Your privacy & personal data — how we lawfully collect, use, store and protect it.
Last updated September 2024
Skilled Search respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice explains how we lawfully process your personal data, including the collection, use, storage, and transfer of your data. The notice provides information about your privacy rights and our obligation to lawfully protect your privacy while using services provided by Skilled Search.
Skilled Search (“we”, “us”, or “our”) is responsible for your personal data and is the designated “data processor”.
Skilled Search Ltd is a private company limited by guarantee in England.
Registration number: 14775861
Registration address: 33 Dumfries Drive, Derby, United Kingdom, DE22 3XT
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or how and why we process personal data, please contact Skilled Search’s Data Protection Officer on: Email: info@skilledsearch.co.uk
We may collect, use, store and transfer the following kinds of personal data about you, when you submit it to us:
We use cookies, which are small text files that are placed on your computer when you visit. We do this to make our website work more efficiently and to promote our news, products, and services on social media.
We use Google Analytics to track and analyse web traffic in order for us to improve our website and provide us with essential marketing data (e.g., number of page views to our site in a month). Only anonymous data is stored, and we take care to avoid any personal data being sent to Google Analytics. We collect this data under the “legitimate interest” lawful basis.
Clarity helps us understand how users interact with our website. It collects non-personally identifiable information (PII) through the use of cookies and similar technologies. This includes data such as:
This data is used for website improvement and optimization purposes and does not personally identify users. For more information, you can view Microsoft’s privacy policy.
Meta Pixel helps us track actions visitors take on our website and allows us to provide more tailored advertising on Meta platforms (such as Facebook and Instagram). When you visit our website, Meta Pixel collects the following types of data:
The information collected through Meta Pixel is shared with Meta (Facebook) and may be used to deliver personalized advertisements based on your browsing habits. For more details on how Meta handles your data, visit their privacy policy.
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal information for the following reasons:
We process personal data collected through Clarity and Meta Pixel based on your consent. When you first visit our website, we ask for your consent to place cookies on your device through a cookie consent banner. By accepting, you agree to the collection of data via Clarity and Meta Pixel. You may withdraw your consent at any time by adjusting your browser settings or using the options below.
You can manage or block cookies at any time by changing your browser settings. For more information on how to do this, please visit the help section of your browser. You may also:
The Skilled Search website offers an email Newsletter Subscription service, allowing users to voluntarily sign up to receive information about the Skilled Search programme. If you subscribe to these updates, we will collect your email address. By submitting the Newsletter subscribe form you are subscribing to the Skilled Search newsletter, your information will be securely transferred to Skilled Search’s marketing platform, Mailchimp.
If you have previously subscribed, you can use the Unsubscribe link (at the bottom of all Newsletters) to opt-out of receiving further Skilled Search Newsletters from us. You can update your preferences at any time.
If you Unsubscribe from the Skilled Search newsletter, we will keep a note of your email address and your request so that we can make sure you are excluded from future Newsletters.
We will not pass on your personal data to any other third parties without your consent unless the law requires us to do so.
If we buy or sell any business or assets, in which case, we may disclose your information to the seller or buyer of such business or assets. Skilled Search facilitates online event registration via our website and on occasion third party websites such as Street Food Market providers. Personal information may be collected via event registration forms and the type of information collected will vary. We may share registrant information with third parties in association with the event such as event organisers, however we will never pass your details to third parties in order for them to contact you without your express consent.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for.
We will actively review the information we hold and when there is no longer a customer, legal or business need for us to hold it, we will either delete it securely or in some cases anonymise it.
You have the right to request access to, and update or correct, personal data held by us. You can email our Data Protection Officer at info@skilledsearch.co.uk to exercise this right. We aim to respond to any requests for information within one month and will make corrections based on your updated information. If the request is particularly complex, we may have to extend this period to three months, but we will notify you within one month if this is the case.
Where we process personal data based on consent, for example our Skilled Search Newsletter, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link which we include in all our Newsletter emails.
As well as rights of access and amendment referred to above, you may have other rights in relation to the personal data we hold, such as a right to erasure/deletion, to restrict or object to our processing of personal data and the right to data portability. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
If you have any complaints concerning the processing of your personal data, please email info@skilledsearch.co.uk
This Privacy Statement will be kept under regular review and was last updated in September 2024.