Privacy Policy

Alphabet Recruitment Ltd. is committed to protecting the privacy of our website’s users and follows the regulations stipulated in the Data Protection Act 1988. We want to provide a safe and secure user experience and we will ensure that the information you submit to us via our website remains private and is only used for recruitment purposes. By using our web site www.alphabetrecruitment.com and sending any personal information, you are deemed to have read and accepted this Privacy Policy.

Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your computer's hard disk for record keeping purposes. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies. Alphabet Recruitment Ltd. uses cookies to make your use of our website and services as convenient as possible. Cookies are useful to estimate our number of members, determine overall traffic patterns through our website and help us to continue improving our website.

If you do not wish to receive any cookies you may set your browser to refuse cookies. This may mean you will not be able to take full advantage of the services Alphabet Recruitment Ltd. offer.

Collection of information
The information we will collect from your application includes personal details such as email address, name, telephone number, education, employment history, skills, as well as your CV. This list, however, is not conclusive and is open to change. For example, in the course of identifying suitable employment opportunities for you, we may make enquiries of referees whose names you have provided to us. This information will be added to that which we already hold on you. We will always provide a copy of all personal information we hold on you, should you request it. We will delete all the information we hold on you from our database, if you instruct us to do so.

Use and disclosure of personal information
In some circumstances we may collect additional personal and sensitive information. This personal and sensitive information will be used in connection with your application for our vacancies or possible work placement, as well as for our assessment of your ongoing performance and prospects. This information could be in the form of:

• Results of inquiries that we might make of your former employers, work colleagues, professional associations or registration body;
• Results of any competency tests;
• Performance feedback (whether positive or negative);
• Additional information about you which you have provided to us.

Your personal information may be disclosed to:

• Potential and actual employers and clients of Alphabet Recruitment Ltd.;
• Other consultants at Alphabet Recruitment Ltd. in connection with possible employment opportunities;
• Any person or body with a lawful entitlement to obtain information.

If you do not provide Alphabet Recruitment Ltd. with the information we seek we may be limited in our ability to find suitable employment for you. Your details will not be disclosed to any person, body or organisation for any purpose other than recruitment.

Contacting you
We may contact you by email to the email address you provided when you registered in order to:

• Advise you as to the progress of your application;
• Respond to a request for information or a product or service;
• Seek your permission to pass on your CV for a potential placement or employment opportunity;
• Provide you with updated information about our website, and
• Provide you with information about our products and services which you may find of use.

If you are receiving promotional information about Alphabet Recruitment Ltd. and do not wish to receive this information any longer, you may remove your name from our list either by visiting our website and following the instructions on how to withdraw your information from that website (where that facility is available), or emailing us at enquiries@alphabetrecruitment.com and asking to be removed from our mailing list. Please allow 14 days for this request to be processed.

Changing and deleting your information
If at any time you wish to change personal information that is inaccurate or out of date, please do so via our website or contact us by emailing us at enquiries@alphabetrecruitment.com and we will amend this record. If you wish to have your personal information deleted, please advise us in the same manner as referred to above and we will take all reasonable steps to delete it, unless we need to keep it for legal reasons.

Storage and security of your personal information
Alphabet Recruitment Ltd. will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information which we hold about you, and to keep this information accurate and up to date. Your information is stored on secure servers that are protected in controlled facilities. We require our employees and data processors to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by Alphabet Recruitment Ltd. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot give an absolute assurance that the information you provide to us will be secure at all times. Alphabet Recruitment Ltd. will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to your personal information.

You can also play an important role in keeping your personal information secure, by maintaining the confidentiality of any username and password used on the Alphabet Recruitment Ltd. website. Please notify us immediately if there is any unauthorised use of your account by any other internet user or any other breach of security.

What to do if you have a problem or question
If you have any further queries relating to our Privacy Policy, or you have a problem or complaint, please contact us at enquiries@alphabetrecruitment.com.

Future changes
We will continue to introduce new services and features to our website, therefore our policies may be reviewed and revised from time to time. Alphabet Recruitment Ltd. reserves the right to change its privacy policy at any time and notify you by posting an updated version of the policy on its website.