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This Privacy Policy explains how Fair Job Market collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information when you use our website, marketplace, and related services.

Effective date: 09/17/2026

1. Who we are

Fair Job Market (“Fair Job Market,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates a US-focused marketplace that connects employers, independent professionals, and recruiters. This Policy applies to personal information we process in connection with the platform.

Third parties that provide services through or alongside the platform, such as payment providers, may process personal information under their own privacy policies.

2. Information we collect

Account and contact information

We collect information such as your name, email address, password in hashed form, account type, email-verification status, communication preferences, and authentication settings.

Profile and professional information

Depending on your role, we may collect your business or professional name, profile photo, location, biography, skills, work history, portfolio information, LinkedIn URL, availability, rates, and other details you add to your profile. We also process profile-verification status, review history, rejection reasons, and related records.

Marketplace and contract information

We collect job posts, applications, proposals, application decisions, contracts, milestone descriptions, submissions, change requests, approvals, messages, uploaded files, and related activity history.

Payment, payout, and tax information

We process transaction amounts, platform fees, payment and payout status, payment provider account identifiers, transaction identifiers, payout eligibility, and related financial records. Payment providers such as Stripe collect and process payment-card, bank-account, identity, and tax information needed to provide their services. We do not receive or store complete payment-card or bank-account numbers when they are entered directly with the payment provider.

Recruiter and referral information

We collect recruiter profiles, referral identifiers, referral links, attribution records, referred-user relationships, platform-fee activity, earnings, payout status, and related reporting information.

Device, usage, and security information

We automatically collect information such as IP address, approximate location derived from IP address, browser and device details, pages and features used, dates and times, referring pages, session information, authentication activity, login successes and failures, user agent, security events, and error or diagnostic data. We may use analytics providers to help collect and analyze some of this information.

Communications and support

We collect information you provide when you contact us, report a problem, request a review, appeal a decision, participate in a dispute, or otherwise communicate with us.

3. How we collect information

We collect personal information from:

  • You, when you register, build a profile, post or apply for work, communicate, or complete a transaction;
  • Other users, when they invite you, refer you, communicate with you, or take action relating to a job or contract;
  • Recruiters, when they refer an employer or professional;
  • Payment, identity, security, hosting, and communications providers;
  • Your device and browser when you use the platform; and
  • Publicly available sources when reasonably necessary for verification, safety, or fraud prevention.

4. How we use personal information

We use personal information to:

  • Create, maintain, authenticate, and secure accounts;
  • Display profiles, job posts, and other marketplace content;
  • Process applications, contracts, milestones, submissions, and messages;
  • Facilitate payments, payouts, platform fees, refunds, and recruiter earnings;
  • Verify professional, employer, recruiter, and payment-account information;
  • Send transactional, security, contract, payment, payout, and service notifications;
  • Provide support and address disputes, appeals, and requests;
  • Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, abuse, security incidents, and policy violations;
  • Enforce our Terms of Service and protect users and the platform;
  • Analyze, maintain, troubleshoot, and improve the services; and
  • Comply with legal, tax, accounting, regulatory, and payment-provider requirements.

5. How we disclose personal information

Other marketplace users

We disclose information as needed for users to evaluate opportunities and carry out marketplace activity. For example, employers may view professional profiles and applications, professionals may view employer and job information, and contract participants may view contract, milestone, submission, payment-status, and message information relevant to their work.

Recruiters

If your account is attributed to a recruiter, that recruiter may see limited information about you and eligible platform activity. This may include your name, email address, join date, attribution status, and aggregate funded, earned, released, or fee information used to calculate and report recruiter earnings. Recruiters do not receive your complete payment-card or bank-account details.

Service providers

We disclose information to providers that help us operate and understand the platform, including payment and payout processing, hosting, infrastructure, email delivery, analytics, security, bot prevention, authentication, monitoring, storage, and support. These providers may process information only as permitted by their agreements and applicable law.

Legal, safety, and compliance purposes

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe it is necessary to comply with law or legal process, respond to lawful requests, protect rights or safety, prevent fraud or abuse, enforce our agreements, or investigate security incidents.

Business transfers

We may disclose or transfer information in connection with a merger, financing, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, sale of assets, or similar transaction, subject to appropriate confidentiality and legal protections.

With your direction or consent

We may disclose information for another purpose when you direct us to do so or give your consent.

6. Public information

Some information is intended to be public. Public professional profiles may include your name, profile image, location, biography, skills, experience, portfolio information, verification status, and other information you choose to display. Public job posts may include employer, location, budget, scope, and other job details. Do not include sensitive or confidential information in public fields.

7. Cookies, analytics, and similar technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies needed to operate and secure the platform, remember sessions and preferences, prevent fraud, and understand service performance. Blocking essential cookies may prevent parts of the platform from working.

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use the platform. Google Analytics may collect information about pages viewed, interactions with the platform, referring pages, approximate location, browser and device details, and dates and times of visits. Google Analytics uses first-party cookies and similar technologies to distinguish users and sessions and to prepare aggregated usage reports for us.

Google processes analytics information under its own terms and privacy practices. You can learn more in Google’s Privacy Policy and in Google’s information about safeguarding Analytics data .

You can limit analytics collection by blocking or deleting cookies through your browser settings or by using the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on .

We use Cloudflare Turnstile or similar tools on certain forms to distinguish legitimate users from automated abuse. These tools may process device, browser, network, and interaction information for security purposes under the provider’s privacy terms.

We do not currently use personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. If our practices change, we will update this Policy and provide any choices required by law.

8. Payment and identity providers

We use third-party providers, including Stripe, to process payments, connected accounts, identity or business verification, transfers, and payouts. Information submitted directly to a provider is governed by that provider’s privacy policy in addition to this Policy. Providers may share account status, capabilities, verification results, transaction information, and risk signals with us so we can operate the marketplace and comply with legal and payment-network obligations.

9. Data retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the services, maintain your account, complete transactions, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, enforce our agreements, and meet legal, tax, accounting, payment-provider, and regulatory obligations.

Retention periods vary according to the type of information and why it was collected. We may retain transaction, contract, security, and compliance records after account closure when required or reasonably necessary. Information may remain temporarily in protected backups before deletion or de-identification.

10. Security

We use administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information. These may include access controls, encryption in transit, password hashing, multi-factor authentication options, login monitoring, rate limits, and security reviews. No system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, loss, or misuse will never occur.

11. Your choices and rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or a portable copy of certain personal information. You may also have the right to obtain information about our collection and disclosure practices, restrict or object to certain processing, or appeal our response to a request.

You can update certain information through your account. To make another privacy request, email us using the address below. We may need to verify your identity and authority before completing a request. Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by law, subject to verification.

We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right. Some information may be exempt from a request or may need to be retained to complete transactions, protect security, comply with law, or establish and defend legal claims.

Fair Job Market does not sell personal information for money and does not currently share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as those terms are defined under applicable US state privacy laws.

12. Children’s privacy

Fair Job Market is intended for adults and is not directed to children under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact us so we can investigate and take appropriate action.

13. Processing locations

Fair Job Market is focused on the United States. We and our service providers may process and store information in the United States and other locations where they operate. Those locations may have privacy laws that differ from the laws where you live.

14. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our services, technology, legal requirements, or practices. We will update the effective date and, when changes are material, provide reasonable notice through the platform, by email, or by another appropriate method.

15. Contact us

For privacy questions or requests, contact "Peter George Digital" at skygdi83@gmail.com .