Select Recruitment

Privacy Policy

 

Select Recruitment (Select) is a subsidiary of the Accordant Group.

Select's Privacy Statement

Privacy and confidentiality are key pillars of our business, and your privacy is very important to us. Our approach to business is ‘candidate first’, which includes taking care of the information that we hold about you. To ensure our approach to privacy is easy to understand, our Privacy Statement includes a summary of our Privacy Policy. It is important that you read the full Privacy Policy, which is detailed below.

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Introduction

Privacy and confidentiality are key pillars of Select Recruitment Limited’s business, and we approach everything we do from a ‘candidate first’ perspective; this includes information and your privacy.  We are committed to ensuring that any personal information we obtain is held and used in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020.

‘Personal information’ is any piece of information that relates to a living, identifiable human being (for example, people's names, contact details, financial information, employment information, records etc.). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and disclose your personal information.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and, if we do this, we will post a revised version on our website.  We will notify you if we change this Privacy Policy.  We may consult with our employees and notify active candidates in advance about any substantive changes to the Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the personal information we hold about you, please contact us by emailing privacy@select.co.nz

What information we collect and how we collect it

We will ask you to provide certain personal information to help us provide you with the best service that we can, and to enable us to manage any period of employment or contracting with us when you apply through our website, or through a third-party provider such as SEEK, Trade Me Jobs or LinkedIn. 

Your personal information will be held by: Select Recruitment Limited on our CRM server based in Australia.  We also use external platforms to store your personal information and provide you with our services.  See the sections below on how we use your personal information and how we disclose your personal information for further details.

The personal information we will collect about you may include:

We will also conduct pre-employment checks which means that we will obtain information about you from third parties.  These checks may include:

We will only collect information where we need to do so to provide our service to you.  If we ask you for anything that is not necessary but may be helpful, we will indicate that it is optional that this is provided to us.  You are not required to provide us with your personal information.  However, if you don't, or we can't otherwise collect your personal information, it may affect our ability to engage with you.

When you use our website, we may collect information that is sent to us by your computer, mobile device or other access device. The information that is sent to us may include your device’s IP address, referral URL, geo-location and data about the web-pages that you access.  Please see our Terms of Use and Cookies Policy for further information about this.

How we use your personal information

We will use your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, including for the following purposes:

If we need to use your personal information for any reason that is not listed above, we will explain why we need to use it in that way and ask for your permission first.

How we disclose your personal information

We may disclose your personal information to:

If we need to disclose your personal information for any reason that is not listed above, we will explain why we need it and ask for your permission first.

If any agency we disclose your information to is based outside of New Zealand, we will agree with that agency that they are required to act in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020.  If we are unable to reach agreement with that agency (and the agency does not otherwise meet the criteria set out in the Privacy Act 2020), we will let you know that the agency may not be required to protect your information in a way that, overall, provides comparable safeguards to those in New Zealand and ask your consent before we share your information with that agency.

Access, correction and retention of your personal information

You agree that any information you give to Select Recruitment Limited will be accurate, correct and up to date.

You must inform us if any of your personal information changes, to ensure that the details we hold about you are correct and up to date.

You are entitled to access the personal information that we hold about you, and to request that we amend that information if it is incorrect.  There are some exceptions to this set out in the Privacy Act.  For example, if somebody provides us a reference in confidence, we are not able to disclose that to you even though it contains your personal information.

Select Recruitment Limited will retain your personal information for as long as it is required to achieve the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.  We will review all information that we hold regularly to determine whether it is necessary to retain your personal information.  If we consider that it is no longer necessary to hold certain personal information, we will delete or destroy it. 

Complaints

If you think we have done something wrong, please contact our Privacy Officer by emailing privacy@select.co.nz

You may also make a complaint to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.  For more information please visit the website for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner – privacy.org.nz

Security of information

The security of all personal information provided to us is important and we will take reasonable steps to protect your personal information in accordance with our obligations under the Privacy Act.

However, we do not make any warranties in relation to the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us and we are not responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personal information where our security measures have been breached.

Links to other sites

Select Recruitment Limited may have links or references to other websites from our website and our Privacy Policy does not apply to those websites.  Select Recruitment Limited takes no responsibility for the privacy practices of other websites.

Marketing

We may send you information about us from time to time if you have given us your consent to do so (where required).

You may opt-out of receiving electronic communications from us at any time by withdrawing your consent.  If you do not want to receive communications from us, please tell us when we collect your information, or use the unsubscribe function in the email you receive. Please allow us enough time to process your request.  It may take up to five working days.

Keep in mind, any withdrawal of consent does not apply to any necessary communications that we may need to get in touch with you about, such as responding to an inquiry.  Also, if you later request information from us and agree to receive communications, you will need to make a new request to opt out, for example, if you sign up to receive news alerts from us.