Privacy policy

PURPOSE

Thomas Thor Associates (“Thomas Thor”) provides specialist recruitment services in the nuclear sector. Your privacy is important to Thomas Thor, and this privacy policy provides information about the personal information that Thomas Thor collects, and the ways in which Thomas Thor uses that personal information.

The term personal information as used throughout this policy, applies to any data relating to an identified or identifiable individual, including data that directly or indirectly identifies an individual. Thomas Thor is the data controller for the processing of personal information under applicable data protection law.

PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION

Thomas Thor is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and inline with regulations this policy details how we will collect and use your data. When you submit a CV through our send CV function by ticking the relevant box you are consenting to us holding your data for the following purposes.

  • To enable us to find you suitable employment opportunities that match the skills presented on your resume/CV;
  • We will submit your resume to third parties namely our clients that request specific candidates with skills which match yours;
  • To enable us to keep you up to date with what is happening at Thomas Thor, the nuclear industry, the recruitment industry and other news which we believe will be of interest to you;
  • For security purposes – the Nuclear Industry is a highly secure and safety conscious industry and in the interests of security we may need to hold your information for a minimum period of time depending on the regulations of the local authorities in the jurisdictions we work in.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA IS BEING COLLECTED

In order to match candidates with possible future employers or career opportunities Thomas Thor collects the following personal information:

  • Name and surname
  • Email address
  • Telephone number
  • Residence address
  • Work experience
  • Education

Thomas Thor can assure that all collected information fully fits the purpose of matching the candidates and clients with the future career path and opportunities and complies with the EU privacy regulations.

SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

Thomas Thor does not disclose personal information about you to third parties, except as described in this privacy policy. Thomas Thor will share with its clients personal information relating to candidates. Limited members of the Recruitment, Compliance and Customer Services, Finance, HR, IT and Legal teams in Thomas Thor may access and otherwise process personal information in connection with their job responsibilities or contractual obligations. Your personal information may also be shared with Thomas Thor affiliate companies and with third party providers who perform services for Thomas Thor.

Third party service providers will be obligated to use that personal information only in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy and applicable legal requirements. In addition to the disclosures necessary for the purposes identified above, Thomas Thor may disclose your personal information to the extent required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.

CROSS-BORDER DATA COLLECTION

Personal information may be stored and processed by and transferred between Thomas Thor affiliate companies – and third-party service providers. Thomas Thor takes appropriate steps to ensure that recipients of your personal information are bound to duties of confidentiality and Thomas Thor implements measures such as standard data protection contractual clauses to ensure that any transferred personal information remains protected and secure. A copy of these documents can be obtained by sending an email to privacy@thomas-thor.com Securing your personal information Thomas Thor has appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to prevent accidental or unlawful access to or destruction, loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. Thomas Thor will store all the personal information you provide on secure servers. 

RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

All data submitted to Thomas Thor will be held for a maximum of 5 years from the date it is received by Thomas Thor, if contact is made between parties then the most recent communication will be used as the start date of the 5 years.  If you contract with Thomas Thor then the data will be held for a maximum of  5 years following the end date of your contract.

Legitimate Interest – Thomas Thor holds candidate information for reasons of legitimate interest, in other words individuals we have been in contact with in the last 5 years already saved in our database will remain in our database as part of our continuing drive to match suitable candidates with the requirements of our clients.

YOUR RIGHTS

You may be entitled, in accordance with applicable law (GDPR), to object to or request the restriction of processing of your personal information, and to request access to, rectification, erasure and portability of your own personal information. Requests should be submitted by using the contact details set out below. If you would like Thomas Thor to delete any personal information it holds in its records please send a request to privacy@thomas-thor.com however please be aware that if your information/contact details are available in the public domain such as on LinkedIn other job boards then we cannot guarantee that you will not be contact by Thomas Thor in the future.

If you no longer wish to be contacted by Thomas Thor then you may choose to opt out of future communications by following this link.

If you are aware of changes or inaccuracies in your personal information, you should inform Thomas Thor of such changes so that its records may be updated or corrected.

If you would like to know what information is held by Thomas Thor about you, you may send a request to privacy@thomas-thor.com and we will respond within 40 days, any subsequent requests will incur a fee for providing this information.

You may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you consider that Thomas Thor’s processing of your personal information infringes applicable law.

CONTACT THOMAS THOR

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or Thomas Thor’s treatment of your personal information, please send an email to privacy@thomas-thor.com 

POLICY UPDATE

Thomas Thor may update this privacy policy periodically by posting a new version on this website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes. If the changes made to the policy are material, Thomas Thor also may post a notice on the website prior to the effective date of the change, or, in some cases, may provide notice of the changes by email. This policy was last updated on January 1, 2023.

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