Privacy & Cookies Policy

Document Description
This document sets out the Privacy Notice proposal in accordance with the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the council of 27th April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).

Privacy Notice
The principles described in this Privacy Notice document are handled in accordance with the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27th April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation). The aim of these principles is to provide participants with basic information on the processing of personal data, their protection and methods of processing.

Glossary of terms used in this Privacy Notice:

“Personal Data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person;an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

“Processing” means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;

“Controller” means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data;

“Processor” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller;

“Recipient” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not.

This document is intended to inform you about the ways we handle your personal data as well as to ensure you they are of the utmost importance for us therefore we constantly protect them. Our employees treat your personal data complying with the applicable legislation of Cyprus and the EU. To ensure we always handle your personal data in the best and most secure way possible, our IT systems and processes are being regularly revised by external professionals. Being fully aware of the fact, your personal data do not represent our property, we truly appreciate the trust you have put in us through sharing them with us. Whether we obtain them from public sources or you entrust them to us, we always inform you about this fact. In case we wanted to use your information for other purposes than those stated here, we would ask for your affirmative consent with such personal data processing (lacking other lawful basis).

Who are we and who can access your personal data?

We would like to be sufficiently transparent with you, therefore we inform you about who can access and process your personal data, eventually contact you for the purposes described below. The data controller administering your personal data within the territory of Cyprus is Linkage Intl. Limited

We also store your personal data at other companies (processors).These processors maintain the utmost secure internal systems and storage for us. This concerns in particular the Microsoft International Corporation while your data are always being stored exclusively in the countries of the European Union. The security of our systems is provided by our suppliers, which may also have the access to your personal data. To prevent any unauthorized processing or a processing you could not have expected, the activity of these suppliers is under permanent control while they are bound by the contractual terms and the processing contracts. When transmitting and processing your personal data, we strictly follow the applicable codes (the code of conduct) of our company.

We never proactively disclose your personal information. Your personal information remains completely safe with us. If we need to transfer your personal information to another recipient, we will inform you of this fact.

What happens if you don’t provide us with your personal data? Should such a situation arise, we will not be able to conclude a contract with you and/or provide you with our services.

We keep your data safe and we want to tell you how do we do it!

The personal data entrusted to us, as well as the ones obtained from the public sources remain under constant physical, electronical and procedural control. We ensure maximum possible protection of the processed data by using the frontier control, technical and security mechanisms, efficiently preventing your personal data from any unauthorized access, transfer, as well as their loss, damage or other potential misuse. Every person handling your personal data, whether within their work or contractual obligations, is subject to legal or contractual obligation of secrecy.

Handling your personal data is essential for our work – we want you to knowall our processing operations are undertaken in accordance with the law

In order to be able to offer you our service, we do have to handle your personal data, therefore a majority of processing operations is based on the contractual terms agreed by you and Linkage Intl. Limited. There are other types of personal data, we may use only based on your freely given consent, which does not affect the other services we provide for you. Certain requirements are also set by the legislature – we also process the information required by the laws of Cyprus.

Should you disagree with processing or should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Your trust in our services is essential for us, and you can contact us at any time. Once we verify your identity, we enable you to withdraw your consent free of charge.

Should you wish to assert your rights, you can contact us via email info@linkagecyprus.com or via our central telephone number +357 22030781. You can also visit us at the above mentioned address, and we will gladly handle all your requests immediately.

We would like to inform you, how do we use your personal data in case you entrust them to us.

As our main focus is Training and Consulting Services we conduct related activities trying to deliver the service in the highest quality possible. This concerns namely the following types of processing activities:

– Workshops for the development of your leadership skills

– Tests and assessments, in order to compare your professional qualities with the ones required for a particular job position

– Direct marketing (world news, etc. …), the aim of which is to keep you informed and offer you new work opportunities

– CV processing, which we do not store, but work with the final excerpt of the most crucial information valuable for us, as well as our clients, offering new work opportunities

– Public event management, enabling us to be in closer contact with you, and introduce you new approaches and opportunities created by the labor market

– Maintaining our relationship, by conducting professional interviews, planning meetings and updating all the information in our information system; we will include you in the information system, after you contact us through our website

If you share your personal data with us, we will process only the ones we truly need and have to process.

We handle your personal data carefully and responsibly, with special regard to your safety. In order to offer you the best services possible, we have to maintain certain personal information about you. We keep the following types of information in our system:

– Personal identification data, such as the name, surname, address, telephone number, eventually other contact information you share with us

– Personal information, such as the age, gender, nationality

– Current job situation, such as the current employer, key job responsibilities, specialization and the professional experience you have acquired within your current work position

– Pictures, that cannot be considered the biometric data and that you have included in your CV, we do not provide photographic services

– Professional experience, expertise, qualifications, certificates and references

You may not share all these kinds of information directly, though we may obtain them during the interviews or during your visit of our website, therefore we want to inform you about their typical nature:

– IP addresses and cookies, which we may obtain based on your visit of our website and which we use solely for the purpose of securing our systems. We do not use these kinds of information for the purpose of behavioral advertising or other kind of profiling of you or your behavior,

– Psychological tests, as our clients may need to know some information about your character and your eligibility for the position. We do not store these psychological tests and we carefully erase them from all our systems once they are processed,

– Salary or invoiced hourly rate. We keep this information about you, in order to be able to react promptly to the eventual offers that may interest you, and offer you enhanced services.

In case we obtain the information about you from a different source than from yourself, we inform you about it and you can assert your rights. We provide you with the information at the latest one month after we obtain it and before the start of the processing process. We would like to ensure you, we will not process any information of such type prior to informing you.

 

We do not keep your information forever. For how long will we hold it?

We will not keep your information forever, but for the period necessary to be able to offer you new work opportunities. In accordance with our business purpose, we store your personal data for a period of maximum 5 years since our last contact. However, you can appeal against this time frame by submitting an objection to the processing. In case we have the legal obligation to store the information about you for a longer period of time, we will store it longer, but if you assert your rights, we will inform you about it. You can always request the restriction of processing or erasure of your personal data. You can also withdraw your consent with the personal data processing, which will be reflected immediately. Please take note, that as a result of withdrawal of consent, we will not be able to offer you our services, requiring personal data processing anymore.

Do we always process the most up-to-date information available?

We regularly update all the personal information we keep about you. Taking into account your situation, as well as your experience may evolve in course of time, we regularly encourage you to update your personal data and avoid processing incomplete or out-dated information about you. We will highly appreciate, if you help us to maintain our contacts database up to date, through informing us about eventual change in your personal data, for example through email, telephone or personal contact.

Final provisions

All legal relationships following from or relating to the personal data processing shall be governed by the legislation of the Cyprus, regardless of where they accessed from. Any potential disputes arising from the privacy protection between you and Linkage Intl. Limited shall be referred to and resolved by the Cypriot courts.

We may and will regularly amend the text of this Privacy Notice document. We will notify you in advance of any such change by email or telephone at least 30 days before the change takes effect.

This privacy notice took effect on May 25, 2018.

Cookies Policy

Linkagecyprus.com hereinafter called «linkagecyprus» aims to facilitate and maximize effectiveness on your interaction and experience with our website (hereinafter “website”)

1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?

In order to ensure proper functioning of our website, we shall place small documents on your device, called Cookies, saved on your browser, each time you are visiting the website. Cookies are used for saving information, facilitating browsing (e.g preferred language and country, connection information e.t.c). All information collected in this way, are not linked to your personal data and are used for safety and statistic purposes.

2. COOKIES CATEGORIES WE COLLECT

• Required Cookies

• Analytics Cookies

• Marketing Cookies

3. WHY DO WE USE COOKIES

Our website collects Cookies in order to make its content available to the users, as well as to provide them with a safer, more effective environment, for statistic and better online experience purposes.

3.1. Required Cookies

Functioning of websites demands the collection of some Cookies: they are called “ First party Cookies” and without them we are unable to offer our website services. In this case your consent is unnecessary. They allow you to use and browse our website, as well as its functions (e.g. safe location access). All your preferences and adjustments (e.g language, country, connection information, browser preferences and plugins) that are saved in Cookies and reproduced in our website, cannot identify you personally. Without them, most of our website’s services are incapable to function effectively.

3.2. Performance, Analytics and Research Cookies

These Cookies are used exclusively for internal research purposes, in order to improve services rendered to the users. These Cookies are simply evaluating the way you interact -anonymously (collected data do not identify you personally) – with the website, collecting information such as the number of visitors on our website and its individual pages, as well as the number of visitors returning to the website, all researched keywords though the website, user’s location, country and territory e.t.c. Additionally they keep a record of the pages you visit (browsing our website), time spent on them as well as your points of interest.

 

3.3. Marketing Cookies

Cookies of this category help us adjust the advertisements you receive (according to what we believe interests you the most), collect and use other data concerning user’s activity in our website ( e.g. allow them to link advertisements to third party services). These Cookies inform us about the interest of users on one of our advertised products/ services. Furthermore, in order to personalize our website’s content, we are using respective tools (e.g Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Facebook, pixel e.t.c). Achieving the aforementioned purposes we may also share information, concerning your behavior in our website, with third party social media, advertisement and analytics providers, who are likely to combine these information with other information they already collected through your consent or by using their services.

4. COOKIES RELATED TECHNOLOGIES

Our website uses web beacons , combined with Cookies, for the extraction of aggregated statistic information, on the website use. Web beacons are electronic documents recording views of a certain page, advertisement, video, or other content or third party.

5. MANAGING COOKIES

You can freely and at any time amend your preferences on our website Cookies, following Cookie Preferences link at the bottom of this page. Please consider that you are able to delete all Cookies saved on your pc or any other internet accessing device, by deleting history on your browser, as well as adjust internet browsing programs, in order to avoid saving unnecessary Cookies. However, if you choose this you may have to manually select your preferences each time you visit our website and some of its functions may not be available.

6. POLICY AMENDMENT AND NOTIFICATIONS

In order to always be compliant with the Law and to evolve our business activities, the present policy may be subject to amendments. If we decide to replace Cookies Policy or introduce important changes, we shall notify you accordingly, through a notification on our website. For the latest up to date version of this Policy, we advise you to visit this page regularly.