Privacy policy
Simpson Dean Ltd. declares that we operate in full compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the UK Data Protection Act 2018, both of which came in to force on 25th May 2018 and which is designed to help better protect individuals’ personal data and give everyone new rights concerning how organisations keep and handle their data. It also makes it easier for individuals to find out what information is held about them and explains how incorrect information can be changed and how they can ensure that information is deleted if that’s what they want.
Website Terms and Conditions
Apart from your enhanced rights under the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation, each time you access or use https://simpsondeanrecruitment.co.uk it means that you accept these terms and conditions.
‘We’ means Simpson Dean Ltd. and ‘our’ means Simpson Dean’s staff and activities. ‘You’ means the person, firm, company or organisation browsing and/or using the Simpson Dean website and ‘your’ means information that you choose to share with Simpson Dean.
Interruptions and Omissions in Service
We ensure that our website information is accurate and accessible whenever possible; however, we cannot control external services provided by others (such as internet service providers), which means that errors, omissions, interruptions of service and delays may occur at any time. We do not accept any liability arising from any such errors, omissions, interruptions or delays or any ongoing obligation or responsibility to operate the website (or any particular part of it) or to provide the service offered on the website. We may vary the specification of this site from time to time without notice.
Links to Other Websites
On our website, you may be offered automatic links to other websites, which we hope will be of interest to you. We do not accept any responsibility for or liability in respect of the content of those sites, the owners of which do not necessarily have any connection, commercial or otherwise, with us. Using automatic links to gain access to such sites is entirely at your own risk; however, we will only offer links to organisations which have provided us with a declaration that they are fully compliant with the provisions of GDPR.
Your Use of the Simpson Dean Website
You may only use our website for lawful purposes when seeking employment or help with your career, or when recruiting staff. You must not under any circumstances seek to undermine the security of the website or any information submitted to or available within it. In particular, but without limitation, you must not seek to access, alter or delete any information to which you do not have authorised access, seek to overload the system via spamming or flooding, take any action or use any device, routine or software to crash, delay, damage or otherwise interfere with the operation of the website or attempt to decipher, disassemble or modify any of the software, coding or information comprised in the website.
You are solely responsible for any information submitted by you to the website. You are responsible for ensuring that all information supplied by you is true, accurate, up-to-date and not misleading or likely to mislead or deceive and that it is not discriminatory, obscene, offensive, defamatory or otherwise illegal, unlawful or in breach of any applicable legislation, regulations, guidelines or codes of practice or the copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights of any person in any jurisdiction.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all information, data and files are free of viruses or other routines or engines that may damage or interfere with any system or data prior to being submitted to the website.
Information Submitted by You
We will use information supplied by you to aid the recruitment process and associated administrative functions. We will process any data which you provide in completing the online application forms and any further forms, assessments or personal details which you complete or provide to us when using the website in accordance with relevant data protection legislation. We explain more about your personal data in our Privacy Policy.
Content Rights
The rights of material on the website are protected by international copyright laws and you agree to use the website in a way which does not infringe these rights. You may copy material from our website for your own private or domestic purposes but no copying for any commercial or business use is permitted.
Choice of Law and Jurisdiction
The content and use of our website are governed by and construed in accordance with English law. The courts of England have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising out of or in connection with the use of the website.
Changes to Terms and Conditions and Invalidity
These terms and conditions may be changed by us at any time. You will be deemed to accept the terms and conditions (as amended) when you next use the website following any amendment.
If any provision of these terms and conditions is held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions, which shall remain in full force and effect.
Privacy Policy
On 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK Data Protection Act 2018 came into force, giving individuals throughout the European Union enhanced rights over the use of their personal data. As a result, we have updated our privacy policy.
Under the GDPR, we can only hold and process your personal data on one or more of the authorised grounds. In this policy, we advise you of the basis on which we will receive and process your personal data and of your rights under the GDPR. This privacy policy sets out how Simpson Dean Ltd uses and protects any information that you provide Simpson Dean Ltd, and when you use our website: https://simpsondeanrecruitment.co.uk
Simpson Dean Ltd. is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Simpson Dean Ltd. may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page on subsequent visits to ensure that you are content with and understand any such changes.
What Information/Data We Collect
We may collect any or all of the following information:
- name and job title
- contact information including email address and phone number
- demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
- other information relevant to vacancies, customer surveys and/or offers
You will be emailed every 12 months to check that the details we hold for you are still correct and to see if you still want to remain on our Automatic Tracking System (a service provided to us by Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd. trading as Zoho Recruit) so that you can be considered for other job opportunities.
All personally identifiable data will be deleted after a period of 12 month (unless we are required to do so by law) and you have not consented to us storing the data for an additional 12 months.
What We Do With The Information We Gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, particularly for the following reasons:
- Internal record keeping
- If you’re a candidate, we will use your details to match your profile with suitable vacancies and we can inform you about them
- We may use the information to improve our products and services
- We may periodically send promotional emails about new vacancies or candidates or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided
- From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes
- We may contact you by email or phone
- We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests
Online Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Simpson Dean Ltd collects statistical information about visitors to our website to ascertain which areas and services are accessed most frequently; this helps us to understand how we can continually improve the website experience for our visitors.
We sometimes use marketing profiling to help us offer you the best service by identifying jobs that may be of interest to you.
Please see our Cookies policy which explains how we are legally compliant.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest – but only websites of organisations from which we have obtained a declaration of GDPR compliance. Once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. We cannot, therefore, be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling Your Personal Information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
- Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website you will be asked to select whether you want the information provided to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes and/or recruiting purposes or not.
- If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes and/or recruiting purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at [email protected]
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the General Data Protection Regulation. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to [email protected]
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us as soon as possible at [email protected] We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
Option for Further Communications:
If you opt-in to receive communications from us, we will ask you to give your explicit consent to receiving such communications and this consent will authorise us to process your data. We may also ask you for certain optional additional information for marketing purposes.
You can withdraw your consent at any time in one of the ways described above or by clicking on the “unsubscribe” button on any emails we send you.
Protection of Your Personal Information:
We will not use your personal data other than for the purposes described in this notice or for any other process to which you consent.
We will not keep your personal data for longer than is necessary for the stated purposes.
We will take all reasonable and necessary technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data.
Your Rights:
Your rights under the GDPR include the following:
- The right at any time to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data.
- The right to be informed of what personal data of yours we hold, how we obtained it and how long we intend to keep it.
- The right to have your personal data rectified in the event that it is inaccurate or incomplete.
- The right to request the erasure of your personal data (also called the right to be forgotten).
- The right to restrict the processing of your personal data.
- The right to data portability (i.e. transfer of your personal data to another organisation).
Your rights above can be exercised free of charge by:
- Sending an email to [email protected]
- By telephoning 01494 419 192 and asking for Anthony Dean or
- By writing to us at Simpson Dean Ltd., 29 - 31 Castle Street, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP13 6RU
In certain cases, we will need to satisfy ourselves of your identity before we can action a request under the GDPR.
Please note that if by exercising one or more of your rights it requires deletion of your file, we may not be required or able to do so, especially if your file also holds information about our clients or tax-related information that we need to keep, by law, for a period of up to 6 years. If we are unable to comply with your request, we will let you know what the reason is.
If you feel that any of your rights have been infringed, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office: www.ico.org.uk
Registered Office
Simpson Dean Ltd.
29 - 31 Castle Street
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
HP13 6RU
Company Number: 8657938. Registered in the UK.
Data Controller: Anthony Dean
Data Processors – Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd., trading as Zoho Recruit https://www.zoho.com/gdpr.html; https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html
GDPR Contact address: [email protected]
Simpson Dean Cookies
What are Cookies?
A cookie is a piece of information in the form of a very small text file that is placed on an internet user's computer. It is generated by a web page server (which is basically the computer that operates the website) and can be used by that server whenever the user visits the site. A cookie can be thought of as an internet user's identification card, which tells a website when the user has returned.
Cookies can't harm your computer and we don't store any personally identifiable information about you on any of our cookies.
Why Do We Use Cookies On simpsondeanrecruitment.co.uk?
simpsondeanrecruitment.co.uk uses cookies set by third parties (i.e. other websites or services). Third-party cookies are not enabled unless you have consented to us using cookies.
These to help to better understand how the features and functions of the site are used in order that we can improve our service.
If you would like more information about the cookies we use, as well as details on how to opt-out, please see below.
Cookies Set by Simpson Dean
- simpsondean-session - this is a session cookie for security reasons. It does not contain any identifiable information.
- simpsondean-cookie-consent-given - this cookie is set when you click the button to allow us to use analytics cookies. It keeps track of your preference so you don't have to click the button every time you visit the site.
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Cookies Set by Third Parties
Simpsondeanrecruitment.co.uk works with GDPR-compliant third parties to provide services that help us to keep our website tailored to our users' needs. Some of these partners use cookies to help them deliver these services. A list of third-party cookies can be found below:
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer to help the website analyse how visitors use the site.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information, for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
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