We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

What information will we collect? How will we use it?

We will collect data about you, both personal data (such as your name and contact details) and also sensitive personal data (such as information in your CV). The personal data and sensitive personal data will be stored, processed, used and disclosed by us in the following ways:

To provide our recruitment services to you and to facilitate the recruitment process

To assess data about you against vacancies which we judge may be suitable for you

To send your information to clients in order to apply for jobs or to assess your eligibility for jobs

To enable you to submit your CV, apply online for jobs or to subscribe to alerts about jobs we think may be of interest to you

To allow you to participate in specialist online training services

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

To market our, full range of recruitment services to you (permanent, temporary, contract, outplacement and recruitment process outsourcing services)

To enable us to develop and market other products and services and where you have consented to being contacted for such purposes

To improve our customer service and to make our services more valuable to you (including tailoring our website and our group companies websites when you log on to enrich your personal online experience)

To send you details of reports, promotions, offers, networking and client events and general information about the industry sectors which we think might be of interest to you where you have consented to being contacted for such purposes

To answer your questions and enquiries

To third parties where we have retained them to provide services that we, you or our client have requested including references, qualifications and criminal reference checking services, verification of the details you have provided from third party source, psychometric evaluation or skill test

To third parties, regulatory or law enforcement agencies if we believe in good faith that we are required by law to disclose it in connection with the detection of crime, the collection of taxes or duties, in order to comply with any applicable law or order of a court of competent jurisdiction, or in connection with legal proceedings

To use your information on an anonymised basis to monitor compliance with our equal opportunities policy

To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us

From time to time we may seek your consent to process, use or disclose your information for any other purpose not listed above.

We reserve the right to transfer your information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this Privacy Policy and provided that the third party only uses your Personal Data for the purposes that you provided it to us. You will be notified in the event of any such transfer and you will be afforded an opportunity to opt-out.

Site visitation tracking

Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.

Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third-party data processor.

Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

Email newsletter

If you choose to join our email newsletter, the email address that you submit to us will be forwarded to DotMailer who provide us with email marketing services. We consider DotMailer to be a third-party data processor. The email address that you submit will not be stored within this website’s own database or in any of our internal computer systems.

Your email address will remain within DotMailer’s database for as long as we continue to use DotMailer’s services for email marketing or until you specifically request removal from the list. You can do this by unsubscribing using the unsubscribe links contained in any email newsletters that we send you or by requesting it via email. When requesting removal via email, please send your email to us using the email account that is subscribed to the mailing list.

While your email address remains within the DotMailer database, you will receive periodic newsletter-style emails from us.

Our third-party data processors

We use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with legislation.
Google (Privacy policy)
DotMailer (Privacy policy)
Hubspot (Privacy policy)
Firefish (Privacy policy)

Data Breeches

We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third-party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

Data Controller

The data controller of this website is: Procurement PeopleCloud® Limited, a UK Private Limited Company with company number: 10465864
Whose registered office is:
Woodrow, Off Snape Hall Road,
Whitmore,
Newcastle Under Lyme,
Staffordshire,
ST5 5HS

And whose operating office is:
Blackbox Business Centre
Beech Road,
Wilmslow,
Cheshire,
SK9 5ER

Data Protection Officer

Mr Edward Cross
Executive Director, Procurement PeopleCloud® Ltd
Telephone: 020 3468 0567
Email: [email protected]

Changes to our privacy policy

This privacy policy may change from time to time in line with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.

Your rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information will be subject to:
the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity.
We may withhold such personal information to the extent permitted by law.

Third party websites

If the website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.

Where will my information be held? Where will it be accessible from?
The personal information that you provide to us (including sensitive personal information) may be accessible by other Procurement PeopleCloud® companies, clients, and the third parties specified above. Some of these Procurement PeopleCloud® companies, clients and third parties are located outside of the European Economic Area. Accordingly, your personal information will be sent to or be capable of being accessed from outside the European Economic Area. When we transfer your personal information outside the European Economic Area we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

How do I find out what information you hold? Can I amend, modify or require my information to be deleted? Can I unsubscribe to your services?

You may request us to confirm what information we hold about you at any time and may request us to modify, update or delete such information. We may ask you to verify your identity and for more information about your request. We also have the right to charge an administrative fee for this service. Where we are legally permitted to do so, we may refuse your request and will give you reasons for doing so. We will seek to act on your request in the timescale required by applicable data protection laws.

You may request to unsubscribe from job alerts and marketing material at any time.

If you wish to contact us with respect to the above matters please email us at [email protected]

How long will you hold my information for?

We are required by law to hold your information for as long as is necessary to comply with our statutory and contractual obligations and in accordance with our legitimate interests as a data controller.

We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that your Personal Data is maintained and up to date. However, you are under a duty to inform us of any and all changes to your Personal Data to ensure that it is up to date and we will update or delete your Personal Data accordingly.

Sending us information over the internet

Your information is held on servers hosted by us or our Internet Services Provider. 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.

How we collect and aggregate information about visitors to our websites

We also collect information about the way job seekers and visitors use this website in order to improve our services. We do not use information gained in this manner in a way that any individual can be identified, and will use it to understand our users better, and to determine aggregate trends, most popular pages, etc, for all the website’s users. We may share this kind of aggregate data with selected third parties to assist with these purposes where you have consented to this. We may also undertake marketing profiling to help us identify services or jobs which may be of interest to you.

Cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.
We may use both “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies on the website. Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date.

We will use the session cookies to: keep track of you whilst you navigate the website; keep track of items in your shopping basket; prevent fraud and increase website security; and other uses. We will use the persistent cookies to: enable our website to recognise you when you visit; keep track of your preferences in relation to your use of our website; and other uses.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: www.google.com/privacypolicy.html

Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies. For example, in Internet Explorer (version 9) you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block All Cookies” using the sliding selector. Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including this one.