Privacy policy

www. brightassessment.com is operated by BBS Group London Ltd. BBS Group is registered in England and Wales. BBS Group registered address is BBS House, 125 Poplar High Street, London E14 0AE, UK We take data protection very seriously and understand the importance of protecting your privacy and Personal Information. “Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual such as your name, date of birth, email address, IP address etc.

How do we collect information from you?

We collect and use your Personal Information in accordance with this our Privacy Policy. The majority of the Personal Information you provide to us when you give when you register your account.

Please do not submit such Personal Information to us if you do not wish us to collect it.

Please be aware that we may also infer certain information about you from your expressed search preferences. We also collect from:

• our websites (the “Websites”);
• the software applications made available by us for use on or through computers and mobile devices (the “Apps”);
• cookies (“Cookies”);
• publically available information; and other tools and applications (our “Online Content”).

What Personal Information do we collect?

Personal Information we collect about you may include the following:

• General identification and contact information: your name; address; email; IP address; telephone details.
• Statistical information: aggregate statistical information about site visitors and users for internal use and for other lawful purposes. We provide this information to customers, advertisers, suppliers and other reputable third parties. Where we provide such information we will provide this in an anonymous format and not include any Personal Information.

What legal basis do we rely on to process your Personal Information?- Consent

On some occasions, Brightassessment process your data with your consent. For example, we rely on consent when we send promotional material or when you link your Brightassessment account to your Social Network account. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time. Where consent is the only legal basis for processing, we will cease to process data after consent is withdrawn.

The processing is necessary to fulfil a contract

Brightassessment may process your data when we need to do this to fulfil a contract with you, such as to send your CV and assessment report to an employer or recruiter for a specific job application.

Legitimate Interest

Brightassessment also processes your data when it is in our legitimate interests to do this and when these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.

Our legitimate interests include:

• ensuring the security and integrity of our Services and in ensuring that our Websites and Apps operate effectively;
• selling and supplying goods and services to our customers;
• protecting customers, employees and other individuals and maintaining their safety, health and welfare;
• promoting, marketing and advertising our products and services;
• sending promotional communications which are relevant and tailored to individual customers;
• understanding our customers’ behaviour, activities, preferences, and needs;
• improving existing products and services and developing new products and services;
• handling customer contacts, queries, complaints or disputes; and fulfilling our duties to our customers, colleagues, shareholders and other stakeholders.

The processing is necessary because of a legal obligation that applies

Brightassessment may process your data to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, e.g. preventing, investigating and detecting crime, fraud or anti-social behaviour and prosecuting offenders, including working with law enforcement agencies.

Who do we share your Personal Information with?

Our group companies

We are a member company of BBS Group. We may share your personal data with certain members of our group companies which also operate online job portals. Where they have access to your personal data they will use it only for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Brightassessment will remain responsible for the management and security of jointly used Personal Information. Access to Personal Information within Brightassessment and our group of companies, is restricted to those individuals who have a need to access the information for our business purposes.