At Alliance Consulting (Alliance Consulting is a trading style of Alliance Consulting Group Ltd), protecting your privacy is very important to us. Our goal is to treat the personal information you provide to us with the utmost respect, and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy explains how personal information about you may be collected, used, or disclosed as a consequence of your activities on this site. We urge you to read it carefully.
By accessing, using and/or downloading materials from or sending or posting materials to this site, you agree on your own behalf and on behalf of each entity on whose behalf you act to the terms of this Privacy Policy and to the practices for the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information as described here.
Please note that this site is also governed by the Terms and Conditions of Use. We urge you to review the Terms and Conditions of Use before proceeding further on this site.
What Information Do We Collect? Anonymous browsing
You can visit this site without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself, including your email address. In this case, our web server may collect the name, address, the IP address and domain you used to access this site, the type and version of browser and operating system you are using, and the website you came from and visit next. This information is used by us and our business partners to measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views, and other statistics about visitors to this site in general. We may also use this data to monitor site performance for systems administration purposes, to make this site easier and more convenient to use and to report information in aggregate form to our advisers (e.g., how many visitors log in to this Site).
Cookies:
Cookies are small pieces of data stored by your internet browser on your computer's hard drive, which permits us to recognise you when you access this site. If you are browsing, a cookie is used to help us measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views, and other statistics relating to your use of this site. If you are searching, a cookie is used to carry the search request data from the request page to the results page. This cookie, by itself doesn't tell us your email address or who you are. If you decide to register on-line with us, we may collect additional information to provide tailored job opportunities or other information to you (see Personal Information Collection below). In this case, we use cookies to recognise you on subsequent visits and make your on-line experience more convenient, unless prohibited by law. Please note portions of this site will not function if you do not accept cookies.
Tracking user preferences also helps us serve you targeted advertising. Targeted advertisements are probably more interesting for you and are more productive for our advertisers.
Personal Information Collection, Use and Distribution To Third Parties Generally
There are times when we may ask you for or you may choose to provide information about yourself or your business to assist us in meeting your various needs. This information may be used for the following purposes: answering your questions, providing you with services you have requested, giving producers and developers of the site information that is useful in determining appropriate new features, content and services, to provide advertisers with aggregate, not individual, information about our customers, or informing you of additional services or job opportunities provided by Alliance Consulting or by our business partners, that may interest you.
To provide these services, we may need to ask you directly to provide, among other things, your name, mailing address, postal code, email address and phone number ("Registration Information"). You may also elect to apply on-line to a job posting (free of charge) OR to purchase one of our services. Purchasing services with us may require us to gather additional personal information (including credit or debit card information, where appropriate).
At times, we also conduct on-line surveys to better understand the needs, profiles, and experience of our visitors. You will be given the option to participate in such surveys. Unless you request to receive the results of the survey via email, no personal information is requested during such surveys and all information is used on an aggregated basis only. If during the registration process, you indicate you would like us to keep you updated on new site developments and information about our services or about offerings from Alliance Consulting, we will send you these updates by email.
If you contact Alliance Consulting we may keep a record of that correspondence. We do not collect the email addresses of those who communicate with Alliance Consulting via email. We use the information provided only so that we may respond to the email. We do not knowingly solicit information from children and we do not knowingly market our services to children.
When you provide personal information to us, we may communicate and disclose it to third parties for the purpose of fulfilling, servicing and completing your requests and the transactions related to it. These third parties may be in the UK or in other parts of the world. By registering with Alliance Consulting, you agree that your information may be shared with third parties for the purpose of fulfilling, servicing and completing your requests and transactions related to it.
We may also aggregate statistics that we gather about the visitors to the site, sales, traffic patterns, and services and provide these statistics to third parties; however, when we do, these statistics will not include any personal information which identifies individuals.
We may also use, disclose and communicate your personal information if required to do so by law including by an order of any court. Although we use all reasonable means to ensure that the information you provide to us is not used by third parties for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy, Alliance Consulting is not responsible for any improper use of your personal information that is beyond our reasonable control.
CV Collection
As part of the services we provide, you may choose to provide us with your CV, to be viewed by our consultants and staff members who access this website. In addition to the provisions of this Privacy Policy, the collection, use and distribution of your CV are governed by the Terms & Conditions of Use.
How do you access and update your personal information?
Your personal information is located on a CRM system accessible only by Alliance Consulting staff. If at any time you wish for your personal information to be removed from our CRM, please send an email to info@alliance-consulting.co.uk with your instruction.
How is your personal information secured and protected?
Where Alliance Consulting considers it appropriate, Alliance Consulting uses encryption and/or authentication tools among other methods to protect certain web-based personal information. E-mails you send us are not necessarily secure when they are transmitted to us. If your communication is sensitive or includes confidential information such as a credit card number, you may want to provide it by post or via the telephone instead.
We instruct our employees with access to your personal information that it is to be used only in adherence with the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy and the laws applicable to each specific business. The only employees who have access to your personal information are administrative personnel. Employees who misuse customer personal information may be subject to disciplinary action.
What if we change our Privacy Policy?
Alliance Consulting reserves the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy statement at any time. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will update this site to include such changes and post a notice on our home page for a period of 30 days with a link to the updated Privacy Policy. Please read any such notice and the new policy statement. If you return to this site after a period of more than 30 days, please check this Privacy Policy to confirm that you are aware of the details of the most recent update. Please look at the top of this Privacy Policy to check the date that it was updated and to confirm that you are familiar with the terms of the most recent update. Your continued use of this site after we post such notice will constitute your acceptance of the new terms and their application to your use of this site and the personal information disclosed for such use, including personal information previously furnished us, as if they were the initial terms, and your consent to the use of your personal information as described in this privacy policy and elsewhere at our website. However, we will seek your consent if we want to use your personal information for purposes other than those you have agreed to previously.
Website Links
This site may contain links to other sites, including those of our business partners, vendors and advertisers. While we try to link only to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, please understand that we are not responsible for the content of or the privacy practices employed by other sites.
Privacy Policy with respect to use of CVs received via our website
CVs are accessed by our consultants who seek to find you employment with third parties. Consultants are not permitted to disclose information outside our organisation or beyond the Third Party, as applicable. Recruiters are also required to have entered into an agreement with Third Parties that requires such Third Parties to use your CV solely for the purpose of filling a job within the Third Party for which the information was provided and not disclosing your CV outside the organisation. However, although Alliance Consulting deals only with reputable organisations, we cannot guarantee that all Employers and Third Parties will adhere to the limitations we impose on them. If at any time you would like your CV removed from our company records, please email your request for removal to info@alliance-consulting.co.uk
Although we use all reasonable means to protect your personal information, Alliance Consulting is not responsible for any improper use of your personal information that is beyond our reasonable control.
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, the data company have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information. We may disclose your information if necessary to protect our legal rights or if the information relates to actual or threatened harmful conduct or potential threats to the physical safety of any person. Disclosure may be required by law or if we receive legal process. If these servers are breached we are not responsible for this and cannot be held liable.

General Data Protection Policy
This privacy notice explains how Alliance Consulting Group Ltd – trading as Alliance Consulting (Company number: 13051301 ) looks after your personal data when we provide our services to you and our clients and in accordance with applicable legislation intended to protect your personal data and privacy, including the General Data Protection Regulation and related laws. We also explain what your rights are.
2018 saw one of the biggest changes to UK data privacy laws as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced across Europe on 25th May 2018.
GDPR will not change the ways we use your personal information. We have always and will continue to value all data you share with us whilst keeping it always secure. Whilst the law may be changing our commitment to looking after your data stays the same.
Where we refer to “Alliance Consulting” or “Alliance Consulting Group Ltd” or “we” or “the company”, we mean Alliance Consulting Group Ltd.
Alliance Consulting is a Recruitment business which provides work-finding services to its clients and work-seekers. The company must process personal data (including sensitive personal data) so that it can provide these services. In doing so, the company acts as a data controller.
It is important that you read this statement together with any other privacy notice we may provide on specific occasions, so you are aware of how and why we are using your personal data.
What is GDPR?
The General Data Protection Regulation is a new law which came into force across the European Union (EU) in 2018. It built upon existing data protection laws in place in the EU, and is designed to give individuals, such as candidates and workers, increased rights, and transparency over their personal information by helping them understand how companies, such as Alliance Consulting, use their data, for example, for lawful purposes in the provision of recruitment services. The law also gives individuals the ability to exercise their rights such as correcting or accessing their data.
What impact do the changes have on you?
GDPR provides you with more transparency regarding your personal data. It strengthens your rights, giving you improved access to your data and the right to review and, in certain circumstances, edit or delete the information that organisations store about you. In short you have more control over your personal data. You need not do anything as we will keep looking after your data like we always have and if you do want to know more about the data we hold and how we use it, continue reading through our Privacy Notice.

What is personal data?
Personal data is any information related to a living person (known as a data subject) that can be used directly or indirectly (when combined with other information), to identify the person. It doesn't apply to non-living persons, for example most corporate entities, but may apply to data we process about individuals connected with that corporate.
What personal data do we collect?
We may collect the following types of personal data about you:

• Contact details such as: name, address(es), telephone number(s), email address(es);
• Identification information such as: date of birth, gender, nationality, residency, national insurance number or other national identity number such as a passport number, driving license, bank or building society account details, occupation, employment status, employer and job title.
• We may also collect, store and use the following special or sensitive personal data:

Physical Health (medication etc…)

• We may also collect and store information concerning criminal proceedings and offences. We must have an additional legal ground to use this type of personal data and this is explained below in ‘How we will use your personal data’.
• We may also collect, store and use personal data, where you have provided this to us, in respect of third parties, such as spouses, civil partners or dependants. If you do so you are responsible for and confirm you are entitled to provide us with this information and that you have informed those third parties of our identity and the purposes for which their personal data will be processed. You should draw their attention to this Privacy Notice. We will not use information except for the purpose for which you have provided it.

How we will collect your data

• You may give your personal details to the company directly, such as on an application or registration form or via our website, or we may collect them from another source such as a jobs board. You may also provide your personal details via email or over the phone with one of our representatives who are authorised to take personal data.
• The company must have a legal basis for processing your personal data. For the purposes of providing you with work-finding services and/or information relating to roles relevant to you we will only use your personal data in accordance with the terms of the following sections.
• We may also receive information from third parties who contact us such as Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customer (HMRC), the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) or police or other government agencies.

How we will use your personal data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to and most commonly to provide our services and to comply with our legal requirements:

• To provide our services to you
• To enable you to submit your CV for general applications, to apply for specific jobs or to subscribe to our job alerts
• To match your details with job vacancies, to assist us in finding a position that is most suitable for you and to send your personal information (including sensitive personal information) to clients to allow you to apply for jobs
• To fulfil contractual obligations with our clients
• To trusted third parties where we have retained them to provide services that you or our clients have requested, such as reference, qualification, and criminal reference checking services (as required), verification of the details you have provided from third party sources, psychometric evaluations or skills tests. These third parties comply with similar and equally stringent undertakings of privacy and confidentiality as Alliance Consulting
• To third parties who perform functions on our behalf and who also provide services to us, such as professional advisors, IT consultants carrying out testing and development work on our business technology systems. These third parties comply with similar undertakings of privacy and confidentiality as Alliance Consulting
• To third parties who perform functions on our behalf and also provide services to you that you have requested, such as payroll companies who we will provide your personal data to including but not limited to; full name, contact details, date of birth and job title. For the purpose to ensure and process payment for hours worked by you
• We will also use your Personal Information to create anonymous recruitment statistics, from which you cannot be identified
• We may also release personal information to regulatory or law enforcement agencies if they require us to do so. We will also disclose your information where we are permitted and requested to do so by law
• If your personal data is required by law and/or a contractual requirement (e.g., our client may require this personal data), and/or a requirement necessary to enter a contract. You are obliged to provide the personal data and if you do not, we will be unable to provide our services.
• On rare occasions we may also use your personal data where we need to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests) or where it is needed in the public interest, for example for the investigation, detection and prevention of crime.

How long we may retain your data for
We may retain your data for a period of 72 months, after which we can delete your data without consent. The 72-month timeframe begins at the moment we have obtained your data whether through direct communication with the company or other means, as described in ‘How We Will Collect Your Data’.
You may be contacted by one of our representatives prior to deletion, informing you that we still hold your data. If you wish to continue using our service, we will continue to process your data in accordance with our legal requirement for another period of 36 months.
In the case where we have placed you into a job, we are legally required to retain your personal data for up to 6 years after your last employment. As your record may contain information on our clients or financial information, these details will need to be kept, for example, for the satisfaction of any taxation audits from HMRC.
Who we share your data with
We utilise third parties and share your personal data directly with them to perform functions on our behalf and to provide services to you, such as payroll companies.
These companies will process your data in accordance with our Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).
Your data is also shared with clients in which we are attempting to place you in employment with.
When legally necessary we would share your data with government agencies, such as the court, the police, HMRC.
Third parties who provide the company services such as I.T Support or I.T Consultancy will from time to time encounter your personal data. Purely for the purpose of further developments, system upgrades, testing and security on the hardware or software your data is held on. These third parties comply with similar and equally stringent undertakings of privacy and confidentiality as Alliance Consulting
Your rights in connection with personal data
You can ask us to do certain things with your personal data such as provide a copy of it, correct it or even delete it. There may be occasions where we cannot comply with a request, and we will tell you if this is the case and give our reasons. This will usually be for legal or regulatory reasons.
Request access to your personal data
This enables you to:

• Confirm whether we process your personal data and to receive a copy of your personal data we are processing and certain information about how we use your personal data.
• Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you – his enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
• Request the erasure of your personal data – You can ask us to delete or remove personal data where the processing is no longer necessary for the original purpose, or where you withdrew your consent, or the processing is unlawful, or our personal data must be erased to comply with law. However, in some cases, if we have another legal basis or legitimate interest for processing your personal data, we may not be able to comply. We will tell you if this is the case.
• Request the restriction of processing of personal data – You can ask us to restrict the processing of personal data where you think the personal data we hold is inaccurate until we can verify its accuracy, or you believe we no longer need to process your personal data (but you do not want it erased), or you wish processing to be restricted pending confirmation that our processing is based on our overriding legitimate interest.
• Object to processing of your personal data - You have the right to object to us processing your personal data where we are doing so:

1/ Based on our legitimate interest (for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice) unless we can demonstrate compelling grounds as to why the processing should continue in accordance with data protection laws.
2/ For direct marketing purposes

• Request the transfer of your personal data to another party – In certain circumstances you can ask us to send your personal data to a third party of your choice. For example, where it is information which is processed by us by automated means and you have consented to such processing or we need to process the information to perform our contract with you.
• Right to withdraw consent - If you have provided your consent to the processing of your personal data for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for the specific processing at any time. This would not affect the validity of the processing prior to such date. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so.

We may ask you to verify your identity and for more information about your request.
Where you have consented to the company processing your personal data/and sensitive personal data you have the right to withdraw that consent or be informed of what data we hold on you at any time by contacting  info@alliance-consulting.co.uk or making a formal request in writing to our Head Office address below.
If you request for deletion of your data, please be aware that we may not be required to do so, particularly where your file also holds information about our clients or financial information that we need to keep for a period of up to six years i.e. that relate to tax matters. Where we are unable to comply with your request, we will provide reasons for failing to do so.
How to exercise your rights
You can make a request by contacting Alliance Consulting via several ways. However, we will always ask you to confirm your request in writing, this is solely to ensure that we and you have a time and data stamped record of your request. Your request will be acted upon within one month of you putting it through.
In most cases we will not charge a fee to action your request. However, a reasonable administration fee may be charged if your request is deemed unfounded, excessive, or if further copies of your data is requested.
For security we may need you to confirm specific information on your identity before actioning a request, purely to ensure that your personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.

Who to contact for queries about this privacy notice and the way Alliance Consulting uses your data
If you have any enquiries in regard to this notice or any of Alliance Consulting’s policies or notices or wish to complain, you can contact us at: info@alliance-consulting.co.uk or by writing to us at:
Alliance Consulting
Safestore Business Centre
Elstow Road
Kempston
Bedfordshire
MK42 8PL
Tel: 01234 355311
Email: info@alliance-consulting.co.uk
You also have the right to raise concerns with Information Commissioner’s Office on 0303 123 1113 or at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/, or any other relevant supervisory authority should your personal data be processed outside of the UK, if you believe that your data protection rights have not been adhered to.
Changes made to this privacy notice
We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will notify you if we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal data. You should check our website at http://www.alliance-consulting.co.uk/privacy-policy  periodically to view the most up to date Privacy Notice.
Equal Opportunities
Alliance Consulting is an equal opportunities employer and a company committed to diversity. This means that all job applicants and members of staff will receive equal treatment and that we will not discriminate on grounds of gender, marital status, race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion or age.
As part of our commitment to equal opportunities we may, from time to time, use information provided by you for the purposes of diversity monitoring. All such information will be used on an anonymised basis.