Privacy Policy

Last updated: 8 October 2026

OnboardingSA (“we”, “us”, “our”) runs onboardingsa.co.za, a free job-listing site for South African job seekers. We respect your privacy and handle personal information in line with South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPIA). This policy explains what information is collected when you use the site, why, and the choices you have.

Who is responsible

OnboardingSA is the responsible party for personal information processed through this site. You can reach us, including our Information Officer, at hello@onboardingsa.co.za or through our contact page.

Information we collect

Information you give us. If you contact us by email, phone or WhatsApp, we receive the details you choose to share (such as your name, number and message). We use them only to reply to you.

Information collected automatically. Like most websites, our hosting provider and our advertising partner receive technical information when you visit, such as your IP address, browser type, device, pages viewed and the date and time of your visit. Some of this is collected using cookies (see below).

We do not collect applications or CVs. Every job links to the employer’s or recruiter’s official page, and you apply there. OnboardingSA never asks for your ID number, CV, bank details or any payment.

Job listings and personal information

Job listings are gathered from employers’ and recruiters’ publicly advertised vacancies. Before publishing, we automatically remove personal contact details that appear in job adverts, such as individual email addresses, phone and WhatsApp numbers and ID numbers, and direct applicants to the official application link instead. If you see your personal information on our site, contact us and we will remove it promptly.

Advertising and cookies

We show advertising on this site to keep it free. Our advertising is provided by Google AdSense.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.

You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some other third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info. If you opt out, you will still see ads, but they will be less relevant to you.

To learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings; the site will still work without them.

Where the law requires it (for example, for visitors from the European Economic Area, the UK or Switzerland), you will be asked for your consent before personalised ads are shown, and you can change your choice at any time.

Sharing

We do not sell your personal information. Information is shared only with service providers that help us run the site (such as our web host and Google as our advertising provider), or where the law requires it. Some of these providers are based outside South Africa; they are bound by their own privacy and data-protection commitments.

How long we keep information

Messages you send us are kept only as long as needed to respond and are then deleted. Job listings are removed from the site after their closing date.

Security

The site is served over HTTPS. Because we do not collect applications, CVs or account details, we hold very little personal information about our visitors.

Your rights

Under POPIA you may ask us whether we hold personal information about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, and object to its processing. Contact us at hello@onboardingsa.co.za. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may complain to the Information Regulator (South Africa) at inforegulator.org.za.

Children

The site is intended for job seekers aged 16 and older and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Links to other sites

Our listings link to employers’ and recruiters’ websites. Once you leave OnboardingSA, that site’s own privacy policy applies.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top shows when it was last changed.