At Topemployers Ltd we are committed to protecting your privacy

Topemployers Ltd endeavours to ensure that the information that you submit to us remains private, and that it is used only for the purposes described below. We aim to provide a safe and secure experience for all of our users.

Disclosure of personal information

Information may be gathered from your registration form(s) and your use of the Sites and/or the Interactive Services including through "cookies". Cookies are blocks of text placed in files on your computer's hard drive when you visit a web site which contains information to identify you. A cookie does not contain any personal information you have provided us with, except your user name, unless the cookie attached to personal information collected another way, such as by means of your on-line registration form.

The information gathered may be used by Topemployers Ltd internally, for purposes relating to your use of the Sites and the Interactive Services and for marketing activities, and may be passed to carefully selected third parties to use for marketing activities. By marketing activities, we mean the communication directly to particular individuals (by e-mail, post or telephone) of any advertising or marketing material. If you do not wish to receive marketing material from Topemployers Ltd or from carefully selected third parties you should tick the appropriate box on the registration form(s) or notify us by e-mail. If you subsequently decide you no longer wish to receive direct marketing/information from Topemployers Ltd or companies in the same group as Topemployers Ltd or no longer wish us to pass your information to third parties you should again notify us by e-mail.

What this Privacy Policy covers

This Privacy Policy covers treatment of personally identifiable information that we collect when you are on the Topemployers Ltd website or register with Topemployers Ltd. This policy does not apply to companies that Topemployers Ltd does not own or control, or to people that Topemployers Ltd does not employ.

Information collection and use

Topemployers Ltd collects personally identifiable information when you register with Topemployers Ltd when you use certain Topemployers Ltd products or services, when you visit Topemployers Ltd web pages. Topemployers Ltd may also receive personally identifiable information from clients.

Topemployers Ltd automatically receives and records information on our web server logs from your browser including your Internet Protocol address. Every computer on the internet has an IP address which is a unique number by which it can be identified. Topemployers Ltd records IP addresses for anonymous statistical purposes, administration of our website and servers, and to improve our services.

Topemployers Ltd may set and access cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, which is sent to your browser from a website's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookies to your browser if your browser's preference settings allow it. To protect your privacy, your browser will only permit a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you. You can choose whether or not to accept cookies, however, if you do not accept Topemployers Ltd cookies, some of our services may not be available to you.

General information

Topemployers Ltd gathers general information about users, for example, what services users access the most and which areas of the Topemployers Ltd site are most frequently visited. Such data is used in the aggregate to help us to understand how the Topemployers Ltd site is used. We gather this information so that we can continue to improve and develop our services to benefit of our users. We may make this aggregated information available to users of the Topemployers Ltd site and to our clients. These statistics are anonymous and contain no personal information and cannot be used to gather such information.

Your personal information

When you register with Topemployers Ltd, set up a job alert, enter a competition, or buy a product or service, we ask for personal information such as your name, date of birth, contact details, and other details. Once you register with Topemployers Ltd and accept our Terms & Conditions, you are not anonymous to us. We may use information that you provide to alert you to our own products and services. We may contact you regarding site changes or changes to the Topemployers Ltd products or services that you use.

Disclosure of personal information

We do not disclose information about your individual visits to the Topemployers Ltd site, or personal information that you provide, such as your name and personal contact details unless you have given us your permission or we believe that the law requires it. We may record and share aggregated information with our clients. Additionally, if you input your information on a co-branded registration page or job application page, eg a Topemployers Ltd client-company registration page then the information that you give becomes the property of both Topemployers Ltd and the client. Topemployers Ltd is not responsible for the information that the client receives.

Topemployers Ltd may send personally identifiable information about you to other clients when:

• we have your consent to share the information;
• we need to share your information to provide the service you have requested;
• we need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of Topemployers Ltd to provide a product or service to you. (Unless otherwise stated, these companies do not have the right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us and you);
• we respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process