PRIVACY NOTICE

 

Connect Recruitment Resources Ltd

 

Redleaf House, Townspark,

 

Longford, Co Longford, N39 D8K7

 

 

 

  1. INTRODUCTION

 

1.1        Connect Recruitment Resources Ltd (‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’) are strongly committed to protecting your Personal Data. This Privacy Notice applies to your use of the website: www.connectrecruit.ie (the “Site”) and sets out how we collect, use and protect your personal data. If you do not agree with the data practices described in this Privacy Notice, please do not use the Site.

 

1.2        This Notice (“Notice”) has been developed to ensure our users feel confident about the privacy and security of personal data and to meet our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 to 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (the “Data Protection Law”). Under Data Protection Law, personal data is information that identifies you as an individual or is capable of doing so (“Personal Data”).

 

1.3        We must comply with the data protection principles set down in the Data Protection Law and this Notice applies to all personal data collected, processed and stored by us through your use of the Site.

 

1.4        For the purposes of Data Protection Law, we are the data controller of your Personal Data. You will find our contact details in the “Contact us” section below.

 

  1. WHAT KINDS OF PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT?

 

2.1        We receive and store any information you enter on the Site or give us in any other way, including when registering for an account, uploading your CV, applying for jobs, viewing a listing, as well as provided in your comments and requests.

 

 

 

 

  1. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING

 

3.1        Given the varied functionality of each Site we rely on the following legal basis under

 

Data Protection Law in processing your Personal Data:

 

Legal Basis

 

Example

 

performance of a contract

 

If  you  register  or  create  an  account,

 

 

 

subscribe to a mailing list or apply for a

 

 

 

role  via  a  Site  we  will  process  your

 

 

 

Personal Data to the extent required to

 

 

 

deliver the service requested.

10778157.3

1

 

 

compliance with legal obligations

We may need to disclose your identity

 

and other Personal Data to comply with

 

a  request  from  law  enforcement,  An

 

Garda Síochána / PSNI, police or other

 

government agencies or court order.

Legitimate interests

We may disclose your identity and other

 

relevant  Personal  Data  in  connection

 

with any complaint regarding your use

 

of a Site.  This is necessary in order to

 

protect us from any liability in relation

 

to your use of a Site.

 

  1. HOW WE GATHER DATA AND PERSONAL DATA

 

4.1        We gather Personal Data from your use of a Site (for example, creating a user profile, posting content of comments that contains Personal Data) and through your interaction with us (for example, when you contact us via email or through the Site).

 

  1. HOW WE MAY USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

 

5.1        Except as disclosed in this Privacy Notice, we will not disclose Personal Data that we collect to any parties other than those with whom we partner or are affiliated with, without your consent. Except as disclosed below, we will not sell, share, trade, rent, or give away your Personal Data.

 

Information you provide

 

5.2        We may use your Personal Data to process any requests made by you (for example, by contacting a Company on your behalf following your application for their vacancy), respond to your inquiry, and communicate with you in respect of job applications when necessary. We may also use information you provide to communicate with you about your interest in our events and our company, to help us improve, operate and enhance your experience on the Site, to promote our events, notify you about important functionality changes to the Site, new services, and special offers we think you will find valuable, to tailor advertisements, content, and other aspects of your experience on and in connection with the Site, for other administrative purposes, to prevent or detect abuses of our terms of use, and to enable third-parties to carry out technical or other functions on our behalf as well as any other purpose that we may disclose to you at the point at which we request your Personal Data. We may combine non-personal information that you provide with supplemental information (including mailing address updates and demographic data) that we obtain from public sources or reputable third-parties. Information combined with personally identifiable information becomes, and is treated as, Personal Data under this Privacy Notice.

 

5.3        If you contact us via the Site, or in any other way, we may retain the correspondence and the information it contains, such as:

 

 

10778157.3                                                                        2

 

  • your name
  • e-mail address
  • the reason for contacting us

 

We may use the information to:

 

  • respond to your inquiry
  • to notify you of related job opportunities
  • for marketing purposes

 

When you contact us, we will request your affirmative, positive consent to use your contact information for marketing or other business purposes. In the event you do not consent to the use of your contact information for marketing or other business purposes, your data will not be used for those purposes. If you provide your consent but subsequently do not wish to receive notifications about related opportunities, or otherwise want to restrict the use of information you provide to us, please follow the instructions on any marketing correspondence or send us an e-mail at the address listed below.

 

Do we disclose Personal Data to anyone else?

 

5.4        We shall disclose your information to third parties only when you have authorised us to do so, it is necessary as part of business practices or when there is a legal or statutory obligation to do so. Whenever we disclose information to third parties, we will only disclose that amount of personal information necessary to meet such business need or legal requirement. Third parties that receive your information from the us must satisfy us as to the measures taken to protect the personal data such parties receive, in accordance with Data Protection Law and as stated in this Privacy Notice. Appropriate measures will be taken to ensure that all such disclosures or transfers of your information to third parties will be completed in a secure manner and pursuant to contractual safeguards.

 

5.5        We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, including marketing, and providing analytics assistance. From time to time, we may also share Personal Data or non-personally identifiable information with third-parties that we have engaged to perform certain services in connection with the operation of certain aspects of the Site, including to customize, deliver, measure, analyse, improve and support our services, content, advertising and layout, your interaction with those aspects, and to deliver more relevant messages and advertisements to you. These third-party service providers are authorised to use Personal Data only as needed to perform their functions on our behalf and are required to maintain the security of your personal information.

 

5.6        We may also change our ownership or corporate organisation while providing the Site. As a result, we may transfer your information to another company that is affiliated with us, with which we have merged, or which has acquired all or some of our assets. We will advise you if such a change of ownership or change of corporate structure takes place and we will update this Privacy Notice accordingly.

 

 

 

10778157.3                                                                        3

 

5.7        We may provide information, when obliged to do so under the Data Protection Law and in response to properly made requests, for example, for the purpose of the prevention and detection of crime, and the apprehension or prosecution of offenders. We may also provide information for the purpose of safeguarding national security. In the case of any such disclosure, we will do so only in accordance with the Data Protection Law.

 

5.8        We may also provide information when required to do so by law, for example under a court order, and may transfer data to legal counsel where same is necessary for the defense of legal claims.

 

5.9        We may also disclose your identity or any Personal Data in connection with any complaint regarding your use of the Site.

 

  1. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP PERSONAL DATA?

 

6.1        The period for which we retain information varies according to the use of that information. In some cases, there are legal requirements to keep data for a minimum period of time. Unless specific legal requirements dictate otherwise, we will retain information no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the data were collected and processed (as described above).

 

  1. HOW DO WE PROTECT DATA ABOUT YOU IF IS TRANSFERRED OUT OF EUROPE?

 

7.1        Our Site is published in Ireland and is governed by Data Protection Law and Irish law.

 

7.2        Some websites transfer data outside of the EEA for a number of purposes (for example, for storage purposes). We do not transfer any Personal Data outside of the EEA for any purpose.

 

7.3        If this changes at any point in the future, this Privacy Notice will be updated to take account of this change. Note that in this event, any transfer of Personal Data outside of the EEA shall be made through transfer mechanisms approved or allowed for under Data Protection Law and we shall take all necessary steps to ensure that there is adequate protection, as required by Data Protection Law.

 

  1. HOW YOU CAN EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS IN RESPECT OF PERSONAL DATA WE HOLD ABOUT YOU

 

Your rights

 

8.1        We shall vindicate all your rights under Data Protection Law. These rights are as follows:

 

  • Your right to withdraw your consent to the processing of Personal Data at any time

 

  • your right to request from us access to personal data and to have any incorrect personal data rectified

 

10778157.3                                                                        4

 

  • your right to the restriction of processing concerning you or to object to processing

 

  • your right to have your personal data transferred to another service provider
  • your right to have personal data erased (where appropriate)

 

  • information on the existence of automated decision-making, if any, as well as meaningful information about the logic involved, its significance and its envisaged consequences

 

Vindication of your rights shall not affect any rights which we may have under Data Protection Law.

 

Exercising your rights, managing information and opting out

 

 

8.2        You may update or change information related to you by sending us an e-mail at info@connectrecruit.ie. You may always opt-out of receiving future commercial e-mail messages from us or request that your information be removed from our Site by e-mailing us at the address provided above. You may also unsubscribe from our marketing communications by sending us an e-mail.

 

8.3        You can update or correct your Personal Data, remove it from our system or exercise any of your rights by making a request to us at the contact information provided below. If for some reason access is denied, we will provide an explanation of why access has been denied.

 

8.4        We will confirm your request within 21 days of receipt, and process your request within 30 days of receipt.

 

  1. HOW DOES THE SITE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU?

 

9.1        We employ reasonable appropriate administrative, technical, personnel procedural and physical measures to safeguard Personal Data against loss, theft and unauthorised uses access, uses or modifications. Security and testing are performed on systems containing personal data to verify control effectiveness. Security of these systems are monitored continuously.

 

9.2        When you make requests on the Site, we offer the use of a secure server. Personal information collected on the Site is stored in secure operating environments. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. While we try our best to safeguard your information once we receive it, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10778157.3                                                                        5

 

  1. HOW CAN YOU MAKE A COMPLAINT ABOUT THE USE OF PERSONAL DATA?

 

10.1      Complaints on the use, retention and disposal of personal data can submitted via email to info@connectrecruit.ie.

 

10.2      As a user of the Site you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission.

 

  1. REVIEW

 

11.1      This Notice will be reviewed and updated from time to time to consider changes in the law and the experience of the Notice in practice. Any and all changes will be advised to customers and, if necessary, we will obtain your consent prior to applying any changes to any Personal Data collected from you prior to the date the change becomes effective. Your continued use of our Site after such changes will be subject to the then-current Notice. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Notice to stay informed about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information.

 

  1. CONTACT INFORMATION

 

12.1      If you have questions about this Privacy Notice or our treatment of the information provided to us, please contact us at:

 

 

Name:

 

 

Connect Recruitment

 

 

Address:

 

 

Redleaf House, Townspark, Longford, Co Longford, N39 D8K7

 

 

Phone:

 

 

043 333 1600

 

 

E-mail:

 

 

angela@connectrecruit.ie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10778157.3                                                                        6

Copyright © 2020 Connect Recruitment Ltd
website design by dmac media