Legal issues and Privacy policy

Most of the material featured on this website is subject to copyright protection unless otherwise stated. More copyright information, our policy on links, privacy and virus protection are all detailed below.

TRADEMARKS

All tradenames and trademarks referred to on this website belong to their respective holders.

VIRUS PROTECTION

DATS make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for users to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the internet.

DATS cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or computer system which may occur whilst using material off this website

PRIVACY POLICY

Your right to privacy is important to us. We are keen to strike a fair balance between your personal privacy and ensuring you obtain full value from our website and the services we may be able to provide you with.

www.dats.co.uk (the "Website") is operated by DATS Holdings Limited ("DATS"), Company No. 01076937 of 1 Springfield Street, Palmyra Square, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom, WA1 1BB (known throughout this privacy policy as "we" or "us").

Any questions regarding the use of your personal information by us can be sent to the Data Protection Officer at dpo@dats.co.uk or by writing by recorded delivery to 1 Springfield Street, Palmyra Square, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom, WA1 1BB.

Please note that this Policy applies only to the Website, and is not intended to apply to websites of other companies to which we may provide links. You should ensure you check you have read the privacy policies of such other sites if you decide to use them.

This website is not for use by children under the age of 18 without parental/guardian�s guidance. By using this site you confirm that you are over 18 years old or have parental/guardian's guidance. Some of the services we provide on this website are for individuals aged between 16 and upto18 years. if you are within this category then you must first obtain parental or guardian consent.

Information, Collection and Use

(i) Information collected on the Website is owned by us. Such information will be used by us to as part of our recruitment services and to assess your suitability for current employment opportunities that we or any of our customers may have. Such information will also be used by us to market ourselves and our products and services and otherwise in accordance with the provisions set out below.

  • In order to use the Website, a user is not required to register. However, to obtain the benefit of certain services, such as our recruitment services a user is required to register.
  • We collect information from our users at several different points on the Website. Whilst it is possible for us to log your IP address when you use the Website, we only obtain specific data about an individual who completes the "registration" page on the Website, and/or from information contained in your emails to us.

We use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the Website, track users movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

(ii) Upon registration a user is required to provide information such as name, address (including postcode), date of birth (for security checks), gender, nationality, contact details, and specific recruitment information. Such information is used to help us to match up the most appropriate opportunities with each user and also to contact the user about the services on our Website (including but not limited to our recruitment services) and to provide services that we feel the user may be interested in, and offer our services by SMS subject to the relevant consent having been given. It is optional for the user to provide additional information (such as telephone and mobile telephone number, occupation, etc) but encouraged so we can tailor our services and marketing materialto each user�s needs.

(iii) In particular, we use the personal information you have provided to:-

(a) administer the Website;

(b) for statistical purposes;

  • to serve Website content to you;
  • if you have previously provided your consent to notify you of special offers or other promotional material that may be of interest to you by us;
  • to forward information to you which we feel you may find useful, such as details of special events in your area;
  • to provide our recruitment services to you.

(iv) We send all new users a welcoming email to verify email along with an unsubscribe/modify code. Please notify us immediately if any of your details are incorrect.

(v) By registering with us or by contacting us you agree that we may contact you by way of email, telephone, mobile telephone, SMS, postal mail or facsimile. Where you have provided your consent to be contacted by third parties, they may also use these means of communication.

We do not use cookies on the Website. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard-drive containing information about the user. In particular, we use cookies to speed up access around the Website.

Sharing

We use your personal information to provide the recruitment services as stated on our Website and also for administration purposes. As part of our recruitment services, it is necessary for us to share your information with third parties (subject to your approval) to help us provide the services offered on the Website. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purpose without your consent. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services and are required to respect the confidentiality of such data.

We may sell, licence or otherwise pass on your information to selected organisations for the purpose of communicating to you offers of further goods and/or services provided by them. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see our opt-in clauses below. We do not control the use of your personal information once it is passed on to such third parties. Users are advised to ensure they are happy with the privacy practices of such parties.

Links

This Website may contain links to other websites that may be of interest to users. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices and content of such other websites. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of each and every website that they visit when they leave our Website. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected on this Website.

Security

We take security of user data very seriously. Further we shall take reasonable endeavours to ensure the security of user data.

Corrections/Updating Personal Information

A user may amend or correct their personal data by getting in touch with our Recruitment Department on 01925 403800 to discuss changes required or removal from our database.

Alternatively, if a user's personally identifiable information changes, or if a user no longer desires our service, we will correct, update or remove that user's personal data provided to us. You can write to the Data Protection Officer by recorded delivery to 1 Springfield Street, Palmyra Square, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom, WA1 1BB.

We shall use reasonable endeavours to respond within 21 days of receipt by us of your request.

In any event, we shall use reasonable endeavours to contact all users on at least an annual basis to ask them to confirm that the information we hold against them is accurate and up to date.

Subject Access Request

A user can contact us in writing as to whether we are keeping personal data about you. You are entitled to request a copy of such information. Will we require you to confirm your name, address and date of birth. For security reasons, we also reserve the right to request proof of identity before releasing any personal data. We reserve the right to charge a £10.00 administration fee before releasing such data.

We shall use reasonable endeavours to respond within 40 days of receipt by us of your written request (and payment of appropriate fee).

Business Transfers

As indicated above, we may sell, licence or otherwise pass on personal data. Notwithstanding this, if we are sold, merged, assigned or otherwise transferred to another entity, the user�s data may also be transferred.

Notification of Changes to Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post the new version on a link from our homepage page so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, we disclose it. We will notify users by way of postal mail or e-mail that the privacy policy has changed. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this new way. If you do not consent to this new usage, we will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected but we reserve the right to halt any and/or all such services.