WHO WE ARE
Wanguard Placement & Consultancy Service specializes in working with MNCs to SMEs to provide outsourced HR Consulting, HR Search & Executive search, BPO Staffing, Corporate Training, Sales Training and HR Help Desk Support.
DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES
- Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
- Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
- Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
- Accurate and kept up to date.
- Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about. If you are our employee we retain your personal data for at least 6 years after you leave our employment for legal purposes.
- Kept securely.
DATA SECURITY
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need-to-know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. Where your information is shared with our offices outside of the EEA we acknowledge that those countries may not be regarded as having the same degree of data protection laws as the EU currently has. However we aim to ensure that we as an organisation and our clients have the same or similar degrees of security measures in place in those countries.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.
DATA RETENTION
How long will you use my information for?
Our aim is to build lasting relationships with our Candidates and thus to contribute to long term career success and development. So our goal is to continue to engage and interact with Candidates even after they have secured a new position – for example to keep them informed of market developments, [ invite them to topical seminars and networking events ], and to be on hand to offer advice about career planning. But, we recognise that the level of engagement we have with different Candidates will vary and so our retention policy is designed to reflect this. If we lose touch with a Candidate we recognise that the personal data we collected is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was collected and we won’t retain it any longer.
Specifically in relation to marketing, personal data will be retained for (i) a period of twelve months following the date of the last engagement by a Candidate with a marketing communication or (ii) the date the Candidate unsubscribes from marketing communications, whichever is earlier.
To provide an example of retention periods: -we aim to retain your personal information for no longer than is necessary but normally for a period of at least 2 to 6 years. We may need to continue retaining your information for example after we have communicated to you our decision or our client’s decision about whether to appoint you to role or work. Because of our aim in creating a long lasting relationship with our candidates and providing a life-long career support and management process we may retain your data for longer where we consider that the job market is such that there may be suitable opportunities for you in future .
If you are or become our employee rather than being employed by our clients then we retain your personal data for at least 6 years after you leave our employment for legal purposes. We retain your personal information for those periods so that we can show, in the event of a legal claim, that we have not discriminated against candidates on prohibited grounds and that we have conducted the recruitment exercise in a fair and transparent way and that you have the best opportunity to secure work with our clients which is in your interests. After this period, we will securely destroy your personal information in accordance with our data retention policy or applicable laws and regulations.
RIGHTS OF ACCESS, CORRECTION, ERASURE, AND RESTRICTION
Your rights in connection with personal information
Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:
- Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
- Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
- Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
- Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
- Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
- Request the transfer of your personal information to another party.