Privacy notice

Adroit Staffing Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (number 15113903), registered office 1 Abbey Street, Eynsham, Witney, OX29 4TB, United Kingdom. We decide how the personal information described here is used, which makes us the data controller for it. Any question about privacy, or about the information we hold on you, goes to hello@adroitstaffing.co.uk and reaches the person responsible for data protection here.

• If you register with us: your name, email address, phone number, current role, the disciplines and locations you are interested in, how you want to work, a LinkedIn address if you give one, anything you write in the message box, and your CV if you upload one.
• If you enquire about hiring: your name, work email address, company, telephone number, what you are hiring for, the headcount you expect, and your enquiry.
• If you register job alert preferences: your email address and the disciplines and locations you pick.
• Alongside any of those: which page you submitted the form from, any campaign tags in the link you arrived by, and a record that a submission happened so we can stop our forms being abused.

To be completed before this version takes effect. The personal information you submit through this website comes directly from you. The website also creates limited technical records as you use it — the abuse-prevention information described above, which page a form was sent from, and any campaign tags in the link you arrived by. The site itself does not import, scrape or buy candidate profiles from LinkedIn, job boards or anywhere else. What we are still checking is whether our consultants also find candidates away from this site, through professional networks, job boards, referrals or clients. If they do, this section will say so and name those sources. We would rather leave it visibly unfinished than tell you something about our own practice we have not verified.

• Recruitment — finding you roles, judging whether you fit one, keeping your details on file and getting in touch about opportunities. Our legitimate interests, and yours, in matching people to jobs (Article 6(1)(f)).
• Answering a hiring enquiry and managing our client relationships. Our legitimate interests in replying to someone who contacts us about hiring, and in keeping in touch with the people we deal with at our clients (Article 6(1)(f)). Where our contract is with you personally, or you ask us to take steps before entering one, we rely on that contract instead (Article 6(1)(b)).
• Sending your details to a named organisation for an external opportunity. Your consent, asked for separately at the point it applies (Article 6(1)(a)).
• Holding your job alert preferences. Your consent, which you can withdraw whenever you like (Article 6(1)(a)).
• Keeping the site working and stopping our forms being abused. Our legitimate interests in protecting the service and the people using it (Article 6(1)(f)).
• Keeping the records the law requires us to keep. Our legal obligations (Article 6(1)(c)).

• Your CV goes into private storage. It is not published, not indexed and not reachable by a public link. We check the file type and size before accepting it.
• When you register or apply, your details and your CV are emailed to our own recruitment inbox so a consultant can act on them.
• For a role we represent, a consultant may send your CV to that client. We will not put you forward for something you have not asked to be put forward for.
• Where a listing is an external opportunity rather than a role we represent, we ask you separately before sending anything to that organisation. Leave it unticked and we still consider you for roles we represent — we simply do not pass your data on.
• You are not obliged to give us any of this. Nothing here is a statutory requirement. But we cannot represent you for a role without enough to go on, and a registration with no way to contact you is not much use to either of us.

To be completed before this version takes effect. We do not ask about your health, disability, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, trade union membership or criminal record, and no form on this site has a field for any of it. But a CV is a free-form document and a message box is free text, so information like that does reach us — and when it does, we hold and use it as part of what you sent. Not asking for it is not the same as not processing it, and we are not going to imply otherwise. We are settling which specific legal conditions apply to that information, and how we minimise and remove it, before this version takes effect. In the meantime, please do not include anything you would rather we did not hold.

Automatic job alert emails are not running yet. When you register alert preferences we store them and tell a consultant, who gets in touch if something relevant comes up — so there is no confirmation email, and nothing lands in your inbox until there is a real role. That contact is something you asked for, and you can tell us to stop at any time and we will. We will say on the alerts page when automatic alerts start. Separately from that, we do not send marketing newsletters or bulk mailings from this site; if we ever want to, we will ask you first and it will be a genuine choice you can change your mind about. We do not sell personal data and we never share your details for anyone else's marketing.

• One cookie, __dpl, is set by our hosting platform to route requests. It does not follow you between sites.
• Your cookie choice is kept in your browser under adroit-cookie-consent. It stays on your device and is never sent to us.
• The site also remembers your scroll position as you move between pages, and the page you came from, so the back button behaves sensibly. Both live in your browser for the session only and neither is sent to us.
• No analytics run until you accept them. Today the site loads no third-party script of any kind — no analytics provider, no tag manager, no advertising pixel, no third-party fonts.
• If you do accept analytics, what is recorded is the page path and a short list of pre-approved labels. Names, email addresses, phone numbers, messages, CV filenames and links are stripped out before anything leaves the page.

• The compensation planner, scorecard generator, process designer, sequence planner and career explorer all run in your browser. What you type is not sent to us. Some keep a working draft in your browser so you do not lose it; closing the tab clears that.
• The resource library filters the page in your browser, and your search words appear in the page address so you can bookmark or share a filtered view — worth knowing before you type anything personal into it.
• The hiring brief builder is the one tool that sends what you write outside your browser. When you press generate, the brief text goes to an external AI service to draft a document. We do not save the brief. We cannot make retention promises on that provider's behalf, so please do not put information about a named individual into it.
• So that the AI tool cannot be run up as a bill against us, we record that a generation happened — when, how long it took, how big the brief was. We do not keep your IP address for this. We turn it into a salted hash, which lets us recognise repeated use from the same source and limit abuse. That hash is still information about you and we treat it as such. The brief text itself is never stored.

• Our hosting and database provider, which runs this site and stores its data, including CVs.
• Our email provider, which delivers acknowledgements to you and notifications to us.
• The external AI service behind the hiring brief builder — and only the brief text you choose to generate from.
• Employers and clients. Your CV goes to a specific organisation where you have agreed to it, or where you have asked us to represent you for a role we are working on.
• Our professional advisers, and anyone we are required by law to disclose to.
• Regulators, public authorities and anyone else where the law requires or allows it.
• We do not sell personal data, and we do not share it for unrelated third-party marketing.

To be completed before this version takes effect. We are confirming whether any of our service providers process Adroit personal information outside the United Kingdom and, where they do, which legal safeguard applies. This section will say what we find. We would rather leave it visibly unfinished than give you a reassuring sentence we cannot yet stand behind.

To be completed before this version takes effect. Honestly: nothing on this site deletes itself today. There is no timer on your record, and we remove information when you ask us to rather than automatically. Some records have statutory minimum retention periods: under the Conduct Regulations, certain work-seeker and hirer records must be kept for at least 12 months after they are created, and for at least 12 months after the relevant work-finding services were last provided. Those are minimums we must meet, not deadlines at which everything is deleted. Beyond them we are setting our own periods for candidate records, CVs, enquiries, alert preferences and our email logs, and they will be stated here, with a real process behind them, before this version takes effect. In the meantime you can ask us to delete your information at any time. The right to deletion is not absolute, and we will explain if we need or are entitled to keep some of it.

No decision about you is made automatically. We do not score, rank or filter candidates by algorithm, and nothing on this site decides whether you are put forward for a role — a person reads your details and decides. The AI in the hiring brief builder writes draft text for employers about a job; it never assesses a candidate.

• Ask for a copy of what we hold about you, and ask us to correct it if it is wrong.
• Ask us to delete it, or to restrict what we do with it. Both apply in some situations and not others, and we will explain which applies to you.
• Object to processing we carry out on the basis of our legitimate interests — which covers most of the recruitment list above. Tell us and we will stop unless we have compelling grounds not to, and we will explain them if we do.
• Withdraw your consent wherever we actually rely on it — your job alert preferences, or sending your details to a named organisation. Withdrawing it does not undo what was already done, and it does not affect anything we do on another basis.
• Ask us to transfer information you gave us to someone else. This one only applies where we hold it by consent or under a contract with you and handle it by computer, so it will not cover everything.
• Use our data request page, or email us. We will normally answer within one month. If a request is complex, or you have made several, the law lets us take up to two months longer — we will tell you inside the first month if that happens, and why.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, you can complain to us by emailing hello@adroitstaffing.co.uk — put "Data protection complaint" in the subject line so it reaches the right person. We will acknowledge it within 30 days, look into it properly, keep you posted while we do, and tell you the outcome without undue delay. You do not have to come to us first: you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at any point, at ico.org.uk, whether or not you have raised it with us, and doing either does not affect the other.

Adroit accounts are not open. There is no sign-in on this site today and nothing described above needs one. When accounts do open, signing in with a Humand account will not copy your Humand profile, CV, saved jobs or contact preferences across to Adroit, and it will not sign you up to anything from us — those stay separate unless you give them to us here.

Email hello@adroitstaffing.co.uk with any privacy question, or to exercise any of the rights above. Adroit Staffing Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (number 15113903), registered office 1 Abbey Street, Eynsham, Witney, OX29 4TB, United Kingdom.