Contact Taiwan Membership Rights and Obligations

Dear Talent Seeker,
Welcome to the Contact Taiwan website. The Contact Taiwan website is run on behalf of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) with the aim of recruiting professionals to work for Taiwanese enterprises.
Please read through the following information carefully. It will help your company to use the site more effectively. It also explains your rights and obligations with respect to the Contact Taiwan website.

1. Contact TAIWAN hereby informs you of the following in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL).
   • Name of government agency: Department of Investment Promotion, Ministry of Economic Affairs.
   • Purpose of collection: Establishment of a matchmaking platform for job-seekers and enterprise members to promote and increase matchmaking opportunities for job seekers and enterprise members through analysis, integration, and processing of personal information.
   • Personal information categories: Name, date of birth, e-mail address, current working location and country, nationality, working experience, length of working experience, and other kinds of personal information necessitated by the purposes of collection.
   • Time period: Your personal information will be kept indefinitely for the purpose of collection of this website; however, this website has the right to delete your information under circumstances such as website upgrading, maintenance, and re-construction.
   • Target: Hiring enterprises, Ministry of Economic Affairs units in charge (including overseas offices), and program executors (including the Contact Taiwan website).
   • Areas of use: Areas where enterprises and their overseas branches are located.
   • Methods of personal information utilization: Telephone, internet, e-mail, paper document and fax.
   • How to exercise your rights under the Personal Information Protection Act: With regard to your personal information, subject to the applicable laws, you are entitled to (i) make inquiries or request a review, and request duplications; (ii) request supplements or corrections; and (iii) request discontinuation of collection, processing or use of your personal information, and request deletion of the same, but the requests may not be followed in accordance with the laws in case that is necessary for the relevant agencies to perform their duties or conduct their business; and (iv) if there is any marketing activity involved in the use of your personal information, you may indicate refusal for such use by the following means: You may contact us during office hours, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday by calling 0800-888-070 or by clicking on “Contact Us” to exercise all the said foregoing rights. At the “Contact Us” page, please select “Contact Taiwan Website FAQ” in the Question Type column, and leave your message in the Contents column. We will process your request as soon as possible.
   • It is not compulsory for members to provide personal information; however, the denial of provision will decrease your opportunity to enjoy full matchmaking services via the platform.
2. All of the services provided by the Contact Taiwan website are free of charge. The site provides job seeker and job vacancy matching services for the use of companies, academic institutions, and research institutions seeking to recruit overseas talent to come and work in Taiwan. Please fill out the form correctly to ensure your company’s rights. After your company has sent its details to Contact Taiwan, the Contact Taiwan website will review its qualifications. This review process will normally take 1-3 working days, and you will be notified of the results by e-mail. Only those companies that successfully complete the review process will be accepted as members and thus be able to enjoy the various services that are available to members.
3. Please do not give any of your personal information regarding your registration on this website to other people. Your company is responsible for ensuring that your account number and password are not used by any third party. You are therefore responsible for all actions taken after entering the Contact Taiwan website using your account number and password, regardless of whether such actions were authorized by you.
4. The information that your company transmits to the Contact Taiwan website may not contain any falsehoods, slander, obscene language, threats, insults, or expressions of hatred or insinuations directed at particular individuals or groups. Furthermore, the information transmitted to the website may not contain or constitute any violation of patents or other intellectual property rights, nor may it violate any laws or regulations.
5. Your company's field of business may not include recruitment services (the business field of the Contact Taiwan website) or any related field of business, such as manpower services or temporary employee agency operation.
   If your company's field of business does include any such businesses, then the Contact Taiwan website has the right to reject your application to become a member of the Contact Taiwan website or to cancel your membership if you are already a member.
6. With regard to the selection of job applicants and the subsequent interview and hiring processes, your company should make decisions based on its own judgment as any business enterprise would do and should undertake all necessary review of the information submitted by job applicants.
7. Your company understands that the placing of job vacancy advertisements on the Contact Taiwan website does not imply that Contact Taiwan is under any obligation or bears any responsibility in the event that a company seeking to fill a job vacancy is unable to find a suitable applicant, or in the event of a dispute arising between a company seeking to fill a job vacancy and a job-seeker.
   No claims or requests will be entertained, and companies seeking to fill job vacancies may not disseminate information that could be harmful to the reputation of the Contact Taiwan website.
8. Your company understands that, for all messages or information provided by or obtained from this website (the “Website Contents”), this website makes no statement or judgment regarding the correctness, timeliness, applicability, or reliability of the Website Contents. All Website Contents are provided on "as-is" basis, and this website hereby explicitly declares not to make any express or implied guarantee (warranty) for such Website Contents. This website has the right, from time to time, to modify or delete the information or advice provided for this service.
9. If your company recruits a new employee through the Contact Taiwan website, you are required to notify Contact Taiwan either by telephone, fax, or e-mail.
10. To assist in talent recruitment, the job vacancies and information that your company posts on the Contact Taiwan website may be used in various ways or at various events, such as overseas offices, overseas associations and recruitment activities.
11. Due to the system security and mail server capacity of the Contact Taiwan page, each member enterprise is limited to 50 mail contacts per day. Please use personal data with great care. We wish you success in your recruiting efforts.
12. Contact Taiwan shall have the right to modify the rights and obligations listed in this document at any time. The announcement of such modifications will be made on the Contact Taiwan website. Contact Taiwan will not issue separate notifications to individual members.

If, after reading through the rights and obligations listed above, you agree to accept the rights and obligations, please click on "I agree". Clicking on this button implies your acceptance of the rights and obligations. You will then be able to make use of the services provided by the Contact Taiwan website.
If you do not agree to accept the rights and obligations, then you can now leave this web page. We look forward to having the opportunity to serve you in the future.