Privacy & Cookies Policy
By accessing this website and viewing the contents, you agree to our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Terms & Conditions of Use and our Legal Policies. Should you not agree, please do not continue to access this site, as our various policies form the conditions of use.

What is this Privacy Policy for?
This privacy policy is for this website http://www.mackenziescott.com and served by Mackenzie Scott Search & Selection Limited and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.
The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

The Website
This website and it’s owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website comply’s to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Use of Cookies
This website uses cookies which improves the users experience while visiting. This website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for website’s to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a users computer / device.

What are Cookies?
Cookies are small files saved to the users computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the users interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through it’s server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and it’s external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor it’s visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics and Vodahost which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google Privacy Policy here for further information.

Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

Session Cookies
These cookies have a shorter life span, and are usually stored in the computer’s memory only during a browsing session. Session cookies are often used to store a ‘session ID’ which allows you to login to a website once and then move around the site without needing to log back in.

Permanent, Persistent, or Stored Cookies
These are cookies that are not automatically deleted from a user’s computer when their browsing session has finished. They are used to retain your user information and preferences to make your experience on our website simpler and quicker.

Third-party Cookies
This site also uses some third-party cookies in order to provide certain functionality and improve usability.

Embedded Content
We sometimes embed photos and video content from websites such as YouTube or Flickr etc to provide a better user experience. When you visit pages containing this content, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. We do not control these cookies and you will need to check with the relevant websites for more information about their policies.

E-mail Contact & Communication
Users contacting this website and/or it’s owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Electronic mails are taken in compliance with UK Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

*Your details are not passed on to any third parties unless we have your permission to do so*.
This website and it’s owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to email prospective candidates or clients that may be interested in finding a new role or offering a new role, but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Your details are not passed on to any third parties unless we have your permission to do so.

External Links
Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users should always adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website.
The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and it’s owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Adverts and Sponsored Links
This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.
Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computers hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and it’s owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and it’s owners participate on such as Facebook and Linkedin are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor it’s owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media
This website and it’s owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy url’s [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/zyDFus).
Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened url’s published on social media platforms by this website and it’s owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine url’s are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and it’s owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Changing Your Cookie Settings
Managing cookies in your browser
If you would like to remove or manage which cookies are stored on your computer or mobile device you can do this in your browser. Below are links that will take you to the ‘help’ page of the major browsers where you will be able to find more information on how to do this. If you do so please be aware that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our site.
For instructions on how to change your cookie settings in your web browser, please see: AboutCookies.org

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Find out more
If you would like to find out more about Cookies more information can be found at the following links:
https://www.gov.uk/help/cookies
IOC - International Chamber of Commerce United Kingdom

Resources & Further Information
Data Protection Act 1998
Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
Twitter Privacy Policy
Youtube Privacy Policy
Facebook Privacy Policy
Google Privacy Policy
Linkedin Privacy Policy

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