Data Science Talent Limited, Data Science Talent LLC and DST Profiler Limited are a group of companies (the ‘DST Group’) that share data with each other under a Data Processing Agreement.

We are the DST Group (‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’) and this Privacy Policy applies to our ‘profiler’ service only. Our privacy policy for all other purposes is https://www.datasciencetalent.co.uk/privacy-policy/ We are trading from Unit E Whitebridge Estate, Whitebridge Lane, Stone, Staffordshire ST15 8LQ.

This statement will be updated from time to time, and the most current version will always be available on our websites.

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS STATEMENT?

We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use your Personal Data and is provided in accordance with our obligations under applicable privacy and data protection law, including the Data Protection Act 2018, the UK GDPR (which retains the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation), and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (collectively the ‘Applicable Data Protection Legislation’). DST Group follows these standards though Data Science Talent LLC will respect any additional legal obligations arising from its Delaware Incorporation, but it will not fall below the Applicable Data Protection Legislation expectations.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, the term ‘Personal Data’ means any information which identifies you or which allows you to be identified when combined with other information. It does not include data where your identity has been removed (‘Anonymised Data’). For the purposes of Applicable Data Protection Law, we are the data controller in relation to the processing of your personal data when provided by you to us.

OUR LEGAL BASIS FOR USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

If using the profiler service, you must consent to do so, and that is the main basis for any personal data processing, though we also process personal data on the following legal bases: our legitimate interests; the performance of a contract, or to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA WILL WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

You will give us personal data by using the profiler; you may also do so by filling in forms on one of our websites or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use one of our websites, subscribe to one of our services, submit your CV to us, or any other communication with us. To use our profiler, you will have to consent to the policy and provide consent for the information you share to generate the report. The information gathered may be shared within the DST Group as described in this policy or in line with the terms of use of the profiler.

Here are the types of the type of personal data you may give us:

personal contact details such as name, title, addresses, telephone numbers, and personal email addresses;
Company Name
LinkedIn Profile
information about the types of data science skills you have.

HOW WILL WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We will only use your personal data lawfully. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

To contact you and keep you informed of our services about the industry and sector-specific information that might be of interest to you;
To notify you about changes to our service;
To administer our services and website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
To improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
To personalise the content displayed on our website in order to present you with content based on your interests;
To measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
We may take personal data provided to us to create anonymised and aggregated data to contribute to reports on the state of the economy. Once anonymised, it will cease to be personal data.

HOW WILL WE SHARE OR DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We may share your personal data within the DST Group, providing your personal data to third parties can also occur if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, or if other necessary in relation to a legal claim.

DATA SECURITY?

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers and is protected using industry-standard Secure Layer (SSL) Encryption Technology.

We will do our best to protect your personal data, although as the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access, misuse or loss.

If you suspect any unauthorised access to or misuse or loss of your data, please contact us immediately via info@datasciencetalent.co.uk

HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We keep your personal data in accordance with the following data retention periods:

Personal data – 6 years since the last contact with you, where contact means addition of your personal data to our database, verbal or written communication with you.

We will endeavour to permanently erase your personal data once it reaches the end of its retention period or where we receive a valid request from you to do so. Sometimes however, some of your personal data may need to be maintained for another legal purpose, and where this is so, this data will be put beyond use of all but senior staff for compliance with the legal purpose, meaning that while it still exists on a system, it cannot be readily accessed by operational systems, processes or non-senior staff.

TRANSFER OF DATA OUTSIDE OF THE EEA

Sharing of Personal Data sometimes involves cross-border data transfers, including transfers outside of the UK in accordance with the law, and that maybe to locations outside the EEA. We only transfer Personal Data to entities in third countries that have provided appropriate safeguards to ensure that their level of data protection is in agreement with this privacy policy and applicable law, for example under contractual provisions which have been deemed to provide sufficient safeguards for Personal Data. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we request a similar degree of protection is afforded to it as we give it, by asking for appropriate safeguards are implemented.

YOUR DUTY TO INFORM US OF CHANGES

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during your working relationship with us.

YOUR RIGHTS IN CONNECTION WITH PERSONAL DATA

The UK law provides the following rights for individuals:

The right to be informed
The right of access
The right to rectification
The right to erasure within the prescribed legal circumstances
The right to restrict processing
The right to data portability
The right to object
Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling.

If you want to exercise a right such as to verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal data to another party, please email info@datasciencetalent.co.uk

Please be aware that some rights are qualified, and we will assess any request before acting, and we may require proof of the requester’s identify before we respond.

You also have the right to:

Withdraw your consent at any time, where we rely on your consent for processing your personal data. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing of your personal data carried out before you withdraw your consent, nor ongoing contractual or other legal obligations requiring us to process personal data, for example a court order.

Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request” or “SAR”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it. We aim to respond electronically to SARs within one month. In circumstances where it may take us longer to respond (for example if your request is particularly complex or if you make a series of requests), we will notify you. We do not charge a fee for responding to SARs, however, we may charge a reasonable fee if your SAR is manifestly unfounded or excessive. We may also refuse to comply with SARs where an exemption applies, including where a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive. We also reserve the right to require proof of your identity before responding.

If you want to access your personal data, please email info@datasciencetalent.co.uk with the subject “Privacy Policy” and the body of the email detailing what information you require and confirming your full name and postal address as a way of confirming your identity.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to other sites. If you follow a link to any of these sites, please note that those sites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check the policies before you submit any personal data to those sites.

USE OF OUR OTHER SERVICES

If you use any of our other services apart from the DST Profiler, such use will be covered by our main privacy policy, which can be found at https://www.datasciencetalent.co.uk/privacy-policy/

PASSWORDS

In order to protect your personal data, where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. You should not share your password with anyone.

COOKIE POLICY

Cookies are small files of letters and numbers which are downloaded onto your device when you visit a website. Usually, they contain two pieces of information: a site name and unique user ID. Cookies can be used to remember your preferences when visiting a site.

We do our utmost to respect users’ privacy and our use of cookies is explained below.

Essential Cookies: these are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site;

Analytical/Performance Cookies: they allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily; and,

Functionality Cookies: these are used to recognise you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of region)

Google Analytics sets the following cookies:

_ga – This helps us count how many people visit our Site by tracking if you’ve visited before and expires after 2 years.

_gid – This helps us count how many people visit our Site by tracking if you’ve visited before and expires when the session expires, when the browser is closed.

_gat – This uit used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made and expires when the session expires, when the browser is closed.

Within your browser you can also choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not. If you block cookies on our website, you may be unable to access certain areas of our website and certain functions and pages may not work in the usual way.

Changes to the Cookie Policy

We may update this policy from time to time, please check this page regularly to ensure you are aware of the most recently updated version.

We may also collect the following type of personal data when you visit our website(s):

technical information, including the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform; and

information about your visit, including the full uniform resource locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our consultants.

HOW WILL WE CONTACT YOU?

We may contact you by phone, SMS or email.

You can update your contact preferences for DST Profiler Limited at reports@datasciencetalent.co.uk

Any changes to your preferences will be updated within 30 days of your request.

HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US?

To contact us with any queries around data or this privacy statement, you can contact us in the following ways:

Post: DST Profiler Limited, Unit E Whitebridge Estate, Whitebridge Lane, Stone, Staffordshire ST15 8LQ

Email: reports@datasciencetalent.co.uk

HOW CAN YOU CONTACT THE SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY?

The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). How to contact them is set out here: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/