South West Regional Employment & Skills Board

Privacy Policy

Collection of your Personal Information

As at some websites, the Employment & Skills Partnership collects personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. The Employment & Skills Partnership may also collect demographic information, such as your postcode or ZIP code, preferences, and interests. Information collected by the Employment & Skills Partnership may be combined with information obtained from other sources and other companies.

The Employment & Skills Partnership may also collect certain information about your computer hardware and software. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by the Employment & Skills Partnership for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the site.

The Employment & Skills Partnership keeps track of the pages our users visit within our websites in order to determine what pages are the most popular.

The Employment & Skills Partnership encourages users to review the privacy statements of websites linked to from Employment & Skills Partnership websites so that you can understand how those sites collect, use and share your information. The Employment & Skills Partnership endeavours to include links to organisations that will give satisfactory service to visitors; however the Employment & Skills Partnership has no control over the nature content and availability of those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.

Use of your Personal Information

The Employment & Skills Partnership and its partners collect and use your personal information to operate the website and to deliver the services you have requested. The Employment & Skills Partnership may also use personal data to provide you with information and to conduct market research surveys. The Employment & Skills Partnership does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

The Employment & Skills Partnership will occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, or performing statistical analysis of our data. The Employment & Skills Partnership will only provide those companies with the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

The Employment & Skills Partnership may access and/or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the SWESA or the website; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the SWESA including its websites; or © act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the website, or the public.

Personal information collected on this website may be stored and processed, by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information. Whenever you provide personal information, the Employment & Skills Partnership will act in accordance with current legislation and aims to meet current Internet best practice.

Control your Personal Information

Users of Employment & Skills Partnership websites can choose not to receive marketing material from the Employment & Skills Partnership or from third party business partners. Users can also unsubscribe from Employment & Skills Partnership services at any time and can have their personal information deleted from Employment & Skills Partnership databases.

Security of your Personal Information

The Employment & Skills Partnership is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. Our hosting site uses a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access that are located in controlled facilities.

Use of Cookies

The Employment & Skills Partnership may use “cookies” to help personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the website.
Changes to this Statement

The Employment & Skills Partnership will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy. When the Employment & Skills Partnership posts changes to this Statement, you will see the word “updated” and the date at the top of this page. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how the Employment & Skills Partnership will use your personal information, the Employment & Skills Partnership will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. The Employment & Skills Partnership encourages users to periodically review this Statement.

Contact Information

We welcome your comments on this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that the South West RDA has not adhered to this Statement, please contact John Routledge at the address below:

SWRESB
PO Box 96
Cullompton
Devon
EX15 9AF

Funded By

Regional Development Agency EU