We’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice informs you how we process the personal information (known as personal data) that we collect from you.
Starting Point Recruitment registered at Floor 9, Townend House, Park St, Walsall, WS1 1NS will be what’s known as the “Controller” of the Personal Data you provide to us either directly by you or through a third party
The data we hold and process will be used for our management and administrative use only.
We will keep and use it to enable us to register you as a candidate, offer you 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. We may also use your information during internal audits to demonstrate our compliance with certain industry standards.
We will keep and use it to manage our relationship with you effectively, lawfully and appropriately, during the recruitment process, during your employment, at the time when your employment ends and after you have left.
(Please note that the list below of categories of personal data we may collect is not exhaustive)
Our “legitimate interests” for these purposes are the need to:
What type of ‘Special’ Personal Data will be collected?
This information is collected either to comply with our obligations under employment law; or, where this does not apply, we will request your explicit consent.
The Company collects, uses and processes a range of personal information about you during the recruitment process. We may obtain data about you indirectly from other sources such as your referees, job board websites and personal recommendations. This may includes (as applicable):
Your personal data will be processed by our staff in the UK and for IT hosting and maintenance purposes, our 3rd party Contractors based within the European Union.
Your Data is stored on our servers within the European Union, paper files locally and on 3rd party servers for the performance and compliance obligations of any contract we enter into with them or you.
We will share your personal data with our clients. This is fundamental and essential to:
We may also share your personal data that is necessary with:
No third parties shall have access to your personal data unless the law allows them to do so or it is necessary in order to offer you work finding services or for the performance of your employment contract. In this case, only the personal data that is relevant and necessary shall be shared/transferred.
We do not envisage that your data would be transferred outside the EU. If we perceive the need to do that, we would discuss that with you and explain the legal basis for the transfer of the data at that stage.
No, there is no requirement for you to provide your personal data to us, but, if you do not provide at least that data that is necessary for us to assess your suitability for employment, enable us to introduce you to our clients and then to conduct the employment relationship, then it will not practically be possible for us to employ you.
We will keep your Personal Data for no longer than is legally required and strictly necessary, having regard to the original purpose for which the data was processed.
We will retain your contact details for a period of two years after your last assignment to continue to offer you work finding services. If you no longer wish to be contacted for work during this period, you can let us know by contacting your local representative or via email to enquiries@startingpointrecruitment.co.uk
You have the right to request:
Be Forgotten: |
request that your personal data is deleted |
Data Portability |
for data held on you to be transmitted to a third party |
Withdrawn Consent: |
where we process your personal data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time |
Object to Processing: |
where we process your personal data for the performance of a legal task or in view of our legitimate interests you have the right to object on “grounds relating to your particular situation” |
Subject Access: |
to access information we hold about you. This is sometimes referred to as making a “subject access request” |
Rectification: |
request your data is rectified if you consider any information we hold about you is incorrect |
Restrict Processing: |
request your data is rectified if you consider any information we hold about you is incorrect such as where you have contested the accuracy of the personal data we hold on you, you have the right to block or suppress the further processing of your personal data |
We do not undertake automated decision making or profiling.
You also have a specific right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Should you have any questions, comments or wish to exercise your rights in relation to your Personal Data, please contact the Company Data Protection Officer – Sylwia Babiarz; dpo@stepstowork.co.uk
Any changes we make to our privacy notice in the future will be posted on SPR website, and where appropriate, we’ll notify you verbally. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy notice.
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Steps to Work is a company with charitable status registered in England & Wales. Registered office address is Floor 9, Townend House, Park Street, Walsall, WS1 1NS. Registration Number: 3738249. Charity Registration Number: 1100403
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