Privacy Policy
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Introduction
This Privacy Policy explains what we do with your personal data, whether we are in the process of helping you find a job, continuing our relationship with you once we have found you a role, providing you with a service, receiving a service from you, using your data to ask for your assistance in relation to one of our candidates, or you are visiting our website.
Throughout this privacy statement, "we" "us" and "ours" refers to Michael Downey Talent Consulting Ltd.
This document describes how we collect, use and process your personal data, and how, in doing so, we comply with our legal obligations to you. Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting and safeguarding your data privacy rights.
This Privacy Policy applies to the personal data of our website users, candidates, clients and any other people whom we may contact in order to find out more about the candidate.
Personal Data we collect
Candidate data:
In order to provide the best possible employment opportunities that are tailored to you, we need to process certain information about you. We only seek information that will help us to help you. This could include your; name, age/date of birth, contact details, education details, employment history, referee details, immigration status (whether you need a work permit), nationality/citizenship, information on your interests and needs regarding future employment, extra information that you choose to tell us, extra information that your referees choose to tell us about you, extra information that our clients may tell us about you, IP address, and the dates, times and frequency with which you access our services.
Client data:
As a client, we need to collect and use information about you, or individuals at your organisation, in the course of providing you services such as finding candidates who are the right fit for you or your organisation or outsourcing our professional services to you.
Website users:
We collect a limited amount of data from our website users which we use to help us to improve your experience when using our website and to help us manage the services we provide. This includes information such as how you use our website, the frequency with which you access our website, and the times that our website is most popular.
How do we collect your personal data?
Candidate:
There are two main ways in which we collect your personal data: directly from you; and from third parties such as other candidates who might refer you and publicly available information such as linkedIn.com
Client data:
There are two main ways in which we collect your personal data: directly from you; and from third parties (e.g. our candidates) and other limited sources (e.g. online and offline media).
Website users:
We collect your data automatically via cookies when you visit our website, in line with cookie settings in your browser. If you would like to find out more about cookies, including how we use them and what choices are available to you, please see further below. We will also collect data from you when you contact us via the website on the ‘Contact Us’ form.
How do we use your personal data?
Candidate data:
The main reason for using your personal details is to help you find employment or other work roles that might be suitable for you. The more information we have about you, your skillset and your ambitions, the more bespoke we can make our service.
Client data:
The main reason for using information about clients is to ensure that the contractual arrangements between us can properly be implemented. This may involve: identifying candidates who we think will be the right fit for you or your organisation; providing you with outsourced professional services.
Website users:
We use your data to help us to improve your experience of using our website.
Who do we share your personal data with?
Candidate data:
We may share your personal data with prospective employers.
Client data:
We will share your data to ensure that we provide you with a suitable pool of candidates.
Website users:
Unless you specify otherwise, we may share your information with providers of web analytics services.
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How can you access, amend or delete the personal data that you have given to us?
If we already hold your personal data, you have various rights in relation to it. When you make a request under the following rights, we will respond to your request within 30 days (although we may be allowed to extend this period in certain cases).
Right to object: If we are using your data because we deem it necessary for our legitimate interests to do so, and you do not agree, you have the right to object.
Right to withdraw consent: Where we have obtained your consent to process your personal data for certain activities (for example, for profiling your suitability for certain roles) you may withdraw your consent at any time.
Right for a copy of your data: you have the right to ask us to confirm what information we hold about you at any time, and request a copy of it.
Right to erasure: In certain situations (for example, where we have processed your data unlawfully), you have the right to request us to “erase” your personal data.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies and similar technologies to facilitate our Services in the retrieving of your user preferences; to personalise your visits; for the operation of our website; to collect statistical information about our visitors for analytical purposes.
Our legal basis for processing your data
Candidate data:
We think it’s reasonable to expect that if you are looking for employment and have sent us, your CV, or have posted your professional CV information on a job board or professional networking site, you are happy for us to collect and otherwise use your personal data to offer or provide our services to you, share that information with prospective employers and assess your skills against our bank of vacancies.
Once it’s looking like you may get the job, your prospective employer may also want to double check any information you’ve given us or to confirm your references, qualifications and criminal record, to the extent that this is appropriate and in accordance with laws.
We want to provide you with tailored job recommendations and relevant articles to read to help you on your job hunt. We therefore think it’s reasonablefor us to process your data to make sure that we send you the most appropriate content.
We have to make sure our business runs smoothly, so that we can carry on providing services to candidates like you. We therefore also need to use your data for our internal administrative activities.
Client data:
To ensure that we provide you with the best service possible, we store your personal data and/or the personal data of individual contacts at your organisation as well as keeping records of our conversations, meetings, registered jobs and placements.
Consent
In certain circumstances, we are required to obtain your consent to the processing of your personal data in relation to certain activities.