Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd.
Privacy Policy and Cookies
Version: V01022020
This Policy applies to the processing of any and all personal data which is collected by Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd (“Avenue Thorn Recruitment”) in relation to your use of our Website or in relation to any services which we may provide to you.
Your privacy is important to Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd. We have developed this Privacy Policy to provide you with information on how we process your personal data when you, use our services, interact with our team and visit www.avenuethorn.co.uk. In accordance with data protection legislation, we use the term “personal data” to refer to information which relates to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Categories of Personal Data Processed by Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd.
Personal data that is processed when you interact with Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd.:
When you interact with our team via email, telephone, online or in person, we collect personal data, such as your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, contact preferences, CV and other relevant information relating to your work history which you may provide to us for the purposes of us providing our services to you; and information about Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd. events and meetups you participate in. We may also create event logs that are useful in diagnosing usability issues with our website, and capture information relating to the support or service issue. To improve customer service, subject to applicable laws, we may also record and review conversations with our consultants, and analyse any feedback provided to us through voluntary candidate and user surveys.
Purposes and Legal Grounds:
We use the personal information we collect from you for the following purposes:
• processing job applications, in partnership with our clients, on whose behalf we are instructed to advertise job vacancies – this means that if you apply for a specific job, we may pass your details on to the relevant client to proceed with the application and you understand that this means you may receive further direct correspondence from them;
• allowing our clients, to understand who is making use of our website and how their job vacancies are being viewed;
• with candidates’ permission Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd. may contact candidates directly and confidentially about other potentially suitable opportunities that may be relevant in the future;
• providing you with customer and product support and monitoring the quality and types of support we provide to our users
The legal grounds for processing this information are as follows:
• Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd.’ legitimate interests in providing recruitment services to you and ensuring quality product support;
• To comply with our contractual obligations to you or to any clients to whom you have asked us to pass on your details.
• To comply with any other legal obligations to which we may be subject.
In certain circumstances, we may also request your specific consent to process certain personal data. We will notify you if that is the case.
Categories of Recipients of Personal Data
Client organisations:
Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd. is a provider of recruitment services to local clients. If you apply for a specific job, we will, if appropriate, pass your CV to a client organisation per the description set out above.
Other disclosures:
We may disclose personal data about you to others: (a) if we have your valid consent to do so; (b) to comply with a valid legal order, court order, legal process, or other legal obligation; (c) to enforce any of our terms and conditions or policies; or (d) as necessary to pursue available legal remedies or defend legal claims. We may also transfer your personal data to an affiliate, a subsidiary or a third party in the event of any reorganisation, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd’s business, assets or stock, including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceeding, provided that any such entity that we transfer personal data to will not be permitted to process your personal data other than as described in this Privacy Policy without providing you notice and, if required by applicable laws, obtaining your consent.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Websites:
To help analyse how you and other visitors navigate Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd' website and compile aggregate statistics about site usage and response rates, we, with assistance from third-party analytics service providers, collect certain information when you visit our site. This information includes IP address, geographic location of the device, browser type, browser language, date and time of your request, time(s) of your visit(s), page views and page elements (e.g., links) that you click. We may use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs or other similar tools on our site or in our email messages to assist us in collecting and analysing such information. We use this information to provide better, more relevant content on our site, to measure the effectiveness of advertisements, to identify and fix problems, and to improve your overall experience on our site. We may also engage one or more third-party service providers to provide online advertisements on our behalf. They may use a ‘pixel tag’ or other similar technology to collect information about your visits to sites, and they may use that information to send you targeted advertisements.
If you do not want information collected through the use of these technologies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline many of these technologies, or to be given the choice of declining or accepting them.
If you reside in the European Union or other jurisdiction that requires us to obtain your consent to use cookies on our sites, then you may only view our website by accepting the cookies that we use. The only Cookies that are used on our website are those necessary to enable core site functionality, and therefore you cannot choose to disable those cookies.
The legal ground for processing this analytical information is our legitimate interest in understanding how our customers interact with our products and website so we can enhance the user experience and functionality of our products and website.
Here are examples of third-party providers of analytics and similar services we currently use:
Analytics Services:
Social Networks:
Third-party social networks that provide interactive plug-ins or social networking features (e.g., to allow you to connect to Facebook or Google to find friends to add as connections or to “Like” a page) on Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd’ website, may use cookies or other methods (e.g., web beacons) to gather information regarding your use of our website. The use of such information by a third party depends on the privacy policy available on that social network’s website, which we encourage you to carefully review. Such third parties may use these cookies or other tracking methods for their own purposes by relating information about your use of our site with any of your Personal Information that they may have. We may also obtain analytics information from social networks that help us measure the effectiveness of our content and advertisements on social networks (e.g., impressions and clicks).
Children
We request that individuals under 16 not provide personal data to Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd. If we learn that we have collected the personal data from a child under 16, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.
Retention of Personal Data
The Company will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purpose we collect it. Different laws may also require us to keep different data for different periods of time.
We will normally retain your personal data for 2 years. You can ask us at any time to delete your personal data, subject to any legal restrictions on our ability to do so which are outlined below.
If you wish to have your personal data removed, then you will need to email or write to The Data Protection Officer at Avenue Thorn Recruitment;
Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd.
31 Newtown Road
Uxbridge
UB9 4BE
Data Controller and Data Protection Officer
Under data protection legislation, the “data controller” of personal data which is collected and processed by Avenue Thorn Recruitment is Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd. (a company registered in England with registered number 12359886), which is located at 31 Newtown Road, Uxbridge UB9 4BE. Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd.’ Data Protection Officer is located at the same address and can also be reached by email at officehub@avenuethorn.co.uk
Your Rights
You have the right under the EU General Data Protection Regulation to request from Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd.’ access to and rectification or erasure of your personal data, data portability, restriction of processing of your personal data, the right to object to processing of your personal data, and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. If you are resident in the United Kingdom, the relevant supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office – www.ico.org.uk.
You also have the right to withdraw your consent in circumstances in which consent has been relied upon as the basis for processing your personal data.
To request access to or rectification, portability or erasure of your personal data, visit email officehub@avenuethorn.co.uk
If you wish to exercise your right to restrict processing or your right to object to processing, or if you have any queries relating to the processing of your personal data by Avenue Thorn Recruitment Service Ltd. please contact our Data Protection Officer at Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd. 31 Newtown Road, Uxbridge, UB9 4BE or email officehub@avenuethorn.co.uk
Changes to this Policy
Avenue Thorn Recruitment Services Ltd. reserves the right to change this Policy as we may deem necessary from time to time, as we add new products, as we improve our current offerings or as technologies and laws change. You can determine when this Privacy Policy was last revised by referring to the “Version” number at the top of this page. Any changes will become effective upon our posting of the revised Privacy Policy.
We will provide notice to you if these changes are material and, where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent.
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T: 01895 311669 | E: officehub@avenuethorn.co.uk
Company Registration Number: 12359886