At whynotwork.com we make every effort to comply with our responsibility under the 1998 Data Protection Act. We also understand the  importance of maintaining the confidentiality of your CV and personal information that you may give us while using the site. The Privacy of  all Users of whynotwork.com will be protected to the best of our ability and all Personal Details supplied will only be used for their intended  purpose except when we are required by Law to reveal them.

 Except for the information about your computer described below under 'cookies', all the information we hold about you is provided by you.  You are responsible for it's accuracy. whynotwork.com cannot be held responsible for any events that may occure due inaccurate data  input by you.

 The registration details supplied by you are kept by us and used to provide you with the information you have requested. The CVs of all  Candidates registered with whynotwork.com will be stored on a Data Base for matching with existing and future vacancies.

 Your personal details and CV can be made available on-line for prospective employers to browse and download only after you have  applied for a specific role. Our clients, who pay for access to whynotwork.com site, may be statutory, voluntary or other organisations or  companies providing employment opportunities.

 IMPORTANT: It is the responsibility of the candidate to ensure that their personal details and CV are current. Your CV should be updated  regularly, particularly if you change your contact details. Once your profile and CV are on our database we will contact you in the event of  you not logging on after a set period using your most recent contact details to ask whether you want to remain an active candidate. If we do  not hear from you we will make your account inactive. You can reactive your account at any time by logging on and going to personal  details and ammending your status. You can remove your details and CV permanently from the site database by contacting us. Please  note that whynotwork.com will set aside from our database any CVs where we feel the content to be unpleasant, illegal or inappropriate.  whynotwork.com may also from time to time offer additional services/products, which may be of interest to you. This may require you to  provide additional personal information that could be shared with a partner of whynotwork.com e.g. for a contest/competition or a joint- promotion. In such circumstances WhyNotWork.com cannot accept responsibility for the security of the information received by the  partner.

 A cookie is a small piece of information stored on your computer by us which enables us to recognise your computer when you access the  whynotwork.com web site and also provides you with an expedient means of access. Cookies also protect the reliability of recorded user  names and passwords and limit access to services which are 'paid for'.