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

1. 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

1. Legitimate interest

Where the Company has relied on a legitimate interest to process your personal data our legitimate interests is/are as follows:

• To offer work-finding services

1. Recipient/s of data

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

• Cottons for Payroll Services
• NEST for Pension Provision
• Hirers for the provision of employment
• DBS, Updates and Barring Services for employment checks

1. 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:

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.  If the company does not have this information it will be unbale to offer work-finding services.

2. 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.

Where the Company has obtained your consent to process your data and will do so in line with the following regulatory or legislative retention guidelines:

One Year

• The company will keep Work Seeker records for one year after your last day of employment. These include CVs, ID checks, terms of engagement.
• References

Two Years

• Right to Work documentation (if relevant)
• Working Time and Annual Leave records

Three Years

• SMP, Paternity and Adoption pay records

Six Years

• HMRC information
• Pension information

3. 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 data you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting Julia Oliver.

4. Complaints or queries

If you wish to complain about this privacy notice or any of the procedures set out in it please contact Julia Oliver.

You also have the right to raise concerns with Information Commissioner’s Office on 0303 123 1113 or at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/, 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.