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Spring Professional (the “Company” or “we”) recognizes the importance of your personal information, and complies with the data protection acts in each country where its affiliates are established (including the Act on Promotion of Information and Communication Network Utilization and Information Protection). Through this Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy”), we inform you of the purpose and method of using the personal information provided by you and the measures to be taken for the protection of personal information. If this Privacy Policy is amended, the Company will notify thereof on the notice board of the Company’s website (www.springasia.com) or through separate notice.

• This Privacy Policy has been last updated on March 8, 2016.

The Company provides services relating to temporary staffing, permanent recruitment, career transition, talent development as well as outsourcing and consulting via communication network (“Services”).

• Types of Personal Information Collected and Method of Collection

  The Company collects the following personal information in case of subscription for membership, registration and processing of profile and application for employment for the purpose of recruitment, consultation and interviewing of candidates:

  • Subscription for the Company’s Website
    • title, first name, last name, username, password, email address, phone number, address, suburb, postcode, state, country, mailing address, mailing suburb, mailing state, mailing country, classification, sub-classification and personal information which are contained in the submitted document (e.g., cover letter, resume, etc.)
  • Registration and processing of profile and application for employment on the Company’s Website
    • Account details: title, first name, last name and personal information which are contained in the submitted cover letter or resume, password, address, suburb, postcode, state, country, mailing address, mailing suburb, mailing postcode, mailing state, mailing country, gender, date of birth, phone number (house), phone number (workplace), mobile phone number, fax number, level of education, tags
    • Profile: image, headline, current status, short bio
    • Role preferences: location, area, classification, sub-classification, work type
    • Education and qualifications: qualification, institution name, education period (year of start and end)
    • Achievements, memberships and certificates
    • Experience: job title, company name, duration of employment (year/month of start and end), summary of experience
    • Skills
  • Recruitment request at the Company’s Website
    • Name of customer company, name of person-in-charge, email address, contact number and personal information which are contained in the Additional Information box

    During the course of providing the Services through the Company’s Website, the following information may be automatically created and collected:

  • Records on use of Services, access log, cookies and IP information
• Purposes of Collection and Use of Personal Information

  The Company’s Website has been established to help members find jobs and hire personnel. The Company collects personal information to provide services appropriate for the effective assistance in finding jobs, hiring personnel and career development. The Company uses the collected personal information for the following purposes:

  • User verification and personal identification pursuant to the use of membership services; confirmation of willingness to subscribe; confirmation of membership status; prevention of any fraudulent use and unauthorized use of members personal information; and grievance handling including complaints
  • Notification and contact for various issues including interview, recruitment notice, result of recruitment, etc.
  • Performance of contracts relating to the provision of Services by the Company; settlement of charges related to consultation and Service provision by the Company;
  • Delivery of newsletter, information on Services or advertising information for profit, such as employment information or recruitment information, and use for sales and marketing purposes
  • Provision of various kinds of more effective and customized services, including but not limited to recruitment information, employment agency, application for employment, etc.
  • Provision of personnel information relating to the requested recruiting services, including recruitment by proxy, dispatch of personnel, outsourcing, etc.
  • Delivery of various notifications relating to provision of Services by the Company
  • Search for members with the qualifications and similar work experience as required by recruiting companies
• Period of Retention and Use of Personal Information

  In principle, members’ personal information will be retained and used for 7 (seven) years after collection or 7 (seven) years after members’ use of Spring Professional’s services. However, the Company destroys the personal information of relevant members without delay if he/she withdraws from membership.

  However, if any personal information of a member is required to be retained under the applicable laws and regulations, the Company will retain the personal information for the period as prescribed under such applicable laws and regulations as follows:

• Procedures and Method of Destruction of Personal Information
  • Destruction Procedures
    • Any information input provided by the member for membership subscription, etc. will be moved to a separate database (“DB”) (for papers, a separate document box) and destroyed after being retained for a certain period pursuant to the Company’s internal policies for retention of personal information and other applicable laws and regulations (please see Period of Retention and Use). Unless otherwise required by applicable laws and regulations, the personal information moved to a separate DB will not be used for purposes other than retaining thereof.
  • Destruction Method
    • Any personal information stored in the form of electronic file will be destroyed using a technical method which makes the records irreproducible, and any print-out version of personal information will be shredded using a shredder or incinerated.
• Transfer of Personal Information to a Third Party

  Recipient	Purpose of Use	Transferred Information
  Spring Professional affiliates (as disclosed in Spring Professional’s website)	Provision of recruiting services Grievance handling Notification and contact for various issues including result of recruitment Offering contents including recruitment information Delivery of newsletters, information on services, etc. Provision of personnel information relating to the requested recruiting services Delivery of various notifications relating to service provision Settlement of charges related to consultation and services	Collected personal information as above
  Companies recruiting via the Company, those for which a member applies for employment	To determine whether to employ a member or not	Information collected by the Company upon the consent of a member which a recruiting company requests for determining employment

• Delegation of Personal Information Processing

  For the performance of Services, the Company delegates the processing of personal information to the following external professional service providers:

  Delegatee	Descriptions of Delegated Services
  JXT	Website provider
  Talentrover	Data hosting provider
  Daxtra Technologies	Subcontractor of data hosting provider

• Rights of Users and Legal Guardians and the Method of Exercising thereof

  Users and their legal guardians may, at any time, access to or correct their personal information or personal information of children under 14 and request for withdrawal from membership.

  If you want to access to or correct your personal information or personal information of children under 14, you may click “My Dashboard”. If you want to withdraw from membership (withdrawal of consent), you may click “Close Account” to directly withdraw from membership after proceeding with the identity verification.

  For immediate assistance, you may contact a personal information administration manager by phone or via email.

  If you request us to correct any factual errors in your personal information, we will not use nor provide the information until we complete correction of the error. In the event that wrong personal information has already been provided to a third party, we will correct such errors by promptly notifying the result of correction to such third party.

  The personal information which is cancelled or deleted upon the request of users or legal guardians will be managed in accordance with the “Period of Retention and Use of Personal Information” and the information will not be reviewed or used for any other purposes.

• Installation, Operation and Refusal of Personal Information Automatic Collection Devices

  A cookie is a special text file that our website sends to your hard disk. Cookies are transmitted in the form that is only readable at the server of our website, and are stored under the directory of browser used by individuals.

  Cookies have been designed to help a website to remember the users movements. In other words, cookies are used for smooth communications between the website and visitors by streamlining users’ experiences and providing customized services, and it is impossible to identify a person only with the information collected through cookies.

  Our purposes of collecting information through cookies are the same as the “Purposes of Collection and Use of Personal Information”, and the information collected will not be used for any other purposes. Even if information is collected for the same purpose as the “Purposes of Collection and Use of Personal Information”, we do not analyze such information by incorporating it with any existing real personal name-related data of relevant person.

  If a user subscribes for membership, logs in and uses a scrap function, we store the information that the user has selected through the relevant recruitment notice so as to help the user to conveniently use the scrap function.

  Any visitor has an option to install cookies. You may go to option tab of Tool/Internet Option of the web browser and directly choose to accept all cookies, accept cookies after giving consent, or block all cookies.

• Grievance Handling on Personal Information

  Personal Information Administration Manager: Carlos Estrada
  The department responsible for the protection of personal information: Head of Legal
  Tel: +65 6697 7831
  Email: sg.legal@adecco.com

  You may report any grievance relating to personal information that you suffer while using our services to the Personal Information Administration Manager or the responsible department. The Company will provide a prompt response to the reports of our users.

Spring Professional (the “Company” or “we”) recognizes the importance of your personal information, and complies with the data protection acts in each country where its affiliates are established (including the Act on Promotion of Information and Communication Network Utilization and Information Protection). Through this Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy”), we inform you of the purpose and method of using the personal information provided by you and the measures to be taken for the protection of personal information. If this Privacy Policy is amended, the Company will notify thereof on the notice board of the Company’s website (www.springasia.com) or through separate notice.

• This Privacy Policy has been last updated on March 8, 2016.

The Company provides services relating to temporary staffing, permanent recruitment, career transition, talent development as well as outsourcing and consulting via communication network (“Services”).

• Types of Personal Information Collected and Method of Collection

  The Company collects the following personal information in case of subscription for membership, registration and processing of profile and application for employment for the purpose of recruitment, consultation and interviewing of candidates:

  • Subscription for the Company’s Website
    • title, first name, last name, username, password, email address, phone number, address, suburb, postcode, state, country, mailing address, mailing suburb, mailing state, mailing country, classification, sub-classification and personal information which are contained in the submitted document (e.g., cover letter, resume, etc.)
  • Registration and processing of profile and application for employment on the Company’s Website
    • Account details: title, first name, last name and personal information which are contained in the submitted cover letter or resume, password, address, suburb, postcode, state, country, mailing address, mailing suburb, mailing postcode, mailing state, mailing country, gender, date of birth, phone number (house), phone number (workplace), mobile phone number, fax number, level of education, tags
    • Profile: image, headline, current status, short bio
    • Role preferences: location, area, classification, sub-classification, work type
    • Education and qualifications: qualification, institution name, education period (year of start and end)
    • Achievements, memberships and certificates
    • Experience: job title, company name, duration of employment (year/month of start and end), summary of experience
    • Skills
  • Recruitment request at the Company’s Website
    • Name of customer company, name of person-in-charge, email address, contact number and personal information which are contained in the Additional Information box

    During the course of providing the Services through the Company’s Website, the following information may be automatically created and collected:

  • Records on use of Services, access log, cookies and IP information
• Purposes of Collection and Use of Personal Information

  The Company’s Website has been established to help members find jobs and hire personnel. The Company collects personal information to provide services appropriate for the effective assistance in finding jobs, hiring personnel and career development. The Company uses the collected personal information for the following purposes:

  • User verification and personal identification pursuant to the use of membership services; confirmation of willingness to subscribe; confirmation of membership status; prevention of any fraudulent use and unauthorized use of members personal information; and grievance handling including complaints
  • Notification and contact for various issues including interview, recruitment notice, result of recruitment, etc.
  • Performance of contracts relating to the provision of Services by the Company; settlement of charges related to consultation and Service provision by the Company;
  • Delivery of newsletter, information on Services or advertising information for profit, such as employment information or recruitment information, and use for sales and marketing purposes
  • Provision of various kinds of more effective and customized services, including but not limited to recruitment information, employment agency, application for employment, etc.
  • Provision of personnel information relating to the requested recruiting services, including recruitment by proxy, dispatch of personnel, outsourcing, etc.
  • Delivery of various notifications relating to provision of Services by the Company
  • Search for members with the qualifications and similar work experience as required by recruiting companies
• Period of Retention and Use of Personal Information

  In principle, members’ personal information will be retained and used for 7 (seven) years after collection or 7 (seven) years after members’ use of Spring Professional’s services. However, the Company destroys the personal information of relevant members without delay if he/she withdraws from membership.

  However, if any personal information of a member is required to be retained under the applicable laws and regulations, the Company will retain the personal information for the period as prescribed under such applicable laws and regulations as follows:

• Procedures and Method of Destruction of Personal Information
  • Destruction Procedures
    • Any information input provided by the member for membership subscription, etc. will be moved to a separate database (“DB”) (for papers, a separate document box) and destroyed after being retained for a certain period pursuant to the Company’s internal policies for retention of personal information and other applicable laws and regulations (please see Period of Retention and Use). Unless otherwise required by applicable laws and regulations, the personal information moved to a separate DB will not be used for purposes other than retaining thereof.
  • Destruction Method
    • Any personal information stored in the form of electronic file will be destroyed using a technical method which makes the records irreproducible, and any print-out version of personal information will be shredded using a shredder or incinerated.
• Transfer of Personal Information to a Third Party

  Recipient	Purpose of Use	Transferred Information
  Spring Professional affiliates (as disclosed in Spring Professional’s website)	Provision of recruiting services Grievance handling Notification and contact for various issues including result of recruitment Offering contents including recruitment information Delivery of newsletters, information on services, etc. Provision of personnel information relating to the requested recruiting services Delivery of various notifications relating to service provision Settlement of charges related to consultation and services	Collected personal information as above
  Companies recruiting via the Company, those for which a member applies for employment	To determine whether to employ a member or not	Information collected by the Company upon the consent of a member which a recruiting company requests for determining employment

• Delegation of Personal Information Processing

  For the performance of Services, the Company delegates the processing of personal information to the following external professional service providers:

  Delegatee	Descriptions of Delegated Services
  JXT	Website provider
  Talentrover	Data hosting provider
  Daxtra Technologies	Subcontractor of data hosting provider

• Rights of Users and Legal Guardians and the Method of Exercising thereof

  Users and their legal guardians may, at any time, access to or correct their personal information or personal information of children under 14 and request for withdrawal from membership.

  If you want to access to or correct your personal information or personal information of children under 14, you may click “My Dashboard”. If you want to withdraw from membership (withdrawal of consent), you may click “Close Account” to directly withdraw from membership after proceeding with the identity verification.

  For immediate assistance, you may contact a personal information administration manager by phone or via email.

  If you request us to correct any factual errors in your personal information, we will not use nor provide the information until we complete correction of the error. In the event that wrong personal information has already been provided to a third party, we will correct such errors by promptly notifying the result of correction to such third party.

  The personal information which is cancelled or deleted upon the request of users or legal guardians will be managed in accordance with the “Period of Retention and Use of Personal Information” and the information will not be reviewed or used for any other purposes.

• Installation, Operation and Refusal of Personal Information Automatic Collection Devices

  A cookie is a special text file that our website sends to your hard disk. Cookies are transmitted in the form that is only readable at the server of our website, and are stored under the directory of browser used by individuals.

  Cookies have been designed to help a website to remember the users movements. In other words, cookies are used for smooth communications between the website and visitors by streamlining users’ experiences and providing customized services, and it is impossible to identify a person only with the information collected through cookies.

  Our purposes of collecting information through cookies are the same as the “Purposes of Collection and Use of Personal Information”, and the information collected will not be used for any other purposes. Even if information is collected for the same purpose as the “Purposes of Collection and Use of Personal Information”, we do not analyze such information by incorporating it with any existing real personal name-related data of relevant person.

  If a user subscribes for membership, logs in and uses a scrap function, we store the information that the user has selected through the relevant recruitment notice so as to help the user to conveniently use the scrap function.

  Any visitor has an option to install cookies. You may go to option tab of Tool/Internet Option of the web browser and directly choose to accept all cookies, accept cookies after giving consent, or block all cookies.

• Grievance Handling on Personal Information

  Personal Information Administration Manager: Carlos Estrada
  The department responsible for the protection of personal information: Head of Legal
  Tel: +65 6697 7831
  Email: sg.legal@adecco.com

  You may report any grievance relating to personal information that you suffer while using our services to the Personal Information Administration Manager or the responsible department. The Company will provide a prompt response to the reports of our users.