Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Data Protection and Privacy Policy

WQS’s online service is committed to protecting the privacy of our users. We want to provide a safe and secure user experience. We will ensure that the information you submit to us via our website at www.wqs.com (The WQS Site) remains private, and is only used for the purposes set out in this policy.

Information we collect and how we use it

Your personal details, including your name, e-mail address and resume, are held and used by us for the following purposes:

  • For matching your coded details with job vacancies, to assist us in finding you the position that most suits you;

  • For keeping you informed of WQS services, news and wider developments in your chosen field;

  • For tailoring the version of our website you see when you log on to make it relevant to you; and/or

  • For compiling salary and other surveys of our candidates.

Disclosure of your information

We will share your information within the WQS group of companies where necessary in order to provide you with our recruitment services.

It is possible that WQS could merge or be acquired by another business. If this happens, we may share the information that relates to you with the new owners of the business and their advisers. You will be sent notice of such an event.

Your resume and related information will be sent to prospective employers but only where you give your consent.

We may also release information relating to you to regulatory or law enforcement authorities, if required to do so. We also reserve the right to disclose the information we have collected about you to our professional advisers and to other persons to the extent that WQS contracts out any aspect of the operation of its recruitment, human resource management, integrated project management and training agency services. These third parties will be acting under similar undertakings of confidentiality as WQS.

Job alerts

To subscribe to job alerts emails, you will be required to provide your e-mail address, which will be used for the purpose of keeping you informed, by e-mail, of the latest jobs in your nominated industry and/or industry news via job alerts.

Should you decide that you no longer wish to receive this information, unsubscribe links are provided in every job alert email that you receive.

Job alerts can also be received via RSS feeds without having to provide your email address.

Resume

We give you the option of submitting your resume via this website. You can do this either to apply for a specific advertised job or for consideration by our recruitment consultants for positions as they come up. Although your resume will be stored online, it will only be accessible by WQS group recruitment consultants. Your resume will also be e-mailed directly to our recruitment consultants who review your details and enter them onto our central in-house database.

You can update your resume at any time, simply by following the same procedure to submit a new resume. Your old resume will automatically be replaced.

Aggregate information about WQS online visitors

We gather information and statistics collectively about all visitors to this website and all of the WQS websites worldwide, for example, which area users’ access most frequently and which services users’ access the most. We only use such data in the aggregate form. This information helps us determine what is most beneficial for our users and how we can continually improve our online services to create a better overall experience for our users.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a small data file which is sent from a web server to a web browser when that browser visits the server’s site. Find out more about the use of cookies on www.allaboutcookies.org. Cookies are used, on the www.wqs.com website to remember your login, to track web traffic on an aggregate basis so that no individuals are identified, to keep session information such as your last search (this information is disposed of every time you close your web browser). Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies. However, switching off cookies will restrict your use of our website

Access

You have the right at any time to ask us for a copy of the information supplied by you that we hold. We have the right to charge an administrative fee for this service. If you would like to make a request for information, please contact info@wqsrecruitment.com. You also have the right to ask WQS to stop using your information.

Other Websites

Please note that clicking on to links and banner advertisements may result in your transfer to another website, where data privacy practices may be different to that of WQS. Visitors should consult the other websites’ privacy policies as we are not responsible for, and have no control over, information that is submitted to or collected by these third parties.

Changes to our privacy policy

This privacy policy may be changed by WQS at any time. If we change our privacy policy in the future, we will set out those changes here, so that you will always know what personal information we gather, the purposes we might use it for and to whom we might disclose it. If, at any time, you have questions or concerns about WQS’s online privacy commitment, please feel free to e-mail us at info@wqsrecruitment.com or call your local office to speak to one of our representatives.