privacy statement

Festivus has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices on festivus.co.uk

The Protection of Your CV

We regard your CV as a very personal document and we wish you to have full control over who can view it and whether or not you wish to have your contact details (name, address, telephone number, email address etc) visible to employers.

Your CV will be incorporated in our searchable database which is a significant aid to quickly finding employment. At this stage only our registered employers can view your CV and currently only when you apply for a specific position. In due course this will change and employers will be able to search for CVs under skills and sectors as your selected upon your own registration. 

Making your CV searchable in this way considerably increases your exposure to potential employers.

We use our best efforts to limit access to our CV services to employers who agree to abide by our terms and conditions. If any employer is found to be breaching these terms and conditions, then we will immediately terminate their use of our services.

You may remove your CV from our searchable database at any time. However, employers who have registered for access to the database may have retained a copy of your CV in their own files or databases. We are not responsible for the retention, use, or privacy of your CV by employers in these instances.

Jobs by e-mail alerts

The jobs by e-mail alerts service matches a job seekers requirements for employment with the profile of vacancies advertised on our site. For job seekers who subscribe to this service you receive an email listing those jobs that we believe you should be interested in. Your requirements are defined by your chosen skills and sectors during the registration process which can be used to specify geographic region, specific job titles, skills or other definition of the job you want. You can change these requirements at any time or unsubscribe at any time. 

Applying for positions

When you apply for positions with our employers, festivus is notified and then alerts the employer to your details. The information submitted by you on registration form will be used by our employer to assess your suitability for the position to which it applies.

Whilst we will use our best endeavours to ensure that the registration form is suitable for its purpose using suitable protection methods, please note that we do not guarantee that our protection methods will ensure that the registration process does not include:

• false, inaccurate or misleading information;
• material that infringes third party's Intellectual Property Rights;
• defamatory, libellous or otherwise unlawful information;
• information that violate any law, statute, regulation or order (including, without limitation, those concerning consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or the advertising prohibited goods or services); or
• any virus, worm, Trojan horse, time bomb, cancelbot or other code that contains contaminating or destructive properties.

Consequently, we cannot accept any liability for any direct or indirect damages (including, without limitation, loss of profits, loss of contracts), or any consequential, special, exemplary, punitive or any other monetary or other damages or liabilities arising out of or relating to your use of the application form. In addition, we reserve the right to remove your completed registration details and suspend our services in relation to it if we consider in our absolute discretion that providing the service may incur a legal liability for you, our employers, or us.

If you have any concerns over the registration process, please contact us for advice. Our contact details are set out below.

General Privacy Statement

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is also used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information.

Our site uses persistent cookies to keep track of your navigation, searches and actions every time you visit the site. These cookies expire after two years, and do not allow anyone to access your confidential information. If you are using a shared computer, please ensure that you log out of festivus.co.uk or close down the browser before leaving the computer for the next user.

Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor the visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis only.
This site may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

We may use your personal data to contact you from time to time and provide you with marketing information about us or our partners which we think may be of interest to you. Such information will either be sent by us or by our agents on our behalf and therefore, we may disclose your personal data to our agents for this purpose. If at any time you wish to stop the delivery of such information please e-mail us at info@festivus.co.uk

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. You can gain access to your festivus account and modify the information stored there by supplying an email address and password. You must ensure that this information is kept secret.

Opting out of the festivus service

We allow users to opt-out of having Jobs-by-Email Alerts sent to them at any time, and allows users to hide their CVs both at the time that the CV is placed on the site, and at any time afterwards.

This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service - you may find these options within your account settingson the site or at the footer of any automated email.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact festivus via e-mail on info@festivus.co.uk