Privacy Policy

Meksum is a licensed foreign employment agency based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We recruit, screen, and prepare Ethiopian candidates — housemaids, nannies, drivers, and caregivers — for placement with employers in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar, and manage the medical, documentation, visa, and travel process in between.

From candidates, as part of registration and placement: full name, date of birth, nationality, religion, marital status, contact details, photographs and a short video, passport and labor ID numbers, education and language ability, work history and skills, and — later in the process — medical, visa, LMIS (Saudi Labor Market Information System), Musaned contract, and travel details.

From employers and other website visitors: whatever you give us through the Contact form, the candidate request form, a WhatsApp message, or the chat assistant — typically your name and a way to reach you, plus anything you choose to tell us about what you're looking for.

We do not collect payment card details, and we do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. A theme preference (light/dark) may be stored in your browser's local storage purely to remember your choice on your own device — nothing is sent to us because of it.

• To register, screen, and match candidates with suitable employers.
• To carry a candidate's file through the government approval chain — LMIS clearance, the Musaned contract, embassy and visa steps, and travel booking.
• To respond to enquiries from employers and prospective candidates.
• To meet our legal and regulatory obligations as a licensed employment agency in Ethiopia and under the requirements of the destination country's labor authorities.

Only candidates who are marked available and have been explicitly published are shown on the public candidate listing, and only with the fields relevant to an employer's decision — photo, profession, experience, skills, and expected salary. Sensitive identifiers (passport number, labor ID, exact home address, height/weight, and similar) are never shown on public pages; they're used only internally and, where legally required, with the relevant government systems and the employer once a placement is underway. A candidate who is reserved, booked, departed, or asked to be withdrawn is automatically removed from public view.

• Employers, once a candidate is being considered or placed with them.
• Government and regulatory systems that a placement legally requires us to use — for example Saudi Arabia's LMIS and Musaned platforms, and embassy/visa processing.
• Service providers who help us run the site and store files securely (for example, cloud file storage and email delivery) — bound to use that information only to provide the service to us, not for their own purposes.

We do not sell personal information to anyone, for any reason.

We keep candidate and lead records for as long as needed to support an active or possible future placement, and as long as we're required to for legal or regulatory record-keeping. If you'd like your information reviewed or removed sooner, contact us using the details below and we'll act on it unless we're required to retain it.

You can ask us what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, by reaching out through our contact page. For a candidate actively going through the placement process, some information can't be deleted mid-process without affecting a live government filing — we'll explain what applies to your situation when you ask.

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll update the date at the top of this page. Continuing to use the site after a change means you've seen and accepted the update.

Questions about this policy or your information: meksumagency@gmail.com, or through the contact page.