Privacy Policy
This privacy policy explains how we, Studee Ltd, collect, store and use information about you when you use or interact with our website, www.beetroot.com. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
For the purposes of applicable data protection laws (including the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 – GDPR") (Data Protection Laws"), the data controller is Studee Ltd (trading as beetroot.com). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 06842641 and have our registered office at 15 The Woolmarket, Cirencester, GL7 2PR.
If you register on www.beetroot.com as an employer and provide us with personal data, we will process such personal data on the basis that it is necessary to do so in order to perform the contract you enter into with Studee Ltd.
Registration with and use of www.beetroot.com for job seekers is free. We will process your personal data on the basis set out below as it is in our legitimate interests to do so following your registration.
What information do we collect about you?
We collect personal data about you when you register with www.beetroot.com. We do so in order to provide you with the services that are available through the website. We may also collect personal data from you when you communicate with us (for example, via email, phone or chat), when you share www.beetroot.com content with social media websites, enter a competition or survey, or when you provide feedback.
The information we collect when you register may include: name, email address, password, date of birth, current education stage, full UK driving license, phone number, postcode, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, registered disability, which languages you speak, your university, studying subject, degree result, graduation year, pre university qualifications and grades, what roles you are looking for, which sectors you are interested in, where you would like to work, ideal salary, preferred perks and where you would be happy to attend events.
When you use our website we also collect information about your device, and how you use our website.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of any correspondence.
What do we do with your personal data?
By registering with www.beetroot.com it is understood that job seekers are seeking contact from prospective employers and recruiters about opportunities which match the job seekers' preferences. If you are a job seeker we may make your personal data available to recruiters and employers who use the website to find suitable employees for specific roles that they are seeking to fill.
Job seekers have the ability to control the extent to which your personal data is shared with other recruiters and prospective employers through changing preferences in your account.
For job seekers, we may also use information held about you in the following ways:
- To identify job seekers that meet the required criteria, and to send emails inviting you to apply for roles. In some cases, these emails may contain links to employers websites. On clicking these links and visiting the employers websites you are subject to the employers own privacy policy and may be required to submit further personal information as part of any application process.
- We may offer you the opportunity to autocomplete a job application using the personal information that we know about you. We may use a third party to provide this service and you acknowledge and consent to a third party accessing your data in order to autocomplete an application.
- We will use information about your use of our website and device information to help us understand how you interact with our website, and to help us optimise the website for your use.
Other than to employers who are actively recruiting for roles on www.beetroot.com we do not disclose your personal information to other third parties, but we may provide them with anonymous aggregate information about our users (for example, 52% of our users are female).
In extenuating circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties in the event that Studee Ltd buy or sell any business or assets that require disclosure of your personal data, if all or part of Studee Ltd are acquired by a third party, or if we are required to disclose your personal data in order to assist or comply with any legal or regulatory obligation or request.