This Privacy Policy aims to give you information on how MSPS Limited collects and processes your personal data, and what we do to ensure it is kept private and secure. Any personal information provided to us will be handled in accordance with this Policy.
1. About MSPS Limited (and how to contact us)
We are a permanent and interim recruitment consultancy. Further details can be found on our website www.msps-hr.co.uk. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please write to us as follows: mary.staddon@msps-hr.co.uk.
2. What information we collect and why
We only collect information from you which is required in the normal course of the recruitment process, to help you in your search for a suitable job role. This includes personal information which you have communicated to us either via email or via conversations with you or information that you have made available via to a job vacancy board or professional career networking site. We may also keep a record of any correspondence we receive from you and any notes we make as part of our process of administration in relation to the recruitment process.
We only collect personal information about you where you have voluntarily provided that information to us and in the event that we do receive further personal information from you, we’ll ensure that this information is kept private and secure.
We may also pass data containing your information which is not identifiable to you in an anonymised and/or statistically aggregated form to our current or future clients.
3. How we use your information
By sending us your CV and/or personal information you are consenting to us processing it for one or more of the following reasons:
• Help us to understand your career background, skills, qualifications, current job details, and to assess your suitability for position
• Represent you to a client company as a candidate for a job role
• Enter into a contract or agreement with you if applicable (for example, for temporary or interim employment)
• Comply with a legal duty upon us
• Comply with our own lawful interests or those of our client companies, provided your rights don’t override these.
In any event, your information will only be used for the purpose(s) we have collected it for or a purpose closely related to it.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us and periodically make us aware of any changes to the information you have provided to us by contacting us at: mary.staddon@msps-hr.co.uk.
We share information with our clients in putting forward potentially suitable candidates for employment with them.
We consider that it is reasonable to expect that if you are looking for employment or have posted your professional background and information on a job board or professional networking site which allows the public (including recruiters) to view your information – that you are happy for us to collect and otherwise use your personal data to offer or provide our recruitment services to you, assess your skills against our bank of vacancies and, with your consent, share that information with prospective employers.
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties in the event that we were to sell our business or assets of our business, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective buyer of the business or assets. We may also disclose your personal data to a vendor of another business or assets that we are acquiring or to a joint venture or merger partner.
4. Our website
We do not collect or process personal information about visitors to our website unless they choose to provide information e.g., by completing our contact form on the website.
We use basic cookies on our website. You can set you browser to refuse some or all browser cookies or alert you when websites set or access cookies.
5. Communications
We may contact you by email, telephone or post. We do this to liaise with you about job roles. We may also contact you to notify you of changes to this policy or changes within our business.
6. Keeping your information safe
We employ a variety of measures to keep your personal data safe and to prevent unauthorised access to, or use or disclosure of it. Electronic data and databases are stored on secure computer systems and we control who has access to them (using both physical and electronic means). Any printed copies of information necessary for the conduct of normal business are securely maintained.
Your information is only processed by individuals within our organisation who we are specifically authorised by us. Our staff receive data protection training and we have a clear procedure which we follow when handling personal data.
7. Storing your information
We only store personal information so long as it is required for the purpose(s) we it collected for (or for a related compatible purpose, such as keeping a record of a transaction). We regularly review the data we have and delete that which is no longer necessary.
We will retain your information within our database indefinitely and will remove it at any time at your request. Should you wish for us to remove your details from our database system and to cease any further communication with us, please contact us at: mary.staddon@msps-hr.co.uk. Mary Staddon is the designated Data Controller for MSPS Ltd.
We only store and process personal information within the European Economic Area (EEA).
If you believe that any information that we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us at mary.staddon@msps-hr.co.uk.
8. Your rights
We want to ensure you remain in control of your personal information. If you would like to ask us what personal data we hold about you at any time, would like us to amend your information or remove your personal information from our data system, or have any other queries, please contact us at: mary.staddon@msps-hr.co.uk.
MSPS Ltd is a data controller for the purposes of data protection regulations. We may also act as a data processor in dealing with the information that we receive from you.
We ask you to read this Privacy Policy and provide your consent for us to collect and use your personal information as described in the Policy.
9. Updates to this Policy
We may update this Policy at any time. When we do, we will post a notification on the main page of our website, with the version date at the bottom of this page. We encourage used to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect your personal information.