Privacy policy
This site does not automatically collect or store personal information regarding it’s users. The site will log the IP Address and the Session information, such as the duration of the visit and type of software used to access the site. This data is used solely for the administration of the site for statistical purposes and enable us to evaluate the services offered.
We do not use cookies for the collection of personal information, however they may be used to store information regarding your visits to the site, and to recall information previously entered by yourself for the purposes of site interaction. This information will be stored on your computer only and will not be collected, stored or processed by us.
We may ask you for personal information in order to make available specific services you wish to take part in such as newsletters, brochures, enquiries etc. Where this is the case, your information will be treated in accordance with the law
Where you elect to receive such material, we will from time to time send you information and/or offers about our goods and/or services which we believe may be of interest to you. At any time, however, you may unsubscribe from (“opt out” of) such future contact.
Where personal data is supplied by you for the purposes of submitting an application or enquiry, such data is NOT passed onto third parties, other than those directly involved in the processing of your individual enquiry or application. We do reserve the right to use your email address in order, from time to time, to advise you of other products and services available on our own web site.
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Terms of Use
This World Wide Website (www) (the “site”) is operated by RVA Associates LTD. These conditions of use are governed by the laws of England and you agree that the English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in any dispute.
Please read our conditions of use carefully as, by using this website, you will be taken to have agreed to be bound by them. We reserve the right to vary the conditions of use at any time and will post any variations here. You are advised to review the conditions of use on a regular basis as you will be deemed to have accepted variations if you continue to use this website after they have been posted. We take every care and precaution to ensure that information published on this website is accurate when posted and regularly updated, but we cannot guarantee its accuracy and we may change the information at any time without notice.
RVA Associates LTD publishes its website “as is” without any warranty of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of our site, the accuracy of the information or the products or services referred to herein (insofar as such warranties may be excluded under any relevant law) and RVA Associates LTD shall not be liable for any losses or damages that may result from use of its website as a consequence of any inaccuracies in, or any omissions from, the information which it may contain.
Candidate privacy policy
This privacy notice are displayed because you are applying for work with us (whether as an employee, worker or contractor). It makes you aware of how and why your personal data will be used, namely for the purposes of the recruitment exercise, and how long it will usually be retained for.
We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:
Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
Accurate and kept up to date.
Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
Kept securely.
The Kind of information we hold about you. In connection with your application for work with us, we will collect, store, and use the following categories of personal information about you:
Any information you may have provided to us in your curriculum vitae and covering letter.
Any information you may have provided on our application form, including name, title, address, telephone number, personal email address, date of birth, gender, employment history, qualifications.
Any information you may provide to us during an interview.
How is your personal information collected?
We may collect personal information about candidates from the following sources:
You, the candidate.
Recruitment agencies
Any background check provider.
Any credit reference agency
Disclosure and Barring Service in respect of criminal convictions.
Named referees
How we will use information about you
We may use the personal information we collect about you to:
Assess your skills, qualifications, and suitability for the work/role.
Carry out background and reference checks, where applicable.
Communicate with you about the recruitment process.
Keep records related to our hiring processes.
Comply with legal or regulatory requirements.
It is in our legitimate interests to decide whether to appoint you to role/work since it would be beneficial to our business to appoint someone to that role/work.
We may also need to process your personal information to decide whether to enter into a contract of employment with you.
If you fail to provide personal information
If you fail to provide information when requested, which is necessary for us to consider your application (such as evidence of qualifications or work history), we will not be able to process your application successfully. For example, if we require a credit check or references for this role and you fail to provide us with relevant details, we will not be able to take your application further.
How we use particularly sensitive personal information
We may use your particularly sensitive personal information in the following ways:
We may use information about your disability status to consider whether we need to provide appropriate adjustments during the recruitment process, for example, whether adjustments need to be made during a test or interview or otherwise.
Automated decision-making
You will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making.
Data sharing
Why might you share my personal information with third parties?
We may share your personal information with third parties for the purposes of processing your application e.g. a recruitment agency. All our third-party service providers and other entities in the group are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with our policies. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
Data security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need-to-know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
e have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.
Data retention
How long will you use my information for?
We will retain your personal information for a period of 6 months after we have communicated to you our decision about whether to appoint you to the role/work. We retain your personal information for that period so that we can show, in the event of a legal claim, that we have not discriminated against candidates on prohibited grounds and that we have conducted the recruitment exercise in a fair and transparent way. After this period, we will securely destroy your personal information in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
If we wish to retain your personal information on file, on the basis that a further opportunity may arise in future and we may wish to consider you for that, we will write to you separately, seeking your explicit consent to retain your personal information for a fixed period on that basis.
Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example, if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
Request the transfer of your personal information to another party.
If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact us in writing.
Right to withdraw consent
You have the right to withdraw your consent for us processing your application. To withdraw your consent, please contact us. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your application and, subject to our retention policy, we will dispose of your personal data securely.