Updated 24 May 2018

1. Introduction

This is our privacy policy. It tells you how we collect and process data received from you. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

If you have any comments on this privacy policy, please email them to enquiries@mdmresourcing.com

2. Who We Are

Here are the details that the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regards to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, known as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) says we have to give you as a 'data controller':

• Our site address is www.mdmresourcing.com
• Our company name is E Mesrie & Sons Limited trading as MDM Resourcing
• Our registered address is Amazon House, 3 Brazil Street, Manchester, M1 3PJ
• Our nominated data protection representatives are Michael Mesrie and Daniel Mesrie and they can be contacted at enquiries@mdmresourcing.com
• We are registered with the ICO and our registration number is Z5632525.

3. What we may collect

We may collect and process the following data about you:

• Information you put into forms or surveys on our site at any time
• A record of any correspondence between us
• Your name, address, contact details (email, home and mobile telephone numbers), CV and all associated career history and qualifications, salary information and other related data
• Contact name, position and your contact details
• Details of transactions you carry out through our site
• Details of your visits to our site and the resources you use
• Information about your computer (e.g. your IP address, browser, operating system, etc.) for system administration.

Under GDPR we will ensure that your personal data is processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently, without adversely affecting your rights. We will only process your personal data if at least one of the following basis applies:

a) you have given consent to the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes;

b) processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at the request of you prior to entering into a contract;

c) processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject;

d) processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of you or of another natural person;

e) processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller; and/or

f) processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party except where such interests are overridden by the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject.

4. Cookies

All Cookies used by and on our website are used in accordance with current English and EU Cookie Law.

The site uses cookies or similar technology to collect information about your access to the site. Cookies are pieces of information that include a unique reference code that a website transfers to your device to store and sometimes track information about you.

A few of the cookies we use last only for the duration of your web session and expire when you close your browser. Other cookies are used to remember you when you return to the site and will last for longer.

Most computer and some mobile web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that or to notify you each time a cookie is set. You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser. Please note however, that by blocking or deleting cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the site.

Our first party cookies placed by us will be used for:

Essential session management

• creating a specific log-in session for a user of the site in order that the site remembers that a user is logged in and that their page requests are delivered in an effective, secure and consistent manner;
• recognising when a user of the site has visited before allowing us to identify the number of unique users we receive to the site and make sure we have enough capacity for the number of users that we get;
• recognising if a visitor to the site is registered with us in any way;
• we may also log information from your computer including the existence of cookies, your IP address and information about your browser program in order to allow us to diagnose problems, administer and track your usage of our site.

Functionality

• customising elements of the promotional layout and/or content of the pages of the site.

Performance and measurement

• collecting statistical information about how our users use the site so that we can improve the site and learn which parts are most popular to users.

Third party cookies

The analytics services used by our site uses Google Analytics cookies. These cookies help us understand how you engage with our site and collect information about our site usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors.

5. How we use what we collect

We use information about you to:

• Assist you with finding a job, offer relevant career planning advice, advise of market information which may be useful to you.
• To inform you of potential jobs which you may be interested in based on information provided by you or based on other roles you have applied for in the past and to occasionally advise you of relevant market information
• Present site content effectively to you.
• Provide information, products and services that you request, or which we think may interest you.
• Carry out our contracts with you.
• Tell you our charges.

If you registered with us as a candidate before 25 May 2018 by submitting your CV (including any photographs as part of your CV), we may contact you, on the lawful basis of legitimate interests, both yours and ours, to inform you of potential jobs which we think you may be interested in based on information provided by you or based on other roles you have applied for in the past. We may also occasionally advise you of relevant market information or career matters. Our legitimate interest is to contact you so that we are able to maintain and grow our business and that you have a legitimate interest to be informed of new job opportunities that are relevant to you and, occasionally, of relevant market information and/or career guidance and advice. If you do not agree to this way that we process your personal data, please contact us at enquiries@dmdresourcing.com and we will stop using your personal data in this way.

If you are an employee or a contractor of our client, we may use your personal data for marketing purposes, such as to contact you in relation to market information and details of services that we offer, on the basis of legitimate interests. Our legitimate interests are to help our clients to attract best talent when available and maintain and grow our business and our clients’ legitimate interest is to be able to find the best talent at the right time. If you do not agree to this way that we process your personal data, please contact us at enquiries@dmdresourcing.com and we will stop using your personal data in this way.

We may process personal data in relation to business contacts and LinkedIn connections on the lawful basis of legitimate interests for both parties to network, for companies/ clients to find candidates and for candidates to find jobs. If you do not agree to this way that we process your personal data, please contact us at enquiries@dmdresourcing.com and we will stop using your personal data in this way.

If you register with us as a candidate on or after 25 May 2018 you will only be contacted if you consent to it.

If you don’t want us to use your personal data for marketing or any of the other reasons set out in this section in 5, you can let us know at any time by contacting us at enquiries@mdmresourcing.com  However, you acknowledge this may limit our ability to provide our services to you.

In some cases, the collection of personal data may be a statutory or contractual requirement, and we will be limited in the services we can provide you if you don’t provide your personal data in these cases.

6. Where we store your data

We may transfer your collected data to storage outside the European Economic Area (EEA). It may be processed outside the EEA to fulfil your order and deal with payment.

By giving us your personal data, you agree to this arrangement. We will do what we reasonably can to keep your data secure.

If we give you a password, you must keep it confidential. Please don't share it. Although we try to provide protection, we cannot guarantee complete security for your data, and you take the risk that any sending of that data turns out to be not secure despite our efforts.

We only keep your personal data for as long as we need to in order to use it as described above in section 5, and/or for as long as we have your permission to keep it. In any event, we will conduct regular reviews to ascertain whether we need to keep your personal data. Your personal data will be deleted if we no longer need it.

7. Disclosing your information

We are allowed to disclose your information in the following cases:

• If we want to sell our business, or our company, we can disclose it to the potential buyer.
• We can disclose it to other businesses in our group.
• We can disclose it if we have a legal obligation to do so, or in order to protect other people's property, safety or rights.
• We can exchange information with others to protect against fraud or credit risks.

We may contract with third parties including payment processing, search engine facilities, advertising and marketing. In some cases, the third parties may require access to some or all of your data. These are the third parties that have access to your information:

• IT and website development and maintenance support provider(s)
• Email management software provider(s)
• Customer relationship software provider(s)
• Cloud documents storage provider(s)
• Our clients – we will obtain your consent prior to sending your personal data to any of them.

Where any of your data is required for such a purpose, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data will be handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, our obligations, and the obligations of the third party under GDPR and the law.

8. Your rights

You can ask us not to use your data for marketing. You can do this by contacting us at any time at enquiries@mdmresourcing.com

Under the GDPR, you have the right to:

• request access to, deletion of or correction of, your personal data held by us at no cost to you;
• request that your personal data be transferred to another person (data portability);
• be informed of what data processing is taking place;
• restrict processing;
• to object to processing of your personal data; and
• complain to a supervisory authority.

You also have rights with respect to automated decision-making and profiling as set out in section 11 below.

To enforce any of the foregoing rights or if you have any other questions about our site or this Privacy Policy, please contact us at enquiries@mdmresourcing.com

9. Links to other sites

Please note that our terms and conditions and our policies will not apply to other websites that you get to via a link from our site. We have no control over how your data is collected, stored or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.

10. Changes

If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post the changes on this page. If we decide to, we may also email you.

11.  Automated Decision-Making and Profiling

11.1 Where the basis of legitimate interests is applicable we may send our communications to you from time to time to inform you about new job opportunities and, occasionally, market information. We may use your personal data to target such communications so that they are relevant to you, based on your qualifications, experience and further data that you might have previously submitted to us. We may use an automated marketing platform to place individual recipients in separate categories. If you do not agree to such use of your personal data please contact us at enquiries@mdmresourcing.com.

11.2 In the event that we use personal data for the purposes of automated decision-making and those decisions have a legal (or similarly significant effect) on you, you have the right to challenge  such decisions under GDPR, requesting human intervention, expressing their own point of view, and obtaining an explanation of the decision from us.

11.3 The right described in section 11.2 does not apply in the following circumstances:  

a) the decision is necessary for the entry into, or performance of, a contract between the you and us;

b) the decision is authorised by law; or

c) you have given you explicit consent.

11.4 Where we use your personal data for profiling purposes, the following shall apply:

a) Clear information explaining the profiling will be provided, including its significance and the likely consequences;

b) Appropriate mathematical or statistical procedures will be used;

c) Technical and organisational measures necessary to minimise the risk of errors and to enable such errors to be easily corrected shall be implemented; and

d) All personal data processed for profiling purposes shall be secured in order to prevent discriminatory effects arising out of profiling.