Privacy Policy

Hanell Recruitment is a recruitment business which provides work-finding services to its clients and work-seekers.

Hanell Recruitment must process personal data (including sensitive personal data) so that it can provide these services - in doing so, Hanell Recruitment acts as a data controller.

You may give your personal details to Hanell Recruitment 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 or LinkedIn.

Hanell Recruitment 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

1. Collection and use of personal data

a. Purpose of processing and legal basis

Hanell Recruitment 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:

• Legitimate interest
• Consent
• Legal obligation
• Contractual obligation

b. Legitimate interest

Where Hanell Recruitment has relied on a legitimate interest to process your personal data our legitimate interests are as follows: Hanell Recruitment's aim is to fill a vacancy for a customer by finding the best possible candidate using several means. This may be a search on its historical database, advertising for applicants or searching a job board or social media site such as LinkedIn. Hanell Recruitment has a legitimate interest in approaching a candidate who themselves are 'Open to Opportunities' on LinkedIn or have uploaded their CV to a job board and will then consent to continue discussions and apply via the Hanell Recruitment website.

c. Recipient/s of data

Hanell Recruitment will process your personal data and/or sensitive personal data with the following recipients, with your permission and after a telephone screening call, with a customer who we are looking to fill a position for. Hanell Recruitment do not send your data to a third party without your knowledge.

d. Statutory/contractual requirement

Your personal data is not required as part of a statutory and/or contractual requirement, and/or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

2. Data retention

Hanell Recruitment will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary, which has been identified as a period of 5 years. 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 Hanell Recruitment has obtained your consent to process your personal data, we will do so in line with the REC retention policy. Upon expiry of that period Hanell Recruitment will seek further consent from you. Where consent is not granted Hanell Recruitment will cease to process your personal data.

3. Your rights

Please be aware that you have the following data protection rights:

• The right to be informed about the personal data Hanell Recruitment processes on you;
• The right of access to the personal data Hanell Recruitment 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 Hanell Recruitment processing your personal data/sensitive personal data you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting Mark Hewes at mark.hewes@hanellrecruitment.co.uk.

4. Complaints or queries

If you wish to complain about this privacy notice or any of the procedures set out in it please contact: Mark Hewes at mark.hewes@hanellrecruitment.co.uk.

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.