Choice Associates Limited Privacy Policy Statement

Choice Associates Limited Registered in England: No 12665525 is committed to protecting the privacy of our clients, candidates and users of our website. We will ensure that the information we store is only used for “specified, explicit and legitimate purposes” set out in this policy.

The policy describes how we protect your rights through the methods of storing and using your personal data, it also describes the rights you hold to the data that has been introduced to Choice Associates Limited.

Privacy and Confidentiality is integral when establishing a successful recruitment company, this ethos is instilled in every process and procedure we take to establish a secure and safe service for both our candidates and clients.

As an operational recruitment business, our primary objective is to introduce personal information with consent to our business clients in the form of CV’s and profiles for permanent employment and contract placements. It is essential that we keep hold of historical and current information in order to best support the requirements of our candidates and clients to assist them find the right opportunity based around their current and future needs.

When applying through our website or by contacting  Choice Associates Limited directly or indirectly via e-mail, telephone or social media then you are agreeing to the use of your personal data unless stated otherwise, we will upload your information to our database and will continue to remain in contact with either opportunities and/or candidates that match your criteria.

Through this Privacy Policy we aim to inform you about the types of personal data we collect and for the purposes of which we use the data and the ways in which the data is handled.  We also aim to satisfy the obligation of transparency under the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”) and national laws implementing GDPR.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 and GDPR their data controller of personal data is Choice Associates Limited, officially registered at 112-114 Witton Street, Northwich, Cheshire, UK,CW9 5NW.

Choice Associates Limited collects the following owner’s personal data:

• Prospective and active candidates and registered website users
• Prospective and current clients
• Supplier contacts

Candidates Data

We will collect your personal details, including your name and contact information, which may or may not include, contact telephone number(s), e-mail address(s), Skype ID(s), address(s) and other relevant information from, and including your Curriculum Vitae (“CV”), salary & package detail, travel documents, qualifications and certificates.

The source of contact information may come from you directly, a directory, a third party job board or social media platform, please note that other platforms where we gather your information will have their own privacy policy that should also be read and agreed by the individual.

We will likely obtain further personal information about you during the course of our relationship with you.  This information may be obtained from you directly or from third parties, such as references, organisations to whom we have provided your CV and who have engaged with you as part of a job application.

Client Data

Choice Associates Limited aims to support our customers by providing an agreed service outlined in signed terms of business. We will store contact details or the details of individual contacts (such as their names, telephone numbers and email addresses) at organisations we trade with and in addition for business development purposes and prospective clients. We may also hold extra information that someone in your organisation has chosen to tell us. There are two main ways in which we collect your personal data: directly from you; from third parties (e.g. our Candidates) and other limited sources (e.g. online and offline media).

How we use your Personal Information

We will hold, use and disclose your personal information, for our legitimate business purposes only including: 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; 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 retain your details and notify you about future job opportunities other than the specific role for which you have contacted us or for which we have contacted you; to answer your enquiries.

We may process, in accordance with local regulations, certain sensitive personal data (known as special category data in GDPR) where you include it in information you send to us e.g. if you include information about your health, religion or ethnic origin in the CV you send to us.  We may also be required to conduct a criminal record check against your details.