The Work Crowd ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.
The Work Crowd Privacy Policy
Introduction
Our Privacy Policy will help you to understand what information we collect and process using this The Work Crowd website, how we protect and use it, and what choices you have about your personal data.
When we refer to “Company” within this Privacy Policy, we are referring to The Work Crowd Lt. of 42 Lytton Road, Barnet, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, EN5 5BY, the organisation which provides this website, and any services or features which may be made available to you from this website.
Data Protection Framework
The Work Crowd is based within the United Kingdom, and as such is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as a Data Controller under the UK Data Protection Act of 1998. We have also aligned our Privacy Policy with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) which comes into effect on 25th May 2018, under the supervision of the ICO within the UK.
The Work Crowd has completed applicable Privacy Impact Assessments (also known as Data Protection Impact Assessments under GDPR) for activities related to this website, and these are available upon request from the Company’s Data Protection Officer (see Section 9).
Who We Are and What We Do
We are a network of freelancers with a talent platform. We also provide the following other services: events, workshops and consultancy. We collect the personal data of the following types of people to allow us to undertake our business:
Prospective and placed freelancers for ongoing or project-based roles
Prospective and live client contact
Supplier contacts to support our services
Employees, consultants, temporary workers
We collect information abouut you to carry out our core business and ancillary activities.
Information You Give to Us/We Collect About You
This is information about you that you give us by filling in forms on our site [https://theworkcrowd.com] or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or another method. It includes information you provide when you register to use our site, to enter our database, subscribe to our services, attend our events, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our site, enter a competition, promotion or survey, and when you report a problem with our site.
The information you give us or we collect about you may include your name, address, private and corporate e-mail address and phone number, financial information, compliance documentation and references verifying your qualifications and experience and your right to work in the United Kingdom, curriculum vitae and photograph, links to your professional profiles available in the public domain e.g. LinkedIn, Twitter, business Facebook or corporate website.
Information We Collect About You When You Visit Our Website
With regard to each of your visits to our site, we will automatically collect the following information:
technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information if applicable, browser type and version
information about your visit, including [the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL),] [clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time),] [products you viewed or searched for’] [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 customer service number.
Information We Obtain From Other Sources
This is information we obtain about you from other sources such as LinkedIn, corporate websites, your business card, personal recommendations, and events. In this case we will inform you, by sending you this privacy notice, within a maximum of 30 days of collecting the data of the fact we hold personal data about you, the source the personal data originates from and whether it came from publicly accessible sources, and for what purpose we intend to retain and process your personal data.
We are working closely with third parties, including companies within our Group, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, professional, payment and professional advisors. We may receive information about you from them for the purposes of our recruitment services and ancillary support services.
Purposes of the Processing and The Legal Basis for the Processing
To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts we intend to enter into or have entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us or we think will be of interest to you because it is relevant to your career or to your organisation.
To provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased, been provided with or enquired about.
The core service we offer to our freelancers and clients is the introduction of freelancers to our clients for project based or ongoing career opportunities. However, our service expands to supporting individuals throughout their career and to supporting businesses’ resourcing needs and strategies.
Our legal basis for the processing of personal data is our legitimate business interests, described in more detail below, although we will also rely on contract, legal obligation and consent for specific uses of data.
We will rely on contract if we are negotiating or have entered into a placement agreement with you or your organisation or any other contract to provide services to you or receive services from you or your organisation.
We will rely on legal obligation if we are legally required to hold information on you to fulfil our legal obligations.
We will in some circumstances rely on consent for particular uses of your data and you will be asked for your express consent, if legally required. Examples of when consent may be the lawful basis for processing include permission to introduce you to a client (if you are a candidate).
Our Legitimate Business Interests
Our legitimate interests in collecting and retaining your personal data is described below:
As an online talent platform, we allow freelancers and client to communicate in regards to independent professional contracts. The exchange of personal data of our candidates and our client contacts is a fundamental, essential part of this process.
In order to support our freelancers’ career aspirations and our clients’ resourcing needs, we require a database of candidate and client personal data containing historical information as well as current resourcing requirements.
To maintain, expand, develop our business, and deliver our ancillary services, we need to record the personal data of prospective candidates and client contacts.
Consent
Should we want or need to rely on consent to lawfully process your data, we will request your consent orally, by email or by an online process for the specific activity we require consent for and record your response on our system. Where consent is the lawful basis for our processing, you have the right to withdraw your consent to this particular processing at any time.
Other Uses of Your Data
Use of our website
To notify you about changes to our service
To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
We will use this information:
To administer our site 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 allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so
As part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure
To measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you
To make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them
We do not undertake automated decision making or profiling. We do use our computer systems to search and identify personal data in accordance with parameters set by a person. A person will always be involved in the decision-making process. If automated decision making or profiling is used then we provide information about how decisions are made, the significance and the consequences.
1. Customer and Citizen Data
You may decide to send us your personal information via this website if you are seeking more information, requesting to set up a profile, post a brief, attend one of our events, or to receive our latest assets. Your decision to disclose your personal data is entirely voluntary, and by doing so, you are taking an affirmative action by providing us with specific consent to use your personal data only for the purposes for which you have disclosed it to us.
The Work Crowd may access and use your personal data only for the purposes for which you have submitted it to us to (a) provide information to you, (b) make contact with you, (c) provide services to you, or (d) maintain the operations and security of the website and services we provide to you (e) maintain operations and security of the website and services we provide to you. We will not use your personal information for any other purposes, for example for the communication of marketing materials, unless we have your specific consent that permits us to do so.
We will at all times handle and store your personal data in accordance with industry best practice aligned with ISO27001, the international standard for information security. This includes the activities and procedures undertaken by our own personnel and authorised third parties (see Section 5), and the technical controls which we have implemented to prevent unauthorised access, compromise or theft of information from our applications, supporting computer systems and premises.
2. Sensitive Personal Data
GDPR specifies a set of personal data categories which are “sensitive”, and which require special consideration by Data Controllers. This website, and any services available from this website, do not knowingly collect or process any sensitive personal data, and supporting Privacy Impact Assessments (also known as Data Protection Impact Assessments under GDPR) are available upon request from the Company’s Data Protection Officer (see Section 9).
3. Children’s Personal Data
This website, and any services available from this website, are not directed to children under the age of 13. If you learn that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with their personal information without having parental consent, please contact the Company’s Data Protection Officer (see Section 9) immediately so that we can take appropriate action.
4. Customer and Citizen Data Rights
As prescribed within data protection regulations, you have specific rights connected to the provision of your personal data to The Work Crowd using this website. These include your rights to request we:
confirm to you what personal data we may hold about you, if any, and for what purposes
change the consent which you have provided to us in relation to your personal data
correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data which we may hold about you
provide you with a complete copy of your personal data for you to move elsewhere
stop the processing of your personal data, whilst an objection from you is being resolved
permanently erase all your personal data promptly, and confirm to you that this has been done
(there may be reasons why we may be unable to do this)
The Work Crowd does not address your request, or fails to provide you with a valid reason why we have been unable to do so, you have the right to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office to make a compliant. They can be contacted via their website (www.ico.org.uk) or by telephone 0303 123 1113.
5. Declaration of Sub-Processing
To make an informed decision on whether to provide your personal data to The Work Crowd using this website, we need to make you aware of the following organisations who act as Data Processors for us in the provision of our services to you:
These include Mailchimp and Survey Monkey (for consented marketing communications), Intercom (for consented community support and management), Hot Jar (for monitoring user functionality) and Modina Ltd.( for financial, invoicing and payroll processing activities).
The activities within which each of these Data Processors participates have been recorded within the applicable The Work Crowd Privacy Impact Assessment records (also known as Data Protection Impact Assessments under GDPR) and these are available upon request from the Company’s Data Protection Officer (see Section 9).
6. Website Cookies
The Work Crowd website uses cookies to record log data. We use both session-based and persistent cookies, dependent upon how you use or interact with this website.
Cookies are small text files sent by us to your computer, and from your computer or mobile device to us each time you visit our website. They are unique to you or your web browser. Session-based cookies last only while your browser is open and are automatically deleted when you close your browser session. Persistent cookies last until you or your browser delete them, or until they expire.
We use cookies which are not specific to your account but are unique and allow us to undertake website analytics and customization, among other similar things. If you decide to disable some or all cookies, you may not be able to use some of the functions on our website. We may use third-party cookies, for example Google Analytics, and you may choose to opt-out of third party cookies by visiting their website.
To see a list of our cookies, see our Cookie Policy.
7. External Links
The Work Crowd website may include relevant hyperlinks to external websites not controlled by us. Whilst all reasonable care has been exercised in selecting and providing any such links, you are advised to exercise caution before clicking any external links. We cannot guarantee the ongoing suitability of external links, nor do we continually verify the safety or security of the contents which may be subsequently provided to you. You are advised, therefore, that your use of external links is at your own risk and we cannot be responsible for any damages or consequences from your use of them.
8. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change The Work Crowd Privacy Policy from time to time, and if we do we will post any changes on this page. If you continue to access this website or use services available from this website after those changes have come into effect, you will have agreed to the revised policy.
The Work Crowd Privacy Policy is version 2.0 and was released on 25/05/2018. You are advised to download or print a copy and retain it for your records.
9. Contacting The Work Crowd
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, would like to exercise any of your statutory rights, or to make a complaint, please write to:
The Data Protection Officer
The Work Crowd
42 Lytton Road, Barnet
Hertfordshire, United Kingdom,
EN5 5BY