Privacy Policy

Skills and Trades.com recognises the importance of protecting your privacy. Our use of personal data is set out below.

Skills and Trades.com Ltd. and our Data Protection Officer

We are Skills and Trades Ltd

We have a dedicated data protection officer (“DPO”). You can contact the DPO on support@skillsandtrades.ai marking it for the attention of the DPO, or using the Contact Us enquiry form.

Consent

By using the .com website, you hereby consent to this Privacy policy and agree to its terms.

PII (Personally Identifiable Information) we collect and how we use it

In order to facilitate some of the services available on this website we need to collect and store your name, address, telephone number, email address and other basic information. The data is stored using appropriate safeguards to ensure security, integrity and privacy.

Any data collected about you will be used only:

  • (if a Consumer) to enable us to validate your review/report or respond to your enquiry as necessary, or
  • (if a Trader) to promote your services and allow us to contact you in relation to your subscription to the Service.

Personal data stored about any consumer will be deleted once it is no longer needed for review validation or any related purpose. See How long is my personal information retained? for details of further automatic data cleansing measures in place.

Legal grounds for collecting/holding your personal data

We rely on the following legal bases to use your personal data:

1. Where it is needed to provide you with services, such as letting you leave (or for us to validate) a review of a trader as a consumer, or for us to allow you to promote your services on the website and app, as a trader.

2. Where it is in our legitimate interests to do so, such as to keep records of our communications between you and our staff, or for direct communications related to your trader membership of .com.

3. With your consent, such as for some direct marketing communications (if a Trader).

When do you share my personal information with other organisations?

We may share information with the following third parties for the purposes listed above:

  • Law enforcement authorities when necessary.
  • Business partners or others who are a part of providing your products and services or operating our business.