Privacy Policy

1. Information about who we are

Welcome to the LiteSearch privacy policy. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we process your personal data when you visit our website or use our services and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Data Controller

AetherLite Ltd, trading as Litesearch is the data controller and is responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as "Litesearch", "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy policy).

Contact details:

Full name of legal entity: AetherLite Ltd, trading as Litesearch.
E-mail address: contact@litesearch.co.uk

Changes to the privacy policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review and may update this policy from time to time without notice. If we materially change the ways in which we use or share personal data previously collected from you through the website, we will notify you through the website, by email, or other communication.

Third-party links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

2. The data we collect about you

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, email address, address, telephone number.
• Contact Data includes address, email address and telephone number.
• Engagement Data includes details about how you use our platform and messages that you send to and/or receive from companies on our platform.
• Profile Data includes your username and password, your interests, preferences, your education and work history (including details of roles, projects and your salary (if you choose to provide it)), and your job search preferences.
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website or the app.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website.

We may also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

If you fail to provide personal data

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us, but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

3. How your personal data is collected

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact, Profile, Engagement, Marketing and Communications and Special Categories of Data by entering data on our website or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.
• Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data and Usage Data. We collect this personal data by using prevalent technologies.
• Third parties or publicly available sources. We will receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources, including information sent to us by employers that use our platform and publicly available sources such as LinkedIn.

4. How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract, we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

5. Disclosures of your personal data

When processing your personal data as described above, we may share your personal data with the parties set out below:

• Third party employers that use our website and services to select and recruit candidates. Those third parties will process any personal data that we provide to them as data controllers.
• Service providers acting as processors who provide IT, software and/or system administration services.
• Professional advisers acting as processors including our lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide us with consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
• When required by law or regulation, HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers.
• Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6. International transfers

Some of the suppliers that we use to operate our services, and some of the employers that use our website are based outside the UK so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the UK. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

• We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data.
• Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved for use in the UK which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK.

Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the UK.

7. Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have internal procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

8. Data retention

How long we will use your personal data

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

In some circumstances we will anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

9. Your legal rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These rights are to:

• Request access to your personal data.
• Request correction of your personal data.
• Request erasure of your personal data.
• Object to processing of your personal data.
• Request restriction of processing your personal data.
• Request transfer of your personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us using the contact details set out above.