JFL SEARCH & SELECTION LTD
PRIVACY POLICY NOTICE - PERSONAL DATA
JFL Search & Selection Ltd is a specialist communications recruitment business which provides work-finding services to its clients and work-seekers. JFL (“The Company”) needs to process personal data (including sensitive personal data) so that it can provide these services – and 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 an advertisement, a referral or a CV. 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 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 database, putting you forward for job opportunities, arranging payments for you and developing and managing our services and relationships 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 may have
To fulfil a contractual obligation that we have with you
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 are as follows:
Where the processing of an individual’s personal data is based on a legitimate interest then the Company must set out the legitimate interests that they or a third party have pursued to process the data.
This can include for example:
Managing your database and keeping work-seeker records up to date;
Contacting the individual to seek your consent where you need it;
Providing work-finding services to the individual, including sending their information to your clients where they 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 they have used from you recently
c. Recipient/s of data
The Company will process your personal data and sensitive personal data with the following recipients:
Where you have processed the individual’s data with a third party you will be obliged to inform the individual who such recipients or categories of recipients of that data are.
These include for example:
Clients that you introduce or supply individuals to
Candidates’ former or prospective new employers that you obtain or provide references to
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation
Any other third parties who carry out audits to ensure that you run your business correctly
Payroll service providers who manage our payroll
Other recruitment agencies in the supply chain (e.g. master/neutral vendors and second tier suppliers);
Insurers; Hiscox, Essentia,Vitality, Arriva
Legal advisers
Social networks
IT and CRM providers
Any public information sources and third-party organisations that you may use to carry out suitability checks on work-seekers (e.g. Companies House)
Trade unions;
Any other organisations an individual asks you to share their data with.
d. Statutory/contractual requirement
Personal data is required by law and/or a contractual requirement (e.g. our client may require this personal data), and/or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract. You are obliged to provide the personal data and if you do not the consequences of failure to provide the data is likely to be a fine.
2. 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, we will do so in line with our retention policy of two years from last contact. 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 data.
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 data you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting the Personal Data Controller ros@jflrecruit.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.
4. Complaints or queries
If you wish to complain about this privacy notice or any of the procedures set out in it please contact:
The Data Protection Controller ros@jflrecuit.com or the Data Protection Officer
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.
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Annex
The lawfulness of processing conditions for personal data are:
Consent of the individual for one or more specific purposes.
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.
Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that the controller is subject to.
Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the individual or another person.
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.
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.
a) The lawfulness of processing conditions for sensitive personal data are:
Explicit consent of the individual for one or more specified purposes, unless reliance on consent is prohibited by EU or Member State law.
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.
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.
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.
Processing relates to personal data which are manifestly made public by the individual.
Processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or whenever courts are acting in their judicial capacity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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