Privacy policy
What we collect, why we collect it, who ever sees it, and how you get it changed or removed.
Youth Careers Canada (“we”, “us”) is a Canadian job bank. We collect personal information only to run the service, and we handle it in line with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and applicable provincial privacy laws.
1.What we collect
- Job seekers: name, email, phone, city and province, work preferences, skills, the communities you choose to identify with (optional), your resume and any cover letters you submit.
- Employers and consultants: name, email, phone, company details, job postings, and billing records (we never store full card numbers — payments are processed by Stripe).
- Everyone: messages you send us, and basic technical data such as IP address, browser type and pages viewed, used for security and to keep the site working.
Identifying with a community (for example New Immigrants or Indigenous) is always optional. It is used only to match you with postings that welcome that community and is never shown publicly.
2.How we use it
- To run your account, publish postings, deliver applications to employers and send job alerts you ask for.
- To bill subscriptions (employers $19.95 + GST per posting per month, third party consultants $14.95 + GST per posting per month), issue receipts and meet tax obligations.
- To answer support requests, prevent abuse and improve the service.
We do not sell personal information and we do not use it for advertising.
4.Storage and retention
Data is stored on servers in Canada where possible. Resumes are kept while your account is active and removed within 90 days of account deletion. Billing records are retained for seven years as required by the Canada Revenue Agency. Expired or cancelled job postings are removed from public view immediately and retained in the employer’s private archive.
5.Your rights
You may access, correct or delete your personal information at any time from your account pages, or by contacting us. You may withdraw consent to job alerts using the link in any alert email. If you are not satisfied with our response you may complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
6.Cookies
We use a session cookie to keep you signed in. We also remember where you first arrived from (the referring site, the page you landed on and any campaign tags in its link) in a first-party cookie for 90 days, and save it with your account if you sign up, so we can understand how people find the site. It is never sent to anyone else. We do not use third-party advertising or tracking cookies.
7.Contact
Privacy questions go to our support team through the contact page. We respond within 30 days.
Something here unclear, or want your information removed? Ask us directly. The terms of use cover the rest of the rules.