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Educating Abroad Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies only to this website. The website is operated by Educating Abroad Ltd.

Educating Abroad’; ‘we’; ‘us’; and ‘our’; means Educating Abroad Ltd of 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, England, WC2H 9JQ.

Educating Abroad endeavors to ensure that the information you submit to us remains private and used only for the purposes described below. We aim to provide a safe and secure experience for all of our users. We make every effort to comply with our obligations under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Additionally, we understand the importance of maintaining your CV’s confidentiality and other information stored about you while using the site.

Jobseeker Account and CV information

When you register to Educating Abroad, your details, including your CV, can be made available for searching, viewing over the Internet, and downloading by any direct recruiter, employment consultant, or other person or organization who requests CVs matching your profile to be sent to them. Educating Abroad attempts to verify the identity and nature of such organizations’ business; however, it does not make any warranties as to their authenticity.

Your personal information

When you register with us as a job seeker, we will process your personal data on the basis set out in this policy, as it is in our legitimate interests to do so following your registration. We will collect personal information from you, such as your name, contact details, details of the kind of work you are looking for, the location you want to work, and your CV. We will use your personal data to manage your account and email you about our services, including job alerts and emails about courses relevant to your fields of interest. We may contact you regarding site changes or changes to the Educating Abroad products or services you use.

Disclosure of personal information

When you register, we store some information about you in your account, but it is protected by your password and may only be accessed by you. It does not form part of our candidate database and cannot be searched or accessed by Educating Abroad customers. You can delete your account at any time. Your CV, unless you choose the option to ‘hide,’ will be accessible to any Educating Abroad customer. If you choose to hide your CV, all Educating Abroad clients will be unable to view or access it.

We ask job seekers not to include information on their CV that is considered sensitive personal data, such as your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, and healthy sex life or sexual orientation.

If you choose to create a profile and upload a CV to our database, we rely on you to ensure that your details are kept updated. You should update your CV at least every six months, particularly if your contact details have changed.

Please note that Educating Abroad reserves the right to remove from our database CVs that include any content that we consider illegal or offensive.

We may record and share aggregated information with our clients. Additionally, if you input your information on a co-branded registration page or job application page, e.g., a Educating Abroad client-company registration page, then the information you give becomes the property of both Educating Abroad and the client. Educating Abroad is not responsible for the information that the client receives.

Educating Abroad will also use the aggregate data to identify employment trends across different industries, such as salary averages. This information will not be capable of being linked to any personally identifying information about users.

Please be aware that some of our customers may be located in countries outside the European Economic Area.

PLEASE NOTE: Your current employer may be a customer of Educating Abroad or a client of one of our customers. Educating Abroad cannot restrict the customers who access profiles on our database and cannot be held responsible for any eventuality.

Information collection and use

Like many websites, we routinely capture your IP address information to determine your location. This helps us work out whether you are visiting the site from within the UK, EU, or rest of the world, and means we can show you content that’s specific to your location and ask the right questions about your eligibility to work in the UK or EU should you wish to apply for a job on Educating Abroad. Educating Abroad automatically receives and records information on our web server logs from your browser, including your IP address. Educating Abroad records IP addresses for anonymous statistical purposes, administration of our website and servers, and improving our services.

An IP address, or ‘internet protocol address, is a unique identifying number given to every device connected to the internet. Like a car license plate, an IP address is a special serial number used for identification.

Information may be gathered from your registration form and your use of our website through “cookies.” The information gathered may be used by Educating Abroad internally, for purposes relating to your use of the website and for marketing activities, and maybe passed to carefully selected third parties to use for marketing activities. If you do not wish to receive marketing material from Educating Abroad or from carefully selected third parties, you should tick the appropriate box on the submission form. If you subsequently decide you no longer wish to receive direct marketing/information from Educating Abroad or no longer wish us to pass your information to third parties, you should notify us using the Contact page of our website or delete your CV.

Educating Abroad may set and access cookies on your computer. You can choose whether or not to accept cookies. However, if you do not accept Educating Abroad cookies, some of our services may not be available to you. More information about Educating Abroad cookies can be found in our Cookie Policy. This policy does not apply to companies that Educating Abroad does not own or control or to people that Educating Abroad does not employ.

Educating Abroad currently uses personalized adverts services when visiting other ad network sites. These are authorized by Educating Abroad to place and read cookies on our websites (including network websites and emails).

Other choice options for display: Users can also express their choices through the following platforms: IAB opt-out platform, Network Advertising Initiative opt-out platform, Digital Advertising Alliance platform that provides options to express their choices for all companies that are registered in this platform.

Educating Abroad uses a specific cookie to facilitate the use of Google Universal Analytics for logged-in Candidates or Recruiters (“Logged-In User”). If you are a Logged-In User, Educating Abroad may use your Candidate or Recruiter user ID in combination with Google Universal Analytics and Google Analytics to track and analyze the pages of Educating Abroad that you visit. We do this to understand better how you use Educating Abroad to improve Educating Abroad for all users. We do not pass any Logged-In User personal identification information to Google Analytics.

Learn more about privacy at Google or opt-out of this feature by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Statistical information

Educating Abroad gathers general information about users, for example, what services users access the most and which areas of the Educating Abroad site are most frequently visited, the number of CVs on the database, or the number of visitors to the site and for other lawful purposes. Such data is used in the aggregate to understand how the Educating Abroad site is used. We gather this information to continue to improve and develop our services to benefit our users. We may make this aggregated information available to the Educating Abroad site users, to our clients, advertisers, suppliers, and other reputable third parties. These statistics are anonymous and contain no personal information, and cannot gather such information.

Security

The site is protected against unauthorized access using the latest security devices and ‘firewalls.

Other ways of ensuring your privacy & your data protection rights:

These options are available when you log in to our website.

You may access and amend your personal details at any time.

You may ‘hide your CV’ from all Educating Abroad clients, meaning that your CV and profile will not appear in any CV Searches. You are still able to apply for vacancies with your CV.

You may unsubscribe from any employment or promotional information that we may send to you in any of the following ways:

      • Using the unsubscribe function at the bottom of the email
      • Amending your account details by logging in to our website
      • Contacting us on the Contact page of our website.

You can remove the information that Educating Abroad stores about you, at any time, by logging in to your Educating Abroad account and choosing to delete your account.

If you have any questions about this policy or our Personal Information use, please raise your query via our contact form. If you do not think we are handling your Personal Information adequately, you have the right to make a complaint to Information Commissioner’s Office. Further information, including contact details, are available at https://ico.org.uk

See Also:
Educating Abroad Terms & Conditions
Educating Abroad Cookie Policy

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