Privacy Policy

Who we are

This privacy policy explains how we, Small Business Women Ltd (“Company,” “Our,” “SBW,” or “We”) and the website https://smallbusinesswomen.co use the personal data we collect from you when you use our website https://www.smallbusinesswomen.co (“Site”).

Small Business Women Ltd is a company specializing in providing resources for female entrepreneurs and those seeking to work with or employ such professionals. Our Site is one platform of several which allows for the delivery of these services.

Small Business Women Ltd.

You can contact us by emailing hello@smallbusinesswomen.co

What data do we collect?

Our Company collects the following data:

All information provided by you when registering and submitting a job post on our Site, including but not limited to:

Company details: email address, company description, VAT or tax ID #, address, logo, atmospheric photo, company biography, geographic location, website, social media handles.
Job specific information: title, roles, engagement, experience levels, job description, requirements, perks, salary.
Billing information provided by you upon check-out, including credit card and banking information, as well as related identification details such as account holder and address details.
Personal information: your first and last name, as well as your email address.

As well as information that does not identify you (e.g., anonymous or aggregated data), such as Internet activity (e.g., browsing history, clicks), location data, preferences, behavior, and social media information.

This site does not seek to collect data from anyone under the age of 18 and if you are under that age, you should not submit data of any kind.

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide our Company with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

Fill out the “Contact Us” or “Job Posting” forms.
During check-out of a job post.
During the uploading of a CV, covering letter or other associated materials.
Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
Communicate with us via text, email or otherwise.

Our Company may also receive your data indirectly, among others from the following sources:

Via our third-party payment processing platforms such as Stripe and PayPal.
Social media channels including but not limited to Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.

How will we use your data?

We collect and use your information in order to help Job Seekers connect with Employers and vice versa, and to provide and improve our services to you. Our Company collects your data so that we can:

Create your account, facilitate the submission, review, and potential hosting of job posts.
Add you to our e-mail list or job alerts list or other communication tools that keeps you up to date on new job postings, interest from job seekers, and related industry information and tips; provided that you will always have the option to “unsubscribe” from any of these communication tools.
Answer any questions or inquiries that you may have.
Provide job seekers with relevant search results and job recommendations.
Improve the user experience on our Site.
Prevent fraud, spam, and other potentially fraudulent or illegal activities.
Facilitate payment, often in connection with third-party payment processing services.
Carry out automated processing.

How do we store your data?

The security of your personal information is important to us. We have instituted reasonable security procedures and measures that are intended to protect your personal information and our information technology systems that store personal information. Unfortunately, no transmission of information over the Internet nor storage of information electronically can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. In order to help protect personal information you provide to us, you should use a secure internet connection and web browser.

Our Company securely stores your data using industry-leading cloud-based storage vendors, and we take the best reasonable efforts to safeguard our company’s cybersecurity. Our payment processing vendors, including Stripe and PayPal also store your information. You can find out more about Stripe’s privacy policy here: https://stripe.com/gb/privacy and PayPal’s here: https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/privacy/privacyhub.

Our Company will keep your personal information until the earliest of our reasonable determination that we no longer require for the purposes outlined in this privacy policy, or until consent is withdrawn by using an “unsubscribe” functionality or exercising your right to erasure as described below.

The SBW Website contains links to third-party services such as websites and job boards operated by third parties. If you follow a link to or otherwise access any of these third-party services, these third-party services may use their own cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technology to independently collect information about you and may solicit Personal Data from you. Please note that these third-party services have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these parties’ policies or practices. Please check these policies before you share any Personal Data with these third-party services.

What are your data protection rights?

As a user you are entitled to the following:

The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data that we have collected. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification: You have the right to request that our Company correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request our Company to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure: You have the right to request that our Company erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that our Company restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our Company’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability: You have the right to request that our Company transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request for data or to opt-out of consent for using our services, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the contact information listed above.