Privacy Policy

Wax Selection Privacy Policy 2022

This privacy policy applies only to this website (the “Site”). The Site is operated by Wax. Connect Limited ("we", "our", or "us"). We are registered in England & Wales under company number 09130759 and have our registered office at Office 8, The Grey House, Broad Street, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, PE9 1PG. Our VAT number is GB 348028301

Wax. Connect is a global Recruitment and Executive Search company and operates online job portals to accurately match candidates with clients. You can learn more about Wax. Connect here. To enhance our analysis of our work and ensure that we provide efficient services, we may share information within the Wax. Connect Group.

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy from time to time by changing it on the Site. We recommend that you re-visit this privacy policy every so often to check if any changes have been made.

By using the Site, you consent to the collection and use of information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Collection of Personal Information

We collect personal information from you (for example, name, address, telephone number, email address etc) when you fill in registration forms, submit comments to the Site, participate in message boards, blogs or any other user generated content facilities or send emails to us. We may also extract relevant personal data from other information that you provide, for example, from your CV.

We may also collect personal information we’ve found from other websites that display information about you publicly. For example, Social Media, your profile on your current employer’s network, any press articles about you or any public listing of your profile.

Collection of Other Information

In addition to personal information, we may collect information about you automatically when you visit the Site.

The collection of information may involve the use of cookies and web beacons. A web beacon is a small graphic image placed on a web page that is designed to allow us to monitor traffic on the Site. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer's hard drive by your web browser. Cookies allows us to identify your computer and find out details about your visit. Most internet browsers accept cookies automatically, but usually you can alter the settings of your browser to erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer.

If you choose not to receive our cookies, you may not be able to use some of the core features of the site such as logging in, setting up jobs-by-email and saving your preferences.

The information collected by cookies and web beacons is not personally identifiable, it only includes general information about your computer settings, your connection to the internet e.g. operating system and platform, IP address, your browsing patterns and timings of browsing on the site and geographical location.

For detailed information about cookies and web beacons used on our site and how to opt out - please visit our Cookies Usage.

Use of Your Information

By using this Site, you agree that we may collect, hold, process and use your information (including personal information) for the purpose of providing you with the Site services and developing our business which includes (without limitation):

• administer your account with us;
• personalising your visits to the Site to improve the services provided to you;
• connecting you to employers;
• identify visitors to the Site;
• carry out research on users’ demographics;
• enhancing your personal profile with information collected from publicly available sources;
• informing you about the latest changes to the Site, products, services or promotional offers that you might find interesting provided that you have indicated that you do not object to being contacted for these purposes;
• customer service and support;
• communicating (and personalising such communication) with you;
• enabling you to share our content with others e.g. using an ‘Email a friend’ or ‘Share this’ functionality;
• improve the layout and / or content of the pages of the Site and customise them for users;
• conducting market research;
• carrying out technical and statistical analysis to measure the performance of our services and the Site

You can tell us not to contact you with information regarding our products and services from Wax Selection or to share details with third parties outside the Wax. Connect Group so that they can send you information regarding their products and services, either at the point such information is collected on the Site (by checking the relevant box) or, where you do not wish us to continue to use your information in this way, by following the unsubscribe instructions on any communications sent to you.

You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us using the Contacting us details below.

Sharing Your Information

Information we collect from both public sources and from yourself may be shared with other Wax. Connect companies. At all times, the Wax. Connect companies will ensure that your information is adequately protected. Each member of the Wax. Connect Group of companies may use and share your personal information as set forth in the prevailing Privacy Policy. In accordance with the type of services you have registered for, requested, and the functionality you use, we will disclose your personal information for a prospective job.

We may disclose aggregate statistics about visitors to the Site in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, sponsors and other reputable third parties for other lawful purposes but these statistics will include no personally identifiable information.

We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to comply with applicable laws and government or regulatory bodies’ lawful requests for information.

We may transfer, sell or assign any of the information described in this policy to relevant third parties as a result of a sale, merger, consolidation, change of control, transfer of assets or reorganisation of our business.

Keeping Your Personal Information Secure

We take the security of your personal information very seriously and have appropriate physical, technical and administrative procedures in place to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure as required by law in England. We have measures in place to review security such as periodically reviewing our security and privacy policy and enhancing them as necessary and only authorised personnel have access to personal information. Whilst we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of information will never occur, we will use reasonable efforts to prevent it.

You should bear in mind that submission over the internet is never entirely secure and therefore security of any information submitted via the site whilst in transit cannot be guaranteed.

If you use a public or shared computer, after each user session, to help ensure others do not access your information it is advisable to close your browser.

Storage of your information

Information that you submit via the Site is sent to and stored on secure severs located in Europe.

Information on the Site may be transferred by us to our other offices and / or third parties mentioned in the circumstances above (see Sharing Your information), which may be situated outside the European Economic Area. By using the Site, you consent to the transfer of your personal information outside of the European Economic Area (which may not provide the same protection for such information as the European Economic Area provides) in the event that the processing of your information involves such a transfer. Where the countries concerned do not have similar data protection laws we will take reasonable steps to ensure your privacy rights continue to be adequately protected.

Security precautions in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of your information

When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that it’s treated securely. When you are on a secure page, a lock icon will appear on the bottom of web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Non-sensitive details (your email address etc.) are transmitted normally over the Internet, and this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. Where we have given (or where you have chosen) a password or link which enables you to access certain parts of our websites, you are responsible for keeping this password and/or link confidential. We ask you not to share these details with anyone.

Profiling

We may analyse your personal information to create a profile of your interests and preferences so that we can contact you with information relevant to you. We may make use of additional information about you when it is available from external sources to help us do this effectively. We may also use your personal information to detect and reduce fraud.

Use of 'cookies'

Like many other websites, the Wax Selection website uses cookies. 'Cookies' are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual. For example, we use cookies to store your country preference. This helps us to improve our website and deliver a better more personalised service.

It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. For more information on how to switch off cookies on your computer, visit our cookie policy. Turning cookies of may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.

In addition, if you linked to our website from a third-party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third-party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third-party site.

16 or Under

We are concerned to protect the privacy of children aged 16 or under. If you are aged 16 or under‚ please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide us with personal information.

Updating Your Preferences

You can opt out of receiving marketing communications by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link in the emails from us. Or you can write to us (including full details of your request) at the address provided at the end of this privacy policy.

How you can access and update your information

The accuracy of your information is important to us. We’re working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you. In the meantime, if you change email address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please email us at: tellmemore@waxconnect.com, or write to us at: Office 8, The Grey House, Stamford Lincs PE9 1PG.

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information Wax. Connect hold about you.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

If we change this privacy policy, we will post the revised privacy policy here with an updated effective date. If we make significant changes to the privacy policy, we may also notify you by other means such as sending an email or posting a notice on our home page.

Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

This website uses cookies to collect information. Cookies are small data files which are placed on your computer or other mobile or handheld device (such as smart ‘phones or ‘tablets’) as you browse this website. They are used to ‘remember’ when your computer or device accesses this website. The cookies are essential to the effective operation of our website and to enable to you shop with us online. Cookies are also used to tailor the products and services offered and advertised to our customers, both on this website and elsewhere.

Information collected

Some cookies collect information about browsing and purchasing behaviour by people who access this website via the same computer or device. This includes information about pages viewed, products purchased and the customer journey around a website. We do not, however, use cookies to collect or record information on users’ name, address or other contact details. Wax Selection is able to use cookies to monitor individual customer browsing and purchasing behaviour but third parties are not able to identify customers using cookies.

Who sets the cookies?

The cookies stored on your computer or other device when you access this website are set by Wax Selection, our suppliers who partner with us to help deliver a high quality website and on-line shopping experience, and other third parties. Some cookies are set by or on behalf of Wax Selection and are necessary to enable customers to a make purchases on our website.

Cookies may also be set by third parties who participate with us in affiliate marketing programmes. None of these third parties collect any personal data from which they would be able to identify individual customers.

What are cookies used for?

The main purposes for which cookies are used are:-

1. For technical purposes essential to effective operation of website, particularly in relation to on-line transactions.
2. To drive marketing, particularly banner advertisements and targeted updates which are explained in more detail elsewhere in the Privacy Policy.
3. To enable Wax Selection to collect information about the browsing and shopping habits and activities of customers, including to monitor the success of campaigns, competitions etc.
4. To enable Wax Selection to meet its contractual obligations to make payments to third parties when a product is purchased by someone who has visited our website from a site operated by those parties.

This Policy was last updated in March 2022.