Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Creative Legal Recruitment Ltd (“we”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy, together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to in it, sets out the basis on which any personal data (including personal information) we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Personal information means any information that can directly or indirectly identify you, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number (“Personal Information”). Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data (including your Personal Information) and how we will treat it. By visiting www.creativelegalrecruitment.co.uk you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”), the data controller is Creative Legal Recruitment Ltd of 20-22 Wenlock Road, London N1 7GU.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU

We will collect and process the following data about you:

Information you give us. This is information about you that you give us by filling in forms on our site www.creativelegalrecruitment.co.uk (“our site”), uploading your CV or other documents or corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. The information you give us may include, without limitation, your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, personal description and photograph, education and employment history, information about your salary and any other information you choose to include in any documents, including your CV, that you provide us with. This may include sensitive personal information, including, without limitation, details of ethnic origin and criminal convictions.

Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our site we will automatically collect the following information:

Technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet;

Information about your visit, for example, the way you move around our site and how long you spend on each page.

COOKIES

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them please see our Cookie Policy.

 

 

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION        

We collect and use your personal data because it is necessary to obtain certain details (including Personal Information) from you in the work-searching process and it is in our legitimate interests in the course of operating our business.

We use the information held about you in the following ways:

Information you give to us. We will use this information:

  • to provide our services to you;
  • to notify you about changes to our service;
  • to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
  • to submit your CV for general applications or to apply for specific jobs (with your express consent).
  • to match your details with job vacancies, to assist us in finding a position that is most suitable for you and to send (with your express consent) your personal data (including sensitive data and Personal Information) to clients in order to apply for jobs;
  • To answer your questions;
  • To fulfil contractual obligations with our clients.

Information we collect about you. We will use this information:

  • 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;
  • 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.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

Some services that we provide require the involvement of third parties. We may disclose your personal data (including Personal Information) to selected third parties, including:

  • Our law firm clients for the performance of any recruitment services that you have requested from us;
  • To third parties where we have retained them to provide services that you or our clients have requested, such as reference, qualification and criminal references checking services (as required) and verification of the details you have provided from third party sources. These third parties comply with similar and equally stringent undertakings of privacy and confidentiality as Creative Legal Recruitment Ltd.
  • To third parties who perform functions on our behalf and who also provide services to us, such as professional advisors and IT consultants carrying out testing and development work on our business technology systems. These third parties comply with similar and equally stringent undertakings of privacy and confidentiality as Creative Legal Recruitment Ltd.
  • Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.

We will disclose your Personal Information to third parties:

  • In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we will disclosure your personal data to the prospective seller of buyer of such business or assets;
  • If Creative Legal Recruitment Ltd or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about you will be one of the transferred assets.
  • If we are under a duty to disclose of share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Creative Legal Recruitment Ltd, our clients, or others.

CURRICULUM VITAE (“CV”)

We give you the option of submitting your CV via our website or sending it by email. You can do this either to apply for a specific job or for consideration for positions by us and our clients as they come up. We will ask for your consent before providing your CV to any of our law firm clients.

You can update your CV at any time.

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

All information you provide to use is stored on secure servers.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, 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.

Using the internet to collect and process personal data may necessarily involve the transmission of data on an international basis. Therefore, by browsing our website and communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way.

HOW LONG WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

It is our policy to retain your Personal Information for the length of time required for the specific purpose or purposes for which it was collected, which are set out in this Privacy Policy. However, on occasion we may be obliged to store some data for a longer time, for example, where a longer time period is required by applicable laws. In this case, we will ensure that your Personal Information will continue to be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites 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 websites.

YOUR RIGHTS

 

It is important to us that you are in control of your own information. As a result, we offer the following controls:

  1. You may request access to or copies of the Personal Information that we hold about you. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us at info@creativelegalrecruitment.co.uk or at the address below;
  2. If you believe that any information we have about you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us at info@creativelegalrecruitment.co.uk as soon as possible.  We will take steps to seek to correct or update any information if we are satisfied that the information we hold is inaccurate;
  3. You may request that your Personal Information be deleted, where it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it is being processed and provided there is no other lawful basis for which we may continue to process such information;
  4. To the extent we are processing your Personal Information to meet our legitimate interests (as set out above), you may object to the processing of your Personal Information by us. If we are unable to demonstrate our legitimate grounds for that processing, we will no longer process your Personal Information for those purposes;
  5. You may object to our processing as set out above;
  6. You may withdraw any consent given to processing; or
  7. Where we are processing your Personal Information automatically for the purposes of performing our contract with you, you may have the right to request that the Personal Information we hold about you be transferred to a third party data controller.

You may also request that we restrict the processing of your data to that to which you have consented or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or the protection of the rights of another person, whilst we verify your data as set out in point 2 above; pending verification of our legitimate grounds as set out in point 4 above; or if the processing is unlawful or no longer necessary, but you wish us to retain your data for the purposes of establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.

Please be aware that if you request deletion of your file, we may not be required or able to do so, particularly where your files also hold information about our clients or financial information that we need to keep for periods of up to six years, i.e. that relates to tax matters. Where we are unable to comply with your request we will provide reasons for failing to do so.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email and /or by a prominent notice on our site. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy. Continued use of this site or our services after such changes will constitute your acceptance of such changes.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

Creative Legal Recruitment Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and a company committed to diversity. This means that all job applicants will receive equal treatment and that we will not discriminate on grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion or age.

CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@creativelegalrecruitment.co.uk or sent to 20-22 Wenlock Road, London N1 7GU.