our business and services in a way that does not override your rights and freedoms.

Cookies and similar technologies

We may use cookies, pixels, tags, and similar technologies on the Site to:

• Remember your preferences and improve your experience.

• Perform analytics on Site usage and performance.

• Support marketing and advertising (for example, measuring the effectiveness of campaigns).

Where required by law, you will see a cookie banner or similar notice giving you options to accept, reject, or customize certain categories of cookies. You can also usually control cookies through your browser settings, but disabling some cookies may affect how the Site functions.

How we share your information

We may share personal information with:

• Client companies: when you apply for roles or join our talent pool, we may share your profile, CV, and relevant information with selected client companies that are looking for engineers, so they can evaluate your fit for their open positions.

• Service providers: third‑party vendors that help us operate our business, such as hosting providers, applicant tracking systems, email and marketing platforms, analytics providers, assessment tools, or payment and invoicing tools. These providers are allowed to process personal information only as necessary to provide services to us and are bound by appropriate confidentiality and data protection obligations.

• Professional advisors and legal authorities: our lawyers, auditors, accountants, and, where required, regulators or law enforcement when needed to comply with law, protect our rights, or respond to legal process.

• Business transfers: if DevopsCollab is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of all or part of its business, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to appropriate protections.

We do not sell personal information in the traditional sense of the word. If local law defines “sale” more broadly (for example, under some privacy laws), we will explain those practices and your rights in a jurisdiction‑specific section of this Policy or in a separate notice.

International transfers

DevopsCollab may work with clients and service providers in different countries. This means your personal information may be processed and stored in a jurisdiction different from your own, which may have different data protection laws.

Where required, we take appropriate steps to protect personal information transferred internationally, such as using standard contractual clauses or equivalent safeguards, and ensuring that recipients are subject to adequate data protection obligations.

Data retention

We keep personal information only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Policy or as required by law.

In practice, this generally means:

• Candidate and talent pool data may be retained while your profile is active with us and for a reasonable period afterward to contact you about relevant opportunities, maintain records of placements, or comply with legal requirements.

• Application and communication records may be retained for a period necessary to manage our relationship with you, handle queries or disputes, and comply with audit, tax, or regulatory obligations.

When we no longer need personal information, we will delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because it is stored in backup archives), we will securely store it and isolate it from further processing until deletion is possible.

How we protect your information

We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal information against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, or access. These measures may include access controls, encryption in transit and/or at rest where appropriate, secure development practices, and regular monitoring of our systems.

However, no method of transmission or storage is fully secure, and you should take care to protect your own information when using the internet.

Your rights and choices

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have some or all of the following rights regarding your personal information:

• Access: to request confirmation of whether we process your personal information and receive a copy of that information.

• Correction: to request that inaccurate or incomplete personal information be corrected.

• Deletion: to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.

• Restriction: to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

• Objection: to object to certain processing, including where we rely on legitimate interests, and, where applicable, to opt out of direct marketing at any time.

• Portability: to request a copy of your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine‑readable format, where technically feasible.

• Withdraw consent: where we rely on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the details in the “Contact us” section below. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request, and certain rights may be limited or unavailable depending on the circumstances and local law.

You can also:

• Unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the “unsubscribe” link in our messages or contacting us.

• Adjust your browser or device settings to manage cookies and trackers, as described earlier.

Children’s privacy

The Site and our services are not intended for children under 16 (or any higher age required by applicable law), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children in that age group. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so we can take appropriate steps to delete it as required by law.

Third‑party links and services

The Site may contain links to third‑party websites, services, or platforms (for example, external assessment tools or job boards). This Policy does not apply to those third parties, and we are not responsible for their privacy practices. You should review the privacy policies of any third‑party sites or services you visit or use.

Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or other factors. When we do, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page and, where required by law, notify you of material changes (for example, by email or a prominent notice on the Site).

Your continued use of the Site after the updated Policy becomes effective indicates that you have read and understood the changes.

Contact us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to exercise your privacy rights, you can contact us at:

info@devopscollab.com