Privacy Policy

1. INFORMATION COLLECTED

GradFutures needs certain information about registered users (typically graduates) and members (typically recruiters and their employees) to enable it to provide its service. GradFutures may also hold information about potential members of GradFutures. The information collected by GradFutures may include:

• For users: full name, postal address, email address, telephone number, university affiliation(s), curriculum vitae/resume details, including languages spoken and other skills.
• For members: company name, company activities (including details of recruitment schemes and jobs they offer), contact names and job titles, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses.

GradFutures will obtain this information either as part of the application process or as a result of marketing activity or potential member or general enquiries.

Registration
To become a GradFutures user, you must first register on this web site and provide accurate information in all mandatory fields as indicated in the registration process.

Profile Information
Once you have registered, you may provide additional information in the profile section. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional but enables you to better identify yourself and increases your chances that a recruiter will express an interest in you. To the extent that you have given your explicit permission in your privacy settings to be headhunted by recruiters, the information you provided is permitted to be used without limitation by GradFutures for purposes such as allowing recruiters to contact you and for serving you with relevant information and alerts through the service. If you opt-out you may lose the potential benefit of receiving communications that are more targeted to your profile and interests.

Cookies
Like most web sites, GradFutures may use cookies and web log files to track site usage. We reserve the right to use cookies as an anonymous method of recording your usage of our site and would ask that if you do not wish to have cookies recorded on your machine, you amend the settings on your browser to prevent them from being created. A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.

Log files, IP addresses and information about your computer
As a result of communication standards on the internet, when you visit the GradFutures web site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave GradFutures. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, email patterns, as well as the name of your ISP. This information may be used to analyse overall trends to help us improve the GradFutures service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is never shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.

2. USES OF INFORMATION

GradFutures is an online service which connects graduates with recruiters. Your personal information will be disclosed to relevant third parties (such as recruiters) only if you explicitly consent to this as part of your privacy settings. Other non-attributable information (that does not personally identify you as an individual, such as utilisation patterns), is collected by GradFutures Ltd and is exclusively owned by GradFutures. This information can be utilised by GradFutures Ltd in such manner as GradFutures Ltd, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.

Sharing information with third parties
GradFutures does not disclose personal user data to unconnected third parties except where user consent has been obtained or where GradFutures is under an obligation by law to disclose information or where GradFutures has contracted with third parties to assist in providing services to GradFutures users and members such as for delivery, installation and systems support services (such as application development or data backups).

GradFutures communications
GradFutures may from time to time inform its users, members, potential members and other interested parties about GradFutures and GradFutures services and other information GradFutures feels may be of interest. GradFutures users may at any time choose not to receive such information by altering the alert settings in their Profile.

Customised content
Information you provide at registration or in your Profile section is also used to customise your experience on the website. For example, when you login to your account we will display the alerts for information which may be relevant to you, based on preferences you have specified in your settings.

Polls and other surveys
If you participate in polls and other surveys in GradFutures, information you provide but which is not attributed to you individually can be utilised by GradFutures Ltd as, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate.

Processing of data
GradFutures may transfer and process member data outside the country in which the data is collected including without limitation transferring data to locations within the United States of America. Prior to making any such transfer GradFutures will ensure adequate security procedures are in place to prevent unauthorised or unlawful use of or access to such data.

3. CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY

GradFutures may, from time to time, update this privacy policy. In the event there are significant changes in the way we treat your personally identifiable information, we will display a notice on this site or communicate with you via the internal messaging system. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

If you continue to use the GradFutures service after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on our site, you hereby provide your consent to the changed practices.

4. ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION

Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information that GradFutures holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. We charge £10.00 for information requests and will require you to provide us with sufficient information for us to identify you (such as two pieces of certified photo ID). We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct, or delete personal information about you on our files.

5. CONTACT DETAILS

If you have any questions about GradFutures’s data privacy procedures, you can send an email to privacy@gradfutures.com