Who we are and what we do?
Strive Supply Chain are a UK wide specialist recruitment agency and recruitment business as defined in the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (our business). We collect the personal data of the following types of people to allow us to undertake our business:
We will remain responsible for the management and security of Personal Information that you submit to Strive Supply Chain & our associated businesses.
We take data protection seriously and understand the importance of protecting your privacy and Personal Information. "Personal Information" is information that identifies you as an individual such as your name, date of birth, email address, IP address and CV.
How do we collect information from you?
We collect and use your Personal Information in accordance with this our Privacy Policy.
The majority of Personal Information supplied freely by you is via your CV or job cover letter to a job application. Likewise information that is freely available actioned by you via social media including for example Linked-in & various job boards where you have uploaded & made available your details.
Please do not submit such Personal Information to us if you do not wish us to collect it.
However, please be aware, some Personal Information may include information you voluntarily, but unintentionally provided to us for example, if you express preferences regarding searches for jobs.
We also collect information from:
Where the data came from?
All data will have been sourced via:
Personal Information we collect about you may also include the following:
What legal basis do we rely on to process your Personal Information?
Consent
Strive supply Chain processes your data with your consent. For example, we rely on consent when we send career opportunities/job search information, industry news & any related career marketing information. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time. Where consent is the only legal basis for processing, we will cease to process data after consent is withdrawn.
Data processing is necessary to fulfil a contract
Strive Supply Chain may process your data when required to fulfil a contract with you, such as to send your CV to an employer for a specific job application.
Legitimate Interest
Strive Supply Chain also processes your data when it is in our legitimate interests to do this and when these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.
Our legitimate interests include:
The processing is necessary because of a legal obligation that applies
Strive Supply Chain may process your data to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations eg preventing, investigating and detecting crime, fraud or anti-social behaviour and prosecuting offenders, including working with law enforcement agencies
Who we will share your personal data with?
We will only share your CV / career data & contact details with our Client contacts/Customers in the pursuit of a career opportunity for you & on your behalf. They will be subject to the same GDPR rules when receiving your personal data.
We may share Personal Information with governmental or other public authorities (including, but not limited to, workers' compensation boards, courts, law enforcement, tax authorities and criminal investigations agencies); and third-party civil legal process participants and their accountants, auditors, lawyers and other advisors and representatives as we believe to be necessary or appropriate:
A. to comply with applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence;
B. to comply with legal process;
C. to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence;
D. to enforce our terms and conditions;
E. to protect our operations or those of any of our group companies;
F. to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and that of our group companies, you or others; and
G. to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit our damages.
How we use your Personal data?
We use Personal data to do some or all of the following:
International Transfers of Personal Information
Personal Information which you supply to us is generally stored and kept inside the United Kingdom [in the European Economic Area]
If your Personal Information is requested by a Client & pre-authorised by you then your data may be transferred to third party service providers outside the EEA, in countries where there may be a lower legal level of data protection. In these situations, we transfer the minimum amount of data necessary, anonymise it where possible and enter legal contracts to aim to ensure these third parties handle your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the European levels of data protection.
How can you manage or remove Personal Information?
When you access our website online, we store some information about you. This is anonymous and used for statistical purposes.
Please note that Strive Supply Chain reserves the right to remove from our database, CVs which include any content that we consider to be illegal or offensive.
You can request to remove your details & data held by us at any time via email to dataprotectionofficer@strive.co.uk with the subject line "Permanently remove my information and account" specifying your full name & contact details.
Security
Strive Supply Chain is committed to keeping your personal data safe and secure from unauthorised access or unauthorised alterations & the disclosure or destruction of information that we hold.
Our security measures include: -
Additional Services for Website and App
Push notifications - We will ask for your consent before using information for any purpose.
If you use the Strive Website or App, you may also consent to push notifications, text messages, alerts, emails or other types of messages directly sent to you via your mobile device or desktop browser.
Your Rights: How long we intend to store your data & your right to be forgotten:
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, with the applicable legal requirements in mind we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.
At any time you will have "the right to be forgotten" & upon express written request your details will be permanently removed or to rectify or access data, to restrict processing, to withdraw consent & to be kept informed about the processing of your data.
In summary: You have the following rights:
To exercise your rights to your data, request data to remove, rectify or restrict processing of your data contact us via email dataprotectionofficer@strive.co.uk or write to Suite 2, Wellington Road North, Stockport, SK4 1AF. Please state clearly your full name & contact details.
Children and minors
Strive Supply Chain is not directed towards individuals under the age of sixteen (16)
Individuals under the age of sixteen (16) are expressly prohibited from using the Strive Supply Chain Website and App, unless parental consent is provided and we are notified.
Third Party Privacy Practices
This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties to which the Strive Supply Chain website and App link. The inclusion of any links on the Website or App does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us. Please note that we are not responsible for the collection, usage and disclosure policies and practices (including the data security practices) of other organizations or any other software application developer or provider, social media platform, operating system or wireless service provider, or device manufacturer, including any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the Apps or our Social Media Pages.
Please note that although we require customers who use our services, such as employers seeking to recruit staff, to agree to use the information made available solely for recruitment-related purposes, we do not control their use of any information that they have access to as part of receiving our services.
Who to contact about your Personal Information
The data controller responsible for your information is Strive Supply Chain.
If you have any questions about this policy or our use of your Personal Information you can email: dataprotectionofficer@strive.co.uk or write to the Data Protection Officer, Strive Supply Chain Suite 2. Beckwith House, 1 Wellington Road North Stockport SK4 1AF. If you do not think we are handling your Personal Information adequately, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office. Further information, including contact details, are available at https://ico.org.uk.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We review this Privacy Policy regularly and reserve the right to make changes at any time to take account of changes in our business and legal requirements. We will place updates on our website.