Privacy Statement

By using this Website, www.acsol.co.uk (the “Website”), you accept the terms of this privacy statement, the copyright statement and the terms and conditions on this Website (“these Terms”) If you do not accept these Terms you should not access this Website.

Our commitment to privacy

This privacy statement explains how we, The Icarus partnership Ltd and its subsidiary ACSOL, collects information from you via the Website or in any manner expressly described in this privacy statement and how this information is then used. When you provide us with your personal data in the manner described, you consent to the processing of all such personal data as set out in this privacy statement. Please read this privacy statement carefully and revisit this page from time to time to review any changes that we may have made. If you have any questions or
comments about how we handle your personal information, please contact us. See contact details at the end of this privacy statement. You may also use these contacts to tell us about any concerns you may have about our privacy statement. We have registered as a data controller (in our registered company name of The Icarus partnership Limited) in line with the United Kingdom Data Protection Act, 1998.

What information do we collect?

E-mail enquiry form
If you make an enquiry through the form on the Website, the following information may be held by us for the purpose of answering your query:
Name- email- address- age- location- postcode- gender- employment- status -highest level of qualification.

You must subscribe as a user to post and reply to messages on the site. If you register thefollowing information will be held by us for the purpose of managing your account:
Name- username- password- postcode- email- address

You may also be invited to tell us your:
location- Occupation- and other Information about yourself.

You do not have to provide this information but if you do it will be treated as confidential and used only in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement. These details are kept for reference purposes so long as you remain a subscriber and then for five years so that if you need to use our services again we can provide you with the most appropriate advice and guidance. (We may need to share your information with our service providers and agents for these purposes). Please let us know if at any time you do not wish us to keep your details.

Callback Service
If you request a callback from us, the following information will be held by us for the purpose of answering your query: a telephone number (mobile or land line)

How we use the information we collect

We will use the information you provide on the Website only for the specific purpose you request, that is, responding to your e-mails and assisting with your job search. We may also use the information you provide to keep you up to date with information about new innovations and services as we develop them. This information may be provided by post, e-mail or text message. If you do not wish to receive these updates you should let us know so that we can remove you from our circulation list. We may need to keep your information for a reasonable period for these purposes. We may need to share your information with our service providers and agents for these purposes. We may disclose data in order to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

If you access our Website using a school, college, university or business internet connection, we reserve the right to notify these organisations of any disruptive behaviour caused by you.

How do we protect visitor information?

As a registered data controller, we are required to take appropriate technical measures to protect your personal information including making a regular backup of our system and data. All information is contained on a secure server which only a limited number of employees and subcontractors can access. All parties with access to your information are subject to confidentiality obligations. We also take appropriate steps to ensure that the information disclosed to us is kept secure, accurate and up to date and kept only for so long as is necessary for the purposes for which it is used. Even though we take appropriate technical steps to protect the security of your personal data, you should remember that data transmission over the internet cannot always be guaranteed as 100% secure so you use the Website at your own risk.

Cookies
Cookies are small text files which are sent to your browser by a web server and stored on your personal computer’s hard disk. We use cookies on our Website to:
cut down the number of times you have to type in data record the success of advertising, to target advertising and to track visitor usage track responses to regular customer surveys and to make sure you don’t see the same survey more than once. The cookies used on the Website do not collect your personal information. You can disable cookies but if you do, you may not be able to use certain features on our Website. If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies.

Web beacons and clear gifs
Some of our web pages may contain invisible electronic tags that allow us to count users that have visited certain pages. These files are only used to identify which referrers bring customers to our Website and you cannot be identified by them. They are not issued by us but by the relevant third party provider. You can find out more about cookie type devices issued by third party advertisers by clicking through to the website operated by the relevant advertiser.

Our policy for children
Our Website is not designed for or directed at children under the age of 15 and we encourage all persons under 15 to consult a parent or adult advisor before submitting any information to the Website.

Links
Our Website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of other websites and we advise you to read the privacy statement of every website that collects personal information from you.

Updates
We reserve the right to amend this privacy statement from time to time. When we make a change, we will update this page of the Website and the date of the last revision is provided at the end of this page. We recommend that you revisit this page from time to time to ensure that you are aware of any changes that we have made to this privacy statement. If you continue to use the Website you will be deemed to have accepted those changes.

Other information
You should note that if our business (or any part of it) is sold or transferred at any time, the information we hold may form part of the assets transferred, although it will still only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. You are entitled to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee) and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected. For quality control and training purposes, we may monitor or record your communications with us and/or log details of your enquiry.

Contact Details
By email: enquiries@acsol.co.uk
Or Write to : ACSOL, 500 Styal Road, Manchester, UK, M22 5HQ
Last updated 15 April 2008