Privacy Notice

The SKA Group Specialist Recruitment (“SKA GROUP LTD”) is part of the SKA Group Ltd companies. SKA GROUP LTD acts as both a recruitment agency and a recruitment business, introducing job seekers to hirers for permanent and temporary vacancies respectively.

This document explains how we use the personal data we collect about you when you register with SKA GROUP LTD as a job seeker.

Registration for job seekers is free so there is no formal contract between us unless you are engaged as a temporary employee. In that case you will either be employed by a SKA Group Ltd company or engaged as a limited company contractor, depending on your preference.

Following your registration and in order to put you forward for vacancies you are interested in; it will be necessary and in our legitimate interests to process your personal data in the manner set out below.

In certain situations, we may also ask you to supply limited sensitive or special category

personal data relating to criminal records or your health (“sensitive personal data”). We will only ask for sensitive personal data when it is needed to comply with a statutory obligation or to ensure that any employment rights are respected.

We collect personal data about you when you register with SKA GROUP LTD. That personal data is needed to provide you with the recruitment services we deliver.

That personal data includes your name, contact details, work history, employment preferences, references and the usual information contained on a CV. We will also ask for and keep copies of your CV and, where appropriate, proof of your eligibility to work in accordance with our legal obligations. If you are employed by a SKA Group Ltd company, we will also ask you to provide us with the information needed to ensure that you are paid appropriately.

We may also ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made in connection with the recruitment process or for an application for a role.

Where we are legally required to do so, we may also ask you for details of any criminal offences and seek an up to date criminal records check.

If any roles you wish to apply for require us to conduct additional checks, for example credit

checks or for CCJ’s we will also use your personal data to perform those checks.

We will also keep details of any roles that you obtain through SKA Group Ltd and copies of any correspondence sent to you and to any hirer in connection with such roles.

We will use your personal data to provide you with our recruitment services, to manage your account and to email or text you about our recruitment services and roles which we consider relevant to your search for work.

This includes providing that personal data (including references), and where appropriate sensitive personal data, to prospective employers, hirers and their appointed agents or processors, who will use it for processing your application, for personnel administration, additional screening checks and for inspecting our files where they are entitled to do so.

We will also use the personal data you give us, where appropriate, to provide you with access to our sick pay scheme, in order to help to ensure your health and safety at work and to comply with any relevant employment legislation.

We may also share your personal data with other SKA Group Ltd companies in order to provide you with our full range of recruitment services. The companies we may share your data with are SKA Group Ltd. Your personal data and sensitive personal data will only be shared with those companies to the extent that it is necessary.

We may also share your personal data with external companies retained by us to assist in providing you  with our services (“third party service providers”). This includes companies which provide us with the communications services we use to send you emails and SMS messages. Where we do so, we will only share your personal data to the extent necessary and in accordance with contracts which require those organisations not to retain your personal data for any longer than needed or use it for any other purposes (including marketing).

We will keep your personal data only for as long as is necessary. Our goal is to provide you with useful recruitment services for the whole of your career. However, you retain control over your personal data and may instruct us to stop looking for work for you at any time. When instructed by you, we will remove your records from our database unless we are required to keep it for legal reasons.

We will only send you information which relates to our recruitment services as well as information in relation to offers and services we may wish to promote.

You can opt out of receiving marketing communication from us at any time by using the links included in the emails you receive from us.

We do not share your personal data with third parties, except where it is necessary to do so in order to provide you with our recruitment services as described above or in order to enrol you in any benefit schemes. If we share your personal data with any third-party service providers in the course of providing you with our services, those third-party service providers are required to process your data in accordance with contracts which comply with data protection legislation. If your personal data is transferred to third party service providers outside the EEA, we will ensure that suitable safeguards are in place e.g. by using approved agreements. We will provide you with details of such safeguards upon request.

Your personal data is stored on servers in the European Economic Area and it is transferred outside that area if you ask us to assist you in obtaining work outside the EEA, in which case it will be made available to the appropriate SKA GROUP LTD office overseas and to prospective employers in the relevant territories.

You have the right to request a copy of the personal data that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information please email us at recruit@theskagroup.co.uk

We want to make sure that your personal data is accurate and up to date and are happy to remove or amend any information you think is inaccurate.

You have the right to receive such personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine- readable format in order to provide it to a third-party organisation. We are however unable to guarantee technical compatibility with a third-party organisation’s systems.

You also have the right to cease receiving our services at any time and have us delete all of your personal data, unless we are in the process of responding to any complaint or we are required to keep it for legal reasons.

We keep this document under regular review, and we place any updates on this webpage. This statement was last updated on 11th February 2020.

Please contact us if you have any questions about this statement or information, we hold about you:

by email recruit@theskagroup.co.uk;

or write to us at Data Protection Officer, SKA Group Ltd, Registered Address, Unit 3 Merchant, Evegate Business Park, Ashford, Kent, TN25 6SX

You also have the right to raise any concerns about our processing of your personal data with the Office of the Information Commissioner (ICO), details of which are available at: https://ico.org.uk