Last Updated: April 2026
At Haupt Recruitment, we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy explains when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our website, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, and how we keep it secure.
1. Who are we?
Haupt Recruitment is a specialist recruitment consultancy. In this policy, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ refers to Haupt Recruitment. For the purposes of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), we are the Data Controller.
2. Data Collection & Cookies
We obtain information about you when you use our website, for example, when you:
- Apply for a specific job vacancy.
- Submit your CV via our general application forms.
- Contact us regarding our recruitment services.
- Sign up for job alerts or newsletters.
3. What type of information is collected?
The personal information we collect might include:
- Technical Data: Your IP address and information regarding what pages are accessed and when (for website optimization).
- Identity Data: Your name, address, email address, and phone number.
- Professional Data: Your CV, employment history, qualifications, and references.
4. How Your Information is Used
We may use your information to:
- Notify you of changes to our services..
- Process a job application you have submitted.
- Match your skills with job vacancies in our database.
- Carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you and us.
- Seek your views or comments on the services we provide.
5. Lawful Basis for Processing
Under the UK GDPR, the main bases we rely on to process your information are:
- Consent: For specific activities, such as sending you marketing materials or storing your CV for future roles, we will ask for your explicit consent.
- Legitimate Interests: As a recruitment business, it is in our legitimate interest to process the personal data of candidates to assess their suitability for roles and to help them find employment.
6. Who has access to your information?
- Potential Employers: We will share your information with clients (employers) who have job openings that match your profile. We will always discuss specific roles with you before submitting your full CV.
- Third-Party Service Providers: We may pass your information to our third-party service providers (e.g., our website hosting providers or email software) for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf.
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.
7. Your Choices and Rights
You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. If you do not want to receive job alerts or updates, you can “unsubscribe” at any time.
You also have the following rights:
- The right to object: You can object to us processing your data for certain purposes.
- The right to access: You can request a copy of the information we hold about you.
- The right to rectification: You can ask us to correct inaccurate information.
- The right to erasure: You can ask us to delete your data (the “right to be forgotten”).
8. Data Security and Retention
We have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of your information. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us (typically 12 months for unsuccessful candidates).
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this policy or our privacy practices, please contact us:
- Email: [email protected]