Gowork.uk (our website) is provided by GoWork.ES Sp. z o.o. with its registered address at Wirażowa 124 A street, 02-145 Warsaw, (‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’). We are the controller of personal data obtained via our website, meaning we are the organisation legally responsible for deciding how and for what purposes it is used.
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use and share any information relating to you (your personal data) in connection with your use of our website. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data and how to contact us or a relevant regulator in the event you have a complaint.
We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal data about you. When we do so we are subject to the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). We are also subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) in relation to goods and services we offer to individuals and our wider operations in the European Economic Area (EEA).
By browsing and/or using our website, or any services offered through it, you’re consenting to our processing of your personal data in accordance with this privacy policy.
Subject to applicable law, GoWork does not collect data from minors. GoWork website is not directed at minors.
This privacy policy relates to your use of our website only.
The personal data we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through our website. We will collect and use the following personal data about you: Full name Title E-mail Postal address Telephone number Fax number Banking information Username and password * IP address You must provide this personal data to be able to open an Account or use some of the Services. We collect and use this personal data for the purposes described in the section ‘How and why we use your personal data’ below.
Personal data will be collected, stored and processed and in accordance with our established rules and applicable law. Our rules regarding the processing of personal data are as follows:
Providing your personal data is voluntary, but necessary for using some of the Services offered on our website. We are unable to provide Services without your personal data. It is mandatory for us to collect personal data for billing purposes (including storage of accounting documents such as invoices).
We collect personal data from you: directly, via websites, mobile applications, e-mail and other interactive services. For example, registration as our customer or User, participation in promotional activities, publishing on our website or subscription to notifications. When you sign up to GoWork, we collect your data during registration in order to process your or your company's application and administer the Account. We collect information about your requests, which may include personal data, such as name and surname or your title, name of your company or organization, your contact details (e-mail address). You also have to choose a username and password during registration process. We will later collect other data as well when you use the Account. We may also collect information (from each visitor on our website) about the domain from which you visit us and the pages you access. This data is collected automatically when you use our services; and indirectly, for business purposes, which may include the provision of services to customers, the management of the Services, compliance with legal requirements and the marketing of our Services. When you visit our website, we receive information automatically about which pages you visit and which browser you use. This information is stored anonymously and allow us to improve ours services, use of our website, and to develop statistical information. In addition, we may use cookies for a purpose optimizing the services it provides to you, as described in the Cookies section below. We also collect personal data about you from public sources, including but not limited to others from public websites and databases, government sources and the media. In addition to using identifiable personal information for business purposes, we may also use personal data anonymized for statistical purposes. We may use your personal data to generate non-identifiable information of for statistical or summary purposes and we can use this information later (if it does not allow for identification of any person). Before processing personal data in accordance with applicable law, we obtain authorization from the relevant data protection supervisory authority. We may obtain personal information from third parties, including other GoWork companies that have obtained or collected information about you and have the right to transfer such personal data. We may enter into agreements with third parties that provide information to companies for the purpose of verifying or obtaining certain information about you. We may also use personal data received from third parties in accordance with terms agreed between GoWork and these third parties. We can also obtain your personal data from CCTV located in the offices of GoWork companies. Such video recordings will be stored for a maximum of 30 days.
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason, eg:
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your personal data, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. We will carry out an assessment when relying on legitimate interests, to balance our interests against your own. You can obtain details of this assessment by contacting us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
The table below explains what we use your personal data for and why.
| What we use your personal data for | Our reasons |
| Create and manage your account with us | For our legitimate interests, i.e. to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price and to perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract |
| Providing services to you | To perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract |
| Conducting checks to identify you and verify your identity or to help prevent and detect fraud against you or us | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
| To enforce legal rights or defend or undertake legal proceedings | Depending on the circumstances:
—to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations —in other cases, for our legitimate interests, ie to protect our business, interests and rights |
| Customise our website and its content to your particular preferences based on a record of your selected preferences or on your use of our website | Depending on the circumstances:
—your consent as gathered by the separate cookies tool on our website—see Cookies below —where we are not required to obtain your consent and do not do so, for our legitimate interests, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price If you have provided such a consent you may withdraw it at any time by changing the setting on the cookies tool (this will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn) |
| Retaining and evaluating information on your recent visits to our website and how you move around different sections of our website for analytics purposes to understand how people use our website so that we can make it more intuitive or to check our website is working as intended | Depending on the circumstances:
—your consent as gathered by the separate cookies tool on our website —see ‘Cookies below —where we are not required to obtain your consent and do not do so, for our legitimate interests, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price If you have provided such a consent you may withdraw it at any time by changing the setting on the cookies tool (this will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn) |
| Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or changes to the services or other important notices | Depending on the circumstances:
—to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations —in other cases, for our legitimate interests, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price |
| Protecting the security of systems and data used to provide the services | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
We may also use your personal data to ensure the security of systems and data to a standard that goes beyond our legal obligations, and in those cases our reasons are for our legitimate interests, ie to protect systems and data and to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for you and/or us |
| Statistical analysis to help us understand our customer base | For our legitimate interests, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price |
| Updating and enhancing customer records | Depending on the circumstances:
—to perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract —to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations —where neither of the above apply, for our legitimate interests, eg making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about existing orders and new products |
| Disclosures and other activities necessary to comply with legal and regulatory obligations that apply to our business, eg to record and demonstrate evidence of your consents where relevant | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
| Marketing our services to existing and former customers | For our legitimate interests, ie to promote our business to existing and former customers |
| To share your personal data with members of our group and third parties that will or may take control or ownership of some or all of our business (and professional advisors acting on our or their behalf) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency
In such cases information will be anonymised where possible and only shared where necessary |
Depending on the circumstances:
—to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations —in other cases, for our legitimate interests, ie to protect, realise or grow the value in our business and assets |
We routinely share personal data with agents, consultants, marketing providers and other service providers, including other GoWork companies, who may receive or access your information, including personal data and usage information in connection with the work they perform on our behalf. Our partners may participate in the processing of Personal Data to a limited extend, in particular entities that technically help to run our website efficiently (e.g. they support us in sending e-mails, and in the case of advertising activities - also in marketing campaigns).We may also share information about you when it is necessary to: follow the legal process; respond to requests from regulators or other authorities; enforce our contractual rights; protect our operations, rights, privacy, security or assets, as well as yours and third parties; allow us to use available remedies or limiting the damage that we may incur; and follow our business internal procedures. For example, to process your orders, meet your requests, provide customer service and improve our products. If you give your consent, we will share such information with our subsidiaries, affiliates, business partners and others associates. For example, within GoWork’s group of companies to improve GoWork’s services or with third parties in connection with negotiations regarding reorganization, mergers, sale, joint venture, transfer, assignment or other disposal of all or part of our business, assets (including in the event of bankruptcy or similar procedure). Where we use service providers, disclosure of personal data to these providers is necessary, for example, to provide you with our Services. We ensures that such providers protect personal data in accordance with this statement of privacy policy and in accordance with applicable law on data protection. These service providers may be based in countries other than your country where you live and may therefore be prohibited from using your personal data for purposes other than providing support. If the service provider based in a country other than your country of residence, we will provide you with the appropriate security measures to achieve legal and secure transmission of your personal data. We or the third parties mentioned above occasionally also share personal data with: our and their external auditors, eg in relation to the audit of our or their accounts, in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations our and their professional advisors (such as lawyers and other advisors), in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations law enforcement agencies, courts, tribunals and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations other parties that have or may acquire control or ownership of our business (and our or their professional advisers) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency—usually, information will be anonymised but this may not always be possible. The recipient of any of your personal data will be bound by confidentiality obligations
If you would like more information about who we share our data with and why, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
We will not keep your personal data for longer than we need it for the purpose for which it is used, unless a longer storage period is required or permitted by law or necessary to comply with legal obligations.
The EEA, UK and other countries outside the EEA and the UK have differing data protection laws, some of which may provide lower levels of protection of privacy. It is sometimes necessary for us to transfer your personal data to countries outside the UK and EEA. In those cases we will comply with applicable UK and EEA laws designed to ensure the privacy of your personal data. We will transfer your personal data to: our service providers located outside the UK in Poland. Under data protection laws, we can only transfer your personal data to a country outside the UK/EEA where: in the case of transfers subject to UK data protection law, the UK government has decided the particular country ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data (known as an ‘adequacy regulation’) further to Article 45 of the UK GDPR. A list of countries the UK currently has adequacy regulations in relation to is available here. in the case of transfers subject to EEA data protection laws, the European Commission has decided that the particular country ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data (known as an ‘adequacy decision’) further to Article 45 of the EU GDPR. A list of countries the European Commission has currently made adequacy decisions in relation to is available here. there are appropriate safeguards in place, together with enforceable rights and effective legal remedies for you, or * a specific exception applies under relevant data protection law Where we transfer your personal data outside the UK we do so on the basis of an adequacy regulation or (where this is not available) legally-approved standard data protection clauses recognised or issued further to Article 46(2) of the UK GDPR. In the event we cannot or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at any time we will not transfer your personal data outside the UK unless we can do so on the basis of an alternative mechanism or exception provided by UK data protection law and reflected in an update to this policy. Where we transfer your personal data outside the EEA we do so on the basis of an adequacy decision or (where this is not available) legally-approved standard data protection clauses issued further to Article 46(2) of the EU GDPR. In the event we cannot or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at any time we will not transfer your personal data outside the EEA unless we can do so on the basis of an alternative mechanism or exception provided by applicable data protection law and reflected in an update to this policy. Any changes to the destinations to which we send personal data or in the transfer mechanisms we rely on to transfer personal data internationally will be notified to you in accordance with the section on ‘Changes to this privacy policy’ below.
More details about the countries outside the UK to which your personal data is transferred are set out in the table below.
| Recipient country | Recipient | Processing operation (use) by recipient | Lawful safeguard |
| Poland | GoWork.ES Sp. z o.o. Wirażowa 124 A street, 02-145 Warsaw KRS 0000907124
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Web and data hosting services, access to paid and unpaid services offered by the website www.gowork.uk | Adequacy regulation further to paragraph 5(1)(a) of Part 3 of Schedule 21 to the Data Protection Act 2018 |
If you would like further information about data transferred outside the UK/EEA, please contact us our Data Protection Officer (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
We reserve the right to use on Users’ devices "cookies" to facilitate the navigation and proper operation of our website. A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (eg computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These help us to recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
Cookies can also include the identification data of the end devices that will only be used for statistical and security purposes. Cookies do not contain any information related to personal data. If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of the Services or our website. In addition, there are some essential cookies that cannot be turned off.
This cookie policy supplements the Privacy policy. We use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies to (i) remember data logging information, (ii) improve the comfort of use, (iii) collect statistics for optimizing website functionality and (iv) deliver content tailored to yours interests.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
| Name of cookie | Type of cookie | Duration | Description |
| PHPSESSID | session | ~ | Stores the session ID. Allows you to work with the application. It is necessary in order to: check that the visitor is not an automatic script; communice with the server; storing information about being logged in to the website. |
| _ga | permanent | 24 months | Cookie used by Google Analytics – in order to collect aggregated statistical data about website users |
| _gat | permanent | 10 minutes | -//- |
| _gid | permanent | 24 hours | -//- |
| G_AUTHUSER_H | session | ~ | -//- |
| rc::a | necessary | permanent | Recaptcha.net |
| rc::c | necessary | End of the session | -//- |
| __cfduid | necessary | permanent | Cloudfare |
| YSC | third-party | Session | ID de cliente de Google Analytics |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | third-party | 179 days | -//- |
| yt.innertube:::nextld | third-party | undefined | -//- |
| yt.innertube::requests | third-party | undefined | -//- |
| ads/ga-audiences | third-party | undefined | This Cookie is used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites. By accepting its use, you consent to the tracking of your activity on third-party websites, as well as the profiling of information obtained in this way in order to optimize the commercial offer, including the display of personalized advertisements. |
Cookies placed on the User's end device may also be used by our website operator, advertisers and partners. Some cookies are generated based on activities performed by the User in order to provide information about the fact that this activity was performed. Our partners may place cookies in our domain for the purposes of collecting aggregated or statistical data about our website’s Users.
We reserve the right to provide cookies generated for business partners collecting recurring information about our website’s traffic and the purpose of downloading statistics about visits to various subpages of gowork.uk, such as opinions about employers.
Your Choice
You can decline all cookies (except the essential ones) if you prefer not to receive them and your computer warns you when cookies are used. You can delete cookies that are already in place on your computer and you can set your browser to prevent them from being placed. Please note that the settings on your computer to decline a cookie may limit the functionality of the Website and may prevent you from accessing certain functions of the Website’s. You have to adjust browser settings to disable cookies or receive warning each time cookies are used. You can adjust your browser settings to delete some cookies. Please visit your browser's "help" section for details how to manage your cookie settings:
Most browsers accept cookies by default. Now you can decide to block these cookies or ask your browser to notify you every time a site tries to install a cookie on your device. Please use your computer's help menu to adjust cookies to your preferences.
How to configure privacy settings on smartphone / tablet?
You can decide to change the privacy settings of your smartphone / tablet. To configure the confidentiality parameters please follow the instructions:
Social media functions
We offer social media features that make it possible to share information and interact with GoWork on different networks. Using these features may result in the collection of or sharing information about you. We encourage you to read the privacy policy and media site settings of these networks to make sure that you understand what information these websites may collect, use and share. You can turn off these features at any time.
We strive to comply with legal requirements and use reasonable measures to prevent loss, theft, abuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, modification and destruction of the information we hold about you. We will notify you if it becomes aware of a security breach concerning your personal data (in accordance with applicable law) stored by us or in our name. You expressly consent to receive notifications by email in the event of such a security breach, except in cases prohibited by applicable law.
You generally have the following rights, which you can usually exercise free of charge:
| Access to a copy of your personal data | The right to be provided with a copy of your personal data |
| Correction (also known as rectification) | The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data |
| Erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten) | The right to require us to delete your personal data—in certain situations |
| Restriction of use | The right to require us to restrict use of your personal data in certain circumstances, eg if you contest the accuracy of the data |
| Data portability | The right to receive the personal data you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in certain situations |
| To object to use | The right to object:
—at any time to your personal data being used for direct marketing (including profiling) —in certain other situations to our continued use of your personal data, eg where we use your personal data for our legitimate interests unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing to continue or the processing is required for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claim |
| Not to be subject to decisions without human involvement | The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you
We do not make any such decisions based on data collected by our website |
| The right to withdraw consents | If you have provided us with a consent to use your personal data you have a right to withdraw that consent easily at any time
Withdrawing a consent will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn |
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they do and do not apply, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below). You may also find it helpful to refer to the guidance from the UK’s Information Commissioner on your rights under the UK GDPR.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please email, call or write to us—see below: ‘How to contact us’. When contacting us please:
We will use a self-assessment system to verify compliance with this privacy statement by checking periodically that it is correct and complete with regard to the information to which it relates. If you believe that your personal data has been processed or disclosed with in violation of this privacy statement, email, call or write to us—see below: ‘How to contact us’
Please contact us if you have any queries or concerns about our use of your personal data (see below ‘How to contact us’). We hope we will be able to resolve any issues you may have.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with:
The UK’s Information Commissioner may be contacted using the details at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or by telephone: 0303 123 1113.
We may supplement this privacy statement with additional information regarding the specific interaction you have with us. We may amend this privacy statement from time to time in the future in our sole discretion to reflect changes to our business practices. If we change this privacy statement policy, we will notify you by posting an updated version on the website 30 days prior to its effective date, unless a change is made reasonable. Any such notification will contain a notice that changes to this privacy statement will enter into force if you do not object to them within 30 days.
You can contact us and/or our Data Protection Officer by post, email or telephone if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, to exercise a right under data protection law or to make a complaint.
Our contact details are shown below:
| Our contact details | Data Protection Officer’s contact details |
| GoWork.ES Sp. z o.o. ul. Wirażowa 124 A 02-145 Warsaw |
Mr. Sebastian Zasada |