Privacy Policy

Collecting your Information

Cogito Group uses your personal data for the purposes of maintaining and improving this website, to manage recruitment campaigns and for organisational planning purposes.

If you apply for a position with Cogito Group, Cogito Group will also use your information to administer the recruitment process (for example, in order to evaluate and select candidates, set up interviews and tests and review test results).

The types of personal data collected from your use of this website (or other dealings with Cogito Group), and used for the purposes above, include the following (as applicable):

• Questions, queries or feedback you submit, including your email address if you send us an email
• Your IP address, and details of which version of web browser you used
• Data collected on how you use the site, using cookies and page tagging techniques to help us improve the website. See Cookie policy below for more information. For these purposes, Cogito Group uses a third party, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone and cannot/will not be used to find out identities of those visiting our website.
• If you apply for a position with Cogito Group, information that you provide as part of, or that is generated as a result of, the application process (including, without limitation, information relating to the interview/test process or contained in your CV and application documents and, where appropriate and relevant, consideration of information from publicly available sources)

How we protect your information

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

• Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
• If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at contact@cogitogroup.co.uk

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal information, please contact us at: