Forrester Partners LLP
Data Privacy Notice
Forrester Partners LLP is an independent consultancy committed to respecting and protecting your personal information.
This notice seeks to inform you about how we collect, process and store your personal information and your rights surrounding them.
Forrester Partners LLP is a data controller under the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018 and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016.
By agreeing to this privacy notice you are consenting to Forrester Partners processing your personal data for the purposes outlined. You can withdraw consent at any time by contacting us via email or writing to us, see the last section for full contact details.
Information we may collect about you in the course of our work
We may collect and process information you give us
- Your prefix and name, address, postcode, email address, phone numbers, gender, date of birth, job title, employment details, billing information, bank details
We may collect information collated when we interview you
- Interview notes, further personal information
Forrester Partners LLP is a data controller under the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018 and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016.
By agreeing to this privacy notice you are consenting to Forrester Partners processing your personal data for the purposes outlined. You can withdraw consent at any time by contacting us via email or writing to us, see the last section for full contact details.
How we use your data
Your data will be used in the course of our business to fulfil contractual obligations to search for candidates on behalf of our clients.
How we store your data
Forrester Partners will process personal data during the search for which the data was collected and will continue to store the personal data for seven years to meet any legal obligations. After seven years any personal data not needed will be deleted.
Data is held in the UK using secure cloud platforms and on a securely hosted database platform. Forrester Partners does not store personal data outside the EEA.
Disclosure
Forrester Partners may pass on your personal data exclusively to process work on its behalf and only to clients specifically associated with a search. Forrester Partners do not broker or pass on information gained from your engagement with the consultancy without your consent. However, Forrester Partners may disclose your personal data to meet legal obligations, regulations or valid government request.
Security
Forrester Partners has updated its IT security across all platforms to comply with GDPR regulations and has systems in place to detect, prevent or mitigate fraud or security or technical issues; or to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Forrester Partners LLP and/or the wider community.
Your rights as a data subject
At any point whilst Forrester Partners is in possession of or processing your personal data, you have the following rights:
- Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you
- Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is accurate or incomplete
- Right to be forgotten – in certain circumstance you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records
- Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply you have a right to restrict the processing
- Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation
- Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing
- Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – you also have the right not to be subject to the legal effects or automated processing or profiling
In the event that Forrester Partners refuses your request under the rights of access, we will provide you with a reason as to why, which you have the right to legally challenge.
Forrester Partners, at your request, can confirm what information it holds about you and how it is processed.
You can request the following information:
- Identity and contact details of the person or organisation that has determined how and why to process your data
- Contact details of the Data Protection Officer, where applicable
- The purpose of the processing
- If the processing is based on the legitimate interests of Forrester Partners or a third party such as its clients, information about those interests
- The categories of personal data collected, processed and stored
- Recipients that the data is/will be disclosed to
- How long the data is stored
- Details of your rights to correct, erase, restrict or object to processing
- Information about your right to withdraw consent
- How to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (Data Protection Regulator)
- The source of personal data
- Any details and information of automated decision making, such as profiling, and any meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and expected consequences of such processing
We may collect information collated when we interview you
To access what personal data is held, identification will be required
Forrester Partners will accept forms of identification proportionate to the sensitivity of data we hold on you. If the sensitivity is deemed high, Forrester Partners will accept the following forms of ID when information on your personal data is requested: a copy of your national ID card; driving license; passport; birth certificate and a utility bill not older than three months. A minimum of one piece of photographic ID listed above and a supporting document is required. If Forrester Partners is not satisfied with the quality, further information may be sought before personal data can be released.
All requests should be made privacy@forresterpartners.com
If wish to make any complaint about how your data has been handled, you have the right to contact one of our partners:
Hugo Codrington
Forrester Partners LLP
56 Queen Anne Street
London
W1G 8LA
You also have the right to complain to the UK’s authority for data – The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). See https://ico.org.uk/concerns Telephone number 0303 123 1113.
