PRIVACY POLICY

The Adecco UK Group of Companies ("We" or "Adecco UK") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Adecco UK means the following organisation(s) with whom you have registered and through which you are required to use thecontractorportal.com for the purposes of receiving temporary and or permanent recruitment services:

Adecco UK Limited (registered number 00593232); Ajilon (UK) Limited trading as Computer People (registered number 01458245); Badenoch & Clark Limited (registered number 01356186); Glotel International Limited (registered number 02435654); Pontoon Europe Limited (registered number 03399532), Judd Farris Limited (registered number 03964665); Modis Europe Limited (registered number 02014344); Modis International Limited trading as (i) Modis (ii) Ajilon (registered number 01625479); Office Angels Limited (registered number 01985032); Roevin Management Services Limited (registered number 02436481); Spring Technology Staffing Services Limited (registered number 01923903); and Spring Personnel Limited (registered number: 04120467), all registered at Millennium Bridge House, 2 Lambeth Hill, London EC4V 4BG, each hereinafter referred to individually as an "Adecco Company".

This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”), the data controller will be the Adecco Company with which you have registered for the purposes of securing temporary or permanent recruitment opportunities. Our nominated representative for the purpose of the Act is Gavin Tagg, Group Legal Counsel.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site(s) including https://www.thecontractorportal.com (our site(s)). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site(s), subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by Adecco UK, and when you report a problem with our site(s).
When you register with us we may (depending upon which service you register for) ask for one or more of the following fields: your name, email, address, date of birth, gender, education, skills and qualifications, employment history (including remuneration details), references, ethnic origins, criminal records, personal interests, job requirements (including location, salary sought, job industry, job title) plus any other information you may volunteer to us as part of the sign-up process.
If we place you with our clients, we shall also request and hold copies of documentation showing your legal right to work in the UK (or the country in which you have chosen to work), and financial information such as bank account details. We may record and store any telephone calls you have with us for record keeping and quality control purposes. We may undertake credit references, and other lawful checks, where a recruitment client or third party requests such information.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
Details of transactions you carry out through our site(s) and of the fulfilment of your orders.
Details of your visits to our site(s) including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

We ask that you update your profile on https://www.thecontractorportal.com on a regular basis and as a minimum at least every 6 months.

IP addresses and cookies

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site(s) and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:

To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site(s) according to your individual interests.
To speed up your searches.
To recognise you when you return to our site(s).

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site(s). 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(s).

Where we store your personal data

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our customers. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site(s), you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Athough we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site(s); any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Uses made of the information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

To ensure that content from our site(s) is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
To notify you about changes to our service.

We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by post or telephone.

Disclosure of your information

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985.

We may also 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;
we or substantially all of our 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;
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 of use or standard terms and conditions of business and other agreements; or
we reasonably need to protect the rights, property, or safety of Adecco UK, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise the right at any time by contacting us at privacy@adecco.com.

Our site(s) may, from time to time, contain links to and from third party website(s). If you follow a link to any of these website(s), please note that these website(s) have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these website(s).

Access to information

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request will normally be subject to an administration fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to privacy@adecco.com. Similarly, if you no longer require us to assist you in finding permanent work or temporary contracts please send an email to privacy@adecco.com.