US Privacy Policy

We will use information about you in the following ways:

• to make it (including your CV) available to our consultants in connection with the recruitment process, unless you request otherwise;
• to make it (including your CV) available to our clients in connection with a specific vacancy, where you have agreed to this;
• if you have applied for a job the information you provide, including your CV identifying you by name, will be used to determine your suitability for the position and, if applicable, in determining terms of employment or engagement;
• if your application is progressed further, details may be disclosed to third parties (such as educational institutions, present and past employers, our employees and directors, credit reference agencies, background check agencies, insurance companies etc.) for reasons such as the verification of, or obtaining extra, information or providing you with a quote for insurances should this be required;
• for the purposes of ensuring the validity of right to work documents and other identification documents, which may include providing your details to a third party identity verification company who will conduct a soft credit check as part of the verification. This check, although present on your credit file, will not affect your credit score;
• if your application is unsuccessful, we may try to find you employment or work with alternative clients and may, therefore, disclose your details to other prospective employers and clients in connection with the recruitment process (which for these purposes includes the process of gaining employment and any ongoing administrative process involved, unless you tell us otherwise);
• for the purposes of our business requirements (e.g. to auditors or third party service suppliers);
• to provide you with information about other services and opportunities we offer that are similar to those that you have already enquired about;
• to contact you about industry or sector specific information that might be of interest to you;
• to invite you to events or to participate in relevant surveys that might be of interest to you;
• to deal with complaints or disputes involving you, or other employees, workers, contractors or clients, including accidents at work;
• to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts we intend to enter into or have entered into between you and us;
• to notify you about changes to our service;
• to pay you and, if you are an employee or deemed employee for tax purposes, to deduct tax and social security contributions;
• to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
• to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or other devices;
• to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
• to personalise the content displayed on our site in order to present you with more relevant jobs and content based on your interests;
• to set up an online profile for you on our site;
• as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
• to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
• to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about services that may interest you or them; or
• in management information used to monitor recruitment initiatives and equal opportunities policies.

How will we share or disclose your personal data?

Most commonly, we will share your personal data with members of our Group. This is to enable us to provide you with the best service possible, and to benefit from the specialist knowledge and experience of our relevant brands.

Additionally, we may share your personal data with selected third parties including:

• prospective employers and/or clients for the purposes of assessing your suitability.
• relevant third party partners, including job boards, payroll service providers and audit and assessment companies;
• insurance companies that require the data to contact you with a quote for business insurances (where appropriate);
• advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others;
• analytics and search engine providers, some of which may be overseas, that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site and with the verification of placements;
• identity verification companies for the purpose of validating right to work documents and ID documents;
• our successor or potential successor or new owner or financer, in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, in connection with which your personal information may be shared under an obligation of confidentiality in connection with the evaluation or negotiation of such transaction, and your personal information may be sold or transferred as part of such a transaction; and
• to third parties as to which we reasonably believe such sharing is required or appropriate to: comply with legal requirements and law enforcement requests (such as a court order or subpoena); comply with legal process (such as discovery); or protect your, our, or others’ rights, property, or safety.

Where is your personal data stored?

Information can be provided to us in different forms, we have put in appropriate security measures to protect the data we receive and we will do our best to protect your personal data, although, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, consequently we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access, misuse or loss.

If you suspect any unauthorised access to or misuse or loss of your data, please contact us immediately using our contact details below.

International data transfers

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside of North America to the extent permissible in law and, as such, your personal information may be subject to privacy laws in other jurisdictions.  By submitting your personal data to us, and through the use of our site, you consent to this processing.

Changes to our privacy statement

We may make changes to this policy from time to time, and the revised version will be effective when it is posted and will apply to personal information received after that date.  If we make any material changes, we will provide notice of such changes on the pertinent site for a reasonable period of time. We encourage you to review this policy periodically, especially if you don’t visit the site regularly.

Links to third party sites

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the sites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these sites, please note that these sites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these sites.

Passwords

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Privacy rights where you live

You may have certain legal privacy rights where you live, and we will comply with restrictions and requests as required by applicable law.

If you are a California resident, we do not “sell” your personal information (as defined by California Civil Code §1798.83) that we collect on our site with third parties for their own marketing purposes.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us in the following ways:

Post:

Data Protection, Dartmouth Partners Inc, 12 E 49th St, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10017

Email address: privacyteam@kernel-global.com

Please note that we may keep a record of your communications to help us resolve any issues which you raise.