SEC EMEA
Privacy Policy
WHO ARE WE?
SEC EMEA
Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX.
We provide permanent recruitment services to clients looking to recruit personnel for their businesses.
WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?
We collect the information necessary to be able to find available opportunities and further information needed to assess your eligibility through the different stages of recruitment. This information includes CV’s, identification documents, educational records, work history, employment and references, details of any professional registration. We may also collect sensitive personal data about you, in the form of race, ethic origin, political views, religious affiliations, trade union membership, health and sexual orientation. We only collect sensitive personal data from you, and further process this data, where you have given your explicit consent.
WHERE DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA ABOUT YOU FROM
The following are the different sources we may collect personal data about you from:
- Directly from you. This is information you provide while searching for a new opportunity and/or during the different recruitment stages.
- Through publicly available sources. We use the following public sources:
- Job Boards
- By Reference or word of mouth. For example, you may be recommended by a friend, a former employer, a former colleague or even a present employer.
HOW AND WHY WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We use your personal data to match your skills, experience and education with a potential employer. We will initially collect basic information on you such as contact details, job role and experience and then pass this on to the client in search of personnel. If you are chosen by the client and go through to the next stage we will then be collecting more information from you at the interview (or equivalent) stage and onwards in that manner.
HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR?
We only retain your information for as long as is necessary for us to use your information as described above or to comply with our legal obligations. However, please be advised that we may retain some of your information after you cease to use our services, for instance if this 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 take into account factors including:
(a) our contractual obligations and rights in relation to the information involved;
(b) legal obligation(s) under applicable law to retain data for a certain period of time;
(c) our legitimate interest where we have carried out a balancing test (see legal basis below);
(d) statute of limitations under applicable law(s);
(e) (potential) disputes;
(f) if you have made a request to have your information deleted; and
(g) guidelines issued by relevant data protection authorities.
Otherwise, we securely erase your information where we no longer require your information for the purposes collected.
WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITH?
Your personal data is shared with clients who initiate a search for personnel or with clients we believe may have a requirement for someone with your experience and skill set. We share your data in order that clients can assess whether you are suitable for their available positions. Your data may be shared with clients, or intermediaries acting on their behalf, as part of the recruitment process.
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DO NOT PROVIDE US WITH THE INFORMATION WE REQUEST OR ASK THAT WE STOP PROCESSING YOUR INFORMATION?
If you do not provide the personal data necessary, object to the processing of your personal data or withdraw your consent, where applicable, we may not be able to match you with available job opportunities.
DO WE USE COOKIES TO COLLECT PERSONAL DATA ON YOU
To provide better service to you on our websites, we use cookies to collect your personal data when you browse. See our cookie policy here for more details
DO WE TRANSFER YOUR DATA OUTSIDE THE EEA?
No, we do not transfer personal data out of the EEA.
WHAT RIGHTS DO YOU HAVE IN RELATION TO THE DATA WE HOLD ON YOU?
By law, you have a number of rights when it comes to your personal data. Further information and advice about your rights can be obtained from the data protection regulator in your country.
| Rights | What does this mean? |
|---|---|
| 1. The right to be informed | You have the right to be provided with clear, transparent and easily understandable information about how we use your information and your rights. This is why we’re providing you with the information in this Policy. |
| 2. The right of access | You have the right to obtain access to your information (if we’re processing it), and certain other information (similar to that provided in this Privacy Policy). This is so you’re aware and can check that we’re using your information in accordance with data protection law. |
| 3. The right to rectification | You are entitled to have your information corrected if it’s inaccurate or incomplete. |
| 4. The right to erasure | This is also known as ‘the right to be forgotten’ and, in simple terms, enables you to request the deletion or removal of your information where there’s no compelling reason for us to keep using it. This is not a general right to erasure; there are exceptions. |
| 5. The right to restrict processing | You have rights to ‘block’ or suppress further use of your information. When processing is restricted, we can still store your information, but may not use it further. We keep lists of people who have asked for further use of their information to be ‘blocked’ to make sure the restriction is respected in future. |
| 6. The right to data portability | You have rights to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes across different services. For example, if you decide to switch to a new provider, this enables you to move, copy or transfer your information easily between our IT systems and theirs safely and securely, without affecting its usability. |
| 7. The right to object to processing | You have the right to object to certain types of processing, including processing for direct marketing (i.e. if you no longer want to be contacted with potential opportunities). |
| 8. The right to lodge a complaint | You have the right to lodge a complaint about the way we handle or process your personal data with your national data protection regulator. |
| 9. The right to withdraw consent | If you have given your consent to anything we do with your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time (although if you do so, it does not mean that anything we have done with your personal data with your consent up to that point is unlawful). This includes your right to withdraw consent to us using your personal data for marketing purposes. |
We usually act on requests and provide information free of charge, but may charge a reasonable fee to cover our administrative costs of providing the information for:
- baseless or excessive/repeated requests, or
- further copies of the same information.
Alternatively, we may be entitled to refuse to act on the request.
Please consider your request responsibly before submitting it. We’ll respond as soon as we can. Generally, this will be within one month from when we receive your request but, if the request is going to take longer to deal with, we’ll come back to you and let you know
HOW WILL WE CONTACT YOU?
We may contact you by phone, email or social media. If you prefer a particular contact means over another please just let us know
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US?
If you are unhappy with how we’ve handled your information, or have further questions on the processing of your personal data, Dan Sketchley on info@sec-dci.com