Privacy Policy for Candidates

Last updated on: 13/12/23

PRIVACY NOTICE – CANDIDATE DATA (INDIVIDUALS)

Overview

We will only collect and process the right amount of your personal data from you for the specific purposes that we need it.
We only use your personal data for clearly defined purposes.
We have identified the legal basis for the processing of your personal data.
The service we provide means we do need to share your personal data with other organisations.
We endeavour to keep your personal data safe and secure at all times
We may have to transfer your personal data outside of the UK and EU.
We only keep your personal data for a set period of time.
You can keep in control of your personal data through the various rights you have.
We are happy to speak to you about what we do with your personal data.

Changes made to our privacy notice

We exercise our right to update this Privacy Notice at any time, including to keep up to date with data protection law and accurately reflect Sectr Partners’s practices surrounding data processing. Any changes made to our Privacy Notice come into effect when posted on this page (date of latest update can be found at the top of this page).

Personal data collected

To enable us to provide a tailored service specific to meet your needs and find you the most appropriate job opportunities our clients have to offer we need to collect some or all the following information from you:

Full name
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number(s)
Nationality
Employment history
Details of work, including salary and future employment needs
Skills and experiences
Education and qualifications
Number of dependents
Any other information you choose to tell us

Data processed by Sectr Partners is collected in several ways. This information can be provided by you directly, provided by a third party or collected automatically via our website.

By using our website and sending any email communications our systems may obtain your IP address.

Sensitive Data may be provided by yourself or collected by us where permitted by law in order to measure job applicability. This includes information relating to your health, criminal records, and trade union membership.

Collecting personal data directly from you

You may provide your personal data to us via one of the following ways:

Applying for a specific job that is advertised on our website
Submitting your CV via the candidate services area of our website
Emailing your CV direct to one of our consultants
Leaving your details with a consultant at a recruitment or graduation fair

Collecting personal data from other sources

We may obtain information about you via one of the following ways:

We search professional networking sites, such as LinkedIn, and job boards to establish if there are any potential candidates who would be suitable for a job vacancy we are looking to fill.
Referral from an existing candidate – they may share your personal data with us and ask us to contact you as you are interested in new career opportunities.

What we use your personal data for and the legal basis we rely on

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

For recruitment purposes, to match you to a job vacancy we are recruiting for on behalf of our clients.
For marketing purposes, for example to re-contact you in the future to inform you of new opportunities.

Recruitment purposes

We want to make sure that we can find you the right job opportunity for you, so we need to know certain information about you to enable us to tailor our search to the most relevant client and job they have available. We will gather this information from you or collect from other sources such as LinkedIn.

A consultant who works within your business/market sector will spend time with you discussing your career, lifestyle, etc. to establish the kind of job you are seeking. They will the send a confidential profile to clients and potential client businesses who have or may have a role available within their business that would fit your criteria. This confidential profile will provide the client business with information about you. If they are satisfied with what they have read, we will move forward to providing them with your name and other personal data.  If you have submitted your CV directly to us, we will read and assess this to identify if your career history, skills and experience are a suitable match for one of our vacancies. We may not have any suitable vacancies for you. If you are not contacted within 6 months of sending your CV to us, please accept this as your CV has not been suitable, processing will have ceased, and your CV completely erased from our database.

Legal Basis – Consent

When you have made the initial contact with us, for example by applying for a job we are advertising on our website, uploading your CV via the candidate portal of our website, or leaving your CV and details with one of our consultants at a recruitment event you will have consented to us processing your personal data for the purpose of us contacting you to progress your job search application.

We will always obtain your consent to submit your personal data to any of our clients. Consent is gathered in the form of consent forms, which will be sent to you by one of our consultants before any action is taken.

In these cases, where we rely on consent as the lawful basis for processing, you are entitled to exercise your rights under GDPR. To do so, contact our Data Protection Manager.

Legal Basis – Legitimate Interests

We do not think it is unreasonable for an individual to expect to be contacted by a recruitment agency if they publish details about their professional profile and career history on professional networking sites, such as LinkedIn. Along with searching our own database of candidates we often review professional networking sites and job boards to identify any potential candidates who may be suitable to fill a vacancy one of our clients has on offer. If we identify such a candidate, we will make initial contact with them to introduce ourselves and the opportunity available.

We have documented our decision-making for relying on legitimate interests for this purpose in a Legitimate Interest Assessment to ensure our legitimate interests are not over-ridden by the rights of individuals whose personal data is to be processed. If you would like to know more about the assessment we undertook please contact our Data Protection Manager.

You have the right to object to us processing your personal data on this basis, to exercise this right please contact our Data Protection Manager.

Marketing purposes

We pride ourselves on offering a tailored service to our candidates and would like to be by your side right through your career till retirement (however early or late that might be). We know that for some people there is a need to move to new jobs to enhance their career prospects and progress to the top. We therefore want to keep you informed of any new job opportunities that become available that you may be interested in.

You can change your marketing preferences at any time by contacting our Data Protection Manager.

Legal Basis – Legitimate Interests

We do not think it is an unreasonable expectation for candidates to receive information from ourselves about new opportunities that might be suitable for them. GDPR allows us to use legitimate interests as the lawful basis for direct marketing purposes where this does not breach other e-privacy laws. As there is a relationship in place between ourselves and candidates we can legitimately rely on soft opt-in rules under the Privacy & Electronic Communication Regulations 2003 to undertake email direct marketing.

You have the right to object to us processing your personal data on this basis, to exercise this right please contact our Data Protection Manager.

Who we will share your personal data with

We will share your personal data with:

our existing clients who have job vacancies to fill.
prospective clients who we feel may be able to provide a suitable career opportunity for you: and,
the appropriate legal entities, if required by law.

We will always ask for your express and informed consent to send your personal data to existing or prospective clients.

When a new recruitment business is set up under Sectr Partners, all data subjects and their data processed whilst working for Sectr Partners will be transferred across to the new company. The new business is still owned and controlled in the majority by Sectr Partners.

Your personal data may be accessed and seen by our third-party outsourced IT provider, whilst they undertake work on our behalf. We have a data processor contract in place which sets out both parties’ responsibilities and obligations under GDPR. Data will not be used by third parties for any of their own purposes.

If you enter personal data into our website then it may be accessed and seen by our third-party website host and web data storage provider, whilst they undertake work on our behalf. We have a data processor contract in place which sets out both parties’ responsibilities and obligations under GDPR.

How we keep your personal data safe

Sectr Partners takes the security of your personal data seriously and we have put in place the most appropriate organisational and technical measures to safeguard personal data. Our measures include:

Encrypting devices and servers where appropriate
Password access to computers and mobile devices
Secure premises
Restricting access to those staff who need to see the information
Internal policies and procedures on data protection and information security
Staff training
The relevant procedures to report and deal with potential data breaches

When we use third-party providers to process and/or store personal data we undertake relevant assessments of their business to establish their level of compliance with GDPR and only use those that provide sufficient guarantees to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard personal data.

Our website, emails, databases and data storage are all on servers based in the UK and EU.

If you suspect your personal data has been lost or misused, please contact our Data Protection Manager (contact details can be found at the bottom of this page).

Transferring personal data outside of the UK and EU

If a job vacancy is located outside of the UK and EU (a ‘third country’), Sectr Partners will need to transfer your personal data to that country. We always get your consent to give your personal data to one of our clients and you will be made aware that the business is not located within the UK or EU.

How long we will keep your personal data for

We have documented retention periods for all the information we obtain and process.

If you are contacted about new opportunities, or one of our clients’ vacancies, we will keep any of your personal data that we have collected during the process for as long as we have an active communication with you, and once this ceases, we will keep your personal data for 10 years before it is deleted from our systems.

If you have applied for a vacancy or submitted a CV directly to us but have not been contacted within 6 months, please accept this as your application has not been suitable for any current vacancies and your CV will have been removed from our database.

If you are contacted about one of our internal vacancies, and are successful, we will keep any of your personal data that we have collected during the process for as long as you are employed by Sectr Partners and then for 6 years after that. At the end of the 6 years, your personal data is deleted from our systems.

If you are contacted about one of our internal vacancies, but are unsuccessful, we will keep your personal data for 6 months before it is deleted from our systems.

Your rights

You have various rights in relation to how we process your personal data, as defined by the General Data Protection Regulations

You can access the personal data we keep about you and be given specific information about the processing, also known as the Right to be informed.
You can ask us to update inaccurate personal data we hold about you, also known as the Right of access or a data subject access request.
You can ask us to delete your personal data but only when specific grounds apply, also known as the Right to erasure. Please note that your ability to exercise this right may not always be possible due to legal requirements, in which case you will be informed of this.
You can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data, also known as the Right to restrict processing.
You can ask us to update any inaccurate information we hold about you, also known as the Right to rectification.
You can object to the processing of your personal data if you do not agree with our legitimate interest grounds and for direct marketing purposes, also known as the Right to object.
You can transfer your personal data from us to another service provider but only when certain grounds apply, also known as the Right to data portability.

Rights in relation to automated decision-making including profiling does not apply as we do not undertake any automated decision-making, including profiling.

Should you wish to exercise any of your rights please contact our Data Protection Manager. All requests will be processed within one month unless the request is excessive in which case you will be informed and kept updated throughout.

We do not charge a fee for responding to the above requests unless the request is unfounded or excessive; or if requests are repetitive.

If you are not happy with the way we have been processing your personal data or have not dealt with one of your rights correctly when you have asked us to you may lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO). The ICO has several ways in which you can contact them, including post, email, and online forms. To find out how click here.

Our contact details

You can contact our Data Protection Manager via one of the following ways:

Telephone: 0113 233 9520
Post: Sectr Partners Ltd, P/t 2nd Floor, 6 Wellington Place, Leeds, LS1 4AP
Email: data.protection@sectr-partners.com