Privacy Policy

• You can search and read every job listing on this website without an account and without giving us any personal information.
• If you choose to register, we collect only your first name, last name and email address, plus a securely hashed password. Anything you add to your profile - such as your education or date of birth - is optional and used only to match jobs to you.
• When you register we also note how you found the site - a search, a shared link, or typing the address - so we know which sources are worth our effort. Recorded once, never sold.
• We use cookies that are necessary to keep you signed in. We also use Google Analytics to count visits, and this site is funded by advertising served by Google, which sets its own cookies. Both are explained below, with links to turn them off.
• We do not sell, rent or trade your personal data, and we do not send it to recruiters or government departments.
• You can ask us to delete your account and data at any time by emailing contact@pakistangovernmentjobs.com.

The sections below give the detail. This policy applies to https://pakistangovernmentjobs.com and covers this website only - not the official government websites we link to, which have their own policies.

Pakistan Government Jobs is an independent, privately operated website run by Faaiz Mahmood, an individual based in Lahore, Pakistan. It is not a government body - see our disclaimer. Faaiz Mahmood is the data controller for the personal data described here, and can be reached at contact@pakistangovernmentjobs.com.

No account is needed to browse. Searching, filtering and reading listings needs no registration and no personal details from you. Analytics and advertising cookies described further down still apply to anonymous visits.

Account information, if you register. When you create an account we collect your first name, last name and email address, and we store your password only as a cryptographic hash - we cannot read it and neither can anyone who obtains our database. We record whether your email address has been verified, and the dates your account was created and last updated.

Things you save while signed in.Jobs you bookmark, the jobs you track in “My applications” with the stage you mark each one at and any test or interview dates and short notes you add, searches or filters you choose to save, and any notification preferences you set. These exist so the feature works when you come back. We never ask for your CNIC or documents there, and you should not write them in a note.

Your profile, if you fill it in.Everything in your profile is optional: your education, experience, skills, languages and certifications, your date of birth, gender and domicile, the jobs and places you prefer, and - in the “Age relaxation” section - simple yes/no answers such as whether you are a government employee (and for how many years), a person with a disability, or from a Scheduled Caste, together with years of service. We use these only to show you jobs that match you and to check a job's age limit and relaxations for you. They are not shown to anyone else, and the age relaxation answers never include a document or certificate number.

When you were last active. While you are signed in we record the time you last used the site, to the nearest hour. Only we see it, in our admin panel - next to your account and in a count of how many people use the site - and it is deleted with your account.

How you found us, recorded once if you register. When you create an account we store how you first reached this website and which button you used to sign up - for example "a Google search", "a Facebook link" or "typed the address directly", the page you first landed on, and any campaign tag in the link you followed. We keep the website you came from as a bare domain name, never the full address of the page. It is recorded once, at signup, and never updated afterwards. We use it only to understand which sources bring people to the site so we know where to put our effort. It is never sold, never shared, and never used to target advertising.

Messages you send us. If you email us a correction, question or complaint, we keep the message and your email address so we can reply and track the issue.

Anonymous counts of job page views and our free tools. When you open a job's page we add one to that job's daily view count, and when you use one of the free tools - such as the age calculator - we add one to a daily count of how often that tool was used and which kind of answer it gave (for example “within the age limit”). These counts hold nothing about you: no account, no IP address, and nothing you typed.

Test prep: practice questions, mock papers and reports. Practising questions needs no account. When you answer one, we add one to that question's anonymous counts - how many people answered it, how many got it right and which option they chose - and nothing about you. Your browser keeps, on your own device only, a list of the questions it has shown you (so you are not shown the same ones again) and the answers of a mock paper you are sitting (so a reload does not lose them). If you sit a full mock paper, which needs an account, we keep it with your account: the questions, your answers, the time you spent on each, your score, and where you started it from (for example a shared link). Only you can see it. If you report a problem with a question, we keep the report - the reason, the answer you suggest and any note you write. When you are signed in it is linked to your account; when you are not, we store a one-way scrambled code made from your IP address instead of the address itself, only so that one person cannot report the same question twice.

Technical information created automatically. Like effectively every website, our servers and hosting provider record standard request logs: IP address, date and time, the page requested, browser and operating system type, and referring page. We use these for security, abuse prevention and diagnosing faults.

Usage and advertising data collected by Google. Our analytics and advertising providers collect their own information about your visit - pages viewed, approximate location derived from your IP address, device and browser type, and identifiers stored in cookies. See advertising and analytics below.

We do not ask for or want your CNIC number, bank details, salary history, scanned documents, or any government-issued identifier. Never send those to us - no genuine recruitment process requires them to be sent to a third-party website.

• To provide your account - creating and authenticating it, keeping you signed in, and storing your saved jobs and preferences. Basis: performance of our agreement with you.
• To verify your email address- so account recovery works and so accounts cannot be created with other people's addresses. Basis: performance of our agreement, and our legitimate interest in account security.
• To send service messages - verification, password reset, and important changes to the service. Basis: performance of our agreement.
• To send job alerts, if and when you enable them. Basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
• To keep the website secure and working - detecting abuse, blocking attacks, fixing errors, and understanding aggregate traffic patterns. Basis: our legitimate interest in a safe, working service.
• To measure how the website is used - which pages are read, which searches find nothing, where visitors arrive from - so we can fix what is not working. Basis: your consent where consent is required for the cookies involved, and otherwise our legitimate interest in improving the service.
• To show advertising, which is what pays for the site being free. Basis: your consent where personalised advertising requires it, and otherwise our legitimate interest in funding the service.
• To answer your messages and act on corrections and removal requests. Basis: our legitimate interest in responding to you.

We do not use your personal data for automated decision-making, and we do not build an advertising profile of you ourselves. Our advertising partner may do so through its own cookies - see advertising, which explains how to switch that off.

A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to store. This site uses three kinds, and only the first is set by us.

• Strictly necessary cookies (ours). When you sign in, we set secure, HTTP-only session and refresh cookies so that you stay signed in as you move between pages and so your session can be renewed without asking you to log in repeatedly. These cookies cannot be read by JavaScript in your browser and are not used to track you across other websites. Blocking them prevents signing in; searching and reading jobs still works.
• Analytics cookies (Google). Set by Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are read. See analytics.
• Advertising cookies (Google and its partners). Set when advertisements are served, to control how often you see an ad and, where permitted, to make ads more relevant. See advertising.

Your browser may also store small amounts of data locally to remember interface preferences - and, if you use the age calculator, a job page's age check or the document checklist without signing in, the date of birth and answers you entered, so you do not have to type them again (the three tools share the date of birth). The document checklist also keeps your answers (including any quota, disability or government-service answer) and the documents you have ticked in the same way. That data stays on your device and is never sent to us; clearing your browser's site data, or pressing "Start again" in the checklist, removes it.

The web fonts this site uses are served from our own domain rather than fetched from a third party, so loading a page does not disclose your visit to a font provider.

You can delete or block cookies in your browser settings, and every major browser offers a private-browsing mode that discards them when you close it. The two sections below also give provider-level opt-outs, which apply wherever you browse rather than only on this site.

This website is free to use and carries no paywall. It is paid for by advertising, which we serve through Google AdSense, a third-party advertising service operated by Google.

What that means in practice, in Google's own required terms:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve advertisements based on your prior visits to this website or to other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve advertisements to you based on your visit to this site and other sites on the internet.
• You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Opting out does not remove advertising - it makes the advertisements you see less relevant to you.
• You can opt out of personalised advertising from many other vendors at aboutads.info/choices and the Network Advertising Initiative.

How Google handles the data it collects when you use a site in its advertising network is described in Google's own policy for partner sites. We do not receive your name, email address or any other identifying detail from Google, and we do not pass your account details to it.

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you are asked for consent before advertising or analytics cookies are set, and you can change or withdraw that choice at any time from the consent link shown to you. Where you refuse, only non-personalised advertising is served.

What advertising does not change. We do not sell placement in our job listings, we do not accept payment to rank or promote a vacancy, and no advertiser has any influence over which jobs we list or how we describe them. Advertisements are labelled and are separate from the listings. We do not knowingly accept advertising for services that charge candidates for government jobs - if you see an advertisement like that on this site, please report it to contact@pakistangovernmentjobs.com so we can block it.

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how the website is used in aggregate: how many people visit, which pages and searches they use, which devices they are on, and roughly which country or city they are in. This is what tells us that, for example, a filter is returning nothing or a page is broken on mobile.

Google Analytics sets its own cookies and processes an abbreviated form of your IP address on Google's infrastructure. We do not upload your name, email address or account identifier to it, so the reports we see are about pages and sessions, not about you personally.

You can stop it in any of these ways:

• install Google's browser opt-out add-on, which applies to every website;
• block analytics cookies in your browser settings or with a content blocker;
• decline analytics cookies in the consent prompt, where one is shown to you.

How Google uses data from sites that use its services is described in its partner-sites policy.

We do not sell, rent or trade your personal data, and we never share it with recruiters, agents or government departments. Applying for a job happens on the official department's own website, not here, so we have nothing to pass on.

Data reaches other parties only in these ways:

• Service providers who run our infrastructure - hosting, database, and email delivery for verification and password reset messages. They process data on our instructions only and are not permitted to use it for their own purposes.
• Google, as our analytics and advertising provider. Google collects its own data directly from your browser when a page loads, as described in the two sections above. It acts as an independent controller of that data, not on our instructions, and we do not send it your account details.
• Legal authorities, where we are required by applicable law, a valid court order, or lawful request to disclose information, or where disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or someone's safety.

Some of these providers process data on servers outside Pakistan, including in the United States and the European Union. Where that happens we take reasonable steps to ensure the data continues to be protected to the standard described in this policy.

• Account data - for as long as your account exists. Delete your account and we remove or irreversibly anonymise it, other than anything we must keep for legal or security reasons.
• Profile details, saved jobs and preferences - until you remove them or delete your account.
• Mock paper results - with your account, until you delete it. Question reports - until we have checked the question, and then kept with it as a record of what was fixed.
• Correspondence - normally up to 24 months, so we can keep track of corrections and repeated issues.
• Server and security logs - normally a short rolling window, kept only as long as needed for security and diagnostics.
• Analytics and advertising data - held by Google under its own retention periods, which we do not control. The opt-outs above are how you stop it being collected in the first place.

The website is served over encrypted HTTPS connections. Passwords are stored only as salted hashes. Session cookies are marked secure and HTTP-only. Access to our systems is limited to the people who need it to operate the service.

No website can promise perfect security, so please help: use a unique password here, do not reuse a password from your email or bank, and tell us at contact@pakistangovernmentjobs.com if you suspect your account has been accessed by someone else. We will notify affected users and, where required, the relevant authority if a breach puts personal data at risk.

You can ask us at any time to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you, and receive a copy of it.
• Correct anything inaccurate or incomplete - you can also edit your name and email in your account.
• Delete your account and associated personal data.
• Withdraw consent to job alerts or other optional messages, and unsubscribe from them.
• Object to or restrict processing we carry out on the basis of legitimate interests.

For advertising and analytics you do not need to write to us at all - the opt-out links under advertising and analytics take effect immediately and apply across websites, not just this one.

Email contact@pakistangovernmentjobs.com from the address registered to your account, or use the contact page. We aim to respond within 30 days. We may need to confirm your identity before acting on a request, to make sure we are not disclosing your data to someone else.

This website is intended for adults seeking employment. Accounts are not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal data. If you believe a child has registered, tell us and we will delete the account.

We update this policy when the website or the law changes. The date at the top of this page shows the current version. Where a change materially affects your rights, we will give notice on the website or by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use the website after a change takes effect means you accept the updated policy.

Read this alongside our Terms of Service and Disclaimer.