Recruiteneers is committed to protecting your privacy, both with your physical data and the data provided online. We strive to respect your privacy and our business depends on processing your personal information in confidence and with sensitivity. Recruiteneers undertake to comply with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (“GDPR”) in relation to all personal data received.
Recruiteneers will only record your personal data as set out in this policy and we will not give, rent, sell or trade any of your identifiable personal information without your express permission.
Our Privacy Policy explains what we do with your personal data, whether we are in the process of helping you find a job, continuing our relationship with you once we have found you a role, providing you with a service, receiving a service from you, using your data to ask for your assistance in relation to one of our Candidates, or you are visiting our website.
It describes how we collect, use and process your personal data, and how, in doing so, we comply with our legal obligations to you. Your privacy is important to us and great care is given to protect and safeguard your data privacy rights.
This Privacy Policy applies to the personal data of our Website Users, Candidates (both current and past), Clients, Suppliers, and other people whom we may contact in order to find out more about our Candidates or whom they indicate is an emergency contact. It also applies to the emergency contacts of our Staff.
For the purpose of applicable data protection legislation (including but not limited to the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679)) (the "GDPR"), the company responsible for your personal data is Recruiteneers.
Please note that from time to time we may amend this Privacy Policy and any changes to the policy can be found on our website.
PRIVACY POLICY
At Recruiteneers Ltd we are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy Policy. We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
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: In order to offer work finding or permanent recruitment services to you we need to process your personal data. We will be required to send information to prospective employers. This will normally be a CV or similar, based on the data that you have given us. Therefore we have a legitimate interest in processing this data on your behalf.
c. Recipients of data
The Company will process your personal data and sensitive personal data with the following recipients:
• Payroll companies after gaining your consent, for the purpose of making sure you are paid if you choose to do so through a third party rather than with our own PAYE scheme.
• Clients of the Company after gaining your consent, for the purpose of providing work finding services to you. This may be direct to the client or onto a portal managed by the client’s Managed Service Provider.
• Government bodies as is required by law (for example Real Time Information payroll reporting).
• Software support companies if we have an issue that requires external help.
d. Statutory/contractual requirement
Your personal data is not required as part of a statutory and/or contractual requirement, and/or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
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.
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 such as contact details, employment history, bank account information, right to work ID, and sensitive personal data such as any health issues that may require reasonable adjustments to be made by an employer or unspent criminal record history, we will do so in line with our retention policy. 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 and sensitive personal data.
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 personal data and sensitive personal data you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting Lee Daniels either by telephone 0131 202 9751 or by Email to lee@Recruiteneers.co.uk.
4. Cookies
a. Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Recruiteneers use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of our website, and their website access preferences. Recruiteneers visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Recruiteneers website, with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies. For more information about cookies visit http://www.aboutcookies.org.uk
b. Third party cookies
We sometimes embed photos, videos or tweets from websites such as YouTube and twitter. Pages with this embedded content may present cookies from these websites. Similarly, if you use a share button on our website, a cookie may be set by the service you have chosen to share content through. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.
c. Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over the other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Complaints or queries
If you wish to complain about this privacy notice or any of the procedures set out in it please contact: Lee Daniels either by telephone 0131 202 9751 or by Email to lee@Recruiteneers.co.uk.
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.