We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected online. We are registered under the data protection laws in the United Kingdom and take all reasonable care to prevent any unauthorised access to your personal information. Any reference to “we”, “our” or “us” is a reference to Search.co.uk Limited (Company Number 6586918) or our successors or assignees and any reference to "you" or "your" are references to all individuals and/or entities using the Site.
Our privacy policy set out below explains how we will use the information we collect about you and how you can instruct us if you prefer to limit the use of that information. This policy may change from time to time and users should check back regularly. For the avoidance of doubt, the policy is aimed at individuals seeking employment ("Work Seekers") and recruiters and applies to information which we collect on this Site only.
This privacy policy only applies to how we deal with your personal information. It does not apply to any other party or any other party's website even if you access such website through www.search.co.uk (the "Site"); i.e. via a hyperlink. We accept no responsibility or liability in respect of third party websites or for the privacy policies or practices of other web sites which you choose to link from this Site.
We ask only for specific types of personal information. We will collect the following information when you register on the Site:
We may gather and retain information regarding your use of the Site and there is information about your computer's hard/software that we may collect.
By submitting your CV or Application or otherwise posting information or material on the Site, you will be providing personal and other data (which may include sensitive personal data) and will be consenting to our use of your personal and other data in accordance with this privacy statement.
We may require you to provide additional information about yourself but it is in your discretion to provide or not provide such information. By providing us with such information, you are consenting to our use of that information in accordance with this privacy statement.
We use the information which we gather from the Site, whether personal, demographic or otherwise for the purposes of registering you as a user of the Site and administering and managing your registration, providing Services to you (as a recruiter or a Work seeker), responding to any requests for information or queries from you, or resolving any problems in respect of the Site.
We may use your personal data to contact you from time to time and provide you with marketing materials and other information about us and our partners and our Services.
You are strongly discouraged from providing sensitive personal data about yourself in any Application or CV, such as your religious/political/philosophical beliefs, racial/ethnic origin, health. This list is not exhaustive. If you do provide such information, we will retain this and use it in accordance with this privacy statement.
Please note that if you post any of your personal information in public areas of the Site, this information may be collected and used by others over whom we have no control. We are not responsible for the use made by third parties of information you post or otherwise make available in public areas of the Site.
By uploading your CV to the Site's CV Database, you expressly consent to your CV being searchable and viewed by all parties who have access to our CV Database (including those parties which are located outside the EEA, in locations which may not have equivalent data protection legislation protecting your information). We are not responsible for the use made of CVs by third parties who access our CV Database. You may remove your CV from the CV Database by sending an email to sales@search.co.uk. You should be further aware that users of the CV Database may have retained a copy of your CV in their files/database. We are not responsible the retention, privacy or use of CV's or other information in this event.
From time to time, we may provide your information to our customer service agencies for research and analysis purposes so that we can monitor and improve the Site and/or the Services we provide. We or our agents and sub-contractors may contact you to ask for your feedback and comments in relation to the Site or Services.
We may provide your information to third parties we employ or engage to carry out functions on our behalf.
We may use aggregate information and statistics for the purposes of monitoring Site usage in order to help us develop the Site and our Services and may provide such aggregate information to third parties. These statistics will not include information that can be used to identify any individual.
We also reserve the right to offer third party services and products based on your preferences that you identify when registering and at any time, thereafter. Such offers may be made or information sent by us or by our partners. If at any time you wish to stop the delivery of such information/issue of offers, please email us at sales@search.co.uk.
Save as provided above, we will only disclose your personal information to the extent required or authorised by applicable law, if ordered or required to do so by a court or governmental authority of competent jurisdiction or to ensure that we comply with our legal or moral obligations.
We do not disclose to third parties your personal data, demographic information or information about your use of the Site, save as provided above.
No data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be entirely secure. While we strive to protect your personal information, we can neither ensure nor do we warrant the security of any information you transmit to or from our online services and you do so at your own risk.
We retain all the information we gather about you in an effort to make your repeat use with us more efficient, practical and relevant until you change or remove your personal data. If you are a Work Seeker and have not logged into the Site for more than 18 months, then we will automatically make your CV "unsearchable."
We use "cookies" - small amounts of information stored on your computer to allow us to manage and monitor your use of our websites and to identify you when you return to our site. No personal data is stored in our cookies but they provide data to personal data held securely on our computers. Most browsers allow you to set them to refuse cookies although by doing so you will not be able to receive a personalised service.
By submitting your information, you consent to the use of that information as set out in this policy. If we change our privacy policy, We will post the changes on this page and may place notices on other pages of the Site, so that you may be aware of the information we collect and how it is used at all times.
Upon your request and within 40 days, we will inform you about the personal information we hold about you, the purposes for which we hold it and the types of recipients of such information.
Upon your request, we will, within a reasonable time, correct, delete or prevent further processing of your personal information if such information is inaccurate, incomplete or irrelevant for the purposes of processing.