In the course of our business to help you complete the assessment, Brightassessment may make Personal Information available to third parties such as recruiters and other intermediaries and agents and other business partners.
This includes external third-party service providers, such as accountants, auditors, experts, lawyers and other outside professional advisors; IT systems, support and hosting service providers; printing, advertising, marketing and market research and analysis service providers; document and records management providers; technical engineers; data storage and cloud providers and similar third-party vendors and outsourced service providers that assist us in carrying out business activities.
Brightassessment may share Personal Information with governmental or other public authorities (including, but not limited to, workers’ compensation boards, courts, law enforcement, tax authorities and criminal investigations agencies); and third-party civil legal process participants and their accountants, auditors, lawyers and other advisors and representatives as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) to comply with applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our group companies; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and that of our group companies, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit our damages.
Occasionally, we may share Personal Information with other third parties. We will always do this under contract and in accordance with your instructions.
We use Personal Information to do some or all of the following:
Personal Information which you supply to us is generally stored and kept inside the European Economic Area. However, due to the nature of our global business and the technologies required, your Personal Information may be transferred to third party service providers outside the EEA, in countries where there may be a lower legal level of data protection. In such situations, we transfer the minimum amount of data necessary, anonymise it where possible and enter legal contracts to aim to ensure these third parties handle your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the European levels of data protection.
When you access our website online, we store some information about you. This is anonymous and used for statistical purposes. When you create an account and log-in to your “My Account” area, it is protected by your password and may only be accessed by you. You can manage the content and information in your Account at any time, by logging in to your “My Account”. You can de-activate or delete your account at any time, make your profile anonymous or choose to not make your profile searchable. To de-activate, please go to your “My Account”. However, if you would like to permanently delete your account, you can send an email to our Data Protection Officer (DPO) (see below) with the subject line “Permanently delete my information and account”. Please do not forget to tell us who you are.
Brightassessment is committed to keeping your personal data safe and secure from unauthorised access to or unauthorised alterations, disclosure or destruction of information that we hold.
Our security measures include:
If you use the Brightassessment App we will ask you if you want to use our geolocation service. This service is provided by Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited. Based on your mobile phone GPS signal it allows us to identify your location. In no case will we merge such information with any personally identifiable information. We will at no times be able to connect you personally in connection with the respective location. You may at any stage opt out of location tracking by changing the App settings. However, you will also lose the location supported product functionality as well.
If you use the Brightassessment Website or App, you may also consent to push notifications, text messages, alerts, emails or other types of messages directly sent to you outside or inside of the Brightassessment App to your mobile device or desktop browser. If you declare your consent to receive such messages a device token will be generated, which will be associated with your device.
If you enable us, we access the following Services for the limited purpose of helping us to upload or otherwise access your information or any other documents you provide us to assist you. The Services we use are:
We will ask for your consent before using information for any purpose other.
We partner with third-party advertising networks so that we and other advertisers can display advertising which is more relevant to you and your interests on our Web site or on other sites that you visit and assess the performance of that advertising. We and our ad network partners may utilise cookies or web beacons along with other codes such as your Identifier for Advertising (IFA) or Android ID for your phone to better understand your interests from the web pages you interact with and the search terms you use on our site to build a picture of the category of interests or preferences you have and to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. Our ad network partners do not collect and do not have access to any information from which you can be directly identified such as your real name or address or email. They may, however, anonymously track your Internet usage across other websites in their networks beyond these Sites. To learn more about the use of this information or to choose not to receive tailored advertising by opting out, you can visit either the Network Advertising Initiative at networkadvertising.org or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) at www.youronlinechoices.com or visit the privacy statements of our partners: Google, Adobe and Tealium. You can also learn more about our use of cookies and similar technologies and your choices by reading our Cookies policy.
Please note that if you opt-out you will continue to receive generic advertising that has not been targeted to you and your interests.
You have the following rights
If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us using the contact details set out below.
Brightassessment is not directed towards individuals under the age of eighteen (18), however we are aware due to the nature of some of the job offerings, those between 14 and 18 may use the Services. Individuals under the age of thirteen (13) are expressly prohibited from using Brightassessment Website and App, unless parental consent is provided and we are notified.
This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties to which the Brightassessment website and App link. The inclusion of a link on the Website or App does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by StepStone Group. Please note that we are not responsible for the collection, usage and disclosure policies and practices (including the data security practices) of other organisations or any other software application developer or provider, social media platform, operating system or wireless service provider, or device manufacturer, including any Personal Information you disclose to other organisations through or in connection with the Apps or our Social Media Pages. Please note that although we require customers who use our services, such as employers seeking to recruit staff, to agree to use the information made available solely for recruitment-related purposes, we do not control their use of any information that they have access to as part of receiving our services. Please be aware your current employer may be a customer of Brightassessment, or a client of one of our partner jobboards in our group of companies. Although it is a requirement of our Contract and Terms and Conditions of Brightassessment and other jobboards not to use Personal Information for any purpose, we cannot restrict the customers who access profiles on our database and cannot be held responsible for any eventuality. As part of the registration process Brightassessment offers you the option of remaining anonymous.
The data controller responsible for your information is Brightassessment. If you have any questions about this policy or our use of your Personal Information you can email: contact@ brightassessment.com or write to the Data Protection Officer. If you do not think we are handling your Personal Information adequately, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office. Further information, including contact details, are available at ico.org.uk.
We review this Privacy Policy regularly and reserve the right to make changes at any time to take account of changes in our business and legal requirements. We will place updates on our website. Please view the “Effective from” date at the top of these terms to see when it was last revised. The Site is own and operated by BBS Group London Ltd (“We”, “Our” or “Us”). We are registered in England and Wales and have Our registered office at 125 Poplar High Street, London E14 0AE, UK. We are a limited company. To contact us, please fill out our Contact us or telephone Our customer service line on +44 203 621 2897