Vet Staff Solutions is a recruitment agency which provides work-finding services to its clients and work-seekers. The agency must process personal data (including sensitive personal data) so that it can provide these services – in doing so, the Agent acts as a data controller.

You may give your personal details to the Agent directly. Your details can be obtained on an application or registration form, email contact, via the website, or it may be obtained from another source such as a jobs board.

Vet Staff Solutions must have a legal basis for processing your personal data. For the purposes of providing you with work-finding services and/or information relating to roles relevant to you.

1.    Collection and use of personal data

Vet Staff Solutions may collect, store and use your personal and/or professional contact details for the purpose of corresponding with you and the details of any organisation that you represent.

The use of your data is necessary for the legitimate interests of Vet Staff Solutions providing recruitment services to you.

The legal basis we rely upon to offer these services to you are:

Consent
Legitimate interest
Legal obligation
Contractual obligation

a) Legitimate interest

Where the Agency has relied on a legitimate interest to process your personal data our legitimate interests are as follows:

Providing work-finding services to our customers
Ensuring the security and integrity of our Services and ensuring the Website operates effectively
Promoting, marketing and advertising our products and services
Understanding our customers’ behaviour, activities, preferences, and needs
Improving existing products and services and developing new products and services
Handling customer contacts, queries, complaints or disputes.

b) Recipient/s of data

Your data may be shared with potential clients for recruitment purposes.

c) Statutory/contractual requirement

Your personal data is required to enable Vet Staff Solutions to provide you with a recruitment/ work finding service.

2. Data retention

Vet Staff Solutions will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary. Different laws require us to keep different data for different periods of time.

Vet Staff Solutions complies with the requirements of The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

3. Your rights

Please be aware that you have the following data protection rights:

to be informed about the personal data the Company processes on you;
access to the personal data the Company processes on you;
rectification of your personal data;
erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances;
to restrict processing of your personal data;
the right to object to the processing of your personal data that was based on a public or legitimate interest;
not to be subjected to automated decision making and profiling; and
to withdraw consent at any time.
You have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting Catherine Morphet at; Hello@Vetstaffsolutions.co.uk

4. Complaints or queries

If you wish to complain about this privacy notice or any of the procedures set out in it please contact: Catherine Morphet at; Hello@Vetstaffsolutions.co.uk

You also have the right to raise concerns with Information Commissioner’s Office on 0303 123 1113