Privacy Policy | CV-Bridge

This Privacy Policy explains how CV-BRIDGE LTD collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects your personal data when you use the CV-Bridge website, services, and job platform.

We process personal data in accordance with applicable UK data protection laws, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

1. Who We Are

CV-Bridge is operated by CV-BRIDGE LTD, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 17211911.

Our registered office is:
CV-BRIDGE LTD
128 City Road
London
EC1V 2NX
United Kingdom

CV-Bridge provides an online recruitment and career platform that enables candidates to search and apply for jobs, create and format CVs, manage favourite jobs, and use career-related services. We also provide services that enable recruiters and employers to advertise vacancies and interact with candidates.

For personal data for which we determine the purposes and means of processing, CV-BRIDGE LTD is the Data Controller.

If you have questions about how we process your personal data, you can contact us at [email protected].

2. Personal Data We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you use CV-Bridge and may include:

Identity information, such as your name and, where provided, date of birth.
Contact information, such as your email address and phone number.
Account information, including information used to create, authenticate, and manage your account.
Candidate and CV information, including CVs, employment history, education, skills, qualifications, professional experience, and other information you choose to include in your profile or CV.
Job activity, including applications, favourite jobs, searches, and other interactions with vacancies.
Recruiter and employer information, including company information, contact details, job advertisements, and account information.
Communications, including messages or enquiries you send to us and communications relating to your account or our services.
Technical and usage information, such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, timestamps, and information about how you interact with our platform.

3. How We Use Your Personal Data

We may use your personal data to:

Create, authenticate, and manage your CV-Bridge account.
Provide and operate our job search and recruitment services.
Enable you to search for and apply for job opportunities.
Provide your application information to the relevant recruiter or employer when you choose to apply for a vacancy.
Provide CV creation, formatting, enhancement, and other career-related tools.
Enable recruiters and employers to use the recruitment features available through our platform.
Send transactional and service-related communications, such as account verification emails, password reset emails, application confirmations, security notifications, and important account or service updates.
Send job alerts, recommendations, newsletters, or other optional communications where you have requested them or where otherwise permitted by applicable law.
Respond to enquiries and provide customer support.
Detect, prevent, and investigate fraud, abuse, and security issues.
Monitor and improve the performance and reliability of our services.
Comply with applicable legal and regulatory obligations.

4. Legal Bases for Processing

Under UK GDPR, we rely on one or more lawful bases depending on the purpose for which personal data is processed. These may include:

Performance of a contract: where processing is necessary to provide services you request or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
Consent: where you have given us permission to process your information for a specific purpose. Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw it at any time.
Legitimate interests: where processing is reasonably necessary for our legitimate business interests or those of a third party, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms.
Legal obligation: where processing is necessary for us to comply with applicable laws or regulatory requirements.

5. AI-Powered CV Services

CV-Bridge may use artificial intelligence and automated technologies to assist with CV formatting, content enhancement, presentation, and related career services.

When you choose to use an AI-powered feature, information contained in your CV or information you provide to that feature may be processed as necessary to provide the requested service.

We may use carefully selected technology and AI service providers acting on our behalf to support these features. Where such providers process personal data for us, we require them to handle that information in accordance with applicable data protection requirements and our contractual arrangements.

We do not sell your CV or personal data to third parties.

6. How We Share Personal Data

We do not sell your personal data. We may share personal data where necessary to provide our services, including with:

Recruiters and employers: when you apply for a job or otherwise choose to make your information available through a recruitment feature.
Service providers: companies that provide services supporting our platform, such as hosting, cloud infrastructure, email delivery, security, analytics, customer support, and technology or AI services.
Professional advisers: where reasonably necessary, such as legal, accounting, compliance, or security advisers.
Authorities and regulators: where disclosure is required by law, regulation, legal process, or to protect our legal rights.
Business successors: where relevant in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, financing, or sale of all or part of our business, subject to appropriate safeguards.

7. Email Communications

We may send transactional emails that are necessary to operate your account or provide services you request. These may include email verification, password resets, security notifications, application confirmations, and important service communications.

We may also send job alerts, recommendations, newsletters, or other optional communications where you have requested or consented to receive them, or where otherwise permitted by applicable law.

Where applicable, marketing and optional email communications will include a method for unsubscribing or managing your communication preferences. Unsubscribing from optional communications will not prevent us from sending essential transactional or service-related messages.

8. International Data Transfers

Some of our service providers may process personal data outside the United Kingdom.

Where personal data is transferred internationally, we take appropriate steps to ensure that the transfer complies with applicable UK data protection requirements. This may include relying on adequacy regulations or appropriate contractual safeguards where required.

9. Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including providing our services, maintaining appropriate business records, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, and meeting legal, accounting, security, or regulatory requirements.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it is processed.

10. Your Rights Under UK GDPR

Depending on the circumstances, UK data protection law may give you the right to:

Request access to personal data we hold about you.
Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
Request deletion of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Request restriction of processing in certain circumstances.
Object to certain processing of your personal data.
Request transfer of certain personal data to you or another organisation where applicable.
Withdraw your consent at any time where processing is based on consent.

To exercise your data protection rights, contact us at [email protected].

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if you have concerns about how your personal data has been handled.

11. Data Security

We use appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure, access, or misuse.

While we take reasonable measures to protect your information, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

12. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies where necessary to operate our website and may use them to remember preferences, understand how our services are used, improve functionality, and measure performance.

Where required by law, we will request consent before using non-essential cookies. You may also be able to control cookies through your browser or the cookie controls made available on our website.

13. Third-Party Websites and Job Listings

CV-Bridge may contain links to third-party websites, employers, recruiters, or external job application services. Those third parties may process personal data according to their own privacy policies.

We encourage you to review the privacy information provided by third parties before submitting personal information to an external website or service.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our services, business practices, technologies, or legal requirements.

When we make changes, we will publish the updated Privacy Policy on this page and update the revision date above.

15. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your data protection rights, or have concerns about how we process your personal data, please contact:

CV-BRIDGE LTD
Company number: 17211911
128 City Road
London
EC1V 2NX
United Kingdom
Email: [email protected]