Privacy Policy

The Group is a recruitment business which provides work-finding services to its clients and work-seekers. The Group must process personal data (including sensitive personal data) so that it can provide these services – in doing so, the Group acts as a data controller.

You may give your personal details to the Group 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 Group 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 Group 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. 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.

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.

The legal bases we rely upon to offer these services to you are:

·                     Your consent

·                     Where we have a legitimate interest

·                     To comply with a legal obligation that we have

·                     To fulfil a contractual obligation that we have with you

b.    Legitimate interest

 This is where the Group 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 Group has relied on a legitimate interest to process your personal data our legitimate interests are as follows:

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

·       Contacting you as an individual to seek your consent where the Group need it;

·       Providing work-finding services to you as an individual, including sending your information to our clients where you have demonstrated an interest in doing that particular type of work but not expressly consented to you passing on their cv;

·       Contacting you as an individual with information about similar products or services that you have used from the Group recently

c.     Recipient/s of data

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

·         Clients that we introduce or supply individuals to (Within the Construction Industry or associated industries)

·         Your former or prospective new employers that we can obtain or provide references to

·         The Recruitment and Employment Confederation

·         Payroll service providers who manage our payroll on our behalf

·         Any umbrella companies that you request us to pass your data to

·         Other recruitment agencies in the supply chain

·         Our insurers

·         Our legal advisers

·         Social networks

·         Our IT and CRM providers

·         Any public information sources and third party organisations that we may use to carry out suitability checks on work-seekers e.g. Companies House, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS),

·         Government,  law enforcement agencies and other regulators e.g the Police, Home Office, HMRC, Employment Agencies Standards Inspectorate (EASI), Local Authority Designated Officers (LADOs), GLAA,

·         Trade unions

d.    Statutory/contractual requirement

Where 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:

·         We may not be able to introduce or supply you as a work seeker to a client

2.   Overseas Transfers

The Group will not transfer the information you provide to us to countries outside the European Economic Area (‘EEA’) for the purposes of providing you with work-finding services. The EEA comprises the EU member states plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

 3.   Data retention

 The Group 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.

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 Group has obtained your consent to process your personal data we will do so in line with our retention policy. Upon expiry of that period the Group will seek further consent from you. Where consent is not granted the Group will cease to process your personal data.

4. Your rights

Please be aware that you have the following data protection rights:

·       The right to be informed about the personal data the Group processes on you;

·       The right of access to the personal data the Group 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 Group processing your personal data you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting the Group contacts listed above.

There may be circumstances where the Group will still need to process your data for legal or official reasons. We will inform you if this is the case. Where this is the case, we will restrict the data to only what is necessary for the purpose of meeting those specific reasons.

If you believe that any of your data that the Group 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.

 5. Complaints or queries

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

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.