Privacy Notice
Last updated: 13/02/2025
We are Visage, Inc. (“Visage”). This Privacy Notice explains who we are, how we collect, use and disclose your personal data and how you can exercise your privacy rights. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal data, or would like a printable version of this Privacy Notice, then please contact us using the details provided at the bottom of this Privacy Notice. If you are located in the European Union or the United Kingdom, the controller of your personal data is Visage, Inc.
- About us
Visage provides a crowdsourcing solution that uses advanced AI to help recruiters (our “Clients”) find the best talent for their roles. We obtain data about professionals and prospective candidates from publicly available sources and from our community of over 4,000 global sourcers.
2. What does this Privacy Notice cover?
This Privacy Notice applies to our collection, use and disclosure of personal data that relates to:
(a) individuals who visit our website at visage.jobs or register to use our services in order to source candidates for their roles, and individuals who sign up to receive communications from us or attend our events (“Users”);
(b) professionals and prospective candidates that we source on behalf of our Clients in connection with our services (“Professionals”); and
(c) individuals who help us to identify or provide intelligence about Professionals for our Clients in connection with our services (“Sourcers”).
Please note that this Privacy Notice only applies where we are processing personal data as a data controller. In certain circumstances, we process personal data as a data processor on behalf of our Clients, for example where they have provided us with information relating to their candidates. This Privacy Notice does not apply to the personal data we receive and process as a processor on behalf of our Clients, and you should contact the relevant company or organization if you have any questions about their privacy practices.
In addition, please also note that this Privacy Notice does not apply to the actions or activities of third party companies or organizations that we work with or any third party websites or platforms that link to or can be accessed through our website or services.
3. What personal data do we collect?
A) Information about Users
We need to collect and use information about you in the course of providing our services to you and your organization. The personal data that we may collect about you broadly falls into the following categories:
Information you provide voluntarily: We ask you to provide certain information voluntarily. This typically includes:
- Log-in credentials, such as your username and password;
- Identification data, such as name, company, job title, location and photograph;
- Contact data, such as email address;
- Payment information, such as your credit card information and billing address where you pay for our services;
- Communications data, such as chat messages;
- Support data, such as information about a technical issue you have reported.
We will also generate a unique Visage ID that we use to identify you when you are using the services.
If we ask you to provide any other personal data not described above, then the personal data we will ask you to provide, and the reasons why we ask you to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we collect the information.
Information we collect automatically: Like most companies that offer online services, we may also collect certain information automatically about your computer or device and usage of our services using cookies and similar tracking technology. In some countries, including countries in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, this information may be considered personal data under applicable data protection laws. This includes:
- Device information, such as your IP address, operating system, device type and manufacturer and browser type;
- Usage data, such as the dates and times you access the services and your browsing activities (such as what portions of the services you use, session durations, links clicked, non-sensitive text entered, and mouse movements).
Please see the section “Cookies and similar tracking technology” below and our cookie policy available at https://visage.jobs/cookie-policy for more information.
Information we obtain from third party sources: From time to time, we may receive certain personal data about you from third party sources (such as Intercom), but only where we have checked that these third parties either have your consent or are otherwise legally permitted or required to disclose your personal data to us. The types of information we collect from third parties include your location (based on IP address), browser type and version, operating system, device type and pages visited. We use this information to better understand your use of our services.
B**) Information about Professionals**
We collect, use and disclose information about Professionals in the course of providing our services to our Clients. The personal data that we may collect about you broadly falls into the following categories:
Information we obtain from third party sources and our Sourcers: If you are a prospective candidate, we may obtain personal data about you from publicly available sources (such as LinkedIn, news reports, press releases and social media platforms), our third party data providers (such as FullContact) or from Sourcers that provide information to use in connection with our services. Whenever we obtain information from third parties (including our third party data providers and Sourcers), we take appropriate steps to ensure that such third parties have obtained your information lawfully.
The information we obtain typically includes:
- Identification data, such as your name, location, time zone and social media URL or username;
- Contact data, such as your email address;
- Professional profile data, such as your current job title, employment type, seniority, employer, company industry and CV.
Information we obtain from our Clients: Our Clients may also provide us with personal data about you in connection with our services (for example, if they provide us with a list of their existing candidates). We use this information to provide the services to our Clients and only as instructed by the Clients. Under these circumstances, we process your information as a processor on our Clients’ behalf and it our Clients, as the controllers of the information, that determine what information we process about you and how we use it. If you have any privacy-related questions or concerns about one of our Client’s privacy practices, or the choices a Client has made to share your information with us, you should contact that company or organization directly. We are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of our Clients, which may differ from those described in this Privacy Notice.
C) Information about Sourcers
We need to collect and use information about you in the course of providing our services to you. The personal data that we may collect broadly falls into the following categories:
Information you provide voluntarily: We ask you to provide certain information voluntarily. This typically includes:
- Log-in credentials, such as your username and password;
- Identification data, such as name, company, job title, location and photograph;
- Contact data, such as email address;
- Payment information, such as your bank account information where we pay you for identifying Professionals for us;
- Communications data, such as chat messages;
- Support data, such as information about a technical issue you have reported.
We will also generate a unique Visage ID that we use to identify you when you are using the service.