Effective Date: 11 September 2026
SACareer24 (“SACareer24”, “we”, “us” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting information that may be collected when you visit or interact with our website.
This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, stored and shared when you use SACareer24.
By using our website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We May Collect
Depending on how you use SACareer24, we may collect or receive different types of information.
Information You Provide
You may voluntarily provide information when you:
- Contact us
- Submit a question or enquiry
- Report a job listing
- Submit a job or other content
- Subscribe to an email or job-alert service
- Participate in a promotion or other website feature
This information may include your name, email address and any other information that you voluntarily include in your communication.
Please do not send passwords, banking PINs, payment-card details or other highly sensitive information through ordinary contact forms or email.
Automatically Collected Information
When you visit SACareer24, certain technical information may automatically be collected by our website, hosting provider, analytics tools, advertising providers or other technologies.
This may include information such as:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Referring website
- Pages visited
- Approximate location derived from technical information
- Date and time of visits
- General website usage information
The exact information collected depends on the technologies and services operating on the website.
2. Cookies and Similar Technologies
SACareer24 may use cookies and similar technologies.
Cookies are small files or pieces of information that may be stored on your device when you visit a website.
We may use cookies to:
- Operate and secure the website
- Remember certain preferences
- Understand website usage
- Improve website performance
- Measure traffic
- Support advertising
- Provide relevant website functionality
Some cookies may be placed by third-party service providers.
3. Google AdSense and Advertising
SACareer24 may use Google AdSense or other advertising services to display advertisements.
Third-party advertising providers, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses or similar technologies to collect information in connection with advertising.
Google and its advertising partners may use information about a user’s visits to this and other websites to help provide and measure advertising, subject to applicable policies and user choices.
Google’s advertising technology may use cookies to help serve advertisements on websites participating in Google’s advertising network.
For more information about how Google uses information when you use websites or apps that partner with Google, users can visit Google’s relevant privacy information resources.
Users may also manage certain advertising preferences through Google’s advertising settings where available.
4. Personalised Advertising
Depending on applicable settings, user consent and the advertising products used on SACareer24, advertisements may be personalised based on information such as browsing activity or interests.
Where legally required, appropriate consent mechanisms may be used before certain cookies or personalised advertising technologies are activated.
5. Third-Party Services
SACareer24 may use third-party services to operate, understand, secure or monetise the website.
These may include services such as:
- Web hosting providers
- Website analytics services
- Advertising providers
- Email providers
- Security services
- Content delivery services
- Social media or embedded content providers
These third parties may process certain information in accordance with their own privacy policies and applicable laws.
We encourage users to review the privacy policies of third-party services when appropriate.
6. Analytics
SACareer24 may use analytics services to understand how visitors use the website.
Analytics information can help us understand:
- Which pages receive visits
- How visitors navigate the website
- General traffic trends
- Website performance
- Technical problems
- Which content is useful to visitors
If analytics services are used, the specific providers and technologies may change over time.
7. Contact Forms and Communications
If you contact SACareer24, we may use the information you provide to:
- Respond to your enquiry
- Investigate a reported issue
- Correct website information
- Communicate with you about your request
- Maintain records of legitimate business communications
We do not ask users to submit unnecessary sensitive information.
8. Job Applications
SACareer24 may provide links to external websites where users can apply for jobs.
If you follow an external application link, your information may be collected directly by the employer, recruitment agency or third-party website.
Information submitted to an external website is subject to that website’s own privacy policy.
SACareer24 does not control how an external employer or recruitment platform processes information submitted through its website.
9. How We Use Information
We may use information for legitimate purposes including:
- Operating SACareer24
- Providing requested services
- Responding to enquiries
- Improving our website
- Protecting website security
- Detecting abuse or fraudulent activity
- Understanding website traffic
- Improving content
- Managing advertising
- Complying with legal obligations
- Enforcing our Terms & Conditions
10. Information Sharing
We do not sell personal information simply because you visit SACareer24.
However, information may be processed or shared where reasonably necessary to operate the website, provide requested services, comply with legal obligations, protect our rights, prevent fraud or operate third-party services.
For example, information may be processed by hosting, security, analytics, email or advertising providers where those services are used on the website.
11. Data Security
We take reasonable measures designed to protect information against unauthorised access, misuse, alteration or disclosure.
However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You should therefore exercise caution when providing information online.
12. Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, to provide services, maintain appropriate business records, resolve disputes, comply with legal requirements or protect our legitimate interests.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.
13. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights relating to your personal information.
These may include rights to:
- Request information about personal data we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion where legally applicable
- Object to certain processing
- Request restriction of certain processing
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
Requests should be sent to:
Privacy Email: [insert privacy email address]
We may need to take reasonable steps to verify the identity of the person making a request before providing or changing information.
14. South African Privacy Law
SACareer24 operates in South Africa and seeks to respect applicable South African privacy and data-protection requirements, including the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), where applicable.
The exact rights and obligations applicable to a particular person may depend on the circumstances and nature of the processing involved.
15. Children’s Privacy
SACareer24 is primarily intended for people seeking career and employment information.
We do not knowingly seek to collect unnecessary personal information from children.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us unnecessarily, please contact us so that we can review the situation.
16. Third-Party Websites
SACareer24 may link to third-party websites.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of third-party websites.
You should review the privacy policy of any external website before providing personal information.
17. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
Changes will be published on this page and the effective date may be updated.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
18. Contact Us About Privacy
If you have questions, concerns or requests relating to this Privacy Policy or your personal information, contact:
SACareer24
Email: [insert privacy email address]
Country: South Africa
We will review legitimate privacy enquiries and respond within a reasonable period, subject to applicable law.
19. Important Information About Advertising
SACareer24 may use third-party advertising technologies, including Google advertising services.
Google requires publishers using its advertising products to provide appropriate privacy disclosures regarding cookies and related technologies. Our use of advertising services may change over time, and this Privacy Policy may be updated accordingly.