Harcourt Michaels Ltd, 2 John Street, London WC1N 2ES. We provide executive search services to clients in order to recruit senior staff for their businesses. We also provide Consultancy Services such as Acquisition Strategy, Board Consulting and Benefit Analysis.
We at Harcourt Michaels take your personal data seriously. This policy:
We collect the information necessary to be able to find suitable candidates and further information needed to assess your eligibility through the different stages of recruitment. This information includes CV’s, identification documents, educational records, work history, employment and references.
On rare occasions we may also collect sensitive personal data about you, sometimes referred to as special category data. We only collect sensitive personal data from you, and further process this data, where you have given your explicit consent.
The following are the different sources we may collect personal data about you from:
We use your personal data to match your skills, experience and education with our clients’ requirements. We will initially collect basic information on you such as contact details, job role and experience and go through our internal screening process. If you are contacted by one of our team and go through to the next stage we will then be collecting more information from you at the interview (or equivalent) stage and onwards in that manner.
We may also use your data in order to make specific and direct contact with you as an existing client or prospective client, either to fulfil our contractual requirements with you as a client or to establish whether you are interested in becoming our client.
We only retain your information for as long as is necessary for us to use your information as described above or to comply with our legal obligations. However, please be advised that we may retain some of your information after you cease to use our services, for instance if this is necessary to meet our legal obligations, such as retaining the information for tax and accounting purposes.
When determining the relevant retention periods, we will take into account factors including:
Otherwise, we securely erase your information once this is no longer needed.
We share your personal data with the client who has a position to fill, in order to determine with the client whether you are a good fit for the available position.
Our clients are organisations that are involved in the design, construction and operation of major infrastructure or building assets. They are based in the UK and globally.
For prospective candidates, interim managers, referees and clients, our processing is necessary for our legitimate interests in that we need the information in order to be able to assess suitability for potential roles, to find potential candidates and to contact clients and referees.
We carry out a ‘balancing test’ to ensure that our processing is necessary and that your fundamental rights of privacy are not outweighed by our legitimate interests, before we go ahead with such processing. We keep a record of these balancing tests. You have a right to and can find out more about the information in these balancing tests by contacting us using the details below.
If you are shortlisted as a candidate then this may involve the processing of more detailed personal data including sensitive data such as health information that you or others provide about you. In that case, we always ask for your consent before undertaking such processing.
If you do not provide the personal data necessary, or withdraw your consent for the processing of your personal data, we will not be able to continue our screening process.
No, we do not carry out automated profiling.
Our Cookies do not collect personal information about you. However, we do use Performance Cookies. These Cookies help us understand how you interact with our website, by providing information about the areas visited, the time spent on the website, and any issues encountered, such as error messages. This helps us improve the performance of our website. For our full Cookie policy please contact us at the contact details provided below.
When we are dealing with an international assignment we may transfer your personal data to clients and partners in countries outside the EEA. These countries’ privacy laws may be different from those in your home country. Where we transfer data to a country which has not been deemed to provide adequate data protection standards we always have security measures and approved model clauses in place to protect your personal data. To find out more about how we safeguard your information as related to transfers contact us at the contact details below.
By law, you have a number of rights when it comes to your personal data. Further information and advice about your rights can be obtained from the data protection regulator in your country.
| Rights | What does this mean? |
| The right to be informed | You have the right to be provided with clear, transparent and easily understandable information about how we use your information and your rights. This is why we are providing you with the information in this Policy. |
| The right of access | You have the right to obtain access to your information (if we are processing it), and certain other information (similar to that provided in this Privacy Policy). This is so you are aware and can check that we are using your information in accordance with data protection law. |
| The right to rectification | You are entitled to have your information corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete. |
| The right to erasure | This is also known as ‘the right to be forgotten’ and, in simple terms, enables you to request the deletion or removal of your information where there’s no compelling reason for us to keep using it. This is not a general right to erasure; there are exceptions. |
| The right to restrict processing | You have the right to ‘block’ or suppress further use of your information. When processing is restricted, we can still store your information, but may not use it further. We keep lists of people who have asked for further use of their information to be ‘blocked’ to make sure the restriction is respected in future. |
| The right to data portability | You have rights to obtain and re-use your personal data for your own purposes across different services. For example, if you decide to switch to a new provider, this enables you to move, copy or transfer your information easily between our IT systems and theirs safely and securely, without affecting its usability. |
| The right to object to processing | You have the right to object to certain types of processing, including processing for direct marketing (i.e. if you no longer want to be contacted with potential opportunities). |
| The right to lodge a complaint | You have the right to lodge a complaint about the way we handle or process your personal data with your national data protection regulator. |
| The right to withdraw consent | If you have given your consent to anything we do with your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time (although if you do so, it does not mean that anything we have done with your personal data with your consent up to that point is unlawful). This includes your right to withdraw consent to us using your personal data for marketing purposes. |
We usually act on requests and provide information free of charge, but may charge a reasonable fee to cover our administrative costs of providing the information for:
Alternatively, we may be entitled to refuse to act on the request.
Please consider your request responsibly before submitting it. We will respond as soon as we can. Generally, this will be within one month from when we receive your request but, if the request is going to take longer to deal with, we will come back to you and let you know.
We may contact you by phone, email or social media. If you prefer a particular contact method over another please just let us know.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, or have further questions on the processing of your personal data, contact Cathy Harcourt at: 2 John Street, London WC1N 2ES, cathyh@harcourtmichaels.com.
