Privacy Policy
Wills Consultants Limited (“Wills Consultants”) provides specialist recruitment services in the Accountancy and Finance and Office Professionals sectors. Your privacy is important to Wills Consultants, and this privacy policy provides information about the personal information that Wills Consultants collects, and the ways in which Wills Consultants uses that personal information.
The term “personal information” as used throughout this policy, applies to any data relating to an identified or identifiable individual, including data that directly or indirectly identifies an individual. Wills Consultants is the data controller for the processing of personal information under applicable data protection law.
Personal information collection
Wills Consultants will collect and use the following kinds of personal information:
- The information you provide to Wills Consultants, such as information that you provide for the purpose of registering via our website, information that you provide for the purpose of subscribing to the website services and any other information that you send to Wills Consultants;
- Information that is automatically collected, such as information about your use of this website.
Wills Consultants may also collect personal information from other websites that display information about you publicly, such as social media accounts like Facebook and Twitter, your online profile on your current employer’s network, articles about you or other public listings of your profile.
Wills Consultant’s use of personal information
Wills Consultants will use the personal information it collects to perform activities associated with providing the website and website services such as:
- enabling your access to and use of the website and the website services;
- using Wills Consultants recruitment database to match suitable candidates with roles posted by Wills Consultants clients;
- progressing candidates’ applications and administering their personal records;
- recording details of unsuccessful applicants to be considered for further suitable opportunities that may arise in the near future;
- communicating with you;
- administering the website;
- customising and personalising the website for you through the delivery of tailored content and communications;
- improving the quality of the website;
- resolving disputes and/or troubleshooting problems; and
- with your separate consent, sending you marketing communications.
Wills Consultants processes personal information for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, as described above. Wills Consultant’s legal basis to process personal information includes processing that is: necessary for the performance of the contract between you and Wills Consultants (for example, to provide the requested website services, to match candidates with employment opportunities and to identify and authenticate you so you may use the website); necessary to comply with legal requirements (for example, to comply with applicable accounting rules and to make mandatory disclosures to law enforcement); necessary for Wills Consultants legitimate interests (for example, to manage its relationship with you and to improve the website and Wills Consultants website services); and based on your consent (for example, to communicate about Wills Consultants services and provide you with marketing information), which may subsequently be withdrawn at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
You are required, as a necessity to enter into a contract, to provide Wills Consultants with personal information for processing as described above. If you do not provide personal information, Wills Consultants will not be able to provide you with all of the features available through the website and website services.
When you visit the Wills Consultants website or any websites hosted by us, the server collects IP addresses to provide security and prevent brute force or malicious attacks. These IP addresses are not linked to any other personal data. The address for our UK data centre is: Reynolds House, 4 Archway, Manchester M15 5RN
Sharing personal information about you
Wills Consultants does not disclose personal information about you through the website services, except as described in this privacy policy.
Wills Consultants will share with its clients’ personal information relating to candidates with your prior consent. Limited members of the Recruitment and Management teams in Wills Consultants may access and otherwise process personal information in connection with their job responsibilities or contractual obligations. Your personal information may also be shared with third party providers who perform services for Wills Consultants. Third party service providers will be obligated to use that personal information only in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy and applicable legal requirements.
In addition to the disclosures necessary for the purposes identified above, Wills Consultants may disclose your personal information to the extent required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.
Securing your personal information
Wills Consultants has appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to prevent accidental or unlawful access to or destruction, loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. Wills Consultants will store all the personal information you provide on secure servers
Automated decision making? What is this and do we use it?
Wills Consultants does not use automated decision-making technologies to support its data processing activities.
Retention of personal information
Wills Consultants will retain personal information only for so long as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out above, considering criteria such as applicable rules on the statute of limitations and at least the duration of your use of the Wills Consultants website and services.
Your rights
You may be entitled, in accordance with applicable law, to object to or request the restriction of processing of your personal information, and to request access to, rectification, erasure and portability of your own personal information. Requests should be submitted by using the contact details set out below.
If you are aware of changes or inaccuracies in your personal information, you should inform Wills Consultants of such changes so that its records may be updated or corrected. You may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you consider that Wills Consultant’s processing of your personal information infringes applicable law.
External Links
Users of the Wills Consultants website are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking on any external web links. [External links are clickable text/banner/image links to other websites.] Clicking an external link will take the user away from the Wills Consultants website. Once you leave our website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s terms and conditions.
Wills Consultants cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website and users click on external links at their own risk. Wills Consultants and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are subject to our terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate and/or engage with them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will not ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.
Wills Consultants uses social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised that before using such social sharing buttons, that they do so at their own discretion, and should consider that the social media platform may track and save requests to share a web page, through the users’ social media platform account.
Contact Wills Consultants
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or Wills Consultants treatment of your personal information, please send an email to info@willsconsultants.com
Updating this policy
Wills Consultants may update this privacy policy periodically by posting a new version on this website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes. If the changes made to the policy are material, Wills Consultants also may post a notice on the website prior to the effective date of the change, or, in some cases, may provide notice of the changes by email. This policy was last updated on 22nd May 2018.