SaltyJobs.co

Our Approach To Privacy & Data Protection

SaltyJobs (we) recognise that collecting and processing data is an important part of our business, enabling us to find & match opportunities between marine employers and jobseekers.

We have a serious commitment to protecting and respecting the privacy of all users of our website and services (you). We will only ever use your data with the explicit permissions you give us.

Updated: May 2018 – General Data Protection Regulation

The importance we give to keeping your data safe means that we already complied with the GDPR updates before they became law on the 25th May 2018, but nevertheless have updated this policy to reflect that.

Updated: April 2018 – New SSL Certificate

In April 2018 we updated our website’s SSL certificate. Users can now access the entire website via https and all data, including job applications and store payments, is sent via an https connection.

Our Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or you provide us with, will be processed.

Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we treat it. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact us via the contact details below.

Asking For Your Permission

We ensure that we ask for explicit permission regarding its use whenever we collect data from you. This means that we will:

• Ask you if we can add your email address to our email list
• Ask you if we should keep your CV for similar roles
• Ask you if you would like to follow us and receive marketing communications from our Page on Facebook

These examples illustrate the permissions we will ask for to ensure we are collecting the right information, and using it only for the purposes you have given permission, at every step of your user journey with us.

Information We May Collect From You

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information that can identify you:

Information that you provide by filing in forms on our website. If you are a jobseeker this includes submitting your CV, submitting applications to jobs, subscribing to our emails, and any further contact through our website. If you are an employer, this includes submitting jobs to be posted, subscribing to our emails, and contacting us for more information.

We will only ever collect this data from you if you have given us explicit permission at the original point of data entry to use it for a given purpose.

If you contact us by email or telephone, a record may be kept of that communication.

Information that does not identify you:

We collect information that does not identify you to evaluate our site and ensure that our site and services run properly. This may include but is not limited to details of your visits to our site, traffic data, location data, the resources that you access.

IP Addresses and Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of information placed on your computer when you visit certain websites. The use of cookies does not identify individuals.

Our use of cookies gives us statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and helps ensure some of the services on our website work in the most efficient way.

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report information to our advertisers.

Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site. You can refuse to accept these cookies by changing your internet browser settings. However, if you do this you may be unable to access to certain parts of our site.

How We Use Your Data

We use information held about you to:

• Provide you with the information, products or services you request
• Ensure that the content on our website is displayed in the most effective manner for you and your browser
• Ensure functions of the website work properly
• Improve our website and monitor usage
• Provide anonymous traffic data to our advertisers
• Contact you by email or telephone to let you know about any of our products, services or promotions (which, in some cases may be provided by third parties) but only according to the permissions you give us

If you submit your CV to us, we will hold it on file and contact you if a relevant opportunity arises. We will not pass on your CV to any third party without your prior consent and we will obtain this by email from you beforehand. If you consent, we will then forward your CV and covering letter if appropriate to the relevant employer. You can ask us to remove your CV from our database at any time. All CVs are stored on our secure server hosting platform, and our hosting provider has its own strict Privacy and Security policies.

If you submit a job to us, we will take the information you provide and create a job listing to publish on our website. We will contact you to make sure you are satisfied with your job listing before promoting it.

Storing Your Data

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All important data is transferred through our secure https SSL certificate.

All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers, and our hosting provider also adheres to strict Privacy and Security policies.

No payment processing details from any payment transactions made through the website will be stored on our servers. Payments are securely processed through our payment partner, who have their own strict Privacy policy.

Unfortunately, no transmission of data through the internet can be entirely secure. We will do our best to protect your personal data, but cannot guarantee the security of your personal information and/or use of the website. Any information that you send is at your own risk and may be read by others. However, once we have received your personal information, we will do as much as possible to protect the security of your data.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may otherwise disclose your personal information if we are approached by a potential buyer of our business, if we required to do so by law or in good-faith believing such action is necessary to comply with the law.

We never sell personal information, or pass it to third parties for marketing purposes without your permission.

External Links

Our website may contain links to and from external websites.  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 data to these websites.

Access to Information

You can update your details by re-submitting the relevant information via the website, or by emailing data.protection@saltyjobs.co

The Data Protection Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Any request in accordance with the Act may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing details of the information we hold about you.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

If we change our Policy, we will post the changes on this page.

Contact Us

If you have questions, comments or concerns regarding this privacy policy, these are welcomed and should be emailed to data.protection@saltyjobs.co