Privacy policy

We at Stellar Select Ltd take your personal data seriously. This policy:

• sets out the types of personal data that we collect about you
• explains how and why we collect and use your personal data
• explains how long we keep your personal data for
• explains when, why and with who we will share your personal data;
• sets out the legal basis we have for using your personal data;
• explains the effect of refusing to provide the personal data requested;
• explains the different rights and choices you have when it comes to your personal data; and
• explains how we may contact you and how you can contact us.

We collect the information necessary to be able to find available opportunities and further information needed to assess your eligibility through the different stages of recruitment. This information includes CV’s, identification documents, contact details, educational records, work history, employment and references.

We may also collect sensitive personal data about you, in the form of racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, information relating to an individual’s health, sexual orientation, sex life and criminal convictions information.  We only collect sensitive personal data from you, and further process this data, where you have given your explicit consent.

The following are the different sources we may collect personal data about you from:

• Directly from you. This is information you provide while searching for a new opportunity and/or during the different recruitment stages.
• From an agent/third party acting on your behalf. e.g. Contractors Limited Company.
• Through publicly available sources. We use the following public sources:
  • LinkedIn
  • Job Boards
  • Professional and Educational Qualification Registers
  • By Reference or word of mouth. For example, you may be recommended by a friend, a former employer, a former colleague or even a present employer.

 

Where we collect your information through publicly available sources as set out above, we may do this with the aid of software programs’ such as Broadbean, Logic Melon, Idibu. These programs’ are given parameters on the requirements of a role and search through publicly available sources to find such candidates. These programs’ are designed to only output information on candidates that meet the search criteria.   The parameters of this program are restricted to only searching for candidate information [e.g. Name, Locality, Salary range, Job role, education, skills and experience] from public sites where there is a reasonable expectation that such information may be collected and further processed by job recruiters for the purpose of sourcing candidates for different job roles.

We use your personal data to match your skills, experience and education with a potential employer. We will initially collect basic information on you such as contact details, job role and experience and then pass this on to the client in search of personnel. If you are chosen by the client and go through to the next stage we will then be collecting more information from you at the interview (or equivalent) stage and onwards in that manner.

We keep your information in accordance as follows:

Candidate data: Candidate data may be held indefinitely for active candidates and up to a maximum of 3 years for inactive candidates

Contractor data: Contractor data may be held up to 7 years after the end of the tax year the assignment ended

Client contact details: Client contact details may be held indefinitely for active clients and up to a maximum of 5 years for inactive clients.

We only retain your information for as long as is necessary for us to use your information as described above or to comply with our legal obligations. However, please be advised that we may retain some of your information after you cease to use our services, for instance if this is necessary to meet our legal obligations, such as retaining the information for tax and accounting purposes.

When determining the relevant retention periods, we will take into account factors including:

(a) our contractual obligations and rights in relation to the information involved;

(b) legal obligation(s) under applicable law to retain data for a certain period of time;

(c) our legitimate interest where we have carried out a balancing test (see legal basis below);

(d) statute of limitations under applicable law(s);

(e) (potential) disputes;

(f) if you have made a request to have your information deleted; and

(g) guidelines issued by relevant data protection authorities.

Otherwise, we securely erase your information where we no longer require your information for the purposes collected.

We share your personal data with the client who has a position to fill, in order to determine with the client whether you are a good fit for the available position. Our clients are within the financial services sector located across the UK and EU. From time to time, we may work with clients in other sectors located in the UK and EU.

We may also conduct checks on you to verify the information you have provided and where we do this we share your information with;

• Past Employers for references
• Educational referencing agencies
• Background checking agencies
• Credit reference agencies
• Criminal reference agencies

We may also share personal data with Data Processor’s who hold the data within the UK or EU to carry out the following activities;

• Data storage
• Data reporting
• Application management
• Database management
• Telephony
• Web portal management
• Confidential waste
• Document processing
• Online testing
• Legal professional services
• Accountancy
• Payroll
• Outsourced HR and Recruitment services

For prospective candidates, contractors, referees and clients, our processing is necessary for our legitimate interests in that we need the information in order to be able to assess suitability for potential roles, to find potential candidates and to contact clients and referees. We carry out a ‘balancing test’ to ensure that our processing is necessary and that your fundamental rights of privacy are not outweighed by our legitimate interests, before we go ahead with such processing. We keep a record of these balancing tests. You have a right to and can find out more about the information in these balancing tests by contacting us using the details below.

If you are interviewed and submitted as a candidate, then this may involve the processing of more detailed personal data including sensitive data such as health information that you or others provide about you. In that case we always ask for your consent before undertaking such processing.

For clients, we may also rely on our processing being necessary to perform a contract for you, for example in contacting you.

If you do not provide the personal data necessary, or withdraw your consent for the processing of your personal data, we may not be able to match you with available job opportunities.

No, we do not carry out automated profiling.

To provide better service to you on our websites, we use cookies to collect your personal data when you browse. See our cookie policy here for more details.

No, we do not transfer personal data out of the UK or EU/EEA.

By law, you have a number of rights when it comes to your personal data. Further information and advice about your rights can be obtained from the data protection regulator in your country.

Rights;

1. The right to be informed

You have the right to be provided with clear, transparent and easily understandable information about how we use your information and your rights. This is why we’re providing you with the information in this Policy.

2. The right of access

You have the right to obtain access to your information (if we’re processing it), and certain other information (similar to that provided in this Privacy Policy).

This is so you’re aware and can check that we’re using your information in accordance with data protection law.

3. The right to rectification

You are entitled to have your information corrected if it’s inaccurate or incomplete.

4. The right to erasure

This is also known as ‘the right to be forgotten’ and, in simple terms, enables you to request the deletion or removal of your information where there’s no compelling reason for us to keep using it. This is not a general right to erasure; there are exceptions.

5. The right to restrict processing

You have rights to ‘block’ or suppress further use of your information. When processing is restricted, we can still store your information, but may not use it further. We keep lists of people who have asked for further use of their information to be ‘blocked’ to make sure the restriction is respected in future.

6. The right to data portability

You have rights to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes across different services. For example, if you decide to switch to a new provider, this enables you to move, copy or transfer your information easily between our IT systems and theirs safely and securely, without affecting its usability.

7. The right to object to processing

You have the right to object to certain types of processing, including processing for direct marketing (i.e. if you no longer want to be contacted with potential opportunities).

8. The right to lodge a complaint

You have the right to lodge a complaint about the way we handle or process your personal data with your national data protection regulator.

9. The right to withdraw consent

If you have given your consent to anything we do with your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time (although if you do so, it does not mean that anything we have done with your personal data with your consent up to that point is unlawful). This includes your right to withdraw consent to us using your personal data for marketing purposes.

We usually act on requests and provide information free of charge, but may charge a reasonable fee to cover our administrative costs of providing the information for:

• baseless or excessive/repeated requests, or
• further copies of the same information.

Alternatively, we may be entitled to refuse to act on the request.

Please consider your request responsibly before submitting it. We’ll respond as soon as we can. Generally, this will be within one month from when we receive your request but, if the request is going to take longer to deal with, we’ll come back to you and let you know.

We may contact you by phone, email or social media. If you prefer a particular contact means over another please just let us know.

If you are unhappy with how we’ve handled your information, or have further questions on the processing of your personal data, contact privacy@stellarselect.co.uk or write to us at Stellar Select, Mitre House, 66 Abbey Road, Enfield, Middlesex, EN1 2RQ.