Welcome to Sponsored Workers Jobs
We respect your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy sets out details of the information that we may collect from you and how we may use that information. This Privacy Policy should be read alongside, and in addition to the Terms and Conditions. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.
Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used have the same meaning as in the Terms and Conditions.
1. About Us
1.1 In this Privacy Policy, references to “we” or “us” are to North East Regional Employers Organisation, a Regional Employers Organisation based in England whose registered office is at Northern Design Centre, Abbotts Hill, Baltic Business Quarter, Gateshead, NE8 3DF who will be the controller of any personal data processed as described in this Privacy Policy.
1.2 If you have any questions about your personal information, please use the ‘Contact Us’ form linked at the bottom of the page.
2. Use of the Website and Online Courses and Content
This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of the Website and Online Content. Partner Organisations who provide the Online Vacancy Listings, Campaigns, etc. or other linking sites found on the Website may also gather information and you should consult those other parties’ privacy policies as appropriate and applicable.
3. Collection of Information
3.1 When you access the Website via any means, use the Online Vacancy Listings, respond to or participate in any survey or questionnaire hosted on the site by us, provide comments via the Contact Us form, or visit the campaign listings, we may collect, store and use certain of your personal information in line with this policy. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with the Website or the Online Content.
3.2 If you contact us, we ask for your name and email address. You may also specify which organisation, if any, that you work for. If you contact us, we may also keep a record of that correspondence.
3.3 We may also collect data relating to your visits to the Website that cannot identify you but records your use of our Website and Online Content including, for example, details of how long you have used the Website for.
4. Use of Your Information
4.1 When you access the Website via any means, respond to or participate in any survey or questionnaire hosted on the site by us, provide comments via the Contact Us form, visit the campaign listings, you agree that your personal information may be collected, stored, used and shared by us and our partners, advertising organisations, or third parties we work with, for any of the following purposes:
(a) to provide, maintain, protect and improve the quality of the Website and the Online Vacancies and Content we offer, including by conducting anonymised market research, and to protect us and our users;
(b) to fulfil any contractual agreements between you and us;
(c) to tailor our advertising on social media to your use of the Website;
(d) to comply with legal and regulatory requirements;
(e) in order to provide third party services available through our Website, including the Council Advertising Network who deliver advertising through Sponsored Workers Jobs. More information provided below.
5. Storage of Information
5.1 All information is stored on our secure servers.
5.2 Our servers are based in the UK. Information relating to the Council Advertising Network is stored and processed in EU based servers, primarily Ireland. However, whilst we have used our best efforts to ensure the security of data, please be aware that we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted over the Internet.
6. Legal Basis for Processing Your Information
6.1 Our, or the organisations advertising vacancies on the sites, legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.
6.2 However, we/they will normally collect personal information from you only (i) where we/they have your consent to do so, (ii) where we/they need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or (iii) where the processing is in our/their legitimate interests and not overridden by your rights. In some cases, we/they may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you.
6.3 If we/they ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we/they will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as the possible consequences if you do not provide your information).
6.4 Similarly, if we/they collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), we/they will make clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are.
7. Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose your personal information to third parties when permitted by law including:
(a) with your consent;
(b) to our suppliers in order for them to help us provide our services to you, this includes:
Local Authorities and other partner organisations that provide Online Vacancy listings or Content;
our provider of file storage and management services if you email us directly;
where you have made use of our ‘send to a friend’ option, solely to enable the person to whom you have sent the vacancy to see who has done so;
our customer service software if you contact our support team; and
These suppliers’ use of your personal data may be subject to their own privacy policies, which are available on their websites, and which we suggest you familiarise yourself with in the relevant circumstances set out above.
(c) if we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets, provided that they continue to use your information substantially in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy;
(d) if all, or substantially all of our assets, are acquired by a third party provided that they continue to use your information substantially in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy, in which case information held by us will be one of the transferred assets; and
(e) if we are under a duty to disclose or share your information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms and other agreements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
8. Data Retention
8.1 We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).
8.2 When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
9. Your Rights
9.1 You have the following data protection rights:
You can object to processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information or request portability of your personal information. Again, you can exercise these rights by contacting us using the ‘Contact Us’ link below.
You may also email us at [email protected] in order to access, correct, delete or update your personal information on our systems. We will answer every email as promptly as possible.
Similarly, if we have collected and process your personal information on the basis of your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
In order to withdraw your consent for the processing of your application please contact us.
If you have any privacy-related questions or unresolved problems, you may contact us using the information provided at paragraph 13 below.
You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority. (Contact details for data protection authorities in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and certain non-European countries (including the US and Canada) are available here.)
The Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal information to these websites.
10. Children
We strongly believe in protecting the privacy of children. In line with this belief, we do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from persons under 13 years of age, and no part of the Website is directed to persons under 13 years of age. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access the Website at any time or in any manner. We will take appropriate steps to delete any personal information of persons less than 13 years of age.
11. Cookies
11.1 Sponsored Workers Jobs uses cookies to enhance your interaction with our site. The cookies in this website are not used to track users through the system if they are not logged in and when a user registers they are accepting these secure cookies to be sent to their devices.
11.2 For more information about cookies, including further details as to what they are and how to refuse them, please see our Cookies Policy.
12. Research
12.1 North East Regional Employers Organisation and other partner institutions that provide Online Vacancy listings or Content on the Website carry out research to ensure we are providing the best jobseeker engagement across the population.
12.2 Research will always be conducted using information which has had identifiable details expunged from the data being looked at.
12.3 Data we would use in this research encompasses general (non-specific) geographic data of where you have viewed the website from, dates and times. This data is always anonymous and cannot be tracked back to an individual.
13. Council Advertising Network
The Council Advertising Network is responsible for delivering advertising on the Sponsored Workers Jobs website. Please take a moment to read their privacy policy which includes cookie information and details on how to opt out: http://www.counciladvertising.net/can-privacy-policy.html
14. Updating this Privacy Policy
14.1 From time to time it will be necessary to update our privacy policy. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will indicate that changes have been made on the homepage. This is in order to ensure our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
14.2 If at any point we wish to use personally-identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner.
15. Contacting North East Regional Employers Organisation
If you have any questions, comments or complaints about this Privacy Policy, please contact us using the details below:
NEREO
FAO: Data Protection Officer
Northern Design Centre, Abbotts Hill, Baltic Business Quarter, Gateshead, NE8 3DF
Contact us here – https://www.sponsoredworkersjobs.org.uk/contact-us/