Privacy Policy

1. General information

Thank you for choosing our job board platform ("Black In Tech Job Board"). Your privacy is of utmost importance to us.

This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information when you use our Platform.

By accessing or using the Platform, you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1.1. What is personal data

Personal data is information that discloses or may disclose the user's identity. We adhere to the principle of data avoidance. As far as possible, we refrain from collecting personal data.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information:

2.1. Personal Information: When you create an account or interact with our Platform, we may collect information that personally identifies you, such as your name, email address, contact details, and any other information you voluntarily provide. The data is used for the expressly stated purpose in accordance with your consent (Art. 6 (1 a) GDPR).

2.2. Job Listings and Applications: If you post job listings or apply for jobs on the Platform, we may collect the content you submit, including your resume, cover letter, and other application materials.

2.3. Usage Information: We may automatically collect certain information about your use of the Platform, such as your IP address, device information, browser type, and operating system.

2.4. Cookies and Similar Technologies: We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience on the Platform and to understand how you use it.

2.5. Duration of storage: We only store your personal data after the end of the purpose for which the data was collected for as long as this is required by law (in particular, tax law).

3. Handling of personal data

Personal data is used exclusively for establishing the contract, content design, execution or processing of the contractual relationship (Art. 6 (1 b) GDPR).

In addition, personal data will only be processed if we have obtained your consent to do so (Art. 6 (1 a) GDPR) or if the processing of the data is necessary for our legitimate interests and if the assessment shows that there are no overriding interests, fundamental rights or freedoms on your part to the contrary (Art. 6 (1 f) GDPR).

We may use data processors to process your personal data, with whom we have concluded a data processing agreement where necessary, but we will not pass on your personal data to third parties beyond this.

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

3.1. Platform Operation: To provide, maintain, and improve the Platform's functionality and user experience.

3.2. Job Matching: To match job seekers with potential employers and improve the relevancy of job listings.

3.3. Communication: To communicate with you regarding your account, job applications, and Platform updates.

3.4. Analytics: To analyze usage patterns, monitor the Platform's performance, and conduct research to improve our services.

Your personal data will be processed in the EU and countries classified by the EU as safe or appropriate. If personal data is processed in the USA, care is taken to ensure that the services we use are certified under the "Data Privacy Framework".

4. How We Share Your Information

We may share your information in the following circumstances:

4.1. Job Listings and Applications: If you apply for a job, the information you submit may be shared with the employer posting the job listing.

4.2. Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who assist us in operating the Platform and providing our services.

4.3. Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information when required by law or in response to valid legal requests.

5. Your rights

5.1 Information: You can request information from us as to whether we process your personal data, and if this is the case, you have the right to access this personal data and the further information specified in Art. 15 GDPR.

5.2 Right to rectification: You have the right to rectify inaccurate personal data concerning you and may request the completion of incomplete personal data in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR.

5.3 Right to erasure: You have the right to obtain from us the erasure of personal data concerning you without undue delay. We are obliged to erase it immediately, in particular, if one of the following reasons applies:

  • Your personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
  • You withdraw your consent on which the processing of your data was based, and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
  • Your data has been processed unlawfully.

The right to erasure does not apply if your personal data is required to assert, exercise or defend our legal claims.

5.4 Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to demand that we restrict the processing of your personal data if

  • you dispute the accuracy of the data, and we, therefore, check the accuracy,
  • the processing is unlawful, and you oppose the erasure and request the restriction of use instead
  • we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims,
  • you have objected to the processing of your data, and it has not yet been determined whether our legitimate reasons outweigh your reasons.

5.5 Right to data portability: You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from us, where the processing is based on consent or a contract and the processing is carried out by automated means.

5.6 Right of revocation: If the processing of your personal data is based on consent, you have the right to revoke this consent at any time.

5.7 General information and right to lodge a complaint: Exercising your above rights is generally free of charge for you. You have the right to complain directly to the supervisory authority responsible for us, the state data protection officer.

6. Data Security

All data on our website is protected by technical and organizational measures against loss, destruction, access, modification and dissemination.

6.1 Sessions and cookies 

To operate the website, we use cookies or server-side sessions in which data can be stored. We ensure that no personal data is transferred from sessions or through cookies without your express consent and that cookies are only used if this is technically necessary for the website (e.g., spam protection for the contact form, shopping cart function) and thus the consideration shows that there are no overriding interests on your part to the contrary (Art. 6 (1 f) GDPR) or that you have given your express consent.

With your express consent, we use cookies to personalize content and ads, to offer functions for social media and to analyze access to our website. With your consent, we may share information about your use of our website with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. Our partners may be able to combine this information with other data that the partners already have about you.

Below, you will find the cookie name, duration and purpose of the cookies used on our site only based on your consent:

a. Cookie: XSRF-TOKEN

  • Name: XSRF-TOKEN
  • Description: This cookie is created to help with job board security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.
  • Expiration: 1 Day

b. Cookie: jboard_tenant_session

  • Name: jboard_tenant_session
  • Description: The session cookie is a server-specific cookie that is used to provide authentication for job board users.
  • Expiration: 1 Day

c. External Services That Use Cookies

We also use external services which also generate cookies. Below we listed all used services and references to their privacy policies.

7. Presence on social media platforms

We use the following social media platforms for company presentation and communication (explicit reference is made to the data protection declarations and opt-out options below).

These social media platforms may process personal data outside the EU; in this respect, we refer you to the above data protection declarations of the social media platforms.

The respective social media platforms may be able to create user profiles from your usage behavior and the resulting interests and actions on your part and store cookies on your computer in which your usage behavior is stored. If you have an account on the respective social media platform and are logged in, your usage behavior can even be stored independently of your device. Your usage profile can be used, for example, to place advertisements that presumably correspond to your interests.

We process the personal data exclusively for communication with you via the social media platform you have selected and to optimize our online presence and ensure that no interests on your part are affected that outweigh this legitimate interest on our part (Art. 6 (1 f) GDPR). If you have already given the respective operator of the social media platform effective consent to the corresponding data processing, your personal data will also be processed based on this consent (Art. 6 (1 a) GDPR).

8. Third-party services

8.1 Social media links

We have our own social media pages with third-party providers that can be reached via links from this website. Using the links will take you to the respective websites of the third-party providers (e.g., Facebook, X, Instagram). To avoid unnecessary data transfer, we recommend that you log out of the respective third-party provider before using a link so that usage profiles cannot be created by the third-party provider simply by using the link.

9.Contacting us

You are welcome to use the following contact options to contact us regarding data protection. Controller within the meaning of the GDPR:

BlackinTech gUG (haftungsbschränkt)

c/o Kave Bulambo

Am Sudhaus 2, 12053 Berlin

E-Mail: blackintechberlin@gmail.com

Telefon: +49 1762 2771 695