Privacy Policy

Who We Are S&B Talent Ltd is a recruitment consultancy specialising in the introduction of HR professionals to organisations operating within the professional services sector. Company Number: 17175505 Registered Office: Deanway Technology Park, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 3HW Email: info@sandbtalent.co.uk Purpose of this Privacy Notice This Privacy Notice explains how S&B Talent collects, uses, stores and shares personal information relating to candidates who register with us or use our recruitment services. Information we collect we may collect and process:

  • Name and contact details
  • Address details
  • Curriculum Vitae (CV)
  • Employment history
  • Qualifications
  • Interview notes
  • Salary and notice period information
  • Right to work and sponsorship information
  • Communications with S&B Talent

How We Use Your Information We process your information for:

  • Providing recruitment services
  • Identifying suitable opportunities
  • Assessing suitability for vacancies
  • Managing recruitment processes
  • Maintaining recruitment records
  • Compliance with legal obligations

Legal Basis for Processing

We rely upon consent, legitimate interests, legal obligations and steps taken at your request before entering employment arrangements.

Sharing Your Information S&B Talent Ltd will not submit your CV, profile or personal information to any prospective employer without first obtaining your permission. We do not sell personal information. Data Retention Candidate records are retained for up to five years following our most recent meaningful contact unless earlier deletion is requested or longer retention is required by law. Data Security We maintain appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal information. Your Rights You may request:

  • Access
  • Rectification
  • Erasure
  • Restriction
  • Objection
  • Data portability
  • Withdrawal of consent

Complaints You may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you are unhappy with how your data is handled. Contact Us S&B Talent Ltd Deanway Technology Park Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 3HW info@sandbtalent.co.uk

Making sure your personal data is secure

Whilst we take steps to protect user privacy, no data transmission over the internet can be entirely secure. We therefore do not guarantee the security of personal information that you send to us, or your use of the site. Any personal information you do send is at your own risk but once we receive it we use strict procedures to safeguard it.

How do we use your personal information?

In connection with a contract between you and us or an employer…

We may use and process your personal information where it is necessary for us to do so to in connection with or anticipation of a contract between you and us, or an employer to:

  • process your job application and otherwise manage the recruitment process;
  • help potential employers assess and process your job application;
  • help potential employers check and confirm the references that you provide as part of your job application;
  • check with any necessary regulatory, industry and/or security authorities relevant to the position that you have applied for.

Our Legitimate Business Interest…

We may use and process your personal information where it is necessary for us to pursue our legitimate interests as a business for the following purposes:

  • help us identify you so we know who we are talking to;
  • help prevent and detect fraud or loss;
  • to contact you with information about opportunities that you might be interested in from time to time via phone or post;
  • assess risk, carry out market research, statistical analysis, test systems, improve the way that we run our recruitment process and your application (including quality assurance) and analyse your application and recruitment history;
  • train staff and monitor our services. This may mean that we record our conversations or our correspondence with you to make sure we are providing you with a good service and to make sure we keep to our legal and regulatory obligations.

Where you have provided consent…

We may use your personal information where you have consented for us to do so:

  • to contact you by email or other electronic means about opportunities that you might be interested in from time to time;
  • to provide you with job alerts.

This consent can be withdrawn by logging-in to your account on the website and updating your details, or by notifying info@sandbtalent.co.uk.

Unless otherwise stated, we will retain personal data processed on the basis of contractual necessity or legitimate interests for up to five years from our last meaningful contact with you, where we consider that we may continue to provide relevant recruitment services. We will periodically review the personal data we hold and delete or anonymise information that is no longer required.
Where we process personal data for marketing purposes on the basis of your consent, we may continue to send you relevant communications until you withdraw your consent or opt out. You can unsubscribe or withdraw your consent at any time.

Who do we disclose your personal information to?

We may make your personal information available to agencies and employers who subscribe with us or use our Website, working within the above ways in which we use your data. These clients may then use that information to contact you about specific roles via email, phone or post. Other clients or agencies should not send direct marketing messages by email or SMS to you unless you have consented (opted in) to this.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
  • if S&B Talent or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets;
  • if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions to and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of S&B Talent our customers, or others.

How can you find out what personal information we hold about you?
You are entitled to see the personal information that we hold about you at any time. (If you write to, email or phone us and ask to see this information, it is known as a ‘subject access request’ or ‘SAR’ for short) You can do so by:

Even if you don’t want a copy of your personal information, you can still contact us to check that the personal information that we hold is accurate or to let us know of any changes to your personal information. We always try to ensure that the information we hold is accurate, up to date and relevant and, as you are applying for a job with us, it is important that we have the right information in order to be able contact you. We’ll be more than happy to make changes or to correct any inaccuracies.

You have the following rights when it comes to your data:

  • to object to any legitimate business interests processing;
  • to withdraw consent (only in respect of any processing which depends on consent);
  • to ask for your data to be updated or corrected (where it is inaccurate);
  • if we have carried out any automated decision making as part of recruitment practices, contest any such decision and ask for a human intervention;
  • ask for the client to stop processing for any reason or exercise their right to be forgotten;
  • ask for a copy of their information that they have provided to you electronically (such as their CV) in a portable format;
  • complain to the ICO.

So, what are cookies and why do we use them?
Cookies are files that are recorded in temporary Internet folders on your PC. They’re a useful tool as, by recording the way you use our site, they enable us to get to know you better. For example, we’re able to recognise you when you return to the site, identify your preferences so as to provide you with a more personalised service and speed up searches that you conduct when visiting.

You don’t have to accept them. Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies by activating the relevant setting (please check the help menu of your browser for more details) however, selecting this setting may mean that you are unable to access certain parts of our site.

Please note that unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

Further Detail on Cookies
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently remembering your preferences, and generally improve your web site experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

We can split cookies into 4 main categories:

  • Category 1: strictly necessary cookies
  • Category 2: performance cookies
  • Category 3: functionality cookies
  • Category 4: targeting cookies or advertising cookies

Category 1 – Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like register for job alerts, cannot be provided.

Please be aware our site uses this type of cookie.

Category 2 – Performance cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

By using our website and online services, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

Category 3 – Functionality cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name and password) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

By using our website and online services, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

Category 4 – targeting cookies or advertising cookies

These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisations.

We do have links to other web sites and once you access another site through a link that we have provided it is the responsibility of that site to provide information as to how they use cookies on the respective site.

You can find more information about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.eu. Google also have a brief video which explains the use of cookies.

External links from our site
From time to time we may include hypertext links to sites which are created by individuals and companies outside of our company. We do this when there is a particular relevance to the topic you’re reading about. Whilst we endeavour to check that the content of these sites is suitable, we unfortunately cannot take any responsibility for the practices of the companies who publish the sites that we link to, nor the integrity of the content contained within them.

What if we update our privacy policy?
We do keep our privacy policies under regular review so please do check each time you use the site. You’ll be able to read about any updates on this page – as soon as they happen.

If you have any questions or if you feel that we are not complying with the terms of this privacy policy please do contact us by e-mailing us at the following address info@sandbtalent.co.uk inserting the words ‘Privacy Policy Grievance’ in the heading.