Privacy Policy

Oakwell Hampton (“Oakwell Hampton” or ”We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

Our Group means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, our associated companies as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006 (our Group).

This notice sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is a new regulation which replaces the Data Protection Regulation (Directive 95/46/EC) The Regulation aims to harmonise data protection legislation across EU member states, enhancing privacy rights for individuals and providing a strict framework within which commercial organisations can legally operate.

Even though the UK has expressed its intention to leave the EU in March 2019, the GDPR will be applicable in the UK from 25th May 2018. The Government intends for the GDPR to continue in UK law post Brexit and has also introduced a Data Protection Bill to replace the current Data Protection Act in due course.

Your new rights under the GDPR are set out in this notice but will only apply once the GDPR becomes law on 25th May 2018.

Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

For the purposes of data protection legislation in force from time to time the data controller is Oakwell Hampton trading as Oakwell Hampton.

Who we are and what we do

We are a recruitment agency and recruitment business as defined in the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (our business). For some clients, we also act as a managed service provider. We collect the personal data of the following types of people to allow us to undertake our business;

Prospective and placed candidates for permanent or temporary roles;

Client contacts;

Supplier contacts to support our services;

Employees, consultants, temporary workers;

Website Users;

Referees and Emergency contacts.

Information you give to us or we collect about you

We collect information about you to carry out our core business and ancillary activities.

This is information about you that you give us by filling in forms on our site www.Oakwell Hampton.com (our site) or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. It includes information you provide when you engage with us for recruitment services.

The information we collect may include your name, email address(es), telephone number, CV’s, identification and right to work documents, educational records, work history, employment and references.

In general, we will not ask you about sensitive personal data but there may be times that it is necessary for information to be disclosed to us and for us to share that with potential employers. We will only share the information where you have provided your explicit consent.

Information we collect about you when you visit our website

With regard to each of your visits to our site we will automatically collect the following information:

Technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information if applicable, the dates, times and frequencies with which you access the website and the way you browse its contents.

This data is collected automatically via cookies, in line with the cookie settings in your browser. For further information please see our cookie policy.

Information we obtain from other sources

This is information we obtain about you from other sources such as Job Boards, Social Media sites, Corporate Websites or Direct Referrals. In this case we will inform you, by sending you a link to this privacy notice, within a maximum of 30 days from collecting the data, of the fact we hold personal data about you, the source the personal data originates from and for what purpose we intend to retain and process your personal data.

We are working closely with third parties including sub-contractors in technical, professional, payment and other services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies, professional advisors. We may receive information about you from them for the purposes of our recruitment services and ancillary support services.

Purposes of the processing and the legal basis for the processing

We use information held about you in the following ways:

The core service we offer to our candidates and clients is the introduction of candidates to our clients for the purpose of temporary or permanent engagement. However, our service expands to supporting individuals throughout their career and to supporting businesses’ resourcing needs and strategies.

Our legal basis for the processing of personal data is our legitimate business interests, described in more detail below, although we will also rely on contract, legal obligation and consent for specific uses of data.

We will rely on contract if we are negotiating or have entered into a placement agreement with you or your organisation or any other contract to provide services to you or receive services from you or your organisation.

We will rely on legal obligation if we are legally requires to hold information on to you to fulfil our legal obligations.

We will in some circumstances rely on consent for particular uses of your data and you will be asked for your express consent, if legally required.

Our Legitimate Business Interests

Our legitimate interests in collecting and retaining your personal data is described below:

As a recruitment business and recruitment agency we introduce candidates to clients for permanent employment, temporary worker placements or independent professional contracts. The exchange of personal data of our candidates and our client contacts is a fundamental, essential part of this process.

In order to support our candidates’ career aspirations and our clients’ resourcing needs we require a database of candidate and client personal data containing historical information as well as current resourcing requirements.

To maintain, expand and develop our business we need to record the personal data of prospective candidates and client contacts.

Consent

Should we want or need to rely on consent to lawfully process your data we will request your consent orally, by email or by an online process for the specific activity we require consent for and record your response on our system. Where consent is the lawful basis for our processing you have the right to withdraw your consent to this particular processing at any time.

Other Uses we will make of your data:

Use of our website;

to notify you about changes to our service;

to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

We will use this information:

to administer our site and for internal operations, including statistical and survey purposes;

to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;

to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;

as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;

to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;

to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.

We do not undertake automated decision making or profiling. We do use our computer systems to search and identify personal data in accordance with parameters set by our consultants. A consultant will always be involved in the decision making process.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookies notice.

Disclosure of your information inside and outside of the EEA

We will share your personal information with:

Selected third parties including:

clients for the purpose of introducing candidates to them;

clients for the purpose of arranging interviews and engagements;

clients, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance and compliance obligations of any contract we enter into with them or you;

subcontractors including digital marketing specialists and payment providers

analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site;

credit reference agencies, our insurance broker, compliance partners and other sub-contractors for the purpose of assessing your suitability for a role where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.

We will disclose your personal information to third parties:

In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.

If Oakwell Hampton or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.

If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Oakwell Hampton, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.]

The lawful basis for the third party processing will include:

Their own legitimate business interests in processing your personal data, in most cases to fulfil their internal resourcing needs;

satisfaction of their contractual obligations to us as our data processor;

for the purpose of a contract in place or in contemplation;

to fulfil their legal obligations.

Where we store and process your personal data

The data that we collect from you may/will be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (”EEA”). It may be transferred to third parties outside of the EEA for the purpose of our recruitment services. It may/will also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. This includes staff engaged in, among other things, our recruitment services and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy notice. In the event that we do need to make transfers to countries outside the EEA, we will ensure the appropriate safeguards are in place.

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Retention of your data

We understand our legal duty to retain accurate data and only retain personal data for as long as we need it for our legitimate business interests and that you are happy for us to do so. Accordingly, we have a data retention notice.

We do the following to try to ensure our data is accurate:

Prior to making an introduction we check that we have accurate information about you

We keep in touch with you so you can let us know of changes to your personal data.

We may archive part or all of your personal data or retain it on our financial systems only, deleting all or part of it from our main Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. We may anonymise parts of your data, particularly following a request for suppression or deletion of your data.

For your information, anonymised data is created by taking identifying fields within a database and replacing them with artificial identifiers.

Retention notice

We will delete your personal data from our systems if we have not had any meaningful contact with you (or, where appropriate, the company you are working for or with) for six years (or for such longer period as we believe in good faith that the law or relevant regulators require us to preserve your data).

By "meaningful contact", we mean, for example, communication between us (either verbal or written), or where you are actively engaging with our online services. If you are a Candidate we will consider there to be meaningful contact with you if you submit your updated CV onto our website. Or if you communicate with us about potential roles, either by verbal or written communication or click through from any of our recruitment related communications.

Please note that we may need to continue to process your personal information in certain circumstances for specified periods up to seven years. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring you have the right to work in the UK; allowing us to comply with HMRC reporting requirements regarding payroll information; or to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim.

Your rights

For the purpose of providing you our full recruitment services we may occasionally send email communication such as specific job opportunities or relevant industry recruitment trends. You can manage your email communication preferences by contacting a Oakwell Hampton consultant, completing relevant boxes on our registration form, or updating your preferences on our website.

To clarify, contacting you about specific job opportunities or industry recruitment trends is not marketing because we are not advertising or marketing our services.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner suppliers. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

The GDPR provides you with the following rights to:

Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.

Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing.

Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.

Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.

Request the transfer of your personal information to another party in certain formats, if practicable.

Make a complaint to a supervisory body which in the United Kingdom is the Information Commissioner’s Office. The ICO can be contacted through this link: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

For any clarification on the above rights, please contact the Compliance Team at Oakwell Hampton or emailing: admin@oakwellhampton.com

Access to information

The Data Protection Act 1998 and the GDPR give you the right to access information held about you. We also encourage you to contact us to ensure your data is accurate and complete.

Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the GDPR.

A subject access request should be submitted to: admin@oakwellhampton.com

Changes to our privacy notice

Any changes we make to our privacy notice in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy notice.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy notice are welcomed and should be addressed to:

The Data Protection Team who can be contacted at admin@oakwellhampton.com

or you can write to:

The Data Protection Team

Oakwell Hampton

Floor 4, 2-4

Exchange Street,

St Ann's Square,

Manchester

M2 7HA