Privacy & Cookies Policy
This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data LH Partners Limited collected from you or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. We take your privacy very seriously and want to maintain your trust – that is what this policy is all about.
By using our website or services, you’re agreeing that we can use your personal data in the ways described in this policy. If you don’t agree, please don’t use our website or services.
INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
We may collect and process the following data about you:
Information you give us: You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our website or by corresponding with us by telephone, email, etc. This includes information you provide when you register to use our site, subscribe to our service, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our site, enter a promotion or survey during the course of any other activity commonly carried out on our site and when you report a problem with our site. The information that you give us may include your name, address email address and telephone number, personal description, job history, qualification and photograph
We may use this information:
- To give to third parties who may wish to employ or engage you;
- To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
- To notify you about changes to our service
- To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer;
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so, as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure
Information we collect about you: With regard to each of your visits to our site, we may automatically collect the following information:
- Personal information that you give us when you register as a candidate: CV, compliance documentation, qualifications, experience, links to professional profiles, passport details, compensation details, work history, career goals, positions sought etc
- technical information, including the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plugin types and version, operating system and platform;
- information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time);
- products you viewed or searched for
- page response times, download errors, lengths of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any telephone number used to call our customer service number
Personal information from other sources (such as LinkedIn, public social media profiles, corporate websites, personal recommendations, referrals, other public websites and sources): We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above, depending on the types of information we receive
USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will only use your information where we have a lawful basis, either because you’ve given consent, it’s necessary for the performance of a contract with you, or because it’s in our legitimate interests. Specifically, we may use your information:
- to provide our services, including processing your personal information and sending you invoices, and assisting with enquiries relating to recruitment, referencing and consulting services;
- to contact you about our services;
- to provide you with information or promotions about things you’ve asked us to;
- to notify you of any security or data breaches;
- to help us identify potential risk and fraud;
- to improve and optimize our website (for example, analytics reports showing how people interact with the website and to assess our marketing campaigns);
- in a way that we describe to you when you provide the information.
COOKIES
Cookies are small pieces of data stored in a text file that is stored on your computer or device when a browser loads a website. They are widely used to ‘remember’ you and your preferences.
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until a set expiry date, unless deleted by the user; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user.
TYPES OF COOKIE USED
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate through it;
- status – we use cookies to help us determine if you are logged into our website;
- security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures
- analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website; and
- cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies.
PARTICULAR COOKIES USED BY US
The following are cookies predominantly used by our website’s content management system. These are the most essential cookies for full functionality of the website.
| Cookie Name | Description | Duration |
| wordpress_logged_in_ | To identify when you’re logged in | session |
| wp-settings- | Used to customize the view of the admin
interface and to keep these settings |
1 year |
| PHPSESSID | To identify your unique session on the website | session |
| SESS | To ensure that you are recognised within the
site and that any information you enter persists. |
session |
MANAGING COOKIES
You have the right to choose whether to accept cookies. If you don’t accept cookies, you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. How this is done varies for each browser, so we have provided links with information about blocking and deleting cookies for popular browsers below:
- https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
- https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
- https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may share your personal information with any members of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006. We may share your information with selected third parties, including:
- Business partners, suppliers, clients and sub-contractors for (1) the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you; (2) the purpose of sourcing you employment or engagement with a third party
- Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our site. We may disclose your personal information to third parties
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets
- If LH Partners Limited or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets
WHERE DO WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to and stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for one of our suppliers. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storage or processing. We will take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to prevent authorized access.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you before collecting your data if we intend to use your data for such purposes, or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by contacting us.
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercises in accordance with the Act. You can request that we supply you a copy of your personal data; the first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes that we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.