Privacy Policy

This policy explains what personal data we collect, why, and what your rights are.

1. Who we are

Health Job Scout (healthjobscout.com) emails NHS and health job alerts to doctors and other health staff in the UK. Health Job Scout is the trading name of the service provider, which is the controller of your data. Contact us at [email protected].

2. What we collect and why

• Account details: your name, email address and password, so you can sign in.
• Alert preferences: the regions and roles you choose, and any referral code, so we can send you matching jobs.
• Plan and payment records: your plan, trial and payment dates, so we can run your subscription. We do not hold your card or bank details.
• Alert history: which jobs we have sent you, so you do not get the same job twice.
• Messages and testimonials: anything you send us. If you give a testimonial, we show your name and quote on our site.
• Technical data: your IP address and basic visit details, to keep the site working and secure.
• Clinical attachment and ALS course contacts: work email addresses of NHS hospital departments and course organisers, taken from lists that are already public. We show them only to signed-in members and never on the public site.
• Audit toolkit requests: your specialty, where you plan to do the audit, your hospital name, any topic idea or note you write, the topics we offer you, the topic you choose and your payment status. We use this to build your toolkit and to avoid giving the same audit to another doctor at your hospital. Your toolkit files are kept in a private store that only you can download from. To have this information deleted, email [email protected].

3. Our lawful bases

• Contract: to run your account, alerts and plan.
• Legitimate interests: to keep the service secure and working well, and to help doctors reach the departments and course centres that already publish their contact details for enquiries.
• Legal obligation: to keep payment records for accounts.
• Consent: to publish your testimonial. You can withdraw it at any time.

4. Who we share data with

We use trusted service providers who help us host the website, send emails, store data and let you sign in. They only handle your data on our instructions and under contract. We do not sell your data. We may share data if the law requires it.

Some providers may process data outside the UK. When they do, appropriate safeguards are in place.

5. Cookies and storage

We only use storage the site needs, to keep you signed in and remember your choices while you sign up. We do not use advertising cookies.

6. How long we keep data

We keep your data while you use the service and for up to 2 years after you leave or are removed. We keep payment records for 6 years, as required for accounts.

If you ask us to delete your data, copies we keep only to guard against data loss are removed automatically within 60 days.

7. Security

We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your data. Access is limited to people who need it to run the service.

8. Your rights

You can ask us to give you a copy of your data, correct it, delete it, limit or object to how we use it, or send it to you in a portable format. You can also withdraw consent at any time. Email [email protected] and we will reply within one month.

To stop alerts, use the Unsubscribe link in any alert email.

If your address is in our attachment or course contacts and you would like it removed, email [email protected] and we will take it off promptly.

9. Changes

We may update this policy. We will change the date at the top and tell subscribers about important changes by email.

10. Contact

Email [email protected].