This Privacy Policy was updated on the 25th May 2018 in line with both General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) & Data Protection Act 2018.
Eton Clarke Limited (“we” and “us”) is dedicated to safeguarding and preserving your privacy. We are committed to being transparent about the collection & use of your personal data, whilst adhering to all GDPR & Data Protection Act obligations. This Privacy Policy governs and explains our handling and processing of all personal information provided by you, or that is collected from you. You are asked to please read it carefully.
For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998, Eton Clarke Limited of 207 Regent Street, Mayfair, London, W1B 3HH and its operating affiliates are registered as data controllers in the United Kingdom (Information Commissioner Number – ZA018199).
Information that we collect, store, and process, may include personal data (such as your full name, contact details, date of birth, sex, and marital status) and also sensitive personal data attained from either your CV or that you provide to us in interviews or over the telephone (such as your education history, employment history, skills and qualifications, personal interests, references, a copy of your passport, visa or work permit information, and career and remuneration requirements). It is unlikely we will require or process any Special Category data (as defined in the GDPR), however should the need arise to do so, we would contact you to obtain your explicit consent.
The legal basis we rely on when processing your personal data is that of legitimate interests. These legitimate interests enable us to provide recruitment services to you in one or more of following ways: assess your suitability for vacancies; send your details to clients in order to apply for a job vacancy or assess your eligibility for a job vacancy (unless we have taken your prior consent we will not provide information which includes your contact details or that could identify you as an individual. However you acknowledge that due to the nature of the market in which we work, information which may not specifically identify you may still be enough for a third party to realize your identity); keep you informed about job vacancies we think may be of interest to you; enable us to send you general market information about the industry sectors which we feel may interest you; keep you informed about goods and services offered by us or our affiliated companies; carry out administration functions (in some cases we may be required to share your information with third parties who perform these functions on our behalf).
Although we do not anticipate needing to do so, on some occasions we may transfer data that we collect from you to locations outside of the European Economic Area for processing and storing. It may be processed by employees operating outside the European Economic Area who work for us or one of our suppliers. We will take all reasonable steps to make sure that your data is treated securely and in agreement with this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to disclose and to transfer your personal information to any member of our group including subsidiaries, our holding company and its other subsidiaries, or to a third party in the event that Eton Clarke undergoes a sale, merger or the liquidation of our company providing the receiving party agrees to adhere to the terms of this Privacy Policy therefore the receiving party will give the opportunity for you to opt-out should you not wish to take part in the transfer.
We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your information is maintained and kept up to date. Please do keep us informed of any changes to your information and we will update or delete your information accordingly. Under data protection law you have the following rights; the right to access the information that we hold about you, the right to change the personal data we hold about you, the right to erase your personal data (in certain circumstances), the right to restrict processing of your personal data, the right to withdraw consent at any time, the right to port your data (in certain circumstances), the right to object to the processing of your personal data that was based on a public or legitimate interest, the right not be subjected to automated decision making & profiling. Please note that any demand for access to information may be subject to an administrative fee.
We may make changes to this policy from time-to-time and will post such changes on our website (www.etonclarke.com). If you would like any more information with regards to the use, storage or processing of your information please contact privacy@etonclarke.com.