Privacy notice

Last updated on 28th March, 2024

Our contact details

Name: JobsAware (part of Modern Work Foundation C.I.C., company number 10440381)

Contact: jobsaware.co.uk/contact

The type of personal information we collect

We currently collect and process the following information:

  • Names
  • Email Addresses
  • Phone Numbers
  • Any additional data you choose to provide us

How we get the personal information and why we have it

Most of the personal data we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

  • Reporting an incident
  • Enquiring about partnership
  • Completing a contact form for other reasons

We use the information that you have given us in order to share intelligence on labour market fraud and breaches with UK law enforcement and industry regulators to combat unlawful and/or detrimental activity. In addition, with express consent, the information you provide may be used to raise awareness of issues for the general public.

We may share this information with UK law enforcement, UK Government and, with express consent, journalists/media agencies.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

  1. Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time, by contacting us.
  2. We have a vital interest.
  3. We need it to perform a public task.
  4. We have a legitimate interest.

We delete personal information connected to a report, 12 months after the report is marked as closed in our system.

How we store your personal information

Your information is securely stored in an encrypted database, hosted on DigitalOcean’s UK servers.

We keep personally identifiable information for as long as lawfully practicable. We will then dispose your information by erasing the record of the individual who provided the information.

How we use cookies

Cookies are small pieces of data stored in your browser, used to keep track of your preferences and actions taken on the website. Please visit AllAboutCookies.org for further information on how cookies work.​

We use ‘strictly necessary’ cookies to support signing users in to any account-based services we provide, for the sole purpose of remembering their “signed in” state.

We support both the Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track standards, which give users control directly in their browser over whether to block any cookies that are not essential to the functioning of the website:

  • Google Analytics – may set _ga and _ga{containerId} cookies
  • Cloudflare Web Analytics – does not set any cookies

How we make our website secure

In addition to using SSL certificates, we use a service called Cloudflare that acts as a barrier between our website’s server and the rest of the world, helping to block malicious traffic such as DDoS attacks taking down the website. You can learn more by reading the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
  • Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
  • Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one calendar month to respond to you.

Please contact us at jobsaware.co.uk/contact if you wish to make a request.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us via jobsaware.co.uk/contact.

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk