DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY NOTICE

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT?

Aqumen Recruitment is a trading style of Aqumen Business Solutions Limited herein after referred to as “the Company” or “we”.

The Company is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.

This privacy notice describes how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

THE KIND OF INFORMATION WE HOLD ABOUT YOU

We are required to collect, store, and use your personal information, this may include:

  • Contact details
  • Right to work documents
  • Details of driving license
  • Emergency contact details
  • A copy of your CV
  • Qualifications
  • Professional memberships
  • Salary and additional benefits information
  • Positions you have previously applied for
  • CCTV footage

We may be required to process additional information for candidates who would be assigned or employed by the Company on a temporary basis with any of our clients, this could include:

  • Bank details
  • NI number
  • Date of Birth
  • Tax details
  • References
  • Details of criminal convictions
  • Sick leave details
  • Disciplinary and grievance information
  • Performance details

Candidates who would be self-employed as a contractor will need to provide some additional information which could include:

  • Companies House information
  • Details of Public Liability insurance
  • VAT registration

For candidates who are applying for roles within certain Financial Services businesses, we may also be required to collect, store, and use some additional personal information, which could include:

  • Employment history
  • Education history
  • Address history
  • Marital status
  • Nationality
  • Details of financial credit checks
  • Information relating to any previous position held as a Director, Secretary or association to a company

How is Your Personal Information Collected?

We typically collect this personal information directly from you or through our website, job advertisements or third party job boards. We may sometimes be required to collect additional information from third parties or other publicly available sources. The Company will take reasonable steps to inform you when it has collected your personal information from a third party.

How We Will Use Information About You

We need certain personal information primarily to allow us to perform our contract with you and to enable us to comply with legal obligations. In some cases, we may use your personal information to pursue legitimate interests of our own or those of third parties, provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. The situations in which we will process your personal information are listed below.

  • Providing our recruitment services
  • To maintain business relationships with clients, candidates and users of our website
  • To enable you to submit your CV for general applications, to apply for specific jobs and to subscribe to our job alerts.
  • To match your details with job vacancies, to assist us in finding a position that is most suitable for you.
  • To submit your CV to third parties
  • To fulfil contractual obligations with our clients
  • To answer your enquiries
  • To communicate directly with you.
  • To check that you are legally entitled to work in the UK
  • To assess qualifications for a particular job
  • To determine your suitability for a particular job
  • Send you marketing communications and information relating to our services which we think may be of interest to you (which you have the right to opt-out of)
  • To ensure your own safety and security
  • To third parties who perform functions on our behalf and who also provide services to us such as professional advisors, IT Consultants carrying out testing and development work on our business technology systems. These third parties comply with similar undertakings of privacy and confidentiality as the Company.

If you are engaged as an employee or contractor through the Company we may also need additional information for the following reasons:

  • Administering the contract, we have entered into with you
  • Paying you, deducting tax and National Insurance contributions
  • Dealing with legal disputes involving you, or other employees, workers and contractors
  • To prevent fraud

Some of the above grounds for processing will overlap and there may be several grounds which justify our use of your personal information.

If you fail to provide personal information

If you fail to provide certain information when requested, we may not be able to represent you either as an employment agency or employment business, or we may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations (such as to ensure the health and safety of our workers).

HOW WE USE PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use your particularly sensitive personal information in the following ways:

  • In limited circumstances, with explicit written consent
  • To ensure you are eligible to work in the UK
  • In order to meet legal obligations
  • When it is needed to assess working capacity on health grounds, subject to appropriate confidentiality safeguards.

Do we need your consent?

We do not need your consent if we use special categories of your personal information in accordance with our written policy to carry out our legal obligations or exercise specific rights in the field of employment law. In limited circumstances, we may approach you for your written consent to allow us to process certain particularly sensitive data. If we do so, we will provide you with full details of the information that we would like and the reason we need it, so that you can carefully consider whether you wish to consent. You should be aware that it is not a condition of your contract with us that you agree to any request for consent from us.

Information About Criminal Convictions

We will only collect information about criminal convictions if it is appropriate given the nature of the role and where we are legally able to do so. Where appropriate, we will collect information about criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process or we may be notified of such information directly by you. We will use information about criminal convictions and offences usually where such processing is necessary to carry out our obligations and provided we do so in line with our contractual obligations to our clients and candidates.

Automated Decision-Making

You will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making, unless we have a lawful basis for doing so and we have notified you.

DATA SHARING

We may have to share your data with third parties, including prospective employers, third-party service providers . We require third parties to respect the security of your data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

We may transfer your personal information outside the EU. If we do, you can expect a similar degree of protection in respect of your personal information.

Why might you share my personal information with third parties?

We may share your personal information with third parties where required by law, where it is necessary to administer the working relationship with you or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so.

Which third-party service providers process my personal information?

“Third parties” includes third-party service providers (including contractors and designated agents) and other entities within our group. The following activities are carried out by third-party service providers:  Payroll, pension administration, benefits provision and administration, IT services

How secure is my information with third-party service providers and other entities in our group?

All our third-party service providers and other entities in the group are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with our policies. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

What about other third parties?

We may share your personal information with other third parties, for example in the context of the possible sale or restructuring of the business. We may also need to share your personal information with a regulator or to otherwise comply with the law.

Transferring information outside the EU

We may transfer the personal information we collect about you outside of the EU, in order to perform our contract with you. To ensure that your personal information does receive an adequate level of protection we have put in place the appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information is treated by those third parties in a way that is consistent with and which respects the EU and UK laws on data protection.

DATA SECURITY

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.

DATA RETENTION

How long will you use my information for?

We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such information without further notice to you.

RIGHTS OF ACCESS, CORRECTION, ERASURE, AND RESTRICTION

Your duty to inform us of changes

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during your working relationship with us.

Your rights in connection with personal information

Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:

  • Request access to your personal information
  • Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you
  • Request erasure of your personal information
  • Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground
  • Request the restriction of processing of your personal information
  • Request the transfer of your personal information to another party

If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact the Company in writing to our Head Office: Aqumen Recruitment Bank House, 12 Bank Street Castleford West Yorkshire or by email to: andy.taylor@aqumenrecruitment.co.uk

No fee usually required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.

What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access the information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is another appropriate security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.

RIGHT TO WITHDRAW CONSENT

In the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent please contact Andy Taylor at Aqumen Recruitment. You can email him on andy.taylor@aqumenrecruitment.co.uk. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new privacy notice when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information.

May  2018

COOKIE POLICY

Web Privacy and Cookie Policy

Use of the Site

This website is the property of and operated by Aqumen Business Solutions Limited and is made available to you solely on the Terms and Conditions set out below. For the purposes of these Terms and Conditions “Aqumen Business Solutions Limited”, “we”, “our” and “us” means Aqumen Business Solutions Limited; furthermore, “aqumenrecruitment.co.uk” refers to Aqumen Business Solutions Limited’s website and/or any URL constructed from the home page and hosted on the home page web server.

Aqumen Business Solutions Limited may revise the terms and conditions of use at any time and update this information. You should therefore verify this page regularly and review the Terms and Conditions of use.

Governing Law

The Terms & Conditions of use are governed by the law of England and Wales and each party are submits and is subject to to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales.

Intellectual Property

Aqumen Business Solutions Limited is the owner and/or authorised copyright licence holder of the logos, trademarks, images and any other content present on aqumenrecruitment.co.uk. By posting this information on our website we do not grant any licence, copyright or use of any other of our intellectual property rights to any third party.

Data Protection

The use of Curriculum Vitae, phone numbers, email addresses, personal addresses and any other personal information supplied to us by you and other users of this website is governed by our “Privacy Policy”. By accepting the Terms and Conditions, you expressly consent to the disclosures of personal data to third parties and to Aqumen Business Solutions Limited use of information as detailed in the Privacy Policy.

The Use of the Website

The information and services available on aqumenrecruitment.co.uk are provided for the purpose of assisting you and other employers in recruiting staff and/or individuals in finding employment. We authorise you to review and download a single copy of the material on this website solely for your personal, non-commercial use.

By accessing aqumenrecruitment.co.uk you agree not to post or transmit incomplete, inaccurate or false information to this website. We accept no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the information that is available or is posted on this website nor do we make any representations in respect of the contents of aqumenrecruitment.co.uk as regards the existence or availabilities of any jobs advertised.

Aqumen Business Solutions Limited, in its sole discretion, shall determine your compliance with the above and shall have the right to block access to any user or delete from this website without any prior notice any material that it deems not to comply or to be objectionable for any reason.

Disclaimer

Aqumen Business Solutions Limited has taken every care in the preparation of the content on this site, but to the full extent permissible by law, we disclaim all responsibility for damage or loss howsoever arising including but not limited to loss of projects, loss of profits, loss of data or consequential or indirect losses arising in contract, tort or otherwise from the use of or inability to use the website and/or any information or materials on aqumenrecruitment.co.uk.

You should note that certain URLs on the site link to other websites which are not under the control of Aqumen Business Solutions Limited. We accept no responsibility or liability for any material on any website that is not under the control of Aqumen Business Solutions Limited.

We make no warranty that the contents of this website are free from the influence of malware which has destructive or monitoring properties and shall have no liability in respect thereof.

Cookies

An HTTP cookie—commonly referred to as just “cookie” – is a parcel of text sent back and forth between a web browser and the server it accesses. Its original purpose was to provide a state management mechanism between a web browser and a web server. Without a cookie (or a similar solution), a web server cannot distinguish between different users, or determine any relationship between sequential page visits made by the same user. For this reason, cookies are used to differentiate one user from another and to pass information from page to page during a single user’s website session. A web server uses cookies to collect data about a given browser, along with the information requested and sent by the browser’s operator (the visitor). Cookies do not identify people, but rather they are defined themselves by a combination of a computer, a user account, and a browser.

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