Cookies and Privacy Statement.

Introduction: 

Connop Brown Associates is a recruitment business which provides work-finding services to its clients and work-seekers. We must process personal data (including sensitive personal data) so that we can provide these services – in doing so, Connop Brown Associates acts as a data controller. 

You may give your personal details to the us 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. We 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 this privacy statement. At all times we will comply with current data protection laws. 

Contents

1. Collection and use of personal data 

   1. Purpose of processing and legal basis

   2. Legitimate interest

   3. Statutory/contractual requirement

   4. Recipients of data

2. Information to be provided when data is not collected directly from the data subject

   1. Categories of data

   2. Sources of data

3. Overseas transfers

4. Data retention

5. Your rights

6. Automated decision making

7. Cookies

8. Login files

9. Links to external sites

10. Sale of the business

11. Data security

12. Changes to this privacy statement

13. Complaints or queries 
    

1. Collection and use of personal data

1. Purpose of processing and legal basis

Connop Brown Associates 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. This includes for example, contacting you about job opportunities, assessing your suitability for those opportunities, updating our databases, putting you forward for job opportunities, arranging payments to you and developing and managing our services and relationship with you and our clients. 

In some cases, we may be required to use your data for the purpose of investigating, reporting and detecting crime and also to comply with laws that apply to us. We may also use your information during the course of internal audits to demonstrate our compliance with certain industry standards.

We must have a legal basis to process your personal data. The legal bases we rely upon to offer our work-finding services to you are:

• Your consent 

• Where we have a legitimate interest 

• To comply with a legal obligation that we have

• To fulfil a contractual obligation that we have with you

1. Legitimate interest 

This is where Connop Brown Associates has a legitimate reason to process your data provided it is reasonable and does not go against what you would reasonably expect from us.  A legitimate interest to process your personal data could include the following:

• Managing our database and keeping work-seeker records up to date; 

• Providing work-finding services to you and our clients; 

• Contacting you to seek your consent where we need it; 

• Giving you information about similar products or services that you have used from us recently; 

1. Statutory/contractual requirement 

Connop Brown Associates has certain legal and contractual requirements to collect personal data (e.g. to comply with the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, immigration and tax legislation, and in some circumstances safeguarding requirements.)  Our clients may also require this personal data, and/or we may need your data to enter into a contract with you. If you do not give us the personal data we need to collect we may not be able to continue to provide work-finding services to you. 

1. Recipient/s of data 

The Company will process your personal data and/or sensitive personal data with the following recipients:

• Clients (whom we may introduce or supply you to)

• Former employers whom we may seek references from

• Payroll service providers who manage payroll on our behalf or other payment intermediaries whom we may introduce you to 

• Other recruitment agencies in the supply chain

1. Information to be provided when data collected is not from the data subject  

Categories of data: The Company has collected the following personal data on you:

Personal data:

• Name, address, mobile number., email

• National insurance no. 

• Nationality (through right to work check)

• Sex/gender

• Education Details

• Employment History

Sensitive personal data: 

• Health information including whether you have a disability

• Criminal conviction

Source of the personal data: 

Connop Brown Associates may source personal data/sensitive personal data from the following: 

• Relevant jobs boards 

• LinkedIn 

• Referee’s who’s details have been provided to us  

1. Data retention

Connop Brown Associates will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purpose we collect it. Different laws may also require us to keep different data for different periods of time. For example, 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. This is currently 3 to 6 years. 

Where the Company has obtained your consent to process your personal data, we will do so in line with our retention policy. To see a copy of our retention policy please request this at datainformation@connopbrown.com. Upon expiry of that period the Company will seek further consent from you. Where consent is not granted we will cease to process your personal data. 

1. 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 Connop Brown Associates processing your personal data you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting Kelly Brown on the contact details given. Please note that if you withdraw your consent to further processing that does not affect any processing done prior to the withdrawal of that consent, or which is done according to another legal basis.

There may be circumstances where we will still need to process your data for legal or official reasons. Where this is the case, we will tell you and we will restrict the data to only what is necessary for those specific reasons. 

If you believe that any of your data that we process is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us using the details above and we will take reasonable steps to check its accuracy and correct it where necessary. 

Should you wish to exercise any of these rights please contact us at datainformation@connopbrown.com 

1. Links to external websites
   The Company’s website may contains links to other external websites. Please be aware that the Company is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.  When you leave our site we encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.  This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by the Company’s website.  

1. Sale of business

If the Company’s business is sold or integrated with another business your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers and their advisers and will be passed on to the new owners of the business.

1. Data Security

   
   Connop Brown Associates takes every precaution to protect our users information.

Security measures in relation to the personal data processed, including (but note limited to) firewalls, limited access, cloud-based systems, use of passwords, use of Malwarebytes.

Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, consultants, our accounts clerk or a marketing assistant) are granted access to your information. 

Connop Brown Associates uses all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal information. However, you should be aware that the use of email/ the Internet is not entirely secure and for this reason we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal information which is transferred from you or to you via email/ the Internet.

If you share a device with others we recommend that you do not select the “remember my details” function when that option is offered. 

If you have any questions about the security of our website, you can email datainformation@connopbrown.com.

1. Changes to this privacy statement

We will update this privacy statement from time to time.  We will post any changes on the statement with revision dates.  If we make any material changes, we will notify you. 

1. Complaints or queries 

If you wish to complain about this privacy notice or any of the procedures set out in it please contact: 
Kelly Brown - Connop Brown Associates, Woodland Lodge, Dunston Business Village, Stafford Road, Dunston, Staffordshire ST18 9AB

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.