Wakene Recruitment – Wakene Corporation Limited
Website: https://www.wakene.co.uk
Wakene Recruitment, operated by Wakene Corporation Limited ("Wakene", "we", "our" or "us"), is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled securely and responsibly.
We provide specialist IT and technology recruitment services, connecting skilled professionals with businesses across the United Kingdom. Our services include permanent, contract and executive recruitment across Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, Data Engineering and wider technology sectors.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect your personal information when you visit our website, contact us, submit your CV, apply for a vacancy, use our recruitment services or communicate with us.
We process personal information in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018 and applicable electronic communications and privacy legislation.
The organisation responsible for processing your personal information is:
Company Name: Wakene Corporation Limited
Trading Name: Wakene Recruitment
Company Registration Number: 11181717
Registered Office: 42b Fermoy Road, London, W9 3NH, United Kingdom
Website: https://www.wakene.co.uk
Email: consultancy@wakene.co.uk
For questions concerning this Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal information, please contact us using the email address above.
Depending on how you interact with our website and services, we may collect the following categories of personal information.
When you visit our website, we may collect:
If you register with us, submit your CV or express an interest in employment opportunities, we may collect:
We may also collect relevant information from publicly available professional sources, including LinkedIn and other employment-related platforms, where permitted by law.
If you represent a business or organisation that uses or enquires about our recruitment services, we may collect:
When you contact us through our website, email, telephone or WhatsApp, we may collect your name, email address, telephone number, message content and any information or documents you choose to provide.
Our website contact form may also allow you to attach files, including CVs and other recruitment-related documents.
Please avoid submitting unnecessary sensitive personal information through general website enquiry forms.
We may obtain personal information through the following methods:
Where we obtain personal information from sources other than you, we will provide the required privacy information in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.
We use personal information for legitimate business and recruitment purposes, including:
You can opt out of direct marketing communications at any time.
Under UK GDPR, we must have a lawful basis for processing personal information.
Depending on the circumstances, we rely on the following lawful bases:
Legitimate interests: To operate our recruitment business, identify suitable candidates, develop client relationships, respond to relevant enquiries, improve our services and maintain appropriate business records. We balance these interests against your rights and expectations.
Contractual necessity: Where processing is necessary to enter into or fulfil a contract with you, or to take steps you request before entering into a contract.
Legal obligations: Where we need to process information to comply with applicable legal, regulatory, accounting or reporting requirements.
Consent: Where you have given your consent, such as where consent is required for certain cookies, electronic marketing or the processing of particular categories of personal information.
You may withdraw consent at any time where we rely on consent as our lawful basis. Withdrawal does not affect processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.
We respect the confidentiality of your personal information and do not sell your personal information to third parties.
However, we may share relevant information with the following categories of recipients where necessary:
Where we share personal information with third parties, we take reasonable steps to ensure that appropriate confidentiality and data protection safeguards are in place.
We only share information that is reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.
Wakene Recruitment takes candidate confidentiality seriously.
We use CVs, employment histories, qualifications and other relevant professional information to assess suitability for employment opportunities.
Candidate information may be presented to prospective employers where there is a relevant recruitment opportunity.
We will take appropriate steps to ensure that candidate information is shared for legitimate recruitment purposes and handled securely.
Candidates may contact us at any time to request access to their information, update their details or ask about the retention of their recruitment records.
In certain recruitment circumstances, it may be necessary to process special category personal information, such as health or disability information, or information concerning diversity and equal opportunities.
We will only process such information where it is necessary, proportionate and permitted under applicable data protection legislation, with an appropriate lawful basis and additional processing condition.
We do not routinely request sensitive personal information through our general website contact form.
Information relating to criminal convictions and offences will only be processed where legally permitted and where the necessary safeguards and conditions apply.
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to improve functionality, understand website performance, enhance security and support advertising activities.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website.
Depending on the services enabled on our website, cookies may include:
Essential Cookies: Necessary for the website to function properly, maintain security and provide requested services.
Analytics Cookies: Used to understand website traffic, visitor behaviour and website performance.
Advertising Cookies: Used to support advertising services, measure advertising performance and, where applicable, deliver relevant advertisements.
Third-Party Cookies: May be placed by external services integrated into our website, including Google services.
Where consent is required, non-essential cookies will only be placed after you have provided the appropriate consent.
You can manage your cookie preferences through our cookie consent tool, where available, or through your browser settings.
For further information about Google's use of cookies, please visit:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
Our website may use Google AdSense and other third-party advertising services to display advertisements.
These services may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses and similar technologies to collect information about visitors and their interactions with advertisements.
Google and its advertising partners may use this information to provide, measure and personalise advertising, subject to applicable consent requirements and your advertising preferences.
Where required, we will obtain consent before enabling advertising cookies or similar technologies.
You can find further information about Google's advertising practices and privacy controls here:
Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google Advertising: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Google Ad Settings: https://adssettings.google.com/
Our website may use Google reCAPTCHA to protect contact forms and other website functions against spam, automated submissions and fraudulent activity.
Google reCAPTCHA may collect technical information about your device, browser and interactions with the website to determine whether activity is genuine.
The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to Google's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
https://policies.google.com/terms
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against:
These measures may include access controls, secure systems, password protection, appropriate data handling procedures and limiting access to authorised individuals.
Although we take reasonable steps to protect your information, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including legal, contractual, accounting and regulatory requirements.
Our proposed retention periods are:
Candidate Information: Normally up to 24 months after the last meaningful contact or recruitment activity, unless a longer period is justified and lawful.
Client and Business Contact Information: For the duration of the business relationship and, where necessary, for up to six years afterwards to meet applicable contractual, accounting and legal requirements.
Website Enquiries: Normally up to 12 months after the enquiry has been resolved, unless further retention is necessary.
Marketing Information: Until you unsubscribe, object or we determine that the information is no longer required.
Technical and Website Records: For periods appropriate to website security, operational and analytical requirements.
We may retain certain information for longer where required by law, necessary to establish or defend legal claims, or otherwise permitted under applicable legislation.
Information that is no longer required will be securely deleted or anonymised.
Some third-party service providers may process personal information outside the United Kingdom.
Where personal information is transferred internationally, we will ensure that an appropriate legal transfer mechanism and safeguards are in place, as required by UK data protection legislation.
These safeguards may include UK adequacy regulations, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, where applicable.
Under UK GDPR, you may have the following rights:
Right of Access: To request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
Right to Rectification: To request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
Right to Erasure: To request deletion of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Right to Restrict Processing: To request that we limit how we use your information in certain circumstances.
Right to Data Portability: To request your personal information in a commonly used electronic format where the legal conditions apply.
Right to Object: To object to certain types of processing, including processing based on legitimate interests and direct marketing.
Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw it at any time.
To exercise your rights, please email:
We may need to verify your identity before responding to a request.
We will respond within the applicable legal timeframe, normally one month.
If you have concerns about how we handle your personal information, we encourage you to contact us first so that we can investigate and address your concerns.
You also have the right to complain to the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
Website: https://ico.org.uk/
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Address: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Our website may contain links to external websites, including professional networking platforms, Google services and other third-party websites.
We are not responsible for the privacy policies, content or data protection practices of external websites.
We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of any external websites you visit.
Our recruitment services and website are intended for adults and individuals seeking professional employment opportunities.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children through our website for recruitment purposes.
If we become aware that personal information has been collected from a child in circumstances where it should not have been, we will take appropriate steps to address the matter.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our business operations, recruitment services, website functionality, technology or applicable legislation.
Any changes will be published on this page, together with an updated revision date.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically to remain informed about how their personal information is handled.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal information or how we process your data, please contact us.
Wakene Recruitment
Wakene Corporation Limited
42b Fermoy Road
London
W9 3NH
United Kingdom
Email: consultancy@wakene.co.uk
Website: https://www.wakene.co.uk
We aim to handle all privacy-related enquiries professionally and in accordance with applicable UK data protection legislation.
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