This statement relates to Principal Connections Limited (hereafter Principal Connections) and its privacy practices pertaining to the website www.principalconnections.ie . We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such.
For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) effective 25th May 2018 and the related legislation and regulations implementing these into Irish law from time to time, the Data Controller is Principal Connections, contact details are set out in Section 17 below.
Principal Connections fully respects your right to privacy and is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. [br]Principal Connections will not collect or publish any personal information about you on our website without your permission. Any personal information which you volunteer will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with (“GDPR”).
‘Personal Data’ refers to “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Data Subject”)”.
This Privacy Policy serves to:
Principal Connections collects Personal Data about you directly through our website, www.principalconnections.ie
The way we collect your Personal Data is when your direct submission, see section below.
The only ways Principal Connections collects your Personal Data is when you submit it to us via website submission, job board submission or e-mail application. This would usually be for job application purposes and would typically include your Curriculum Vitae and personal details.
Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties without your permission and is used by Principal Connections only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.
By providing Principal Connections with your Personal Data you are consenting to us:
If, in the past, you have provided us with Personal Data including your Curriculum Vitae, and you no longer consent to Principal Connections processing your Personal Data please contact us in writing at info@principalconnections.ie and we will promptly remove your Personal Data from our system.
Personal Data collected/obtained by Principal Connections via your application may include categories set out in the section below.
Principal Connections collects your Personal Data through the following channels:
Principal Connections may also collect Personal Data from third party sources, for verification and vetting purposes. Prior to contacting third parties, Principal Connections will gain your consent, and will contact you if seeking additional information.
For example:
Information obtained during reference checks, will be passed on to a prospective employer (usually at offer of employment stage).
Principal Connections is an Irish Executive Search and Leadership Consulting Firm. Our Mission is to deliver Superior, High Value, Accelerated and Customised Senior Executive Search / Headhunting. In addition, Principal Connections offers related services which include: Advertised Selection, Interim Management, Non-Executive Director and Chairperson Recruitment in addition to a variety of Leadership Consulting Solutions. (Hereafter, Related Services)
Principal Connections may disclose your Personal Data to third parties, only in relation to specific executive search or related services if this is deemed necessary, and only with your consent to do so.
Third parties include;
Principal Connections will make every reasonable effort to keep your Personal Data current and up-to-date. This will happen via phone calls, e-mail and general communication in order to stay in touch and noting relevant changes to your profile. If there have been any major changes since our most recent interaction please contact us to allow us to update our records of your Personal Data.
Principal Connections will store your Personal Data in the context of the services of a professional executive search and leadership consulting firm. If we have had no two-way communication with you about specific positions, career planning, salary levels, market intelligence, and other relevant executive search or related services as outlined in this statement, for a period of 7 years, we will delete your Personal Data. As set out in Section 14 below, you have the right to instruct us to erase your Personal Data at any time. Principal Connections may erase your personal data at any point if we consider that we are unable to provide the executive search service or related service to you as described in this Privacy Policy, and as a result, there is no necessity for us to retain your Personal Data for the purposes for which it was collected.
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Principal Connections will make no attempt to identify individual visitors or to associate the technical details with any individual. It is the policy of Principal Connections never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party (apart from our internet service provider, which records such data on our behalf and which is bound by confidentiality provisions in this regard), unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only by Principal Connections and only for statistical and other administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which we cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute “Personal Data” for the purposes of GDPR.
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For more GDPR information check out: www.dataprotection.ie and/or www.ico.org.uk
An IP address can reveal information about a visitor such as the general geographic location of the visitor or the internet provider they are using to connect to the internet. Principal Connections website does not track visitor IP addresses directly. The site uses cookies in place for basic tasks as outlined above.
This is a block of text. Double-click this text to edit it.By using the services of Principal Connections, your Personal Data as set out in Sections 4.1 and 4.2 will be processed for the purposes set out in Section 5 above on the basis of your consent.
You have the right to withdraw your consent to Principal Connections processing your Personal Data at any time by notifying us in writing at info@principalconnections.ie. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Principal Connections requires your Personal Data for assisting you with your job application(s) or other such related services which it offers, if you do not consent to Principal Connections processing your Personal Data you cannot register with the firm.
You have the right to obtain from Principal Connections access to your personal data being processed. You can do this by e-mailing info@principalconnections.ie for the attention of Ann-Marie Brennan, Data Protection Lead.
Principal Connections will always verify the identity of anyone making a Subject Access Request before handing over any information and provide the relevant data within one month of receipt of a Subject Access Request.
This will be provided free of charge in accordance with GDPR. Where your access requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive,
Principal Connections reserves the right to charge a reasonable fee taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information.
You have the right to have Principal Connections rectify any inaccurate Personal Data which it holds relating to you.
Should you wish for your Personal Data to be deleted by Principal Connections, you can e-mail info@principalconnections.ie, providing your name, email and contact details asking for your information to be deleted from our records.
Applicants have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection commissioner if they feel there has been a data protection breach at www.dataprotection.ie
All comments, queries and requests relating to our use of your Personal Data are welcomed and should be addressed to info@principalconnections.ie .