General Privacy & Cookie Policy

Matchking respects the privacy of every individual who visits our website.

The purpose of our Privacy Policy is to outline the information we may collect and how we may use that information.

As technology continues to develop, our privacy policy may need changing in order to provide the best possible service to our site visitors. We would recommend you to check and make sure that you have read our most recent policy statement when you visit our website.

Matchking only collects personally identifiable information about you (i.e. your name, address etc.) through our website when voluntarily submitted by you, the visitor. Visitors may choose to submit personal information to obtain information (e.g. via an enquiry form or subscription to our newsletter) or to submit a comment. Providing personal information is up to you, our visitor. If you do not want your personal information collected, please do not submit it to us. If you sign up to our Newsletter you will only be sent information regarding Matchking or items of interest regarding recruitment services or advice from us.

We will not sell, give, lend or trade your personal information to third parties that will drive spam email to you.

It is your legal right to unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time and a link allowing you to do this is provided on every email we send to you. The same is true regarding our contact form - The information will only be used to answer your enquiry - we do not now and do not currently intend to give or sell or trade personal information about you to third parties.

The Matchking website may contain links to other sites and whilst we make every effort to only link to sites that share our standards, we cannot be held responsible for the contents and privacy policies of such sites because due to the nature of the internet we have no control on the content held on these 3rd party sites.

Security measures are in place to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of the information received from our on-line visitors, and to make such information as secure as possible against unauthorised access and use.


Cookies

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you'd expect
  • Save you having to login every time you visit the site
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Continuously improve our website for you
  • Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
  • Pay sales commissions

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below


Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however, doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

More about our Cookies

Website Function Cookies

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

  • Determining if you are logged in or not
  • Remembering your search settings
  • Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.


Third party functions

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:

Application for roles and CV management (as detailed in our specific Candidate Privacy Policy)

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

We use:


Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our's and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites

It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called "spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser, you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.

You agree by your initial use and continued use of this site not to reproduce, retransmit, disseminate, sell, distribute, publish, broadcast, circulate or commercially exploit the information available on this Site in any manner without the express written consent of Matchking, nor to use any of the information available on this Site for any unlawful or illegal purposes.

You agree that any access by you of the information available on this Site will occur manually by Internet browser. request and not programmatically by computer macro or other automated means. Matchking may link to other sites that may be of interest to you but for which we have no responsibility or relationship.

All copyright and trademarks are the property of Matchking or their respective owners and no claim is or will be made against them. You agree that no consent or permission is provided to you for the use of or display of any logos or trademarks displayed at this site and that you will contact any such property owner directly seeking their written permission to use their property PRIOR to any such use by you neither Matchking nor any of its content providers, members, subsidiaries, affiliates, service providers, licensors, officers, directors or employees shall be liable for any direct, indirect, special or consequential damages arising out of or relating to this agreement in any way whatsoever. To the extent permitted by law, this disclaimer of liability includes but is not limited to damages for loss of profits, use, data or other intangible damages howsoever caused, even if such party has been advised of the possibility of such damages occurring.

If you have questions about our policy or wish to make comment on our website please contact us