Privacy Policy

INTRODUCTION

This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our site www.globalrecruitmentsolutions.co.uk and through applications made for vacancies via email, telephone and online applications.

By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you applying for a vacancy or wish us to update you with our current vacancies.

Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd is the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data.

If you have any questions about this privacy notice, please contact the Data Protection Officer using the details set out below.

Contact Details

Full name of legal entity: Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd

Registration Number: 08452306

Name of Data Protection Officer: Alison Morgan

Email address: recruitment@globalrecruitsolutions.co.uk

It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us. If at any time you do not wish to receive any communication from Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd, please email ‘unsubscribe me’.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new regulation which replaces the Data Protection Regulation (Directive 95/46/EC). The Regulation aims to harmonise data protection legislation across EU member states, enhancing privacy rights for individuals and providing a strict framework within which commercial organisations can legally operate.

Your rights under GDPR are set out in this notice and apply from 25 May 2018.

Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd will treat it.

What data do we have stored for you?

Communication Data - This includes any communication that you send to us whether through the contact form on our website, through email, text, social media messaging, social media posting or any other communication that you send us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in the case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.

We therefore have the details you submitted to us when you made your application or through cv searches through companies such as Reed, LinkedIn, Total jobs etc. This information will include what you provided such as your full name, email address, phone number, skype address, postal address, work history, and education history.

How do we use your details?

We will always use the details you shared for the following purposes:

  • Contact you regarding our job vacancies via email, your applications and keeping you updated with recent progress
  • Sending a routine text to make you aware of updated vacancies, interview dates or any other relevant information to your application

How we store and use your details

We take the privacy of our candidates and placements very seriously and we want you to be aware about how we store and use your data. All data submitted to us in your CV and subsequent conversations with us is stored on our secure database and accessed by Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd only.

We use this information to help you gain employment and match you to appropriate jobs. We will therefore require you to inform us of any changes in your employment preferences should you wish to be updated with different vacancies.

Information you supply to us or we collect about you:

This is information you give us by corresponding with us via our website contact page, telephone, social media, phone, e-mail, text or otherwise. It includes information you provide when you:

  • Register as a candidate to enter our database for vacancy updates
  • Apply for jobs and request vacancies to be emailed to you
  • Refer colleagues or friends
  • Request us to advertise a new vacancy (Clients)

The information you give us about you may include your name, address, private and corporate e-mail address and phone number, compliance documentation and references verifying your qualifications and experience, curriculum vitae (or career profile) and photograph and data that may be held on your professional profile available in the public domain e.g. LinkedIn, Twitter or corporate website.

Information Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd obtains from other sources

This is information we obtain about you from other sources such as LinkedIn, corporate websites, job board websites, online CV libraries, business cards, personal recommendations and any relevant social media sites. In this case we will inform you, by sending you a ‘data protection privacy email’ so that you can decide whether to ‘keep being updated with vacancies’ or unsubscribe’.

Purposes of information processing and the legal basis for the processing

Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd uses 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 Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd to provide you with the information and services that you request from.

To provide you with information about other services or jobs that Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd offer that are similar to those that you have already been provided with or enquired about.

The core service we offer to our candidates and clients is the introduction of candidates to our clients for the purpose of recruitment. However, our service expands to supporting individuals throughout their career and to supporting businesses’ resourcing needs and strategies.

Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd will rely on any existing contract if we are negotiating or have entered into a placement agreement with you or your organisation or any other contract to provide services to you or receive services from you or your organisation.

Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd will rely on legal obligation if we are legally required to hold information on you to fulfil our legal obligations.

We will also make sure that the other businesses we work with are just as careful with your data as far as possible and we will request that any and all Personal Data passed to a client by Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd during the recruitment process is deleted by the client at the end of that process unless such information is required to be held for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, regulatory or reporting requirements.

Our Legitimate Interest:

Our legitimate interest in collecting and retaining your personal data is described below:

As a recruitment business, Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd introduces candidates to clients for contracts whether based in the UK or overseas. The exchange of personal data of our candidates and our client contacts is a fundamental and essential part of this process.

In order to support our candidates’ career aspirations and our clients’ resourcing needs, Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd requires operating a database of candidate and client personal data containing historical information as well as current resourcing requirements.

To maintain, expand and develop our business Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd needs to record the personal data of prospective candidates and client contacts.

Consent

Should Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd want or need to rely on consent to lawfully process your data we will request your consent by email (e.g. when registering a vacancy or as a candidate or when you apply for a job) Where consent is the lawful basis for our processing you have the right to withdraw your consent to this particular processing at any time.

Cookies

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By using our Website you are agreeing to the use of cookies.

Disclosure of your information inside and outside of the EEA:

Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd will share your personal information with:

Selected third parties including:

  • Clients (or a nominated party acting on behalf of our clients) for the purpose of introducing candidates to them
  • Candidates for the purpose of discussing job opportunities to them, the arranging of interviews and engagements

Retention of your data

Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd will retain your personal data for as long as necessary in order to provide the recruitment service to you and for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, regulatory or reporting requirements

Your Legal Rights:

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for recruitment purposes. You can ask us to stop sending you emails or messages regarding our recruitment services or vacancies by emailing ‘unsubscribe me’ to recruitment@globalrecruitsolutions.co.uk.

GDPR – Data Protection Law Rights

  • You can request correction or change of the personal information that Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd holds about you. This enables you to have inaccurate information we hold about you corrected
  • Request erasure of your personal information. You are able to ask us to delete or remove personal information at any time.
  • Make a complaint to a supervisory body which in the United Kingdom is the Information Commissioner’s Office. ICO Website: https://ico.org.uk

Changes to our privacy notice:

Any changes Global Recruitment Solutions (UK) Ltd makes to our privacy notice in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, you will be notified by e-mail.