Introduction

This policy covers NC Associates’ use of personal information that is collected when you use the www.ncassociates.co.uk website. You may be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and your CV) in order to enable us to provide you with recruitment services. Such services include searching for suitable employment vacancies, applying for specific jobs or subscribing to our email alerts.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable NC Associates to provide you with such recruitment services. Whenever you provide personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. When using your personal information NC Associates will act in accordance with current legislation practice.

Use and storage of personal information

Any information you provide to NC Associates will be used within Bluestones Group and related group companies.

Access to your personal data is only provided to our staff and your information will only be disclosed to prospective employers as appropriate for the purpose of providing recruitment or employment services.

We may release information to regulatory or law enforcement agencies if required to do so by law.

We will retain information on our database unless for any reason you request for it to be removed. However, we will hold your personal information on our systems for a minimum of 12 months (in accordance with the Employment Agencies Act)

We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act.

Email alerts

You may opt to receive details of jobs which match your search criteria. For this service you will be required to supply your email address and select certain preferences. Opportunities alerted to you will be based on the Location, Salary and Sector preferences that you select.

CV

You may submit a copy of your CV via our website. This may either be for the purpose of submitting it for a specific role, or to provide it to NC Associates Consultants for general consideration for suitable vacancies as they arise. Your CV will be retained on our database and accessible by our staff. It will only be used for the purpose of supplying recruitment or employment services to you, and will only be passed to potential employers with your permission.

You can update your CV at any time by following the same procedure for submitting a CV and your details will be updated.

Access to personal information

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information that NC Associates holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We reserve the right to charge an administration fee for information requests.)

Use of Cookies

During the course of any visit to www.ncassociates.co.uk, the pages you see, along with a short text file called a ‘cookie’, are downloaded to your computer. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether you have visited the website before.

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website’s computer and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Cookies record information about your online preferences. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time.