This Privacy Policy explains what we do with your personal data, whether we are in the process of helping you find a role or providing a service, continuing our relationship with you, receiving a service from you, or using your data to ask for your assistance in relation to one of our customers.

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 we are committed to protecting and safeguarding your data privacy rights.

This Privacy Policy applies to the personal data of our website users, candidates, clients, suppliers and other people whom we may contact in order to fulfil any of our services. It also applies to the emergency contacts of our staff.

For the purpose of applicable data protection legislation (including but not limited to the UK General Data Protection Regulation [UK GDPR]), the company’s responsibility for your personal data can be found detailed herein.

What information we collect from you

We will collect and process the following data about you:

Personal data or personal information means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you that we have grouped together as follows:

 

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law, as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. 

However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data, which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.

We do not collect any special categories of personal data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data).

How we use your information

 We use information held about you in the following ways:

Why we will use your personal data

Purpose/activity:

Type of data

  1. Identity
  2. Contact
  3. Financial
  4. Transaction
  5. Marketing and Communications
  6. Technical

How we will disclose your information

You agree that we have the right to share your personal information with:

Where we process your personal data

All personal data is processed within the UK.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our systems or website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict encryption and security procedures to try to prevent unauthorised access.

How long we will retain your data

We will only retain your personal data 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.

Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available in our retention policy which you can request from us by contacting us at [email protected] 

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise the right at any time by contacting us at [email protected]

Your right to complain

You have the right to make a complaint if you wish to do so. The organisation with oversight of our processing is the Information Commissioner’s Office, which can be contacted in writing at Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, by telephone (0303 123 1113) or by email ([email protected]).

You have various rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.  You can:

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact one of the following:

* by email at [email protected] 

* by post at Data Protection Officer, Bridgetech Group, Porters Lodge, County Offices, Walton Street, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP20 1UR.