Data Protection Privacy Notice
We respect your trust in us to use, store and share your personal information. In this notice, we carefully explain how we collect your personal information, how we use it, and how you can communicate with us about that information.
If you are unfamiliar with any of the information, or terms or, want more detail on any of the information here, please feel free to contact our Data Officer directly in confidence, full contact details are available on our website www.mymrecruitment.com
The Company is a recruitment business which provides work-finding 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 and processor.
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 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.
- Collection and use of personal data
- Purpose of processing and legal basis
The Company 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
- Legitimate interest
Where the Company has relied on a legitimate interest to process your personal data our legitimate interests are as follows:
- Work-Finding Services, finding you a job on a temporary, contract or permanent basis.
- Advising you on your C.V. or assisting you with interview techniques etc.
- Recipient/s of data
The Company will process your personal data and/or sensitive personal data with the following recipients:
- CJS Payroll for Payroll Purposes.
- One of our hiring clients with your consent when being presented for consideration for a job.
- As required by law or any legal entity such as The Department of Works and Pensions/Department of Social Welfare
- Statutory/contractual requirement
Your personal data is 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. You are obliged to provide the personal data and if you do not the consequences of failure to provide the data are:
Failure to qualify to be presented to a client for consideration for a job.
- Overseas Transfers [Optional]
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.
- Data retention
The Company 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.
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.
Where the Company has obtained your consent to process your [personal & sensitive personal data, we will do so in line with our retention policy [(a copy of which is attached)]. 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 & sensitive personal data].
Our retention period is 6 years from first initial contact.
- 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 data & sensitive personal data] you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting
Our Data Protection Officer Julie Mc Gettigan in writing E: dpo@mymrecruitment.com
- Complaints or queries
If you wish to complain about this privacy notice or any of the procedures set out in it, please contact: Our Data Protection Officer above.
