Privacy Policy

Last updated: 26 August 2026

1. About this Privacy Policy

Partnership Recruiting ("we", "us" or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information responsibly.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal information when you visit our website, contact us, submit an enquiry, or apply for a job through our website.

We are the data controller responsible for the personal information we collect through this website.

If you have any questions about how we use your personal information, please contact us using the details above.

2. Information We Collect

We only collect personal information that you choose to provide to us or that is necessary to operate and improve our website. This may include:

Information submitted through our contact form, such as:

• Your name
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Company name
• Any information included in your message

Information submitted when applying for a job, such as:

• Your name
• Contact details
• Employment history
• Qualifications and skills
• Information contained within your CV
• Cover letter or supporting information
• Any other information you choose to provide as part of your application

We may also collect limited technical information about how you use our website through Google Analytics, where you have given consent. Please see our Cookies section below.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use personal information for the purposes for which you provide it, including:

• Responding to enquiries and requests submitted through our website
• Contacting you about an enquiry or recruitment opportunity
• Processing and managing job applications
• Assessing your suitability for roles you have applied for
• Communicating with you throughout the recruitment process
• Considering you for suitable future job opportunities where you have agreed that we may retain your details
• Improving our website and understanding how visitors use it, where you have consented to analytics cookies
• Meeting our legal and regulatory obligations

We will not use your personal information for unrelated purposes without a lawful basis for doing so.

4. Recruitment and CVs

If you apply for a job through our website, we will use the information you provide to assess your application and manage the recruitment process.

If you provide a CV, we may retain your CV and application information after the recruitment process has ended so that we can contact you about suitable future vacancies.

Where we retain your information for future recruitment opportunities, you can ask us to remove your information from our records at any time. You can also contact us if you no longer wish to be considered for future vacancies.

We will not retain recruitment information for longer than is reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it is being used, subject to any legal or regulatory requirements that may apply.

5. Our Legal Basis for Processing

Under UK data protection law, we must have a lawful basis for processing personal information. Depending on the circumstances, we may process your information because:

• It is necessary to take steps at your request before entering into a contract or to manage an existing contractual relationship.
• We have a legitimate interest in responding to enquiries, managing recruitment and identifying suitable candidates for current or future vacancies.
• We have a legal obligation to process certain information.
• You have given your consent, where consent is required.

Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time.

6. Google Analytics and Website Usage

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use our website.

Google Analytics may collect information such as:

• The pages you visit
• How long you spend on the website
• How you arrived at the website
• Your approximate geographical location
• Information about your device and browser
• General information about your interaction with the website

Google Analytics is only used where you have given consent to analytics cookies.

We do not use Google Analytics to intentionally identify individual visitors or collect information submitted through our contact or job application forms for analytics purposes.

7. Cookies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies.

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website.

We use cookies in the following ways:

Essential cookies

These are necessary for the website to function correctly or to remember your cookie preferences. These cookies do not require your consent.

Analytics cookies

We use Google Analytics cookies to understand how visitors use our website and to help us improve it.

These cookies are non-essential and will only be used if you give us your consent through our cookie banner.

You can choose to accept or reject analytics cookies. You can also change or withdraw your cookie preferences at any time through our cookie settings.

If you reject analytics cookies, the website will continue to function normally, although we will not receive Google Analytics information about your visit.

8. Google

Google Analytics is provided by Google LLC.

Google may process information collected through Google Analytics in accordance with its own privacy policies and terms.

For more information about how Google processes information, please see Google's privacy information.

9. Who We Share Your Information With

We do not sell or rent your personal information.

We may share personal information with trusted service providers where this is necessary to operate our website, manage enquiries, process applications or provide our services.

For example, information may be processed by:

• Our website hosting provider
• Our email or communications providers
• Recruitment or applicant management systems, where applicable
• Google, in relation to Google Analytics where you have consented to its use
• Professional advisers or authorities where we are legally required to do so

We require appropriate safeguards to be in place when third parties process personal information on our behalf.

10. How We Protect Your Information

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.

However, no method of transmitting or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

11. How Long We Keep Your Information

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

Contact form enquiries will generally be retained for as long as necessary to deal with the enquiry and maintain appropriate business records.

Job application information and CVs may be retained for a reasonable period following an application, including where we have identified that you may be suitable for future vacancies.

You may contact us at any time to request that your recruitment information is removed, subject to any legal obligations requiring us to retain certain information.

12. Your Rights

Under UK data protection law, you may have the right to:

• Request access to the personal information we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
• Request deletion of your personal information
• Request restriction of how we use your information
• Object to certain types of processing
• Request transfer of your information in certain circumstances
• Withdraw consent where we rely on consent to process your information

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided above.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if you believe your personal information has been handled incorrectly. You can contact the ICO through its website.

13. Third-Party Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites, including job boards, social media platforms or other third-party services.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party websites. We recommend reviewing their privacy policies before providing them with personal information.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our services, legal requirements or how we process personal information.

Any changes will be published on this page, together with an updated "Last updated" date.

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, how we use your personal information, or wish to exercise your data protection rights, please contact: