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BY ACCESSING THIS WEBSITE, YOU CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION, USE AND TRANSFER OF YOUR INFORMATION UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE TERMS OF USE OF THIS WEBSITE.
1. Summary of Our Privacy Policy
We respect your right to privacy. We do not sell client information to any outside company or third party, your information is always kept confidential.
2. Your Privacy
All information collected at this site and at any site owned or operated by Skillscan Ltd will be kept strictly confidential and will not be sold, reused, rented, loaned, or otherwise used in ways that you have not consented to.
3. Personal Information
Skillscan Ltd does not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease any personal information collected at our site, including email addresses. When we ask for information via forms/form fields, the information is for "required use" and is not stored on our website.
4. Browser Information Collected
Skillscan Ltd analyzes our statistics/logs to constantly improve the value of our website to our visitors. Our website statistics/logs are not personally identifiable, and we make no attempt to link them with the individuals that actually browse the site.
5. E-mail Addresses
Skillscan Ltd may maintain several email lists at any given time. Our lists are made up only of those individuals who specifically request their name be added. We add all email address who contact us first to our email list. We do not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease these e-mail addresses to anyone. In addition, we refuse to divulge the email addresses on our list to anyone but authorized Skillscan Ltd staff.
6. Notification
In the event that we update or make changes to this privacy policy; we will post them to this page with the corresponding effective date.
Cookie Information
7. What are cookies?
Cookies are small files that get put on your computer by websites as you surf them. These cookies can store lots of information which can have privacy implications. We like to think all the cookies used on this site are fairly innocuous but that’s for you to determine.
8. What sort of cookies do we use?
Generally, our cookies perform up to three different functions:
1. Essential Cookies
Some cookies are essential for the operation of our website.
2. Performance Cookies
We utilise these type of cookies to analyse how our visitors use our website and to monitor website performance. This allows us to provide a high quality experience by customising our offering and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that may arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages.
3. Functionality Cookies
We use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences and to enable the delivery of specific services.
9. Does anyone else use cookies on our website?
We do not allow advertisers or third parties to place cookies via the SKILLscan website. The only exception to this is that like many companies, we use Google Analytics to help us monitor our website traffic and improve its performance over time so that we can improve the services it provides and its relevance for visitors.
10. Can a website user block cookies?
As we’ve explained above, cookies help you to get the most out of our website. By continuing to access our site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
However, if you do wish to disable our cookies, then please follow the instructions for your browser at All About Cookies.
Please remember that if you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of our website and the SKILLscan assessment application do not work properly.
11. Anonymous tracking software (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics (just like many others) which is a service provided by Google. They gather anonymous data of how people are using this site and then provide us with visitor statistics, details of page views etc etc. You can think of it as being a bit like CCTV but one that automatically blurs your face so we can see what people have done, but not who.
If you don't want to take part in this - or are anti-Google - you can opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. We’d prefer you didn’t as this data is seriously helpful to us in improving our website and to provide a better experience for you! Either way, we won't be able to tell if you've 'opted out or not.
The cookies which Google places on your computer are called: _utma, _utmb, _utmc and _utmz, _qca. Doesn't sound as nice as 'Death by Chocolate Cookie' does it? Click here for an overview of privacy at Google. This is how long the tiny cookies will stay on your computer. However, you can delete them at any time from your browser:
| Cookie Name | Duration the cookie is on your computer | When can I delete the cookie myself |
|---|---|---|
| _utma | 2 Years | Whenever you like! |
| _utmb | Less than 1 day | Whenever you like! |
| _utmc | Deletes itself when you leave our website | Whenever you like! |
| _utmz | 6 months | Whenever you like! |
| _utmz | 5 years | Whenever you like! |
How to ensure Skillscan Ltd will not store cookies on your computer
12. Cookies are very important
Any web professional will tell you that the cookies we use are very important to ensure that you have the best web experience and that we get reliable statistics about our website which helps our business to continue. If users were able to opt out of these cookies, then Skillscan Ltd would be using extremely unreliable results.
13. How to ensure Skillscan Ltd does not store cookies on your computer
Because we rely on storing small cookie files on users systems, we cannot allow our users to use this site without you allowing cookies to be stored.
Therefore, if you do not wish to have cookies stored on your system, we are sorry to say that you will not be able to use our website, or our assessment application, we will be very sorry to see you go. To delete the cookies which have already been stored on your computer from Skillscan Ltd, please close our website to ensure no further cookies will be stored on your computer from Skillscan Ltd and navigate to the options menu of your web browser to delete the cookies. Please refer to your web browser's website for information on how to delete cookies. Our website will not remember whether or not you want cookies on your computer so if you visit our website again in the future, some cookies will be on your system until you delete them again.
We are currently working on ways to allow users to use our site without cookies; however at present, this is not possible.
14. Contact
If you have any comments, queries and requests relating to our use of your information please contact us at:
Skillscan Ltd
The Digital Media Centre,
County Way,
Barnsley, South Yorkshire. S70 2JW
Telephone: 01226 720807
Email: info@skillscan.co.uk