Privacy Policy - Hope 4 Recruitment

At www.Hope4recuitment.com, accessible from https://www.hope4recruitment.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Hope 4 Recruitment Ltd and how we use it.

As a recruitment agency and business, we gather personal data from various individuals to facilitate our operations, including:

Candidates under consideration and those placed in permanent positions.
Potential and active client representatives
Contacts from suppliers assisting our services.
Our staff, consultants, and freelance personnel

This information collection is essential for conducting our primary business functions and related activities.

Data that we collect

This section pertains to personal data that you either directly provide to us or that we ascertain about you through various means. Such data may be furnished through completing forms on our site, or via communication with us by telephone, email, or other methods. This includes, but is not limited to, information provided during registration on our site, database entry, service subscription, event attendance, participation in our site's discussion boards or social media functions, competition entries, promotions or surveys, training event attendance, or in the process of reporting site issues.

The types of personal data collected may encompass your name, residential address, personal and work-related email addresses and phone numbers, financial details, compliance documents, and references that confirm your qualifications, experience, and legal eligibility to work within the United Kingdom. Additionally, it may include your curriculum vitae, photograph, and hyperlinks to your publicly accessible professional profiles, such as those on LinkedIn, Twitter, a personal Facebook page, or a corporate website, intended for a legal document.

We acquire personal data about you from various external sources, including LinkedIn, corporate websites, job board websites, online CV libraries, your business card, and personal recommendations. Upon collecting this data, we commit to notifying you within a maximum of 30 days by providing you with this privacy notice. This notice will detail the fact that we possess personal data concerning you, the origin of this data (specifically, if it was obtained from publicly available sources), and the purposes for which we intend to use and retain your personal data.

In the execution of our services, we engage in collaborations with a range of third parties, such as business partners, subcontractors providing technical, payment, and various professional services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies, and professional advisors. Information about you may be received from these entities to facilitate our recruitment services and related support services.

Your rights according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

You are entitled to request the amendment of any personal data we retain pertaining to you, permitting the correction of any data that is either incomplete or erroneous.

You may request the deletion of your personal data, a right that allows for the removal of data in instances where its continued processing lacks justifiable grounds. Furthermore, this right extends to situations where you have opted to exercise your right to object to data processing.

You possess the authority to object to the processing of your personal data, specifically in instances where such processing is justified by legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party, and there exists a particular aspect of your situation prompting this objection. This includes the right to oppose the processing of your personal data for the purposes of direct marketing.

You may request a halt to the processing of your personal data, thereby enabling you to request the suspension of data processing activities, such as in circumstances requiring verification of data accuracy or clarification of the basis for its processing.

You are entitled to request the transfer of your personal data to a different entity in specified formats, where feasible.

Should you wish to lodge a complaint regarding data protection practices, you may contact the supervisory authority, which, in the United Kingdom, is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO may be reached via the following link: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/.

We are a Data Controller of your information.

Hope 4 legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Information we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information:

Hope 4 needs to perform a contract with you.
You have given Hope 4 permission to do so.
Processing your personal information is in Hope 4 legitimate interests.
Hope 4 needs to comply with the law.

Hope 4 will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed what Personal Information, we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
The right of rectification.
The right to object.
The right of restriction.
The right to data portability
The right to withdraw consent.

Data processing

The personal information we hold about you is utilized in the manner outlined below:

To fulfil our obligations under any agreements we propose to, or have, entered into with you, and to deliver the information, products, and services you have requested from us or that we believe may interest you due to their relevance to your professional career or organization.
To inform you about other products and services we provide that are akin to those you have previously purchased, received, or inquired about.

Our primary service to candidates and clients involves facilitating the introduction of candidates to our clients for temporary or permanent positions. Beyond this, our services extend to assisting individuals in their career progression and aiding organizations in their resourcing requirements and planning.

Other uses of your data

Utilization of Our Website:

To inform you regarding modifications to our services and to optimize the presentation of our site's content for both you and your computing device.

For these purposes, we will employ the information to:

Manage our site and conduct internal operations, which include troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey activities.
Enhance our site to ensure content is effectively presented for you and your device.
Facilitate your engagement in our service's interactive features, should you opt to use them.
Maintain the safety and security of our site.
Assess and comprehend the impact of our advertising on you and others, and provide you with pertinent advertising.
Offer recommendations to you and other site users on products or services that might be of interest.

Automated Decision-Making and Profiling:

We do not engage in automated decision-making or profiling. Our computer systems are employed to locate and identify personal data based on criteria established by an individual. The decision-making process will always involve human participation.

Use of Data inside and outside of EEA

Your personal information shall be disclosed to:

Any entity within our corporate group, irrespective of location, both within the European Economic Area (EEA) and beyond.

Specified external parties, including the following:

Clients, with the objective of facilitating candidate introductions.
Candidates, to coordinate interviews, training sessions, and professional engagements.
Clients, business affiliates, suppliers, and subcontractors, in relation to fulfilling and adhering to the stipulations of contracts engaged with them or with you.
Subcontracted entities, encompassing specialists in email marketing, event planning, and financial services, among others.
Advertising entities and networks that necessitate the data to tailor and deliver pertinent advertisements to both you and others. It is our policy not to share identifiable personal information with advertisers; however, aggregated user data may be shared (e.g., it might be disclosed that 500 men under 30 engaged with a specific advertisement on a given day). Such aggregated data aids advertisers in targeting their desired audience (e.g., targeting female users in the M1 area). We utilize the personal data collected to align with advertisers' targeting preferences by presenting their ads to the specified audience.
Providers of analytics and search engine services that contribute to the enhancement and optimization of our website.
Credit reference agencies, our insurance brokers, compliance partners, and other subcontractors for evaluating your eligibility for a position, a prerequisite for our contractual agreement with you.

Third party sharing:

Your personal information may be shared with external parties under the following circumstances:

In the context of a corporate transaction, such as the acquisition or sale of a business or its assets, where your personal data may be disclosed to the prospective seller or purchaser of said business or assets.
Should there exist a legal requirement compelling us to disclose or share your personal data, including but not limited to compliance with legal obligations, enforcement of our terms of use or service provision agreements, or the safeguarding of the rights, property, or safety of Hope 4 Recruitment Ltd, our clientele, or others. This may involve the sharing of information with other entities for fraud prevention and credit risk mitigation purposes.

The legal justification for such third-party processing includes:

The pursuit of their legitimate business interests, primarily for the fulfillment of their internal resourcing requirements.
Compliance with contractual duties owed to us, where they act as our data processor.
The execution or anticipation of a contract.
Adherence to their statutory obligations.

You possess the right to request that your personal data not be utilised for marketing objectives. Prior to the collection of your data, we will inform you if there exists any intention to employ your data for such purposes or to disclose your information to a third party for the same. Furthermore, we shall obtain your explicit consent in accordance with legal requirements before employing your personal data for marketing activities.

You may exercise your right to consent to or reject such processing by selecting specific options on the forms employed for data collection. Additionally, this right may be exercised at any given time through communication with us at accounts@hope4recruitment.com.

Please be advised that our website may occasionally provide links to the sites of our partners, advertisers, and affiliates. Should you choose to follow a link to any of these external websites, be aware that they operate under their own privacy policies. We bear no responsibility or liability for these external policies. It is recommended that you review these policies thoroughly prior to submitting any personal data to these websites.

Log Files

www.Hope4recuitment.com follows a standard procedure of using log files.These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analysing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of www.Hope4recuitment.com.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on www.Hope4recuitment.com, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that www.Hope4recuitment.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

www.Hope4recuitment.com's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

Children's Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

www.Hope4recuitment.com does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Subject Access Request:

Under the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you are afforded the right to access personal data that we maintain about you. We further invite you to engage with us to verify the accuracy and completeness of your data.

Your entitlement to access this information is exercisable in conformity with the stipulated regulations of the Act and the GDPR, following its enactment. For access requests submitted before the 25th of May 2018, under the Data Protection Act, a fee of £10 will be levied to cover the costs associated with furnishing you with the details of the data we possess about you.

Requests for subject access should be directed to accounts@hope4recruitment.com. Following the implementation of the GDPR, such requests will no longer incur a fee.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.