Privacy Policy 

Introduction

We are committed to protecting the privacy of our website visitors and customers. This policy explains how we handle your personal information.

1. Data Collection

We may collect, store, and use the following types of personal information:

Name, Date of birth, Place of birth, Address, Phone number, Email address, IP addresses, Identification document details (number, issue, and expiration dates), Any other document provided by the freelancer during registration or further activities such as posting a portfolio or agreeing on a job.

We will never collect sensitive information about you without your explicit consent. The information we hold will be accurate and up-to-date.

2. Use of Personal Information

We use the information you provide for the following purposes:

Matching jobs from clients to freelancers

Conducting due diligence procedures

Sending information regarding the status of your job

Sending informational materials, offers, and promotions that we believe will be of interest to you

Gaining a better understanding of customer behavior

Performing general marketing and advertising activities focused on our products and services

Placing advertisements through various social media and other internet platforms (e.g., Google, Meta)

Collaborating with professional service providers such as marketing agencies and advertising partners to share relevant marketing content through social media advertising

3. Legal Basis for Processing

We process personal data based on the following legal grounds:

Consent: Where you have given us explicit consent to process your personal data for one or more specific purposes.

Performance of a contract: Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Legal obligation: Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.

Vital interests: Processing is necessary to protect your vital interests or those of another person.

Public task: Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us.

Legitimate interests: Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.

4. Data Subject Rights

Under UK GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Right to Access: You have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you.

Right to Rectification: You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.

Right to Erasure: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data under certain circumstances.

Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request the restriction of processing your personal data under certain conditions.

Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit those data to another controller.

Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances.

Right not to be Subject to Automated Decision-Making: You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

5. Retention Periods

We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. The criteria used to determine the retention periods include:

The nature of the personal data and the activities involved.

The necessity of retaining the personal data for legal or regulatory obligations.

Our legitimate interests and business needs.

6. Breach Notification

In the event of a data breach that is likely to result in a high risk to your rights and freedoms, we will notify you and the relevant supervisory authority without undue delay in accordance with GDPR requirements.

7. Children’s Data

We do not knowingly collect or process personal data from children under the age of 16 without verifiable parental consent. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 16 without such consent, we will take steps to delete that information.

8. Privacy by Design and Default

We are committed to implementing appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure that data protection principles are embedded into our processing activities and that personal data is processed with the highest level of privacy protection by default.

9. Cookies

We use cookies to provide you with the best experience on our website and to allow us, our contractors, and third parties to tailor the ads you see on our website. The website collects information about your behavior and your page visits to:

Gather statistics on visits and the effectiveness of the site

Create a personalized approach for each visitor

Adapt our services to the interests of each user

If you no longer wish to receive cookies or if you want to be informed about the receipt of cookies, adjust your web browser settings. However, if you disable all cookies, you may not be able to use some of the services and features of the site.

10. Targeted Advertising

We use cookies, Google Remarketing Tag, Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, and other advertising technologies to deliver advertisements tailored to your individual interests and preferences. This data allows us to customize our approach to the user and client, taking into account their demographic interests and using contextual advertising and personalized service offerings. We use this information to display advertisements that may interest you.

11. Cross-Border Data Transfer

The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

12. Security of Personal Information

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information. However, you acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet.

13. Updates to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should periodically check this page to ensure that you are satisfied with any changes to this policy.

14. Your Rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. To do so, you need to provide proof of your identity. We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law. Processing of your request may take up to 28 days. You may at any time prohibit us from processing your personal information by sending a message to info@staffary.com. Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

15. Legal Information

This Privacy Policy complies with the requirements of the data protection laws of the United Kingdom and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), which retains the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679).

16. Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our treatment of your personal information, please write to us by email at info@staffary.com.