We at PDA understand the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of your CV and other information you may give us while using our site.

This document details the personally identifiable information PDA Search & Selection Limited gather about you online & how we use it.

Application contact details and any other details you supply to us as a part of the application process are stored by us and used only to provide you with the information & services requested.

Profile and CV Information

When you apply for a role by sending through your CV it will only be used in relevance to that specific position. We might however contact you from time to time about new opportunities that arise and which we consider might be of interest to you.

We rely on you to ensure that your CV and contact details are kept up to date. You should update your CV periodically, particularly if your contact details have changed. Once your profile and CV are on our database we will contact you every six months using your most recent contact details to ask whether you want us to retain your details on our files. If we do not hear from you your profile and CV will be removed from our database.

PDA does not share or rent your personal information with third parties unless:

• You are seeking employment with a third-party organisation through the use of our services, and for the purpose of evaluating your suitability, the third-party requests some or all of the information you have supplied us with for this purpose. For the avoidance of doubt, the information we supply any third-party may only be used for the purpose for which it is supplied.
• We are required to do so by legal process or in response to a subpoena, court order or other legitimate request by authority.

At PDA we make every effort to comply with our obligations under the 1998 Data Protection Act, which gives rights to the individuals who are subject of the data. The act requires anyone processing personal data to abide by the eight enforceable principles of good practice. They say that data must be:

• Fairly and lawfully processed
• Processed for limited purposes
• Adequate, relevant and not excessive
• Accurate
• Not kept longer than necessary
• Processed in accordance with the data subject's rights
• Secure
• Not transferred without adequate protection

PDA may modify the terms of this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make substantial or material changes to the way in which we will use your personal data we will prominently post a web page on the PDA website detailing the changes.