LEGAL & PRIVACY
Privacy Statement
How Early Years Talent collects, uses and protects personal information across our recruitment services, website and digital products.
Purpose of this privacy statement
Early Years Talent remains committed to the protection of personal privacy. Our commitment to privacy is demonstrated by adhering to the 10 National Privacy Principles outlined in the 1988 Privacy Act.
We collect personal information to provide you with our services and support our relationship with you. Collected information typically consists of contact details and job titles or positions.
How we collect and use personal information
Early Years Talent will collect only relevant and necessary information and will collect the information unobtrusively. We do not use the information for any purpose other than that for which it was collected. From time to time we may need to disclose your information to service providers, agents, contractors and strategic partners to help us provide and market our services to you. If we do this, we require these parties to protect your information the same way we do.
Digital Products
When you use one of our digital applications or online assessment tools, we may collect information that you voluntarily provide in order to generate reports, comparisons, calculations or personalised outputs.
Depending on the product, this may include information such as:
- assessment responses
- career preferences
- employment information
- comparison criteria
- decisions you choose to evaluate
- optional contact details
- technical information necessary to operate the application
We collect only the information reasonably necessary to provide the requested functionality.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Digital Products” includes online applications, assessments, calculators, software tools, downloadable resources and any future digital products made available by Early Years Talent.
Payments
Payments for Digital Products are processed securely by third-party payment providers such as Stripe.
Early Years Talent does not store your full credit card or payment details.
Payment providers collect and process payment information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
Cookies and analytics
Our website and Digital Products may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- improve website performance
- understand how visitors use our services
- analyse traffic
- improve user experience
- measure product performance
Information collected through analytics is generally aggregated and does not personally identify individual users.
Assessment responses
Information entered into our Digital Products is used solely to generate the reports, comparisons or outputs requested by the user.
Unless expressly stated otherwise, assessment information is not shared with employers or other third parties.
Improving our Digital Products
We may analyse de-identified and aggregated usage information to improve the functionality, usability and accuracy of our Digital Products.
Where possible, this information is anonymised and cannot reasonably identify individual users.
Data retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or improve our Digital Products.
Retention periods may vary depending on the nature of the information collected.
Artificial Intelligence
Some Digital Products may use automated processing to analyse information entered by users and generate structured reports or comparisons.
These tools are designed to support informed decision-making and do not make decisions on behalf of users.
Third-party service providers
We may use reputable third-party providers to host our website, process payments, deliver digital services, analyse website performance and provide technical infrastructure.
Where these providers process personal information on our behalf, we take reasonable steps to ensure appropriate privacy and security safeguards are in place.
You are not required to provide us with personal information when dealing with us. In certain circumstances, we may disclose personal information to relevant government or regulatory authorities (including education and care regulators) where required or authorised by law.
In addition, Early Years Talent will use a variety of physical and electronic security measures, including restricting physical access to our offices , firewalls and secure databases to keep personal information secure from misuse, loss or unauthorised use or disclosure.
The Internet is not a secure environment. If you send us information via the Internet, including your email address, you do so at your own risk.
Your rights under this privacy statement
Importantly, you have a right to access the personal information we hold about you. Please contact us to ask for access to your information or if you have a complaint concerning the privacy of your information.
If you would like more information about our approach to privacy, please contact us here.
Data retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or improve our Digital Products.
Retention periods may vary depending on the nature of the information collected.
Your rights under this privacy statement
Importantly, you have a right to access the personal information we hold about you. Please contact us to ask for access to your information or if you have a complaint concerning the privacy of your information.
If you would like more information about our approach to privacy, please contact us here.