This Privacy Policy Statement applies if you access Accountancy Careers and related services via a web browser.
Accountancy Careers (“Our Site”) is a jobs board (website) operated by Inside Careers part of Cambridge Market Intelligence Ltd.
This privacy policy explains how we use the personal information we collect about you when you use Our Site and how we protect your privacy when using Our Site and Our related services.
1. Users
1a. Jobseekers
Registration with, and use of, Our Site for job seekers and those looking to purchase courses or receive career advice is free. When you register as a job seeker, you engage with us to provide you with online recruitment services. This service can include providing you with regular bespoke updates of relevant vacancies, relevant courses and career/sector news, which may be of interest to you. These updates will be provided as email alerts (Jobs, News and Course Alerts) which we will email to you (or send by SMS messaging where relevant and requested). Our email alerts may provide details of vacancies and courses of third-party providers. When you express an interest in any of these third-party job alerts or course alerts by clicking on the relevant link in the emails, you may be taken directly to the recruiter’s website without the need to login to your Accountancy Careers account first.
To provide you with an effective and personalised service each time you visit Our Site, we need to collect some personal information about you.
Accountancy Careers is committed to protecting the privacy of your information. We will not:
- provide access to or pass your personal details on to any third party without your express consent (e.g., when you make an application for a vacancy)
- send you unsolicited mail or e-mails, unless it is an announcement from us about significant changes to the site that may affect the services we provide)
- store cookies on your computer without your express consent
If you do not want to receive this information from us, we give you the opportunity to opt out of both as part of the registration process and at any time by updating your contact preferences in your account or by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link within emails we have sent to you.
1b. Recruiters and Course Providers
If you register on Our Site as a recruiter or course provider, and provide us with personal data, we will process such personal data on the basis that it is necessary to do so in order to perform the contract you enter into with us.
We may also contact you via email to invite you to review any services and/or products you received from us in order to collect your feedback and improve our services and products (the “Purpose”).
2. What data do we collect?
2.1 So that we can provide a personalised service, upon registration or at other times, we will ask you to submit your name, email address and to create a secure password. You will need to supply this information in order to register with us. You can also submit other optional personal information. Registration will enable you to search for positions of employment on Our Site, receive emails about suitable jobs, set up personalised CVs and send and receive secure messages.
2.2 To allow you to search for suitable positions of employment advertised on Our Site, you will be asked to enter search criteria information indicating the type of position you are seeking. You will need to provide this information to perform searches. You may also search for suitable vacancies by selecting appropriate categorisation criteria.
2.3 Use of your personal data by the companies to whom you may respond to when you make applications, contact, or supply when visiting other sites, is not our responsibility.
3. How is the information used?
Accountancy Careers will use the information you provide to us to:
- identify users of Our Site.
- match the requirements of users seeking employment to those of potential employers or recruitment agencies and send job alerts to users by email.
- improve the content of Our Site including the search process.
- provide recruiters with your full name for identity purposes when you apply for jobs or contact our list of advertisers (recruiters). Note we reserve the right to forward your details to a recruiter if you request us in writing to do so.
- customise the content and/or layout of Our Site for each individual customer.
- provide advertisements that are relevant to users, and which support any specific requests for information users may make through searches.
- conduct research on our users’ activities on Our Site, interests and behaviour.
- with your permission, send you information we think you may find useful, including information about suitable vacancies and new products and services we may be offering or plan to offer.
4. With whom is the information shared?
4.1 Accountancy Careers may disclose aggregate statistics about Our Site visitors, customers, and sales in order to, describe Our Services to prospective partners, advertisers and other reputable third parties and for other lawful purposes. These statistics will include no personal identifying information.
4.2 Accountancy Careers may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if it is believed that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights, property, or personal safety of (Service) Careers, Our Site or its visitors.
5. Third Party Privacy Practices
Where links to other sites are provided, Accountancy Careers is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of these websites.
6. Security
Accountancy Careers places great importance on the security of all personal identifiable information associated with its customers. We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of customer data under our control. While we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of data will not occur, we use our best efforts to prevent this. Our measures to protect your data are aligned with the guidance provided by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and include:
- encrypted passwords for your login purposes
- conducting regular Data Protection Impact Assessments to identify, logging and addressing possible threats/breaches of security with the utmost priority
- appointment of a dedicated in-house Data Protection Officer
- training of all our staff who handle personal data on our privacy policy and data protection policies and practices.
7. Use of Cookies
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log and visitor behaviour information. This information is used to track a visitor’s use of Our Site in order to compile statistical reports on Our Site’s activity and to help us make recommendations that are relevant to you.
When you login to Accountancy Careers website, our server stores a temporary cookie on your computer. This is used to remember your authentication (login) information as you navigate to different pages on Our Site and is automatically deleted when you log off or close your browser, or your user session times out due to inactivity. We do not use cookies for any other purposes.
We also use third party cookies to serve ads when you visit Our Site. Those companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide you with advertisements about other goods and services that may be of interest to you.
If you would like more information about this practice, including how to prevent it, please visit www.aboutcookies.org, www.allaboutcookies.org or optout.networkadvertising.org
More information about all the cookies on Our Site is available on our Cookies Page, which can be found here.
8. Marketing and Advertising
Accountancy Careers may partner with third-party advertising networks so that we and other advertisers can display advertising which is more relevant to you on Our Site.
Our advertisers (recruiters) cannot collect and do not have access to any information you have submitted to us that can be directly identified, such as your real name or address or email. They can only receive your personal information if you apply to their vacancies.
Some of the third-party cookies on Our Site may be able to anonymously track your browsing activity on other websites. You can learn more about our use of cookies and similar technologies and your choices by reading our Cookies Page.
Please note, if you have subscribed to our email alerts, we may use tracking software (pixels) in these emails to tell us if, and when, you opened an email from us. We use this information to better understand how our customers engage with our content and to analyse the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. This generic statistical information may be used externally to promote Our Services. You can disable tracking pixels by changing your email settings to block the loading or display of external images.
9. Your Profile and CV
Your CV can only be viewed by an advertiser (recruiters) if you send it to them when you apply for jobs via email from Our Site.
We reserve the right to remove CVs or profiles from our database which include any content that we consider to be illegal, offensive or abusive of Our Services on Our Site.
10. How long do we keep your data
Accountancy Careers will keep your data as long as you have registered, subscribed and by doing so, assume that you continue to be interested in Our Services to help your career. You can delete your registration, unsubscribe from our email alerts or change your email alert preferences at any time.
11. International access of your information
Personal Information which you supply to us and/or send to advertisers (recruiters) via Our Site, is generally stored and kept inside the UK and the European Economic Area (EEA). However, due to the nature of Our Site and the technologies required, you may, when applying to jobs, send your Personal Information to third party service providers outside the EEA, in countries where there may be a lower legal level of data protection.
Some of the jobs and/or advertisers (recruiters) on Our Site can be located outside of the EU/EEA. This means that, as part of the contract between you and Us, it might occur that your information is accessed from a country that does not have the same level of data protection as the UK, EU or EEA. In such situations, we advise you check the location of the company you are applying to and, if necessary, enter legal contracts to aim to ensure these third parties handle your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the UK and European levels of data protection.
12. Minors and Children
Accountancy Career is not directed towards individuals under the age of sixteen, however we are aware due to the nature of some of the job offerings such as internships and placements, those between the ages of 14 and 18 may use Our Site and related services. Individuals under the age of 14 are expressly prohibited from using Our Site and related services, unless parental consent is provided, and we are notified.
13. Your acceptance of the above uses of your personal data
By using Our Site and by submitting your personal information when registering or applying for jobs, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Accountancy Careers and to the Accountancy Careers’ privacy policy. Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be posted on this page but you are responsible for checking the policy each time you visit Our Site.
14. Your rights
You have a legal right to a copy of all the personal information we hold about you. You also have a right to correct any errors in that information. As mentioned above, you have a right to prevent and stop us using your personal information for marketing communications purposes.
You can delete your registration, unsubscribe from our email alerts or change your email alert preferences at any time.
15. Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy was updated in October 2022.
It is aligned with the guidance of UK GDPR to protect your privacy and inform you of your legal rights.
If you have any questions, concerns or comments about this policy, Our Site or your rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer using the ‘Contact Us‘ form.
This privacy policy should be read in conjunction with Our Site’s “Terms and Conditions“.