Data Protection Notice

Effective Date: 12 March 2025

Elite Vision Recruitment Ltd ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your personal data and complying with all applicable data protection laws, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR). This Data Protection Notice explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal data when you engage with our recruitment services.

What Personal Data We Collect

We collect and process various types of personal data, including but not limited to:

Identification data: name, contact details (email, phone number), date of birth, and gender.

Employment data: work experience, job preferences, CV, qualifications, and references.

Special categories of data: health data (if applicable, and only with explicit consent), criminal convictions data (where applicable, and only where required by law or explicit consent).

We collect this data for the purpose of providing recruitment services, managing client relationships, fulfilling contractual and legal obligations, and improving our services

How We Use Your Personal Data

We process your personal data on the basis of consent, contractual necessity, legal obligations, and our legitimate interests, as permitted by law.

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

Providing recruitment services, including job placement and career management.

Fulfilling contractual obligations, including agreements between Elite Vision Recruitment Ltd and our clients or candidates.

Managing client and candidate relationships, including communication about job vacancies, job matches, and updates.

Complying with legal and regulatory obligations related to recruitment services

Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with the following categories of recipients:

Prospective employers and clients for job placements and other recruitment purposes.

Service providers such as IT support, data hosting, and administrative services.

Regulatory bodies and government authorities as required to comply with legal obligations, such as tax or employment law.

Other third parties as necessary, for instance, to comply with a legal request or contractual obligations.

Your personal data will only be shared when it is necessary for the performance of our services and in compliance with data protection laws.

Data Retention

We retain your personal data only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, and as required by law or regulation. For more information, please see our Data Retention Policy available on our website.

Your Rights

Under the UK GDPR and EU GDPR, you have several rights concerning your personal data, including:

Right of access: You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.

Right to rectification: You can request corrections to your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete.

Right to erasure: You can request that we delete your personal data when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or if you withdraw consent (when applicable).

Right to restrict processing: You have the right to limit the ways we process your personal data in certain circumstances.

Right to object: You can object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing or in cases where we rely on legitimate interests for processing.

Right to data portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transfer it to another data controller.

Right to withdraw consent: Where we rely on consent for processing, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below.

How We Protect Your Personal Data

We take the security of your personal data seriously and use a variety of technical and organizational measures to protect it from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, and destruction.

International Transfers

In the course of providing our recruitment services, we may transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA). If we do so, we will ensure that adequate protections are in place to protect your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

If you have any questions or concerns about how we handle your personal data or if you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at:

Email: office@elitevisionrecruitment.com

Website: www.elitevisionrecruitment.com

If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at www.ico.org.uk.

Changes to this Data Protection Notice

We may update this Data Protection Notice from time to time. Any changes will be communicated through our website and will be effective from the date of posting. Please review this notice periodically for any updates.

By engaging with our services, you acknowledge that you have received and understood this Data Protection Notice.