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Updated April 14, 2006

TheLadders.co.uk ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our Terms of Use and any other documents referred to in it) sets our the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is TheLadders.co.uk Limited company number 06244717 and have our registered office at 85-87 Bayham Street, London, NW1 0AG. We are affiliated with TheLadders.com International, Inc., whose trading address is The Ladders.com, Inc., 137 Varick St., 8th Floor, New York, NY 10013.

Our nominated representative for the purpose of the Act is Alain Benzaken at help@theladders.com. and you should contact him if you have questions or concerns regarding this policy.

This Privacy Policy explains the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information through our websites located at URLs: www.theladders.co.uk, financial.theladders.co.uk, hr.theladders.co.uk, law.theladders.co.uk, mktg.theladders.co.uk, ops.theladders.co.uk, recruit.theladders.co.uk, sales.theladders.co.uk, technology.theladders.co.uk, and consulting.theladders.co.uk — (our sites). "Personal Information" means information that would allow a party to contact you, including, for example, your full name, address, telephone number, or email address.

  • We will never rent or sell your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes
  • We will never share your contact information with a recruiter or hiring manager, unless both of you choose to contact one another regarding an open position
  • Any sensitive information that you provide will be secured with all industry standard protocols and technology

Please read this Privacy Policy to learn more about the ways in which we use and protect your personal information.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it and, where appropriate, we may notify you by email.

Information We Collect and How We Use That Information
We may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Information that you provide by filling in our basic registration forms, including the basic registration, subscribing to our service, or posting material or requesting further services, on our site www.TheLadders.co.uk require your to provide contact information, including name, email address, post code, and income information. We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest. Should you choose to purchase services, your credit card information will be stored. We use this information for billing purposes only. If we have trouble processing your order, we will use your information to contact you.
  • If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
  • Details of your visits to our site monitor utilization and ensure good customer experience and the resources that you access.
  • Details of the biographical information about yourself that you post on our site.
  • Information relating to the jobs you've applied to, jobs you've viewed, your curriculum vitae or resumé, and similar information.

We will use your Personal Information for internal purposes only and will never sell or share your personal information with any third parties. Sensitive information such as your income level and credit card information will be kept completely private.

Should you fill out a Bio, the amount of information you choose to keep confidential is entirely up to your discretion. You may enter as much or as little information as you choose. All information posted will only be visible to recruiters and companies seeking employees. All recruiters are strictly screened and have been determined by TheLadders.com to be legitimately seeking applicants for open positions.

We use other third parties to provide credit card processing services on our site. When you sign up for Premium, we will process credit card payments through a third party. This process is highly secure.

We post customer reviews on our site, which may contain personally identifiable information such as the customer's name. We do obtain the customer's consent prior to posting the review to post their name along with their review.

IP Addresses and Use of "Cookies"
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your internet protocol ("IP") address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the internet. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our site, analyse trends, track users' movement, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve our site, and deliver customised, personalised content.

We may use cookies to enhance your experience on our site. Cookies are pieces of information that are stored on the hard drive of your computer and are used for record-keeping purposes. Use of cookies makes facilitates web-surfing by performing certain functions. Cookies enable us to store information about your preferences, to save your passwords and to speed up your searches as well as to recognize you when you return to our site. We do link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activate the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, or deactivate it by making the change on our member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at help@theladders.com.

Where We Store Your Personal Data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfillment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, soring or processing. TheLadders.co.uk Limited will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

We have implemented and follow industry standard measures to protect against unauthorised access to and unlawful interception or processing of personal information. We also protect account information by placing it on a secure portion of our site that is only accessible by certain qualified employees of TheLadders.co.uk. We encrypt all payment transaction information (including credit cards) on our registration or order forms using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to aces certain parts of our sit, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.

The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.

Uses Made of the Information
We use the information held about your in the following ways:

  • To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
  • To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
  • To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
  • To notify you about changes to our service

We do not share, sell or rent your personal information to third parties – ever. Although we may disclose aggregated information about the use of our sites, that information does not contain personal information. Generally, we do not disclose personal information to third parties.

Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • If we seek to maintain, enhance, or add to the functionality of the our sites.
  • In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
  • If TheLadders.co.uk becomes part of another organisation, that organisation will possess the personal information collected by TheLadders.co.uk, and it will assume the rights and obligations regarding your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of TheLadders.co.uk, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with out companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
  • When we use other third parties to provide Web analytics on our site. When you sign up for TheLadders.co.uk, we will share aggregate click data as necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.

Your Rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes or to send you internal communications from TheLadders.co.uk. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. If you've registered to receive email communications from us and later change your mind, you may contact us to have your name removed from our distribution lists. You may Opt-out to any such communications by changing your Account Settings. Please go to Account Settings and indicate from which distribution lists you would like to have your name removed.

Other Websites
Our site contains links to other Web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website over which TheLadders.co.uk has no control and will bear no responsibility. Often these sites require you to enter your personal information as you apply for a job directly with the hiring company. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such websites as their policies may differ from ours.

Access to Information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in provided you with details of the information we hold about you.

Acceptable Use Policy

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the manner in which may make use of our website TheLadders.co.uk (our site), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read this Acceptable Use Policy carefully before you start to use our site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept this Acceptable Use Policy and that you agree to abide by it. If you do not agree, please refrain from using our site.

INFORMATION ABOUT US

www.TheLadders.co.uk is a site operated by TheLadders.co.uk Limited ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 06244717 and have our registered office at 85-87 Bayham Street, London, NW1 0AG. We are affiliated with TheLadders.com International, Inc., whose trading address is The Ladders.com, Inc., 137 Varick St., 8th Floor, New York, NY 10013.

PROHIBITED USES
Our site may be used only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:

  • In any way that breeches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
  • In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
  • For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
  • To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or reuse any material which does not comply with our content standards .
  • To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
  • To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
  • Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our Terms of Use. http://www.theladders.co.uk/abouttheladdersterms
  • Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
    • any part of our site;
    • any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
    • any software used in the provision of our site; or
    • any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

CONTENT STANDARDS
These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (contributions). You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions must:

  • Be accurate (where they state facts).
  • Comply with applicable law in the UK and from any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

  • Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
  • Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
  • Promote sexually explicit material.
  • Promote violence.
  • Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
  • Infringe any copyright, database right or trademark of any other person.
  • Be likely to deceive any person.
  • Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
  • Promote any illegal activity.
  • Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
  • Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
  • Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
  • Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.
  • Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

  • Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the Terms of Use http://www.theladders.co.uk/abouttheladdersterms upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
  • Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
  • Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site.
  • Issue of warning to you.
  • Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
  • Further legal action against you.
  • Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary. Assessment of a £5000 daily fee for misuse or misappropriation as set out in our terms of use .

CHANGES TO THE ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
We may revise this acceptable use policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this acceptable use policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.