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Thursday 2nd September 2010

womenintechnology.co.uk is committed to protecting the privacy of the users of its website, in accordance with the principles set out in the Data Protection Act 1998 ("DPA"), and will therefore use its best efforts to ensure that the information ("data") you provide remains private and is only used for the purposes detailed in this statement. womenintechnology.co.uk is the data controller for the purposes of the DPA.

 

womenintechnology.co.uk will:

  • tell you why the data you provide is needed, and for which purpose(s) it will be used (please see below)
  • process your data in line with the DPA and any other legal requirements
  • ensure that the data processed about you is adequate, relevant and not excessive
  • ensure that the data is accurate, kept up to date, and not retained longer than necessary
  • protect the data against unauthorised or unlawful processing, as well as accidental loss, destruction or damage
  • respect your rights as a data subject as set out in the DPA (including providing you with access to the data held and rectifying inaccurate data upon your request)
  • make sure that sensitive personal data* is processed according to the provisions of the DPA

 

 

Purposes

Your data will consist of personal details including your name, e-mail address and any information (including sensitive personal data as defined by the DPA) contained in your CV and received from third parties, will be held and used by womenintechnology.co.uk for the following purposes:

  • matching your details with job vacancies, to help find you the position that most suits you
  • keeping you informed of news and wider development in your chosen field
  • making you aware of services womenintechnology.co.uk and associated companies offer you
  • compiling anonymised salary and other surveys of our candidates for womenintechnology.co.uk use
  • training womenintechnology.co.uk staff
  • as a testing environment for womenintechnology.co.uk applications
  • equal opportunities monitoring

 

 

CVs

This website gives you the option of submitting your CV to womenintechnology.co.uk. You can do this either to apply for a specific advertised job, or for womenintechnology.co.uk to consider you for opportunities which may come up at a later date. Your Information is e-mailed directly to our recruitment consultants, who review your details and enter them onto our central in-house database. This can only be accessed by womenintechnology.co.uk recruitment consultants.

 

 

Disclosure of your Personal Data

In the process of finding the right position for you, it may be necessary for womenintechnology.co.uk consultants to send your personal details, including your CV (which may or may not contain sensitive personal data*), to consultants working in other womenintechnology.co.uk offices or prospective employers both within and outside the European Economic Area. womenintechnology.co.uk will not be able to provide you with the services described in this website if you do not consent to this disclosure.

 

 

Job Search and Job Alert

To use our Job Search or Job Alert services, you will be required to supply your email address. This information is used for the purpose of keeping you informed by email of the latest jobs (and/or news) in your nominated industry. Should you decide that you no longer wish to receive this information, you can either login to your womenintechnology profile and select ‘Delete my profile’, email unsubscribe@womenin.co.uk or write to us at womenintechnology.co.uk, 114 Middlesex Street, London, E1 7JH.

 

 

Information about online visitors

In accordance with womenintechnology.co.uk's data protection policy, womenintechnology.co.uk does not and will never disclose information about your individual visits to the website, or any personal details you provide such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, etc. to any third parties without your prior consent (except when the law requires it and as set out in this statement in relation to the provision of the service to you). womenintechnology.co.uk may, however, use your personal details to keep you informed of services offered by womenintechnology.co.uk or associated companies.

 

womenintechnology.co.uk may gather information about all visitors to this website collectively (for example, which area users access most frequently and which services users access the most) as well as individually (visitors' IP addresses). womenintechnology.co.uk only uses such data to help determine what is most beneficial for users and how online services can be improved to continue creating a better overall experience for users.

 

 

Changes to this Policy

If womenintechnology.co.uk changes its privacy policy in the future, the changes will be set out here so that you will always know what personal information is gathered, the purposes it might be used for and whom it may be disclosed to. If, at any time, you have any questions or concerns about womenintechnology.co.uk 's online privacy commitment, please feel free  to call us or write to us at womenintechnology.co.uk, 114 Middlesex Street, London, E1 7JH.

 

*Sensitive Personal Data - for example data consisting of information as to the racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs or other beliefs of a similar nature, trade union membership details, physical or mental health or condition, sexual life, details of any alleged or commissioned offence and/or any related legal proceedings.

 

 

 

Terms and Conditions

 

DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE AND SERVICE IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO ACCEPT THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS STATED BELOW

 

These "Terms and Conditions" govern Your use of the website known as womenintechnology.co.uk (the "Site"). Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully. By using this Site, You are indicating Your acceptance to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. You are advised to check this Terms and Conditions page periodically to review changes that could be made at any time, because these changes are binding on You. womenintechnology.co.uk may modify these Terms and Conditions at any time in its sole discretion by updating this posting.

 

The terms "You" and "User" as used below refer to all persons and/or entities using this Site for any reason. The term "womenintechnology.co.uk" means womenintechnology.co.uk and all of its subsidiaries, affiliates, franchisees and licensees.

 

 

Copyright Notice

1) All the contents of this Site, including, without limitation, the "look" and "feel" of the Site, text, images, graphics, logos, button icons, lists, software, databases and other material and content and the compilation of it (meaning the collection, arrangement and assembly) (together "Material") are protected under both UK and international copyright, trade mark and other laws.

2) All Material is the exclusive property and intellectual property of womenintechnology.co.uk or its content suppliers or clients.

 

 

Use of Material

1) womenintechnology.co.uk authorises You to view a single copy of the Material on this Site solely for Your personal, non-commercial, internal business purposes or as a job applicant.

2) You may not distribute the Material to third parties or use it to create directories or mailing or marketing lists or for any other purpose.

3) Unauthorised use of the Material may violate copyright, trademark and other laws.

4) You must retain all copyright, trade mark, service mark and other proprietary notices contained in the original Material or any copy You make of the Material (but You may only make such copies as expressly authorised by these Terms and Conditions).

5) To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, You may not modify, copy, transmit, create derivative works from, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code from any software accessible or available through womenintechnology.co.uk or sell, assign, sub-license or otherwise transfer any right in such software.

6) You may not incorporate the Material for any purpose into another database, search engine, any other website or in a networked computer environment of any kind.

7) You may not copy or adapt the HTML code that womenintechnology.co.uk creates to generate its pages.

8) Access to this Site is monitored. The requesting URLs, the machine originating the request and the time of the request are logged for access statistics and security purposes. Use of this Site constitutes consent to such monitoring.

 

 

User Information

1) Material on this Site may be changed, terminated or updated without notice.

2) womenintechnology.co.uk may also make improvements and/or changes in the services described in this Site at any time without notice.

3) Any information or material sent to womenintechnology.co.uk shall not be considered confidential. By sending womenintechnology.co.uk any information or material, You grant womenintechnology.co.uk an unrestricted, irrevocable right and licence to use such information for its business purposes, including the right to post job listings and résumés/CVs that You place on this Site.

 

 

Scope of Permitted Site Use

1) You may refer to the URL of this Site without limitation, but You may not link to this Site without womenintechnology.co.uk's prior written approval.

2) You may not use the Site in order to transmit, distribute, erase or store material: (a) in violation of any applicable law or regulation; (b) in a manner that will infringe the patent, copyright, trade mark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of others or violate the privacy, publicity or other personal rights of others; or (c) that is harmful, defamatory, libellous, vulgar, obscene, threatening, abusive, harassing or otherwise objectionable in womenintechnology.co.uk's opinion.

3) You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Site, including, without limitation: (a) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorisation; (b) accessing data not intended for such User or logging into a server or account which the User is not authorised to access; (c) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or posting; (d) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus or corrupted data to the Site, overloading, continuous posting of repetitive text, "flooding," "spamming," "mailbombing" or "crashing"; or (e) sending unsolicited e-mail, "junk mail," "chain letters," including promotional materials and/or advertising of products or services, or any other form of solicitation. Violations of system and network security may result in civil or criminal liability.

 

 

Specific Prohibited Uses

The Site may only be used for lawful purposes. womenintechnology.co.uk specifically prohibits any use of the Site, and all Users agree not to use the Site, for any of the following:

  • posting any incomplete, false, inaccurate or misleading biographical information or information which is not Your own accurate résumé/CV. Recruiters representing candidates may not send that candidate's résumé/CV in response to a job posting
  • deleting or changing another person's information posted on the Site
  • posting or transmitting any message, information, data, text, software or images, or other material that may invade another's privacy or publicity rights or is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libellous, vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable in womenintechnology.co.uk's opinion
  • posting a sexually explicit image or statement
  • using any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Site or any activity being conducted on this Site
  • taking any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on this Site's infrastructure
  • notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, using or attempting to use any engine, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism (including, without limitation, browsers, spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate or search this Site other than the search engine and search agents available from womenintechnology.co.uk on this Site and other than generally available third-party Web browsers (e.g., Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Explorer)
  • other than as permitted expressly by these Terms and Conditions, copying or duplicating any of the materials or information available from the Site
  • other than as permitted expressly by these Terms and Conditions, framing of or linking to any of the materials or information available from the Site

 

 

Feedback and Information

Any feedback that You provide at this Site, including but not limited to, electronic and written correspondence, shall be deemed to be non-confidential and can be used by womenintechnology.co.uk without limitation.

 

 

Indemnity

By using this Site, You agree to indemnify, and keep womenintechnology.co.uk free from and effectively indemnified against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities and all costs and expenses of defence, including but not limited to lawyers fees, resulting directly or indirectly from Your use of this Site, unless such claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses arise from and have directly and solely been caused by the gross negligence or intentionally wrongful acts of womenintechnology.co.uk.

 

 

Disclaimer

1) Your use of this Site is free of charge. Therefore this Site and all information within it are provided on an "as is" basis and womenintechnology.co.uk makes and gives no conditions, warranties, undertakings, representations or other terms regarding this Site or the Materials or connected to them or regarding the effectiveness of the Site or the Materials in meeting Your employment objectives.

2) All conditions, warranties, undertakings, representations and other terms of any kind whatsoever, express or implied (whether by statute, common law or otherwise), in respect of the Site or the Material or in connection with them are hereby excluded by womenintechnology.co.uk to the fullest extent permitted by law and womenintechnology.co.uk shall have no obligation, duty or liability whatsoever to You.

3) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, to the fullest extent permitted by law womenintechnology.co.uk specifically disclaims and excludes all warranties or conditions implied by law or statute concerning satisfactory quality and fitness for purpose and reasonable skill and care.

4) womenintechnology.co.uk does not guarantee that any employer or client will ask for Your résumé/CV, ask to interview You or hire You.

5) womenintechnology.co.uk does not guarantee to any employer or client the availability of résumés/CVs or candidates, or that any candidate will meet Your needs.

6) womenintechnology.co.uk uses reasonable care in compiling and presenting the information found on this Site. However, the accuracy of information supplied by candidates, employers and other users is not within the control of womenintechnology.co.uk, and womenintechnology.co.uk does not certify that it has verified any information in any job listing, résumé/CV, file or other posting entered into the womenintechnology.co.uk database or available on this Site.

7) Further, womenintechnology.co.uk does not assume liability for any errors or omissions in the content on this Site or any third party site, including, but not limited to, typographical errors, inaccuracies, outdated information, or broken links.

8) womenintechnology.co.uk expressly disclaims liability for errors or omissions in the information found on this Site.

9) You acknowledge that in any computer system and any network of computer systems there is certain to be "downtime" due to mechanical, telecommunication, software, hardware and third-party vendor failures during which womenintechnology.co.uk will be unable to provide this Site to You. womenintechnology.co.uk cannot predict or control when such "downtime" may occur and cannot control the duration of such "downtime."

10) womenintechnology.co.uk uses this Site to provide the access, computer services and connections that link the womenintechnology.co.uk database to the Internet and other network systems. womenintechnology.co.uk has authority or control only over the operation of this Site. Nevertheless, You understand and agree that the Internet is inherently unreliable and subject to breaches of security. Therefore, womenintechnology.co.uk cannot be responsible for the integrity of any information, file or other posting available on or sent to this Site.

11) womenintechnology.co.uk has no authority or control over the content, operation or performance of any portion of the Internet including other websites to which this Site may be linked or from which this Site may be accessed. A link to a website not owned or operated by womenintechnology.co.uk does not mean that womenintechnology.co.uk endorses or accepts responsibility for the content or use of such Site and such link is being provided to You merely as a convenience. Reference to any product, process, publication, service or offering of any third party by trade name, trade mark, manufacturer or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement or recommendation by womenintechnology.co.uk.

12) The views and opinions of employers, candidates and other users of this Site do not necessarily state or reflect those of womenintechnology.co.uk.

 

 

Exclusion of Liability

1) Your use of this Site is free of charge. Therefore this Site and all information within it are provided on an "as is" basis and womenintechnology.co.uk excludes all responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to You or a third party as a result of using this Site or the Materials.

2) To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will womenintechnology.co.uk be liable for loss or damages of any kind.

3) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will womenintechnology.co.uk be liable for a) loss of revenue; b) loss of actual or anticipated profits; c) loss of contracts; d) loss of the use of money; e) loss of anticipated savings; f) loss of business; g) loss of opportunity; h) loss of goodwill; i) loss of reputation; j) loss of, damage to or corruption of data; or k) any indirect or consequential loss; and such liability is excluded whether it is foreseeable, known, foreseen or otherwise. For the avoidance of doubt, (a) to (j) apply whether such losses are direct, indirect, consequential or otherwise.

 

 

Limitation of Liability

If the exclusion of liability set forth under the section 'Exclusion of Liability' is held inapplicable or unenforceable for any reason, then womenintechnology.co.uk's maximum aggregate liability to You for all losses and damages shall be limited to £10.00 GBP.

 

 

Proprietary Information (Trade Marks and Service Marks)

1) Certain portions of this Site contain information that is considered confidential and proprietary. This information is not available to the general public. Any attempt to access this information will be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible under local, state, national and international law. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any licence or right under any patent, copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property right of womenintechnology.co.uk or any third party, except as expressly granted herein.

 

 

General

1) womenintechnology.co.uk makes no claims that the Materials may be lawfully viewed or downloaded outside of the United Kingdom. Access to the Materials may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If You access the Site from outside of the United Kingdom, You do so at Your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of Your jurisdiction.

2) These Terms and Conditions and use of the Site are governed by laws of England. You and womenintechnology.co.uk submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts, provided that womenintechnology.co.uk may bring an action in any jurisdiction or court of its choosing.

3) If any provision of these Terms and Conditions are found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions, which shall remain in full force and effect.

4) No waiver of any term of these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term.

5) No changes to these Terms and Conditions shall be made except by a revised posting on this page.

6) These Terms and Conditions shall not be enforceable under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by a person or entity who is not a party to these Terms and Conditions.

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