Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. Our cookies perform up to three different functions:
ESSENTIAL COOKIES
Some cookies are essential for the operation of our website. For example, some cookies allow us to identify account holders and ensure they can access the account holder-only pages. If an account holder opts to disable these cookies, the user will not be able to access all of the content that a subscription entitles them to. This is why these cookies are always switched on as they are classed as essential for this website to function.
PERFORMANCE COOKIES
We utilize other cookies to analyze how our visitors use our websites and to monitor website performance. This allows us to provide a high-quality experience by customizing our offering and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages. We might also use these cookies to highlight articles or site services that we think will be of interest to you based on your usage of the website.
FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES
We use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences. For example, cookies save you the trouble of typing in your username every time you access the site and recall your customization preferences, such as which regional edition of the website you want to see when you log in.
We also use functionality cookies to provide you with enhanced services such as allowing you to watch a video online or comment on a blog.
Where a CV is uploaded, this will be added to our database for use in the introduction of candidates to our clients for temporary or permanent engagement.
Information we obtain from other sources.
This is the information we obtain about you from other sources such as LinkedIn, corporate websites, job board websites, online CV libraries, business cards, personal recommendations, and social media platforms. In this case, we will inform you, by sending you this privacy notice, within a maximum of 30 days of collecting the data of the fact we hold personal data about you, the source the personal data originates from, and whether it came from publicly accessible sources, and for what purpose we intend to retain and process your data.
We are working closely with third parties including companies within our Group, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, professional, payment, and other services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies, and professional advisors. We may receive information about you from them for our recruitment services and ancillary support services.
PURPOSES OF THE PROCESSING AND THE LEGAL BASIS FOR THE PROCESSING
Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR – says that we can process your data where it “is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by [us] or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights or freedoms of [you] which require protection of personal data.”
We use information held about you in the following ways:
• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts we intend to enter into or have entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information and services that you request from us or we think will be of interest to you because it is relevant to your career or your organization.
• The core service we offer to our candidates and clients is the introduction of candidates to our clients for temporary or permanent engagement. However, our service expands to supporting individuals throughout their careers and to supporting businesses’ resourcing needs and strategies.
• We will in some circumstances rely on consent for particular uses of your data and you will be asked for your express consent if legally required. Examples of when consent may be the lawful basis for processing include permission to introduce you to a client (if you are a candidate).
OUR LEGITIMATE BUSINESS INTERESTS
Our legitimate interests in collecting and retaining your data are described below:
As a recruitment business and recruitment agency, we introduce candidates to clients for permanent employment, temporary work placements, or independent professional contracts. The exchange of personal data of our candidates and our client contacts is a fundamental, essential part of this process.
We believe it’s reasonable to expect that if you are looking for employment or have posted your professional cv information on a job board or professional networking site, you are happy for us to collect and otherwise use your data to offer or provide our recruitment services to you, share that information with prospective employers and assess your skills and work history against any current vacancies that we have.
To support our candidates’ career aspirations and our clients’ resourcing needs and to meet our legal obligations to HMRC, we require a database of candidate and client personal data containing historical information as well as current resourcing requirements.
We want to provide you with tailored job recommendations and relevant articles to read to assist you with your job hunt. We, therefore, think it’s reasonable for us to process your data to make sure that we send you the most appropriate content.
We have to make sure our business runs smoothly so that we can carry on providing services to candidates like you. We therefore also need to use your data for our internal administrative activities, like payroll and invoicing where relevant.
We have our obligations under the law. If we believe in good faith that it is necessary, we may therefore share your data in connection with crime detection, tax collection, or actual or anticipated litigation.
CONSENT
Should we want or need to rely on consent to lawfully process your data we will request your consent orally, by email, or by an online process for the specific activity we require consent for and record your response on our system. Where consent is the lawful basis for our processing you have the right to withdraw your consent to this particular processing at any time.
OTHER USES WE WILL MAKE OF YOUR DATA
Use of our website;
• to notify you about changes to our service;
• to ensure that content from our site is presented most effectively for you and your computer.
We will use this information:
• to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
• to improve our site to ensure that content is presented most effectively for you and your computer;
• to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so;
• as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
• to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
• to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.
We do not undertake automated decision-making or profiling. We use our computer systems to search and identify personal data by parameters set by a person. A person will always be involved in the decision-making process.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF THE EEA
We will share your personal information with:
• Any member of our group both within the EEA and outside of the EEA.
Selected third parties include:
• clients to introduce candidates to them;
• candidates to arrange interviews and engagements;
• clients, business partners, suppliers, and sub-contractors for the performance and compliance obligations of any contract we enter into with them or you;
• subcontractors including email marketing specialists, event organizers, payment and other financial service providers
• analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our site;
• credit reference agencies, our insurance broker, compliance partners, and other sub-contractors to assess your suitability for a role where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.
We will disclose your personal information to third parties:
• If we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
• If Kazlen Ltd’s assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your data to comply with any legal obligation, to enforce or apply our terms of use (available upon request) and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Kazlen and our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
The lawful basis for the third-party processing will include:
• Their legitimate business interests in processing your data, in most cases to fulfill their internal resourcing needs;
• satisfaction of their contractual obligations to us as our data processor; for a contract in place or contemplation;
• to fulfill their legal obligations.
WHERE WE STORE AND PROCESS YOUR DATA
The data that we collect from you will be stored on our servers and where cloud technology is used this will be within the European Economic Area (”EEA”). It may be transferred to third parties outside of the EEA for our recruitment services
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted via our banking facilities. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password that enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.
Retention of your data
We understand our legal duty to retain accurate data and only retain personal data for as long as we need it for our legitimate business interests. Accordingly, we have a data retention notice [and run data routines to remove data that we no longer have a legitimate business interest in maintaining.]
We do the following to try to ensure our data is accurate:
We shall contact you regularly to ensure that we have an up-to-date cv and to ensure that your status has not changed.
We segregate our data so that we keep different types of data for different periods. The criteria we use to determine whether we should retain your data include:
• The nature of the personal data;
• its perceived accuracy;
• our legal obligations;
• whether an interview or placement has been arranged; and
• our recruitment expertise and knowledge of the industry by country, sector, and job role.
We may archive part or all of your data or retain it on our financial systems only, deleting all or part of it from our main Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) system. We may pseudonymize parts of your data, particularly following a request for suppression or deletion of your data, to ensure that we do not re-enter your data into our database unless requested to do so.
For your information, Pseudonymised Data is created by taking identifying fields within a database and replacing them with artificial identifiers, or pseudonyms.
Our current retention notice is available upon request.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to ask us not to process your 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 and we will collect express consent from you if legally required before using your data for marketing purposes.
You can exercise your right to accept or prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at [email protected]
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers, and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
The GDPR provides you with the following rights:
• Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
• Request the erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us to continue to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
• 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. You also have the right to object to where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
• Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example, if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
• Request the transfer of your personal information to another party in certain formats, if practicable.
• Make a complaint to a supervisory body which in the United Kingdom is the Information Commissioner’s Office. The ICO can be contacted through this link: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
Access to information
The Data Protection Act 1998 and the GDPR give you the right to access information held about you. We also encourage you to contact us to ensure your data is accurate and complete.
Your right to access can be exercised by the Act (and the GDPR once it is in force). Before 25th May 2018, any access request under the Data Protection Act will be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
A subject access request should be submitted to [email protected] No fee will apply once the GDPR comes into force.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY NOTICE
Any changes we make to our privacy notice in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy notice.
CONTACT
Questions, comments, and requests regarding this privacy notice are welcomed and should be addressed to [email protected]