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Global Privacy Policy
Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd take the privacy and security of your information seriously. This Policy describes how Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd collect, use, transfer, and disclose your information.
This Policy covers information Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd collects in connection with our Recruitment and Consulting Services,. This Policy also covers information collected through:
WHO WE ARE
Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd is a search and selection recruitment consulting firm. We help companies design their organisation – the structure, the roles and responsibilities, as well as how they compensate, develop and motivate their people. We also help organisations select and hire the talent they need to execute their strategy.
Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd offers services to help companies recruit new personnel and attract talent (“Recruitment Services”). We provide Recruitment Services to clients searching for talent at middle to upper level management.
Often, our client may be your employer or an organisation with which you are seeking employment.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd collects information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual (“Personal Information”) to provide Services to you, our clients and to operate our business. The type of Personal Information we collect about you depends on the situation at hand.
HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
As you interact with Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd, you provide some Personal Information directly.
HOW WE USE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd uses the Personal Information it collects in several ways.
The summary below provides additional details about the ways we use the Personal Information we collect.
We use your Personal Information to provide our Services.
We use Personal Information to render Services to you and our clients. We do this to fulfill our contractual relationships with you and our clients and where we have a legitimate, beneficial interest in using Personal Information to conduct our business.
In the course of our Recruitment Services, we may use Personal Information that we have collected to create a profile about you. This profile may be used to identify professional opportunities that we think may be of interest to you.
We may contact you from time to time regarding those opportunities. We may also contact individuals from time to time for referrals. We may solicit names of, or additional Personal Information regarding, potential candidates in connection with our Recruitment Services to understand the market and provide other advisory services to our clients.
You can always object to our creating a profile about you, see the ‘Choices and Access’ section below on how you can object.
How your Personal Information is disclosed will depend upon the situation.
We use your Personal Information to provide our Services.
While providing our Services, we may disclose your Personal Information to clients who have engaged our services.
Because Other Information does not reveal your specific identity, we may use it for any purpose. If we combine Other Information with Personal Information that identifies you directly (like combining your name with your location), we will treat the combined information as Personal Information for as long as it is combined.
If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, we may use and disclose it for the purposes for which we use and disclose your Personal Information as detailed in this Policy.
CHOICE AND ACCESS
Your provision of Personal Information to us is voluntary, although if you do not provide certain Personal Information you may not be able to participate in our Services.
Contact us [email protected] if you would like to:
SECURITY
Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd has reasonable organisational, technical, and administrative measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of Personal Information about users of the Online Systems which is under our control. Unfortunately, however, no security system, or system of transmitting information over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised or your user credentials are no longer secure), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us as described in the “Questions” section below.
RETENTION PERIOD
We retain your Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted considering the purpose(s) for which it was obtained.
The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
This Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any other third parties.
Please note that we are not responsible for the collection, usage, and disclosure policies and practices (including the data security practices) of other organizations, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the Apps or our Social Media Pages.
UPDATES TO THIS POLICY
Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd reviews its privacy practices regularly, and those practices are subject to change. You can determine when this Policy was last revised by checking the “Revised Date” legend at the bottom of the Policy. Any changes to the Policy will become effective upon posting of the revised Policy on the Internet, accessible through the Site.
USE OF ONLINE SYSTEMS BY CHILDREN
The Online Systems are not directed to individuals under the age of sixteen (16), and we request that these individuals do not provide their personal information through the Online Systems.
SUMMARIES OF POLICY
This Policy is the sole authorised statement of Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd practices with respect to the online collection of Personal Information through the Online Systems and the usage of Personal Information. Any summaries of this Policy generated by third party software or otherwise (for example, in connection with the “Platform for Privacy Preferences” or “P3P”) have no legal effect, are in no way binding upon Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd, cannot be relied upon in substitute for this Policy, and neither supersede nor modify this Policy.
QUESTIONS
Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd is responsible for collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information under this Policy.
Questions regarding this Policy should be directed to Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd at [email protected] or, if by postal mail, at 57a Broadway, Leigh on Sea, Essex. SS9 1PE
This Policy covers information Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd collects in connection with our Recruitment and Consulting Services,. This Policy also covers information collected through:
- web sites we operate from which you are accessing this Policy (the “Site”),
- the software applications we make available for use on or through computers or mobile devices (the “Apps”),
- our social media pages and apps to which the Site links (collectively, our “Social Media Pages”), and
- HTML-formatted email messages we send to you that link to this Policy (collectively, including the Site, Apps, and our Social Media Pages, the “Online Systems”).
WHO WE ARE
Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd is a search and selection recruitment consulting firm. We help companies design their organisation – the structure, the roles and responsibilities, as well as how they compensate, develop and motivate their people. We also help organisations select and hire the talent they need to execute their strategy.
Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd offers services to help companies recruit new personnel and attract talent (“Recruitment Services”). We provide Recruitment Services to clients searching for talent at middle to upper level management.
Often, our client may be your employer or an organisation with which you are seeking employment.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd collects information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual (“Personal Information”) to provide Services to you, our clients and to operate our business. The type of Personal Information we collect about you depends on the situation at hand.
- We may collect your name, contact details and your preferred means of communication. We may also collect your responses to survey and assessment questions.
- In the course of our Recruitment Services, we may collect the following types of information about you as a potential candidate: name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, resume information (employment history, education, professional credentials, memberships in professional organizations, skills, etc.), citizenship, information from former employers and other references, and additional information to the extent we have acquired or you have provided us with such information. We also use photos of you that you provide to us or that you make publicly available on the Internet (e.g., LinkedIn). As permitted by applicable laws, we obtain background verification information.
- Where permitted by law, we may collect compensation and benefits information about you to consult with you or our clients on rewards and benefits.
- In certain cases, we request sensitive Personal Information about you. We may use this information to ensure that our Services conform with legal requirements, including equal opportunity laws. Our assessments and surveys may include demographic survey questions like questions about gender, race, age, or country of origin. Except in these limited cases, we encourage you not to provide any other sensitive Personal Information to us, such as government identification numbers, payment card numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background, or trade union membership.
- Please do not provide us with any Personal Information if you do not agree with this Policy.
HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
As you interact with Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd, you provide some Personal Information directly.
- We may collect Personal Information when you register to use our Online Systems, submit or build a resume, respond to employment opportunities, complete online assessments or surveys, participate in online courseware, provide Personal Information about yourself to our coaches or contact us via e-mail, electronic forms, telephone or postal mail.
- If you submit any Personal Information about other people to us or to our service providers, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Policy.
- Personal Information about you may also come from our clients to whom we provide Services.
We may also obtain Personal Information about you from third parties. - When providing our Recruitment Services we may also obtain Personal Information about you from referrals, networking activities, public databases, joint marketing partners, licensed databases, and social media platforms. The information we collect from these third parties includes information about the identity of potential candidates (e.g., an individual’s name, address, telephone number, e-mail address), information about their background and qualifications (employment history, education, professional credentials, memberships in professional organizations, skills, etc.), citizenship, information from former employers and other references. We also use photos of you that you provide to us or that you make publicly available on the Internet (e.g., LinkedIn). As permitted by applicable laws, we obtain background verification information.
HOW WE USE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd uses the Personal Information it collects in several ways.
The summary below provides additional details about the ways we use the Personal Information we collect.
We use your Personal Information to provide our Services.
We use Personal Information to render Services to you and our clients. We do this to fulfill our contractual relationships with you and our clients and where we have a legitimate, beneficial interest in using Personal Information to conduct our business.
In the course of our Recruitment Services, we may use Personal Information that we have collected to create a profile about you. This profile may be used to identify professional opportunities that we think may be of interest to you.
We may contact you from time to time regarding those opportunities. We may also contact individuals from time to time for referrals. We may solicit names of, or additional Personal Information regarding, potential candidates in connection with our Recruitment Services to understand the market and provide other advisory services to our clients.
You can always object to our creating a profile about you, see the ‘Choices and Access’ section below on how you can object.
- If you object, we will remove your profile from our database, but this will also mean that you will not be considered for opportunities in the future.
- In the course of our Recruitment Services, we also use your Personal Information to confirm references and conduct education and background checks as appropriate.
- We further use your Personal Information that we collect to aggregate and disclose diversity and other statistical information regarding our candidates and placement activities. We do so to manage our contractual relationship with you, with your consent, or because we have a legitimate business interest.
- We use your Personal Information to respond to your inquiries, to verify your information, or to share information with you.
- We use your Personal Information to respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests. If you contact us, we keep a record of your contact information and correspondence, and we use information you provide in your message to respond to your inquiry. We do so to manage our contractual relationship with you.
- We may also contact you to verify that the Personal Information we collected about you is accurate and current. We use the Personal Information to manage our contractual relationship with you or to comply with a legal obligation.
- We use your Personal Information to operate our business.
- We use this Personal Information to manage our contractual relationship with you and our clients, to comply with a legal obligation, and because we have a legitimate beneficial business interest.
- We may use your Personal Information to send you information or marketing materials. Please note that if we obtained your Personal Information because of a consulting engagement with our client, or you are using our Products at the request of your employer, you will not receive marketing materials as a result of the Personal Information we obtained from those Services.
How your Personal Information is disclosed will depend upon the situation.
We use your Personal Information to provide our Services.
While providing our Services, we may disclose your Personal Information to clients who have engaged our services.
- In the course of our Recruitment Services, we disclose Personal Information regarding candidates, including the results of assessments and related data, to prospective employers that have engaged Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd to fulfill recruitment requests, or to reference sources.
- In the course of our Consulting Services and in providing our Products, we disclose Personal Information to our client. Our client can be your employer or an organisation with whom you are seeking employment.
- If you have completed an assessment or survey at our client’s request as part of our Consulting Services or related to a Product, we will not share your assessment results with other clients without obtaining the appropriate consent.
- Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd may disclose or transfer all or part of your Personal Information in the event of a sale of our company or one or more of our affiliates. We may also disclose or transfer all or part of your Personal Information in the event of a merger or consolidation involving our company or one or more of our affiliates. This may also occur if there is a sale or transfer of assets or of any portion of our business or the business of one or more of our affiliates.
- There may be other times that we disclose your Personal Information.
- Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd may also use or disclose Personal Information (to comply with a legal obligation or because we have legitimate interest to do so) in order to: (i) comply with applicable laws, (ii) respond to inquiries, requests or orders from public or government authorities, including those outside of your country of residence, or (iii) protect the rights, privacy, safety or property, of Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd, you or others.
- We cannot and do not assume any responsibility for the actions or omissions of third parties, such as clients, including the way they use Personal Information received either from Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd or from other independent sources.
OTHER INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd collects other information that does not reveal your specific identity (“Other Information”), such as:
- Information collected through cookies, pixel tags, and other technologies,
- App usage data,
- Demographic information and other information provided by you, and
- Aggregated information.
Because Other Information does not reveal your specific identity, we may use it for any purpose. If we combine Other Information with Personal Information that identifies you directly (like combining your name with your location), we will treat the combined information as Personal Information for as long as it is combined.
If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, we may use and disclose it for the purposes for which we use and disclose your Personal Information as detailed in this Policy.
CHOICE AND ACCESS
Your provision of Personal Information to us is voluntary, although if you do not provide certain Personal Information you may not be able to participate in our Services.
Contact us [email protected] if you would like to:
- ask questions about how we handle your Personal Information,
- withdraw your consent to our use of your Personal Information,
- object to our use of your Personal Information for our legitimate business interests, or
- request an electronic copy of your Personal Information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent this right to data portability is provided to you by applicable law),
- request to review, correct, update, suppress or restrict the use of your Personal Information,
- Although we strive to maintain accurate Personal Information, if it is determined the Personal Information is not accurate, we will work quickly to correct it.
- Request that your Personal Information be removed from Korn Ferry’s databases,
- To remove your Personal Information from Korn Ferry’s databases, please include all relevant e-mail addresses.
- Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd will make reasonable attempts to delete Personal Information upon your request.
- Please note that to maintain consistency in our Services and operations, we retain backup systems. When you ask that your information be removed from Korn Ferry’s databases, we may not be able to delete residual copies from our systems or from our backup systems, but they will continue to be protected as required under this Policy.
- If you would like to opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us, please contact us at [email protected] to have your contact information removed from our marketing databases.
- If you request to have your information removed from our marketing databases through an email request, please include “Remove User” in the subject line of the e-mail, and include your full name, User ID, and telephone number in the body of the e-mail message.
- You can also forward a copy of the e-mail or marketing communications from which you want to opt-out.
- We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law. We may decline to process requests that in our reasonable opinion may jeopardize the privacy of others or put our intellectual property at risk.
- Please note that when we perform Services at the specific request of our client, your request may need to be directed to that client. We may only be able to provide you with a non-confidential summary of our final assessment report because these reports contain confidential client personal information that we are not allowed to disclose.
- For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will comply with your request as soon as reasonably practical and may need to contact you to be sure that we understand your request.
- We also may need to retain certain Personal Information about you such as your e-mail address to honor opt-out or similar requests. Please keep in mind that this residual Personal Information will remain within Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd databases, access logs, and other records, which may or may not contain identifiable Personal Information about you. The residual Personal Information will not be used for commercial purposes. However, Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd reserves the right, from time to time, to recontact former users of its Services as appropriate.
SECURITY
Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd has reasonable organisational, technical, and administrative measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of Personal Information about users of the Online Systems which is under our control. Unfortunately, however, no security system, or system of transmitting information over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised or your user credentials are no longer secure), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us as described in the “Questions” section below.
RETENTION PERIOD
We retain your Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted considering the purpose(s) for which it was obtained.
The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
- The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you or our client (e.g., for as long as you have an account with us or keep using the Services),
- A period beyond the time of the ongoing relationship if we have a legitimate internal operations need, such as a need to retain such information for analysis, record-keeping and compliance with data retention schedules,
- Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period before we can delete them), or
- Whether retention is advisable considering our legal position (such as regarding applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
This Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any other third parties.
Please note that we are not responsible for the collection, usage, and disclosure policies and practices (including the data security practices) of other organizations, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the Apps or our Social Media Pages.
UPDATES TO THIS POLICY
Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd reviews its privacy practices regularly, and those practices are subject to change. You can determine when this Policy was last revised by checking the “Revised Date” legend at the bottom of the Policy. Any changes to the Policy will become effective upon posting of the revised Policy on the Internet, accessible through the Site.
USE OF ONLINE SYSTEMS BY CHILDREN
The Online Systems are not directed to individuals under the age of sixteen (16), and we request that these individuals do not provide their personal information through the Online Systems.
SUMMARIES OF POLICY
This Policy is the sole authorised statement of Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd practices with respect to the online collection of Personal Information through the Online Systems and the usage of Personal Information. Any summaries of this Policy generated by third party software or otherwise (for example, in connection with the “Platform for Privacy Preferences” or “P3P”) have no legal effect, are in no way binding upon Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd, cannot be relied upon in substitute for this Policy, and neither supersede nor modify this Policy.
QUESTIONS
Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd is responsible for collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information under this Policy.
Questions regarding this Policy should be directed to Lisa Wyss Search and Selection Ltd at [email protected] or, if by postal mail, at 57a Broadway, Leigh on Sea, Essex. SS9 1PE
