YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS
Last Updated on 2nd May 2022.
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how Business Guru may use and disclose information that we may collect about all users/viewers through the Sites.
The Terms of Use (“Terms”) state the terms and conditions governing your use of and access to the Sites and constitute a legally binding contract between you and us.
Please review these terms and policy. Your access to the sites constitutes your acceptance of, and consent to be bound by, these terms and policy. If you do not accept and consent to be bound by these terms and policy, then you must not use or access the sites.
We may change these Terms and/or Policy from time to time and you are hereby requested to review these terms on a regular basis.
These terms were last updated on 2 nd May, 2022.
1. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
When you use or register with the Sites, we collect certain information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual (“Personal Information”).
Categories of Personal Information: The categories of Personal
Information we may collect include:
With respect to visitors of the Site, we collect the following categories of information from your browser or directly from you when you visit our Site:
- Internet activity, such as your browsing activity on the Site, your IP address, cookies, installed plug-ins, and JavaScript object. This information, including geolocation data, is collected automatically (“Data Collection Technologies”). We use IP addresses for purposes such as calculating usage levels, diagnosing server problems, and administering the Sites. We may also derive your approximate location from your IP address.
- Geolocation Data
- Identifiers and professional information if you wish to download certain utilities or calculators from our sites.
- Identifiers, such as your name and contact information (email, address (mailing and home) and phone number), and any login ID or email address created by you to login on our website.
- Professional/Career-related information contained in your resume.
- Where permitted by law, we may also collect information relating to your health (for example, disability information for reasonable work adjustment purposes), diversity information, including race, ethnic origin, sexual orientation and religion (for equal opportunity monitoring purposes) as well as details of any unspent criminal convictions where required by a client or by us if you apply for a role with us.
- If you use our website, click on links in emails we send to you, open or forward them, or sign up to receive job alerts or other content from us, we also collect personal data from those interactions.
- Referees – when you are offered a job.
- Former employers – to confirm dates of employment.
- Educational institutions – to check your academic qualifications.
- The Disclosure and Barring Service or Disclosure Scotland – if we need to obtain details of unspent criminal convictions.
- Credit reference agencies – if we need to check your financial standing.
- Publicly available sources such as LinkedIn and social media sites to enhance the information we hold about you, in order to help us find more suitable roles for you.
- Clients to whom we have provided your CV and who have engaged with you as part of a job application or who have given feedback on your CV.
- Identifiers such as your name, business phone number, and work email
- Professional or employment-related information such as your company name, department, and job title
- We also process personal data about what communications we have had with you, including whether you have opened or forwarded any emails, newsletters or other content we have sent to you. We also process feedback that you provide about our candidates.
- We process personal data about you from public domain sources such as LinkedIn and social networking sites or because you were a delegate at one of our events or at an event where the event organizer is permitted to share delegate details with us.
- Identifiers such as your name, business phone number, and work email
- Professional or employment-related information such as your company name, department, and job title
2. BUSINESS GURU’S BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL PURPOSES FOR USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
3. SALES OR SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
4. DISCLOSURES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
- Identifiers such as your name and email address
- Professional, career, or employment-related information
- Education information
- Service Providers. We may share Personal Information with our third-party service providers who perform business functions and services on our behalf, such as the provider of Business Guru’s customer relationship management solution.
- Candidates. We may share Personal Information of our Customers or prospective customers to Candidates such as when a Candidate must know information about whom to contact when going on an interview or to a job with a customer or prospective customer.
- Business transfers. We also may disclose or transfer information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
5. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
- Provide you with work finding services.
- Communicate with you.
- Match you with available jobs or provide you opportunity. to work with our clients or prospective clients
- Enable you to upload your CV and apply for jobs.
- Personalize your experience by creating a candidate profile.
- Enable us to monitor equality and diversity.
- Provide you with interviewing and salary advice and
- Send you direct marketing for the purposes of informing you about job opportunities, industry reports and insights, events, promotions and competitions, and other content in accordance with your marketing choices.
- Conducting employment reference checks.
- Conducting qualification checks.
- Carrying out criminal conviction’s checks (as required).
- Verifying details, you have provided from third party sources.
- Conducting psychometric evaluations or skills tests.
- Hosting personal data for us.
- Providing professional advice to us.
- Providing data analytics to us.
- Carrying out testing and development work on our business technology systems.
- Administering surveys or competitions on our behalf.
- Assisting us to communicate with you; and
- Providing research and mailing house or other direct. marketing services.
- Determine if you may be interested in our services and how we can assist you;
- To contact you and find out if you are interested in our services.
- Improve and personalize your experience when you use our website or apps; and
- Personalize advertising you receive from us.
- To provide recruitment services to you.
- To communicate with you.
- To get feedback from you on our services through client satisfaction surveys, in order to improve our services and to develop new services.
- To maintain our business relationship with you.
- To answer your enquiries when you contact us.
- To fulfil contractual obligations to you.
- To establish, exercise or defend legal claims; and
- For direct marketing purposes.
6. Legal Grounds for processing your Personal Data
- Providing our services to you.
- Responding to your requests and enquiries (the legitimate interest of the Companies in this case is to maintain a constant and updated communication with clients and candidates, which is part of any commercial relationship).
- Optimizing the performance of our website and user experience.
- Informing you about our services (job opportunities, industry reports and insights, events, promotions and competitions (the legitimate interest of Page is to inform clients and candidates about similar services and products).
- Ensuring that our operations are conducted in an efficient manner.
- Providing satisfaction surveys of our services; and
- Contacting prospect business clients in order to establish commercial relationships with business clients (the legitimate interest of Page is to maintain relations of any kind with the company where the contact person works).
7. Using Cookies:
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Cookies
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9. Security
We use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures designed to protect Personal Information within our organization. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us via email on hello@business-guru.uk
10. Choices Relating to Receiving Email From us
If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt-out by using the mechanism contained in each such email. Otherwise, you may email us on hello@business-guru.uk
11. Data Retention
We keep your Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained. We may delete Personal Information for inactive accounts from our database, subject to any applicable legal or regulatory obligations. Furthermore, we may delete Personal Information from our database at any time and without providing any reason.
12. Your Rights in Relation to Personal Data we hold about you
You have several rights under UK and EU data protection laws. These rights include the right to ask us for a copy of your personal data, to correct, delete or restrict processing of your personal data; to obtain the personal data you provide to us for a contract or with your consent in a structured, machine-readable format, and to ask us to share (port) this data to another controller. In addition, you can object to the processing of your personal data in some circumstances (in particular, where we don’t have to process your personal data to meet a contractual or other legal requirement, or where we are using the data for direct marketing). These rights may be limited, for example, if complying with your request would reveal personal data about another person, where they would infringe the rights of a third party (including our rights) or if you ask us to delete information which we are required by law to keep or have compelling legitimate interests for keeping. We will inform you of any relevant exemptions we are relying on when we respond to your request.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions or complaints about the Terms or the Policy, or if you would like to update any Personal Information you have provided to us, please contact us via email on hello@business-guru.uk To exercise your rights, or to withdraw your consent to processing, or to unsubscribe from receiving marketing communications from us, you can email us at hello@business-guru.uk If you have unresolved concerns, and you live or work in the UK or believe that a personal data breach happened in the UK, you have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office who can be contacted at:
Telephone: 0303 123 11113
Website: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
Post:
Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
CheshireSK9 5AF