Privacy Policy

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VetSnapper privacy notice

Registered name: VS Recruitment Services Limited

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

· Contact details

· What information we collect, use, and why

· Lawful bases and data protection rights

· Where we get personal information from

· How long we keep information

· Who we share information with

· How to complain

What information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following information for recruitment and service purposes:

· Contact details (eg name, address, telephone number or personal email address)

· Date of birth

· Copies of passports or other photo ID

· Employment history (eg job application, employment references or secondary employment)

· Education history (eg qualifications)

· Right to work information

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website. Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

· Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for.

· Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete.

· Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information.

· Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information.

· Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.

· Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you.

· Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for recruitment and service purposes are:

· Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

· Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

· Legal obligation – we have to collect or use your information so we can comply with the law. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure, the right to object and the right to data portability.

· Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:

o Providing work-finding services to our customers. 

Where we get personal information from

· Directly from you

· Publicly available sources

· Previous employers

How long we keep information

We are duty bound to retain personal data as long as is required to comply with our legal and regulatory requirements. In circumstances where there is no statutory requirement to retain personal data, we will set a time scale in accordance with our company data retention policy to comply in line with GDPR/Data Protection Act 2018 in that data will not be retained any longer than necessary for the purpose it was intended.

Who we share information with

Others we share personal information with

· Other relevant third parties:

o Veterinary practices (after your consent) to support you in gaining suitable employment.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make contact us using the contact on the home page.