Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting your privacy in all our dealings with you, whether through our on-line services or through direct contact with our consultants. Any information we collect about you will be used to assist us in providing our services to you and in the compilation of anonymous statistical information.

We appreciate that you do not want any personal information you supply distributed to third parties. Below, we explain how we collect information, what we do with it and what controls are in place to protect it.

What is Personal Information?

Personal information is any information about you as an identifiable individual and includes information with respect to your name, address, age, gender, income, marital status, financial situation, health, current employment and compensation package, and previous employment history and compensation package, together with your personal references and identification numbers (such as a National Insurance number).

Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy consists of the following key principles:

Collecting and Using Personal Information

Either before or when we collect personal information about you, we will explain how we intend to use it. We will limit the personal information we collect to what we need for those purposes, and we will use it only for those purposes. We will obtain your consent if we wish to use your personal information for any other purpose.

Disclosing Personal Information

We may provide your personal information to clients or to others where we are required to do so by law.

Protecting Personal Information

We will protect the personal information we obtain about you with appropriate safeguards and security measures.

Access to and Accuracy of Your Personal Information

We will give you access to the personal information we retain about you should you request it and we will provide you the opportunity to update the personal information we retain to ensure it is accurate.

Accountability and Openness to Your Privacy Concerns

We will explain your options in regards to refusing or withdrawing consent of the collection, use and release of your personal information, and we will record and respect your choices. We will investigate and respond to your concerns about any aspect of our handling of your personal information.

Why We Ask for Your Personal Information

If you are a candidate, we ask you for information so we can consider your qualifications, interests and experience to be referred to either a specific client, for a specific position, or to other clients who may retain us to recruit an individual with interests and qualifications similar to yours. When you provide this information you will be asked to acknowledge your consent for us to provide it to those clients. This consent is optional and you can decide to withdraw it at any time.

If you are a client who has retained Bowcliffe Executive Search to recruit candidates for your organisation, we ask you for information so that we can do a proper search and discuss your needs, expectations, organisational culture and other relevant issues with potential candidates.

If you are a referee for one of our candidates, we ask you to answer specific questions to validate the information we have about our candidate and to explore his or her skills and experience relative to the role in question, to assist our clients in their selection process.

How We Collect Personal Information

If you are a candidate, much of the information we collect comes directly from you. We may also obtain personal information about you from third parties to help us assess your eligibility and suitability as a candidate for positions for which are recruiting on behalf of our clients.

While we always try to protect the privacy of our candidates and clients, we understand you may choose to refuse or withdraw consent to the collection, use and release of your personal information and we will record and respect your choices. Please be aware that this may result in our inability to present you to our client as a candidate for the position in question.

When We Release Your Personal Information

We release your personal information to parties outside Bowcliffe Executive Search only under the following circumstances.

To our clients who retain us to recruit an individual or retain us to identify individuals with interests and qualifications similar to yours

When Required or Permitted by Law - In certain circumstances, the law may require or permit Bowcliffe Executive Search to disclose your personal information without your knowledge or specific consent. For example, such information may be disclosed if required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, or court order, or if requested by a government institution, which has the lawful authority to obtain the information.

In exceptional circumstances it may be necessary that we disclose your personally identifiable information if we believe, in good faith, that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable to protect Bowcliffe Executive Search interests. We will seek to ensure that any proposed disclosure is required in the circumstances and then ensure that we disclose only the information that is required.

Under no circumstances do we sell personal information to other organizations.

How We Protect Your Information

Bowcliffe Executive Search stores and processes your personal information on the company CRM system. We use technological safeguards like security software and firewalls to prevent hacking or unauthorized computer access as well as internal passwords and security policies.

We will retain your personal information only as long as it is required for the reasons it was collected or as required by law. This period may extend beyond the end of your relationship with us but only for so long as it is legally necessary for us to have sufficient information to respond to any issue that may arise at a later date.

Your Right to Access Your Information

We will give you access to the information we have about you should you request it. You may arrange such access by contacting Bowcliffe Executive Search. We will advise you in advance if a minimal charge will be required for conducting the search, and we will respond to your request promptly, but in any case within 30 days, unless we advise you to the contrary.

Keeping Your Information Accurate

We will give you the opportunity to keep your personal information accurate and up-to-date. Having accurate information about you enables us to give you the best possible service to our clients. You can help by keeping us informed of any changes. If you find any errors in our information about you, let us know and we will make, where necessary, the corrections as soon as reasonably possible and make sure they are conveyed to anyone we may have misinformed.

Contact for information on any aspect of our Privacy Policy, contact the IT Manager.

Cookies

We use a feature on your Internet browser called a 'cookie' to manage your use of the website. Cookies are small files that your Web browser places on your computer's hard drive.

Through our use of cookies we aggregate general information. This allows us to identify, for example, how many people use our website and how often. If you click through to other websites via a banner or link you may receive a cookie from one of our business partners. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those other websites.

When you leave our website we encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.

Logging User Traffic

In order to analyse trends, administer the website, track users movement, and gather broad demographic information and other information for aggregate use, we use IP addresses. Each computer on the Net has an Internet protocol address which is a unique numerical address denoting its official location on the Net. These are not linked to personally identifiable information.