Our Use of Your Personal Information
Hofmann UK ('Hofmann) and our agents will use information that you and also third parties (including referees and where relevant, credit reference agencies, Criminal Records Bureau and customer service appraisals) provide to us about you ('Personal Information') to provide and enhance our services to you.
This includes, if you are seeking suitable candidates for vacancies within your organisation, contacting you with details of candidates that we think you may be interested in. If you are a candidate, this may include assessing your suitability for relevant vacancies, checking details which you provide to us (such as qualifications and experience), obtaining references from your named referees, undertaking temporary service appraisals and contacting you in connection with possible vacancies and other such recruitment purposes. We may also, on occasion, use your Personal Information to carry out market research.
We may also retain your Personal Information for the purpose of matching employers and candidates in the
future. All Personal Information is retained for a period of at least one year from the date on which Hofmann
UK ceases to seek work opportunities on your behalf.
Where your Personal Information is retained on our files, please help us to keep it up to date by informing
us if you become aware that any Personal Information that we process about you is inaccurate or out-ofdate.
When might we disclose your Personal Information to third parties?
We may disclose Personal Information about you to the following third parties in the following circumstances:
• If you are a candidate, to potential employers and vice versa
• To our service providers, for example, mailing companies, solicitors,
accountants etc.
• To businesses who are part of the Hofmann UK group of companies to
secure work opportunities on your behalf
• To other recruitment companies to secure work opportunities on your
behalf
• When you have either agreed to it or have asked us to or it is in
connection with a contract which we have entered into or will enter into
with you
• When we are required to do so by the Courts or to comply with other
legal, statutory and/or regulatory obligations including accounting and
taxation requirements
• To prevent and/or detect crime
• Where it is in connection with a transfer of all or substantially all of
Hofmann UK assets or stock by way of a merger, acquisition,
reorganisation or otherwise
• For credit reference purposes. Please note that a record of our credit
search will remain on your candidate file
What are Cookies and why do we use them?
A Cookie is a piece of text that attaches to your hard drive and from which it can store and sometimes track information on how you make use of a web site. Please note that the web sites to which this site may be linked may make use of their own Cookies to collect information from you.
Hofmann UK uses Cookies because they store and recall data that you have previously provided on our site and will save you from retyping that data every time you enter the site. We also use the data gathered by Cookies to improve the quality of the site and our services to you. For example, we might use Cookie
data to gauge the number of people who make use of our site and usage patterns.
Information Updates
Please help us to keep your Personal Information current by contacting us if your Personal Information is or becomes inaccurate and/or out-of-date.
Security
As you may be aware, no data transmission over the Internet can be entirely secure. As a result, while we will always use reasonable endeavours to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information and the use of our site (including the e-mail facilities) is at your own risk.
Monitoring
Please note that if you communicate with us electronically, including by e-mail, telephone or fax, these communications may be monitored and/or recorded to protect the interests of our business, our employees, candidates and customers. Any such monitoring will be performed for one or more of the following purposes; maintaining and improving customer service standards, detection and/or prevention of crime, to ensure that Hofmann employees comply with legal obligations and Hofmann UK polices and procedures (including our customer relations practices) and employee training.
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