1000Scholars.com (1000Scholars, we, us, our) is a website, aiming to make scientific-technological R&D positions be found easily by potential applicants and to make potential applicants be found easily by academicians, institutes, and other organizations conducting research and development activities. This privacy policy will explain how our organization uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website.

* Even if we use the terms such as “job, employee, etc.”, the owners of the position listings on this website may be academicians/researchers from universities. Thus the listings are/might be generally published for non-profit (education, voluntary, etc.) purposes.

We always want to present you new and better services. If you find our terms inappropriate, please send an email to us (data@1000scholars.com) and do not use our website till we fix the issue -if we can- and inform you.

Topics:

• What data do we collect?
• How do we collect your data?
• How will we use your data?
• How do we store your data?
• Marketing
• What are your data protection rights?
• What are cookies?
• How do we use cookies?
• What types of cookies do we use?
• How to manage your cookies
• Privacy policies of other websites
• Special Notice to California Users
• Special Notice to Turkish Users (Türk Kullanıcılar İçin)
  
• Changes to our privacy policy
• How to contact us
• How to contact the appropriate authorities

What data do we collect?

1000Scholars tries to collect the minimum amount of data to present services to its users. To improve the quality and extent of its services we might collect the following data:

• Personal identification information (Name, email address, phone number, gender, etc.)
• Personal education data ( degrees, qualifications, certifications, areas of expertise, etc.)
• Previously prepared, uploaded digital files such as your photo, portfolio, CV, etc.
• The jobs you applied for and/or shortlisted, the employers you shortlisted using our website
• The news you have read/shared and your comments on the news.
• General Information about your social media accounts, if you share.
• Browser type and operating system, IP addresses of your devices, your geographic location
• The web page that led you to our site (referring URL), dates, times, duration, and frequency of your interactions with our site and services
• The links that you clicked on our website.
• Interactions with our email messages (including information about the devices used to access these messages.)

If you have an employer account, we might collect the following data additionally:

• Descriptive information (name, email address, website, address, phone number, etc.) about your university, institution, organization, company, etc)
• Information about the products/services your organization provides to its customers

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide 1000Scholars with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

• Register our website online, fill in personal information about your personal education. (You generally do not have to fill in all the information in the forms on this website)
• Upload a CV a portfolio or similar file.
• Apply for a job or shortlist a job listing.
• Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
• Complete a voluntary research survey on 1000Scholars.com. You have the right to decline to participate in any survey.

1000Scholars may also receive data about you indirectly from the following sources:

• Publicly available data
• Privately-held marketing or data analytics resources, such as Google Analytics

How will we use your data?

1000Scholars collects your data so that we can:

• Manage your account
• Process your job applications.
• Allow the employers (to job listings of which you applied for) to see your personal information
• Email you about recent job listings and news we think you might like.
• Show advertorials to you.
• Offer new services that users can benefit from.

We do not have any partner companies/organizations, so we do not share your data with another company/organization. However, the employers you have applied for may store your personal information and process it. It is their responsibility to store and process your data in accordance with regulations. Thus, if you do not trust any 3rd party on 1000Scholars, please do not apply for the position opening and do not send any personal information.

We do not process the extra files (such as your portfolio) when you apply for a position using our website. Such files are just for allowing users to send more information easily to professors/organizations.

How do we store your data?

1000Scholars securely stores your data at cloud servers and physical devices. You can delete your account whenever you want, and if you want we can delete your personal information from cloud/physical servers/devices.

If 1000Scholars stops its services, we clear all the user data or anonymize them.

Marketing

1000Scholars would like to send you information about new products and services of ours that we think you might like.

If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt-out at a later date. You have the right at any time to stop 1000Scholars from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please send e-mail to data@1000scholars.com.

1000Scholars might show you advertisements on the web page.

1000Scholars does not sell your personal data to third parties (If you apply for a job, the employer of that job can reach the information you send them or you allowed the employers to see).

What are your data protection rights?

1000Scholars would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request 1000Scholars for copies of your personal data with no cost.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that 1000Scholars correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request 1000Scholars to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that 1000Scholars erase your personal data.

The right to (partially/fully) restrict processing – You have the right to request that 1000Scholars restrict the processing of your personal data. In such cases, we might not be able to continue to present some services to you, even we might have to delete your account.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email data@1000scholars.com.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

How do we use cookies? / Çerezleri nasıl kullanıyoruz?

As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

What types of cookies do we use?

Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log in to your account and add products to your basket, and checkout securely.

Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.

Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.
Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and more efficient experience on future visits to the website.

The below list details the cookies used in our website.

How can I control the cookie preferences?

Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Manage Consent” tab at the bottom of Privacy Policy page. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.

Privacy policies of other websites

The 1000Scholars website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Special Notice to California Consumers

This section provides specific information for residents of California (“consumers” in this section), as required under California privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). The CCPA requires that we provide certain information to California consumers about how we handle their personal information that we have collected, whether online or offline. Under the CCPA, “personal information” is any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, device or household, including the categories identified in the table below to the extent they identify, relate to, describe, are capable of being associated with, or could be reasonably linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, device or household. Personal information does not include publicly available information from government records; De-identified or aggregated consumer information; Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data; Personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this section.

Categories of Personal Information that We Collect, Disclose and Sell.

The table below discloses the categories of personal information about California consumers that we have collected, sold and disclosed for a business purpose within the twelve (12) months preceding the date of this Privacy Policy. The information in this section is tailored to meet the disclosure requirements of the CCPA.

Categories of Sources of Personal Information. We obtain the categories of information listed above from the following categories of sources:

Directly from you. For example, when you create a profile or account, fill out a form, or complete surveys.
Indirectly from you. 1000Scholars uses cookies, and similar technologies to collect automatically information about your use of our Site or Services. Examples include your browser type and operating system, pages you view and links you click on our website, your IP address, the length of time you visit our Site and/or use our Services; and the referring URL, or the web page that led you to our Site.
From third parties. We collect information about you from publicly available data and privately-held data analytics resources

California Consumer Rights. California law grants consumers certain rights and imposes restrictions on particular business practices as set forth below.

Do-Not-Sell. California consumers have the right to opt-out of our sale of their personal information. We do not sell your data to third parties, so there is no need for users to ask for opt-out. However, if you need to ask or share something obout your data, please contact us at our email data@1000scholars.com.

Requests for a Copy, Deletion, and Right to Know. Subject to certain exceptions, California consumers have the right to make the following requests, at no charge, up to twice every 12 months:

Deletion. The right to request deletion of your personal information that we have collected about you, subject to certain exemptions, such as where the information is used to complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, detect security incidents, debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality or comply with a legal obligation.
Copy. The right to request a copy of the categories or specific pieces of personal information that we have collected about you in the prior 12 months.
Right to Know. The right to request that we disclose specific information about our data practices with regard to your personal information over the prior 12 months, including the:
    categories of personal information collected
    categories of sources of personal information collected
    business and/or commercial purposes(s) for collecting and selling their personal information (we do not sell personal information) categories of third parties with whom we have disclosed or shared their personal information categories of personal information that we have disclosed or shared with a third party for a business purpose categories of personal information we have sold (we do not sell personal information) categories of third parties to whom the consumer’s personal information has been sold and the specific categories of personal information sold to each category of third party (we do not sell personal information) 

Submitting Requests. You can submit a copy, deletion, and right-to-know request by emailing us at data@1000scholars.com

Incentives and “Non-Discrimination”. The CCPA prohibits discrimination against California consumers for exercising their rights under the CCPA and imposes requirements on financial incentives, including loyalty programs offered to California consumers related to their personal information.

Non-Discrimination. If consumers exercise their rights under CCPA, businesses may not discriminate against them including by denying or providing a different level or quality of goods or services or charging or suggesting that a business will charge different prices or rates or impose penalties, unless doing so is reasonably related to the value provided by the consumer’s data.

Disclosure of Incentives. If businesses offer any financial incentives for the collection, sale, or deletion of their personal information, consumers have the right to be notified of any financial incentives offers and their material terms, as well as to opt-out of such offers at any time. Businesses may not offer unjust, unreasonable, coercive, or usurious financial incentives. We do not offer any financial incentives in exchange for personal information.

Shine The Light. California residents may request, free of charge, a list of what personal information (if any) we provided to third parties in the preceding year for that third party’s direct marketing purposes. You may make one request per calendar year. In your request, please attest that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for your response. You may request this information in writing by contacting us as set forth in the User Agreement. Please allow up to thirty (30) days for a response.

Special Notice to Turkish Users (Türk Kullanıcılar İçin)

Changes to our privacy policy

1000Scholars keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 1 March 2022.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about 1000Scholars’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us (e-mail: data@1000scholars.com).

How to contact the appropriate authority

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that 1000Scholars has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioner (e-mail: data@1000scholars.com)