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PRIVACY POLICY
ECM Careers Limited ("We") are committed to protecting and
respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of
use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on
which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be
processed by us. Please read the
following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your
personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the
Act), the data controller is ECM Careers Limited of 778-790
Finchley Road, London, NW11 7TJ.
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
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Information that you provide by filling in forms
on our website www.ecmcareers.com
(our Website). This includes information provided
at the time of registering to use our Website subscribing to our service,
posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for
information when you report a problem with our Website.
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Information you provide on your CVs
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If you contact us, we may keep a record of that
correspondence.
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Details of your visits to our Website and the
resources that you access.
IP addresses and cookies
We may collect information about your computer, including
where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system
administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is
statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not
identify any individual.
For the same reason, we
may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file
which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information
that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our
Website and to deliver a better and more personalised service.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting
on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if
you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our
Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse
cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our Website.
Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to,
and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may
also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one
of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the supply
of our service to you, the processing of your payment details and the provision
of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this
transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to
ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy
policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure
servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which
enables you to access certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for
keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with
anyone.
The transmission of information via the internet is not
completely secure. Athough we will do our best to protect your personal data,
we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Website; any
transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we
will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised
access.
Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
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To provide our services to you.
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To ensure that content from our Website is
presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
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To provide you with information, products or
services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you
have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
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To allow you to participate in interactive
features of our service, when you choose to do so.
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To notify you about changes to our service.
We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties
to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services
which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by
post or telephone.
If you are a new user, and where we permit selected third
parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means
only if you have consented to this.
If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to
pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the
relevant box situated on the registration form on which we collect your data.
We will retain CVs provided indefinitely. If you would like us
to remove your details from the Website please let us know by sending an e-mail
to info@ecmcareers.com
or by deleting
your details yourself when you log into the Website. The Company reserves the
right to retain such information as is required
in order to fulfil its legal obligations.
Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of
our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its
subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
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In the event that we sell or buy any business or
assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective
seller or buyer of such business or assets.
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If all or substantially all of our assets are
acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its
customers will be one of the transferred assets.
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If we are under a duty to disclose or share your
personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to
enforce or apply our terms and conditions of use and
other agreements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety, our customers,
or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and
organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
We will disclose your
personal information as provided by you on your CV to prospective Employers.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal
data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your
data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to
disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can
exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the
forms we use to collect your data.
You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at
info@ecmcareers.com.
Our Website may,
from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner
networks, advertisers and affiliates.
If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites
have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or
liability for these policies. Please
check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Access to information
The Act gives you the right to access information held
about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act.
Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in
providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future
will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy
policy are welcomed and should be addressed to
info@ecmcareers.com
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