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SEARCHWORKS EDUCATION LTD PRIVACY POLICY
Company Name: SearchWorks Education Ltd (‘the Company’)
Website: www.searchworkseducation.co.uk
Data Protection Officer: Matthew Riley
Email:legal@searchworkseducation.co.uk
Telephone: 01737 944325
Address: Suite 6, Trafalgar House, Manchester, M21 9DJ
Document Topic: Data
Date: August 2021
The Company is a recruitment business which provides work-finding services to its clients and work-seekers. The Company must process personal data (including sensitive personal data) so that it can provide these services – in doing so, the Company acts as a data controller.
You may give your personal details to the Company 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 Company 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 this privacy statement. At all times we will comply with current data protection laws.
Contents
1. Collection and use of personal data
a. Purpose of processing and legal basis
b. Legitimate interest
c. Statutory/contractual requirement
d. Recipients of data
e. Candidate Data
f. Client Data
2. Information to be provided when data is not collected directly from the data subject
a. Categories of data
b. Sources of data
3. Data retention
4. Your rights
5. Cookies
6. Login files
7. Links to external sites
8. Sale of the business
9. Data security
10. Changes to this privacy statement
11. Complaints or queries
1. Collection and use of personal data
a. 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 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.
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 replying “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 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. You can remove your consent at any time by emailing matthew@searchworkseducation.co.uk
• 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
• We need it to perform a public task
b. 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;
c. 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.
d. Recipient/s of data
The Company will process your personal data and/or sensitive personal data with the following recipients:
• SearchWorks Employees when appropriate
• Candidates – to ensure we provide a suitable candidate pool or to help with job applications when appropriate and with consent
• Clients – to determine you are a good fit for vacancies and increase your chances of finding employment
• Former employers whom we may seek references from
• Prospective employers and nominated referees
• Payroll service providers who manage payroll on our behalf or other payment intermediaries whom we may introduce you to
• Legal Authorities on your behalf such as LADO, regulatory authority, tax audit, governing board and/or any statutory board.
• Public Information Sources and Third Party Organisations to conduct background checks when appropriate and to comply with legal obligations. This could include references, qualification, criminal convictions (DBS) and eligibility to work within the UK.
• Back Office Support Services who run our Finance and Timesheet Services.
e. Candidate Data
Personal/Sensitive information we process is provided to us directly by you or a third party (see section 2) to provide you with employment-seeking services.
• Registering you with us in- order to find employment
• Putting you forward to suitable roles
• Developing and managing services and relationships with both you and our clients
• Arranging Payment
• Arranging interviews
• Assessing your suitability for live roles
• Updating our databases
f. Recipient/s of data
We collect personal data such as your name, job title and contact details. We also process personal data about what communications we have had with you, including whether you have opened or forwarded any emails, newsletters or other content we have sent to you. We also process feedback that you provide about our candidates.
If you provide information to us about a candidate (for example, if you confirm a candidate has worked with you or if you provide a reference), then we will obtain your details from the candidate and we will keep a record of the personal data that you provide to us about that candidate.
We process personal data about you from public domain sources such as LinkedIn and social networking sites or because we have worked with your current establishment previously.
2. 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
• Date of birth
• Employment History
• Qualifications
• National insurance no.
• Nationality (through right to work check)
• Contacts details of referees
• References and pre-employment checks from third parties
Sensitive personal data:
• Health information including whether you have a disability
• Criminal conviction and Disclosure Checks
• Bank Details
All Information will be sources from active public sources or directly from yourself
Source of the personal data: The Company sourced your personal data/sensitive personal data:
• From LinkedIn and job boards such as CV Library and Total Jobs
• A former employer
• A referee whose details you previously provided to us
• Software provides who we use to support our services including [list]
• Cookies listed in section 5
• Publicly available sources such as LinkedIn and other Social Media Sites
• Educational Institutions
• Disclosure Services
3. 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/ sensitive personal data we will do so in line with our retention policy. We keep some personal data for longer than others. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider factors such as the purposes for which we process your personal data, including any legal, regulatory, accounting and reporting obligations, the nature and amount of personal data that we hold about you, and the potential risk of harm to you from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data.
Where we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes, we will do so until you ask us to stop, and for a short period after this (to allow us to implement your request as there can sometimes be e-mail delays etc). We also keep a record of the fact that you have asked us not to send you direct marketing or to process your data indefinitely, so that we can respect your request.
However, we may retain some of your information after you cease to use our services, if we believe in good faith that it is necessary to meet our legal obligations, such as retaining the information for tax and accounting purposes.
When determining the relevant retention periods, we will consider all factors above. 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 personal data/sensitive personal data and erase your information once this is no longer needed.
4. 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/ sensitive personal data you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting our Data Officer, Matthew Riley on contactus@searchworkseducation.co.uk. 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.
5. Cookies
We may obtain data about you from cookies. These are small text files that 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. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.
6. Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track users’ movements, and to gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
7. Links to external websites
The Company’s website may contains 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.
8. 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.
9. Data Security
The Company takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. We are protected by an external server who provide protection such as firewalls, anti-virus and cyber security.
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 Matthew Riley on legal@searchworkseducation.co.uk
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.
11. Complaints or queries
If you wish to complain about this privacy notice or any of the procedures set out in it please contact:
Matthew Riley on legal@searchworkseducation.co.uk
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.