At WhoFoundWho (“WFW”), we are committed to protecting the privacy of both our candidates and clients. With this in mind, we aim to be transparent about the use and storage of personal information, and to comply with General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”) at all times.
Within this privacy policy, we describe how WFW (the data controller) collects and processes your personal data. We will also highlight some of the rights you possess as a data subject.
If you have any questions or require further information on this topic, please contact Luke Carnell, Director at WhoFoundWho Ltd, 124 City Road, London, ECV1 8NX.
We collect personal information in order to carry out an effective recruitment process. This personal information may
include:
We may also be required to collect certain sensitive information such as:
Please note that the above lists are not exhaustive, and we may collect other personal or sensitive data in order to provide a service to you.
We may collect your data in a number of different ways. These include, but are not limited to the following:
• Data disclosed by yourself to a WFW consultant, this includes the information contained within your CV
• Data that may be provided to WFW by our clients during the recruitment process i.e. interview feedback
• Data uploaded onto job boards and other sites such as LinkedIn
• Information obtained by third parties, for example background check information or information provided by
employment referees.
• Contact details received automatically, for example through communication that you make to WFW via email
or WhatsApp message.
At WFW, we want to provide the best possible recruitment service to both our clients and candidates. In order to do
this, we may use your personal data in the following ways:
Please note that the above list is not exhaustive, and we may be required to us your data in other ways for the purpose
of our/our third parties’ legitimate interest.
We may be required to share your data with third parties who perform activities on behalf of WFW. If we do this, we
will ensure that the third party in questions also has a strict privacy policy in place. In compliance with our partners,
customer data may be shared with our financiers and bankers.
Examples of third parties whom we may be required to share your details with include:
• Current or prospective clients
• Auditors
• IT consultants
• Payroll providers
• Financiers & bankers
• Companies who perform DBS or other checks
• Persons providing employment reference checks
In addition, if WFW were to merge with or be acquired by another business or company in the future, it may be
necessary to share your data with new owners of the business.
We put appropriate measures in place in order to safeguard your personal data. Our computers and systems are
password protected and we do not allow any unauthorised access.
In addition, we have a policy in place to ensure the correct steps are taking if there were to be a suspected data breach.
If you suspect any misuse or unauthorised access to your personal data, please let us know immediately.
We will ordinarily process your data after the first time we have contact with you. We will then retain your data in
order to consider you for job opportunities.
We will delete candidate personal data if we have not had any meaningful contact with you for a period of 5 years, or,
if you request it to be deleted.
Under GDPR, we are required to keep your data up to date and accurate, therefore, we will hold regular screening of
our database and may contact you from time to time for this purpose.
Please contact us if any of your personal data changes and needs to be updated, or, if you would like us to erase your
data.
You have the following rights concerning the personal data that we store and process:
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