Privacy Policy

Options Resourcing Ltd (‘The Company’) is an employment agency and business which provides workfinding services to its clients and work-seekers. The Company must process personal data (including sensitive personal data) so that it can provide these services – in doing so, the Company acts as a data controller. The GDPR apply to all personal data we process regardless of how we receive the information and regardless of whether we engage you directly or receive your personal data from a third party. You may give your personal details to the Company 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. The Company must have a legal basis for processing your personal data. For the purposes of providing you with workfinding 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. Collection and use of personal data

a. Personal data we may collect from you

In order to provide the best possible work-finding services we need to collect certain personal and sensitive personal data from you. We only ask for details that that are needed for the provision of workfinding services. If you are a candidate this may include your name, age, contact details, details of education and qualification, work history, referees, emergency contacts, nationality/eligibility details including immigration status, driving license details, National Insurance number and where in accordance with UK law and requirements, we may also collect information relating to your health, disability, diversity and details of any criminal convictions. Where relevant, we may also collect from you information needed in order to ensure you can be paid such as bank details.

b. Purpose of processing and legal basis

The Company will collect and process your personal data (which may include sensitive 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: Legitimate interest Article 6 (1)(f) of the GDPR say that we can process your data where it “necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data”. For candidates, if you are looking for a role or have posted your CV information on a job board or networking site, we will assume you are happy for us to collect and use your personal data to offer or provide to you our work-finding services as well as to share that information with prospective employers. If you are about to potentially secure a role with one of our clients, our client may also need to double check any information you’ve given us, to the extent that this is appropriate and in accordance with UK laws. We need to do these things so that we can operate as an employment agency and business to enable us to secure you roles and send you appropriate communications about roles that might be of interest to you. For clients, in order to provide our work-finding services we will need to store personal data of individual contacts in your business as well as keep records of conversations and meetings. We may also contact you about candidates who are looking for roles or to undertake a customer satisfaction survey. We think this is reasonable and these uses of your data to be necessary for our legitimate interests as an employment agency and business providing work-finding services to you. Legal Obligation Article 6(1)(c) provides a lawful basis for processing where “processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject”. In our business of being an employment agency and business we will often have legal obligations to process and retain your personal data in order to comply with our responsibilities to HMRC and under UK law. Consent In certain circumstances, we are required to obtain your consent to the processing of your personal data in relation to certain activities. Article 4 (11) of the GDPR states that consent is “any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the process of personal data relating to him or her.” This requires us to ensure you have given your consent freely, you know what you are consenting to and that you take positive action to give us your consent. We will keep records of the consents you have given in this way. c. Recipient/s of data Where appropriate and in accordance with UK laws and requirements, we may share or process your personal data and/or sensitive personal data with the following categories of recipients:

  • Any of our group companies or LLPs;
  • Individuals and organisations who hold information related to your reference or application for a role with, including but not limited to current, past or prospective employers;
  • Tax, audit or other authorities, when required by law or other regulations or requirements to share this data;
  • Third party service providers who perform functions for us in our business of operating as an employment agency and business (including professional advisers such as lawyers, auditors and accountants, technical support functions, payroll and billing services, intermediary service providers, outsourced IT providers and IT consultants carrying out testing and development work on our IT systems).
  • Marketing technology platforms and suppliers;
  • Potential employers and other organisations to increase your chance of finding a role;
  • Third party recruitment platform providers, such as Managed Service Providers, where necessary to enable you to be placed in a role;
  • Third parties providing services such as checking references, qualifications, eligibility or criminal convictions, to the extent that these checks are appropriate and in accordance with UK law.

d. Statutory/Contractual Requirement

Your personal data may be required by law and/or a contractual requirement (e.g. our client may require this personal data), and/or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract. If it is required, you are obliged to provide the personal data and if you do not the consequences of failure to provide the data are:

  • We may no longer be able to provide work-finding services to you to find a role;
  • Payments to you may be delayed.

2. Overseas Transfers

The Company may transfer only the information you provide to us to countries outside the European Economic Area (‘EEA’) for the purposes of providing you with work-finding services. We will take steps to ensure adequate protections are in place to ensure the security of your information. The EEA comprises the EU member states plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

3. Data retention

The Company will retain your personal and sensitive 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. We must also keep your payroll records, holiday pay, sick pay and pensions auto-enrolment records for as long as is legally required by HMRC and associated national minimum wage, social security and tax legislation. We will regularly review how long we keep data for.

4. Your rights

Please be aware that you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to be informed about the personal data the Company processes on you;
  • The right of access to the personal data the Company 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;
  • The right not to be subjected to automated decision making and profiling; and
  • The right to withdraw consent at any time.

Where you have consented to the Company processing your personal and sensitive personal data you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Please see Section 5 for contact details.

5. Using our Website IP Addresses

When you visit our website, we may collect information about your computer, including your IP address (the unique address which identifies your computer on the internet), operating system and browser type, for system and website administration and to collect broad demographic information for aggregate use. This is statistical data about our users browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.

Website traffic monitoring

We may also obtain and compile or appoint third parties to obtain and compile on our behalf, details of your visits to our website(s) including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, the resources that you access, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing or marketing purposes or otherwise. This data does not identify any individual but may identify organisations and we may use that information in managing our relationship with those organisations, for example, in considering how to develop the services that we offer them.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Please contact us for information on the cookies we use and why. The cookies we use and how we use them: wfvt_XXXXXXX (e.g. wfvt_3564096272) wordfence_verifiedHuman For administrating the contents of our website, we use the web application WordPress. The cookie wfvt_(followed by an individual number) is used for analysing user behaviour on our websites to improve our offer. The cookie wordfence_verifiedHuman is used for the security of the website offer. Google Analytics Cookie (_ga, _gid and _gat) These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Click here for an overview of privacy at Google: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Session cookie: PHPSESSID

This cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to store serialised state data. On the Options Resourcing website it is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie. As the PHPSESSID cookie has no timed expiry, it disappears when the client is closed.

How do I change my cookie settings?

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

6. Contact details

If you wish to complain about this privacy notice or any of the procedures set out in it, or act on any of your rights set out in Section 4 please write to: Data Protection Options Resourcing Ltd 1st Floor, Spectrum House 1600 Parkway, Solent Business Park Whiteley PO15 7AH 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. Mr. P. Ingram – Director

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