Premises Recruitment

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Privacy Notice

Version 2.0, updated October 2026

Company name: Premises Recruitment Limited, registered in England and Wales No: 4216304

Company contact: Abbey Stephenson, Suite 3, 258 High Road, Loughton, Essex, IG10 1RB. Tel: 020 8502 0111. Email: info@premisesrecruitment.com

Topic: Data Protection

Premises Recruitment Limited is a recruitment business which provides work-finding services to its clients and work-seekers. Premises must process personal data (including sensitive personal data) so that it can provide these services. In doing so, Premises acts as a data controller.

You may give your personal details to Premises directly, such as on an application or registration form or via our website, or we may collect them from another source such as a jobs board. Premises 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 we will only use your personal data in accordance with the terms of the following statement. At all times we will comply with current data protection laws, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

1. Collection and use of personal data

a. The purpose of Premises processing your data and the legal basis for doing so

Premises will collect your personal data (which may include sensitive personal data) and will process your personal data for the purposes of providing you with work-finding services.

This includes for example, contacting you about job opportunities, assessing your suitability for those opportunities, updating our databases, putting you forward for job opportunities, arranging payments to you and developing and managing our services and relationship with you and our clients.

If you have opted in we may also send you marketing information and news via email or text. You can opt out from receiving these at any time by clicking "unsubscribe" when you receive these communications from us.

In some cases we may be required to use your data for the purpose of investigating, reporting and detecting crime and also to comply with laws that apply to us. We may also use your information during the course of internal audits to demonstrate our compliance with certain industry standards.

We must have a legal basis to process your personal data. The legal bases we rely upon to offer these services to you are:

  • Your consent
  • Where we have a legitimate interest
  • To comply with a legal obligation that we have
  • To fulfil a contractual obligation that we have with you

b. Legitimate interest

This is where Premises has a legitimate reason to process your data provided it is reasonable and does not go against what you would reasonably expect from us. Where Premises has relied on a legitimate interest to process your personal data our legitimate interests are as follows:

  • Managing our database and keeping work-seeker records up to date;
  • Providing work-finding services to you and our clients;
  • Contacting you to seek your consent where we need it;
  • Giving you information about similar products or services that you have used from us recently.

c. Statutory/contractual requirement

The Company has certain legal and contractual requirements to collect personal data (e.g. to comply with the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, immigration and tax legislation, and in some circumstances safeguarding requirements). Our clients may also require this personal data, and/or we may need your data to enter into a contract with you. If you do not give us personal data we need to collect we may not be able to continue to provide work-finding services to you, or process wage payments for any undertaking of temporary assignment.

d. Recipients of data

Premises will process your personal data and/or sensitive personal data with the following recipients:

  • Our clients (whom we may introduce or supply you to)
  • Former employers whom we may seek references from
  • Our trusted recruitment CRM software provider
  • Payroll service providers who manage payroll on our behalf or other payment intermediaries whom we may introduce you to

2. Information to be provided when data is not collected directly from the data subject

Categories of data: We have collected the following personal data on you:

Personal data:

  • Name, address, mobile number, email
  • National Insurance number
  • Nationality (through right to work check)
  • CV/employment history
  • Other work related information

Sensitive personal data:

  • Health information including whether you have a disability
  • Criminal conviction

Source of the personal data: We may obtain your personal data from the following sources (please note that this list is not exhaustive):

  • Jobs boards (TotalJobs, CareerStructure, CV Library)
  • LinkedIn
  • A former employer
  • A referee whose details you previously provided to us
  • Industry leads service (Glenigans)

Where you are a Candidate and we have obtained your personal data from a third party such as an online job board, it is our policy to advise you of the source when we first communicate with you.

3. Overseas transfers

Some of the service providers we use, such as our recruitment software provider, may store or process personal data outside the United Kingdom. Where your personal data is transferred outside the UK, we will make sure it is protected by appropriate safeguards required under UK data protection law, such as UK adequacy regulations or the International Data Transfer Agreement approved by the Information Commissioner.

4. Data retention

Premises will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purpose we collect it. Different laws may also require us to keep different data for different periods of time.

The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 require us to keep work-seeker records for at least one year from (a) the date of their creation or (b) after the date on which we last provide you with work-finding services.

We must also keep your payroll records, holiday pay, sick pay and pensions auto-enrolment records for as long as is legally required by HMRC and associated national minimum wage, social security and tax legislation. This is currently 3 to 6 years.

Where Premises has obtained your consent to process your personal and/or sensitive personal data, we will do so in line with our retention policy (which is available on request).

Upon expiry of that period Premises will seek further consent from you. Upon seeking further consent, if further consent is not granted Premises will cease to process your personal data and sensitive personal data.

5. Your rights

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

  • The right to be informed about the personal data Premises processes on you;
  • The right of access to the personal data Premises processes on you;
  • The right to rectification of your personal data;
  • The right to erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances;
  • The right to restrict processing of your personal data;
  • The right to data portability in certain circumstances;
  • The right to object to the processing of your personal data that was based on a public or legitimate interest;
  • The right not to be subjected to automated decision making and profiling;
  • The right to withdraw consent at any time; and
  • The right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (see section 12).

Where you have consented to Premises processing your personal data and/or sensitive personal data you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting Abbey Stephenson, Suite 3, 258 High Road, Loughton, Essex, IG10 1RB. Tel: 020 8502 0111. Email: info@premisesrecruitment.com

There may be circumstances where Premises will still need to process your data for legal or official reasons. We will inform you if this is the case. Where this is the case, we will restrict the data to only what is necessary for the purpose of meeting those specific reasons.

If you believe that any of your data that Premises processes is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us using the details above and we will take reasonable steps to check its accuracy and correct it where necessary.

You can also contact us using the above details if you want us to restrict the type or amount of data we process for you, access your personal data or exercise any of the other rights listed above.

6. Cookies

We may obtain data about you from cookies. These are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies also enable us to deliver more personalised content.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. Please note that in a few cases some of our website features may not function if you remove cookies from your browser.

7. Log files

We use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track users' movements, and to gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

8. Links to external websites

Our website may contain links to other external websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. When you leave our site we encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by our website.

9. Sale of business

If our business is sold or integrated with another business your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers and their advisers and will be passed on to the new owners of the business.

10. Data security

The Company takes every precaution to protect our users' information. We utilise a fully hosted secure recruitment system with high level security measures in place in relation to the personal data processed, including firewall, browser certification technology, limited access rights, and password protection.

Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, consultants, our accounts clerk or a marketing assistant) are granted access to your information.

Premises uses all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal information. However, you should be aware that the use of email and the Internet is not entirely secure and for this reason we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal information which is transferred from you or to you via email or the Internet.

If you share a device with others we recommend that you do not select the "remember my details" function when that option is offered.

If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can email info@premisesrecruitment.com

11. Changes to this privacy statement

We will update this privacy statement from time to time. We will post any changes on the statement with revision dates. This version was last updated in October 2026. If we make any material changes, we will notify you.

12. Complaints or queries

If you wish to complain about this privacy notice or any of the procedures set out in it please contact Abbey Stephenson, Director, undertaking duties of Data Protection Officer, Suite 3, 258 High Road, Loughton, Essex, IG10 1RB. Tel: 020 8502 0111. Email: info@premisesrecruitment.com

You also have the right to raise concerns with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection, on 0303 123 1113 or at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint, if you believe that your data protection rights have not been adhered to.

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