Privacy policy

Scoot Education and its affiliates and subsidiaries respects your privacy and we acknowledge that you have certain rights related to any personal information we collect from you and we have certain obligations in respect of the same. Scoot Education supports the various international and local privacy laws, and has procedures in place to meet the requirements of those laws. 

This Privacy Statement supports our privacy principles and informs you about our practices for gathering, storing, and using the personal information of individuals who use our website, apply for or use our employment or outsourcing services, and those who are representatives of our customers (including prospective customers), service providers, and suppliers. 

We encourage you to review this information so that you may understand how we collect, use, and share your personal information. 

Scoot Education is the controller responsible for managing general questions and applications. 

If we change anything important about this statement (the information we collect, how we use it, or why we use it) we will highlight those changes in the History section at the end of this Privacy Policy and provide a prominent link to it for a reasonable length of time following the change and prior to the change taking effect. 

If you have questions, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: 

E-mailhr@scoot.education 

U.S. Mail: Scoot Education, 5670 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036.

Information We Collect

Scoot Education collects, stores, and uses personal data to provide our recruiting, employment, outsourcing, and consulting services. We collect personal data about individuals who use our websites, apply for employment or engagement with us, or placement by us through our recruitment services, employees, and those who are representatives of our customers (including prospective customers). Scoot Education does not knowingly direct its services or obtain, sell, or share information from children under age 16.

Most of this data is provided by you directly when you contact us, submit an application, attend an in-person recruiting event, through phone conversations, contact us about our services, or during your outsourcing or employment relationship.

We also collect data about individuals who are employed or engaged by our customers in connection with our provision of outsourcing and consulting services to those customers.  This is generally obtained through our interactions with customers, suppliers, and service providers.

When you interact with a Scoot Education website or application, we collect data related to how you interact with that service by, for example, our use of cookies placed on your device.

We have set out further details below on the types of personal data we collect (and have collected in the prior 12 months), store, and use and the reasons we use your personal data. 

Why We Use Your Information

We will use your personal data where:

  • it is necessary for the performance of and compliance with your employment contract  or other applicable engagement contract with us or in order to take steps prior to entering into that contract or another contract with you;
  • we need to process your information in order to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation (for example, complying with duties under employment, social security, social protection, and tax legislation for example, complying with our obligations under equality legislation or in relation to statutory sickness or maternity rights);
  • exceptionally it is necessary for vital interests relating to you or another person (for example, avoiding serious risk of harm to you or others); or
  • it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) provided that our legitimate interests are not overridden by your interests or rights which require protection of your data.

We will use special categories of personal data where:

  • you have provided your explicit consent. Where this is the case, you always have the right to withdraw that consent; 
  • we need to do so to carry out our legal obligations (e.g. in the context of employment, social security and social protection law, or for a collective agreement) for example, complying with our obligations under equality legislation or in relation to statutory sickness or maternity rights;
  • it is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
  • it is necessary for the purposes of preventative or occupational medicine, for the assessment of your working capacity, medical diagnosis, or provision of health care (for example, in relation to Occupational Health referrals and reports);
  • where it is needed for reasons of substantial public interest, such as for equal opportunities monitoring;
  • exceptionally, where it is necessary for vital interests relating to you or another person (for example, avoiding serious risk of harm to you or others) and where you are not capable of giving consent; or
  • where you have already made the relevant personal information public.

We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Legitimate Interests

As mentioned above, we can, sometimes, use your personal information where this is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party). This includes where use of your personal information is necessary to:

  • ensure effective administration and management of your employment or engagement, benefits, management of the business, and business continuity;
  • ensure our assets are protected, kept confidential, and not used for inappropriate or unlawful purposes;
  • prevent, detect, or investigate unauthorized use of our systems, including our Website, and ensure we comply with law and our policies;
  • ensure we can contact you or your family in the case of an emergency;
  • check you are legally entitled to work, manage performance, discipline, and promotion processes;
  • manage training and development requirements; 
  • maintain product development and enhancement, along with effective marketing through analytics and profiling for business intelligence;
  • deal with disputes and accidents and take legal or other professional advice; 
  • comply with another country’s laws and regulations;
  • prevent fraud and financial crime; and
  • ensure network and information security.

If you would like further information on our legitimate interests as applied to your personal information, please contact our Data Protection Officer.

Failure To Provide Information When Required

When we are requesting information from you in order to employ or engage you, or in order to place or job-match you, if you do not provide the information that we have identified as required we may be unable to properly assist with your request for employment, placement, or job-matching.

Retaining Your Information

We will retain your personal information for as long as is necessary in connection with our agreement with you, to provide you with the services requested, for legitimate business reasons or for other necessary purposes such as compliance with a law, regulation, or other legal authority, or as is otherwise permitted to be maintained for other legal purposes, such as audit, security, fraud prevention, or preserving and defending Scoot Education’s legal rights. 

Additionally, job applicants and individuals whose assignment has ended will be maintained in Scoot Education’s talent pool to be potentially contacted about other employment opportunities for no more than ten years. Where applicable, Scoot Education will remove your information from the talent pool upon verified request.

Where Your Information May Be Shared

Scoot Education holds its employees, agents, and suppliers accountable for maintaining the trust that you place in us with your personal information.

For individuals, Scoot Education shares the data that is necessary to perform its staffing and outsourcing services with its customers, suppliers, or with service providers that may be engaged to assist in managing the processes required to provide these services.

Any engagement of a customer, supplier, or service provider will be governed by appropriate contractual requirements prohibiting the use of your information for any purposes beyond those specifically directed by Scoot Education, and requiring that they ensure sufficient administrative and technical security mechanisms are in place to prevent your information from being improperly used, disclosed, or accessed.

Your Rights and Choices

We respect your right to access and control your information. The amount of personal information you are required to supply when requesting our services is consistent with Scoot Education’s interests in providing our services to you. Scoot Education complies with applicable data protection laws and regulations.

We process personal data about you for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, including to provide recruitment, placement, employment or outsourcing services, operate our business, comply with our legal and contract obligations, and fulfill other legitimate interests of Scoot Education. The processing of contact, payroll, and benefit information is a contractual or statutory obligation, and failure to provide information to allow processing may restrict your ability to be employed by Scoot Education

You may have certain rights in relation to your personal data. The availability of these rights and the ways in which you can use them are set out below in more detail.

Scoot Education provides individuals with the ability to resolve complaints or make inquiries directly with the company by contacting hr@scoot.education or through other methods outlined in the section titled How to Contact Scoot Education.

Cookies

We record the number of visitors to the relevant sections of our website and track movement between the sections by means of “cookies.”

Cookies are small data files containing information placed on your computer and are automatically downloaded to your device in order to recognize you as someone that has visited our website previously. We use cookies that identify your browser or device. They collect and store information when you visit our website about how you use it.

Protecting Your Information

Scoot Education takes care to secure your personal information.

We regularly monitor industry standards for securing information and review our physical, technical, and organizational security practices in order to determine how best to prevent the loss, misuse, alteration, unauthorized access, destruction, or disclosure of your personal information.

Any personal data sent to us, either in writing or e-mail, may be insecure in transit and we cannot guarantee its delivery.

Passwords must be kept confidential and not disclosed to a third party. Scoot Education does not ask you for your password.

Other Privacy Rights

Under the laws of some jurisdictions, you may have the right to request additional information about the personal data we collect, request access to the personal data we process, correct an error or omission, delete personal data, or object or limit further processing.  Scoot Education adheres to applicable data protection laws, and will respect individual rights requests under those laws. 

Because processing your information is necessary to the performance of recruitment, placement, and employment, or outsourcing services that Scoot Education provides to you, a request to exercise certain rights may result in Scoot Education being unable to continue providing its services such as recruitment, placement, employment, or outsourcing services. Subject to applicable law, Scoot Education also may limit or deny requests or charge reasonable fees.

Direct Marketing

We may periodically use your contact information to send you updates via e-mail in order to alert you to opportunities or services relevant to your interactions with us, such as jobs in our database that match your selected criteria.

At the point where we request personal information about you, our site also gives you the opportunity to decide which communications you wish to receive. When your interactions with Scoot Education have resulted in your registration for multiple services or resources it may be necessary to opt out from each service separately.

You can opt-out of receiving direct marketing from us at any time. Each marketing communication will provide instructions on how to opt out of receiving similar e-mails from the registered service or resource. You can also opt-out by contacting the Data Protection Officer at hr@scoot.education.

Updates to this Privacy Policy

Scoot Education may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please review it frequently.

If we change our Privacy Policy we will post the revised version here and will describe the changes in the History section.

If we make significant changes to our Privacy Policy, we may also notify you by other means prior to the changes taking effect, such as, prominently posting a notice of such changes on our websites, providing notice of the change through our online portals, or by directly contacting you.

If you would like to access previous versions of this Privacy Policy contact the Data Protection Officer at hr@scoot.education.

How to Contact Scoot Education

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, would like to exercise any of your rights under applicable data protection law, or believe that Scoot Education has not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please e-mail our Data Protection Officer at hr@scoot.education. Additionally, individuals can contact Scoot Education in the U.S. at: Scoot Education, 5670 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036.

California Privacy Rights

For individuals located in California, Scoot Education is committed to your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, and wants to ensure your aware that, if applicable, you have the following rights:

  • Right of Access: For personal data Scoot Education has collected or maintained about you in the previous 12 months, You have the right to request access to  the categories of personal data we collected about you, the categories of sources from which the personal data was collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal data, the categories of third parties to whom Scoot Education disclosed personal data, and a copy of certain pieces of personal data we have collected or maintained. Please note that if your access request requires the disclosure of personal information of another individual, we won’t be able to comply with all of your access request. Similarly, if responding to your access request would cause us to violate any law, rule, regulation, or law enforcement request, Scoot Education would not be able to fulfill your request.
  • Right to Correct: You have the right to request that Scoot Education correct inaccurate personal information that is maintained about you.
  • Right of Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete personal data that we collected from you. However, we are not required to comply with your request if one of several exceptions apply, including circumstances where is necessary for us or our service provider to maintain your personal data in order to complete the transaction with you; internal use that is reasonably aligned with your expectations; compliance with a legal obligation; or other use your personal data internally that is compatible with the context in which you provided it.
  • Right to Opt-out: You have the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal data to third parties at any time. This means that once you exercise your right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, we are required to honor your request. Scoot Education does not sell or share personal information to third parties, as defined by California law.
  • Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Information: You have a right to request that Scoot Education restrict its use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information. However, Scoot Education does not use or disclose your sensitive personal information except for those purposes authorized by the CCPA.
  • Right not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights: You have the right to be free of discrimination for exercising your consumer privacy rights. We will not deny you goods or services, charge different amounts or provide a different quality level of goods or services for exercising your rights unless the difference is reasonably related to the value of your data.

Because processing your information is necessary to the performance of recruitment, placement, and employment or outsourcing services that we provide to you, a request to erase your information may result in Scoot Education being unable to continue providing its services such as recruitment, placement, employment, or outsourcing services. Subject to applicable law, Scoot Education may limit or deny requests or charge reasonable fees.

Exercising Your California Privacy Rights 

To exercise any of these CCPA rights, please use one of the following methods: 

  • Call 310.477.7707
  • E-mail our Data Protection Officer at hr@scoot.education
  • Written Correspondence to Scoot Education, 5670 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036.

Please note, Scoot Education may require additional information to confirm your identity before verifying the request. If we are unable to verify your identity, we may deny the request.