Privacy Policy

Oliver Raine Ltd understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. We respect and value the privacy of all of our perspective/ applicants, suppliers, clients and employees and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a way that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under the law.

1. Information About Us

Oliver Raine Ltd.
Limited Company registered in England under company number 05242416.
Registered address: Oliver Raine Ltd, Lynwood, Chestnut Walk, Little Baddow, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 4SP.
VAT number: 843 6984 83.
Data Officer: Chrissy Porter
Email address: chrissy.porter@oliverraine.co.uk.
Telephone number: +44(0) 345 2302265.
Postal Address: 166 Moor Lane, Upminster, Essex. RM4 1HE.

2. What Does This Notice Cover?

This Privacy Information explains how we use your personal data: how it is collected, how it is held, and how it is processed. It also explains your rights under the law relating to your personal data.

3. What is Personal Data?

Personal data is defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) as ‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier’.

Personal data is, in simpler terms, any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details, but it also covers less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.

The personal data that we use is set out in Part 5, below.

4. What Are My Rights?

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:

  • a) The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data. This Privacy Notice should tell you everything you need to know, but you can always contact us to find out more or to ask any questions using the details in Part 12.
  • b) The right to access the personal data we hold about you. Part 11 will tell you how to do this.
  • c) The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete. Please contact us using the details in Part 12 to find out more.
  • d) The right to be forgotten, i.e. the right to ask us to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data that we have. Please contact us using the details in Part 12 to find out more.
  • e) The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data.
  • f) The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes.
  • g) The right to data portability. This means that, if you have provided personal data to us directly, we’re using it with your consent or for the performance of a contract, and that data is processed using automated means, you can ask us for a copy of that personal data to re-use with another service or business in many cases.
  • h) Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling. We do not use your personal data in this way.

For more information about our use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact us using the details provided in Part 12.

Further information about your rights can also be obtained from the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.
If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

5. What Personal Data Do You Collect?

We may collect some or all of the following personal data (this may vary according to your relationship with us):

  • Name;
  • Date of birth;
  • Gender;
  • Address;
  • Email address;
  • Telephone number;
  • Business name;
  • Job title;
  • Profession;
  • Payment information;
  • Information about your preferences and interests;
  • Any other information you freely provide as part of your documented CV

Your personal data is obtained from the following third parties:

  • Online CV databases e.g. Indeed, Reed, CV Library, JobMedic, etc
  • Various online search facilities where your data freely appears.

6. What are cookies? 

Cookies are very small text files we place on your computer’s hard drive with your permission.  Cookies track how and when you visit our website and then allow us to work out what type of product or service interests you most so we can better meet your requirements.  These cookies do not interfere with or have access to any other information on your computer.  If you prefer, you can opt not to accept cookies; this may limit how you can use our website, but you may still use our website.  Services delivered via the website such as video or embedded content from external providers may also place cookies on your computer; once again you will have the option to reject these cookies.  For more detailed information on using our website and our use of cookies please refer to our Cookies Policy Document.

7. How Do You Use My Personal Data?

Under the GDPR, we must always have a lawful basis for using personal data. This may be because the data is necessary for our performance of a contract with you, because you have consented to our use of your personal data, or because it is in our legitimate business interests to use it. Your personal data may be used for one of the following purposes:

  • Providing and managing your account.
  • Supplying our services to you. Your personal details are required in order for us to enter into a contract with you.
  • Personalising and tailoring our services for you.
  • Communicating with you. This may include responding to emails or calls from you.
  • Supplying you with information by email or post that you have opted-in to (you may unsubscribe or opt-out at any time by emailing DataOfficer@OliverRaine.co.uk.
  • Fulfilling our legal obligations e.g. HMRC requirements; employment law.

With your permission and/or where permitted by law, we may also use your personal data for marketing purposes, which may include contacting you by email and or telephone with information, news, and offers on our services. You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam. We will always work to fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and you will always have the opportunity to opt-out.

8. How Long Will You Keep My Personal Data?

We will not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Your personal data will therefore be kept for the following periods (or, where there is no fixed period, the following factors will be used to determine how long it is kept):

  • Applicants CV’s received by us but not relevant to current job searches will be deleted immediately.
  • CV’s relevant to current or forthcoming job searches will be kept for the duration of the search period being considered, up to a maximum of 12 months from receipt.
  • In the unlikely event that CV’s are needed beyond 12 months, consent will be sought specifically for this purpose.
  • Information required to be kept by HMRC for 6+ current year.
  • Employees data for 6 years after they have left the company, inline with our legal obligation.

9. How and Where Do You Store or Transfer My Personal Data?

We may store or transfer some or all of your personal data in countries that are not part of the European Economic Area (the “EEA” consists of all EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein). These are known as “third countries” and may not have data protection laws that are as strong as those in the UK and/or the EEA. This means that we will take additional steps in order to ensure that your personal data is treated just as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the GDPR as follows.

If we share your data with external third parties, as detailed below in Part 9, that are based outside of the EEA. The following safeguards are applied to such transfers:

We will only transfer your personal data to countries that the European Commission has deemed to provide an adequate level of personal data protection.

We may transfer your data to a third party based in the US, this may be protected if they are part of the EU-US Privacy Shield. This requires that third party to provide data protection to standards similar levels of data protection to those in Europe.

The security of your personal data is essential to us, and to protect your data, we take a number of important measures, including the following:

  • Keeping secure backups of your data
  • Using Encryption technology wherever possible e.g. Laptops 
  • Password protection

10. Do You Share My Personal Data?

We may sometimes contract with the following third parties to supply services to you on our behalf. These may include payment processing, delivery, marketing and professional services. In some cases, those third parties may require access to some or all of your personal data that we hold.

  •  SAGE.
  • Third party IT services 
  • HSBC
  • HITACHI Finance
  • Accountancy services
  • HMRC
  • Consultants and contractors 

If any of your personal data is required by a third party, as described above, we will take steps to ensure that your personal data is handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, our obligations, and the third party’s obligations under the law, as described above in Part 9.

In some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.

11. How Can I Access My Personal Data?

If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details of that personal data and for a copy of it (where any such personal data is held). This is known as a “subject access request”.

All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email or postal addresses shown in Part 12. To make this as easy as possible for you, a Subject Access Request Form is available for you to use. You do not have to use this form, but it is the easiest way to tell us everything we need to know to respond to your request as quickly as possible.

There is not normally any charge for a subject access request. If your request is ‘manifestly unfounded or excessive’ (for example, if you make repetitive requests) a fee may be charged to cover our administrative costs in responding.

We will respond to your subject access request within one month of receiving it. Normally, we aim to provide a complete response, including a copy of your personal data within that time. In some cases, however, particularly if your request is more complex, more time may be required up to a maximum of three months from the date we receive your request. You will be kept fully informed of our progress.

12. How Do I Contact You or make a complaint?

To contact us about anything to do with your personal data and data protection, including to make a subject access request or because you are unhappy with any of the information detailed above, please use the following details (for the attention of Chrissy Porter):

Email address: DataOfficer@OliverRaine.co.uk
Telephone number: 0345 2302265.
Postal Address: 166 Moor Lane, Upminster, Essex. RM4 1HE.

13. Changes to this Privacy Notice

We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection.

Any changes will be made available on our website.