Privacy Policy

Focus For Research (FFR) - is committed to protecting your privacy and this Privacy Policy sets out our privacy practices in relation to FFR business activities. Please take the time to review this Privacy Policy carefully as it tells you how your personal information will be treated by us. By using the FFR site or taking part in our business activities, you unconditionally agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

Focus for Research will try and offer you the best possible online experience. Consequently, additional functions, features,products or services will be added into the FFR Site periodically. This, and our commitment to protecting the privacy of your personal information, may result in periodic changes to this Privacy Policy. As a result, please remember to refer back to this Privacy Policy regularly to review any amendments.

Any questions regarding our Privacy Policy should be directed to Focus for Research at: Melanie@focusforresearch.co.uk

Recruitment: Candidate privacy

What do we collect and use personal information for?

We collect this information in order to:
- keep you informed of suitable placements and recruitment opportunities (Market research focus groups)
- Keep you informed of opportunities that someone you know might be interested in.
- Communicate with you regarding any changes to the information you originally supplied.
- Communicate changes to our site.

We will collect and process personal information about you for these purposes (including your name, email address, postal address and telephone number, age, marital status, Children’s DOB, along with details of your education, current life stage and lifestyle choices.). We may also collect sensitive data relating to you including medical details and details of race and ethnic origin. We receive this information through this site only. This information will only be used for the purposes set out above.

Disclosing your information to others

We may pass your information to our employees for the purposes of supplying placement and recruitment services to you.
We may disclose or transfer your information to a prospective employer in anonymous form or, in cases where we have first obtained your permission (e.g. to go forward for a specified role), we may pass your identifiable personal details to a prospective employer.

Other than the disclosures referred to in this policy, we will not disclose any personal information without your permission unless we are legally entitled or obliged to do so (for example, if required to do so by Court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime).
We will only sell or rent your personal information to a third party as part of a sale of the assets of FFR Research, having ensured that steps have been taken to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected.

Keeping our records accurate

Records of recruitment applications are held on our file for a period of 12 months.
We aim to keep our information about you as accurate as possible. If you have another query relating to your information, please contact us as set out below.

We will only send you information if you choose to receive it. If you wish to stop receiving it at any time, please send an email with the subject heading ‘unsubscribe’ to Melanie@focusforresearch.co.uk.

Security

We have implemented technology and policies to safeguard your privacy from unauthorised access and improper use and will continue to update these measures as new technology becomes available.

Third party sites

We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from the FFR Site or email. We recommend that you check the policy of each site you visit.

In addition, if you linked to the FFR Site from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners or operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site and contact its owner or operator if you have any concerns or questions.

Contacting us

If at any time you would like to contact us with your views about our privacy practices, or with any enquiry relating to your personal information, you can do so by sending an e-mail to us at melanie@focusforresearch.co.uk or by telephone on 01923241446.