Website Privacy policy

This privacy policy applies to your use of our services through a web browser. For the privacy policy related to the Mobile App, please visit the specified link.

www.jobsland.co.uk (“the Website”) is a job site operated by Jobsland Online Limited and is part of the Jobsland Corporate Family.

Information Collection and Use

We collect and use personal information about you when you use the Website. This privacy policy explains how we use this information.

If you register on the Website as a recruiter or course provider and provide us with personal data, we process it to perform the contract you enter into with us. We may also contact you via email to request feedback on any services or products you received from us to improve our offerings. For this purpose, we use Trustpilot A/S (“Trustpilot”) to collect your feedback. Trustpilot acts as our data processor and will not use your personal data for any other purpose. You can find Trustpilot’s Privacy Policy here.

Registration and Usage

Registration and use of the Website for job seekers and course purchasers are free. When you register as a job seeker, we provide online recruitment services, including regular updates of relevant vacancies and courses via email or SMS messaging. These updates may include details from third-party providers, and clicking on relevant links in the emails may take you directly to their websites.

If you prefer not to receive this information from us, you can opt out during registration or at any time by updating your contact preferences in your account or by clicking “unsubscribe” in the emails.

Lawful Basis for Processing Your Personal Data

Legitimate Interest:

We process your personal data when it is in our legitimate interests to do so in order to provide our services. Our legitimate interests include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Facilitating connections between job seekers, course seekers, recruiters, and course providers.
  • Sending job alerts and course alerts.
  • Ensuring the security and integrity of our services.
  • Promoting, marketing, and advertising our products and services.
  • Analyzing user behavior, activities, preferences, and requirements.
  • Understanding existing products and services and developing new ones.
  • Handling customer contacts, queries, and complaints.
  • Providing services through the Website to our users.

Sharing personal data with our third-party suppliers (e.g., communication providers) who act as data processors to enable us to provide our services.

Providing your contact details, name, IP Address, country of residence, and payment confirmation (if relevant) to course providers when you purchase a course through the Website. If you only inquire about a course, we will process your personal data as required on the inquiry form.

Consent:

In some cases, we may process your personal data with your consent. When consent is required, we will clearly indicate this (e.g., when sharing your CV with external CV review partners). You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, and we will cease processing such data upon your withdrawal.

Legal Obligation:

We may process your personal data to comply with legal or regulatory obligations, such as detecting, preventing, or investigating crime or fraud, including cooperation with law enforcement agencies.

Information We Collect About You

The personal information we collect about you may include:

  • Information from your CV,
  • Data to facilitate our services, such as your date of birth, location, preferred job location, and desired work type,
  • General identification and contact details, including your name, IP address, residential address, email, and telephone information,
  • Marketing preferences,
  • Statistical data, such as aggregate statistical information about site visits.

We collect this personal data when you register with the Website to provide recruitment services and for administrative purposes related to course purchases or inquiries. Additionally, we collect personal data on behalf of our sister company, Jobsland Specialist Recruitment Limited, which provides similar services. Jobsland Specialist Recruitment Limited processes personal data according to their own Privacy Notice.

If you upload a CV, cover letter, personal statement, or similar documents, we will retain this information for as long as you maintain your account with the Website.

When purchasing courses through the Website, you may be directed to the Course Provider directly or to a third-party payment provider (e.g., Sagepay, Paypal, Dividebuy) to complete payment.

If you participate in assessments available through the Website, we will maintain a record of your responses and results.

For registration for career advice, we only require your name and email address.

Use of Your Personal Data

Job Seekers:

By registering with the Website, job seekers actively seek contact from prospective employers and recruiters regarding opportunities that match their fields of interest, as well as relevant courses to enhance their career prospects. We make your personal data available to recruiters and employers who use the Website to find suitable candidates for specific roles, and we provide you with course alerts about relevant courses.

While the primary purpose of the Website is to connect job seekers, employers, and recruiters, job seekers can control the extent to which their personal data is shared with others through the contact preferences section of their account on the Website.

For job seekers, we use your personal data to:

  • Provide recruitment services, including job alerts and course alerts,
  • Manage your account,
  • Provide information about our recruitment services and ancillary services available through the Website.

Course Seekers:

If you are interested in courses advertised through the Website, your details will be used to provide course alerts, manage your account, connect you with relevant third-party course providers, facilitate payment (where relevant), provide the course if it is offered by us, offer relevant course information, and collect feedback on our services.

If you prefer not to receive this information, you can opt out during registration or at any time by updating your contact preferences in your account or by clicking “unsubscribe” in the emails.

Candidates Seeking Career Advice Only:

If you register for career advice, we will communicate with you solely to provide career advice, access to career-related services, and related information, typically through a monthly newsletter. You have the right to opt out of receiving such communication from us at any time.

Marketing

Periodically, we may inform you about other goods and services available through the Website. If you subscribe to marketing emails during sign-up (by checking the relevant box), we will send you marketing emails. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in every subsequent marketing email.

You can also adjust your contact preferences in your account to stop us from contacting you regarding recruitment services or courses available through the Website, including job alerts and course alerts, which you registered for when setting up your account.

Jobsland Specialist Recruitment Limited may also send you marketing information about its services that may interest you. You have the right to opt out of receiving such marketing information at any time.

We use tracking pixels in our marketing emails to gather information about your interaction with the emails (e.g., if you opened the email). This data helps us understand how customers engage with our content and analyze the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. You can disable tracking pixels by adjusting your email settings to block the loading or display of external images.

Data Sharing and Transfers

Job Seekers:

As part of our recruitment services to assist you in finding a suitable job, we may share your personal data with third parties such as recruiters, direct employers, and their agents, or other business partners. While we attempt to verify the identity of these third parties when they sign up with us, we do not provide warranties as to their authenticity. This sharing typically occurs when you apply for a job through the Website or when a recruiter downloads your CV as part of the services they purchase from us. These parties will also act as data controllers of your personal data. The extent of personal data shared with these parties depends on the options you select when creating or updating your account. Additionally, we share your personal data with our sister company, Jobsland Specialist Recruitment Limited, for the purposes outlined in this privacy notice.

Courses:

When you purchase or inquire about a course available through the Website, we will share your personal data with the course provider to enable them to provide the course to you. The course provider will act as a data controller in relation to your personal data.

All Users:

We may share your personal data with third-party service providers who assist us in conducting our business activities. These third parties act as our data processors and are contractually bound to process your personal data only under our instructions and for the limited purposes we specify. These third parties include (but are not limited to) our accountants, auditors, external legal advisors, IT providers, support and hosting service providers, printing, advertising, marketing, and market research and analysis service providers, technical engineers, data storage and cloud providers, and all other outsourced service providers (such as communication providers) that assist us in providing our services.

We may also share your personal data with courts, tribunals, regulators, and other governmental and public authorities (such as the police or tax authorities) to:

  • Allow us to pursue legal remedies,
  • Enforce our terms and conditions and protect our operations,
  • Comply with legal process,
  • Comply with applicable law,
  • Respond to requests from public and governmental bodies.

Access to Your Information and Correction

We strive to ensure the accuracy and currency of your information and will promptly delete or amend any inaccuracies upon your request. If you wish to delete your account, please contact us via the online form. You can also make amendments to your account online by signing in or by contacting us.

While we aim to provide you with valuable work-related services throughout your career, you have the right to close your account at any time and have us delete all of your personal information, unless we are addressing a complaint you’ve made.

Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log and visitor behavior information. This data is used to track visitor use of the Website, compile statistical reports on Website activity, and provide relevant recommendations to you.

We also work with third-party advertising companies that may use information about your visits to this and other websites to offer you advertisements about goods and services that may interest you. For more information about this practice and how to prevent it, please visit www.aboutcookies.org, www.allaboutcookies.org, or optout.networkadvertising.org.

For further details about cookies used on the Website, please refer to our cookies page.

Other Websites

Our privacy policy applies only to this Website. When you visit other websites through links on our Website, please review their own privacy policies.

Removing Your Name from the Database

To request the closure of your account, please contact us. Jobsland will confirm the closure.

Unsubscribing from Future Mailings

If you have a jobsland.co.uk jobseeker account, you can stop receiving marketing emails by updating your contact preferences.

Registered Office

  • Jobsland Online Ltd
  • Address

Company Number . Registered in the UK.