Privacy Policy
Your privacy managed right.
Last reviewed May 2022
This privacy policy explains how we use any personal information we collect about you when using this website and our wider services.
Your data is your data. Therefore, we do not use it in any other way than to provide the services as described. This with your explicit consent. It does not get any more straightforward than that.
With data laws governing what we all do these days, the full legal GDPR explanation is below.
This policy should be read in conjunction with our Terms and Conditions. In summary, when you use our website and wider services, we both agree to be nice to each other. In a world where everyone sues each other, sometimes just for the sake of it, we prefer the old fashioned way, accepting that when the parties (you and us) disagree about something, we simply talk, compromise and let common sense prevail. Quite refreshing, don’t you think?
By using our website and wider services you agree to both our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions, including our ‘be nice’ approach. If you disagree, please do not use our website or wider services. If at any time you change your mind after joining and using our service, would like to stop giving your consent, or do not agree with any of our policies or terms, please email us at the address below and we will permanently delete any personal data in our system. Unfortunately, you would then have to stop using our website.
There is no small print in our policy about wide-sweeping covert ‘uses of your data’. Simply put, the data is yours, and yours alone. We do not use your data in any way outside the scope of the service we provide, to which you have provided your consent under our terms of use.
Scope
We operate under the EU General Data Protection Regulations 2018 and the Data Protection Act 2018 (UK-GDPR)
Aside from the legal GDPR obligations, we treat your data very differently to that of other organisations. As an anonymous service provider, privacy and information security are paramount to our operation.
By the nature of our service, we are responsible for the safekeeping of our member's personal data and use our best endeavours and take all reasonable safeguards to ensure the safe storage of our member's data at all times.
Under data protection regulations we are required to set out the following:
What is personal data?
Personal data relates to any information about a natural person that makes you identifiable, for example, but not exhaustive:
Name
Address
Date of birth
Email
Telephone contact etc.
Data Controller
The Data Controller means the person (or organisation) who decides the purposes for which personal data is processed. From a legal perspective, the data controller is CoveyCarrot, trading as setyourworth.com
If you have any queries about this Privacy Policy, you can email the Data Controller at datacontroller@setyourworth.com
What information do we collect?
By using our website and/or our wider services you agree that we are entitled to obtain, store and process the information you provide to enable us to discharge the services you have requested, subject to our Terms and Conditions.
The information you supply is used to:
Create or update a contact record and profile in our Management Information System
To allow our intelligent system to match non-personalised elements of your profile to an enquiring company search.
To enable communication with you concerning an enquiry by you or a third party, this being an enquiring company.
To allow our intelligent system to create and deliver your career pathway.
To maintain a working relationship with you.
For legal and/or regulatory compliance
To carry out requests by you.
To deliver other aspects of our service not included in the above.
Cookies
As with any website, usage information is collected using cookies. This is anonymous.
Website ‘cookies’ provides standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. This information is then used to track visitor use of the website and create statistical reports on website activity. To reiterate, personal information is not collected during this process.
Most search engine providers (browsers) allow you to set your own preferences, including not to accept cookies. Please note in a few cases some website features may not work if cookies have been disabled. Setyourworth.com uses Google Analytics to analyse visitor information, its primary purpose of understanding visitors' volumes, and how they found our website. Your computers IP address is noted when you visit our site, which allows us to understand better how many visitors are coming to our website, and their location.
Cookies do not store personal information about you, and we do not share the data we analyse with any third party. Google's privacy policy can be viewed here:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
Advertising
From time to time, we use social media to promote and advertise our services. Much like Google Analytics, popular social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook use tracking codes to analyse visitor data. No personal data is provided. If you use any social media sites, you are naturally subject to their specific privacy policies. From our perspective, we do not store any such data.
Lawful Purpose
We will only use your supplied information to carry out your instructions and maintain an ongoing business relationship with you and/or your company or organisation.
Our lawful reason for processing your personal information will be ‘Legitimate Interests’ for business-to-business clients and contacts. This lawful purpose allows Setyourworth.com to process your personal information on the basis we have a genuine and legitimate reason for doing so and providing we are not harming any of your rights and/or interests.
That said, we take your privacy very seriously and therefore will delete your personal contact information upon request. Please see the instructions below. Please note that if you are an employee of a business, we will no longer be able to process any request for services on behalf of your employer.
For sole traders and consumers, our lawful reason for processing and storing your personal information will be ‘to fulfil a contract’ and thereafter ongoing ‘consent’ to deliver the services as described. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
Where we use third-party service providers, associated organisations, agents, or sub-contractors to deliver our service, we will only disclose the minimum personal information that is strictly necessary for them to deliver the outsourced services and where we have legal contracts in place that requires them to keep your information secure, and not to use it for any other purpose other than the execution of the contract in place. Any third party will be contracted to delete any information having fulfilled any contract with Setyourworth.com. We operate a strict Information & Security Policy.
Where we collect information on our website to process your enquiry and improve our services, for example via our contact us, or registration forms, you agree we can contact you to share progress updates with you about our services, which are linked to you attaining a new role, better pay or another aspect of your career pathway. As previously mentioned, consent can be withdrawn at any time, and your personal information deleted.
We will not share your information for marketing purposes with any company or third party unless explicitly linked to our service delivery or where you have provided consent.
Transferring your information outside of Europe
As part of the services offered to you through this website, the information you provide may or may not be transferred to countries outside the European Union. This is due to some of our third-party providers such as Google, Microsoft and other IT-related resources having offices or servers outside the European Union.
Profiling
We do not automatically profile any of the data we hold with the view of marketing or sending unsolicited, unrelated offers or services not linked to your career pathway. When communicating with you, we will update your personal information within our Management Information System to meet our contractual responsibilities. Your interests and preferences may also be recorded within your profile record.
Marketing
To deliver the service we have agreed, we will obviously need to contact you from time to time. Some may deem this marketing. As such, we would state that we would like to maintain an ongoing relationship with you and will do so under the lawful basis as indicated above. Where you are a company or sole trader, and a business relationship is not yet established, we would like to send you information about our services which we believe you would have a genuine interest in.
You have a right at any time to stop us from contacting you. To opt-out, please email datacontroller@setyourworth.com
Please note if you are an employee of a company, opting out will prevent us from providing services to your employer.
Data Retention
Data retention is categorised within our Information and Security policy and is reviewed annually. Our policy is if we do not need it, we delete it.
If you have a specific data retention query, please write to datacontroller@setyourworth.com
Information held in conjunction with contracted services are held in line with our regulatory requirements, this currently being 6 years.
Data Subject Access Request (SAR)
GDPR provides your right to request a copy of the personal information that Setmyworth.com holds about you on our systems. If you would like a copy of the information held, please write to the Data Controller at datacontroller@setyourworth.com
We will acknowledge your request upon receipt.
You may also use the above contact to request amendments or corrections to the data we hold, object to processing some or all your data, or exercise your ‘right to be forgotten’. For your convenience, we have included a ‘Delete my profile’ button within each account. This provides you with a one-click option to permanently delete ALL personal data held in our system.
Please note: Whilst personal data will be deleted upon request, where it is linked to a contracted service, i.e. a transaction has occurred, this will be kept in line with legal and statutory obligations.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites. This Privacy Policy only applies to this website and our wider, associated services. Please ensure you read the privacy policies of any connected or associated websites separately for your peace of mind.
Complaints
If you feel that your personal data has been processed in a way that does not meet your expectations or you believe has breached the General Data Protection Regulations, you have the right to complain. In the first instance, you should write to the Data Controller at datacontroller@setyourworth.com
You also have the right to record a complaint with the relevant authority, this being the Information Commissioners Office. You can visit their website here: https://ico.org.uk/
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We may occasionally make changes to this Privacy Policy without your consent. Following any changes, the date at the top of the Privacy Policy will be updated. If any change allows for wider access or sharing of your data, such changes will only apply to data collected after the date of the updated Privacy Policy and will be subject to your consent.
Please note that your profile will be permanently deleted from our system where consent is not provided, delayed, or where a membership subscription lapses. Deleted member profiles are unrecoverable.