1.   INTRODUCTION
The Nanny Circle is a recruitment agency and recruitment business as defined in the Employment Agencies
and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (our business). We collect information about you to carry
out our core business and ancillary activities.
This privacy notice provides you with details of how The Nanny Circle (“we”, “our”, “us”, or “the Company”)
collects and processes your Personal Data, whether you’re a client, a candidate, a supplier or another third
party.
“Personal Data” is any information identifying a living, identifiable individual, excluding any anonymous data
but including any sensitive Personal Data. Such data can be factual such as a name, email address, date of
birth or national insurance number; or an opinion or reference about a person’s actions or behaviour.
“Processing” or “Process” means any activity involving the use of Personal Data whether that is obtaining,
holding, recording or carrying out any operations on the data including organising, amending, retrieving,
using, disclosing, erasing or destroying it. It includes the transmission or transferring Personal Data to third
parties.

Georgina Flack is the data controller and we are responsible for your Personal Data, including determining
when, why and how to Process Personal Data.

Our email address is [email protected].
If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to
the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues
(www.ico.org.uk). We should be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we
can try to resolve it for you.

It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at
any time your personal information changes by emailing us at [email protected].
2. BACKGROUND
This policy has been written in accordance with the principles and safeguards set out in the General Data
Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (“GDPR”) We adhere to the principles relating to the Processing of
Personal Data set out in GDPR which require Personal Data to be:
(a)  Processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner (Lawfulness, Fairness and Transparency).

(b)  Collected only for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes (Purpose Limitation).

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(c)  Adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which it is
Processed (Data Minimisation).
(d)  Accurate and where necessary kept up to date (Accuracy).
(e)  Not kept in a form which permits identification of Data Subjects for longer than is necessary for
the purposes for which the data is Processed (Storage Limitation).
(f)  Processed in a manner that ensures its security using appropriate technical and organisational
measures to protect against unauthorised or unlawful Processing and against accidental loss,
destruction or damage (Security, Integrity and Confidentiality).
(g)  Not transferred to another country without appropriate safeguards being in place (Transfer
Limitation).
(h)  Made available to individuals such us to allow them to exercise certain rights in relation to their
Personal Data (Data Subject’s Rights and Requests).
3.  HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will only use your Personal Data when legally permitted. The most common uses of your Personal Data
are:

• Where we need to perform the contract between us either (i) in accordance with our terms and
conditions of business if you are a client; ii) in accordance with our terms of representation if you are a
candidate or (iii) in accordance with the relevant terms of supply between us as businesses.
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and
fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal ground for Processing your Personal Data, other than in
relation to sending marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to
withdraw consent to marketing at any time by emailing us at [email protected].

Purposes for Processing your Personal Data

Set out below is a description of the ways we intend to use your Personal Data and the legal grounds on
which we will Process such data. We have also explained what our legitimate interests are where relevant.

We may Process your Personal Data for more than one lawful ground, depending on the specific purpose
for which we are using your data. Please email us at [email protected] if you need details about the
specific legal grounds, we are relying on to Process your Personal Data where more than one ground has
been set out in the table below.

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Purpose/Activity Type of data Lawful basis for Processing

To register you as a new client (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Details concerning
your family

To find a suitable candidate for your family
in accordance with our legal terms and
conditions of business.

To register you as a new
candidate

(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Job experience
(d) Skills and
qualifications

To comply with your legal terms and
conditions of representation and use all
reasonable endeavours to find you
suitable employment / engagement.

To Process your invoice:
(a) Manage payments, fees and
charges
(b) Collect and recover money
owed to us

(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Financial
(d) Transaction
(e) Marketing and
Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests
to recover debts owed to us

To manage our relationship with
you as a supplier

(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Financial
(d) Transaction
(e) Marketing and
Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests
to manage and run our business

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To manage our relationship with
you, including notifying you about
changes to our terms or privacy
policy.

(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Marketing and
Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal
obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests
to keep our records updated and to study
how clients use our services

To administer and protect our
business and our site (including
troubleshooting, data analysis,
testing, system maintenance,
support, reporting and hosting of
data)

(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical

(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests
for running our business, provision of
administration and IT services, network
security and to prevent fraud.
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal
obligation

To use data analytics to improve
our website, services, marketing,
client relationships and
experiences

(a) Technical
(b) Usage

Necessary for our legitimate interests to
define types of clients for our services, to
keep our site updated and relevant, to
develop our business and to inform our
marketing strategy.

To make suggestions and
recommendations to you about
services that may be of interest to
you

(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Profile

Necessary for our legitimate interests to
develop our services and grow our
business.

Information we obtain from other sources.
In addition, we may obtain information about our candidates from other sources such as job board websites,
online CV libraries, references, personal recommendations, and referees. Such information shall be held by

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us for the purpose of complying with our obligations to our clients and candidates. For further details on the
sources from which we obtain Personal Data on candidates and the purposes for which we use it, please
refer to our candidate privacy policy.
We are working closely with third parties including professional advisors, job boards and partner agencies.
We may receive information about you from them for the purposes of our recruitment services and ancillary
support services.
Marketing communications

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have:
(i) requested information from us or registered with us as a candidate or client; or
(ii) if you provided us with your details and ticked the box at the point of entry of your details for us
to send you marketing communications; and
(iii) in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your Personal Data with any third party for
marketing purposes.

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by emailing us at
[email protected] at any time.

Where you opt out of receiving our marketing communications, this will not apply to Personal Data provided
to us as a result of us providing you with a service or other transaction.
4.  DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may have to share your Personal Data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table
in paragraph 2 above:

• Clients who are looking for suitable candidates to fulfil a role that they are offering.
• Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
• Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy,
banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
• HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities based in the United Kingdom and other
relevant jurisdictions who require reporting of Processing activities in certain circumstances.
• Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your Personal Data and
to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to Process your Personal Data for
specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

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5.  INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
We do not transfer your Personal Data outside the European Economic Area.
6.  DATA SECURITY

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your Personal Data from being accidentally
lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your
Personal Data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to
know such data. They will only Process your Personal Data on our instructions and they are subject to a
duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected Personal Data breach and will notify you and
any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

7.  DATA RETENTION

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

To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Data, we consider the amount, nature, and
sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your
Personal Data, the purposes for which we Process your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those
purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

By law we must keep basic information about our clients (including Contact, Identity, Financial and
Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being clients for tax purposes.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data and it is our responsibility to make sure that any
Personal Data we retain is accurate. So, if you would like us to erase your data (to the extent that we are
able) or there are any changes to your data which means what we currently hold is inaccurate, please do let
us know.

8.  YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your Personal Data.
These include the right to:

• 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.

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• Request transfer of your Personal Data.
• Right to withdraw consent.
You can see more about these rights at:
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at [email protected].
You will not have to pay a fee to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of the other rights).
However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive.
Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right
to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure
that Personal Data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to
ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a
month if your request is particularly complex or you have made several requests. In this case, we will notify
you and keep you updated.