Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Skills Cafe knows that your privacy is important to you and takes user privacy very seriously. We are committed to protecting your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Last updated on 23 July 2020

This Privacy Policy applies to the website(s) provided by Skills Cafe a company headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, who act as data controllers with respect to the personal data you share with Skills Cafe under this Policy.

The Sites include www.skills.cafe , www.skillscafelive.com , www.flogames.com and additional websites or mobile applications produced and managed by Skills Cafe.

Skills Cafe knows that your privacy is important to you and takes user privacy very seriously. We are committed to protecting your personal data (i.e. any information you provide to us from which you can be identified) in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Skills Cafe reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to alter and update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We therefore invite you to review the current version of the Privacy Policy each time you return to our Sites.

Some terms are defined throughout this Policy. Simply hover over the terms in bold to obtain their definition.

Information we collect and how we use it:

Skills Café might collect personal data from you such as your name, contact details, occupation, company, industry, region/country, reason for contacting Skills Café, topics you are interested in and any other information you choose to share. By browsing our Sites or sending us information, you explicitly consent to Skills Café processing your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Skills Café might use your personal data to fulfil your request, send you marketing communications, process your job application or manage your membership of the Skills Café Alumni network.

Skills Café collects personal data from you when you request information from Skills Café and/or supply, information through the Sites, such as when you fill out a subscription form or set up a demo inquiry, opt in to receive emails from Skills Café, agree to participate in surveys, join our Alumni network or apply for a role at Skills Café.

Personal data we collect might include your name, e-mail address, title, occupation, company or university affiliation, industry, region/country, relationship to Skills Café, reason for contacting Skills Café, topics you are interested in, any other background information provided with an application and any other information contained in messages you send us.

By browsing our Sites and submitting this information to us, you explicitly agree to Skills Café using your personal data for the purposes and in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. Please do not send us any information you do not wish Skills Café to use.

Skills Café will use your personal data to fulfil your request, provide you with the information you requested and/or send you marketing communications. If you have applied for a job at Skills Café, your data will be processed for the purposes of evaluating and processing your application and candidacy for the position to which you have applied. We may also use your information to analyze and improve our recruiting and onboarding processes as well as to communicate with you about Skills Café events and to send you publications that we think may be of interest to you.

Skills Café may collect personal data and may disclose such information to third party service providers in aggregate for marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to personally identify you.

You do not have to provide us with any personal data. However, if you do not, we may be unable to handle your request or to provide you with the services you are requesting.

Skills Café will keep your personal data for as long as needed to handle your request or for as long as we have a relationship with you. If you have applied for a role with Skills Café, Skills Café will keep your personal data associated with your application for a period of up to five years.

Please note that Skills Café is not responsible for any information you may disclose publicly in any chat rooms, message boards, or similar web pages, including those hosted on or linked to our Sites. You should keep in mind that, whenever you publicly disclose information about yourself online (for example, via message boards or chat rooms), such information could be collected and used by people whom you do not know. In addition, certain message boards and similar user forums may display IP addresses along with the message poster’s name and message. Skills Café bears no responsibility for any action or policies of any third parties who collect any information users may disclose on the message boards, chat areas or other user forums, if any, on the Sites.

Use of cookies on the Sites

Our Sites may use cookies or other technology to obtain certain types of information about you. You can disable or delete cookies by going to the Help section of your browser but certain functionalities of our Sites might not work properly if you do so.

We may use cookies or other technology (“cookies”) to obtain certain types of information when you browse our Sites. “Cookies” are small text files that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies can be placed on your computer directly by one of our Sites (first party cookies) or by another website (third party cookies).

We may use cookies to keep track of your visit to our Sites, speed up navigation and improve your experience of the site, (for instance by remembering some of your preferences or choices, the last pages you visited or searches you carried out or by keeping you logged in).

Our Sites may use cookies such as Google Analytics to carry out some analytics on and enhance our Sites. These cookies help us understand, for example, how you use our Sites, which pages are the most visited or where people visiting our Sites are located.

We may also use cookies to enable you to share content on networking or social media sites or for marketing and promotional purposes where you have subscribed to our marketing communications from Skills Café.

The “help” section of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive new cookies, and how to disable or delete cookies altogether.

If you choose to disable cookies, certain functionalities of our Sites might not work.

Who we share your personal data with

We may share your personal data with other companies of the Skills Café group as well as with other third parties that might be located in a different country than your country of residence. Skills Café will not share or sell your data to any third party for their own use.

We may share your personal data with others, such as:

Other offices in the Skills Café group – for a complete list of our offices, please refer to the Contact Page of the skills.Café website;
Carefully selected third party service providers, such as marketing service providers (if you have subscribed to our marketing communications), IT systems providers, recruitment service providers, background check providers, data cleansing providers or event organizers, so they can provide services to Skills Café;
Our advisors;
And law enforcement authorities or other government bodies when we are required to do so.
Third parties, other than law enforcement authorities or government bodies, will only handle your personal data on behalf of Skills Café for the purposes described in this Policy. Skills Café will not sell or otherwise share your personal data with such third parties for their own use.

The companies of the Skills Café group and other third parties we share your information with may be located in other countries, including countries that do not offer the same protection to your personal data as the country in which you reside. Where that is the case, Skills Café ensures that your personal data is protected by using appropriate legal mechanisms.

Links to other websites

Our Sites may contain links to third party websites that are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. Skills Café does not bear any liability and responsibility for the content or your use of these websites.

The Sites may contain links to third party websites, including social network sites. Such websites are governed by their own terms of use and privacy policies, which you should review before browsing or submitting information to them. Skills Café is not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites. In addition, a link to a third party website does not mean that Skills Café endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content or the use of such web site. Skills Café shall not bear any liability and responsibility for such content or for your use of these websites.

Security of your personal data

Skills Café has implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction.

Skills Café has implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Such measures include class=”label” anonymizing or class=”label”;pseudonymizing data where possible. Authorized Skills Café personnel and third parties mentioned above will only have access to your personal data to the extent they need it to do their job or provide their services. Despite these precautions, however, Skills Café cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your information.

Your Rights

Depending on where you reside you might have the right to request access to, rectification or erasure of your personal data and to object to or ask for the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You might also have the right to withdraw your consent and request that we stop processing or delete your personal data.

Depending on where you reside, you may be entitled to certain rights regarding the personal data Skills Café holds about you. For instance, you may have the right to request access to your information, obtain a copy of it as well as information about how we use it. You have the right to request that we correct incorrect, inaccurate or out-of-date information about you. You may also have the right to request that we stop processing your information and/or withdraw your consent to such processing and to ask us to delete your information.

If you receive marketing communications from Skills Café, you can opt out of receiving future emails from Skills Café or unsubscribe from participating in our programs through the “preferences” page, which is accessible in every marketing email you receive from Skills Café.

If you wish to make a request about your personal data, other than your Alumni or consultant application data, please contact us at hello@skills.café. Please note that we will take reasonable steps to check your identity before handling your request.

If you think we are handling your information unlawfully, we encourage you to get in touch with us at hello@skills.café. You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority.

Job Applicants

If you apply for a job at Skills Café, you will be asked to submit information to Skills Café such as your name, contact details, information about your education and work history and any other background information that might be relevant for your application or that you choose to share with Skills Café. If you do not provide this information to us, we might not be able to process your application.

Skills Café will use this information to assess your application and candidacy for the position to which you have applied. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this may include: (i) evaluating your skills and experience in relation to the qualification required for the job to which you have applied; and (ii) tracking feedback and interactions we have with you throughout the recruiting process. We may also use your information when analyzing our internal recruiting processes to determine (i) which recruit sources to focus on; (ii) how to improve integration and training programs for new hires with different educational backgrounds and work experience; and (iii) how to enhance our interview model to improve hiring quality. The information you provide may also be used to communicate with you about Skills Café events and to send you publications that we think may be of interest to you.

We might share your personal data with other companies in the Skills Café group as well as with third parties such as recruitment service providers, background check providers and IT system providers. These Skills Café companies and third parties might be located in a different country than your country of residence. In particular, if you apply for a role, your data will be stored in a third party database hosted in India.

We will keep your application data for up to five years. If you no longer wish for Skills Café to process your data or if you wish to exercise your rights, please contact hello@skills.cafe if you applied for a corporate role.

Alumni

If you join the Skills Café Alumni network, Skills Café will collect information about you such as your name, email, home address, previous positions, job title, company you work for and business address. Your data will be processed for purposes including conducting alumni mailings and surveys as well as maintaining and sharing marketing and career development contacts.

We might share your data with other companies of the Skills Café group and carefully selected third party service providers. Some of your information will also be visible to other members of the Alumni network although you can choose to make some information private.

If you no longer wish for Skills Café to process your data or if you wish to exercise your rights, please contact hello@skills.Cafe.

Children

Our Sites are not directed at children 16 years of age or younger. Skills Café, therefore, will not intentionally collect information about anyone under the age of 16, and requests that no such information be submitted to us.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how Skills Café handles your personal data, please contact Skills Café ‘s Global Data Protection Officer:

Email:

hello@skills.Cafe
Post:

Skills Café (a brand of Transcendix Partners LLP). 8/2, Novel Office, Ulsoor Road Bangalore, 560043, India.