At TalentPool, we know that your personal data is, well, personal. So this is a summary of what data we collect, what we use it for, and how we look after it.
This is the privacy and cookies policy for https://talentpool.com (Site). The Site is operated by or on behalf of Gradlist Limited trading as TalentPool (we, us, our and TalentPool). For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 and (from 25th May 2018) the GDPR, we are the data controller and our data protection officer is Andrew Lavelle who can be contacted at by sending an email to contact@talentpool.com with ‘FAO Andrew Lavelle’ in the Subject bar.
We are committed to protecting your privacy online. We appreciate that you do not want your personal information distributed indiscriminately and here we explain how we collect information, what we do with it and what controls you have.
By using the Site, you consent to the collection and use of information in accordance with this privacy policy.
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy from time to time by changing it on the Site. If at any time we decide to use your personal information in a manner significantly different from that stated in this privacy policy, or otherwise disclosed to you at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in the new manner. This privacy policy was last updated on 24th May 2018.
Note: ‘You’ applies in the case of this Privacy Policy to all Users of TalentPool, whether a Candidate, an Employer or any other category of User.
We will typically collect and process the following information about you:
You are under no obligation to provide any such information. However, if as an Employer you should choose to withhold the above information, we will not be able to provide you with our services under our Terms of Business.
For candidates who do not provide us with the above information, we will not be able to provide you with our services under our Terms of Use. We may, from time to time, run referral programmes or similar initiatives, such as a “Tell a Friend” programme, that invite you to provide us with the contact details of someone who is known to you who may find our products or services to be of interest (“Referred Individual”). We will only use those contact details for the purpose of the relevant initiative (and not for general marketing purposes). By providing us with their details, you confirm that you have the Referred Individual’s permission to do so and must not provide us with the details of anyone from whom you do not have such permission. We reserve the right to identify you as the person who has made the referral in the message that is sent to the Referred Individual.
When you visit the Site, we may, by means of cookies and/or other similar technologies, automatically collect additional information about you – such as any website from which you have come to the Site. See Cookies and other technologies for more information.
When you interact with the Site, we try to make that experience simple and meaningful. When you visit the Site, a web server sends a cookie or other similar technology to your computer or mobile device (as the case may be). Cookies are small pieces of information which are issued to your computer or mobile device (as the case may be) when you visit a website and which store and sometimes track information. A number of cookies we use last only for the duration of your web session and expire when you close your browser. Other cookies are used to remember you when you return to the Site and will last indefinitely.
The cookies and/or other similar technologies we use collect information, such as the type of internet browser or mobile device you use, any website from which you have come to the Site, your IP address and/or the operating system of your computer or mobile device.
We use cookies to:
Some of the cookies used by the Site are set by us, and some are set by third parties who are delivering services on our behalf.
Most web and mobile device browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that or to notify you each time a cookie is set. You can also learn more about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org which includes additional useful information on cookies and how to block cookies using different types of browser or mobile device. Please note, however, that by blocking or deleting cookies used on the Site, you may not be able to take full advantage of the Site.
The legal grounds under data protection legislation for processing your personal data are as follows:
We use your personal information which we collect:
From time to time we may seek your consent to process, use or disclose your personal information for any other purpose not listed above.
You can tell us not to contact you with information regarding our products and services or those of third parties or to share your details with third parties such as Employers so that they can send you information regarding Positions, either at the point such information is collected on the Site by following the unsubscribe instructions on any communications sent to you. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us using the Contacting us details at the end of this privacy policy.
Should you apply to a role with which you are matched, you will most likely be asked to provide a copy of your Curriculum Vitae and answer one or more questions set by the employer. When this happens, we will share as a default your basic profile information with the Employer in question, including your name, email address, phone number, work experience and education details. And where you are requested to upload a Curriculum Vitae and/or respond to specific questions set by an Employer, we will share the Curriculum Vitae that you upload and your responses to any questions set with the Employer.
We may disclose aggregate statistics about visitors to and users of the Site in order to describe our services to prospective partners and other reputable third parties and for other lawful purposes, but these statistics will include no personally identifiable information.
We will disclose your personal information to our agents or contractors who assist us in providing the services we offer through the Site, fulfilling requests for information, receiving and sending communications, updating marketing lists, analysing data, providing IT and other support services or in other tasks, from time to time. These third parties are:
Our agents and contractors will only use your information to the extent necessary to perform their functions.
In the event that we undergo re-organisation or are sold to a third party, any personal information we hold about you may be transferred to that re-organised entity or third party. We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or if we believe that such action is necessary to prevent fraud or cybercrime or to protect the Site or the rights, property or personal safety of any person.
The Site may, from time to time, contain links to external sites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of such sites.
We place great importance on the security of all personal information associated with our users. We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of personal information under our control. For example, our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorised personnel have access to personal information. Whilst we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of information will never occur, we use all reasonable efforts to prevent it.
You should bear in mind that submission of information over the internet is never entirely secure. We cannot guarantee the security of information you submit via the Site whilst it is in transit over the internet and any such submission is at your own risk.
It is advisable to close your browser when you have finished your user session to help ensure others do not access your personal information if you use a shared computer or a computer in a public place.
Your personal information which we collect is sent to and stored on secure servers located in the United Kingdom. Such storage is necessary in order to process the information.
Personal information submitted may be transferred by us to our other offices and/or to the third parties mentioned in the circumstances described above (see Information sharing), which may be situated outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and may be processed by staff operating outside the EEA. The countries concerned may not have data protection laws as strict as those in the EEA. Where we transfer your personal information we will either undertake an assessment of the level of protection in light of the circumstances surrounding the transfer or:
We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that your personal information is maintained and up to date. However, you are under a duty to inform us of any and all changes to your personal information to ensure that it is up to date and we will update or delete your personal information accordingly.
We will retain your personal data for different periods depending on the service you have chosen to use us for, which may be a longer period than that for which we need to hold your data to provide those services, i.e where we are under regulatory or statutory duties to hold your data for a longer period. Unless we are under such obligations, we will retain your information for as long as you have an account with us.
You have a legal right to a copy of all the personal information about you held by us. On request, we will provide you with a copy of this information free of charge. You also have a right to correct any errors in that information.
In the event that we process your data by automated means where you have either provided us with consent for us to use your information or where we used the information to perform a contract with you, you have the right to request that we send to you or to another organisation, a copy of the personal data we hold about you in electronic form, for example when you are dealing with a different service provider. If you would like us to move, copy, or transfer your information please let us know by email to contact@talentpool.com. We will respond to you within one month after assessing whether or not this is possible, taking into account the technical compatibility with the other organisation in question.
You can ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where you have withdrawn consent for us to process it (as explained below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
You can ask us to suspend the way in which we are using your information in certain scenarios, or object to our processing your data where we are relying on a legitimate interest ground (or those of a third party) and you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms, or where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases where you object, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
Please note that if you want us to restrict or stop processing your data this may impact on our ability to provide our services. Depending on the extent of your request we may be unable to continue providing you with our service.
Any queries or concerns about the way in which your data is being used can be sent to contact@talentpool.com.
You have the right at any time to withdraw any consent you have given us to process your personal data. Please note if you withdraw your consent it will not affect the lawfulness of any processing of your personal data we have carried out before you withdrew your consent. Should you wish to do so you can change your consent preferences at any time on your account settings.
As mentioned above, you also have a right to prevent the use of your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
Where we are legally permitted to do so, we may refuse your access request and will give you reasons for doing so. We will seek to act on your request in the timescale required by applicable data protection laws.
In order to provide you with our services, it is necessary for us to conduct profiling on your data as well as automated decision making which will have a legal or otherwise significant effect on you, specifically determining whether or not you are matched with a role, therefore hear about that role and therefore have an opportunity to apply for that role through TalentPool. It is our objective however to match suitable candidates for any role and therefore it is our objective that, where you are not matched with a role, you would have a very low probability of being successful in applying for that role due to not meeting the role’s requirements as set by the Employer. Specifically, the profiling and automated decision making which we conduct , consists of assessing your suitability for a role against the role profile and requirements submitted by an Employer (to illustrate with a simplified scenario, if an Employer requires a fluent French-speaker for a role and you do have not informed us that you speak fluent French, then you will not be matched with that role). It is this process, driven by a series of algorithms designed to match you with roles with which you are best suited, which enables us to deliver our service of introducing you to relevant opportunities and which differentiates us from an open job board.
We profile your data and make automated decisions in order to match you with the roles we feel are most suitable for you. But we don’t always get t right. If you feel that the roles you are matched with through TalentPool are not right for you, you can contact us to request that we review your account manually. Alternatively you may log in to your account at any time to update your preferences in your profile, which will impact the automated decision making process.
Our services are not aimed at children. Our users have to be at least 18 years of age, as set out in our terms of business and use.
Please submit any questions, concerns or comments you have about this privacy policy or any requests concerning your personal information by email to contact@talentpool.com, by telephone on 020 3126 4882 between the hours of 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday or write to us at 18 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1AH.
If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data not in accordance with the law you can complain to the UK data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office. Further details can be found at www.ico.org.uk or 0303 123 1113.
1.1 This Document sets out the Terms of Use for use of this website (www.talentpool.com). It is intended to be read by all users of the website.
2.1 the Document: the Terms of Use to which Users are obliged to adhere, detailed below
2.2 the Site: www.talentpool.com
2.3 GradList: GradList Ltd, Company Number 08721054
2.4 User/Users: student(s) and graduate(s) who create a GradList Account (see definition below) by entering information on the Site and use the Service for Users (see definition below). Also includes all other visitors to the Site. Users must agree to these Terms of Use.
2.5 Service for Users: the service offered by GradList to Users whereby Users may create an Account with a view to being contacted by prospective Employers.
2.6 Employers: organisations which are approved by GradList to use the GradList Service for Employers (see definition below)
2.7 Service for Employers: service offered by GradList to companies wishing to identify and contact GradList Users. Enables Employers to search the GradList database of Users, identify appropriate candidates solely on the basis of Other User Information (see definition below) for roles in their organisations and contact those Users.
2.8 Charity/Charities: the organisation(s) which, at any one time, are featured on the Site and may be selected by Users to be supported financially through the allocation of a proportion of the fee revenue associated with that User.
2.9 Sign Up Process: the process by which Users may create a GradList Account, by providing information to GradList through the Site
2.10 Account: the totality of the information provided by a User which relates to that User.
2.11 Personal Details: includes but not limited to User’s name, email address and date of birth
2.12 Other User Information: information provided to GradList by the User through the Sign Up Process which is required in order to create a GradList Account. Includes but is not limited to university name; degree level; degree subject; degree grade; public examination grades; previous work experience; career preferences; ethnic background; language skills; gender.
3.1 The Site is owned and operated by GradList and is available to Users under the Terms of Use detailed in this Document. By accessing and using the services available on the site and by creating an Account, the User accepts these Terms of Use.
3.2 The Terms of Use shall be interpreted according to the laws of England.
3.3 Users should read these Terms of Use and ensure that they both understand and accept them before creating an Account
4.1 Users agree to provide GradList with information which is entirely accurate and truthful. They will not, under any circumstances, provide information which is either incorrect or misleading.
4.2 Users agree only to provide information of which they are the rightful owner and which they are within their rights to divulge. Users understand that it is their responsibility to ensure that this is the case and accept full liability for any damage or loss suffered by any parties should this obligation not be adhered to.
4.3 Users understand and accept that it is their responsibility to ensure that their details on their Account are kept up to date. This can be achieved by logging in via the home page of the Site.
4.4 While GradList very much hopes that Users will find the Service for Users beneficial, Users accept that the creation of an Account on the Site is no guarantee of any of: receiving messages or information from Employers; gaining a job offer; donations being made to their selected Charity.
4.5 While GradList will make every effort to ensure that only reputable and honest employers are able to use the Service for Employers, Users accept that GradList accepts no liability for damages or loss caused by the actions of the Employers who use the Service for Employers.
4.6 Users agree that non-compliance with the terms detailed in the Document will be considered a material breach of these Terms of Use. Should such a breach take place, GradList may:
4.6.1 Remove the Users Account from the Site and refuse the User further access to the Site or services provided by GradList and/or;
4.6.2 Take legal action
5.1 Users may not, for business or commercial ends, reproduce material on the Site. Users are granted a non-exclusive right to use the Site. Users accept that GradList is the sole proprietor of all material and content on the Site and has all intellectual property rights with regard to the Site
5.2 Access to the Site is granted on a temporary basis only and GradList reserves the right to deny access to any individual at any time without notice and without specifying any reason for doing so.
5.3 Should for any reason, the Site not be available to individuals or all Users, GradList will be held entirely harmless.
5.4 For every individual (the Referee) you refer to GradList and where GradList subsequently receives placement fees as a result of the Referee entering employment with a client of GradList, you and the Referee shall, together, be entitled to vouchers of the value of £100 (the Referral Reward). The nature of the vouchers shall be determined by GradList. In order to claim your Referral Reward, you must notify GradList of the employment of the Referee by a GradList client, as a result of an introduction through GradList, within 30 days of the Referee’s first day of employment. The Referee must have entered your name on the Site during the Sign Up Process; without this, you shall not be eligible for a Referral Reward. Upon confirmation by GradList that the successful Referee did indeed enter your name during the Sign Up Process and are now in permanent employment with a Client of GradList for which GradList has fees payable, GradList shall send you the Referral Reward within 80 days of receiving the relevant fees from their client. No reward shall be receivable by you if the referred individual leaves their new role within 70 days. There is no limit to the number of introductions you may make.
6.1 GradList does not accept any liability for material or content provided by 3rd party websites to which links are featured on the Site. Equally, GradList accepts no liability for the actions of partner Charities which are beneficiaries of GradList’s support or Employers who are granted access to the Site. Users accept that the Terms of Use of engagement with 3rd party organisations will be their own and will differ from the Terms of Use of the Site.
6.2 GradList accepts no liability for information provided on the Site which is out of date or inaccurate.
6.3 Under no circumstances shall GradList be liable to any Users or User. Users agree to hold GradList entirely harmless with respect to any actions which may be undertaken or any demands/claims made. This includes, but is not limited to, legal fees incurred.
6.4 GradList reserves the right to alter or terminate any or all of the Terms of Use detailed in this Document, without notice. Users accept that, should they wish to terminate their obligation to abide by these Terms of Use, they will be required to apply for their Account to be removed by emailing support@gradlist.co.uk to that effect. Users understand and accept that they may not alter any of the Terms of Use detailed in this Document.
6.5 The User agrees that, upon entering them into the Site, GradList becomes the legal owner of all Personal Details and Other User Information, without limit, and irrespective of the closure of any Account. As such, the User resigns all rights over Personal Details and Other User Information and agrees that GradList may use this information in any way, providing that the use is in accordance with the terms of the Privacy Policy are not broken.
7.1 Users accept that these Terms of Use do not constitute any sort of partnership
7.2 GradList reserves the right to make any changes to the Site it sees fit, without notification to any Users