Privacy Policy

Karen Leggett Recruitment Limited follow all relevant data protection and privacy guidelines, therefore respecting your privacy and ensuring that we comply with all relevant laws.

We love website statistics so our site uses cookies to collect analytical data about your browsing activity and to serve you targeted adverts in the future, but this data is not-personally identifiable to you. (See our cookie policy for more information).

We will need some personal information from you if you have requested a quote from us or wish to attend one of our events. We will only use this information to provide you with the service you have requested and your data will be stored securely and will never be passed on to any third parties.

Karen Leggett Recruitment Limited will collect personal information from you when you either request a quote from us, when you use one of our services, make an enquiry, register your interest or apply for a job with us.

Information we request may include but may not be absolutely exclusive to the following:

  • Name
  • Address
  • Company name
  • Position at your company
  • Telephone number
  • Email address

As part of your marketing plan we may gather further information relating to your existing company performance and to craft your perfect marketing plan, we will need information about your business goals.

Any information you submit to Karen Leggett Recruitment Limited will only ever be used for the reasons you submitted it for in the first place. If you choose not to work with us, we will then store your information securely for 10 years – after this time, we will erase your data safely from our secure system.

Website data

When you browse our website, we use Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to track non-personally identifying information on how you use our website such as:

  • How long you browse each page;
  • The pages you visit;
  • Where you enter the website;
  • Where you leave the website;
  • Non-personally identifying information from your Google profile, i.e:
  • Your gender
  • Your location
  • Your age

We use this information to assist us in managing and developing our website and to focus our online marketing.

What we will do with your information

Karen Leggett Recruitment will only ever use your information to help us carry out the services you have requested from us and will use it to:

  • Contact you about your chosen service;
  • Manage your account (which may include payment issues);
  • Suggest new services which may complement your business;
  • Respond to queries;
  • Confirm your identity (for example when you have lost a password etc).

Occasionally, we may contact you with information about new services, events and special offers by email, if you have given us permission to do so.

If you have given Karen Leggett Recruitment Limited permission to contact you regarding our services, you are able to request to have your details removed from our database at any time. If you would like to have your details removed or updated, simply Contact us with the subject heading ‘Subject Access Request’ and your details will be removed/updated from/on our secure database.

Data Retention

Karen Leggett Recruitment Limited will keep your data secure as per GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) guidelines. We will keep your details for 10 years before safely removing it from our system.

With those who use our services, we will keep those details securely on our database until you have finished using our services and for 10 years afterwards. After that time, we will remove your details, unless we are required by law or for audit reasons to keep them for longer.

You are within your rights to request that we remove your details from our system at any time, simply email Contact us.

Third parties

Karen Leggett Recruitment Limited will never disclose any information about you to any third parties. All information we have will always be stored securely and will only be used by Karen Leggett Recruitment Limited for the purposes in which it was intended.

Occasionally, we may be asked to disclose personal information to meet legal requirements or obligations, such as to comply with a court order.

Applying for a job with Karen Leggett Recruitment Limited

When you apply for a job with Karen Leggett Recruitment Limited or send us your CV for consideration for future positions within the company, you have provided us with consent to contact you regarding jobs relevant to your experience and expertise within the company. We will store your details securely for 10 years at which time we will erase your information from our system securely. You are within your rights to request that your details are removed before that time, Contact us with the subject: ‘Subject Access Request’.

Accessing your Information

You are free to contact us to request the information we have about you. Contact us or write to Karen Leggett Recruitment Limited 25 Broomhills Welwyn AL7 1RG to make your request and include your name, address and account number (if you have one) to ensure we can locate your data efficiently for you. Additional questions may be necessary to confirm your identity.

Under GDPR, Karen Leggett Recruitment Limited are duty bound to provide the information you request free of charge and cannot refuse to carry out your requests, unless they are deemed excessive.

Monitoring and or recording of all your Communications

Karen Leggett Recruitment Limited may monitor emails to assist in improving customer service and relations.

 

COOKIE POLICY 

About cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; 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, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Cookies that we use

We use cookies for the following purposes:

(a) personalisation – we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise the website for you e.g. if you declined a pop-up;

(b) security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;

(c) analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services (cookies used for this purpose are: Google Analytics);

(d) cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally;

Cookies used by our service providers

Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Managing cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

(c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);

(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and

(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

 

Privacy Policy Updates

Karen Leggett Recruitment Limited will update this Privacy Policy in response to any updates in data protection and privacy legislation and any changes to this policy will be done so on our website.