Privacy Policy

Introduction

At Blue Diamond Recruitment, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Who We Are

Blue Diamond Recruitment is a family-run business specializing in recruitment for the built environment sector. We are the data controller and responsible for your personal data.

Our Contact Details:

The Data We Collect About You

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data includes first name, last name.
  • Contact Data includes email address and telephone number.
  • Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  • Usage Data includes information about how you use our website.
  • Professional Data includes your CV and career information when you choose to share this with us.
  • Communication Data includes the content of messages you send us via our contact forms.

How We Collect Your Personal Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Professional Data by filling in forms on our website or by corresponding with us by phone, email, or otherwise.
  • Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • To register you as a candidate or client
  • To manage our relationship with you
  • To match you with appropriate job opportunities
  • To process job applications on your behalf
  • To respond to your inquiries
  • To improve our website and services
  • To maintain our records

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to those employees and agents who have a business need to know.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

For candidates’ data, we typically retain your personal information for 2 years from our last meaningful contact with you. After this period, we will securely delete your personal information unless we believe in good faith that the law or other regulation requires us to preserve it.

Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including:

  • Request access to your personal data
  • Request correction of your personal data
  • Request erasure of your personal data
  • Object to processing of your personal data
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data
  • Request transfer of your personal data
  • Right to withdraw consent

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided above.

Third-Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update this privacy policy at any time. We will notify any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page.


Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the website or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the website more useful to you.

How We Use Cookies

When you use and access our website, we may place a number of cookie files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • To enable certain functions of the website
  • To provide analytics
  • To store your preferences

We use both session and persistent cookies on our website, and we use different types of cookies to run the website:

  • Essential cookies. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.
  • Analytics cookies. We use Google Analytics to help us understand how you use our website. These cookies collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed, and information about your browser, device, and IP address. We do not anonymize IP addresses in our Google Analytics implementation.

Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the website.

What Are Your Choices Regarding Cookies

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

Where Can You Find More Information About Cookies

You can learn more about cookies and the following third-party websites:

  • AllAboutCookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
  • Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page.

Blue Diamond Recruitment is a family-run, specialist agency connecting exceptional talent with leading organisations across the built environment sector.

Founded by Amy and Dan Court, we bring over 20 years' combined industry experience to provide personalised recruitment services spanning land acquisition, construction, design, technical roles and more, all whilst maintaining our commitment to quality placements and charitable giving.

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