Digital Jobs Limited
Registered in England & Wales, company number: 15856467
Website: digitaljobs.com
1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy explains how Digital Jobs Limited (“we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects your personal information when you use our website, digitaljobs.com (“the Website”). We are committed to safeguarding your privacy, and handling your personal data in accordance with UK data protection laws, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. By using our Website, you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy.
2. Who We Are
Digital Jobs Limited is a UK-based limited company (no. 15856467). Our registered address is: Digital Jobs Ltd, Kepier House, Belmont Business Park, Durham, United Kingdom, DH1 1TW We operate the Website digitaljobs.com to provide job listings, job alerts, applications, and related services.
3. Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following types of personal information:
- Information you provide:
• Account registration details (name, email address, password)
• Resume / CV, cover letters, your job application history
• Job search preferences, alerts, saved searches
• Any other information you submit through forms, emails or uploads - Automatically collected information:
• Technical/browsing data such as IP address, browser type and version, device identifiers, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited on the Website, session duration and interactions - Information from third parties:
• Where you apply for jobs via third-party job boards / advertisers, we may receive information from those third parties (with your consent)
• Data from analytics, advertising networks, social media platforms
4. Purposes of Processing Your Data
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide, maintain, and personalise the services offered on the Website
- To process and manage your job applications
- To send you job alerts, news, updates or other communications you have opted in to receive
- To improve and develop our infrastructure, Website features, and user experience
- To respond to your queries and requests, and address any complaints
- To send you administrative information (e.g. changes to terms, policy updates)
- Where applicable, to show you relevant jobs or content based on your CV, search preferences or location
5. Lawful Basis for Processing
We rely on the following lawful bases under UK GDPR:
- Consent — for sending marketing communications, job alerts, or other non-essential communications and where your explicit consent is required.
- Performance of a Contract — for fulfilling our service to you, e.g. processing job applications, managing your account.
- Legitimate Interest — for our business operations, improving services, maintaining security, fraud prevention, and sometimes to contact you about updates or services you may reasonably expect. We ensure that our legitimate interests do not override your rights.
- Legal Obligation — where required by law, such as for compliance, regulation or requests by authorities.
6. Sharing Your Information
We may share your personal data with:
- Service providers / processors who help us with technical, administrative, operational, mailing, analytics, hosting or infrastructure services (e.g. cloud providers, email services, analytics tools).
- Advertisers or job advertisers when you apply directly through the Website or when your application or CV is submitted to an employer.
- Third parties where needed to comply with legal obligations, or to enforce our Terms & Conditions.
- Affiliates and partners, if applicable, with your consent or under lawful basis.
If we transfer your personal data outside the UK / European Economic Area, we will ensure appropriate safeguards (e.g. standard contractual clauses) are in place.
7. Data Storage and Retention
- We keep your personal data only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
- If you no longer use our services or your account becomes inactive for a long period, we may delete or anonymise your data.
- We regularly review our retention periods for different categories of data.
8. Your Rights
You have certain rights under data protection law. These include:
- Right of access – you can ask for a copy of personal data we hold about you.
- Right to correction – you can request that we correct or update inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”) – you may ask us to delete your personal data in certain circumstances.
- Right to object to or restrict processing – in certain circumstances, especially for direct marketing or where we rely on legitimate interests.
- Right to data portability – where applicable, you may request your data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable form.
- Right to withdraw consent – where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time (but this will not affect the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal).
If you want to exercise any of these rights, please contact us (see section 10).
9. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies (e.g. local storage, tracking pixels) to:
- Remember your preferences, saved searches, login states
- Understand Website usage and performance (analytics)
- Serve personalised content, and (where permitted) advertising
You can usually control cookie settings via your browser, but if you disable cookies some features of the Website may not work as intended. We may also provide a Cookie Notice or Cookie Preferences tool where you can opt-in/out of non-essential cookies.
10. Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage. These include encryption, secure servers, access controls, staff training, etc.
11. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will post the revised policy on this page with a new “last updated” date. Where appropriate, we may notify you of significant changes (for example via email or via notices on the Website).
12. Contact
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our processing of your data, you can contact us at:
Digital Jobs Limited
Digital Jobs Ltd, Kepier House, Belmont Business Park, Durham, United Kingdom, DH1 1TW
Email: privacy at digitaljobs dot com
If you are not satisfied with how we handle your data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK.