Scarfforce Privacy and Data Protection Policy

Introduction

Scarfforce respects your privacy and is dedicated to protecting it through our and your compliance with this policy. Our Company Privacy and Data Security Policy refers to our commitment to treat information of employees, customers, stakeholders and other interested parties with the utmost care and confidentiality. 

This policy refers to all parties (employees, job candidates, customers, suppliers etc.) who provide any amount of information to us. Employees of our company and its subsidiaries must follow this policy. Contractors, consultants, partners and any other external entity are also covered. Generally, our policy refers to anyone we collaborate with or acts on our behalf and may need occasional access to data. 

Together with Scarfforce’s General Terms and Conditions, this policy states the personal information that we collect from you and how such information will be used. This policy does not apply to any information that may be collected from you by any companies and/or third party links that may link to or are accessible from the Scarfforce website and its Services.

 

What kind of data do we collect and for which purposes?

As part of our operations, we need to obtain and process information. Our company collects this information in a transparent way and only with the full cooperation and knowledge of interested parties. Based on your visit to our website and the solutions we offer, Scarfforce is able to obtain and process the following information: 

  • Your first, middle and last name
  • Your gender
  • Your email address
  • Your company name
  • Your billing address
  • Your test results

 

Scarfforce uses collected information for the following purposes: 

  • Products and services provision
  • Billing
  • Identification and authentication
  • Services improvement
  • Contact
  • Advertising and research

 

Data collection by means of our website

We process your personal data based on our legitimate interest to improve and evaluate our website and gain insight into its use. We also process data based on your consent when you fill in forms on our website or contact us directly. According to your choice, we may send you marketing communications (newsletters). 

 1. Cookies

In order to benefit from the full functionality offered by this web site, it is occasionally necessary for us to place a small amount of information (a cookie) on your computer. Cookies are used to store your viewing options for displaying thumbnail images and text. When you change these options, your new selections are recorded in a cookie for use next time you visit the site. You may wish to clear these cookies and the browser cache if you wish to refrain from revealing any identifying information, especially if you are using a public or shared computer. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your Internet or mobile browser. In order to disable cookies, please consult your browser’s help section for instructions. If you turn off cookies, however, you may not be able to utilize portions of the Scarfforce’s Services.

2. Private logging

Any time you visit a page on the Internet, you send quite a bit of information to the server. The webservers that host this site maintain access logs with the information that you send. This information is used to provide site statistics and to get an idea of popular pages and what sites link here. In the normal course of events we do not intend to use these logs to identify legitimate users. The data logged may be used by us to solve technical problems and, in cases of abuse of our sollutions, to investigate the abuse.

 Data collection by means of our sollutions and our services

Based on the sollutions and the related services we offer, we gather personal information on the motivational drivers and related values that drive people in their work. This information can be used by its users (yourself, job coaches, recruiters, managers) to find a job, or to create a situation at work that fulfils their inner drive.

 

Children Under the Age of 13

The Scarfforce website is not intended to be used by children under the age of 13 and Scarfforce does not and will not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. No one under the age of 13 is allowed to provide any personal information to Scarfforce’s website.

 

Data storage

Your personal data will be stored in the European Union and on the highly secured data servers of our technical partner DataIM. Click here to read more on how they guarantee the security of your data. You have the right to see, adjust or have your personal information removed. In case you wish to do so, we kindly ask you to contact us at info@scarfforce.nl. Scarfforce will respond as soon as possible, however no later than 4 weeks hereafter. The financial information provided by users of Scarfforce’s solutions will be transmitted over an encrypted connection (SSL) to our payment gateway and will not be stored by Scarfforce.

 

Data disclosure

Our policy is to only release personal data that you provide to us to third parties in the following circumstances: 

  • When you give permission to do so
  • With our subsidiaries and affiliates
  • When required by law, such as in compliance with any court order, responses to a valid subpoena request, or other request from a law enforcement body
  • To designated third parties to resolve or investigate abuse complaints
  • When the information is related to spiders or bots, usually when investigating technical issues
  • To enforce or apply our terms of use or other agreements between Scarfforce and its users
  • To protect the rights, property, or safety of Scarfforce, our users or others. For example, for abusive users, we may release information to assist in attempting to block the abusive user or to complain to that user’s Internet Service Provider
  • If necessary to defend legal claims against us by third parties

 

Data retention

Scarfforce will not store your personal data longer than necessary in order to achieve the purposes described within this privacy notice provided that we are not legally obliged to do so. In order to do so, we take into account:

  • Did you opt in to receive content from us? In this case, we keep your data as long as needed to provide the content to you
  • Are we subject to any legal obligations to keep the data?
  • How long it is necessary to keep the data in order to carry out our business?

 

No selling of information

Scarfforce will not sell or hand over your personal information, such as your email address, to third parties. However, in the event of a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of Scarfforce’s company assets, the personal information collected and held by Scarfforce about its users will be considered company assets and thus subject to transfer in a sale to the buyer.