This privacy policy describes our practices on the collection, use and disclosure of your information in connection with Acin Ltd. We are committed to good privacy practices regarding your personally identifiable information. Your loyalty is important, and we hope that our concerns regarding your privacy, as described in this policy (the “Privacy Policy” or “Policy”), demonstrate our commitment to making your experience with us an enjoyable and satisfying one.
The Data Protection Act (DPA), Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which is EU wide and far more extensive seeks to protect and enhance the rights of data subjects. These rights cover the safeguarding of personal data, protection against the unlawful processing of personal data and the unrestricted movement of personal data within the EU.
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We collect and use your Personal Information in accordance with this our Privacy Policy. Personal Information is information that identifies you as an individual.
Personal Information we collect about you may include the following:
General identification and contact information, this could include: your name; address; email; IP address; telephone details; gender; marital status; family status; date and place of birth; physical attributes including photos
Other sensitive information which could include: trade union membership, religious beliefs, political opinions or racial or ethical origin, and criminal record.
Information enabling us to provide products and services: age, location, whether you hold a driving licence that enable identification of job search (for example, post code or job role)
Publicly available information in relation to professional history: educational background; employment history; skills and experience; professional licenses and affiliations; educational and professional qualifications
On some occasions we process your data with your consent. For example, we rely on consent when we complete processes including background screening, criminal checks, information for references and for validation of educational and professional qualifications. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time. Where consent is the only legal basis for processing, we will cease to process data after consent is withdrawn.
We process your data when it is in our legitimate interests to do this and when these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.
Acin may process your data to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations e.g. preventing, investigating and detecting crime, fraud or anti-social behaviour and prosecuting offenders, including working with law enforcement agencies
Acin may make Personal Information available to:
We may share your personal data with certain members of our group companies. Where they have access to your personal data they will use it only for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Acin will remain responsible for the management and security of jointly used Personal Information. Access to Personal Information within Acin, and our group of companies, is restricted to those individuals who have a need to access the information for our business purposes.
This includes external third-party service providers, such as accountants, auditors, experts, lawyers and other outside professional advisors; IT systems, support and hosting service providers; document and records management providers; technical engineers; data storage and cloud providers and similar third-party vendors and outsourced service providers that assist us in carrying out business activities.
Acin may share Personal Information with governmental or other public authorities (including, but not limited to, workers’ compensation boards, courts, law enforcement, tax authorities and criminal investigations agencies); and third-party civil legal process participants and their accountants, auditors, lawyers and other advisors and representatives as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) to comply with applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our group companies; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and that of our group companies, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit our damages.
Occasionally, we may share Personal Information with other third parties. We will always do this under contract and in accordance with your instructions.
We use Personal Information to do some or all of the following:
Personal Information which you supply to us is generally stored and kept inside the European Economic Area.
However, due to the nature of our global business and the technologies required, your Personal Information may be transferred to third party service providers outside the EEA, in countries where there may be a lower legal level of data protection. In such situations, we transfer the minimum amount of data necessary, anonymise it where possible and enter legal contracts to aim to ensure these third parties handle your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the European levels of data protection.
When you access our website online, we store some information about you. This is anonymous and used for statistical purposes.
When you engage with our Resourcing team with regards to opportunities your CV will be uploaded on to an internal database. You can however ask for your information to be removed from the database at any time, please email privacy@acin.com with the subject line “Permanently delete my information and account”. Please do not forget to tell us who you are.
Acin is committed to keeping your personal data safe and secure from unauthorised access to or unauthorised alterations, disclosure or destruction of information that we hold.
Through agreeing to this privacy notice you are consenting to Acin processing your personal data for the purposes outlined. You can withdraw consent at any time by emailing or by phoning +44 203 728 8585, see last section for full contact details.
Acin will process personal data during the duration of any contract and will continue to store only the personal data needed for six years after the contract has expired to meet any legal obligations. After six years any personal data not needed will be deleted.
At any point whilst Acin is in possession of / or processing your personal data, all data subjects have the following rights:
In the event that Acin refuses your request under rights of access, we will provide you with a reason as to why, which you have the right to legally challenge.
Acin at your request, can confirm what information it holds about you and how it is processed. You can request the following information:
Acin will accept the following forms of ID when information on your personal data is requested: a copy of your driving licence, passport, birth certificate and a utility bill not older than three months. A minimum of one piece of photographic ID listed above and a supporting document is required. If Acin is dissatisfied with the quality, further information may be sought before personal data can be released.
All requests should be made to privacy@acin.com or by phoning +44 (0)203 846 6709 or writing to us at the address further below.
In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by the Acin, you have the right to complain to the Data Controller at Acin Ltd. If you do not get a response within 30 days, you can complain to the ICO.
The details for each of these contacts are:
Data Controller, Acin Ltd., 70 Gracechurch Street, London, EC3V 0HR
Telephone +44 (0)203 846 6709 or email privacy@acin.com
ICO, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF
Telephone +44 (0) 303 123 1113 or email: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/
Registered Office
Abbey House, 282
Farnborough Road,
Farnborough, GU14 7NA
Registered No: 08632362
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