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We will share your personal information with:
- Any member of our group both in the EEA and outside of the EEA.
- Selected third parties including:
- clients for the purpose of introducing candidates to them;
- candidates for the purpose of arranging interviews and engagements;
- clients, business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance and compliance obligations of any contract we enter into with them or you;
- subcontractors including email marketing specialists, event organisers, payment and other financial service providers;
- advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others;
- analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site;
- credit reference agencies, our insurance broker, compliance partners and other sub-contractors for the purpose of assessing your suitability for a role where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.
We will disclose your personal information to third parties:
- In the event that We sell or buy any business or assets, in which case We will disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
- If LHi Group or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
- If We are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, in order to enforce or apply our terms of use or terms of business and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of LHi Group, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
The lawful basis for the third-party processing will include:
- Their own legitimate business interests in processing your personal data, in most cases to fulfil their internal resourcing needs;
- satisfaction of their contractual obligations to us as our data processor;
- for the purpose of a contract in place or in contemplation;
- to fulfil their legal obligations.
We understand our legal duty to retain accurate data and only retain personal data for as long as We need it for our legitimate business interests and that you are happy for us to do so. Accordingly, We have a data retention notice and run data routines to remove data that We no longer have a legitimate business interest in maintaining.
We do the following to try to ensure our data is accurate:
- Our website enables you to manage your data and to review whether the details We hold about you are accurate
- prior to making an introduction, We check that We have accurate information about you
- We keep in touch with you so you can let Us know of changes to your personal data
We segregate Our data so that We keep different types of data for different time periods. The criteria We use to determine whether We should retain your personal data include:
- the nature of the personal data;
- its perceived accuracy;
- our legal obligations;
- whether an interview or placement has been arranged; and
- our recruitment expertise and knowledge of the industry by country, sector and job role.
We may archive part or all of your personal data or retain it on our financial systems only, deleting all or part of it from our main Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) system.
Our current retention notice is available upon request.
You have the right to ask Us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if We intend to use your data for such purposes or if We intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes and We will collect express consent from you if legally required prior to using your personal data for marketing purposes.
You can exercise your right to accept or prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms We use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at data@wearelhi.com or data@wearexps.com.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that We do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
- Request correction of the personal information that We hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information We hold about you corrected.
- Request the erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask Us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for Us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask Us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
- Object to processing of your personal information where We are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where We are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
- Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask Us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example, if you want Us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
- Request the transfer of your personal information to another party in certain formats, if practicable.
- Make a complaint to a supervisory body which in the United Kingdom is the Information Commissioner’s Office. The ICO can be contacted through this link: https://ico.org.uk/concerns
Your local Data Protection legislation gives you the right to access information held about you. We also encourage you to contact Us to ensure your data is accurate and complete.
A subject access request should be submitted to data@wearelhi.com or data@wearexps.com
Any changes We make to our privacy notice in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy notice.
We are a recruitment agency, recruitment business and consultancy. We collect the personal data of the following types of people to allow Us to undertake our business;
- Prospective and placed candidates for permanent or temporary roles;
- Prospective and live client contacts;
- Supplier contacts to support our services;
- Employees, consultants, temporary workers.
We collect information about you to carry out our core business and ancillary activities.
This is information about you that you give Us by filling in forms on our site www.wearelhi.com or www.wearexps.com or by corresponding with Us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. It includes information you provide when you register to use our site, enter our database, subscribe to our
services, attend our events, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our site, enter a competition, promotion or survey and when you report a problem with our site.
The information you give Us, or that We collect about you, may include your name, address, private and corporate e-mail address and phone number, financial information, compliance documentation and references verifying your qualifications and experience and your right to work in the relevant country, curriculum vitae and photograph, links to your professional profiles available in the public domain; for example LinkedIn, Twitter, Indeed, Anyleads, Zoom Info, business Facebook or corporate websites.
With regard to each of your visits to our site, We will automatically collect; technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information if applicable, browser type and version, information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time), roles you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as clicks), and methods used to browse away from the page.
This is information We obtain about you from other sources such as LinkedIn, corporate websites, job board websites, online CV libraries, your business card and personal recommendations. In this case, We will inform you, by sending you this privacy notice, within a maximum of 30 days of collecting the data of the fact We hold personal data about you, the source the personal data originates from and whether it came from publicly accessible sources, and for what purpose We intend to retain and process your personal data.
We are working closely with third parties including companies within our Group, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, professional, payment and other services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies and professional advisors. We may receive information about you from them for the purposes of our recruitment services and ancillary support services.
Our legitimate interests in collecting and retaining your personal data are described below:
- As a recruitment business, recruitment agency or consultancy We introduce candidates to clients for permanent employment, temporary worker placements or independent professional contracts. The exchange of personal data of our candidates and our client contacts is a fundamental, essential part of this process.
- In order to support our candidates’ career aspirations and our clients’ resourcing needs We require a database of candidate and client personal data containing historical information as well as current resourcing requirements.
- To maintain, expand and develop our business we need to record the personal data of prospective candidates and client contacts.
Should We want or need to rely on consent to lawfully process your data We will request your consent orally, by email or by an online process for the specific activity We require consent for and We will record your response on our system. Where consent is the lawful basis for our processing you have the right to withdraw your consent to this particular processing at any time.
- Use of our website;
- to notify you about changes to our service;
- to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
we will use this information:
- to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
- to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
- to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so;
- as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
- to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising We serve you and others, and deliver relevant advertising to you;
- to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.