Introduction
Houghton Phillips Limited is committed to protecting the privacy of your personal data. This statement summarises our policies regarding the collection, use and transfer of your personal data, the security measures Houghton Phillips Limited employs to protect such data and your right to access.
The Information We Collect
Houghton Phillips Limited is an executive search firm and collects a variety of personal data necessary to provide such services in a proprietary and highly confidential database accessible only by Houghton Phillips Limited. Categories of personally identifiable data include: career history, education history, professional experience, resume/CV and contact information. By choosing to provide us with your personal data, you indicate your willingness to disclose this information to Houghton Phillips Limited and to be considered, when appropriate, for one of Houghton Phillips Limited's confidential executive searches. If you do not wish to disclose your personal information, Houghton Phillips Limited will be unable to provide you with the services offered by the Houghton Phillips, since employment, educational and other personal information is necessary in order to assess your employment opportunities.
It is not Houghton Phillips Limited's policy to seek any sensitive information unless legally required for recruitment purposes. Sensitive information includes data relating to race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or similar beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual life, or criminal record. We suggest that you do not provide sensitive information of this nature. If you do wish to provide sensitive information for any reason, Houghton Phillips Limited accepts your explicit consent to use that information in the ways described in this Privacy Policy or as described at the point where you choose to disclose.
How We Use and Disclose Personally Identifying Information
In order to present you as a potential candidate to potential employers (Houghton Phillips Limited clients), your personal information may be shared with clients and/or transferred between Houghton Phillips Limited's worldwide affiliates, subsidiaries and licencees (Houghton Phillips Limited's licencees are only associated with Houghton Phillips Limited and are not affiliated with any other search firm). Each Houghton Phillips Limited entity is committed to implementing the appropriate data integrity and security measures required of the country in which it resides in order to protect your information.
By choosing to provide your personal information to Houghton Phillips Limited you indicate your willingness to share and have your information transferred between Houghton Phillips Limited's worldwide associates and to be considered, when appropriate, for one of Houghton Phillips Limited's confidential executive searches. If you object to your information being shared and transferred in such manner or if you do not wish to participate in this service and benefit from the executive career searches that Houghton Phillips Limited provides, please inform us by contacting us by email, info@houghtonphillips.com or by letter to Houghton Phillips Limited, 118 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5ED
Your personal information is used only for the intended purposes stated at the time of collection. Houghton Phillips Limited does not sell or share your personal information for related or unrelated purposes to non-licencee third parties, unless otherwise stated at the time.
