icanbea.org.uk is a website owned and operated by The Mason Trust (registered Charity number 1123203)

Terms & Conditions

Definitions

• The Charity – The Mason Trust
• The Website – www.icanbea.org.uk (including subdomains, where appropriate, such as cv.icanbea.org.uk)

Agreement

Please read these Terms of Service carefully before using the www.icanbea.org.uk website operated by The Mason Trust. Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the Service.  By accessing or using the Service you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the terms then you may not access the Service.

If you are under 13 years of age you should discuss these terms of service and the Privacy Policy with a parent or legal guardian and ensure that they agree with them before signing up to the icanbea.org.uk platform (Either Website or Apps). If you are under 13 years of age and do not have consent from a parent or guardian then you should not sign up to the icanbea platform.

We take every opportunity to protect your account and personal information both during application development and through our website hosting facilities, but use of this site and its services are undertaken at your own risk.

Students & Jobseekers

• Signing up for an account through the icanbea... website or app will initially trigger alerts from the system to your registered email address and / or mobile device to highlight career and work related opportunities, news and events that you have indicated an interest in. (User accounts may be deleted if you have not logged into the service for a long time.  See the User Registration section for more details).    
  
  
• Signing into our CV Wizard will allow you to optionally enter additional personal information in order to create and manage your CVs.  We do not have access to your CVs or CV data from an administrative perspective. Please ensure that you download a copy of your completed CV regularly as we cannot guarantee the service will be maintained indefinitely.  We will make every effort to ensure your CV is available to you whilst our service is running and we believe you to be a recent user of the site.  (CV accounts may be deleted if you have not logged into the service for a long time.  See the User Registration section for more details).   
  
  
• The content that these alerts highlight to you (and all 'posted' content on the icanbea... platform) is provided by our partner employers, educational establishments and charitable organisations and should be related to educational, training or employment events, opportunities and / or news.  If you have any concerns over any of the content on the icanbea... platform then please get in touch with us via our contact form or by emailing us at team@icanbea.org.uk or by calling us on 01379 650041.

• You can change the type of content (and therefor, alerts) delivered to your 'My Feed' page on the platform by changing your liked Industries, Sectors, Organisations, Job Roles and Posts on your 'My Page'.
  
  
• You can switch off email notifications from icanbea... by signing into your account and going to Explore > Account Settings > Notify by Email...
  
  
• You can switch off push notifications from the icanbea... app by adjusting the settings for the icanbea... on your mobile device.  Please refer to your device's instruction manual on how to enable or disable push notifications for apps on your mobile device.
  
  
• If you have any queries about emails, notifications, settings or content relating to the icanbea... platform then please get in touch with us via our contact form or by emailing us at team@icanbea.org.uk or by calling us on 01379 650041.

You may not use icanbea... to do any of the following:

• Impersonate another person or entity
• Threaten or harass any person or entity
• Hack or gain unauthorised access to the icanbea... server, network or hardware.
• Use the service in a way that could overload, damage, disable, disrupt or harm the icanbea.org.uk service or any other user of the service.
• Replicate or resell the icanbea Service in any way.

Business users

In addition to the standard user features (Students & Jobseekers) and options above, icanbea... allows you to post and make available company information, text, graphics, videos, or other material on your profile page. You are responsible for the content that is entered onto your profile page which must be appropriate for the intended user audience (young people aged 12-25)

The Mason Trust reserves the right to modify or reject any content that is deemed unsuitable.  This includes our right to delete posts or whole profile pages due to unsuitability or lack of contact or engagement.  (This may be done without further notice or confirmation, if we are unable to contact you or we deem that your use of the service has lapsed or the content you are presenting appears to be significantly out of date )

Be aware that your organisation / company profile page on icanbea... may appear in general Internet search results.  (The pages are available to be indexed by search engines)

You may not use icanbea... to do any of the following:

• Advertise commercial products or services
• Expose users to material that is obscene, unlawful, hateful, racially offensive, harmful to minors, sexist, defamatory or in any way encourages criminal behaviour.
• Post any material containing viruses, Trojans or anything else that is harmful or destructive.
• Infringe on any other user’s or third parties IP (intellectual property) rights
• Impersonate another person or entity
• Collect or store personal data from other users other than normal data required during the normal course of using the service.
• Threaten or harass any person or entity
• Hack or gain unauthorised access to the icanbea... server, network or hardware.
• Use the service in a way that could overload, damage, disable, disrupt or harm the icanbea.org.uk service or any other user of the service.
• Replicate or resell the icanbea Service in any way.

You agree to only provide content or information that does not violate the law or anyone’s rights (e.g., without violating any intellectual property rights or breaching a contract).

You also agree that your profile information will be accurate and truthful. Icanbea may be required by law to remove certain information or content in certain countries.

icanbea... accepts no responsibility or liability for any communications and/or content published, shared or transmitted by means of this Service. You acknowledge and agree that you remain solely responsible and liable for the communications and content that you share or transmit using the icanbea... service.

You own the content and information that you submit or post to your profile page, by accepting these terms you are granting icanbea... licence to use, copy, modify, distribute and process information that you provide through our service without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others.

The licence is limited in the following ways:

• You can remove content by deleting it from the post or your profile page
• Your content will not be used in relation to competitors or to promote services of others without your separate consent.
• We may edit and make formatting changes to your content (such as translating it, modifying the size, layout or file type or removing metadata), we will not modify the meaning of your expression.
• We will get your permission if we want to give others the right to publish your posts beyond the service. However, other users or visitors may access and share your content and information
• Because you own your content and information and we only have non-exclusive rights to it, you may choose to make it available to others, including under the terms of a Creative Commons license.
• You agree that we may access, store and use any information that you provide in accordance with the terms of the Privacy Policy and your privacy settings.
• You agree that we may post items to your profile on your behalf to highlight other publicly available information you have published to websites or social media, in relation to news, opportunities or events that may be beneficial to young people and unless you have specifically requested that we do not do so.

Links to other websites

icanbea.org.uk may contain links to third party web sites or services that are not owned or controlled by The Mason Trust. The Mason Trust has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that The Mason Trust is not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services.

Copyright

All copyright is held by The Mason Trust and is intended for personal non-commercial use. You may not copy or distribute any of the content on this site for commercial gain. Using the content in other products without consent will be considered a breach of our copyright and may result in legal action.

User Registration

• Only one registration per person is allowed.
• You must provide an email address where you have frequent access to enable us to contact you if required.
• You must not disclose your password to anyone else.
• You are responsible for your own user profile page and must not allow anyone else to use your page.
• You must not impersonate another person.
• You must not use anyone else’s user profile.
• We reserve the right to remove user accounts and information from this free service at any time and for any reason.  However, we will normally only remove accounts when:
  • ..there is a benefit to you or your privacy (For example, we will normally delete standard user accounts that have not logged in for two years) 
  • ..it is necessary or beneficial to us for essential system maintenance (However, we would not normally remove user accounts that have been accessed within two years, if we could help it)

Your personal Information

We will use your personal information in accordance with our privacy policy which forms part of this agreement, please see our Privacy Policy for further information.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 2018. If you would like a copy please contact us at team@icanbea.org.uk - a small fee will be payable.

Information on this site

All information on this website is for information purposes only, we will endeavor to keep the information up to date and correct but give no warranties of any kind in relation to the site or its content. You should use your own judgement and check information before acting on the basis of text, videos or images represented on this website.

The Mason Trust is not liable for any action you make take as result of relying on the information on this site.

The Mason Trust is under no obligation to notify any person of any errors in the content, however if you feel that something on this website is not factually correct or is out of date, please contact us at team@icanbea.org.uk

Images & Videos

All images on this site are sourced legitimately, either from Free Stock Image libraries or have been purchased under specific license for use on the site from commercial stock.

Videos accessed in icanbea... are hosted via existing video and social media platforms such as YouTube and may contain adverts.  Whether or not you see adverts on video content will depend on the channel and video platform that hosts the video.  Any advertising is not associated with or endorsed by either icanbea... or the Mason Trust. 

User Accounts

Suspending or Terminating a User (including business users)

We may decide to suspend, terminate or prevent registration if you have breached or will breach these terms of use.

If you are suspended or terminated from using the icanbea website, you must not attempt to re- register or post content (using someone else’s details) without our permission.

Changes to the Terms of Use

These terms of use will be updated and amended from time to time and may be changed without prior notice. By using or continuing to use the Icanbea website you agree to check the Terms of Use periodically for any changes.

Contacting us

We welcome any queries, comments or requests you may have regarding this policy please do not hesitate to contact us at team@icanbea.org.uk
If you would prefer to write to us then our contact address is The Mason Trust, St Michaels House, 40 Sawmills Road, Diss. IP22 4DA.

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Privacy Policy

icanbea.org.uk is a website owned and operated by the Mason Trust (registered charity number: 1123203)
This privacy policy sets out how icanbea.org.uk uses and protects your information when using the site.

icanbea is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected, if we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

What we collect

Main site and accounts

We may collect the following information:

• Name
• Email address
• Age range
• Demographic information such as postcode, hobbies, interests, name of school/college (if applicable)
• Basic details about the device you are using to access the service

We require the information to enable us to understand your interests and provide you with a better service.

We may also use the information to:

• Send promotional emails
• Send opportunity alerts (job vacancies, apprenticeships, training opportunities, news, events etc.)
• Improve or maintain the service we offer to you

Our CV Wizard

Our CV Wizard is an optional tool for you to create and maintain CV documents.  You can submit the personal information that you want, in order to build a CV.

This may include typical CV information, such as:

• Name
• Address
• Telephone Number
• Email address
• Qualifications
• Work and Education History

The system uses your personal information solely in the capacity of allowing you to create CVs and you may create and delete both a) specific pieces of CV information and b) whole CVs themselves.

Whilst the system stores this information to enable your use of the tool, we do not have direct or administrative access to your CVs nor the component information that makes them up.  We also do not currently report on any component CV data, and simply record whether a user has a CV builder account and whether or not they have made a CV. 

If we explore features in the future that change these facts, they will be presented here and within the CV Wizard itself, along with the appropriate consent decision for the user.  Any component CV data that might be reported on in the future would be anonymised and any features that allowed you to share your CV with employer users of this site (for example) would be explicitly stated within the tool with consent options.  None of the potential features / uses of data in this paragraph are currently in place. 

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure, and have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure information collected online.

Disclosing your information

Where applicable, and to help us maintain the platform and our service to you, we may disclose some your account or personal information in certain circumstances:

• To any member of our group, this includes, where applicable, our subsidiaries and only if appropriate in order for us to maintain our services to you or where it helps to maintain the services and security of this website
• We may also disclose your personal information to third parties who are directly involved in the icanbea project - again, if appropriate in order for us to maintain our services to you or where it helps to maintain the services and security of this website

We will not disclose any personally identifying information that you enter into our CV Wizard without:

• your explicit consent and in order to offer you additional services. (Additional CV related services are not currently present)
• automatically anonymising component data from your CVs if we need it for reporting purposes.  We would state this in the tool itself, if it became the case.  (This type of reporting is not currently present)

Wherever possible and as general practice, we will normally remove any personally identifying elements of your personal information if we need to disclose other elements of it, for any of the reasons above, except in rare and specific circumstances.

Where we are legally required to disclose your information we would do so. 

Data centres, servers and security

All services provided by our appointed developer are hosted on secure Linux servers.  Both the data and the technological 'stack' is based in European facilities, with data centers in London (UK), Frankfurt (Germany) and Krakow (Poland). They have implemented multiple layers of protection, including CloudFlare, Firewalls on routers/servers and antiviruses, to guard against various threats. Access to the servers is limited to trained personnel only, ensuring the utmost security and confidentiality of user data.

Our developer is registered in the UK and operates from the UK and Poland.  They effectively adhere to both the Data Protection Act 2018 (The UK’s implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the UK, simultaneously with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Poland.

How we use cookies

This website uses cookies to better users' experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer / device.

Details of your visits to our website and the resources that you access including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblog statistics and other communication data.

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information [http://www.google.com/privacy.html].

Other cookies may be stored to your computer’s hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites)

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.