Privacy Notice
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.
1. Collection and use of personal data
a. Purpose of processing and legal basis
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. The legal bases we rely upon to offer these services to you are:
• Consent
• Legitimate interest
• Legal obligation
• Contractual obligation
b. Legitimate interest
Where the Company has relied on a legitimate interest to process your personal data our legitimate interests is/are as follows:
• For the purposes of providing you with work-finding services
c. Recipient/s of data
The Company will process your personal data and/or sensitive personal data with the following recipients:
• With your permission, our client and or our client’s recruitment portal provider
• Data storage and cloud providers and similar third-party vendors and outsourced service providers that assist us in carrying out business activities
• Auditors, lawyers and other outside professional advisors
d. Statutory/contractual requirement
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:
• Our inability to fulfil our obligations with our client and, therefore, we would be unable to provide our services to you
2. Overseas transfers
The Company may transfer only the information you provide to us to countries outside the European Economic Area (‘EEA’) for the purposes of providing you with work-finding services. We will take steps to ensure adequate protections are in place to ensure the security of your information. The EEA comprises the EU member states plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
3. Data retention
The Company will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary. Different laws 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/sensitive personal data, we will do so in line with our retention policy, which, for work seeker records, including CVs, application forms, ID checks, references, terms of engagement, assignment details, opt-out notices and interview notes, is one year from last date of providing work-finding services as an Employment Agency (Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (Conduct Regulations)). Upon expiry of that period the Company may seek further consent from you. Where consent is not either sought or granted the Company will cease to process your personal data/sensitive personal data.
4. Your rights
Please be aware that you have the following data protection rights:
• 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/sensitive personal data you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting John Houston, Director.
5. Complaints, or queries
If you wish to complain about this privacy notice or any of the procedures set out in it please contact:
John Houston, Director, john@lead-search.co.uk, or write to John Houston, Leadsearch Ltd, Oakwood House, The Street, Barnham, Suffolk, IP24 2NF. You also have the right to raise concerns with Information Commissioner’s Office or any other relevant supervisory authority should your personal data be processed outside of the UK, if you believe that your data protection rights have not been adhered to.
If you need any further information, or have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.