Privacy policy

Privacy policy

SCM Recruitment is registered as a data controller in the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998. We respect your personal information and will ensure it is processed fairly and with care.

1. Why we collect personal information?

We collect personal information to facilitate the recruitment process. Such information includes, for example, name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, age, education, qualifications, employment history, marital status, contained within the CV or any application for situations vacant submitted by you through our website. Occasionally, we may ask for sensitive personal information that has been requested from us by the clients we represent. Clients are organisations that engage SCM Recruitment to fill their situations vacant. Such sensitive information might include health / disabilities, criminal convictions etc. If you choose to provide such information you are giving explicit consent to process the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

2. Who has access to personal information?

Access is restricted to our staff, and clients that have a requirement for human resource. Clients may be located inside and outside the UK.

We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or the majority of all the assets of our business to a third party, provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this privacy policy and provided the third party only uses your personal information for the purposes you provided it to us.

3. Who else might have access to personal information?

We will relinquish your personal information to the police or Courts when instructed, or if we believe we have a legal duty to do so in connection with the detection of crime, the collection of tax or duties, in order to comply with any applicable law, or in connection with legal proceedings.

We will not provide personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.

4. Is the information held valid?

We are reliant on the accuracy of the personal information you supply. You have an obligation to inform us in the event of any and all changes to your personal information, particularly as this might influence your employment prospects. We are then able to update your personal information accordingly.

5. How long is personal information held?

We will hold your personal information for as long as is necessary to comply with legal and contractual obligations. We may also decide to extend the time in accordance with our legitimate interests as a recruitment agency.

After an appropriate period we will contact you and ask if you wish for your personal information to be maintained on our database. If you do not respond within 10 days that you wish your personal information to remain we will archive or may delete it.

6. Can I find out what personal information is held?

To find out what personal information we hold about you, or have your personal information updated or removed, please write to us at the address shown below

SCM Recruitment

Tredomen Business and Technology Centre

Tredomen Park

Ystrad Mynach

Hengoed CF82 7FN

Any such requests may be subject to our standard £10 administration fee.

7. The security of personal information

The nature of the Internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us through the Internet. No information transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. However, we will take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from unauthorised access after receipt.