Consent & Privacy Policy

At CareerRiz, we take your privacy seriously.

We collect only the information we need to review your application, improve our programs, and connect you with opportunities that support your career growth. By using this site or submitting a scholarship application, you agree to the practices outlined below.

1. What Information We Collect

  • Contact Details: Name, email, city & country

  • Employment and Education Information: Current employment status, highest education level, years in role, years of field experience

  • Career Interests and Program Preferences: Desired career field, program type, and target career field

  • Optional Demographic Information: Age range, first-generation college student status

  • How You Heard About CareerRiz: Referral source

  • Your Communication Preferences: What you’d like to receive from us

2. How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

  • Review and score scholarship applications

  • Communicate with you about your application status

  • Match you with relevant training, education, and career resources

  • Invite you to webinars, workshops, and support programs

  • Share job or career opportunities from trusted partners (if you opt in)

  • Improve our processes, scoring model, and program design

  • Report aggregate, anonymized results to grant funders and partners

  • Understand trends and barriers facing job seekers and career shifters

3. Email Consent & Communication Preferences

We respect your inbox. On our forms, you’ll have the option to choose what you’d like to receive. You can change your mind at any time by:

  • Clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of our emails, or

  • Contacting us at support@careerriz.org (or your preferred email).

4. Data Use for Educational & Program Improvement

CareerRiz may use application and participation data to:

  • Improve scholarship processes, scoring systems, and program delivery

  • Design better training supports and resources

  • Test and refine our scoring system for fairness and impact

  • Strengthen grant applications and reports by sharing non-identifiable, aggregate insights

5. When We Share Information

We may share limited information with:

  • Training providers or schools, to help administer a scholarship you’ve been awarded

  • Technology and service providers (for example, email systems or application tools) that help us run the program

  • Employer or career partners, only if you’ve opted in to receive job or opportunity alerts

6. How We Protect Your Information

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect the information we collect, including:

  • Limiting access to staff and volunteers who need information to perform their roles

  • Using secure tools and platforms to manage applications and communication

  • Regularly reviewing processes for security and compliance

7. Your Choices & Rights

You can:

  • Update your contact information by emailing us

  • Change your communication preferences or unsubscribe from optional emails

  • Ask how your data is being used in connection with CareerRiz programs

  • Request removal from optional email lists at any time

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Consent & Privacy section from time to time as our programs, tools, or legal requirements change. When we make updates, we will adjust the “Last updated” date on this page.