Privacy Notice (when personal data is obtained from a 3rd party) E.G. Job Board

Date: March 2023

Company Contact details:

Suite 1D, Lewins Mead, Whitefrairs, Bristol, BS1 2NT, United Kingdom

Jack Clark (Director)
jack.clark@ernestgordon.com  / 01173 290 100

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 the terms of the following statement.

1. Collection and use of personal data

a. Purpose of processing and legal basis

The Company has collected 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.

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 the course of internal audits to demonstrate our compliance with certain industry standards.

The legal bases we rely upon to offer these services to you are:

  • Your consent
  • 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

 b. Categories of data

The Company has collected the following personal data on you:

Personal data:

  • Name/contact details
  • personal details
  • family details
  • lifestyle and social circumstances
  • goods and services
  • financial details
  • education and employment details

Sensitive personal data:

  • Disability/criminal conviction relevant to the role
  • physical or mental health details
  • trade union membership
  • racial or ethnic origin
  • religious or other beliefs of a similar nature

c. 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;
  • Contacting the individual to seek your consent where we need it;
  • Providing work-finding services to the individual, including sending their information to clients where you have demonstrated an interest in doing that particular type of work but not expressly consented to you passing on their cv;
  • Contacting the individual with information about similar products or services that you have used from us recently; and
  • Passing work-seeker’s information to debt collection agencies.

d. Recipient/s of data

The Company will process your personal data and/or sensitive personal data with the following recipients:

  • Clients that you introduce or supply individuals to (e.g. Companies across the Engineering, technical, manufacturing, construction, warehouse industries).
  • Candidates’ former or prospective new employers that you obtain or provide references to
  • The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (and any other trade body that you are a member of who may have access to your candidates’ data)
  • Any third parties who carry out audits to ensure that you run your business correctly
  • Payroll service providers who manage your payroll on your behalf – Simplicity (Keen Thinking/ GEMs)
  • Any umbrella companies which the candidate requests to work with
  • Insurers – Hiscox, Stackhouse Poland Limited
  • Legal advisers – Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC)
  • IT and CRM providers – Bullhorn International, Broadbean, Total Jobs, Jobsite, CV-Library, Reed, Indeed.
  • Any public information sources and third-party organisations that you may use to carry out suitability checks on work-seekers e.g. Companies House, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), General Medical Council (GMC), DVLA, credit reference agencies
  • Government, law enforcement agencies and other regulators e.g the Police, Home Office, HMRC, Employment Agencies Standards Inspectorate (EASI), Local Authority Designated Officers (LADOs), GLAA,
  • Trade unions;
  • Any other organisations an individual asks you to share their data with.

2.    Overseas Transfers  

The Company may transfer only the information you provide to us to countries outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) for the purposes of providing you with work-finding services. We will take steps to ensure adequate protections are in place to ensure the security of your information. The EEA comprises the EU member states plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

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.

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.

Where the Company has obtained your consent to process your personal and sensitive personal data, we will do so in line with our retention policy. 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 and sensitive personal data.

Work-seeker records – including application form/CV, ID checks, terms of engagement (see also below), details of assignments, opt-out notices and interview notes.

Hirer records including client details, terms of business (see below), assignment/vacancy details – 1 year.

Terms of engagement with temporary worker and terms of business with clients – 6 years in order to deal with any civil action in the form of contractual claim (Limitation Act 1980). Please note that 6 years is not a minimum legal requirement but is the time period in which a contractual claim can be made.

Working time records – • 48 hour opt out notice • Annual leave records – 2 years from the time they were created

References – The Conduct Regulations require references to be kept for 1 year following the introduction or supply of a work seeker to a client.

Records held relating to right to work in the UK – 2 years after employment or engagement has ended – must not be alterable.

VAT – 6 years

Company accounts – 6 years

Payroll information and CIS records – 3 years from the end of the tax year

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 and sensitive personal data you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting Jack Clark (Director) jack.clark@ernestgordon.com.

There may be circumstances where the Company will still need to process your data for legal or official reasons. We will inform you if this is the case. Where this is the case, we will restrict the data to only what is necessary for the purpose of meeting 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.    Source of the personal data

The Company sourced your personal data/sensitive personal data by the following means:

• Received via a Job Board – Advertisement/ database (Total jobs, Jobsite, Reed, CV Library, Indeed)

This information came from a publicly accessible source.

6.    Complaints or queries

If you wish to complain about this privacy notice or any of the procedures set out in it please contact:

Jack Clark (Director)
jack.clark@ernestgordon.com
01173 290 100

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.

Annex A

a)      The lawfulness of processing conditions for personal data are:

1. Consent of the individual for one or more specific purposes.

2. Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with the individual or in order to take     steps at the request of the individual to enter into a contract.

3. Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that the controller is subject to.

4. Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the individual or another person.

5. Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the data controller.

6. Processing is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the controller or a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights or freedoms of the individual which require protection of personal data, in particular where the individual is a child.

b)      The lawfulness of processing conditions for sensitive personal data are:

1. Explicit consent of the individual for one or more specified purposes, unless reliance on consent is prohibited by EU or Member State law.

2. Processing is necessary for carrying out data controller’s obligations under employment, social security or social protection law, or a collective agreement, providing for appropriate safeguards for the fundamental rights and interests of the individual.

3. Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the individual or another individual where the individual is physically or legally incapable of giving consent.

4. In the course of its legitimate activities, processing is carried out with appropriate safeguards by a foundation, association or any other not-for-profit body, with a political, philosophical, religious or trade union aim and on condition that the processing relates only to members or former members (or those who have regular contact with it in connection with those purposes) and provided there is no disclosure to a third party without the consent of the individual.

5. Processing relates to personal data which are manifestly made public by the individual.

6. Processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or whenever courts are acting in their judicial capacity.

7. Processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest on the basis of EU or Member State law which shall be proportionate to the aim pursued, respects the essence of the right to data protection and provide for suitable and specific measures to safeguard the fundamental rights and interests of the individual.

8. Processing is necessary for the purposes of preventative or occupational medicine, for assessing the working capacity of the employee, medical diagnosis, the provision of health or social care or treatment or the management of health or social care systems and services on the basis of EU or Member State law or a contract with a health professional and subject to the necessary conditions and safeguards.

9. Processing is necessary for reasons of public interest in the area of public health, such as protecting against serious cross-border threats to health or ensuring high standards of quality and safety of healthcare and of medicinal products or medical devices, on the basis of EU or Member State law which provides for suitable and specific measures to safeguard the rights and freedoms of the individual, in particular professional secrecy.

10. Processing is necessary for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes, which shall be proportionate to the aim pursued, respect the essence of the right to data protection and provide for suitable and specific measures to safeguard fundamental rights and interests of the individual.