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Badger Associates Limited Privacy Policy
Page last updated - March 2018.
Badger Associates Ltd is a company registered in England with registration number 04286713, whose registered office is: Trentham House, Mill Road, Thorpe Abbotts, Diss, Norfolk IP21 1HX
VAT Registration Number: 781 5862 94
Email Address: info@badgerassociates.co.uk
Badger Associates Ltd acts as an employment agency.
Badger Associates Limited (company number 04286713) is committed to protecting the privacy of our candidates, clients and users of our website. We want to provide a safe and secure user experience. We will ensure that the information you submit to us via our website or through our office or other international websites or offices is only used for the purposes set out in this policy.
The Information We Collect and How We Use It
Badger Associates 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. We are holding this information on a legitimate interest basis and that legitimate interest is only to find you a job.This information is held, used and disclosed by us as follows:
1. to provide our services to you;
2. to maintain our business relationship, where you are a user of our website, a client or candidate;
3. to enable you to submit your CV for general applications, to apply for specific jobs or to subscribe to any periodic publications as outlined in item 6 below.. Please see the separate section on your CV below which outlines additional uses and disclosures;
4. 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;
5. to answer your enquiries;
6. 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;
7. to fulfil contractual obligations with our clients
8. 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 as Badger Associates Limited;
9. to third parties who perform functions on our behalf and who also provide services to us, such as professional advisors, IT consultants carrying out testing and development work on our business technology systems, research and mailing houses and function co-ordinators. These third parties comply with similar undertakings of privacy and confidentiality as Badger Associates Limited.
10. if Badger Associates Limited or its business merges with or is acquired by another business or company, we may share personal information with the new owners of the business or company and their advisors and if this happens, you will be sent notice of such event;
11. 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; and
12. we may also seek your consent to collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for any other purpose not listed above.
13. our website may also use a website recording service which can record mouse clicks, mouse movements, page scrolling and any text keyed into website forms. Data collected by this service is used to improve our website usability. The information collected is stored and is used for aggregated and statistical reporting, and is not shared with anybody else.
Curriculum vitae ("CV")
We give you the option of submitting your CV via our website, by providing your CV to one of our consultants or via a third party job board. 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 Badger Associates Limited database, and will be accessible by Badger Associates Limited recruitment consultants in the UK.
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 deleted 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).
Access
You have the right at any time to ask us for a copy of the information supplied by you that we hold. We may ask you to verify your identity and for more information about your request. We also have the right to charge an administrative fee for this service. Where we are legally permitted to do so, we may refuse your request and will give you reasons for doing so.
If you would like to make a request for information, please contact Badger Associates on info@badgerassociates.co.uk. You also have the right to ask Badger Associates Limited to stop using your information. However, if this involves a request for deletion of your file, please be aware that we may not be required or able to do so, particularly where your file also holds information about our clients or financial information that we need to keep for periods of up to six years, i.e. that relate to tax matters. Where we are unable to comply with your request we will provide reasons for failing to do so.
Other websites
Please note that clicking on links and banner advertisements may result in your transferral to another website - where data privacy practices may be different to that of Badger Associates Limited. Visitors should consult the other websites' privacy policies as we are not responsible for, and have no control over, information that is submitted to or collected by these third parties.
Internet-based transfers
Given that the Internet is a global environment, using the Internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. Therefore, by browsing our website and communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may be changed by Badger Associates Limited at any time. If we change our privacy policy in the future, we will advise you of changes or updates to our privacy policy by a prominent notice on our website. Continued use of this website or our services after such changes will constitute your acceptance of such changes.
If, at any time, you have questions or concerns about Badger Associates Limited online privacy commitment, please feel free to e-mail us at info@badgerassociates.co.ukor call our office to speak to one of our representatives.
Equal Opportunities
Badger Associates Limited is an equal opportunities employer and a company committed to diversity. This means that all job applicants and members of staff will receive equal treatment and that we will not discriminate on grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion or age.
Contact
If you have any enquires you can contact us at: info@badgerassociates.co.uk or by writing to us at:
Badger Associates Limited
Pottergate Street
Aslacton
Norwich
NR15 2JU
Our registered office is at:
Badger Associates Limited
Trentham House
Mill Road
Thorpe Abbotts
Norfolk
IP21 4HX
This page was last updated in March 2018.