Privacy Policy

Data Privacy Notice
Highfield Human Resources Ltd

1. Your personal data – what is it?

Personal data relates to a living inpidual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”).

We may collect some or all of the following:

Name, Address, Mobile or Landline Telephone number, Email address, Job Title and Company Name.

2. Who are we?

Highfield Human Resources Ltd is the data controller (contact details below). This means that it decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.

3. How do we process your personal data?

Highfield Human Resources Ltd complies with its obligations under the GDPR by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

To keep you up to date with the latest professional human resource news, industry thoughts and developments
To maintain our data records
To deliver a contract with you or on behalf of a client
To tell you about our products and services that we think you might be interested in.

4. What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

Contract: Processing is required in order to successfully deliver a contract with you, on behalf of a client, or to take steps to enter into a contract.
Legitimate interest: We believe that you may benefit in being contacted by us with industry news and information about products and services from Highfield Human Resources Ltd and you have previously been contacted by us, with the option to ‘unsubscribe’ consistently for at least 12 months.
Consent: You have given your consent by subscribing via email.

5. Sharing your personal data

Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will not be shared outside of Highfield Human Resources Ltd.

6. How long do we keep your personal data

We keep your personal data for:

Clients and Suppliers: 7 years after the cessation of work in case of any accounts or tax queries
Non-clients: until consent is withdrawn. This can easily be done by clicking the unsubscribe link on every email sent or by contacting [email protected].uk

7. Your rights and your personal data
Unless subject to an exemption you have the following rights with respect to your personal
data:

The right to request a copy of your personal data which Highfield Human Resources Ltd holds
about you;
The right to request that Highfield Human Resources Ltd corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;
The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for Highfield Human Resources Ltd to retain such data;
The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time if no other legitimate reason for processing exists;
The right to request that the data controller provide the data subject with his/her personal data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller;
The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing;
The right to object to the processing of personal data when processing is based on legitimate interest and direct marketing.
The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.

8. Transfer of Data Abroad

We use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation set out in section 2.0. These third parties are based in the USA or the UK and are EU or EU-U.S Privacy Shield compliant.

Google (Privacy policy)
Mailchimp (Privacy policy)
Quickbooks (Privacy policy)

9. Further processing

If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this GDPR notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing.