Privacy and Cookies Policy
Topics:
• Introduction and General Terms
• What information will ARBJOBS collect about me?
• How will ARBJOBS use the information they collect about me?
• When will ARBJOBS contact me?
• Will I be contacted for marketing purposes?
• Will ARBJOBS share my personal information with anyone else?
• Offensive or inappropriate content on the ARBJOBS website
• What if I am aged 16 or under?
• How long will ARBJOBS keep my personal information?
• Can I find out what personal information ARBJOBS holds about me?
• What if I am accessing ARBJOBS websites from outside the UK?
• Changes to the ARBJOBS's Privacy Policy
• Cookies Policy
• Contacting ARBJOBS about this Privacy Policy
1. Introduction and General Terms
ARBJOBS is committed to protecting you and your family's personal information when you are using our services. We want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our users. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us through Arbjobs.com, Arbjobs.co.uk and Arbjobs.eu websites.
In order to provide you with the full range of ARBJOBS services, we are sometimes required to collect information about you.
This privacy policy explains the following:
• What information ARBJOBS may collect about you;
• How ARBJOBS will use information we collect about you;
• When ARBJOBS may use your details to contact you;
• Whether ARBJOBS will disclose your details to anyone else;
• Your choices regarding the personal information you have provided to us;
• The use of cookies on the ARBJOBS website and how you can reject these cookies.
As set out above, ARBJOBS is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the "data protection laws").
The websites contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.
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2. What information will ARBJOBS collect about me?
When you sign up to participate in or receive any service from Arbjobs.com, such as newsletters, competitions, message boards or register with our online registration system used across different parts of the Arbsites group we call it our "Single Sign-On" which allows you to register and use all of our sites with one access code. To enable this we may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, e mail address, postal address, telephone or mobile number or date of birth. Different webpages may ask for different personal information.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable the ARBJOBS and its service providers to provide you with the services you select.
Please note that sometimes on particular webpages we will require you to provide additional personal information, and sometimes sensitive personal information (e.g. if you're sending in an application to be an educational contributor we may need to know your qualifications relating to such information). When we do this we will specify further on these webpages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.
ARBJOBS also uses cookies (see paragraph 13 below for details) and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We use analysis software to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.
We also use your IP address to determine whether you are accessing the services from the UK or not. If not we hope in the mear future to be able to re-directed to the international version of the Arbjobs.com site. (see paragraph 11 for details.)
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3. How will ARBJOBS use the information they collect about me?
ARBJOBS will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:
• for "service administration purposes", which means that ARBJOBS may contact you for reasons related to the service you have signed up for, as set out in paragraph 4 below (e.g. to provide you with password reminders or to notify you that a particular service has been suspended for maintenance);
• to contact you about a submission you have made to the websites, including any content you provide, see especially the. FAQ’s
• to personalise the way ARBJOBS content is presented to you (e.g. if we notice that the first thing you look at every day is the weather for Luton, then we may present this information or a link to it on your homepage);
• IP addresses are used to identify the location of users, the number of visits from different countries and also to block disruptive use; and
• to analyse and improve the services offered on Arbjobs.com e.g. to provide you with the most user-friendly navigation experience.
Where ARBJOBS proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for your use other than as listed above.
4. When will ARBJOBS contact me?
ARBJOBS may contact you:
• in relation to the functioning of any service you have signed up for in order to ensure that ARBJOBS can deliver the services to you;
• where you have opted to receive further correspondence;
• in relation to any contribution you have made to Arbjobs.com, e.g. on the ARBJOBS message or notice boards;
• to invite you to participate in surveys about the ARBJOBS services (participation is always voluntary); and
• for marketing purposes where you have specifically agreed to this (see paragraph 5 below)
Local pages will give you detailed information about how ARBJOBS will contact you in relation to specific services.
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5. Will I be contacted for marketing purposes?
ARBJOBS won't contact you for marketing purposes, or promote new services to you unless you specifically agree to be contacted for these purposes.
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6. Will ARBJOBS share my personal information with anyone else?
We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or as described in paragraph 7 below. Generally, we will only use your information within the ARBSITES GROUP . However, sometimes ARBJOBS may use third parties to process your information. ARBJOBS will require these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and the ARBJOBS will require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes.
Please note that if you are accessing ARBJOBS from outside the UK and you make a comment or complaint regarding any element of advertising (see paragraph 11 for more details about this) then ARBJOBS may forward your correspondence to the ARBSITES management team only for the purposes of responding to you.
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7. Offensive or inappropriate content on the ARBJOBS website
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to Arbjobs.com or any of the Arbsites group, or if you otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on Arbjobs.com or within the Arbsites group of websites then ARBJOBS and or Arbsites may use your personal information to stop such behaviour.
Where ARBJOBS reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the laws of England or Wales (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), then ARBJOBS may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
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8. What if I am a user aged 16 or under?
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information on any of the Arbsites websites including the ARBJOBS website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.
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9. How long will ARBJOBS keep my personal information?
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with ARBJOBS or the ARBJOBS's corporate retention schedule (this is a database that defines which documents should be kept and for how long). In the case that you wish to cancel your registration as an Arbjobs/Arbsites member, once an account is deleted a red flag goes on the database and, while people cannot use the personal information, it stays on the system for a period of one year for administration purposes before being deleted automatically.
Where you contribute to Arbjobs.com then ARBJOBS will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted. For example, ARBJOBS will only keep copies of entries to a photographic competition for the duration of the competition. However other projects (e.g. Adverts posted for staff) are likely to have a longer, or even permanent, duration.
Some content submitted to or shared with the ARBJOBS may be retained for prolonged periods of time or potentially indefinitely in the ARBJOBS's Archive, which is true of News contributions and diary dates which are published on the site.
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10. Can I find out what personal information the ARBJOBS holds about me?
Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information the ARBJOBS holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £50 for information requests and will require you to prove your identity with 2 pieces of approved photographic identification.) We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.
Please address requests and questions about this or any other question about this Privacy Policy to the Data Protection Officer, The Office, Heather Lodge, Abney, Hathersage, Derbyshire, S32 1AH. (Email: Accounts@arbjobs.com) .
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11. What if I am accessing ARBJOBS websites outside the UK?
www.Arbjobs.com is published and hosted in the UK by the ARBSITES GROUP. All personal information submitted by you to the site goes directly to the ARBSITES GROUP and will be processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy (and any local terms that apply on websites) unless terms on sites specify otherwise.
You should note that ARBJOBS does place a number of cookies on www.Arbjobs.com and may collect information about international users from these - please see paragraph 13 for more information about cookies.
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12. Changes to the ARBJOBS's Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to any Arbsites website. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page.
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13. Cookies Policy -Information ARBJOBS collects from you
a. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a "device") browser from a website's computer and is stored on your device's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
Cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the Arbjobs.com features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
During the course of any visit to Arbjobs.com, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
b. How does the ARBJOBS use cookies?
Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our jobs pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight new jobs information on your second and subsequent visits.
ARBJOBS also use’s a number of independent measurement and research companies. They gather information regarding the visitors to the ARBSITES GROUP of sites on our behalf using cookies, log file data and code which is embedded on our website. ARBSITES use this type of information to help improve the services it provides to its users. ARBSITES strictly require that third parties do not use any information for their own business or other purposes (see paragraph 6 above). Certain other areas of Arbjobs.com may use cookies for a specific reason - for example, to help an online game work effectively on your device. If this is the case, the local terms for that area of the website will make this clear and you should refer to those local terms for additional information.
c. ARBJOBS cookies and how to reject cookies?
A list of the main cookies that Arbjobs.com sets (and what each is used for) together with ways to minimise the number of cookies you receive can be found at: ARBJOBS's Cookie List and How To Reject Cookies.
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Last Updated : 27th March 2009
14. Contacting the ARBJOBS about this Privacy Policy
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy please contact;
The Data Protection Officer
The Office
Heather Lodge, Abney
Hathersage
Derbyshire
S32 1AH
