Privacy Policy

Updated: 24th May 2018

Privacy Notice

 

iMultiply (The Company) is a recruitment business which provides work-finding services to its clients and work-seekers. The Company must process personal data (including sensitive personal data) so that it can provide these services – in doing so, the Company acts as a data controller. 

You may give your personal details to the Company directly, such as on an application or registration form or via our website, or we may collect them from another source such as a jobs board. The Company must have a legal basis for processing your personal data. For the purposes of providing you with work-finding services and/or information relating to roles relevant to you, we will only use your personal data in accordance with this privacy statement. At all times we will comply with current data protection laws. 

Contents

  1. Collection and use of personal data
    1. Purpose of processing and legal basis
    2. Legitimate interest
    3. Statutory/contractual requirement
    4. Recipients of data
  2. Information to be provided when data is not collected directly from the data subject
    1. Categories of data
    2. Sources of data
  3. Overseas transfers
  4. Data retention
  5. Your rights
  6. Automated decision making
  7. Cookies
  8. Login files
  9. Links to external sites
  10. Sale of the business
  11. Data security
  12. Changes to this privacy statement
  13. Complaints or queries 

 

  1. Collection and use of personal data

     a. Purpose of processing and legal basis 

The Company will collect your personal data (which may include sensitive personal data) and will process your personal data for the purposes of providing you with work-finding services. This includes, for example, contacting you about job opportunities, assessing your suitability for those opportunities, updating our databases, putting you forward for job opportunities, arranging payments to you, and developing and managing our services and relationship with you and our clients. 

If you have opted-in we may also send you marketing information and news via email/ text.  You can opt out from receiving these at any time by clicking “unsubscribe” when you receive these communications from us. 

In some cases we may be required to use your data for the purpose of investigating, reporting, and detecting crime and also to comply with laws that apply to us. We may also use your information during the course of internal audits to demonstrate our compliance with certain industry standards.

We must have a legal basis to process your personal data. The legal bases we rely upon to offer our work-finding services to you are:

  • Your consent
  • Where we have a legitimate interest 
  • To comply with a legal obligation that we have
  • To fulfill a contractual obligation that we have with you
  1. Legitimate interest 

This is where the Company has a legitimate reason to process your data provided it is reasonable and does not go against what you would reasonably expect from us.  Where the Company has relied on a legitimate interest to process your personal data our legitimate interests is/are as follows:

  • Managing our database and keeping work-seeker records up to date; 
  • Providing work-finding services to you and our clients; 
  • Contacting you to seek your consent where we need it; 
  • Giving you information about similar products, or services that you have used from us recently; 
  1. Statutory/contractual requirement 

The Company has certain legal and contractual requirements to collect personal data (e.g. to comply with the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, immigration and tax legislation, and in some circumstances safeguarding requirements.)  Our clients may also require this personal data, and/or we may need your data to enter into a contract with you. If you do not give us the personal data we need to collect we may not be able to continue to provide work-finding services to you. 

  1. Recipient/s of data 

The Company may process your personal data (and/or sensitive personal data) with the following recipients:

  • Clients (whom we may introduce or supply you to)
  • Former employers whom we may seek references from
  • Our accountants and auditors
  • Payroll service providers who manage payroll on our behalf or other payment intermediaries whom we may introduce you to 
  • Online timesheet service provider for temporary or contract assignments
  • Other recruitment agencies in the supply chain
  • Outsourced CV formatting services
  • Our legal advisors
  • Our CRM and accounting software provider
  • Our IT providers
  • Website analytics software providers
  • Companies House – Public information sources 
  • Our credit checking platform
  • iMultiply Ltd – our subsidiary business 

2.  Information to be provided when data collected is not from the data subject 

Categories of data:

The Company has collected the following personal data on you:

Personal data:

  • Name, address, mobile no., email
  • Date of birth
  • National insurance no. 
  • Workplace data and information about education
  • Nationality (through right to work check)
  • Payroll details (for temporary or contract assignments)

Sensitive personal data:

  • Health information including whether you have a disability
  • Criminal conviction

Source of the personal data:

The Company sourced your personal data/sensitive personal data: 

  • From S1 Jobs, Reed, ICAS, and NI Jobs jobs boards, LinkedIn 
  • A referee whose details you previously provided to us
  • Cookies listed in section 7
  • From an individual to who you have given consent to share your details with us for work-finding services ‘Refer a friend’.

This information did not come from a publicly accessible source. 

3.  Overseas Transfers 

The Company may transfer the information you provide to us to countries outside the European Economic Area (‘EEA’) for the purposes of providing you with work-finding services. We will take steps to ensure adequate protections are in place to ensure the security of your information. The EEA comprises the EU member states plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. 

  1. Data retention

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. For example, the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, require us to keep work-seeker records for at least one year from (a) the date of their creation or (b) after the date on which we last provide you with work-finding services.

We must also keep your payroll records, holiday pay, sick pay, and pensions auto-enrolment records for as long as is legally required by HMRC and associated national minimum wage, social security, and tax legislation. This is currently 3 to 6 years. 

Where the Company has obtained your consent to process your personal and sensitive personal data we will do so in line with our 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 and sensitive personal data.

Our policy is to retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purpose we collect it.

5.  Your rights

Please be aware that you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to be informed about the personal data the Company processes on you;
  • The right of access to the personal data the Company processes on you;
  • The right to rectification of your personal data;
  • The right to the erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances;
  • The right to restrict processing of your personal data;
  • The right to data portability in certain circumstances;
  • The right to object to the processing of your personal data that was based on public or legitimate interest;
  • The right not to be subjected to automated decision making and profiling; and
  • The right to withdraw consent at any time.

Where you have consented to the Company processing your personal data and sensitive personal data you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting Kris Flanagan – krisflanagan@imultiplyresourcing.com. Please note that if you withdraw your consent to further processing that does not affect any processing done prior to the withdrawal of that consent, or which is done according to another legal basis. 

There may be circumstances where the Company will still need to process your data for legal or official reasons. Where this is the case, we will tell you and we will restrict the data to only what is necessary for those specific reasons. 

If you believe that any of your data that the Company processes is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us using the details above and we will take reasonable steps to check its accuracy and correct it where necessary. 

You can also contact us if you want us to restrict the type or amount of data we process for you, access your personal data, or exercise any of the other rights listed above.

  1. Cookies  

We may obtain data about you from cookies.  These are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The information we get using these cookies is completely anonymous and we will make no attempt to identify you or influence your experience of our site while you are on it. 

Cookies are used to identify and track visitors, their usage of the website, their access preferences, and for advertising.  If you use the “Do Not Track” browser setting, we currently don’t respond to DNT requests.  Currently, we do not have the technical ability to allow you to disable our cookies so we encourage you to use your browser settings if you want to control these.

Types of Cookie:

Functional cookies – These help us to make your experience within our site more personal. For instance, knowing if you have been on the site before so that messages for new visitors are not displayed to you.

First-party cookies– These are cookies that are set by our website. And only we can read them.

Session cookies– These are stored while you browse our site and then deleted once you leave.

Persistent cookies – These are saved on your computer and won’t be deleted when you close the web page. We use these to provide functionality like keeping you logged in when you come back to the site.

Performance cookies – These help us to track how people are using our site. They help us to know what pages people are using most and how users navigate around the site, we use this information to make an informed decision about how we can improve the user experience of our site.

The list below explains the cookies we use and why.:

ASP.NET_SessionId – We use this to identify each session that is open on our site. This cookie holds no personal data. All it stores is an ID number generated by us. Cookie type: First Party Cookie & Session Cookie

ffcookies-dismiss – This is used to stop the cookie policy banner from popping up every time you visit our site. This cookie holds no personal data.  Cookie Type: First Party Cookie & Persistent Cookie

ffIEWarning – We use this cookie to notify a user that they are using an outdated version of IE and that they should upgrade. This cookie holds no personal data.  Cookie Type: First Party Cookie & Session Cookie

ff_secCheck – This cookie is used to identify when a user has opened the current job advert page from a link sent to them by email from us. Eg. Job Alerts or Mailshots.  Cookie Type: First Party Cookie & Functional Cookie

ff_AdDist – We use this to identify each session that is open on our site. This cookie holds no personal data. All it stores is an ID number generated by us. Cookie Type: First-Party Cookie

.ASPXAUTH – This is a cookie we use to authenticate a logged-in user on our site, effectively this is how we keep you logged into our site and able to navigate the site without needing to log in every time.  Cookie Type: First Party Cookie & Persistent Cookie

  1. Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track users’ movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.  IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. 

  1. Links to external websites

The Company’s website may contain links to other external websites. Please be aware that the Company is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.  When you leave our site we encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.  This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by the Company’s website. 

  1. Sale of business

If the Company’s business is sold or integrated with another business your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers and their advisers and will be passed on to the new owners of the business.

  1. Data Security

The Company takes every precaution to protect our users’ information.

When users submit sensitive information via the website, their information is protected both online and offline. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices.  Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, consultants, our accounts clerk, or a marketing assistant) are granted access to your information. 

The Company uses all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal information. However, you should be aware that the use of email/ the Internet is not entirely secure and for this reason, the Company cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal information which is transferred from you or to you via email/ the Internet.

If you share a device with others we recommend that you do not select the “remember my details” function when that option is offered. 

If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can email krisflanagan@imultiplyresourcing.com

  1. Changes to this privacy statement

We will update this privacy statement from time to time.  We will post any changes on the statement with revision dates.  If we make any material changes, we will notify you. 

  1. Complaints or queries 

If you wish to complain about this privacy notice or any of the procedures set out in it please contact:

Kris Flanagan – krisflanagan@imultiplyresourcing.com

 

Updated: 25th August 2021