Key Details
- Policy Prepared By:
- Approved by:
- Policy became operational on:
- Next review date: January 2025
- GDPR Officer Marc Rayner
Deedee Richards
Marc Rayner
January 2024
January 2025
- Policy Prepared By: Deedee Richards
- Approved by: Marc Rayner
- Policy became operational on: January 2024
- Next review date: January 2025
- GDPR Officer Marc Rayner GDRP@kevinedward.co.uk
Introduction
The privacy policy describes how Kevin Edward protects and makes use of the information you give the company when engaging for the provision of service.
Kevin Edward gathers and uses certain information about individuals in order to provide recruitment services to our clients and to those individuals.
What data we gather
Kevin Edward may collect the following information:-
- Name and Job title
- Demographic information
- Contact information including email address
- Experience and skills
- Qualifications
- Professional memberships
- References
- Salary details
- Other information relevant to client enquiries
Where we gather data from
Kevin Edward uses a number of external sources to help gather personal data, including:-
- Online job boards such as Jobsite, Total Jobs, CV Library, Reed and Indeed
- Online business networking site LinkedIn
- A former or current employer
- A former or current colleague
- A referee who’s details you have previously provided to us
- Online market intelligence provider ZoomInfo
How we use this data
Collecting this data helps Kevin Edward understand and align candidate suitability on behalf of clients, and to enable the placement of said candidates into vacant roles within the client organisation, upon completion of the recruitment process.
Kevin Edward will only share personal data with third parties who are involved in the recruitment process; we do not share or sell personal data to any third parties not involved in the recruitment process.
Lawful basis for gathering personal data
Kevin Edward have identified ‘Legitimate Interests’ as the main lawful basis for collecting and processing an individual’s personal data.
The legitimate interests refer to the commercial interests of Kevin Edward or of third parties that Kevin Edward have a commercial relationship with.
Kevin Edward will retain personal data for an indefinite period of time, for the purpose of ongoing commercial Legitimate interests. However, individuals have the right to request the removal and deletion of their personal data at any time.
Security
Kevin Edward will always hold information securely and:
- Comply with the data protection law and follow good practice
- Protect the rights of staff, clients and partners
- Will be open about how it stores and processes individuals data
- Protect itself from the risks of a data breach
To prevent unauthorised disclosure or access to client’s information, Kevin Edward has implemented strong physical and electronic security safeguards. Kevin Edward also follows stringent procedures to ensure that working with all personal data is in line with the Data Protection Act 1998 and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016.
If you have any queries relating to data protection within Kevin Edward or would like to request the removal of your personal data, please send your enquiry to gdpr@kevinedward.co.uk