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Last Updated: 04 February 2024
Patchwork Hub Limited (trading as Patchwork Hub) (“we”, “our”, “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We are a limited company established in England, with company number 12192577 and with a registered address at 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ and for the purpose of applicable data protection laws, we are the data controller.
This privacy policy sets out the basis on which we will process any personal data or usage information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, in connection with your use of our website at patchworkhub.org (our “Website”) and in connection with the recruitment services we provide to you (together, the “Services”).
Please read this privacy policy carefully so that you understand your rights in relation to your personal data, and how we will collect, use and process your personal data. This privacy policy supplements any other privacy-related notices and policies we may provide to you from time to time, and is not intended to override them. If you do not agree with this privacy policy in general or any part of it, you should not access the Website, use our Services or otherwise provide your information to us.
We change our privacy policy from time to time. Updates to our privacy policy will apply only to information collected after the date of the change. We will note on our Website when our privacy policy has been updated. Please check the Website regularly for notices of changes to our privacy policy.
Information you give to us
You may provide some or all of the following personal data to us by creating an account with us, setting up a profile in order to use our Services or contacting us via our Website “contact us” page:
This information is required to enable us to fulfil our contract with you. If you do not provide this information, we will not be able to provide you with our Services.
Information we collect automatically
When you visit our Website and use our Services we automatically collect the information sent to us by your computer, mobile phone or other device. This information includes: your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and Website navigation.
We process your personal data in order to perform our contract with you, such as:
We obtain your consent to process your personal data for the following reasons:
In order to be responsive to you, to provide effective Services to you, and to maintain our business relationship, as a matter of our legitimate interests, we will use your personal data to:
We will use some or all of the above information to comply with any applicable legal obligations, to enforce any applicable terms and conditions and/ or terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, the rights of our users, or others.
Any user statistics that we collect and subsequently provide to our service providers regarding usage of the Services are provided in anonymised and aggregated form, primarily to aid the technical administration of the Website, to better understand how the Site is functioning and to draw conclusions upon demographic information.
We use cookies and other similar technologies to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites following your use of our Services. Cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of users and to see how users move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve our Services and the way our website works. You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them [here].
We do not use or share your personal data with others except as described in this privacy policy. In certain circumstances, we will share your information with third parties with your consent, as necessary, or as otherwise required or permitted by law. Specifically, we share your personal data:
The personal data that we collect from you will be transferred to, and stored at/processed in countries outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and the United Kingdom (“UK”). Your personal data is also processed by staff operating outside the EEA and the UK who work for us or one of our third party service providers or partners. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
For any transfers of data outside the EEA or the UK, the data transfer will be under the European Commission’s model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries (i.e., the standard contractual clauses) (the “Model Clauses”), or any equivalent contracts issued by the relevant competent authority of the UK, as relevant, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been determined by the European Commission or the relevant UK authorities, as applicable, to provide an adequate level of protection for individuals’ rights and freedoms for their personal data. Please contact [email protected] for further information.
We will also retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our terms and conditions, other applicable terms of service, and our policies. If you stop using our Services or if you delete your account with us, we will store your information in an aggregated and anonymised format; we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted through the Website, over email or conversations; any transmission is at your own risk.
If you are located in the EEA or the UK, you have certain rights in relation to your personal data:
Please note that a number of these rights only apply in certain circumstances, and all of these rights may be limited by law. For example, where fulfilling your request would adversely affect other individuals or our trade secrets or intellectual property, where there are overriding public interests or where we are required by law to retain your personal data.
To exercise any of these rights, you can contact [email protected]. We will respond to requests to exercise these rights without undue delay and at least within one month (though this may be extended by a further two months in certain circumstances).
Our Website may contain links to other online platforms, plug-ins or other applications operated by third parties. We do not control such other sites or applications, and are not responsible for their content, their privacy policies, or their use of your information. Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, including information you share on third-party social networking platforms, may also be viewable by other users of the Website and/or users of those third-party online platforms without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators except as disclosed on the Website. We expressly disclaim any and all liability for the actions of third parties, including but without limitation to actions relating to the use and/or disclosure of personal data by third parties. Any information submitted by you directly to these third parties is subject to that third party’s privacy policy.
If you have complaints about how we process your Personal Data, please contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected] and we will respond to your request as soon as possible.
If you think we have infringed data protection laws, you can file a claim with the data protection supervisory authority in the EEA country in which you live or work or where you think we have infringed data protection laws, or with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, as applicable to you.
We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns about this privacy policy or your personal data. Please send us any feedback by completing our Feedback form, by clicking here. You can also contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected].
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