VirtualNonExecs is a premier platform for non-executive directors, offering unparalleled access to board opportunities and career tools. Our network enables members to expand their influence and capabilities in boardrooms worldwide, facilitating professional growth and strategic impact. We streamline the journey for aspiring and established NEDs to excel and thrive.
What do we do?
Virtualnonexecs Ltd is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This notice sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide us, will be processed by us.
Who we are and what we do
Virtualnonexecs Ltd is a market leading and independently owned online membership network designed for the non-executive director market. We specialise in the promotion of non-executive members via online and social media channels. We operate in England and overseas. We are NOT a recruitment company and offer no financial advice.
Types of Data We Collect
In order to provide the best possible opportunities to our members, we need to process certain information. We only ask for details that will genuinely help us to help members find new opportunities, such as name, contact details, education details, employment history and immigration status (and other relevant information you may choose to share).
Where appropriate, and in accordance with local laws and requirements, we may also collect information related to diversity, security clearance status or details of any criminal convictions.
If you are a VirtualNonExecs client, we need to collect and use information about you, or individuals at your organisation, in the course of providing you with our services. This can include promotion of your vacancy, product or service to our members.
Virtualnonexecs Ltd will also store information relating to previous dealings with us, including job applications, email and telephone communications, job interviews and recent introductions via the platform.
We collect a limited amount of data from the users of our website which we use to help us to improve your experience when using our website and to help us manage the services we provide. This includes information such as how you use our website, the most popular referrers and website responsiveness. You can read more about this in our Cookies Policy.
Where we obtain your information
We may obtain candidate information from any number of locations:
There are three main ways in which we collect client data:
Directly from you
From third parties such as members, online job boards, LinkedIn and networking.
Affiliates
Data Retention
We will delete member personal data from our systems if we have not had any meaningful contact with you for seven years (or for such longer period as we believe, in good faith, that the law or relevant regulators require us to preserve your data). After this period, it is likely your data will no longer be relevant for the purposes for which it was collected.
We will consider there to be meaningful contact with you if you submit your updated CV or profile onto our website, apply for jobs with us or we receive an updated CV from a job board. We will also consider it meaningful contact if you communicate with us about potential roles, either by verbal or written communication or engage with any of our marketing communications.
Under new data protection regulations (GDPR), we are required to keep the data we hold accurate and, where necessary, up to date. As such, we will make an effort to regularly communicate with you to ensure your data is up to date and accurate.
Whilst we will endeavor to permanently erase your personal data once it reaches the end of its retention period or where we receive a valid request from you to do so, some of your data may still exist within an archive system. While certain details may still exist on an archive system, this cannot be readily accessed by any of our operational systems, processes or staff.
Legal Basis for Processing
Our legal basis for the processing of personal data is our legitimate business interests, described in more detail below, although we will also rely on contract, legal obligation and consent for specific uses of data.
We will rely on contract if we are negotiating or have entered into a placement agreement with you or your organisation or any other contract to provide services to you or receive services from you or your organisation.
We will rely on legal obligation if we are legally required to hold information on to you to fulfil our legal obligations.
We will, in some circumstances, rely on consent for particular uses of your data and you will be asked for your express consent, if legally required. Examples of when consent may be the lawful basis for processing include permission to introduce you to a client (if you are a member).
Legitimate Interests
Here at Virtualnonexecs Ltd, we take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to administer your account and to provide you with our online member services.
We think it's reasonable to expect that, if you are looking for employment as a non-executive director or similar, or have posted your professional CV information on a job board or professional networking site, you are happy for us to collect and otherwise use your personal data to provide our online membership services to you, share that information with prospective employers (with your consent) and assess your skills against our live vacancies. During the job offer process, your potential employer may also want to confirm your references, qualifications and criminal record, to the extent that this is appropriate and in accordance with the law. As we are not a recruitment agency, this is a process which will be carried out independently of the VirtualNonExecs website and/or business.
We want to provide you with tailored job alerts to help you on your non-executive director job-hunt. We therefore think it's reasonable for us to process your data to make sure that we send you the most appropriate non-executive (or similar) jobs.
We may also need to use your data for our internal administrative activities, like payroll and invoicing where relevant.
Data Storage and Processing
All of the personal data we hold about you will be processed by our staff in the United Kingdom, and accessed by our cloud-based CRM system, (USA data centre). We take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal data is processed securely and prevent unauthorised access to, and misuse of your personal data. For more information, please see our security policy.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Who do we share your data with?
As required under GDPR, we will only share your information to prospective employers with your express consent. Any information you place on the VirtualNonExecs platform (other than your registration details and password/payment details) will be open and searchable to the public; this allows you the best opportunity to be found companies who are hiring a non-executive.
Unless you specify otherwise, we may also share your information with associated third parties such as our service providers where we feel this will help us to provide you with the best possible service and we have the appropriate processing agreement in place.
Data Subject Access Requests
You may ask us to confirm what information we hold about you at any time, and request us to modify, update or delete such information. If you wish to access your data at any time, there will be no administration charge (unless the request is excessive) and the request should be fulfilled within 30 days.
Marketing Consent
From time to time we would like to send you details of reports, promotions, offers, networking and client events and general information about the industry sectors which we think might be of interest to you.
Changes to our privacy notice
Any changes we make to our privacy notice in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy notice.