1 Overview

Electronic email is pervasively used in the business and is often our primary communication and awareness method. At the same time, misuse of email can post many legal, privacy and security risks, thus it’s important for users to understand the appropriate use of electronic communications.

2 Purpose

The purpose of this email policy is to ensure the proper use of email system and make users aware of what deems as acceptable and unacceptable use of its email system. This policy outlines the minimum requirements for use of email within our business.

3 Scope

This policy covers appropriate use of any email sent from a Jobs-boost.com email address and applies to all employees, vendors, and agents operating on our behalf.

4 Policy

4.1 All use of email must be consistent with policies and procedures of ethical conduct, safety, compliance with applicable laws and proper business practices.
4.2 email account should be used primarily for business-related purposes; personal communication is permitted on a limited basis, but non- related commercial uses are prohibited.
4.3 All data contained within an email message or an attachment must be secured according to the Data Protection Standard.
4.4 Email should be retained only if it qualifies as a business record. Email is a business record if there exists a legitimate and ongoing business reason to preserve the information contained in the email.
4.5 Email that is identified as a business record shall be retained according to Data Retention Policy.
4.6 The email system shall not to be used for the creation or distribution of any disruptive or offensive messages, including offensive comments about race, gender, hair color, disabilities, age, sexual orientation, pornography, religious beliefs and practice, political beliefs, or national origin. Employees who receive any emails with this content from any employee should report the matter to their supervisor immediately.
4.7 Users are prohibited from automatically forwarding email to a third party email system (noted in 4.8 below). Individual messages which are forwarded by the user must not contain confidential or above information.
4.8 Users are prohibited from using third-party email systems and storage servers such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN Hotmail etc. to conduct business, to create or memorialize any binding transactions, or to store or retain email on behalf of . Such communications and transactions should be conducted through proper channels using Jobs-boost.com-approved documentation.
4.9 Using a reasonable amount of resources for personal emails is acceptable, but non-work related email shall be saved in a separate folder from work related email. Sending chain letters or joke emails from a Jobs-boost.com email account is prohibited.
4.10 Employees shall have no expectation of privacy in anything they store, send or receive on the company’s email system.
4.11 Jobs-boost.com may monitor messages without prior notice, however, Jobs-boost.com is not obliged to monitor email messages.

5 Policy Compliance

5.1 Compliance Measurement – Quality Services team will verify compliance to this policy through various methods, including but not limited to, periodic walk-throughs, video monitoring, business tool reports, internal and external audits, and feedback to the policy owner.
5.2 Exceptions - Any exception to the policy must be approved by the Quality Services team in advance.
5.3 Non-Compliance - An employee found to have violated this policy may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

6 Related Standards, Policies and Processes

All are Data Protection Standard, following all current and up-to-date principals and policies.

7 Data Controller

Suki Samra is the Data Controller for personal data that we process and will be happy to answer any queries you may have concerning the way Click-a-job processes personal data.
He can be contacted at suki.samra@jobs-boost.com

Please see  https://ico.org.uk for further information on the above rights. You have a right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office about the way in which we process your personal data.