Effective Date: 24 May 2024
At BioCare Staffing, we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website http://biocarestaffing.com or use our services. Please read this policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it, in compliance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
1. Information We Collect
Personal Data
While using our website and services, we may collect the following types of personal data:
- Identity Data: Name, job title, company name, and similar identifiers.
- Contact Data: Email address, telephone numbers, and postal addresses.
- Professional Data: CV/resume, work history, qualifications, and references.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our website and services.
- Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in the following ways:
- To provide and manage our services: Including recruitment services, job matching, and candidate placement.
- To communicate with you: Sending newsletters, updates, marketing communications, and other information that may be of interest to you.
- To improve our website and services: Understanding how you use our services to make improvements.
- For compliance and legal obligations: Ensuring compliance with laws, regulations, and our contractual obligations.
3. Legal Basis for Processing
We rely on the following legal bases for processing your personal data:
- Consent: Where you have provided your consent for us to process your personal data.
- Contractual Necessity: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.
- Legal Obligation: Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
- Legitimate Interests: Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
4. Sharing Your Information
We may share your information with third parties under the following circumstances:
- With Employers: Sharing relevant candidate information with potential employers as part of our recruitment services.
- Service Providers: Engaging trusted third-party service providers to perform functions and provide services, such as IT and system administration, analytics, and marketing.
- Legal Requirements: Disclosing your information to comply with legal obligations, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of BioCare Staffing, our clients, or others.
5. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, please note that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.
6. International Transfers
We may transfer your personal data outside the UK. Where such transfers occur, we will ensure that your personal data receives an adequate level of protection and that appropriate safeguards are in place, as required by the UK GDPR.
7. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Access: Request access to your personal data.
- Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data.
- Restriction: Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Data Portability: Request transfer of your personal data to you or a third party.
- Objection: Object to processing your personal data.
- Withdraw Consent: Where processing is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at info@biocarestaffing.co.uk.
8. Retention of Data
We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
9. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of each website you visit.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
BioCare Staffing
Email: info@biocarestaffing.com
Website: http://biocarestaffing.com
By using our website and services, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Please make sure to review this policy regularly for any updates or changes. Thank you for trusting BioCare Staffing with your personal information.