Last Updated: 19th October 2023
UNITING AMBITION is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.
This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal information about you during and after your working relationship with us, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR/UK GDPR).
UNITING AMBITION Limited is a "data controller". This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about you. We are required under data protection legislation to notify you of the information contained in this privacy notice.
This notice applies to visitors of this website, workers, contractors, candidates and individuals at clients or potential clients of ours in respect of whom we hold personal data. This notice does not form part of any contract of employment, a contract to provide services or any other contract. We may update this notice at any time.
It is important that you read this notice, together with any other privacy notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal information about you, so that you are aware of how and why we are using such information.
Contact details:
Full name of legal entity: TVWW Limited
Email address: gdpr@unitingambition.com
Postal address: 11 Ducketts Wharf, Bishop's Stortford, England, CM23 3AR
Data Protection Officer:
We have appointed Adam Stokes as our data protection officer (DPO) whose duty is to oversee compliance with this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice or how we handle your personal information, please contact our DPO at adamstokes@unitingambition.com.
Third-Party Links:
Our 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.
Data Protection Principles:
We will comply with data protection law. This says that the personal information we hold about you must be:
1. Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
2. Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
3. Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
4. Accurate and kept up to date.
5. Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
6. Kept securely.
The Kind of Information we may hold 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).
There are "special categories" of more sensitive personal data which require a higher level of protection.
Depending on the circumstances, we may collect, store, and use the following categories of personal information about you:
Personal contact details such as name, title, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses.
We may also collect, store and use the following "special categories" of more sensitive personal information:
Information about your health relevant to your work, including, for example, any medical condition, health and sickness records.
•Information about criminal convictions and offences as part of a recruitment process.
How may your personal information be collected?
We may collect personal information about workers, contractors, candidates and individuals at clients or potential clients of ours in a number of different ways. This includes through an application and recruitment process, either directly from candidates or sometimes from another employment agency, employment business or background check provider. We may sometimes collect information from third parties including former employers, credit reference agencies or other background check agencies. Individuals at clients may provide us with their contact details as part of a discussion about our services.
We may also collect personal data which is publicly available on websites such as jobs boards, LinkedIn, or similar recruitment-related websites.
We may use third-party applications which source their data from publicly-available websites.
We may collect additional personal information in the course of job-related activities throughout the period of you working for us or where you undertake a placement.
If you fail to provide personal information:
If you fail to provide certain information when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have entered into with you (such as paying you or providing a benefit), or we may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations (such as to ensure the health and safety of our workers).
How we may use information about you:
We will only use your personal information when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we may use your personal information in the following circumstances:
1. Where we are taking steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.
2. Where we need to perform a contract which we have entered into with you.
3. Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
4. 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.
We may also use your personal information in the following situations, which are likely to be rare:
5. Where it is necessary to protect the vital interests of you or another person.
6. Where it is needed in the public interest or for official purposes.
Generally, we do not rely on Consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending marketing communications to you via email or text message – or the usage of non-essential Cookies on this website. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us at gdpr@unitingambition.com.
Click here to find out more about the types of lawful basis that we will rely on to process your personal data.
Situations in which we may use your personal information.
We may need the categories of information (in the section ‘The kind of information we hold about you’) for the reasons set out above (‘How we may use information about you’). Primarily this will be where we are taking steps at your request prior to entering into a contract and to perform a contract we have entered into with you (or your employer or a company related to you), and in some cases, we may use your personal information to pursue legitimate interests of our own or those of third parties, provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
The situations in which we may process your personal information are listed below. The list below indicates the categories of data which may be involved in processing your personal information (depending on the circumstances).
The list also indicates the Legal purpose or purposes for which we may process your personal information (depending on the circumstances) as listed above in the section ‘How we may use information about you’.