Welcome to Skill Sikhlo. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our blog and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
1. Important Information
1.1 Purpose of This Privacy Policy
This privacy policy aims to provide you with information on how Skill Sikhlo collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide when you sign up for our newsletter, leave a comment, or fill out a contact form.
1.2 Controller
Skill Sikhlo is the controller and responsible for your personal data (referred to as "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy policy). If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us at hello@skillsikhlo.com.
1.3 Changes to the Privacy Policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on the date stated at the top of this page. Historic versions can be obtained by contacting us.
2. The Data We Collect About You
Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data includes first name, last name, and username.
- Contact Data includes email address.
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). We also do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.
3. How We Collect Your Personal Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
3.1 Direct interactions
You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
- Subscribe to our newsletter
- Request marketing to be sent to you
- Leave a comment on our blog
- Submit a contact form
3.2 Automated technologies or interactions
As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
3.3 Third parties or publicly available sources
We may receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:
- Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google
- Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
4.1 Purposes for which we will use your personal data
We have set out below a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so.
| Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Lawful basis for processing |
|---|---|---|
| To register you as a newsletter subscriber | Identity, Contact | Your consent |
| To manage our relationship with you | Identity, Contact, Profile, Marketing and Communications | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how users use our products/services) |
| To administer and protect our business and this website | Identity, Contact, Technical | Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security) |
| To deliver relevant website content to you | Identity, Contact, Profile, Usage, Marketing and Communications, Technical | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how users use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business) |
| To use data analytics to improve our website | Technical, Usage | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of users for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant) |
4.2 Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or subscribed to our newsletter and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
4.3 Opting out
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.
5. Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.
5.1 Cookies we use
- Essential Cookies: Necessary for the website to function properly.
- Functionality Cookies: Allow us to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features.
- Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our website.
- Advertising Cookies: Used to deliver advertisements relevant to you and your interests.
6. Disclosures of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes outlined in section 4:
- Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers.
- Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
7. International Transfers
We may transfer your personal data to countries outside your country of residence, including the United States, where data protection laws may be different from those in your country. When we do transfer your personal data outside your country, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
- We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data.
- Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved for use which give personal data the same protection it has in your country.
8. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
9. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
10. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at hello@skillsikhlo.com.
10.1 No fee usually required
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
10.2 Time limit to respond
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
11. Children's Privacy
Our website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
12. Third-Party Links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
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This privacy policy was last updated on May 18, 2025.