Shields Talent commit to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and protect the privacy of our candidates, clients, employees and users of our website. Shields Talent also commit to providing a safe and secure user experience ensuring the information you submit to us via our website or through our offices is only used for the purposes set out in this policy.
In order for Shields Talent to engage with you, keep you informed of, and introduce you to relevant opportunities we request consent to hold your personal data. Without consent to hold your personal data we will not be able to represent you, legally obliged to remove you from our database and therefore unable to introduce you to relevant employment opportunities.
Shields Talent operate as an employment recruitment agency, retained by companies to identify, and place individuals into permanent employment. The collection of personal data is necessary for Shields Talent to function and perform our duties as an employer, as an employment recruitment agency.
Shields Talent collect personal details, including but not limited to, your name, address and contact details including email address. We may also collect and store other information from your CV or application form including current and previous employers, details of your skills, work experience, education, salary, expectations, and qualifications.
We then store other pertinent details relating to our dealings with you, including but not limited to, records of interviews, opportunities we have put you forward for, and any other information you have provided to us and copies of correspondence.
It is unlikely we will process any identifiable data which would be categorised as Special Category under the relevant data protection legislation unless it is to meet a legal requirement, for example to evidence right to work or identity.
We will hold your personal data:
You have the option of submitting your CV via our website, via third party job boards, via email, in person or by completing an application form. You can do this either for a specific current opportunity or for consideration for future opportunities. Your application / CV will be stored on our database of candidates and will be accessible by all the employees at our company. You can update or remove your CV and details at any time by contacting us.
We are an equal opportunity business and committed to diversity. All job applicants, clients and members of staff will receive equal treatment and not be discriminated against on the grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnic or national origin, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity, religion or age.
We will only make your personal information visible to the organisations we are working with when you are put forward for an opportunity or a legal requirement or required for the fulfilment and ongoing management of a contract where we have placed or hired you. We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:
In addition to our typical processing, we may use the information we hold about you in order to contact you in the following circumstances:
Barring any other legal requirement, we will hold your data for no longer than 24 months since last providing services before seeking confirmation that you are happy for us to continue to hold your data. If we have placed you either with one of our clients or you have been employed directly by us, we are required by law to hold certain data for a longer period to comply with our legal obligations such as Working Time, Right to Work and Agency worker Regulations.
All information that you provide to us, or we collect about you is stored on secure servers. We understand that this includes confidential information and Shields Talent and our data processors have put in place a range of suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure your information. Our staff have the minimum required access to your data, and are trained to ensure that it is protected, and kept secure.
Unfortunately, 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 us; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. We do not store your information for longer than is necessary to provide the service, and to ensure that we have appropriate auditable records for business purposes.
We use a number of different cookies on our site. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance.The list below describes the cookies we use on this site and what we use them for. Currently we operate an ‘explicit consent’ policy which means that you have the option to consent to cookie usage when you first visit our site, by ticking an ‘opt in’ box. If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete the cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari.)
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.
These are cookies that are set by this website directly. Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit whilst on our website, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site and is not tied to personally identifiable information. We therefore do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy with regards to its analytics service at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html Google are based in the USA and are EU-U.S Privacy Shield compliant.
These are cookies set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on this site. Cookies of this type are the sharing buttons across the site which allow visitors to share content onto social networks. Cookies are currently set by LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Google. In order to implement these buttons, and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, there are scripts from domains outside of our website. You should be aware that these sites are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all around the internet, including on this website. You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.
We use a session cookie to remember your log-in details for you. These we deem strictly necessary to the working of the website. If these are disabled then various functionality on the site will be broken, including the ability to log-in.
Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
You have the right to request from us access to your own personal information. This is sometimes known as a 'subject access request'.
Additionally, you have the right to request from us:
Many of the rights listed above are limited to certain defined circumstances and we may not always be able to comply with your request. We will tell you if this is the case.
You also have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for direct marketing. We will inform you if we intend to use your information for this purpose or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for this purpose. You can exercise your right to prevent us using your information in this way by contacting us.
If you choose to make a request to us to exercise any of these rights, we will aim to respond to you as soon as we reasonably can but no later than one month. We will not charge a fee for dealing with any reasonable request.
If you are unhappy with how we are using your personal information or if you wish to complain about how we have handled a request, then please contact Jackie Shields.
You may also contact the Information Commissioners Office at www.ico.org.uk or 0303 123 1113.
Any changes we may make to our privacy notice in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy notice.