Privacy Statement

Introduction

Strive Recruitment Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Strive), Registered Office; ArcLabs Research & Innovation Centre, South East Technological University West Campus, Carriganore, Co. Waterford, X91 P20H.

(Registered company number in Ireland: 712259)

The above lists the Owner, Operator and Data Controller (within the meaning of data protection laws applicable) of this website. References in this notice to “we” or “us” are to the above.

We are committed to protecting the privacy of our website visitors and customers. The purpose of this Privacy Notice is to outline how we collect and use any personal information about you (which is known as “personal data” under data protection legislation).

You have the right to object to us processing your personal data for direct marketing and also to processing which is carried out for the purposes of our legitimate interests. For more information, see the below Notice.

This Privacy Notice has been updated to reflect your Data Protection & GDPR rights as new guests registering and for existing customers to inform how we process your personal data.

Read through this to fully understand the basis upon which we collect, use and store your personal data and to whom it is disclosed.

Strive will always keep your data safe and comply with applicable data protection legislation.

Data Subjects

This company has different categories of data subjects:

Data subjects who are general candidates looking for temporary or permanent work.
Data subjects who are engaged on a contract of employment by our company to be placed in temporary assignments in our client companies.
Data subjects who are our own internal employees carrying out the work of the recruitment agency.
Data subjects whom we introduce to companies and who provide contractual work to those companies
The persona data of those with whom we have contact in our client businesses
Personal data of suppliers who we may do business with.
Personal data for people whose details we receive from candidates and staff, such as referees and emergency contacts.

There are different categories of data required between the differing data subject categories and only the information necessary to conduct the contractual relationship and perform the contract unique to each data subject will be collected.

Your Rights & Explanation

By law, you have a number of rights when it comes to your personal data. Further information and advice about your rights can be obtained from the data protection regulator in your country (within Republic of Ireland, visit the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner).

to be informed: You have the right to know what personal data is being collected, our identity and your data protection rights (as per this Privacy Notice).
subject access: You have the right to request and obtain access to your personal data
to have inaccuracies corrected: If your personal data is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to have the data rectified, by the controller, without undue delay.
to have information erased: This is also known as the ‘right to be forgotten’, you have the right to have your data erased, without undue delay.
data portability: This right only applies where processing of personal data is carried out by automated means. You have rights to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes across different services. For example, if you decide to switch to a new provider, this enables you to move, copy or transfer your information easily between our IT systems and theirs safely and securely, without affecting its usability.
to object to direct marketing: You have the right to object to direct marketing processing (which we do only with your consent) of your personal data where the processing relates to direct marketing.
to restrict the processing of your information, including automated decision-making: You have a limited right of restriction of processing of your personal data by a data controller. You have the right to not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing.

What Data Do We Collect?

Use of the Website
This Website is developed to facilitate people’s access to information in respect of our products and services. Information that we collect and manage is protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
When you visit our website, you are free to explore the Website without providing any Personal Information about yourself.

Like most websites, we also gather statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate basis from website visitors to our website. This data comprises information that cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as for example, user browser types and other anonymous statistical data about how you use our website and services. We use this data in an aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors come from and to help us better design, organise and market our website. Should you have any queries regarding this data, please contact us at info@striverecruitment.ie.

Personal Information
We collect the personal data that you provide us during the registration & recruitment process, as well as any further personal data you provide to update your details from time to time.

This refers to any information that you voluntarily submit to us and that identifies you personally, including contact information, such as:

Identity Data: name, company name, an online username, title, date of birth and gender.
Contact Data: address, email address and telephone numbers, social media links.
Financial & Revenue Data: bank account details; PPS number; company registration details and any other tax-related information and other information about yourself or your business.
Employment Data: This includes data that was provided to us through application for a role and/or assignment or employment: Details about your current remuneration, pensions and benefits entitlements; information on your interests and needs regarding future employment; Education details; immigration status (whether you need a work permit);
Personal Information can also include information about any transactions, both free and paid, that you enter into on the Website, and information about you that is available on the internet, such as from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google, or publicly available information that we acquire from service providers.
Personal Information includes Navigational Information where such information can directly or indirectly identify an individual. Navigational information refers to information about your computer and your visits to the Website such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and pages viewed. Except for this, we do not collect Sensitive Information from you.

Sensitive Information
This refers to credit or debit card numbers, personal financial account information, social security numbers, passport numbers, driver’s license numbers or similar personal identifiers, racial or ethnic origin, biometric data, religious or philosophical beliefs, physical or mental health condition or information, other employment, financial or health information, criminal convictions or the alleged commission of an offence or trade union membership. While we may not actively solicit it, on occasion you may share data with us.

Client Data
Contact information; job titles; email correspondence; notes from meetings; signed copies of terms of business.

Supplier Data
Contact information; email correspondence; notes from meetings; signed copies of terms of business; job titles.

Referees and Emergency Contacts
Contact information supplied to us by candidates or internal Strive staff.

Other
Additional information that you, the candidate, provide us with; additional information that referees provide us with; additional information that clients provide us with or that we collect from third party sources such as job sites; CCTV footage when you visit our premises.

Information About Children
The Website is not intended for or targeted at children under 18, and we do not knowingly or intentionally collect information about children under 18. If you believe that we have collected information about a child under 18, please contact us at info@striverecruitment.ie, so that we may delete the information.

Ensure Data is Accurate
It is vital that you inform Strive if your personal data changes so that we can ensure all the data we hold on you is accurate and up to date.

How We Collect Personal Data

During Recruitment Process: We may collect your personal data by speaking to you, by post, via email, via social media, when you leave a hard copy CV at our office; when you apply for a job on a job site and via CCTV capturing when you visit our offices.
While using our website: we may collect data from you when you register on our website, or when you apply for a job. We may also use cookies and other technologies similar to this.
From 3rd Parties: We may receive your personal data from 3rd parties including but not limited to, employers, referees, Revenue, credit agencies, MSP’s and clients. When you ‘like’ Strive’s Facebook page or ‘follow’ Strive on Instagram or other social media platforms we will receive your personal information from these sites.

How We Use the Data We Collect

Compliance with Our Privacy Policy
We use the information we collect only in compliance with this Privacy Policy. Customers who subscribe to our Subscription Services are obligated through our agreements with them to comply with this Privacy Policy.

We Never Sell Personal Information
We will never sell your Personal Information to any third party.

Use of Personal Information
In addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may use your Personal Information to:

improve your browsing experience by personalizing the Website
send information or Strive content to you which we think may be of interest to you by post, email, or other means and send you marketing communications relating to our business
promote use of our services to you and share promotional and information content with you in accordance with your communication preferences
provide other companies with statistical information about our users — but this information will not be used to identify any individual user
send information to you regarding changes to our Customer Terms of Service, Privacy Policy (including the Cookie Policy), or other legal agreements
meet legal requirements
We may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, we do not transfer your Personal Information to the third party.

Legal basis for processing Personal Information
Where necessary and applicable, Strive is the data controller of your personal information. Queries in respect of privacy can be directed to us at info@striverecruitment.ie.

Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or where the processing is in our and your legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you.

If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal information). Similarly, if we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), we will make clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are.

Customer Testimonials and Comments
We post customer testimonials and comments on our Website, which may contain Personal Information. We obtain each customer’s consent via email prior to posting the customer’s name and testimonial where such testimonials are consented to by such customers.

Social Media Features
Our Website includes Social Media Features, which may include Like and Share buttons, as well as connections to social media platforms such as LinkedIn and Instagram. These are buttons or interactive mini programs that run on our sites. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our sites, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social Media Features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Website. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these features. Your interactions with these features are governed by the Privacy Policy and other policies of the companies providing them.

External Website
Our Website provides links to other Websites. We do not control, and are not responsible for, the content or practices of these other Website. Our provision of such links does not constitute our endorsement of these other Website, their content, their owners, or their practices. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these other Website, which are subject to any privacy and other policies they may have.

Public Forums
We offer publicly accessible blogs. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose any information through our blogs or contact forms, this information may be collected and used by others. We will correct or delete any information you have posted on the Website if you so request, as described in “Opting Out and Unsubscribing” below. From time to time, we may moderate or prevent or block comments on our blogs. This does not create an obligation on us to moderate content created by third parties and entered into public sections of our blog/Website from time to time. Readers and users are urged to use common sense and to use discretion when they are using (browsing) and posting to such Website functionality.

Referee or Emergency Contacts
We will contact referees using the personal information given to us by the candidate or internal Strive staff member to take up a reference as part of our due diligence during the recruitment process. We will contact emergency contacts using the personal information given to us by the candidate or internal Strive staff in case there is an emergency.

Client Data
We use client data to assist us in the provision of our recruitment services and we store and process this data in the following way:

contact details of clients so we can contact them regarding our recruitment services and to review their hiring needs.
To take a detailed job specification regarding the client’s specific requirements so that we know exactly what they are looking for and what candidates they want us to send them.
emails and records of conversations and minutes of meetings regarding the recruitment service we may or may not provide the client.
to keep in touch regarding how a recruitment process may be progressing
to assist with the on-boarding of a candidate and any payment processes that may need to be discussed once the candidate has been placed with the client.
contact information so we can inform clients of industry events that may interest them.
Information collected from public sources or indirectly through a 3rd party or a website.

Supplier Data
We use supplier data to assist us in the provision of our recruitment services and we store and process this data in the following way:

contact details of suppliers so we can contact them regarding our business relationship.
to satisfy certain legal obligations.
to access customer service from the supplier.
Information collected from public sources or indirectly through a 3rd party or a website.

Profiling
Strive does not currently employ profiling or fully automated decision making in the delivery of our recruitment services. Should this change in the future we will seek your explicit consent to this processing where appropriate.

Who We Share Your Data With?

Strive may share your personal data with the following parties:

To Potential Employers/Hirers to assist the candidate in finding a new role, including Master Service Providers (MSP’s) and their clients when you have given us your permission to do so.
3rd Party Companies that provide reference and background checking services, medical checking companies etc when you have given us your permission to do so.
To pension and healthcare providers for the provision of remuneration benefits.
To our partner companies and any that we may merge with in the future to provide recruitment services to candidates and clients.
Office of the Revenue Commissioners and other relevant Governmental bodies where we are legally obliged to.
Referees, other recruitment consultancies; people or companies with information regarding a candidate’s employment and educational history.
Appropriate Processors such as IT, software, and cloud storage providers as well as independent controllers providing professional services to Strive.
To analytics and search engine providers and platforms to optimise our website and online presence.

Disclosure
A necessity of our contractual engagement is that we share your personal data with our clients. We have in place Data Sharing Agreements (in the form of actual agreements or additional clauses within the terms and conditions of engagement between Strive and our clients) or Data Processing Agreements with all such clients and have done our utmost to ensure that all such parties process your data in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Notice and GDPR. Our clients may themselves be subject to third party audits either in the form of ethical audits, governmental/statutorily required audits or legal obligations, these are deemed a necessity of the contract of engagement between you and our company and on this legal basis your personal data will be shared to comply with these requirements.

How We Share the Data We Collect

Service Providers
We employ other companies and people to provide services to visitors to our Website.

Compelled Disclosure
We reserve the right to use or disclose your Personal Information if required by law or if we reasonably believe that use or disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or comply with a law, court order, or legal process or the Revenue Commissioners.

Cookies
Strive Recruitment use cookies or similar technologies (such as web beacons) to analyse trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our userbase. Please refer to our Cookies Policy for more information.

How Long We Keep Your Personal Data for

We will not keep your personal data for any purpose for longer than is necessary and we will only retain the relevant personal information that is necessary in relation to the purpose.

If you tell us, at any time, that you no longer want to have an account, then we will delete your personal data from our records.

We will process personal data during the duration of any contract and will continue to store only the personal data needed for periods after the contract has expired to meet any legal obligations. After these periods any personal data not needed will be deleted.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access, use or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect. For more on Security at Strive, please contact info@striverecruitment.ie.

How We Contact You

Once you have signed up with Strive Recruitment, we may contact you by post, e-mail, SMS text messages, telephone or other means including other electronic means and social media applications, and only using such contact details as you provide to us from time to time.

Anti-Spam Policy

Our Terms and Conditions, apply to us and to our customers and, among other things, they prohibit use of the Platform to send unsolicited commercial email in violation of applicable laws, and requires the inclusion in every email sent using the Platform of an “opt-out” mechanism and other required information. We require all of our customers to agree to adhere to the Terms and Conditions at all times, and any violations of the Terms and Conditions by a customer can result in immediate suspension or termination of access to the Platform.

To Unsubscribe from our Communications
You may unsubscribe from our marketing communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of our e-mails, updating your communication preferences, or by sending us email us at info@striverecruitment.ie or by mail to Strive Recruitment Ltd., Registered Office; ArcLabs Research & Innovation Centre, South East Technological University West Campus, Carriganore, Co. Waterford, X91 P20H. Customers cannot opt out of receiving transactional emails related to their account with us or the Platform.

If you no longer wish to receive such or certain communications, you can let us know by contacting info@striverecruitment.ie. You may also update your preferred contact details from your account preferences after logging on to the website.

Making a Request

We are required by law to act on requests and provide information free of charge, except where your requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive (in particular because of their repetitive nature) in which case we may charge a reasonable fee (taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communication, or taking the action requested), or refuse to act on the request.

Please consider your request responsibly before submitting it. We’ll respond as soon as we can. Generally, this will be within one month from when we receive your request but, if the request is going to take longer to deal with, we will let you know.

Changes to This Notice

Any changes to this Privacy Notice will be posted on this website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We periodically update this Privacy Policy. We will post any privacy policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice by sending you an email notification.

How to Access & Control Your Personal Data

Reviewing, Correcting and Removing Your Personal Information
You have the following data protection rights:

You can request access, correction, updates or deletion of your personal information.
You can object to processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information or request portability of your personal information.
If we have collected and process your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. To exercise any of these rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer, Dylan Walsh at info@striverecruitment.ie or by mail to Strive Recruitment Ltd., Registered Office; ArcLabs Research & Innovation Centre, South East Technological University West Campus, Carriganore, Co. Waterford, X91 P20H. We will respond to your request to change, correct, or delete your information within a reasonable timeframe and notify you of the action we have taken.

Who can you Contact at Strive about this Privacy Policy?

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our treatment of the information you provide us, please write to us by email at info@striverecruitment.ie or by mail to Strive Recruitment Ltd., Registered office address ArcLabs Research & Innovation Centre, South East Technological University West Campus, Carriganore, Co. Waterford, X91 P20H.

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal information not in accordance with the law, you can complain to the supervisory authority in Ireland responsible for the implementation and enforcement data protection law: The Data Protection Commissioners Office. You have the right to complain to the DPC about our collection and use of your information. You can contact the DPC via their website – https://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/Home/4.htm or +353 57 8684800.