Astral Solutions Limited takes your privacy very seriously. We acknowledge our responsibility to process your data with due care and in accordance with the applicable legislation. As an employment agency, we need to collect personal information from you for the purposes of finding work. We collect:
Name, date of birth and job title.
Contact information – phone number, email address, postal address.
Information such as experience, training, qualification, preferences and interests.
Sensitive information that might be included in your CV.
Other information relevant to customer service and / or offers.
Our use of your personal information is permitted by the applicable data protection laws and for the purposes of these laws Astral Solutions Limited is the “data controller”. This means that Astral Solutions Limited determines the purposes for which, and the manner in which your data is processed.
Astral Solutions Limited will collect data in a number of ways:
When you contact us through the website, by telephone, post, e-mail or through any other means; in each case in accordance with this privacy policy.
We also automatically collect some information about your visit to the website. This information helps us to make improvements to the website content and navigation and includes your IP address, the date, times and frequency with which you access the website and the way you use and interact with its content.
We use your data to:
Provide you with work-finding service.
Process with or transfer your data to our clients in order to provide you work-finding services.
Process your data on computerised database in relation to work-finding and provision services.
Any other relevant purposes for processing personal data.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties in the following circumstances:
- To suppliers, contractors and agents – to provide work-finding services.
- - to Government and law enforcement authorities – if we determine we are legally obliged to do so.
DATA RETENTION
Unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, we will only hold your data on our system for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this privacy policy or until you request the data to be deleted. Even if we delete your data, it may persist on back up or archival media for legal, tax or regulatory purposes.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the following rights in relation to your data:
1. Right to access – the right to request copies of the information we hold about you at any time; or that we modify, update or delete such information. If we provide you with access to the information we hold about you, we will not charge you for this, unless your request is “manifestly unfounded or excessive”. Where we are legally permitted to do so, we may refuse your request. If we refuse your request, we will tell you the reasons why.
2. Right to correct – the right to have your data rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
3. Right to erase – the right to request that we delete or remove your data from our system.
4. Right to restrict our use of your data – the right to “block” us from using your data or limit the way in which we can use it.
5. Right to data portability – the right to request that we move, copy or transfer your data.
6. Right to object – the right to object to our use of your data including where we use it for our legitimate interests.
To make enquires, exercise any of your rights set out above, or withdraw your consent to the processing of your data (where consent is our legal basis for processing your data), please contact us via this e-mail address: office@astralsolutions.co.uk.
If you are not satisfied with the way a complaint you make in relation to your data is handled by us, you may be able to refer your complaint to the relevant data protection authority. For the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO’s contact details can be found on their website at https://ico.org.uk/.
It is important that the data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your data changes during the period for which we hold it.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Astral Solutions Limited reserves the right to change this privacy policy as we may deem necessary from time to time or as may be required by law. Any changes will be immediately posted on the Website and you are deemed to have accepted the terms of the privacy policy on your first use of the Website following the alterations.
You may contact Astral Solutions Limited by e-mail at office@astralsolutions.co.uk
In this privacy policy the following definition are used:
1. Data – collectively all your information that you submit to Astral Solutions Limited via the Website. This definition incorporates, where applicable, the definitions provided in the Data Protection Laws.
2. Data Protection Laws – any applicable law relating to the processing of personal data, including but not limited to the Directive 96/46/EC (Data Protection Directive) or the GDPR, and any national implementing laws, regulations and secondary legislation, for as long as the GDPR is effective in UK.
3. GDPR – the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679.
4. Astral Solutions Limited, we or us.
5. User or you – any third party that accesses the Website and is not either employed by Astral Solutions Limited and acting in the course of their employment or engaged as a consultant or otherwise providing services to Astral Solutions Limited and accessing the Website in connection with the provision of such services.
6. Website – the website that you are currently using and any sub-domains of this site unless expressly excluded by their own terms and conditions.
In this privacy policy, unless the context requires a different interpretation:
1. The singular includes the plural and vice versa.
2. References to sub-clauses, clauses, schedules or appendices are to sub-clauses, clauses, schedules or appendices of this privacy policy.
3. A reference to a person includes firms, companies, government entities, trusts and partnerships.
4. “Including” is understood to mean “Including without limitation”.
5. Reference to any statutory provision includes any modification or amendment of it.
The headings and sub-headings do not form part of this privacy policy