Data and Privacy Policy

Website

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

  • These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

  • These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

  • This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

    • Information about your browser, network, or device

    • Your IP address

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Uploading Your CV and Contact Form

Attribution Search Limited (company number 12705778) is committed to protecting the privacy of our candidates, clients and users of our website. We ensure we provide a safe and secure user experience.

We will ensure that the information you submit to us via our website, application to a job advertisement or offices is only used for the purposes set out in this policy.

Attribution Search Limited is a recruitment business which provides recruitment services to clients and job seekers.  Attribution Search Limited must process personal data, including sensitive personal data such as ethnic origin and criminal convictions so it can provide such services. 

How We Use Your Data

Attribution Search Limited may collect your personal details, including but not limited to your name and contact details (together with your e-mail address) and other relevant information from your CV. On occasions this may also include - sensitive personal information such as details of criminal convictions and ethnic origin.  

You may give your personal details to Attribution Search directly, such as an application, registration or uploading your cv via our website, or we may process them from another source such as job boards or LinkedIn. 

For the purpose of providing you with recruitment services and/or information relating to job positions relevant to you, Attribution Search Limited will only use your personal data in accordance with the terms of the following statement.

This private policy explains when and why we collect personal data about people who enquire about roles we advertise.  This policy also outlines how this information is used, the conditions under which we may disclose information to others and how we keep personal information safe and secure. 

As mentioned above, at Attribution Search Limited we’re committed to protecting the privacy of our candidates and clients data and are clear and transparent in everything we do.  We may change this Policy going forward so please check this page to ensure that you’re happy with any changes.  By using our website you’re agreeing to be bound by this Policy. 

Attribution Search Limited collect your personal data (which may include sensitive personal data) and will process your personal data for the purpose of providing you with job opportunities.  The legal bases we rely upon to offer these services to you are:

  • Consent

  • Legitimate Interest

  • Legal Obligation

  • Contractual Obligation

 

How we use your data

This information is held, used and disclosed by us as follows: 

  • to provide our services to you

  • to maintain our business relationship, where you are a user of our website, a client or candidate

  • to enable you to submit your CV for general applications, to apply for specific jobs or to subscribe to our job alerts. Please see the separate section on your CV below which outlines additional uses and disclosures to match your details with job vacancies, to assist us in finding a position that is most suitable for you and to send your personal information (including sensitive personal information) to clients in order to apply for jobs

  • to answer your enquiries

  • to direct-market products and services, advise you of news and industry updates, events, promotions and competitions, reports and other information. Where we do so, you will be able to unsubscribe from such communications

  • to fulfil contractual obligations with our clients

  • to trusted third parties where we have retained them to provide services that you or our clients have requested, such as reference, qualification and criminal reference checking services (as required), verification of the details you have provided from third party sources, psychometric evaluations or skills tests. These third parties comply with similar and equally stringent undertakings of privacy and confidentiality

  • we may also release personal information to regulatory or law enforcement agencies, if they require us to do so. We will also disclose your information where we are permitted and requested to do so by law

  • we may also seek your consent to collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for any other purpose not listed above

  • all information stored will be done so in line with the Data Protection Act (1998) as well as latest requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018.

Curriculum vitae

We give you the option of submitting your CV via our website or by providing your CV to one of our consultants. You can do this either to apply for a specific advertised job or for consideration by our recruitment consultants for positions as they come up. Your CV will be stored in the database. 

You can update your CV at any time, simply by following the same procedure to submit a new CV. Your old CV will automatically be archived providing the submission details remain the same (for example you submit both CVs using the same email address or you advise the relevant contact of your new submission).

How we safeguard your personal data?

Data security is of great importance to Attribution Search Limited and to protect your Data we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure Data collected via this Website. Non-sensitive details (your email address etc.) are transmitted normally over the Internet, and this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

How long do we keep your personal data for?

We will hold your data for no longer than it is required and in accordance with our data retention and disposal policy. We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that your Personal Data is maintained and up to date. We rely on you to inform us of all changes to your Personal Data to ensure that it is up to date and we will update or delete your Personal Data accordingly.

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.

 

What type of data will we collect?

We will collect data about you, both personal data (such as your name and contact details) and sensitive personal data (such as information in your CV). Depending on the relevant circumstances and applicable laws and requirements, we may collect some or all of the information listed below to enable us to offer you employment opportunities which are tailored to your circumstances and your interests.

  • Name;

  • Age/date of birth;

  • Sex/gender;

  • Marital status;

  • Education details;

  • Employment history;

  • Professional qualifications;

  • Emergency contacts and details of any dependants,

  • Referee details;

  • Immigration status (whether you need a work permit);

  • Nationality/citizenship/place of birth;

  • A copy of your driving licence and/or passport/identity card;

  • Financial information (where we need to carry out financial background checks);

  • Social security number (or equivalent in your country) and any other tax-related information;

  • Diversity information including racial or ethnic origin, religious or other similar beliefs, and physical or mental health, including disability-related information;

  • Details of any criminal convictions if this is required for a role you are applying for;

  • Details about your current remuneration, pensions and benefits arrangements, Information on your interests and needs regarding future employment, both collected directly and inferred, for example from jobs viewed or articles read on our website;

  • Extra information that you choose to tell us;

  • Extra information that your referees chooses to tell us about you;

  • Extra information that our clients may tell us about you, or that we find from other third-party sources such as job sites;

The dates, times and frequency with which you access our services; and CCTV footage if you attend our premises.

 

Your individual 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.

The accuracy of your information is important to us. We’re working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you. In the meantime, if you change your email address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please contact us at: info@attributionsearch.com

 

Complaints or Queries

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the law you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Details can be found here: https://ico.org.uk/concerns

 

Changing and reviewing this Privacy Policy

Attribution Search Limited reserves the right to change this privacy policy as we may deem necessary from time to time or as may be required by law. Any changes will be immediately posted on the Website and you are deemed to have accepted the terms of the privacy policy on your first use of the Website following the alterations.

We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated in Sep 2020.

Any questions regarding our privacy policy should be sent to: info@attributionsearch.com