Privacy Policy
Work the Wilds Ltd, “workthewilds.com” (We) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy (together with our terms and conditions and any other documents referred to in them) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Work the Wilds Ltd, 13 Radnor Walk, London, SW3 4BP, UK
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site workthewilds.com or our mobile apps (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material (including personal profiles, materials advertising your services or details about your location and work history in order to seek appropriate outdoor employment services) or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
Details of transactions you carry out through our site and your contact with Employees (a person or organisation offering services in the fields of outdoor sports or services or Employers (an individual business or organization offering instruction for outdoor sports)
Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
Employers can review Employees by rating them between 1 and 5 stars and can add some custom written text alongside their review. These reviews are made available via our site alongside with any response made by the Employee to which the review relates.
IP addresses and cookies
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
We use third party vendors, including Google, to show adverts for our site on the internet. These vendors, may use cookies to show you adverts based on your prior visits to our site. You can opt-out of this use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page. Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.
Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.
Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
We will not pass your data to any third parties other than to a Employer or to a Employee as contemplated by our Terms and Conditions or by this Privacy Policy.
If you do not want us to use your data in this way please notify us with an email to Customerservice@workthewilds.com. Please note, however, that if you do not wish to pass your details to Employers or Employees (as applicable) you will not be able to participate in any services advertised via our site.
Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
You acknowledge that where you provide us with personal information, your profile information will: (a) be made available to Employers/Employees who subscribe to our services; and (b) appear on our website and thus be in the public domain. Profiles of Employees and Employers must not, therefore, contain any contact information, such as email addresses, telephone numbers or addresses.
If you choose to create a public profile on our website then it may be indexed and stored by search engines such as Google. In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
If Work the Wilds Ltd or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of International New Media Limited, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection, crime prevention and credit risk reduction.
Access to information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to us via email at help@workthewilds.com
