BGF Recruitment (Team Tailor) Privacy Policy
About Us
BGF was set up in 2011 to offer growing companies and ambitious entrepreneurs patient capital and strategic support. Today, we are the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in small and medium-sized companies. An established and independent company, we have £2.5bn to support a range of growing companies – early stage, growth stage and quoted – across every region and sector of the economy. Hundreds of companies have benefited from our equity capital investments to accelerate growth.
We believe growing businesses deserve the best possible support. That’s why it is in our legitimate interest to identify, track and contact suitable talent that can help us develop our business and support the fantastic entrepreneurs we work with.
We use Teamtailor, an applicant tracking platform, to host and process some of the data related to our potential candidates.
About this Privacy Notice
When we say ‘we’ or ‘us’ or ‘BGF’, we mean BGF Investment Management Limited and all associated Group companies and managed funds, each of whom are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. The following group companies act as data controllers: BGF Investment Management Limited and Business Growth Fund Limited and the registered address of each company is 13-15 York Buildings, London, England, WC2N 6JU. If you would like to get in contact with us, you will find appropriate contact details below.
“You” or “your” refers to you and any authorised person acting on your behalf. This may include but is not limited to your professional advisers such as agents or recruitment agencies.
This privacy notice explains what information we collect, how the information is used, if it will be shared with others and the controls we’ll put in place to keep the information secure. The notice should be read alongside any other written agreement or related contracts between us and may continue to apply even after your engagement with us ends subject to those terms and ongoing compliance requirements.
The type of personal information we collect
We currently collect and process the following personal information in relation to our recruitment activity:
- Full Name, Address, Contact Information including Phone Numbers, Email, Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, Sexual orientation, Disability and Socioeconomic background
- Career history, remuneration information, references
- Public posts, feeds and related internet activity suitable for assessing recruitment such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc.
- Your usage of the Teamtailor platform through Cookies
- Any further personal information that is not explicitly requested but may be volunteered within applications for vacancies or speculative requests such as an individual’s background or personal circumstances. This may include chat history with potential candidates on the Teamtailor platform.
How we get the personal information and why we have it
Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you or sourced by us through available public feeds such as LinkedIn, Facebook and other recruitment-related sources. We may also receive personal information and recommendations from a third party you may be connected with.
We use the information to help us evaluate your suitability for possible employment with us, which may include any one of our group companies.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK Data Protection Act 2018, the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
- Our legitimate interest to identify and proactively communicate with suitable candidates for employment
- Your consent where you actively engage with us and permit us to process your data
- A contractual obligation we may have entered into as a condition of potential employment
How we store your personal information
We use appropriate and proportionate technical and organisational measures to securely store and process personal information. The information is retained for as long as we deem necessary to continue our engagement or for regulatory compliance.
Sharing and transfer of data
We do not share personal data outside of our group companies or transfer it without appropriate controls. We use platforms such as Teamtailor as a subprocessor to collate, host and secure the data.
Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us through the Teamtailor platform or at the address below if you wish to make a request.
Compliance Officer (Data Privacy)
BGF (HR Teamtailor)
36 Melville Street
Edinburgh
EH3 7HA
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at the address above.
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk
