Qualification Check Ltd (“Qualification Check”, “we” or “our”) is committed to ensuring your personal information is protected. This privacy notice describes how Qualification Check, collects, uses and protects your information.
The information we collect comes either directly from you when you choose our I’mVerified service, or your prospective employer uses our Global Verification service to verify your qualifications, or our trusted third-party integrations such as TrustID who we use to verify photographic ID document.
We also collect your information when you create an account to use our service as a business user.
We collect the following type of information:
If you use our I’mVerified service we will collect your first name, middle name, last name, date of birth, email address and qualification details. Where we also need to verify photographic ID we may collect your date of birth and nationality.
When an employer provides your information, we collect first name, middle name, last name, date of birth and qualification details.
If you are a business user, we collect first name, last name, business email address and telephone number.
Under data protection regulations we must have a legal basis to process your personal data. The legal bases are:
We rely on the following legal bases:
To register you as a new user on the I’mVerified service: we use your contact details, and name to perform our contract with you.
To carry out a verification service, we will need to contact the academic institution where you received your qualification. We will share your personal data as follows with the relevant academic institutions:
If you are a user on the I’mVerified service: we use your contact details, name, and qualification details to perform our contract with you.
If you are using I’mVerified through an institution or organisation: we will use your contact details, name, and qualification details relying on your consent to do so (whether this is consent received directly from you or via an institution).
To administer and protect our business and website: we use your contact details, name, and any technical information which are necessary for our legitimate interests (running our business, ensuring the website is functional, preventing fraud and security issues).
To send you relevant marketing communications: we use your name and contact details, and rely on our legitimate interest as legal basis for processing your data (to carry out marketing and develop and grow our service offerings). Where you subscribe to our newsletter, we rely on your consent to provide you with marketing communications. You can opt out of marketing communications at any time using the links in the email.
We need to share your information with the relevant organisations, universities and institutions to verify your qualification as follows:
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
Your personal information will be stored on systems owned or operated by QualificationCheck or those of our specific suppliers and will only be stored inside the United Kingdom (UK) or European Economic Area (EEA), or a country approved by the UK or EU.
Within Qualification Check your information will be stored on our secured systems in accordance with the Qualification Check Information Security Policy. Where your information is stored in countries outside the EEA or an approved country, we will ensure it is protected by encryption and that we ensure that a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by using appropriate safeguards as set out by law.
If we need to manually verify your qualification, this is carried out by our agents who are not based in the UK or EEA, but we will ask your consent to do that. We will ensure that our agents protect your personal data to a similar degree by using appropriate safeguards.
We will only retain your personal data as long as it is reasonably necessary for the purposes we collected it for. We will consider the amount of data we have on file, the nature and sensitivity of that data, and the risk of harm if there is an unauthorised disclosure when deciding on the retention period.
Where you are a I’mVerified user with a user account, we will retain all personal data on your profile (name, contact details, qualification details, identity information and verification information) whilst your user account is active. If you delete your account, we will also delete all personal data we hold.
Where we are verifying your information for an institution, we retain your verification information for a maximum of 24 months from the date of the verification process being completed.
You have a number of rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.
You have the right to:
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact the Data Protection Officer/Privacy Manager at [email protected].
No fee usually required. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
What we may need from you. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
Time limit to respond. We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
If you are not happy how we use your information or how we have responded to your request, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at www.ico.org.uk. We would however appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.
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This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
Any changes we make to our privacy notice will be put on our website. Please check for updates from time to time so you are always fully aware of what information is collected and how it is used.
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact the Data Protection Officer/Privacy Manager at [email protected]
Last updated July 2024
