Sources of Information
Monster collects data from a variety of places–both online and offline. These are the categories of sources from which we collect personal information.
JOB SEEKERS
Job Seekers provide us information voluntarily when they take actions like:
- Create an account with us
- Apply for a job posted on our sites or apps
- Upload a resume
- Answer questionnaires and surveys from recruiters and employers
- Enter a sweepstakes, provide information or answer questions as you interact with our applications by, for instance, doing interview preparation.
- Provide information on the status of their job search or any particular application
Job Seekers provide us information automatically when they take actions like:
- Browse our websites or use our apps
- Link social media accounts to their Monster profile
- Use third-parties to log-in to our platforms
OTHER PARTIES
We collect personal information from other participants in the job search and placement process and from those who help us provide you our services.
These sources are
- Recruiters, employers, and customers
- Our service providers, business partners and vendors
Click the dropdown below to learn more about who these other parties are, what information we receive from them, and how we collect that information.
More Info About Other Parties
| Who They Are | They Provide Us |
| Recruiters, Employers, & Our Customers search Monster job seeker profiles to find the right candidate and send us information about their candidate search processes. We provide them powerful tools to find the right ones. | Browsing information |
| Contact Information | |
| Financial Information | |
| Personal Identification | |
| Profiles, Inferences & Generated Data | |
| Disposition Data Relative to Where You Stand in the Hiring Process |
| Service Providers & Vendors who provide us goods and services | • Browsing Information |
| • Commercial Information • Contact Information • User Account Data Information |
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| Service Providers & Vendors who provide us goods and services | • Browsing Information |
| • Commercial Information • Contact Information • User Account Data Information | |
| Financial Information |
COOKIES & TRACKERS
Monster and its partners use cookies on the Monster sites to analyze trends, administer websites, track users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our users. Cookies help personalize and maximize your use of our platforms, including storing user preferences, improving search results and ad selection, and tracking user trends. You will find other parties’ trackers on our websites and apps too. Other parties post jobs on our websites and some recruiters send emails that have cookies or web beacons embedded in them. These are called third-party cookies. Some third-party cookies are used to track a particular user’s activity across the Internet. You can control your cookies at the browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website or service. Please review the Your Privacy Rights section of this Privacy Notice for more options, as well as clicking on the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out and/or selecting Ad Choices in the footer of www.Monster.com. You may also choose to allow or disallow certain cookies by making selections in our cookie management tool.
Monster Cookies
Monster uses the following types of cookies:
- Essential/Strictly Necessary: cookies to operate essential features of our website, including securing your access to your account. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly. You cannot opt-out of these cookies.
- Analytics: cookies that track traffic patterns so we can identify popular content, potential problems, and perform analytics.
- Functional: we use these cookies to enable non-essential features on our website, such as testing new features, storing your preferences, displaying job search results, and tracking jobs you search for, view, and apply to so we can show you other comparable employment opportunities.
- Advertising: cookies that show you advertising on Monster and third-party websites.
Some cookies will remain on your computer after you have left our site. Security cookies will remain for 60 days after your last visit. Poll response cookies will remain for 90 days, and Monster cookies relating to advertisements and site notices will remain for up to two years, unless you choose to delete them.
Monster uses web beacons (sometimes called pixels) and JavaScript. We may receive confirmation when you open an email from Monster if your computer supports this type of program. Monster uses “Flash cookies”, also known as “Local Shared Objects”, to preserve video player settings and for security purposes. You can adjust your settings for your Flash cookies.
Third-Party Cookies and Analytics
Some cookies and web beacons found on our websites and apps are not hosted or delivered by Monster. Third-party cookies provide website users valuable tools and features to do things like share jobs on social media platforms and see relevant ad content. Monster does not have control over information contained in the cookies that are set on your computer by third parties. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy notice of the company providing them. The cookies placed by these third parties could remain on your computer after you have left our site for up to 20 years unless you choose to delete them. You can opt out of third-party cookies by setting your browser to decline cookies or using our cookie consent tool. If you delete your cookies in your computer, your opt-out cookie will also be deleted. If you change computers or web browsers, you will need to opt-out again.
Monster also uses third-party analytics services, which use cookies to collect details of our users’ visits to our websites and the resources they access there. These third-party analytics services provide us with reports based on this information to help us understand how visitors engage with the content on our websites.
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Third-Party cookies, pixels and trackers include:
Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics, a tool provided by Google, Inc. for analytics services. Google’s use and collection of this data is governed by its own privacy policy, which can be found at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US.
Facebook Meta Pixel. Facebook pixel is an analytics tool provided by Meta, Inc. that connects data from Facebook with actions performed on our websites and services. The Facebook pixel tracks conversions that can be attributed to ads on its own websites. This data is stored and processed by Meta. Meta’s collection and usage of this data is governed by its own privacy policy, which can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/.
Rakuten: Rakuten Advertising may collect personal information when you interact with our digital property, including IP addresses, digital identifiers, information about your web browsing and app usage and how you interact with our properties and ads for a variety of purposes, such as personalization of offers or advertisements, analytics about how you engage with websites or ads and other commercial purposes. To opt-out of Rakuten Advertising’s collection of any personal information, you may do so here: https://rakutenadvertising.com/legal-notices/services-privacy-rights-request-form/. For more information about the collection, use and sale of your personal data and your rights, please visit their privacy page: https://rakutenadvertising.com/legal-notices/services-privacy-policy/.