This privacy and cookies notice applies to the processing of personal data by Sky UK Limited (“Sky”), Sky Ireland Limited, Sky Subscriber Services Limited, Sky CP Limited, Sky Retail Stores Limited, Sky in Home Service Limited that you provide when you sign up to the Preparation Hub. This includes information we collect and store via cookies.
We will collect data directly from you when you communicate with us and sign up to the Preparation Hub (including your name, email address, and any other information you choose to include). You will be asked to share diversity data such as gender, sexual orientation, marital status, ethnic origin, age, religion and disability. The disclosure of this information is completely voluntary, you can withdraw your consent at any time.
We will also collect technical information such as IP address, MAC address, unique identification number, online identifier, browser information, location data port information, logical network address, and other similar identifying information required for your devices to communicate with websites and applications on the internet.
Sky and GTI Recruiting Solutions (“the Sky Recruitment Team”) will use the data provided for reporting purposes to monitor the number of unique users of the Preparation Hub. Your name and email address may be used to track the conversion to hire, but will not contribute towards any future application to one of our Early Careers programmes.
We may also use your information, including voluntary equality information, for reporting purposes; to ensure our selection processes are fair and free from bias and to view our progress to becoming a diverse workforce.
If you give consent to marketing, you agree to be contacted about relevant Early Careers programmes and events.
Your application and any other information that you provide to us may be shared with The Sky Recruitment Team and held either:
(1) by Sky on systems operated on behalf of Sky by (Oracle) Taleo Corporation, Workday Inc., Avature Limited, Cappfinity Limited, LaunchPad Recruits Limited;
(2) by our recruitment partner GTI Recruiting Solutions on systems operated on their behalf by Avature Limited and GTI Recruiting Solutions;
This data will be stored in Europe, USA and other countries outside of Europe. These international data transfers are required to take place on the basis of approved data transfers mechanisms which are the Standard Contractual Clauses and Adequacy Decisions. You can find out more by clicking on the relevant link.
You have the following rights in relation to the data we hold about you:
You may update, correct or modify the information you have submitted on the system at any time either by logging back into the online portal or by contacting us using the details below.
All data held by Sky will be processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 meaning that the data will only be retained for the purposes for which it was originally collected.
You can contact us using the details below if you wish to find out more about how to exercise your subject rights.
If you wish to make a complaint about how we use your information, please contact us at the below email addresses we will do our best to help. If you are still unhappy, you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office via their website or the Irish Data Protection Commissioner via their website.
If you have any queries or comments about this privacy and cookies notice, please write to PeopleServices@sky.uk or contact Sky’s Data Protection Office via email on dp.department@sky.uk or mail to Data Protection Department, Sky UK Limited, Grant Way, Isleworth, TW7 5QD
We will occasionally update our privacy and cookies notice. We will post a notice of any material changes on our website prior to implementing the changes, and, where appropriate, notify you using any of the contact details we hold for you for this purpose. We encourage you to periodically review our notice to be informed of how we use your information.
This privacy and cookies notice was last updated on 24th August 2023.
When you create or log in to an online account, you agree to a cookie banner which provides a link to the Privacy and Cookies notice. Otherwise, by continuing to use our websites, content, products or services, you agree to the use of cookies as described in this notice.
You should be aware that when you access or use our content, products and services, we may collect information from the devices you use to receive Sky content, products and services by using 'cookies'. We also collect such information from third party websites, mobile sites and from apps where we show our own adverts, using cookies and related ad technology.
If you'd like to learn how to manage these cookies and choose whether or not to receive information of different types, please see the section "Controlling My Cookies" below.
Cookies are small bits of text that are downloaded via the internet to the devices you use to receive Sky content, products and services and access online information. Your browser on your device makes these cookies available every time you visit the website again, so it can recognise you and can then tailor what you see on your device.
Cookies are an important part of the internet. They make using devices and accessing online information much smoother and affect lots of the useful features of websites. There are many different uses for cookies, but they fall into four main groups:
Some cookies are essential to help your devices download or stream the information, or so you can move around websites and use their features. Without these cookies, content, products or services you've asked for can't be provided.
Here are some examples of essential cookies:
Cookies allow the application or website to remember choices you make, such as your language or region, and they provide improved features.
Here are a few examples of some of the ways that cookies are used to improve your experience on our applications and websites:
We like to keep track of what websites, information and links are popular and which ones don't get used so much, to help us keep our information relevant and up to date. It's also very useful to be able to identify trends of how people navigate (find their way through) our information and when and where 'error messages' may originate.
This group of cookies, often called 'analytics cookies', are used to gather this information. The information collected is grouped with the information from everyone else’s cookies. We can then see the overall patterns of usage rather than any one person’s activity. Analytics cookies are used to improve how an application, a website and its pages work.
Our applications, web locations, websites and communications you get from us contain small invisible images known as 'web beacons' or ' pixels'. These are used to manage the interaction between you and the online information or email and allow us to assess the effectiveness of the communication.
We use 'affiliate' cookies. Some of our web based information will contain promotional links to other companies’ sites. If you follow one of these links and then register with or buy something from that other site, a cookie is used to tell the other site that you came from one of our sites. That other site may then pay us a small amount for the successful referral. For more information, see the Internet Advertising Bureau's guide about how affiliate marketing works. Note that when you visit those other companies’ sites, they will have their own privacy notices which set out what personal data they collect and how they will use it.
We sell space on Sky News and Sky Sports websites, mobile sites and apps to advertisers. The resulting advertisements often contain cookies and related technology that is placed by trusted third party partners who use the browsing information collected from these cookies to:
Please select Privacy options in the footer of the Sky Sports or Sky News websites to manage your marketing preferences in relation to these third-party advertising platforms and to understand more about how these third-party advertisers may use your data. The details of the third-party advertisers are available here
Sometimes our websites contain advertisements for our own Sky products. These advertisements use cookies in the same way as described above. We may also use cookies and related technology on third party websites, mobile sites and apps to show you OBA ads based on data collected by those cookies.
If you want to know about data collected by third parties when you click on their adverts, you should check their privacy notices to find out what they collect, how they process it and what they use it for.
It’s easy to choose not to receive behavioural advertising and manage your cookies, if you want to.
Virtually all modern browsers allow you to see what cookies you've got, and to clear them individually or clear all of them. To find out how to do this, go to boutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of desktop browsers.
For the Sky News and Sky Sports websites and apps you indicate your preferences when you initially access the websites or app on your device. You can change your permissions at any time regarding your preferences in relation to third party advertising by selecting the Privacy options link that appears at the bottom of the website page.
In addition to the controls available on your computer, there are other ways of choosing not to receive Online Behavioural Advertising and other tracking cookies.
Please note that most of these choices work by setting a cookie that overrides the behavioural advertising cookie. If you clear all your cookies, you will also clear these opt-out cookies, therefore changing your preferences. In this instance you would need to choose again.