Privacy Policy

The gradsouthwest service is owned and operated by partner Higher Education Careers Services in the South West.

Most of these Careers Services direct employers and jobseekers to a central website; www.gradsouthwest.com, www.gradsouthwest.ac.uk, www.gradsouthwest.org.uk

Those marked with an asterisk direct employers and jobseekers to access the gradsouthwest vacancies platform through their own web pages. In these careers services, the vacancies platform is customised to look like the host institutions web pages.

The vacancies platform is operated by Graduate Prospects as an agent of gradsouthwest. Gradsouthwest owns all data collected and processes it in accordance with the Gradsouthwest Privacy Policy.

Gradsouthwest Privacy Policy

The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect when you visit the Gradsouthwest website(s) (including www.gradsouthwest.com, www.gradsouthwest.org.uk and www.gradsouthwest.ac.uk) or use the gradsouthwest vacancies platform via a partner careers service website.

Information we collect as you browse our website

The gradsouthwest website automatically collects anonymous information which is used to improve the content of our web pages. We never sell, rent or share any of the information we collect by this method (except anonymous aggregate information) with any third party. This information is collected via server logs, which records IP addresses, demographic data, browsing patterns and is used to aid our strategic development, inform our marketing activity and audit usage of our website.

Cookies

The gradsouthwest website may set cookies to customise web page content based on your browser type, IP address or other anonymous information.

Security

We have appropriate security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information we have collected from you. These security measures include the necessary protection to prevent, as far as possible, access to our databases by parties other than gradsouthwest.

How we use the information you submit to us

Registration Information for Jobseekers

When you register, you will be asked to provide your name, email address, postcode and other personal information. We will use this information to profile the website to better suit your needs and to contact you when necessary. Gradsouthwest is a partnership. Your personal data may be shared with our partners including higher education careers services and higher education business relation departments (or equivalents). You may be contacted by any of these partners.

We will use any demographic information you provide for internal monitoring to aid our strategic development and inform our marketing activity.

We are funded by the South West Regional Development Agency (SW RDA), a government agency that requires us to report on the number of people who have registered as jobseekers, and the number of business vacancies advertised.

We will supply the name, email address, postcode and place of study of all jobseekers that register with gradsouthwest either through the gradsouthwest website(s) or partner careers service websites. It is a condition of use that you accept this and consent to the use of your personal data in this way..

The RDA may contact a small sample of jobseekers for audit and verification purposes. By accepting these terms and conditions you have also given your consent to the giving of your personal data to the RDA in this way, and they may contact you for audit purposes, If you do not wish to be contacted by the RDA, you should put your request in writing to:

The Project Manager, Gradsouthwest, University of Plymouth, PL4 8AA.

Where we specifically ask if you want to receive information from selected companies, if you answer yes, you agree that your details may be passed on to relevant companies outside gradsouthwest. We will ONLY pass on your details if you have opted into this service. You may opt in or opt out at any time by amending the selections in your profile.

Gradsouthwest will hold your email address on its systems for as long as you remain a registered user of the vacancies database. You may unsubscribe or change your email alerts preferences at any time at www.gradsouthwest.com or through a partner careers service website.

Registration Information for Employers

If you submit job vacancy details online, or by any other means of contact, you will be asked to provide personal and/or business information. We will use this information to provide you with our vacancy advertising service and to contact you when necessary. Gradsouthwest is a partnership. Your personal data may be shared with our partners including higher education careers services and higher education business relation departments (or equivalents). You may be contacted by any of these partners. We will use any information you provide for internal monitoring to aid our strategic development and inform our marketing activity. By submitting vacancy information to Gradsouthwest you agree that your business details (not personal information) will be added to an online database that can be searched by jobseekers.

We are funded by the South West Regional Development Agency (SW RDA) a government agency that requires us to report on the number of people who have registered as jobseekers, and the number of business vacancies advertised. We will supply the name, email address and location of all businesses (and information about the job advertised) that advertise vacancies on Gradsouthwest. It is a condition of use that you accept this.

The RDA may contact a small sample of businesses for audit and verification purposes. If you do not wish to be contacted by the RDA, you should put your request in writing to:

The Project Manager, Gradsouthwest, University of Plymouth, PL4 8AA.

Where we specifically ask if you want to receive information from selected companies, if you answer yes, you agree that your details may be passed on to relevant companies outside gradsouthwest. We will ONLY pass on your details if you have opted into this service. You may opt in or opt out at any time by amending the selections in your profile.

Gradsouthwest will hold your email address on its systems for as long as you remain a registered user of the vacancies database. You may unsubscribe or change your email alerts preferences at any time at www.gradsouthwest.com or through a partner careers service website.

General

This policy may be amended from time to time, please ensure you review it regularly. Please contact us at admin@gradsouthwest.com if you have any questions.

Graduate Prospects Privacy Policy

All users

Your data will be held securely and confidentially within Prospects Net and only passed on to Gradsouthwest and those Careers Service websites that you opt to work with.

The fact that you post an advert to a Careers Service website means you choose to enter into a normal B2B relationship with that Careers Service.

When you first register your company we ask this question: "Allow Careers Services to view your organisation's details?" We haven't any functionality that uses this at present. But it is envisaged that Careers Services may canvas recruiters who are in the system but have not as yet posted adverts to them to do so or to avail of other services. If we do introduce this functionality we will allow you the means to alter you response to this question online.

When each user registers we ask if you'd like to receive our employer recruitment newsletter, Brighter Prospects. You can alter your response to this question online in My details/Personal details or My details/Newsletter subscriptions at any time.

You can opt in/opt out to receive other information about other services at the same online locations.