Howells Consulting Ltd is a recruitment business and is the data controller of all personal data provided to us. We are committed to protecting the security of our candidates, clients and users of our website. For the purpose of transparency, this privacy notice will provide information on the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use our service and the rights you have in relation to this data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulations (2018).

Candidates

If you are a candidate, we will only collect necessary information from you to allow us to provide our business services. This personal data
may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • Full name
  • Phone number
  • Education details
  • Employment history
  • Immigration status
  • Remuneration information

Clients

In providing agreed recruitment services to you we will need to collect and use information about you, or individuals at your organisation. We will also store information related to previous business conducted with you.

Data Collection

We may collect personal data from any of these locations:

  • Phone, email or in writing
  • Provision of a CV
  • Responding to a job opportunity advertised by the company
  • When your information has been passed to us by a 3rd party
  • Public sources such as (but not limited to) LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram

Website

We may collect information from our website related to your visit to our site.
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to access some sections of our website or obtain our full provision.

Data Usage

We will only process personal data for legitimate business interests and will not transfer, sell or supply that information to any parties without your permission, or by what we may consider to be reasonable business activities, or expected relatable service provisions in your engagement with our business.

Data Storage and Processing

All personal data held about you will be processed by our staff in the UK and will accessed via our secure cloud-based storage system. We will take all necessary and reasonable steps to ensure your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

If you are a candidate, your personal information is only shared with prospective employers. Once in the control of those organisations, your information will be subject to their GDPR and their privacy policies will apply.

If you are located outside United Kingdom and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to United Kingdom and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our service, to provide the service on our behalf, to perform related services or to assist us in analysing how our service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

3rd Party Links

Our service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on our website. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Data Retention

It is the nature of our business that the purpose for which we retain candidate information is an ongoing requirement. We work with individuals over many years and our service is often a career long relationship based service. We understand the importance of maintaining accurate and current personal data and ensure this is maintained through regular contact.

Data Subject Access Requests

It is your right to confirm what information we hold about you at any time, and request us to modify, update or delete such information. We will respond to your request within 30 days.  All requests of this nature should be made to our contact page.

Complaints

In the first instance we ask that you contact us to allow to manage any concerns you might have. You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).