Privacy Policy & Data Retention Notice

Astute Technical Recruitment Ltd (”We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

Our Group means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, our associated companies as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006 (our Group).

This privacy policy notice, together with our Terms and Conditions, sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.

Who Astute People Are and What We Do

Astute People are a recruitment agency and recruitment business as defined in the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (our business).

• Prospective and placed candidates for permanent or temporary roles;
• Prospective and live client contacts;
• Supplier contacts to support our services;
• Employees, consultants, temporary workers;

Information You Give to Us or We Collect About You

This is information about you that you give us by filling in forms on our site or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. When collecting information by phone, our calls may be recorded for training and quality monitoring purposes.

Purposes of Processing and Legal Basis

Our legal basis for the processing of personal data is our legitimate business interests, although we will also rely on contract, legal obligation and consent for specific uses of data.

Our Legitimate Business Interests

As a recruitment business, the exchange of personal data of our candidates and our client contacts is a fundamental, essential part of this process. If you have posted your CV on a job board, it is reasonable to assume you are happy for us to use your personal data to provide recruitment services.

Our Data Retention Notice

We will remove your personal data from our systems if we have not had meaningful contact with you for 5 years. By ‘meaningful contact’, we mean communication where you have actively engaged with our services.

For data protection inquiries, contact our Data Protection Officer: Sarah Ellis.