At Baltimore Consulting (“we”, “us” or “our” for short) we and our group companies are committed to protecting your personal information. Your personal information (also called ‘personal data’) is the information which identifies you as an individual that we get from you and others in various ways. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”) specific obligations are placed on us in the way we handle this type of information. The aim of this privacy policy is to let you know what personal information we collect from you when you apply for a job with us or our group companies, when you use our website and when you contact us, how we store and use it, and how you can access and manage this information.
Your personal information may be stored online and therefore we take steps to ensure that our systems are well protected.
The registered office of the above company is at Baltimore Consulting Limited, 3rd Floor, 21 Prince Street, Bristol BS1 4PH. Our VAT number is 156711312.
Please note that this privacy policy only covers https:// www.baltimoreconsultingltd.com. Other websites belonging to us or accessible via links are not covered by this policy. If you access any of these sites, please check the privacy policy applicable to these sites (if any) before you submit any of your personal information to them.
We collect information about you which enables us to find available opportunities and assess your suitability throughout the recruitment process. This is collected in our capacity as a recruitment agency and recruitment business, as well as an employer if you want to work for us.
We may also collect sensitive personal data about you, in the form of health or medical information (including details of any special assistance you may need or any sick leave taken during previous roles), racial or ethnic origin, sex life or sexual orientation, political opinions, religious beliefs, trade union membership and biometric data. 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 from which we may collect personal data:
We also monitor site traffic, and like most websites, we use a Unique Visitor Cookie (which is supplied and managed by a carefully selected statistics provider) to identify your PC by a random number (e.g. #12489). More details about cookies and how you can disable them can be found below.
We will (unless it’s impractical) tell you if we obtain and store information from any other source and also how we intend to use it in accordance with this privacy policy.
Whilst we take steps to protect user privacy, no data transmission over the internet can be entirely secure. We therefore do not guarantee the security of personal information that you send to us, or your use of the site. Any personal information you do send is at your own risk but once we receive it we use strict procedures to safeguard it.
In connection with a contract between you and us or an employer…
We may use and process your personal information where it is necessary for us to do so to in connection with or anticipation of a contract between you and us or an employer.
We may use and process your personal information where it is necessary for us to pursue our legitimate interests as a business for the following purposes:
We may use your personal information where you have consented for us to do so
This consent can be withdrawn by logging-in to your account on the website and updating your details.
Unless otherwise stated, we will hold data processed through contractual and legitimate interests indefinitely. Data processed via active consent will continue to receive marketing relative to the initial opt-in until we have received a request to unsubscribe/opt-out.
We may make your personal information available to agencies and employers who subscribe with us or use our Website, working within the above ways in which we use your data. These clients may then use that information to contact you about specific roles via email, phone or post. Other clients or agencies should not send direct marketing messages by email or SMS to you unless you have consented (opted in) to this.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiary companies, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiary companies.
You are entitled to see the personal information that we hold about you at any time. (If you write to, email or phone us and ask to see this information, it is known as a ‘subject access request’ or ‘SAR’ for short) You can do so by:
Even if you don’t want a copy of your personal information, you can still contact us to check that the personal information that we hold is accurate or to let us know of any changes to your personal information. We always try to ensure that the information we hold is accurate, up to date and relevant and, as you are applying for a job with us, it is important that we have the right information in order to be able contact you. We’ll be more than happy to make changes or to correct any inaccuracies.
We do keep our privacy policies under regular review so please do check each time you use the site. You’ll be able to read about any updates on this page – as soon as they happen.
If you have any questions or if you feel that we are not complying with the terms of this privacy policy please do contact us by e-mailing us at the following address dataprivacy@baltimoreconsultingltd.com inserting the words ‘Privacy Policy Grievance’ in the heading.
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