Privacy Policy

1.Purpose And Scope: The protection of your personal data is important to us. This Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose and protect your personal data and your choices about the collection and use of your personal data. It is important that you read this Policy in conjunction with any notices or statements that we may issue at the time of collecting your personal data where applicable. Such additional notices or statements supplement this Policy unless stated otherwise in such additional notice or statement. References in this policy to “we”, “us” or “our” are references to SOS International- Manpower. 

2. What We Do: 1)recruitment consultancy services placing candidates on a permanent, contract and interim basis across a range of industries and geographies (“Recruitment Services”).  2)business process outsourcing services assisting companies with their permanent recruitment, temporary recruitment, contingent workforce solutions, supply chain and labour supply, commonly known as ‘RPO’, ‘MSP’ or ‘Service Procurement Desk Services’ (“Outsourcing Services”) . 3)Other consultancy, technology and advisory services related to recruitment, including but not limited to market intelligence, future of work and talent development (“Advisory Services”). 

3)What personal data do we collect? Data protection laws around the world define ‘personal data’ in different ways, but in general, we mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable person.  We will only collect personal data that we are lawfully permitted to collect. Personal data we may collect includes, but is not limited to:  a)Identity data: Your title, first name, last name, maiden name, date of birth, gender, photograph, national insurance number (or equivalent in your country), nationality and other information relating to residency and citizenship which may be required to establish a right to work in a given country, marital status and number of dependents. b)Contact data: Your physical and email address and telephone numbers, emergency contact details. c)Employment-related data: Your current remuneration, pension and benefits, what role you are looking for, what work-related areas interest you. d)Verification data: A copy of your driving licence, passport, identity card or another form of identification and referee details. e)Historical data: Your educational history and credentials, employment history, criminal background history, social media, skills and qualifications, and results from any other background and disclosure checks in countries where it is lawful to carry out such checks. f)Technical data: Your internet protocol (IP) address, MAC address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and location data. g)Profile data: Your usernames applicable to accessing our services, interests in so far as these are applicable to the services we provide to you and other preferences and other insights or determinants that we have gained from our analysis and profiling of you. h)Marketing data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from our third parties and us and your communication preferences. i)Visa application data: Your immigration history (including residency, immigration status and travel history), character disclosures (including offences, disclosures and information relevant to meeting character requirements), health disclosures and information relevant to meeting health criteria.

4. Data security: I) We hold your personal data in a combination of secure computer storage facilities and paper-based files. We have in place an appropriate level of security around your personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage to it. II)We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They must only process your personal data on our instructions and subject to the access controls listed above. They are also subject to a duty of confidentiality. III)We have agreed on security-related measures with the third parties we share your personal data with to ensure that it is treated by those third parties in a way that is consistent with how we safeguard your personal data. IV) We have also put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable data protection authority where we are legally required to do so.

5) Data retention : We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for or for as long as we have a valid purpose to do so, and in any case as permitted by applicable law, including to comply with any legal, accounting, auditing or reporting requirements.  We view our relationship with you as being one which is to support your career through numerous roles and assignments. Accordingly, we may retain your data for a period of time which is materially greater than simply one placement if we reasonably believe that we will continue to have an ongoing relationship with you.   When we act as a data processor to our clients, the data controllers, we will retain your personal data in accordance with the retention periods prescribed by our clients.

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