PRIVACY POLICY

A-Rec Education are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice sets out the basis on which the personal data collected from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us in connection with our recruitment processes.

Information we Collect from you

We collect and process some or all, of the following types of information from you:

  • Information that you provide when you apply for a role. This includes information provided through an online job site, via email, in person at interviews and/or by any other method.

  • In particular, we process personal details such as name, email address, address, telephone number, date of birth, qualifications, experience, information relating to your employment history, skills and experience that you provide to us, as well as other data that will be relevant for the purposes of supplying your data.

  • If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

  • A record of your progress through any hiring process that we may conduct.

Information we Collect from Other Sources

Perspective candidates’ information such as CVs may be sourced from job boards, job websites, as well as some other databases, some publicly available and others not, which may include your personal data, to find possible candidates to fill our job openings. Where we find you in this way, we will obtain your personal data from these sources.

We may also receive your personal data from a third party who recommends you as a candidate for a specific job opening or for our business more generally.

Lawful Basis for Processing

Personal data will only be processed for the purpose of providing work-finding services.  This service is provided by contacting clients regarding job opportunities, assessing suitability for those opportunities, updating our databases, putting candidates forward for job opportunities and if we are ever required to process your data for the purpose of investigating, detecting and reporting crime and also to comply with any laws that apply; this may include demonstrating our compliance with industry standards.

We will only ever have a legal basis to process your personal data by obtaining your consent. The request for consent will be gathered during the registration process.

Where we Store your Personal Data

Your Personal Data is secured electronically and hosted within the Cloud on Amazon Web Servers, located within the UK and Ireland. There are sufficient measures in place to securely protect your data and only employees of A-Rec Education will access your data for processing reasons.

We will not transfer your personal data outside of the United Kingdom or EEA, or to any organisation (or subordinate bodies) governed by public international law or which is set up under any agreement between two or more countries.

How Long we Keep your Personal Data

As per the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), any personal data will not be kept any longer than it is necessary for the purpose for which the personal data is processed.

Your personal information will be deleted on one of the following occurrences:

  • Receipt of a written request by you to us, confirming you would like us to remove your data.

  • If your data is no longer needed by A-Rec Education for the reasons and purposes previously stated.

Your Rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation and the UK GDPR, you have a number of important rights free of charge. For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals rights under the UK GDPR.

The General Data Protection Regulation and the UK GDPR also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular (under the GDPR) in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.