Our contact details

Name: Career Accelerator Limited

Address: 99, The Avenue, Wembley, Middlesex HA9 9PQ.

Phone Number: (UK) 07710282136

Email: mayur@careeraccelerator.io

The type of personal information we collect

We currently collect and process the following information:

• Personal details including your name, your employer’s name, school name, contact details.
• Information about your activities on our website and about the device you use to access it.
• Any other information you may choose to send us.

How we get the personal information and why we have it

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

• To arrange a mentoring relationship with a mentor or mentee.
• For mentors and mentees to attend career workshops organised by Career Accelerator Limited or the employer companies.
• For mentees to arrange internship opportunities with employer companies.
• With your agreement to use your data/name in case studies / impact reports.

We also receive personal information indirectly, from the following sources in the following scenarios:

• From your school administrator or employer company network coordinator.
• Enquiries made by you through our website.

We use the information that you have given us in order to:

• To arrange a mentoring relationship with a mentor or mentee.
• For mentors and mentees to attend career workshops organised by Career Accelerator Limited or the employer companies.
• For mentees to arrange internship opportunities with employer companies.
• Respond to your enquiries and requests.
• Provide you with information about specific areas of interest that you sign up to receive.
• Conduct due diligence.
• Deal with enquires and complaints made by or about the use of your data.

We may share this information with:

• Employer companies and school administration involved in the mentoring programmes.
• Civil & Corporate (www.civilandcorporate.co.uk) for DBS checks for mentors working with young persons below 18 or vulnerable adults.

We will never sell or rent your information to third parties for marketing purposes. However we may disclose your information to third parties in connection with other legitimate purposes as set out in this policy. These third parties may include:

• suppliers and sub-contractors; Eventbrite; Mailchimp; Surveymonkey, who may process information on our self.
• analytics and search engine providers.
• IT service and website support providers.
• venues that host Career Accelerator events (for security and registration purposes).

In addition, we may disclose your personal information:

• to the extent that we are required by law;
• in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
• in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purpose of fraud prevention, reducing credit risk and meeting our Safeguarding duties.
• to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as expressly provided in this privacy statement, we will not provide your information to third parties.

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

• Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting mayur@careeraccelerator.io.
• We rely on legitimate interest as the lawful basis on which we collect and use your personal data. Our legitimate interests are to for the public benefit, the promotion of career opportunities for diverse young persons between the age of 14-18, and LGBT+ young adults aged 18-30.

How we store your personal information

Your information is securely stored.

We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

Career Accelerator has appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidently lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way.

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

If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.

How long Career Accelerator retains your personal information

We will keep your personal information for five years after our last interaction with you. Once this period has expired, we will delete your information from all of our systems. For more details on this, please email mayur@careeraccelerator.io.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at mayur@careeraccelerator.io if you wish to make a request.

How Career Accelerator Limited uses Cookies:

• Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our website, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology. For further information, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

We use cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

• Keeping you signed in
• Understanding how you use our website and embedded content

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Transfer of your information out of the EEA:

We may transfer your personal information to the following which are located outside the European Economic Area (EEA) as follows:

• Google Analytics, United States
• Google, United States

Such countries do not have the same data protection laws as the United Kingdom and EEA. We will not otherwise transfer your personal data outside of the EEA or to any organisation 9 or subordinate bodies) governed by public international law or which is set up under any agreement between two or more countries.

Changes to Career Accelerator privacy policy:

We will keep this privacy policy under regular review and will place any updates on the Career Accelerator’s website. This privacy policy was last updated on 11/07/2022.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at mayur@careeraccelerator.io.

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address is (ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk)

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House, Water Lane

Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Date: 11/07/2022

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