FWA is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office who are the government body that enforces organisations comply fully with the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA). What this means for you is that we ensure all the information you provide us is processed in strict accordance with the DPA policy.
We will collect personal data to provide you with the best possible recruitment experience. We may also be required by law to collect additional sensitive information – for example, information relating to ethnic origin, religious beliefs and physical and mental health.
To send information to prospective employers and clients in connection with the recruitment process in order for them to assess your job eligibility.
To contact you about details of surveys, promotions, offers, networking or client events and general information about the industry sectors or jobs which we think might be of interest to you.
To third parties where we have retained them to provide services that you or our client has requested. Some examples of these are; references, qualifications and criminal reference checking services, verification of the details you have provided from third party source, psychometric evaluation or skill test.
To answer enquiries, feedback and complaints.
Information is collected from you when you engage with, contribute to or use some of the features on our website, for example; job application, CV submission or registration processes.
We will hold your information for as long as is necessary to comply with our statutory and contractual obligations and in accordance with our legitimate interests as a recruitment agency and data controller.
We will continually strive to ensure that your personal data is maintained and up to date, however; you are obliged to inform us of any and all changes to your personal data in order for us to update or delete your personal data accordingly.
To suppliers, contractors and agents: From time to time we may engage or employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples may include, administrative functions associated with our business activities. Such recipients will only have access to data required by them to perform their functions, and are not permitted to use such data for any other purposes. These recipients will be subject to contractual confidentiality obligations.
By providing us with your data, you consent that your data may be transferred to and processed outside of your country of residence, including in countries which may not provide adequate data protection as defined by EU data protection law, but only for the limited purposes and in accordance with the principles set out herein.
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report such information in aggregated form to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify you or any individual.
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general Internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on your device. Cookies help us to improve the Website and to deliver a better and more personalised service.
Keeping information about you secure is very important to us and certain sections of the site may encrypt data using SSL or a comparable standard. However, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, even though we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information which you send to us, and you do so at your own risk.
FWA will always provide you with a copy of any personal information we have about you on request. You are also able to amend your information in the same way. Please inform us of any changes to your personal data and we may ask you to verify your identity before carrying out any changes.
We may amend this Policy from time to time. Any changes we may make to our Policy in the future will be posted on this page.