Privacy Policy for Gateway7 Recruitment
Last Updated: [November 2023]
Welcome to Gateway7 Recruitment!
At Gateway7, we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information. Please read it carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data. Gateway7 takes your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information in order for us to provide the services that you have requested from us. Gateway7 complies with its obligations under [the GDPR] by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data. You may give your personal details to the Gateway 7 directly, such as on an application or registration form or via our website, or we may collect them from another source such as a jobs board or social media platform (LinkedIn). Gateway 7 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. Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following types of personal information:
2. Collection and use of personal data
a. Purpose of processing and legal basis
Gateway 7 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. The legal bases we rely upon to offer these services to you are:
• Consent
• Legitimate interest
• Legal obligation
• Contractual obligation
b. Legitimate interest
Where the Gateway7 has relied on a legitimate interest to process your personal data our legitimate interests is/are as follows:
• Providing work finding/recruitment services
c. Trusted third parties
Gateway7 will share your personal information and, where necessary, your sensitive personal information with trusted third parties where we have retained them to provide services that you or our clients have requested, such as:
• verification of details you have provided from third party sources; and/or
• psychometric evaluations or skills tests.
• employment reference checking;
• qualification checking;
• criminal reference checking (as required);
We may also share your personal information with third parties who perform functions on our behalf and provide services to us such as:
• data storage
• payroll (If completing a temporary assignment)
• professional advisors;
• data analytics providers;
• IT consultants carrying out testing and development work on our business technology systems;
• research and mailing houses; and/or
• function co-ordinators.
d. Statutory/contractual requirement
If you wish to receive our recruitment services, you are obliged to provide the personal data and if you do not the consequences of failure to provide the data are:
• We will be unable to provide you with work finding/recruitment services.
3. Data retention
Gateway 7 will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary. Different laws 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.
Where Gateway 7 has obtained your consent to process your personal/and sensitive personal data we will do so in line with our retention policy (a copy of which can be found on our website). 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 personal data.
4. Your rights
Please be aware that you have the following data protection rights:
• The right to be informed about the personal data Gateway 7 processes on you;
• The right of access to the personal data Gateway 7 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; and
• The right to withdraw consent at any time.
Where you have consented to the Company processing your personal data an sensitive personal data you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting us on enquiries@gateway7.co.uk.
5. Changes to the Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on our website with the updated date.
6. Complaints or queries
If you wish to complain about this privacy notice or any of the procedures set out in it please contact us on enquiries@gateway7.co.uk.
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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