Data Protection Policy

Red Recruitment is registered as a data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018 (encompassing the UK GDPR and associated regulations, whether acting in a data controller capacity for its employees or for candidates administered on behalf of its clients). We ensure that the data you supply to us is processed with skill and care, in accordance with legislation and codes.

We will collect your personal data in order to facilitate the recruitment process. This data will include the information supplied by you on your CV (which would include, for example, name, address, date of birth, and qualifications). You consent to us using that information (including, without limitation, sensitive personal data) in this way.

We will collect your sensitive personal data only as necessary, to ensure compliance and be in accordance with legislation. We only allow access to your personal data to our staff and any prospective employers or clients. We take our responsibilities in respect to this extremely seriously.

We are required by law to hold your personal data and sensitive personal data for as long as is necessary to comply with our statutory obligations. We will always try to make sure that this is maintained and up to date. To help us achieve this, you are under a duty to inform us of any and all changes to your personal data and sensitive personal data.

If we have no contact with you then following the expiry of a period we consider appropriate we will archive – and may delete – your file. If you do not indicate that you wish to have your details retained then we archive your details.

Candidate Disclaimer

I understand and consent that in order to promote my career prospects, red recruitment may forward my details to clients at their discretion, and additionally display promotional excerpts of my details.

Collection and use of personal data

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 purpose of providing you with work-finding services. This includes for example, contacting you about job opportunities, assessing your suitability for those opportunities, updating our databases, putting you forward for job opportunities, arranging payments to you and developing and managing our services and relationship with you and our clients.

If you have opted-in we may also send you marketing information and news via email/ text. You can opt out from receiving these at any time by clicking “unsubscribe” when you receive these communications from us.

In some cases we may be required to use your data for the purpose of investigating, reporting and detecting crime and also to comply with laws that apply to us. We may also use your information during the course of internal audits to demonstrate our compliance with certain industry standards.

We must have a legal basis to process your personal data. The legal bases we rely upon to offer our work-finding services to you are:

Your consent

Where we have a legitimate interest

To comply with a legal obligation that we have

To fulfill a contractual obligation that we have with you

Legitimate interest

This is where the Company has a legitimate reason to process your data provided it is reasonable and does not go against what you would reasonably expect from us. Where the Company has relied on a legitimate interest to process your personal data our legitimate interests is/are as follows:

Managing our database and keeping work-seeker records up to date;

Providing work-finding services to you and our clients;

Contacting you to seek your consent where we need it;

Giving you information about similar products or services that you have used from us recently;

Statutory/contractual requirement

The Company has certain legal and contractual requirements to collect personal data (e.g. to comply with the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, immigration and tax legislation, and in some circumstances safeguarding requirements.) Our clients may also require this personal data, and/or we may need your data to enter into a contract with you. If you do not give us personal data we need to collect we may not be able to continue to provide work-finding services to you.

Recipient/s of data

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

Clients (whom we may introduce or supply you to)

Former employers whom we may seek references from

Payroll service providers who manage payroll on our behalf or other payment intermediaries whom we may introduce you to

Other recruitment agencies in the supply chain

Information to be provided when data collected not from the data subject]

Categories of data: The Company has collected the following personal data on you:

Personal data:

Name, address, mobile no., email

National insurance no.

Nationality (through right-to-work check)

Sensitive personal data:

Health information including whether you have a disability

Criminal conviction

Credit History

Source of the personal data: The Company sourced your personal data/sensitive personal data:

From job boards, including LinkedIn

Referral

A referee whose details you previously provided to us

Software provides who we use to support our services including

Job fairs and open days

This information did not come from a publicly accessible source.

Data retention

The Company will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purpose we collect it. Different laws may also require us to keep different data for different periods of time. For example, 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. This is currently 3 to 6 years.

Where the Company has obtained your consent to process your personal and sensitive personal data, 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 data.

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 Sara Willis, our Senior Compliance Officer. Please note that if you withdraw your consent to further processing that does not affect any processing done prior to the withdrawal of that consent, or which is done according to another legal basis.

There may be circumstances where the Company will still need to process your data for legal or official reasons. Where this is the case, we will tell you and we will restrict the data to only what is necessary for those specific reasons.

If you believe that any of your data that the Company processes is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us using the details above and we will take reasonable steps to check its accuracy and correct it where necessary.

You can also contact us using the above details if you want us to restrict the type or amount of data we process for you, access your personal data or exercise any of the other rights listed above.

Cookies

We may obtain data about you from cookies. These small text files are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies also enable us to deliver more personalised content.

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track users’ movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Links to external websites

The Company’s website may contain links to other external websites. Please be aware that the Company is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. When you leave our site we encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by the Company’s website.

Sale of business

If the Company’s business is sold or integrated with another business your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers and their advisers and will be passed on to the new owners of the business.

Data Security

The Company takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. e.g. firewalls, browser certification technology, encryption, limited access, use of passwords etc. as appropriate.

Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, consultants, our accounts clerk or a marketing assistant) are granted access to your information.

The Company uses all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal information. However, you should be aware that the use of email/ the Internet is not entirely secure and for this reason, the Company cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal information which is transferred from you or to you via email/ the Internet.

If you share a device with others we recommend that you do not select the “remember my details” function when that option is offered.

If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can email Simon Penn on: simon@red-recruitment.com.

Changes to this privacy statement

We will update this privacy statement from time to time. We will post any changes on the statement with revision dates. If we make any material changes, we will notify you.

Complaints or queries

If you wish to complain about this privacy notice or any of the procedures set out in it please contact Sara Willis, our Senior Compliance Officer.

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.