Tasksyy is an online freelance marketplace operated by TASKSYY INTERNATIONAL LTD, a company registered in the United Kingdom under company number 17088961, with its registered office at 2a Connaught Avenue, London, United Kingdom, E4 7AA. TASKSYY INTERNATIONAL LTD is the data controller for the personal information processed through tasksyy.com and the Tasksyy marketplace, including our escrow, wallet and identity-verification features.

This Cookie Policy applies every time you visit tasksyy.com, sign in to your account, browse services, post or accept a project, fund escrow, use our messaging features or contact support — whether you are an Employer buying work or a Freelancer offering it.

It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal data more broadly, and with our Terms and Conditions, Refund Policy and Trust & Safety pages. Where this policy refers to cookies, the same rules apply to the similar technologies described in section 2.

Cookies are small text files that a website asks your browser to store. They allow the site to recognise your browser on return visits, keep you signed in, remember preferences, measure how pages are used and — where you have consented — support advertising. Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser (“session” cookies); others remain for a set period (“persistent” cookies).

We also use technologies that behave like cookies and are covered by this policy and by PECR regulation 6:

• Local storage and session storage — data kept in your browser rather than sent to us on every request; used to preserve marketplace state such as a draft project brief.
• Pixels and web beacons — tiny transparent images or script calls that tell us whether a page, email or ad was viewed.
• Software development kits (SDKs) — code from a partner, such as our email and CRM platform, that can set identifiers when it loads.
• Device and browser identifiers — pseudonymous identifiers derived from your device or browser used for security, fraud prevention and, with consent, analytics.

Where this policy says “cookie” it means cookies and all of the technologies listed above.

Because we are established in the United Kingdom and serve users in the UK and the European Union, our use of cookies is governed by the following rules:

PECR (UK)

The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 require us to give you clear and comprehensive information about cookies and to obtain your consent before storing or accessing information on your device, unless the cookie is strictly necessary to provide a service you have requested. Regulation 22 separately restricts the use of electronic communications for direct marketing.

UK GDPR

Where a cookie processes personal data, the UK General Data Protection Regulation also applies. It requires us to have a lawful basis — consent, legitimate interests, performance of a contract, or compliance with a legal obligation — and to be transparent about what we do.

EU ePrivacy Directive and EU GDPR

For visitors in the European Economic Area, the ePrivacy Directive and the EU GDPR apply in the same way, and we apply the same standard of consent we use for UK visitors.

What valid consent means

UK and EU regulators require consent to be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous, expressed by a clear affirmative act. In practice, that means we must:

• we do not pre-tick optional cookie categories;
• we aim to offer “reject all” with the same prominence as “accept all”;
• we do not treat continued browsing or the act of closing a banner as consent;
• we do not condition access to the marketplace on accepting non-essential cookies; and
• we aim to make withdrawing consent as simple as giving it.

We group the cookies we use into the five categories below. Choose a category to see what it does, whether consent is required, and what typically changes if you turn it off.

A cookie is first-party when it is set by the domain you are visiting — tasksyy.com — and third-party when it is set by a different domain whose code runs on our pages, such as an analytics, payments or social platform.

Third-party providers act as our processors or independent controllers depending on the service. We seek to select providers that offer appropriate contractual safeguards, and we require them to protect your information in line with the standard described in our Privacy Policy.

How consent is collected

On your first visit, we aim to show a consent banner powered by CookieYes before any non-essential cookie is set. It gives you:

• a clear summary of each category and what it does;
• an Accept all button and an equally prominent Reject all button;
• granular toggles so you can enable, for example, analytics but not advertising;
• a link to this policy before you decide; and
• no pre-ticked boxes, and we do not treat continued browsing as consent.

Your choice is typically stored in the cookieyes-consent cookie so the banner does not reappear on every page, and we aim to set no optional cookie unless you have enabled its category.

How to change or withdraw your consent

You can change your mind at any time, with no effect on your account, your escrow, your payouts or your access to Tasksyy:

1. Cookie Preference Center — open the cookie icon or the “Cookie Preferences” link in the site footer and adjust the toggles.
2. Withdraw all optional consent — choose “Reject all” in the same centre to switch off everything except strictly necessary cookies.
3. Browser controls — block or delete cookies through your browser settings, using the guidance in section 7.

Withdrawal takes effect for future processing: we stop setting the cookies in the categories you have turned off, and we take steps to delete the optional cookies we control. It does not affect the lawfulness of anything we did while your consent was in place, and it does not affect the strictly necessary cookies that keep the marketplace secure and working.

Records, renewal and accountability

• We aim to keep a record of the consent you gave: what you chose, when, and which version of the banner and policy you saw. This is how we seek to demonstrate compliance with PECR and the UK GDPR accountability principle.
• We aim to refresh consent for optional cookies at least every 12 months, and sooner if we materially change the cookies we use or the purposes we use them for.
• We do not treat silence, inactivity or a closed banner as consent.
• We do not condition access to Tasksyy on accepting optional cookies.

Every major browser lets you view, block and delete cookies, and set site-specific rules. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent sign-in, escrow and payments from working correctly.

Industry opt-out tools

These tools let you limit interest-based advertising across participating companies, independently of Tasksyy. They use their own opt-out cookies, so clearing your cookies will reset them.

The ICO also publishes independent guidance on cookies and similar technologies at ico.org.uk. If you are unsure which control to use, our preference centre is the simplest place to start, because it applies your choices specifically to Tasksyy.

Tasksyy serves a global marketplace, so information collected through cookies may be processed in countries other than the one you live in, including the United States, where many of our technology and payment providers operate.

Where UK or EU law requires safeguards for an international transfer, we seek to rely on the mechanisms those laws provide, which may include:

• UK International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses;
• EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) with the European Commission's approved modules for controller-to-processor and processor-to-processor transfers;
• adequacy regulations, where the destination country or framework has been recognised as providing adequate protection; and
• additional technical and organisational measures, such as encryption in transit and at rest, access controls and transfer risk assessments, where a transfer needs extra protection.

The safeguards that apply depend on the countries involved, the provider and the law that applies to you, and we put the relevant mechanism in place before the transfer. You can ask us for more information about the specific safeguards used for a particular provider by contacting us using the details in section 13.

Cookie lifetimes. Each cookie typically lasts only as long as it needs to, and the categories in section 4 describe the purpose and typical lifetime of each type we use. Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser; persistent cookies expire on their own configured lifetimes, and we aim to configure our preference centre to re-ask for consent at least every 12 months.

Consent records. We aim to keep evidence of the consent you gave — the choices, the timestamp and the banner version — for the period for which we need to be able to demonstrate compliance, and in any event for no longer than the duration of consent plus 24 months, after which we aim to delete or anonymise it.

Account and transaction data. Information processed through your Tasksyy account, including identity verification, escrow, wallet transactions and message history, is retained in line with the retention rules in our Privacy Policy. As set out there, where you close your account we aim to delete identity-verification files linked to it within 30 days, unless there is an active escrow transaction, an open dispute, or the law requires us to keep records for longer.

Where cookies process your personal data, you have the following rights under the UK GDPR and, for EEA visitors, the EU GDPR:

• Right to be informed — to know what we collect and why, which this policy and our Privacy Policy set out.
• Right of access — to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification — to have inaccurate data corrected.
• Right to erasure — to ask us to delete data where there is no overriding legal reason for us to keep it.
• Right to restrict processing — to limit how we use your data in certain circumstances.
• Right to object — to object to processing based on our legitimate interests, including processing for direct marketing.
• Right to data portability — to receive data you gave us in a structured, commonly used format.
• Right to withdraw consent — at any time, as explained in section 6.
• Rights relating to automated decisions — we do not make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects about you based solely on automated processing through cookies.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details in section 13. We aim to respond within one month, and we may extend that period by up to two further months for complex or numerous requests, in which case we will tell you why. Exercising your rights is free of charge, and we do not treat it as a reason to restrict your account.

You also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. If you are in the UK or EEA and you are not satisfied with our response, you can lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. In the UK this is the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF — ico.org.uk, telephone 0303 123 1113.

Tasksyy is a professional marketplace and is not intended for anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly set cookies on, or collect personal data from, children. Where age verification indicates that a user is under 18, we will take steps to close the account and delete the associated data in line with our Privacy Policy.

We review this Cookie Policy regularly and whenever we change the cookies or similar technologies we use. When we make a material change — for example adding a new category of cookie or a new provider — we aim to update the cookie categories in section 4, refresh the version history below, and re-request your consent where the law requires it. Where a change is significant for registered users, we will normally also give notice by email or by a banner on the platform.

If you have a question about this policy, want to exercise a data protection right, or want to change or withdraw your cookie consent, please contact us.

Data Protection Officer. TASKSYY INTERNATIONAL LTD has not appointed a statutory Data Protection Officer. All privacy and cookie enquiries, including requests to exercise your data protection rights, should be directed to contact@tasksyy.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office, whose details are set out below.