Privacy Policy

Pearce Recruitment Limited trading as Accept Recruitment ("Accept Recruitment", "we" or "us") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This privacy notice (together with other documents referred to herein) describes what personal information we collect from you and how we process your personal information when you use the Accept Recruitment website ("website").

Contents

• Personal data we may collect from you
• Who we are and what we do
• How we obtain your personal data
• How we use your personal data
• What does the law say about Privacy Policy
• Do we process data about you without any human intervention at all
• How long do you keep my personal data for
• Sharing with third parties
• IP addresses and cookies
• Where your personal data is stored and processed
• Do we transfer your data outside the European Union
• Data security
• Your rights. How you can access, correct and delete your personal data
• Marketing communications
• Changes to this policy
• Contact

Personal Data We May Collect From You

• We may collect personal data on your visits to our website including, but not limited to, your IP address, browser, timestamp, content from surveys and contact forms and other communication data and the resources that you access. Our collection of this personal information will make your visit to the website easier in the future as we will be able to suggest content that is relevant to you based on the location you access the website from, what content you access and how you interact with it;
• We may also collect information for marketing purposes and analysis, including information on how you respond to email, SMS or text message, phone and other marketing campaigns;
• We will collect any information you provide to us when you use our contact forms (The provision of your personal information via our contact forms is not a statutory or contractual requirement; however, please note that fields marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory fields, because we need this information to comply with or respond to your request, or to improve your future experiences with us and our website.
• We may use your personal information to send you direct marketing via email and other communication means when you opt-in for this purpose in the relevant contact form. You may opt-out of receiving future marketing communications at any time by emailing: admin@acceptrec.co.uk
• Use of Cookies: 'Cookies' are ways of saving a small amount of personal information. We only use them to save your username or password to allow easy access to our site. We advise you not to use 'cookies' if your computer is shared by other people.

Who Are We and What We Do

We are a recruitment agency as defined in the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. 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,
• Prospective and live client contacts,
• Supplier contacts to support our services, including agency contacts,
• Employees, consultants, temporary workers.

How We Obtain Your Personal Data

A) Information you give us or we may collect from you

We may collect information about you when you fill in forms on our website, for example www.acceptrec.co.uk or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. It includes information you provide when you register to use our site, to enter our database, subscribe to our services, attend our events, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our site or enter a competition, promotion or survey.

The information you give us, or we collect about you may include:

• information contained in your CV or job application such as your name, address, private and corporate e-mail address and phone number;
• information contained in any documents that you send to any of us for identity verification purposes such as your passport or driving licence;
• financial information, compliance documentation and references verifying your qualifications and experience and your right to work in the United Kingdom,
• links to your professional profiles available in the public domain e.g. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook or corporate website,
• information that you provide about yourself when negotiating or entering into a contract with us.

B) Information we collect about you when you visit our websites

With regard to each of your visits to our websites, we will collect the following information:

• information that you provide by filling in forms on any of our websites,
• technical information relating to your visits including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs, other communication data and the resources that you access,
• information when you respond to a survey and/or when you report a problem with one any of our websites.

C) Information we obtain from other sources

This is information that we obtained about you from other sources such as LinkedIn, corporate websites, job boards, online CV libraries, your business card and personal recommendations.

D) Special categories of data

(i) Diversity

If requested to do so by a client, or it is a requirement of our contract with a client, we may ask you for some ethnicity and diversity information to support the client's equal opportunities monitoring. As this information is 'sensitive' personal information we need to obtain your explicit consent before we can use it.

(ii) Criminal convictions

If a client requests us to obtain a criminal convictions check as part of their pre-employment or pre-engagement screening process, we will contact you first to explain the process and obtain your explicit consent to proceed.

How We Use Your Personal Data

Your personal data will be collected and handled by us for the following purposes:

• to provide you with the services you expect us to,
• to best tailor content and resources according to your preferences,
• to respond to your request or questions when you contact us,
• with your consent we may also use your contact data for direct marketing,
• to send to you other information that may be of interest to you,
• to help us create, publish, and improve content most relevant to you,
• to ensure that the content provided through the website is presented in the most effective manner,
• to allow you to participate in interactive features of our website,
• to further develop and improve the website and systems to better serve you,
• where necessary, to comply with any legal obligation.

Data Retention

We will keep your information for as long as you wish to receive our communications and thereafter for the longer of the period required in order to meet our business, legal or regulatory responsibilities.

If you cease to actively engage with us:

• if you are a candidate seeking a permanent or fixed term engagement, we will retain your personal data for two (2) years after the date we last had meaningful contact with you;
• if you are a candidate seeking a temporary assignment or a contracting role, we will retain your personal data for two (2) years after date we last had meaningful contact with you.

Your Rights

The GDPR provides you with the following rights:

• Request correction of personal information that we hold about you
• Request erasure of your personal information
• Object to processing of your personal information
• Request the restrictions of processing of your personal information
• Request the transfer of your personal information to another party
• Make a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

Marketing Communications

We will only send marketing communications to you via email or other communication means where you have consented that we may do so. You can opt out of receiving any further marketing communications by clicking the 'unsubscribe' function in the email or by contacting us at admin@acceptrec.co.uk

Contact

To exercise your rights or for any questions about this policy, contact us at: admin@acceptrec.co.uk