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Privacy Policy

Effective from 1st February 2022

www.jobsfast.co.uk is operated by Jobs Fast Ltd ("Jobs Fast"). Jobs Fast is registered in England and Wales under company number 13648612. Jobs Fast registered address is 57b Vale Road, London N4 1PP.

Jobs Fast is a recruitment business that operates to match candidates with employers.

Jobs Fast will use your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We take data protection very seriously and understand the importance of protecting your privacy and Personal Data. We care about your privacy and are committed to processing your personal data in accordance with applicable data privacy laws, specifically, the UK General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR").

"Personal Data" 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 Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The majority of the Personal Data we collect you provide to us when you give us your CV or job cover letter as part of a job application and onboarding process.

Please do not submit Personal Data to us if you do not wish us to collect it.

Please be aware that we may also infer certain information about you from your search preferences. We also collect from:

  • our website;
  • cookies;
  • publicly available information; and,
  • other tools and applications

What Personal Data do we collect?

Personal Data we collect about you may include the following:

  • General identification and contact information: your name; address; email; IP address; telephone details; gender; marital status; family status; date and place of birth; physical attributes including photos.
  • Other sensitive information: trade union membership, religious beliefs, political opinions or racial or ethical origin, and criminal record.
  • Information enabling us to provide products and services: age, location, whether or not you hold a driving licence and/or other information about your job preferences that enable identification of job search (for example, post code or job role).
  • Time and attendance data when employed.
  • Marketing preferences: enter a contest or prize draw or other sales promotion, or respond to a voluntary satisfaction survey.
  • Statistical information: aggregate statistical information about site visitors and users for internal use and for other lawful purposes e.g. Salary averages. We may provide this information to customers, advertisers, suppliers and other reputable third parties. Where we provide such information we will provide this in an anonymous format and not include any Personal Data.
  • Information from our website: if you participate in message boards, blogs, send us emails or any other user generated content facility.
  • Publicly available information in relation to professional history: educational background; employment history; skills and experience; professional licenses and affiliations; educational and professional qualifications.

What legal basis do we rely on to process your Personal Data?

Legitimate Interest

Fast Jobs processes your personal 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:

  • ensuring the security and integrity of our services and in ensuring that our website operates effectively;
  • workforce planning and administration, payroll and affiliate programme;
  • protecting customers, employees and other individuals and maintaining their safety, health and welfare;
  • promoting, marketing and advertising our services;
  • sending promotional communications which are relevant and tailored to individual candidates;
  • understanding our candidates’ behaviour, preferences, and needs;
  • improving existing products and services such as the affiliates programme and developing new products and services;
  • handling candidate, recruiter and employer contacts, queries, complaints or disputes; and,
  • fulfilling our duties to our customers, colleagues, shareholders and other stakeholders.

The processing is necessary to fulfill a contract

Fast Jobs may process your data when we need to do this to fulfil a contract with you, such as to send your CV to an employer or recruiter for a specific job application.

The processing is necessary because of a legal obligation that applies

Fast Jobs may process your data to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, e.g. preventing, investigating and detecting crime, fraud and prosecuting offenders, including working with law enforcement agencies.

Who do we share your Personal Data with?

Recruiters and other agents

In the course of our business to help you search for and secure a job, Fast Jobs may make Personal Data available to third parties such as recruiters and other intermediaries and agents and other business partners. The amount of information we share with recruiters will depend on the information you enter when you create or update your profile. Recruiters will also be able to view your most recently updated profile or CV.

Our service providers

This includes external third-party service providers, such as accountants, auditors, lawyers and other outside professional advisors; IT systems, support and hosting service providers; advertising, marketing and market research and analysis service providers; technical engineers; data storage and cloud providers and similar third-party vendors and outsourced service providers that assist us in carrying out business activities.

Governmental authorities and third parties involved in court action

Fast Jobs may share Personal Information with governmental or other public authorities (including, but not limited to, 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.

Other third parties

Occasionally, we may share Personal Data with other third parties. We will always do this under contract and in accordance with your instructions.

How do we use your Personal Data?

We use Personal Data to do some or all of the following:

  • Communicate with you as part of our business;

  • Send you important information regarding changes to our policies, other terms and conditions, the Fast Jobs website and other administrative information;

  • Provide improved quality, training and security and manage other commercial risks;

  • Carry out market research and analysis, including satisfaction surveys;

  • To understand and analyse customer engagement with our website, content and emails.

  • Provide marketing information to you in accordance with preferences you have expressed.

  • Personalise your experience on the Fast Jobs website

  • Develop and improve our website (where possible we will anonymise your information before we do this);

  • The CV used to apply is evaluated against the job advert;

  • Allow you to participate in competitions and similar promotions, and to administer these activities. Some of these activities have additional terms and conditions, which could contain additional information about how we use and disclose your Personal Information, so we suggest that you read these carefully;

  • Facilitate social media sharing functionality;

  • Manage our infrastructure and business operations, and comply with internal policies and procedures, including those relating to auditing; finance and accounting; billing and collections; IT systems; data and website hosting; business continuity; and records, document and print management;

  • Resolve complaints, and handle requests for data access or correction;

  • Comply with applicable laws and regulatory obligations (including laws outside your country of residence), such as those relating to anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism; comply with legal process; and respond to requests from public and governmental authorities (including those outside your country of residence);

  • Establish and defend legal rights; protect our operations, our rights, privacy, safety or property, you or others; and pursue available remedies or limit our damages.

International Transfers of Personal Data

Personal Data which you supply to us is generally stored and kept inside the European Economic Area.

However, due to the nature of the technologies required, your Personal 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. Therefore, as far as you make your profile searchable to recruiters, a recruiter could also be located outside of the EU/EEA. That means that as part of the contract between you and us, it might be necessary that your profile is accessed from a country that does not have the same level of data protection as the EU or EEA. In such 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 Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the European levels of data protection.

How can you manage or delete Personal Data?

When you access our website online, we store some information about you.

When you create an account and profile, it is protected by your password. You can manage the content and information in your profile at any time, by logging in to your account.

Your CV can be viewed by Fast Jobs and Fast Jobs customers which includes recruiters and employers. When your profile is searchable your application activity (e.g. number of applications, job titles, locations & salaries) will be visible to Fast Jobs and Fast Jobs customers.

As a registered candidate, if you decide to exercise your right to erasure under Article 17 of General Data Protection Regulation, we will remove your data stored and processed by us, including any applications made or saved for recruiters to view.

Please note that Fast Jobs reserves the right to remove from our database, CVs which include any content that we consider to be illegal or offensive.

If you would like to permanently delete your account, you can send an email to admin@jobsfast.co.uk with the subject line “Permanently delete my information and account”. Please do not forget to tell us who you are.

It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computers, devices, and applications. Be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.

Security

Fast Jobs is committed to keeping your personal data safe and secure from unauthorised access to or unauthorised alterations, disclosure or destruction of information that we hold.

Our security measures include:

  • encryption of our services and data;

  • restrict access to personal data to Fast Jobs employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it for us and who are subject to contractual confidentiality and processing obligations.

  • training for employees.

Online drives

We access the following Services for the limited purpose of helping us to upload or otherwise access your CV, cover letters or any other documents you provide us to assist you apply for jobs. The Services we use are:

  • Google Cloud

  • OneDrive

Your Rights

You have the following rights:

  • the right to ask what personal data that we hold about you at any time;

  • the right to ask us to update and correct any out-of-date or incorrect personal data that we hold about you free of charge; and

  • (as set out above) the right to opt out of any marketing communications that we may send you.

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us at admin@jobsfast.co.uk

Children and minors

Fast Jobs is not directed towards individuals under the age of eighteen (18), however we are aware due to the nature of some of the job offerings, those between 14 and 18 may use the Services.
Individuals under the age of thirteen (13) are expressly prohibited from using Fast Jobs Website, unless parental consent is provided and we are notified.

Who to contact about your Personal Data

The data controller responsible for your information is Fast Jobs Ltd.

If you have any questions about this policy or our use of your Personal Information you can email: admin@jobsfast.co.uk

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 ico.org.uk.

JobFast’s ICO Registration Number is ZB296540

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 and encourage you to view these regularly.

Please view the “Effective from” date at the top of these terms to see when it was last revised.

The Site is operated by Fast Jobs Ltd (“We”, “Our” or “Us”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 13648612 and have Our registered office at 57b Vale Road, London N4 1PP.