Privacy Statement

Updated January 2022

This is in respect of when personal data is obtained directly from the data subject.

 
The Company is a recruitment business which provides work-finding services to its clients and work-seekers. The Company must process personal data (including sensitive personal data) so that it can provide these services – in doing so, the Company acts as a data controller.
 
You may give your personal details to the Company directly, such as on an application or registration form or via our website, or we may collect them from another source such as a jobs board. The Company must have a legal basis for processing your personal data. For the purposes of providing you with work-finding services and/or information relating to roles relevant to you we will only use your personal data in accordance with the terms of the following statement.
 

 
The Company will collect your personal data (which may include sensitive personal data) and will process your personal data for the purposes of providing you with work-finding services. This includes for example, contacting you about job opportunities, assessing your suitability for those opportunities, updating our databases, putting you forward for job opportunities, arranging payments to you and developing and managing our services and relationship with you and our clients.
 
In some cases we may be required to use your data for the purpose of investigating, reporting and detecting crime and also to comply with laws that apply to us. We may also use your information during the course of internal audits to demonstrate our compliance with certain industry standards.
 
The legal bases we rely upon to offer these services to you are:
 

• Your consent
• Where we have a legitimate interest
• To comply with a legal obligation that we have
• To fulfil a contractual obligation that we have with you

 
b. Legitimate interest

 
This is where the Company has a legitimate reason to process your data provided it is reasonable and does not go against what you would reasonably expect from us.  Where the Company has relied on a legitimate interest to process your personal data our legitimate interests is/are as follows:
 

• Managing your database and keeping work-seeker records up to date

 
c. Recipient/s of data

 
The Company will process your personal data and/or sensitive personal data with the following recipients:
 

• Clients who we introduce or supply individuals to
• Candidates’ former or prospective new employers that you obtain or provide references to
• The Recruitment and Employment Confederation and Apsco
• Any other third parties who carry out audits to ensure that we run our business correctly
• Payroll service providers who manage your payroll on your behalf including umbrella companies
• Other recruitment agencies in the supply chain (e.g. master/neutral vendors and second tier suppliers)
• Our Insurers and legal advisers
• Our IT and CRM providers

 
Your personal data is required by law and/or a contractual requirement (e.g. our client may require this personal data), and/or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract. You are obliged to provide the personal data and if you do not the consequences of failure to provide the data are:
 
If we cannot do all of these checks it may not be able to introduce or supply a work seeker to a client
 

 
The Company will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purpose we collect it. Different laws may also require us to keep different data for different periods of time.
 
The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, require us to keep work-seeker records for at least one year from (a) the date of their creation or (b) after the date on which we last provide you with work-finding services.
 
We must also keep your payroll records, holiday pay, sick pay and pensions auto-enrolment records for as long as is legally required by HMRC and associated national minimum wage, social security and tax legislation.
 
Where the Company has obtained your consent to process your personal data we will do so in line with our retention policy a copy of which can be obtained from our Compliance Manager or a Company Director. Upon expiry of that period the Company will seek further consent from you. Where consent is not granted the Company will cease to process your personal data.

• The right to be informed about the personal data the Company processes on you;
• The right of access to the personal data the Company processes on you;
• The right to rectification of your personal data;
• The right to erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances;
• The right to restrict processing of your personal data;
• The right to data portability in certain circumstances;
• The right to object to the processing of your personal data that was based on a public or legitimate interest;
• The right not to be subjected to automated decision making and profiling; and
• The right to withdraw consent at any time.

 
Where you have consented to the Company processing your personal data you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting our Compliance Manager or a Company Director who handle data protection issues and, where applicable.
 
There may be circumstances where the Company will still need to process your data for legal or official reasons. We will inform you if this is the case. Where this is the case, we will restrict the data to only what is necessary for the purpose of meeting those specific reasons.
 
If you believe that any of your data that the Company processes is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us using the details above and we will take reasonable steps to check its accuracy and correct it where necessary.
 
You can also contact us using the above details if you want us to restrict the type or amount of data we process for you, access your personal data or exercise any of the other rights listed above.
   

 
If you wish to complain about this privacy notice or any of the procedures set out in it, please contact: Mr B Nealon – [email protected]who is the CEO and has overall responsibility for the company’s data.
Useful Link regarding data privacy - https://ico.org.uk/