1. Google sign-in information
When you choose Continue with Google, we request basic identity permissions: your Google account identifier, email address and its verification status, name, and profile picture if Google makes it available. These permissions correspond to the OpenID, email and profile scopes.
We use this information to create or identify your AfriCareers account, authenticate you, help reconnect an eligible existing account, and display your account identity. Your name or email can also be part of a profile or job application that you choose to complete, submit or make available through recruitment features.
Google processes the sign-in and Supabase Auth handles the resulting identity and AfriCareers session. We do not receive your Google password. We do not request permission to read Gmail messages, Google Drive files, contacts or calendars. Google sign-in tokens are not used by AfriCareers to access those services.
We do not sell Google sign-in information, use it to target advertising, or provide it to advertisers. Our use and transfer of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements where applicable.
2. Other information we collect
- Accounts: contact details, authentication information and account preferences provided when you register or use account features. Password authentication is handled by our authentication provider.
- Jobseeker profiles and applications: information you supply, such as your name, phone number, location, profession, skills, qualifications, work history, CV, profile photograph, application answers and supporting documents.
- Employer accounts: representative contact details, company information, verification submissions, job posts and recruitment activity.
- Purchases: the product purchased, amount, currency, payment reference, transaction outcome, credits or subscription records, and associated contact details. Payment providers process payment credentials; the portal keeps the transaction information needed to record and support your purchase.
- Technical and support information: device and browser information, page activity, security and error logs, and information you send when contacting support.
3. How we use information
We use personal information to operate accounts, maintain profiles, process applications, provide recruitment tools, deliver requested job alerts and service messages, record purchases, respond to support requests, and protect users from account misuse or fraudulent recruitment. We also use website reports to understand and improve the service.
Choosing an employer login does not grant access to a company. Employer and administrator tools require the appropriate verified account permissions.
5. Website activity and analytics
We use Google Analytics for aggregate public-page reports such as traffic sources, countries and devices. Google may process technical information such as browser, device, network and cookie identifiers. Our integration does not send your profile name, email or AfriCareers account identifier to Google Analytics, and removes query strings and fragments from the page addresses it reports.
Our own optional visit activity records public page paths, page titles, a browser visit identifier, device category and referral category. If you are signed in with a verified account, authorized administrators can see your profile name alongside activity recorded during that signed-in visit. Earlier anonymous visits are not linked to later logins. We use these records to understand site use and improve the service.
Visit observations become eligible for deletion after 48 hours and are removed by an hourly cleanup. Application and payment records follow the service's separate operational retention requirements.
7. Storage and security
Account, Google sign-in identity, profile and application records are stored using our hosting and database services. AfriCareers uses HTTPS, authenticated sessions, server-side access checks and role-based permissions to restrict private account information, documents and administrative tools. Access is limited to authorised users and service operations.
No website or transmission method can guarantee absolute security. Keep your sign-in credentials private and contact us if you suspect unauthorised use of your account.
8. Retention and deletion
We retain account information, including the Google identity linked to your account, while needed to provide and secure your account and the features you use. Profiles, applications, support correspondence and transaction records are retained for their operational purpose and for applicable legal, accounting, dispute-resolution or security requirements. Different records can therefore have different retention periods.
You can request deletion of your AfriCareers account and associated personal information by emailing support@africareers.net from the address linked to your account. We verify ownership before processing a request, remove information no longer needed, and explain any information that must be retained. Where backup copies exist, they remain subject to the provider's normal retention cycle. Deletion from AfriCareers cannot remove copies already held independently by an employer or another website.
9. Your choices and privacy requests
You can update information through the available profile and account settings, manage job-alert preferences, change profile visibility where offered, and use the activity preference on this page. You can contact us to request access to, correction of or deletion of personal information, or to raise a privacy concern. We may ask for information needed to verify that the request relates to your account; do not send us your password.
You can also remove AfriCareers from your Google Account's third-party connections. Removing that connection does not itself delete your AfriCareers account, its records or an existing AfriCareers session. Log out of AfriCareers to end the current session and contact us if you want the account deleted.
10. Contact and policy updates
For questions about this policy, Google sign-in data or a privacy request, contact support@africareers.net and identify the AfriCareers Jobs Portal and the account concerned.
We update this policy when our practices change and show the revised date above. Material changes to how we use Google user data will be explained through appropriate notices, with additional consent requested where required.