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Privacy Policy
Blackwood is firmly committed to privacy, the responsible use of information, the need to safeguard the privacy of our clients and visitors to our website, and to maintaining compliance with privacy legislation. For the purposes of this privacy policy Blackwood means Blackwood Creative Limited whose registered office is at 22 Spring Street, Brighton, BN1 3HQ (Company number: 7328825). Blackwood will ensure that the data you supply to us is processed fairly and lawfully, and with skill and care. Blackwood takes our responsibilities in respect of your personal data extremely seriously.
This statement sets out Blackwood’s privacy policy for the use and holding of personal information that is provided to Blackwood by you.
Cookie policy
What are ‘cookies’?
‘Cookies’ are small text files that are stored by the browser on your computer or mobile phone. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
Websites are able to read from and write to these files, allowing them recognise user preferences or return visitors. Cookies are the tools that give websites a sense of memory, allowing them to recognize one user’s website visit from another.
Each web domain can only access cookies stored by that specific web domain, meaning that only the weareblackwood.com servers can access the cookies set by the weareblackwood.com domain. These cookies are called first party cookies. Third party cookies are cookies set by third-party websites.
Note that cookies are not software, they are not programs, they cannot carry viruses and they cannot install any kind of malware on the host computer.
The data collected within these cookies are anonymised data based on IP addresses and do not contain any individual information.
Use of cookies on this site
Some cookies used on weareblackwood.com are technically necessary for the web site to operate.
We use other cookies for marketing and website optimisation. Some of them are analytical cookies and allow us to understand how our web site performs: we can count the number of visitors, know how effective our content is and improve how our web site works. We use this information anonymously for statistical purposes. Others can be combined with personal data visitors have consented to give to us so we can deliver marketing or advertising communications that are relevant to their interests.
Please contact us if you want more information on how we use cookies.
First party cookies used on weareblackwood.com
Performance Cookies:
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, such as the most visited pages, and if any error messages are generated. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and anonymous. They’re only used to improve how a website works.
| Cookie Name | Description | More information |
| __utmb | We use this cookie so Google Analytics can determine new sessions and visits. It expires after 30 minutes. | |
| __utma | We use this cookie so Google Analytics can calculate new and returning visitor statistics. It expires after 2 years. | |
| __utmz | We use this cookie so Google Analytics can identify the source of traffic. It expires after 6 months. | |
| __utmc | We use this cookie so Google Analytics can enable interoperability with the older version of Google Analytics code known as Urchin. It expires when the user closes their browser. | |
| _ga | We use this cookie so Google Universal Analytics can distinguish unique users and calculate visitor, session and campaign data. It expires after 2 years. | |
| _gat | We use this cookie so Google Universal Analytics can limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes | Learn more about Google Analytics privacy Learn how to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites |
Third party cookies used on weareblackwood.com
Please contact us for more information about the cookies we use.
| Cookie Name | Description | More information |
| YouTube and other video services | Some videos on weareblackwood.com are served from YouTube. YouTube also uses cookies to collect information. Cookies can be used to store data about the user’s computer or the user. YouTube uses cookies to help maintain the integrity of video statistics, prevent fraud and improve the website experience, among other things. YouTube uses cookies on both youtube.com and on videos embedded from youtube.com. | To learn more about YouTube’s privacy practices and the cookies that it uses, please visit YouTube’s privacy policy. |
How to opt-out from cookies in your browser
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser.
Blackwood Jobs
As this privacy policy governs our processing of all personal data provided to Blackwood in your application for a job vacancy you are asked to please read it carefully before submitting any of your personal data to Blackwood. If you do not agree to our processing of your data in the manner outlined below, please do not submit any personal data to us.
The information collected for Blackwood job vacancy and how Blackwood uses it
Your personal details, including your name, e-mail address and CV, are held and used by Blackwood for the following purposes:
- For matching your details with job vacancies at Blackwood, to assist Blackwood in the recruitment process;
- For keeping you informed of Blackwood jobs, services, news and other developments;
- For undertaking online media checks:
(a) Due to the nature of our business and also the work we undertake for certain clients, online checks may be undertaken, inline with the regulation of the local jurisdiction, to determine if there is any information about you in the public domain that might affect your suitability for the applied role (“Checks”). Checks may reveal information about, your health, political opinions, racial or ethnic origin, criminal record, religious or political beliefs, sexual life that falls within the definition of “personal sensitive information” under the Data Protection Act 1998, or local equivalent.
(b) Checks will not be undertaken until just before the final stage of the recruitment process. Any information obtained by any Checks, which makes Blackwood question your suitability for the applied role, will be shared with you so that you will have the opportunity to correct or explain the information before any final decision is made on your application.
(c) By submitting your application to Blackwood, you will be consenting to Blackwood: (i) undertaking Checks; and (ii) using any information obtained about you from any Check in our final decision making process on your application.
(d) Information obtained from a Check will be not be retained by us should your application not proceed and neither will it be passed to any third party without your consent.
Disclosures of your information
Blackwood will share your information within Blackwood where necessary in order to process your job application.
Blackwood may release information relating to you to regulatory or law enforcement authorities, if required to do so. Blackwood reserves the right to disclose the information we have collected about you to our professional advisors. Blackwood will also disclose your personal data if we believe in good faith that we are required by law to disclose it in connection with the detection of crime, the collection of taxes or duties, in order to comply with any applicable law, by order of a court of competent jurisdiction, or in connection with legal proceedings.
The data supplied by you will include the information you supply to Blackwood in your CV (which would include, for example, name, address and qualifications) and other information submitted by you. You consent to Blackwood using the information provided by you (including, without limitation, sensitive personal data) in order to facilitate the recruitment process on your behalf and in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy. While we will not insist on you supplying Blackwood with any “sensitive personal data” (e.g. relating to health/disabilities, race/ethnicity, trade union membership, criminal convictions), if you choose to provide any such data to Blackwood, you are giving Blackwood your explicit consent to the processing of such data in accordance with this privacy policy.
We are required by law to hold your personal data for as long as is necessary to comply with our statutory and contractual obligations and in accordance with our legitimate interests as a data controller. We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that your personal data is maintained and up to date. However, you are under a duty to inform Blackwood of any and all changes to your personal data to ensure that it is up to date and we will update or delete your personal data accordingly.
If we have no contact with you then following the expiry of a reasonable period as we consider appropriate we will archive your information or possibly delete it.
Your details will be retained for four years from the end of your most recent application. After such period, if a resume has not been modified by you or has not been part of a proactive search by a member of the Blackwood Recruitment Team we will invite you to either update your profile in our system or upon your request we will anonymise your applicant data, this is an automated process where your candidate data is scrubbed of all personal information such as your email, name and address.
We reserve the right to transfer information (including your personal data) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of Blackwood provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this privacy policy and provided that the third party only uses your personal data for the purposes that you provided it to us. You will be notified in the event of any such transfer and you will be afforded an opportunity to opt-out.
We will not send you unsolicited commercial communications or contact you for direct marketing purposes unless you have indicated that you are happy for Blackwood to do so. However, we will contact you where required to complete the recruitment process.
What other information do we gather?
The type of client/visitor information Blackwood collects generally includes a name, work address, telephone numbers, e-mail address and any other relevant contact details which you have communicated to us by whatever means whether by e-mail, through this website or otherwise. We may also collect information about the use of our products and services, any preferences that we are told about, or information that is submitted voluntarily to us, such as requests for further information in a specific area of interest, an on-line survey or registration for an event.
Why does Blackwood collect this information? How do we use it?
The personal information that is provided by or obtained from you is used and/or held by us for maintaining our records and in order that we can communicate with you.
We need to communicate with you to respond to any requests for information you make and to provide any specific service you request. We may also use the information you provide to send you information which we believe may be useful to you, including newsletters, briefing notes and updates, and invitations to our events.
If you do not wish to receive this information please contact Clare Ritchie, Client Services Director, clare@weareblackwood.com
Blackwood may develop aggregate reports, which incorporate some of the information provided by clients/visitors. The reports are for the use of our business for research purposes only.
By providing personal information through this site, such as completing forms, requesting publications, commenting on discussions, contributing to the blog or providing additional information, you are indicating your consent to our obtaining personal information from you and to the holding and use of the personal information that is provided by or obtained from you in accordance with this policy. All personal information is processed in accordance with the principles of data protection contained in the UK Data Protection Act 1998 and Directive 95/46/EC.
If, at any time, you receive unsolicited material and no longer wish to receive such material or you wish to change, update or remove all or any of your personal information, please see ‘Correcting and updating your profile’ below.
Transmitting personal data over the Internet
We are not in a position to guarantee the security of any personal data that will be transmitted via the Internet. However on receiving it we will process it in accordance with our privacy policy.
Disclosure of personal information
Blackwood will not sell, rent, trade or otherwise supply to third parties for their own use any personal information obtained from you without your consent.
We will not disclose any personal information provided other than as described in this privacy policy unless you have authorized us to so do, or if we are required to do so by law. Please note that if at any time Blackwood is required by law to release information about you or your organization, Blackwood will co-operate fully with the relevant authorities.
Keeping your personal information secure
Blackwood has security measures designed to protect against the loss, misuse and/or alteration of the information under its control. These include:
- Secure computer storage facilities.
- Firewalls. Blackwood has its own firewalls to provide security. These are designed to prevent others from accessing confidential data or accessing Blackwood’s internal networks that store client/visitor data.
Correcting and updating your profile
To help us keep our databases up-to-date we would be grateful if you would let us know as soon as any of your contact details change or if you notice any inaccuracies in them. To find out what personal data we hold on you or to have your personal data updated, amended or removed from our databases, please email Clare Ritchie, Client Services Director, clare@weareblackwood.com. Any such data subject requests may be subject to the prescribed fee, which is currently £10 in the United Kingdom.
Scope of the policy
Please note, this privacy policy does not apply to actions, processes or policies of Blackwood that are directly related to employee records of current or former employees.
Changes to the policy
Blackwood will update this privacy policy as required. If changes to our policy do occur, they will be posted on Blackwood’s website so that those affected are always aware of the type of information collected, how the information may be used, and under what circumstances and to whom it may be disclosed by Blackwood.