Privacy Policy

Introduction

1. This is a notice to inform you of our policy about all information that we record about you. It sets out the conditions under which we may process any information that we collect from you, or that you provide to us. It covers information that could identify you (“personal information”) and information that could not. In the context of the law and this notice, “process” means collect, store, transfer, use or otherwise act on information.
2. We regret that if there are one or more points below with which you are not happy, your only recourse is to leave our website immediately.
3. We take seriously the protection of your privacy and confidentiality. We understand that all visitors to our website are entitled to know that their personal data will not be used for any purpose unintended by them, and will not accidentally fall into the hands of a third party.
4. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of all information you provide to us, and hope that you reciprocate.
5. Our policy complies with UK law accordingly implemented, including that required by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
6. The law requires us to tell you about your rights and our obligations to you in regards to the processing and control of your personal data. We do this now, by requesting that you read the information provided at www.knowyourprivacyrights.org
7. Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://theexpertlink.co.uk

The basis on which we process information about you

The law requires us to determine under which of six defined bases we process different categories of your personal information, and to notify you of the basis for each category.

If a basis on which we process your personal information is no longer relevant then we shall immediately stop processing your data.
If the basis changes then if required by law we shall notify you of the change and of any new basis under which we have determined that we can continue to process your information.

1. 1. Information we process with your consent

      Through certain actions when otherwise there is no contractual relationship between us, such as when you browse our website or ask us to provide you more information about our business, including job opportunities, our products and services, you provide your consent to us to process information that may be personal information.

      Wherever possible, we aim to obtain your explicit consent to process this information, for example, by asking you to agree to our use of cookies.

      Sometimes you might give your consent implicitly, such as when you send us a message by e-mail to which you would reasonably expect us to reply.

      Except where you have consented to our use of your information for a specific purpose, we do not use your information in any way that would identify you personally. We may aggregate it in a general way and use it to provide class information, for example to monitor the performance of a particular page on our website.

      If you have given us explicit permission to do so, we may from time to time pass your name and contact information to selected associates whom we consider may provide services or products you would find useful.

      We continue to process your information on this basis until you withdraw your consent or it can be reasonably assumed that your consent no longer exists.

      You may withdraw your consent at any time by instructing us collaborations@theexpertlink.co.uk. However, if you do so, you may not be able to use our website or our services further.

   2. Information we process because we have a legal obligation

      We are subject to the law like everyone else. Sometimes, we must process your information in order to comply with a statutory obligation.

      For example, we may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order.
      This may include your personal information.

   Specific uses of information you provide to us

   1. Complaints regarding content on our website

      We attempt to moderate user generated content, but we are not always able to do so as soon as that content is published.

      If you complain about any of the content on our website, we shall investigate your complaint.

      If we feel it is justified or if we believe the law requires us to do so, we shall remove the content while we investigate.

      Free speech is a fundamental right, so we have to make a judgment as to whose right will be obstructed: yours, or that of the person who posted the content that offends you.

      If we think your complaint is vexatious or without any basis, we shall not correspond with you about it.

   2. Information relating to your method of payment

      Payment information is never taken by us or transferred to us either through our website or otherwise. Our employees and contractors never have access to it.

   3. Job application and employment

      If you send us information in connection with a job application, we may keep it for up to three years in case we decide to contact you at a later date.
      If we employ you, we collect information about you and your work from time to time throughout the period of your employment. This information will be used only for purposes directly relevant to your employment. After your employment has ended, we will keep your file for six years before destroying or deleting it.

   4. Sending a message to our support team

      When you contact us, whether by telephone, through our website or by e-mail, we collect the data you have given to us in order to reply with the information you need.

      We record your request and our reply in order to increase the efficiency of our business.

      We keep personally identifiable information associated with your message, such as your name and email address so as to be able to track our communications with you to provide a high quality service.

   5. Complaining

      When we receive a complaint, we record all the information you have given to us.

      We use that information to resolve your complaint.

      If your complaint reasonably requires us to contact some other person, we may decide to give to that other person some of the information contained in your complaint. We do this as infrequently as possible, but it is a matter for our sole discretion as to whether we do give information, and if we do, what that information is.

      We may also compile statistics showing information obtained from this source to assess the level of service we provide, but not in a way that could identify you or any other person.

Use of information we collect through automated systems when you visit our website

1. 1. Cookies

      Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive by your web browser when you visit any website. They allow information gathered on one web page to be stored until it is needed for use on another, allowing a website to provide you with a personalised experience and the website owner with statistics about how you use the website so that it can be improved.

      Some cookies may last for a defined period of time, such as one day or until you close your browser. Others last indefinitely.

      Your web browser should allow you to delete any you choose. It also should allow you to prevent or limit their use.

      Our website uses cookies. They are placed by software that operates on our servers, and by software operated by third parties whose services we use.

      When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

      We use cookies in the following ways:

      1. 1. to track how you use our website
         2. to save your login information and screen choices
         3. to record whether you have seen specific messages we display on our website

   2. Personal identifiers from your browsing activity

      Requests by your web browser to our servers for web pages and other content on our website are recorded.

      We record information such as your geographical location, your Internet service provider and your IP address. We also record information about the software you are using to browse our website, such as the type of computer or device and the screen resolution.

      We use this information in aggregate to assess the popularity of the webpages on our website and how we perform in providing content to you.

      If combined with other information we know about you from previous visits, the data possibly could be used to identify you personally, even if you are not signed in to our website.

   3. Our use of re-marketing

      Re-marketing involves placing a cookie on your computer when you browse our website in order to be able to serve to you an advert for our products or services when you visit some other website.

      We may use a third party to provide us with re-marketing services from time to time. If so, then if you have consented to our use of cookies, you may see advertisements for our products and services on other websites.

Disclosure and sharing of your information

1. 1. Information we obtain from third parties

      Although we do not disclose your personal information to any third party (except as set out in this notice), we sometimes receive data that is indirectly made up from your personal information from third parties whose services we use. No such information is personally identifiable to you.

   2. Embedded content from other websites

      Pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

      These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

   3. Third party advertising on our website

      Third parties may advertise on our website. In doing so, those parties, their agents or other companies working for them may use technology that automatically collects information about you when their advertisement is displayed on our website.

      They may also use other technology such as cookies or JavaScript to personalise the content of, and to measure the performance of their adverts.
      We do not have control over these technologies or the data that these parties obtain. Accordingly, this privacy notice does not cover the information practices of these third parties.

   4. Data may be processed outside the European Union

      Our websites are hosted in the UK.

      We may also use outsourced services in countries outside the European Union from time to time in other aspects of our business.

      Accordingly data obtained within the UK or any other country could be processed outside the European Union.

      For example, some of the software our website uses may have been developed in the United States of America or in Australia.

      We use the following safeguards with respect to data transferred outside the European Union:

      1. 1. the processor is within the same corporate group as our business or organisation and abides by the same binding corporate rules regarding data processing.
         2. the data protection clauses in our contracts with data processors include transfer clauses written by or approved by a supervisory authority in the European Union, specifically that in the UK.
         3. we comply with a code of conduct approved by a supervisory authority in the European Union, specifically that in the UK
         4. we are certified under an approved certification mechanism as provided for in the GDPR
         5. both our organisation and the processor are public authorities between whom there is either a legally binding agreement or administrative arrangements approved by a supervisory authority in the European Union relating to protection of your information

Access to your own information

1. 1. Access to your personal information

      1. 1. To obtain a copy of any information that is not provided on our website you may send us a request at collaborations@theexpertlink.co.uk.
         2. After receiving the request, we will tell you when we expect to provide you with the information, and whether we require any fee for providing it to you.

   2. Removal of your information

      If you wish us to remove personally identifiable information from our website, you may contact us at collaborations@theexpertlink.co.uk.
      This may limit the service we can provide to you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

   3. Verification of your information

      When we receive any request to access, edit or delete personal identifiable information we shall first take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or otherwise taking any action. This is important to safeguard your information.

Other matters

1. Use of site by children

   1. 1. We do not sell products or provide services for purchase by children, nor do we market to children.
      2. If you are under 18, you may use our website only with consent from a parent or guardian
      3. We collect data about all users of and visitors to these areas regardless of age, and we anticipate that some of those users and visitors will be children.
      4. Such child users and visitors will inevitably visit other parts of the site and will be subject to whatever on-site marketing they find, wherever they visit.

2. Encryption of data sent between us

   We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to verify our identity to your browser and to encrypt any data you give us.
   Whenever information is transferred between us, you can check that it is done so using SSL by looking for a closed padlock symbol or other trust mark in your browser’s URL bar or toolbar.

3. How you can complain

   1. 1. If you are not happy with our privacy policy or if have a complaint then you should tell us by email. Our address is collaborations@theexpertlink.co.uk.
      2. If a dispute is not settled then we hope you will agree to attempt to resolve it by engaging in good faith with us in a process of mediation or arbitration.
      3. If you are in any way dissatisfied about how we process your personal information, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office. This can be done at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

4. Retention period for personal data

   Except as otherwise mentioned in this privacy notice, we keep your personal information only for as long as required by us:

   1. 1. to provide you with the services you have requested;
      2. to comply with other law, including for the period demanded by our tax authorities;
      3. to support a claim or defence in court.

5. Compliance with the law

   Our privacy policy has been compiled so as to comply with the law of every country or legal jurisdiction in which we aim to do business. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your jurisdiction, we should like to hear from you.
   However, ultimately it is your choice as to whether you wish to use our website.

6. Review of this privacy policy

   We may update this privacy notice from time to time as necessary. The terms that apply to you are those posted here on our website on the day you use our website. We advise you to print a copy for your records.
   If you have any question regarding our privacy policy, please contact us.