Bump Careers Limited is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This statement (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. We keep certain basic information when you visit our website and recognise the importance of keeping that information secure and letting you know what we will do with it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 2018 (the Act), the data controller is Data Protection Officer, Bump Careers Limited, Hope Street Xchange, 1-3 Hind Street, Sunderland, SR1 3QD.
This notice only applies to Bump Careers activities including our website. If you leave our site via a link or otherwise, you will be subject to the policy of that website provider. We have no control over that policy, or the terms of the website and you should check their policy before continuing to access the site.
Trust and transparency
Your trust is very important to us and we are committed to keeping your data safe and secure. We will never sell your personal details to anyone and will only use your data for the purposes we tell you about. We will always explain clearly what information we are collecting about you and why.
Our aim is to put you in control of what happens with your data.
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.bumpcareers.com. This
includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our
service or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report
a problem with our site.
• We may collect your name and contact details, personal information in relation to job
applications.
• When you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do
not have to respond to them.
• Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location
data, web server logs, operating system, browser usage and other communication data.
• We may record any telephone calls made for quality and monitoring purposes.
Website related IP addresses and cookies
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual specifically and we will not collect personal information in this way.
We may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is
stored on the hard drive of your computer. The use of cookies helps us to improve our site
and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:
• to estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
• to store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site
according to your individual interests.
• to speed up your searches.
• to recognise you when you return to our site.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser. 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.
Uses made of the information
When we collect information about you, we will provide you with a summary of what we will do with that information. We may require the information in order to provide you with a service, and we may also need your permission. We will explain that at the time you are asked to provide the information.
We will use the information held about you in the following ways:
• To enable us to provide you with any service you have entered into an agreement for, to
apply for a job online,
• For internal record keeping.
• To analyse and improve our services.
• To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we
feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
• To notify you about changes to our service.
If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third
parties for marketing purposes, please ensure you do not tick the relevant box situated on
the form on which we collect your data. You will always have that choice where
appropriate.
Who we will share your information with
We do not share your information with third parties without your consent unless there is a
legitimate business reason, as required by law or other legal processes which requires us to
do so. We use third-party suppliers and sub-contractors in some parts of our business who
will require some of your personal information in order to complete work for us. We may
disclose your personal information to third parties:
• In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose
your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
• If we are under a legal duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply
with any legal obligation. This includes exchanging information with other companies and
organisations for the purposes of fraud or crime prevention or detection and credit risk
reduction.
• We will never sell your personal information.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have in place suitable physical, digital and operational procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect and process.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will always inform you at the point of collecting your data if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by not checking the relevant box(es) on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting our Data Protection Officer at dataprotectionofficer@bumpcareers.com or 0191 337 1557.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers, and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
You have the right to access the information we hold about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Access to information is free unless the information provided is excessive and if so, may be subject to a minimal fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you. Once an access request has been submitted formally with the correct information for us to be able to reply, the information will be provided within 30 days.
You have the right to have inaccurate information updated and where notified, we will ensure this is carried out quickly, and you have the right for information to be erased as long as we do not need to maintain that information for legal or other relevant needs. We will also ensure that anyone we have agreed to share that information with also complies.
You have the Right to Complain to our supervisory authority which is the Information Commissioners Office (ICO), if you feel that we have not dealt with your request properly or you have a concern about the way in which we are handling your information. The ICO would suggest you contact us first to allow us to help rectify the issue however if this fails or you remain dissatisfied, the ICO can be contacted directly online at: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/postal-addresses/ or on the telephone by calling: 0303 123 1113. You can also write to them at: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
Changes to our privacy statement
Any changes we may make to our privacy statement in the future will be posted on this page and we advise that you check this page regularly to keep up to date with any necessary changes.
Contact
Questions, comments, and requests regarding this privacy statement are welcomed and should be emailed to dataprotectionofficer@bumpcareers.com, telephone number 0191 337 1557 or by post to Data Protection Officer, Bump Careers Limited, Hope Street Xchange, 1-3 Hind Street, Sunderland, SR1 3QD.