Privacy Policy

Maximise IT Solutions Ltd, referred to as ‘the Company’, is a registered company in England and Wales (registration number 05214183) and our registered address is: Maximise IT Solutions Ltd, Suite 321, 179 Whiteladies Road, Bristol, BS8 2AG.

In this Privacy Statement, ‘we’, ‘our’, ‘us’ all refer to the Company.

HOW YOU CAN CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Statement or our processing of your personal data, please contact us at our registered address above or contact us via email or telephone below:

Email: info@maximiseit.co.uk

Tel: 08456 432360

NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES TO PRIVACY STATEMENT

The Company’s Privacy Statement may change from time to time, for example when we update it to reflect new legal requirements. Please visit this website section periodically to enable you to keep up to date with such changes.

INTRODUCTION

On 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation, known as ‘GDPR’, became law. It is a really positive step towards you having more control over how your personal data is used and how you are contacted.

This Privacy Statement explains what we do with the information we have about you (‘personal data’ or ‘personal sensitive data’) when you use or interact with this website. It sets out the conditions under which we process your personal data, as well as personal data we collect from third parties. For the purposes of this privacy statement ‘process’ means collect, store, transfer, use or otherwise act on the personal data, including deletion.

This Privacy Statement applies to the personal data of external visitors to our website and not those employed by us. If you are an employee of the Company you should refer to our company Privacy Notice which is available on our company intranet.

For the purposes of the GDPR, we are the Data Controller and are responsible for your personal data, whether we are providing you with work-finding services, continuing our existing relationship with you once you have found a job, providing you with a service, receiving a service from you or you are just visiting our website.

We take seriously the protection of your privacy and confidentiality and we undertake to preserve the confidentiality of your data and safeguard your data privacy rights. Except as set out in this Policy Statement, we do not share, sell or disclose to third parties any information collected through our website. You can find out more about your privacy rights here:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/

SECURITY

In operating our website it may be necessary to transfer data that we collect from you to locations outside of the European Union for processing and storing. We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure and in order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure your personal data.

PERSONAL DATA THAT WE COLLECT, HOW WE COLLECT IT AND HOW WE USE IT

JOB APPLICANTS SUBMITTING CV

Information we collect directly from you:

If you submit your CV via our website, we will then collect certain personal data about you in order to process your job application or to confirm if there are any suitable employment / work opportunities for you within the Company. The personal data that we collect will include your name and personal email address. When submitting your CV, you may also choose to share other information with us such as skills and qualifications, employment history, hobbies and interests, or if you call us to make an enquiry or take part in our telephone screening process.

Should your CV and job application be progressed, you will be provided with additional Privacy Notices.

Information we collect from other sources:

As part of the running and operation of our website, we automatically collect information from your computer or mobile device which could personally identify you from your browsing activity such as IP address, geographical location, internet service provider, information gathered to assess site visit frequency and pages visited and content viewed. We also use cookies and similar technologies – you can read more about cookies in our cookie policy on this website.

PURPOSE OF PROCESSING AND LAWFUL BASES

The Company will process your personal data for the purposes of processing your job application or to confirm if there are any suitable employment / work opportunities for you. The lawful bases we rely upon to process your personal data to enable us to offer these services to you are:

Consent
Legitimate Interest
Contractual Obligation

Consent

Where the Company relies on consent as the lawful basis for processing your personal data you will be provided with a Consent Form to complete and return via email. We will continue to process personal data that you have given us explicit consent to process until you instruct us not to. You can do this at any time by requesting a Consent Withdrawal Form by emailing: businessservices@maximiseit.co.uk.

Legitimate Interest

Where the Company relies on Legitimate Interest as the lawful basis for processing your personal data, these legitimate interests will be to for the purposes of processing your job application or to confirm if there are any suitable employment / work opportunities for you.

Contractual Obligation

In the course of processing your job application or to confirm if there are any suitable employment / work opportunities for you within the Company, your personal data may be required by law or a contractual requirement (e.g. we may require this personal data to employ you). In this situation, you will be provided with additional Privacy Notices and we will use your personal data to verify your identity for security purposes to offer employment to you. You are obliged to provide the personal data when requested to do so - if you do not, our ability to consider you as a candidate will be limited.

SHARING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will limit the use of your personal data to the purposes for which is was collected which may include:-

Your job application or to confirm if there are any suitable employment / work opportunities for you within the Company
To respond to your questions and comments
To fulfil your requests
To help us develop, deliver and improve our products or services, content and advertising
For our own internal purposes such as auditing and data analysis

The Company will only share your personal data and/or sensitive personal data with the following recipients:

Recruitment consultants employed by the Company
Other staff employed by the Company in the course of supporting processing your job application or to confirm if there are any suitable employment / work opportunities for you
Other staff employed by the Company in the course of responding to queries and comments submitted
The Company’s HR management systems and in other IT systems, such as the email system
We may also need to share your personal data with a regulator or to otherwise comply with the law

DATA RETENTION

The Company will only retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected and processed. Different laws require us to keep different data for different periods of time.

The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, require us to keep work-seeker records for at least one year from the date of their creation.

Where the Company has obtained your consent to process your personal data, we will do so in line with our Data Retention Policy. Upon expiry of that period, the Company will seek further consent from you. Where consent is not granted, the Company will cease to process your personal data.

YOUR RIGHTS

Please be aware that you have a number of data protection rights. You may exercise any of these rights by sending an email to: businessservices@maximiseit.co.uk. We will ask you to verify your identity before acting upon your request. Your rights are as follows:

The right to request details of the information we have about you.
If you have given consent you will have the right to withdraw your consent and we will stop processing any data that you gave us directly. We will still be able to continue to process other data if we rely on another legal reason for doing so.
Where technically feasible, you have a right to have your personal data transferred directly from one organisation to another. However, please note that this right only applies to information which you have provided to us.
The right to ask that we update your information if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
The right to ask that we erase your information in certain circumstances (also known as the right to be forgotten). Please note that there may be circumstances where you ask us to erase your information, but we are legally entitled to retain it.
The right to request that we restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances. Again, there may be circumstances where you ask us to restrict the processing of your information, but we are legally entitled to refuse that request.
You have a right not to be subject to a decision based on automated processing or profiling unless you have given your explicit consent. Note: this right has been included for your information - our processes are not fully automated and therefore this will not apply to the personal data that we hold for you.
The right to make a complaint with the Information Commissioner at: http://www.ico.org.uk if you think that any of your rights have been infringed by us.

CLIENTS

We will process personal data about you which is necessary to fulfil any contractual obligation we have with you and. The personal data that we collect is usually limited to: names of contacts at your organisation, telephone numbers, email addresses. We may also hold information that someone in your organisation has provided us with. We will process your personal data for the purposes of providing you with the goods and services requested by you and for providing you with timely and relevant marketing and sales communications.

SUPPLIERS

We will process personal data about you to ensure that our contractual relationship can be properly managed and run smoothly, to comply with any legal requirements and to obtain goods and services from you. We will collect personal data from your organisation such as names of contacts within your organisation, email addresses and telephone numbers. We will also collect financial information such as bank details to enable us to settle invoices and information that someone in your organisation has provided us with to assist in the normal course supplier / vendor relationship.

OTHER WEBSITE VISITORS

MARKETING

All our marketing activity is targeted and conducted based on what we believe will best serve our candidates, clients and suppliers. If at any point you are not happy to receive such communications and would like us to stop sending you marketing material, you can opt out by emailing: info@maximiseit.co.uk.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.