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Privacy PolicySalt Chapman Associates provides executive search and selection solutions to its clients globally who are looking to recruit additional talent for their business lines. As from Friday 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces existing data privacy laws across the EEA. The upshot of this is that SCA’s candidates have more rights over the information that we hold on them. Under this new GDPR legislation, data held and processed by our firm on candidates is by means of the lawful basis of “legitimate interest”. SCA’s legitimate interest in retaining information on candidates is driven by the need to find the best possible candidates – not only within the EEA, but also globally – for potential roles for which we are searching and as quickly as possible. When a candidate shares his/her personal information with Salt Chapman Associates then that candidate has indicated his/her consent for Salt Chapman Associates to share that data with potential employers, once the specific position concerned has been discussed with that candidate and with his/her agreement having been secured for his/her details to be submitted to the potential employer. Candidates should, however, be reassured that their fundamental rights of privacy are not outweighed by our legitimate interests whenever we proceed with the search or selection process. SCA only retains data that is relevant to the purposes for which it is collected, in other words to ensure SCA’s ability to provide an efficient service to clients in its areas of specialisation. Under these new privacy laws, any of our candidates within the EEA have every right to request to see the personal data that is held on file by Salt Chapman Associates by emailing SCA at info@saltchapman.com with any such request. SCA then has a legal obligation to provide that information to the respective candidate within a maximum 30-day period from date of request. Candidates are then fully entitled to have their information corrected, if it were to be seen to be in any way inaccurate or incomplete. Alternatively, if there is seen to be no compelling reason for Salt Chapman Associates to continue to hold that candidate’s information, then a candidate can request deletion or removal of his/her information. Given SCA’s global search activities, it may well be the case that personal data on EEA-based candidates will be passed to clients of ours in other countries whose privacy laws are not in accordance with those of the EEA. Countries to which such data may be transferred are as follows, although this is not an exhaustive list:
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