Privacy Policy

Any references to "we" or "us" or "our" or "the company" are references to Career Forums or www.careerforums.co.uk.

Our commitment to your privacy is paramount, we make every effort to comply with our obligations under the 1998 Data Protection Act and also understand the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of your candidate profile and any other information that may be given to us whilst you use the site.

You are welcome to amend or delete any information that we hold about you by emailing: info@careerforums.co.uk

Information forwarded to any third party will only be done if agreed by a visitor, unless it is deemed that this information may not comply with the law or may be of a threatening nature to Career Forums employees, members of the public or third party employees.

Information Gathering

Your profile and registration information:

Any details that you supply as part of our registration process are stored by us and will be accessible by Career Forums employees. On registering your details and if you choose so, information submitted will be made available to exhibitors at Career Forums for searching, and viewing. Exhibitors have the ability to search the database for information matching that supplied by any site visitor and therefore by registering you may be sent information via email by these exhibitors.

IMPORTANT: Please note that your current employer may be a client of ours, and will therefore be able to view any candidate details searched for in our database. Career Forums cannot be held responsible for any eventuality that may arise as a result of this.

In registering your details, you are consenting to Career Forums potentially using the data stored to identify visitor trends, such as experience/skill levels, salary averages and other demographic information. This data will never be linked to any personally identifiable information about you however.

Please note that Career Forums reserves the right to remove any details from our database that include any content that we consider to be illegal or offensive.

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of code that a website gives to you, via your web browser. Cookies are usually used to give sites information about their users. In this way, sites can appear to 'remember' information about visitors, such as passwords, preferences and viewing habits.

Cookie information contains nothing that can personally identify users and you cannot damage your PC or software by using them – by enabling your browser to accept cookies, you are simply increasing the information that websites hold about you and are therefore enhancing your browsing experience.

Careerforums.co.uk uses cookies to store information about you when you visit the site to remember which specific Career Forums event you were intrested in and viewed.

As far as security goes, cookies can't spread viruses as they are not executables, i.e. programs that can contain viruses.

We recommend that you set your browser to enable cookies when using the website.

Statistical information

Career Forums may at times provide statistical information about Careerforums.co.uk visitors and users to recruiters (such as the number pre-registered candidates we have for a particular event). This information is provided to exhibitors, Career Forums employees, and other reputable third parties and does not include anything that will personally identify users.

Links

Careerforums.co.uk contains links to other websites. We constantly check to make sure that these links are live and that they don't contain adult material however we can not guarantee the content of such links. We can not take responsibility for external websites and advise all users to read the privacy policy of all individual sites visited after leaving Careerforums.co.uk. Our statement only refers to information that is contained on www.careerforums.co.uk.

Questionnaires and Competitions

We may run competitions and surveys via the website at any given time. Participation in such events is totally voluntary and information will not be passed onto a third party unless agreed by the user.

Information gathered via questionnaires will be used to develop the services provided by the website and results may be published to the general public.

Notification of Changes

We reserve the right to change our privacy policy at any time and to publish these changes on our website.