Brightgrad Limited is a company registered in England and Wales under company number: 06535773 ("Brightgrad" or "we" or "us") and operates www.brightgrad.com ("Website") which services are hosted in the United Kingdom ("UK").

The terms "you" or "user" refer to any visitor to or user of the Website and includes graduate members and / or recruiter/advertiser members using this Website. The term "member" refers to collectively graduate and recruiter/advertiser members as the context permits.

By using or accessing this Website or subscribing to the services offered by Brightgrad on the Website (for example, job alerts, SMS messaging and any other features, contents or applications offered from time to time by Brightgrad (referred to as "Brightgrad's services")), you are accepting the principles set out in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use and Services. Brightgrad may from time to time modify this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in legislation, industry initiatives, developments in technology or such modifications that Brightgrad deems reasonably necessary for security purposes. Any modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting on the Website and your continued use of the Website after the posting of any modification to this Privacy Policy signifies your acceptance of the same.

If you are based outside the UK, then either in using the Website or as a result of your using Brightgrad's services, you agree to your personal information being transferred to the UK for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. There may be members located outside the European Economic Area ("EEA") who are interested in your profile but located in countries that may not have equivalent data protection legislation to protect your personal information. Where this is the case and you are a member based in the UK then, by agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you expressly consent to such transfers of your information taking place.

This Privacy Policy describes Brightgrad's use and sharing of your personal information comprising your profile: your photograph, full name, date of birth, gender, e-mail address, mailing address, telephone number, credit card number, including the data that you supply on your CV, your personal preferences and interests and other information that you supply to us voluntarily when you register as a member of Brightgrad and as you use the Website ("your personal data"). We recommend that your personal data does not contain information relating to (a) racial or ethnic origin (b) political beliefs (c) philosophical or religious beliefs (d) membership of a trade union or political party (e) physical or mental health (f) sexual life or (g) the commission of criminal offences or proceedings. Where your profile or personal data does contain such information you expressly consent to the retention and transfer of this information by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Collection and Use of Your Personal Data

We collect and use your personal data primarily for two purposes:

• to create a networking platform to facilitate communication between graduates for the sharing of experiences, mutual support and to connect graduates with recruiters or job vacancy advertisers with a view to enhancing graduates' access to career opportunities; and
• to supply registered recruiter/advertiser members easy access to a wide database of CVs from graduates from all different fields for recruitment purposes and provide a platform for such members to display their vacancies to a wide audience of graduates.

In some case you may be asked to provide optional demographic and personal interest or preferences information that is used to keep the contents of the Website as relevant and up to date as possible. We will only share such demographic and personal interest and preference information to third parties (our partners and advertisers) with your consent. Where this occurs there will be an opt-out provided if you do not wish your details passed on to third parties.

We may disclose information to companies and individuals, including (where you have given your consent) those located outside the EEA that we employ to carry out certain functions on our behalf. The functions may include hosting our web servers, marketing assistance, processing credit card payments and providing customer service. These companies and individuals will have access to your personal data but only as necessary to perform their functions and may not share this information with any third party or use the information for any other purpose.

Your Privacy

Although we aim to make it easy for you to share information with your fellow graduates and recruiters, we understand you may not want your personal data to be shared and viewed by everyone in the world. Therefore we take the issue of the privacy and security of your personal data very seriously and restrict access to certain parts of our Website to members only. To gain entry users must first complete an online registration form, which will ask for personal data.

For graduate members, our default privacy settings limit the extent of personal data displayed in your profile to your networks and you can control the users with whom you share that information. We shall not share your CV or similar statement of your skills and experience with other graduate members but we may disclose such information to recruiter/advertiser members in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

For recruiter/advertiser members, during registration you will also be required to give your contact information (such as name and e-mail address). Where access to confidential information forms part of the recruiter/advertiser member's subscription package, registration forms will contain full subscriber details used to identify and fulfill the subscriber's account.

When you become a member or subscribe to Brightgrad's services you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events and transmit information through various channels. Please bear in mind that we cannot guarantee when you disclose personal data in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos or other information about you, that this information will not become publicly available.

Recruiter/advertiser members may only access specific personal data of graduate members for potential recruitment purposes as part of their particular membership subscription package. Unless otherwise set out in the membership subscription package, recruiter/advertiser members shall have limited access to the personal data of graduate members and this does not include access to contact details or other data that may personally identify the graduate member. However graduate members with rare skills or experience should be aware that these details could identify you without your contact details being shown. If you are concerned about being identified you should not include specific skills or details that may identify you unless you feel the inclusion of these is absolutely necessary.

Please note that we may be required by law to disclose your personal data but we do not reveal information until we have a reasonable belief that such request is necessary to uphold or enforce the law. Further, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with the law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through Brightgrad's services or using Brightgrad's name and/or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers or government agencies.

Access to your Personal Data

Whenever possible, Brightgrad members may review their personal data maintained in our records. We will take reasonable steps to correct any details that you inform us are incorrect. As a member, you can view and change or update your registered personal data by accessing "Edit Profile" or such other similar feature that is made available on the Website for this purpose.

Opt-out

Users are given the opportunity to "opt-out" of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our Website at the point that we request the information. Users who no longer wish to receive a newsletter/alert/briefing etc may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to the unsubscribe link in the e-mail or online.

Security

When users submit personal data on the Website, that information is encrypted and protected by a variety of security technologies and procedures both online and off-line from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. All our users' information is restricted to Brightgrad's offices and only Brightgrad's employees/representatives (for example, our customer account service representatives) are granted access to personal data that allows them to personally identify you and only where it is necessary to perform a specific job. The servers that we use to store your personal data are kept in a secure environment.

As a member, you must keep secret your password and any other personal security codes that we give you for access to your account on the Website. You must comply with all reasonable instructions that we may issue in relation to keeping such personal security details safe. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorised use of your membership account or breach of security.

Please remember to keep your password and all your security details confidential. Brightgrad's representatives will never ask you for your password. If you receive requests for this information please notify us immediately for investigation.

You agree that your use of the Website is at your own risk and please be aware that no security measures are perfect. We cannot control the actions of other users with whom you may choose to share your profile and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that the information you post on our Website will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on this Website. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, some of your personal data may remain viewable in our archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your information.

Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on this Website is a breach of the Terms of Use and Service of Brightgrad and should be reported to info@brightgrad.com.

Children

Brightgrad does not knowingly collect or solicit personal data from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 18, please do not attempt to register with Brightgrad or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us immediately at info@brightgrad.com.

Responsibility

Although we take all reasonable care to ensure that the Website is kept up to date, we make no warranty or representation that such material is accurate or reliable, or that the Website will always be available, or that any problems will be corrected, or that it is free of viruses and the like.

So far as permitted by law, we will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage that may arise out of your access, use or inability to use this Website.

Cookies, Links and Career Sites

Cookies are text files, used by your computer's browser, that store visitors' session data. Cookies, by themselves, do not identify the individual user. Usage of cookies is for the convenience of users, for example, by setting a cookie on our Website, the user would not have to log in more than once, thereby saving the user time when using our Website. Cookies are commonly used on the Internet and do not harm your system.

We currently use cookies to collate general management data to enable us to track and target the interests of our users and enhance our services. We never store any personal data in cookies that can be used to identify you, such as your name or account number.

If you do not want us to use cookies you may be able to configure your browser not to accept them.

On this Website, there may be links to third party websites, the content of which is beyond our control. We provide such links for convenience only and the inclusion of such links is not an endorsement by us of any services or products offered on any linked website. It is your responsibility to exercise your own skill and care with respect to any material on those external websites and in particular, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of those external websites where available.

Advertisements that appear on the Website are sometimes delivered directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer or use other technologies that allow the advertising network to recognise your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser see their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. We do not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertiser. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on the Website unless you choose to share it with them.

We may allow recruiter/advertiser members to display information within an area of the Website (referred to as "career sites"). We shall deal with the information provided by recruiter/advertiser members for the purpose of career sites in accordance with this Privacy Policy. However we are not responsible for the content of such career sites nor the actions of recruiter/advertiser members using a career site.

This Privacy Policy only applies to information collected by Brightgrad and we will therefore not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from or relating to a linked third party website advertiser and/or career sites.

This policy is effective as at 03 April 2008