Welcome to "Prescure & Partners" data protection and privacy notice.
Prescure & Partners HR Consultants srl (“Prescure&Partners”, “we“, “us” or “our“) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.
We have always aimed to be fully compliant with national and international law and privacy regulations. For that reason, started July 2017, nearly a year before the deadline, we are fully compliant also with The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (UE) 679/2016.
This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Please also use the Glossary to understand the meaning of some of the terms used in this privacy notice
I. Important information and who we are
Purpose of this privacy notice
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Prescure&Partners collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website and our email address: when you sign up to our newsletter.
This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
Controller: We are the controller and responsible for your personal data.
We have appointed a data protection officer (DPO) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the DPO using the following email address: dpo@prescure-partners.ro
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
Third-party links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
II. The data we collect about you
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:
- Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
- Contact Data includes address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Financial Data includes salary details.
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Profile Data includes your username and password, your interests, preferences, feedback, survey responses, psychometric tests and aptitude tests.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and services.
- Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving job alerts from us.
We may also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
We do not collect Special Categories of Personal Data about you (like details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, and information about genetic and biometric data). We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
If you fail to provide personal data
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with services). In this case, we may have to cancel a service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time
III. How is your personal data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact information by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
- contact us for the purposes of us providing you or the ultimate potential employer with recruitment services;
- create an account on our website;
- request job alert communications to be sent to you;
- request an commercial offer or any other information regarding our services;
- give us some feedback.
- Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy https://www.prescure-partners.ro/privacy-policy/ for further details.
- Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:
- Technical Data from the following parties:
- analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU; and
- advertising networks such as job boards inside the EU.
- Identity, Contact Data or other data from other companies or recruitment agencies with who you have registered with.
- Identity, Contact Data or other data from publicly availably sources such as: Linkedin, Ejobs, Bestjobs, OLX, other web sites based inside the EU or outside.
IV. How we use your personal data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you or with the potential company looking to employ you.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
We have set out below, a list of ways we plan to use your personal data, generally:
- To register you as a new candidate
- To process your application with a potential employer to:
- To manage our relationship with you which will include:
- Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
- Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
- To enable you to complete a survey
- To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you
- To use data analytics to improve our website, services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences
- To make suggestions and recommendations to you about jobs that may be of interest to you;
- To make commercial offer or send other information regarding our services;
Your personal data may be shared with:
- HR Professional Services staff in order to complete the recruitment process; undertake pre-employment checks and for monitoring purposes etc.
- Recruiting Managers in the department which is advertising the vacancy in order make a decision regarding your recruitment to the authority
- Departments within the Finance Directorate and the Council as a whole in order to complete certain procedures (e.g. checking of outstanding debts to the authority, Anti-Fraud checks etc.)
- Other local authorities and organizations (HR departments and other services as appropriate)
- Third-party organizations, as allowed by law, who provide the authorities e-recruitment and Human Resource Management and Payroll system.
Third-party marketing
We will not share your personal data with any company outside our group companies for general marketing purposes, unless we obtain your prior consent.
Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our cookies policy on the following link https://www.prescure-partners.ro/privacy-policy/
Change of purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law
V. Disclosures of your personal data
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.
- Internal Third Parties as set out in the Glossary
- External Third Parties as set out in the Glossary
- Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
VI. International transfers
Some of our external third parties could be based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
- We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission. For further details, see European Commission: Adequacy of the protection of personal data in non-EU countries.
- Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.
- Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the US. For further details, see European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.
- Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.
VII. Data security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
Data retention
How long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill 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, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized 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, and the applicable legal requirements.
By default we have to keep basic information about our customers and candidates (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being a customer or candidate for tax and contractual purposes.
Also in case that we consider some data irrelevant for our business, we will delete it even before this retention period.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Request erasure below for further information.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
VIII. Legal rights
As a user and concerned person, according to GDPR dispositions if you are an EU citizen you have the following rights:
The right of access to your information: You can ask for the confirmation of the fact that we processing personal data related to you;
The right to rectification: You have the right to get, without unjustified delay, the rectification of the inexact personal data.
The right to data deletion ("the right to be forgotten"): You have the right to obtain the deletion of personal data related to you, without unjustified delay, in case of some specific and legal reasons.
The right to restrict the processing; You have the right to obtain the restricting of the processing in case of some specific and legal reasons.
The right to data portability: You have the right to receive the personal data related to you and that were provided in a structured format, currently used
The right to opposition: You have the right to opposition to the processing.
The automated individual decision process, including the creation of profiles: You have the right not to be the object of a decision based on an automated decision, including the profiles creation, which can have legal effects that relate to you or can affect you similarly in a significant way.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us to: dpo@prescure-partners.ro
No fee usually required
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
What we may need from you
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
Time limit to respond
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
IX. Glossary
LAWFUL BASIS
Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.
Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.
THIRD PARTIES
Internal Third Parties: Other companies, partners, clients or providers ( like IT and system administration services).
External Third Parties:
- Service providers acting as processors based inside and outside the EU who provide IT, system administration services and CV formatting.
- Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based in the EU who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
- Other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers based in Romania and European Union.
This version was last updated on 25th May 2018
