SJ Partnership Privacy Policy
At SJ Partnership, we are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected and we strictly adhere to the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and will compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force on the 25th May 2018.
GDPR provides the following rights for individuals:
• The right to be informed
• The right of access
• The right to rectification
• The right to erasure
• The right to restrict processing
• The right to data portability
• The right to object
• Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling
For further information on these rights you can contact the ICO via one of the options on their website https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
Our Privacy Policy, together with our terms and conditions, sets out how we collect personal information from you, or how you provide us with personal information, which will be processed by us.
How we collect and use information we receive from you
When you inform us that you are interested in job opportunities, we ask you to provide:
• First and last name
• Email address
• CV (which could include details of your address, employment history, education and other personal information)
By submitting this information via our website, this is considered your consent for us to use your personal information in accordance with our privacy policy (which may be amended from time to time). Your personal information will then be used by us to help match you to suitable job opportunities and from time to time to communicate with you on any matter relating to the provision of our services.
With your prior consent, we may send your details and CV to a potential employer. Please note that we may also use the information you provide to us for the following purposes:
• to monitor website usage and provide statistics for the purposes of improving and developing our website and the services we provide via our website. Please note that any such statistics and/or information will be made on a confidential basis and will not include information that can be used to identify any individual;
• to support, improve and develop our business in general;
• to contact you for your views on our website, our services and our business in general; and/or
• to provide you with updates to our services, any special or new services, developments to our website or any policies (including our Privacy Policy) displayed on our website, and any other matter we think may be of interest to you.
If you would prefer not to receive any of the above-mentioned information (or if you only want to receive certain information) from us please let us know by either sending an email to info@sj-partnership.local. You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will not share, sell or distribute any of the information you provide to us without your prior consent, unless required to do so by law.
Data Retention
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active, your information is
needed to provide you services, or as required to fulfil our legal obligations. If you wish to delete your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you
services contact us at info@sj-partnership.local. We will respond to your request within 30 days. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Marketing
Email Marketing
When you fill out a webform to submit your details to us we may ask you to provide certain personal information, including your:
• Name
• Email address
By completing the form and ticking the relevant boxes you are providing your consent for SJ Partnership to process your personal data, and this is the legal basis we are relying on to do so. We will use the information that you give us to send you relevant emails containing SJ Partnership news & marketing communications.
We regularly review your interactions with the emails we send you and remove any subscribers who have shown and extended period of inactivity. You can withdraw your
consent and unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link at the bottom our email communications or by emailing info@sj-partnership.local.
If you continue to interact with our emails or website, we will retain your data indefinitely so we can continue to send you emails. We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.
How safe is your information?
Protecting your security and privacy is extremely important to us and we make every effort to secure your information and maintain your confidentiality in accordance with the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998. Our website is protected by various levels of security technology, which are designed to protect your information from any unauthorised or unlawful access, processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage.
Please note that we may need to disclose your personal information where we:
• are under a legal duty to comply with any legal obligation or in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions; or
• need to disclose it to protect our rights, property or safety of our customers or others, including the exchange of information with other companies, organisations and/or governmental bodies for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Cookies for improving service:
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how users use our website(s). We do this to make sure it’s meeting our users’ needs and to understand how we could do it better.
Google analytics sets cookies to store information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the website(s), how you got to the website(s) and what you click on. It does not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
General
If any of the information you provide to us changes, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can make the necessary changes to the information we hold for you on our database so that your records are accurate and up to date.
If you wish to makes changes to, or see the information we hold on you, please let us
know by emailing us on info@sj-partnership.local.
We will respond to your request within 30 days of the date we received your request. (See Data Retention)
Our website may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected on our website.
Please note that we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any changes, these will be shown on our website and will immediately supersede any previously posted information.
For whatever reason, should you wish to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s office, as is your right, you can do by contacting the ICO directly via one of the options on their website https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/.
If you have any further queries or comments on our Privacy Policy, please send us an email to info@sj-partnership.local.