Privacy Policy
Terms
and Conditions last updated on 1st Oct 2006.
1 Definitions
| FinanceDirector.COM | Finance Director . com Limited (company number - 5294484), whose registered office is Bushbury House, 435 Wilmslow Road, Withington Manchester, M20 4AF |
| FinanceDirector.COM | is referred to as FD.COM in the terms and conditions. |
| Applicant | A candidate that applies for a vacacny advertised on the site. |
| Client | Any person using, and purchasing services(or using a free trial), where a person includes but is not limited to, Direct Employers, Recruitment Agencies and Advertising Agencies. |
| Candidate | A person who uses the site for purposes of employment or networking. |
| Conditions | These standard terms and conditions. |
| User | A candidate that completes a brief user details form outlined in Add User. |
| Profile CV | A publically accessible advert, submitted by users. Containing and advert of Profile CV Details and of Positions Wanted. |
| CV | A full CV of work and education history. |
| Standard Networks | A list of standard networks setup on the site for users o join, |
| Custom Networks | A list of Custom Networks. Custom networks are suggested by Network Sponsors. |
| Inbox Mail | An internal mail box of messages from other site users. |
| Sent Mail | A sent mailbox of messages sent to other users |
| Message Boards | The Message Boards contain the messages for each of the networks. Users may access the "Message Board" messages for each of the networks they have joined. |
Privacy statement last updated 1st July 2003.
2 Introduction
FD.COM online website is committed to protecting the privacy of our users.
We want to provide a safe and secure user experience. We will use our
best efforts to ensure that the information you submit to the site remains
private, and is only used for the purposes set out in this policy.
3 Aggregate Information about
FD online visitors
We gather information and statistics collectively about all visitors to
this website, which area users access most frequently and which services
users access the most. We only use such data in the aggregate form. This
information helps us determine what is most beneficial for our users and
how we can continually improve our online services to create a better
overall experience for our users.
4 Jobs Newsletter
To utilise the Jobs Newsletter service you will be required to provide
us with your e-mail address. You may optionally also indicate the regions
that you have a preference to receive Jobs details on a more specified
basis. Any details submitted apart from the email address will be used
in future to target the users more successfully in terms of Jobs of interest.
Should any user wish to no longer receive any email newsletter or be deleted from our database records then they should select the “contact” option. See Home Page for details.
4 Positions Wanted / Add CV
The site allows users the opportunity to submit a “Positions Wanted”
or “Add CV” to the site. The intention of this utility is
to allow users to post a Post ions wanted section on the site.
You can update your CV at any time, simply by logging on using your email address and password you originally submitted. If you forget your password there is an option to have your password emailed directly to the relevant username(email address)
If you wish to delete you CV at any time you may do this by logging onto the site in the normal manner, alternatively you can request a deletion by emailing requesting on the "Contact" section of the Home Page.
5 Info Collected and How Used
Your personal details, including your name, e-mail address and resume,
are held and used by us for the following purposes:
a) For potentially extending the outbound emailing capabilities of FD.COM
to match specific job posting to the site.
b) For keeping you informed of FD.COM services, news and wider developments
in the finance field.
c) May in future be used for tailoring the version of the FD.COM website
you see when you log on to make it relevant to you.
If in future FD.COM is ever merged or acquired by another business, we may share the information that relates to you with the new owners of the business and their advisers. You will be sent notice of such an event. Other than in these circumstances, we do not and will not disclose your information to third parties without your consent.
We may also release information relating to you to regulatory or law enforcement authorities, if required to do so. We also reserve the right to disclose the information we have collected about you to our professional advisors and to other persons to the extent that FD.COM may in future wish to contract out any aspect of its operations & services. These third parties will be acting under similar undertakings of confidentiality as FD.COM.
6 Changes to Policy
This privacy policy may be changed by FD.COM at any time. If we change
our privacy policy in the future, we will set out those changes here,
so that you will always know what personal information we gather, the
purposes we might use it for and to whom we might disclose it. If, at
any time, you have questions or concerns about FD.COM online privacy commitment,
please feel free to e-mail us at chriscarr@financedirector.com
7 Statistical Information
We provide aggregate statistical information about site visitors and users
to recruiters (such as the number of CV's on the database, or the number
of visitors to the site) and for other lawful purposes. We provide this
information to customers, advertisers, suppliers and other reputable third
parties. This will not include any information that enables them to identify
individuals.
8 Use of Cookies
Cookies are utilised on the site. Cookies are currently utilised to offer
remember username and password options for users. Cookies are also utilised
to improve the user experience.
9
The Data Protection Act 1998
The information that you give us, including your profile CV and e-mail
address, is termed "personal data" under the Data Protection
Act 1998. We must therefore follow the principles set out in that Act
when we process your personal data. All the personal data that we obtain
from you is held on our central online database. Chris Carr at Finance
Director .com Limited is the "data controller" for the purposes
of the Data Protection Act.
Please note that clicking on to links and banner advertisements may result in your transferal to another website, where data privacy practices may be different to that of FD.COM. Visitors should consult the other websites' privacy policies as we are not responsible for, and have no control over, information that is submitted to or collected by these third parties.