Privacy Policy

This policy sets out how Centre People Appointments Limited and Centre People Appointments B.V. (We or Centre People) - a subsidiary of Quick Co. Ltd, Japan - collects, processes, and protects any information that you give Centre People when you use our website and services.

We appreciate your interest in our services and your visit to this website. Your privacy is important to us and we want you to feel comfortable visiting our site and using us. The protection of your privacy in the processing of your personal data is an important concern to which we pay special attention in our business processes. Personal data collected during visits to our websites and in your interactions with us are processed by us according to the legal provisions valid for the countries in which we operate our business services.

Centre People may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in applicable laws, regulatory guidance, our business operations, technology or the way in which we process personal data. Any material changes will be published on this page.
Effective Date: April 2018
Last Updated: July 2026
Review Frequency: At least annually and following any material legal, regulatory, operational or technological change.

Centre People is a recruitment business which provides work-finding services to its clients and work-seekers. Centre People must process personal data so that it can provide these services – in doing so, Centre People acts as a data controller.

We may collect personal data directly from you when you register with us, submit a CV, apply for a role, communicate with our staff, attend an interview, complete a form, use our website or enter into an employment or business relationship with us.

We may also obtain personal data from other sources, including job boards, professional networking platforms, publicly available sources, referees, former employers, clients, group companies, recruitment partners and other third parties where permitted by applicable law. Centre People must have a legal basis for processing your personal data. For the purposes of providing you with work-finding services and/or information relating to roles relevant to you, we will only use your personal data in accordance with this policy.

Contact details of the company

Centre People Appointments Limited

80 Cheapside

London

EC2V 6EE

United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)20 7929 5551

Email: reception@centrepeople.com

Centre People Appointments B.V.

Strawinskylaan 4117

1077 ZX Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Phone: +31 (0)20 800 5019

Email: amsterdam@centrepeople.com

Contact details of Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the information we hold on you, the use of your information or would like to discuss further, please contact our Data Protection Officer via enquiries@centrepeople.com

Collection and processing of personal data on this website

When you visit our website, our web servers store as standard; details of your browser and operating system, the website from which you visit our website and/or the search term(s) you used to find us, the pages that you visit on our website, the date of your visit, and, for security reasons [e.g. to identify attacks on our website] the IP address assigned to you by your internet service provider.

Personal data is only stored if you choose to submit it to us, e.g. during the CV registration process or in specific job applications or surveys. When you submit your personal data, we will only process it for the purposes of providing you with work-finding services.

Personal data we collect

Depending on our relationship with you, we may collect and process the following categories of personal data:

identification and contact information, including your name, title, address, email address and telephone number;
CVs, application forms, cover letters, employment history, education, professional qualifications, skills and career preferences;
salary, remuneration, benefits, notice period and availability information;
nationality, immigration status, right-to-work information and identification documentation;
interview notes, assessment results, references and communications relating to recruitment processes;
information relating to employment, temporary assignments, payroll, working time, holidays, sickness absence, pensions and benefits;
client, supplier and business-contact information;
website and technical information, including IP addresses, browser information, device information and cookie data;
records of communications with us;
information required to comply with legal, regulatory, contractual or professional obligations; and
any other information you voluntarily provide to us.

Special category and criminal offence data

In limited circumstances, we may process special category personal data, such as information concerning health, disability, racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs or trade union membership, where this is necessary and permitted by applicable law. For example, health or disability information may be processed to make reasonable adjustments during a recruitment process or employment.

We may also process information relating to criminal convictions or offences where this is necessary for a particular role, required by law or otherwise permitted under applicable data protection legislation.

We will only process such information where an appropriate lawful basis, additional legal condition and relevant safeguards apply.

Purpose and Disclosure of Personal Data

Centre People will hold and use your personal data for the following purposes:

To provide information, products and services that you request from us or we think will be of interest to you because it is relevant to your career or to your organisation.

To provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already been provided with or enquired about.
The core service we offer is the introduction of candidates to our clients for the purpose of temporary or permanent engagement
To generally maintain our business relationship with you as a client or a candidate where you are a user of our website.
To provide professional services to you or your company (such services will be subject to additional terms and conditions of use, including privacy).
To conduct data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, and to develop new products, enhance, improve or modify our websites, identify usage trends, determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and operate and expand our business activities.

Lawful bases for processing

We process personal data only where we have a lawful basis to do so. Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on one or more of the following lawful bases:

Contract: where processing is necessary to take steps at your request before entering into a contract or to perform a contract with you;
Legal obligation: where processing is necessary to comply with applicable employment, immigration, tax, social security, recruitment, regulatory or other legal obligations;
Legitimate interests: where processing is necessary for our legitimate business interests or those of a third party, provided that those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests;
Consent: where you have freely provided specific and informed consent, including where consent is required for particular marketing activities or certain categories of personal data; and
Vital interests or public interest: in limited circumstances where processing is necessary to protect an individual’s vital interests or perform a task in the public interest.

Our Legitimate Business Interests

Our legitimate interests in collecting and retaining your personal data is described below:

As a recruitment agency we introduce candidates to clients for permanent employment or temporary worker placements / contracts. The exchange of personal data of our candidates and our client contacts is a fundamental, essential part of this process
To support our candidates’ career aspirations and our clients’ resourcing needs we require a database of candidate and client personal data containing historical information as well as current resourcing requirements
To maintain, expand and develop our business we need to record the personal data of prospective candidates and client contacts

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a work-finding service. We may also use the information for the following reasons:

Internal record keeping and compliance with local laws
We may use the information internally to help improve our products and services
We may periodically send you promotional emails about new roles, job offers, or other information which we think you may find interesting, if you choose to receive these by specifically opting in during the registration process, via the email address which you have provided. You may opt out of this at any time by contacting us, or clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link in the emails
We may also use the information to customise the website according to your interests

Use and disclosure of personal data

We may share personal data, where necessary and lawful, with:

prospective and existing employers or clients in connection with recruitment and employment opportunities;
companies within the QUICK Group where appropriate;
payroll, pension, benefits, accounting and professional-service providers;
IT, CRM, email, communications, data-centre, hosting, website and information-security service providers;
recruitment platforms, assessment providers, background-screening providers and reference providers;
government departments, tax authorities, immigration authorities, regulators, courts, law-enforcement agencies and other public authorities where required or permitted by law;
insurers, auditors, legal advisers and other professional advisers; and
other third parties where you have authorised us to do so or where otherwise permitted by law.

Our service providers include providers of email, communications, recruitment CRM, payroll, IT infrastructure, data-centre hosting, website and information-security services.

International transfers of personal data

Centre People operates in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands and may transfer personal data between these locations and to clients, group companies or approved service providers in other countries where necessary for recruitment, employment, HR or business-administration purposes.

Where personal data is transferred outside the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area or another jurisdiction recognised as providing an adequate level of protection, we will ensure that the transfer is made in accordance with applicable data protection law. Depending on the circumstances, this may include reliance on applicable adequacy regulations or decisions, approved standard contractual clauses, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or UK Addendum, or another legally recognised transfer mechanism.

Where required, we will also assess the risks associated with the transfer and implement appropriate contractual, technical and organisational safeguards.

Providing information to us

If you are under the age of 16 please do not provide us with any personal information unless you have the explicit permission of your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) to do so.

You are responsible for informing us as soon as is reasonably practical of any change in your details, such as a change of address, a change to your immigration status, or an update to your curriculum vitae. You have a range of rights regarding the information we hold on you, as set out in General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (UK-GDPR) (Data Protection Act 2018)

Your rights:

The right to be informed about the personal data Centre People processes on you
The right of access to the personal data Centre People processes on you
The right to rectification of your personal data
The right to erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances
The right to restrict processing of your personal data
The right to data portability in certain circumstances
The right to object to the processing of your personal data that was based on a public or legitimate interest
The right not to be subjected to automated decision making and profiling; and
The right to withdraw consent at any time

Where you have consented to Centre People processing your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. To do this, please contact us via the details listed below.

Data Retention

Centre People retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including the provision of recruitment, employment and HR services and compliance with applicable legal, regulatory, tax, audit, insurance and dispute-resolution requirements.

The applicable retention period will depend on the nature of the personal data, our relationship with you, the purposes of processing, relevant legal requirements and whether the information may be required to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

Work-seeker and recruitment records will be retained for the minimum periods required under applicable employment-agency legislation and may be retained for a longer period where reasonably necessary for ongoing recruitment services, with an appropriate lawful basis. Payroll, employment, pension, tax and financial records will be retained for the periods required under applicable law.

We periodically review the personal data we hold. When personal data is no longer required, it will be securely deleted, anonymised or otherwise removed from active use, subject to any applicable legal or technical retention requirements.

Further information about applicable retention periods may be provided upon request.

Security

We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access. These measures include, where appropriate:

access controls based on business need and user roles;
multi-factor authentication;
encryption of devices, systems, databases or data transmissions where appropriate;
endpoint protection, patching and vulnerability-management measures;
secure remote-access arrangements;
backup and recovery procedures;
physical security measures;
confidentiality obligations;
staff information-security and data-protection training;
incident-detection, reporting and response procedures; and
due diligence and contractual controls relating to service providers.

No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. However, we regularly review and improve our safeguards, taking account of the nature of the personal data, the risks involved, available technology and applicable legal requirements.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps us analyse web traffic. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used which helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for anonymous statistical analysis purposes.

Overall, cookies help us provide a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages visitors find useful and which they do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. This may however prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave the Centre People website, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Your right to complain

We take privacy concerns seriously and encourage you to contact us first so that we have an opportunity to investigate and address your concerns. You may contact us at enquiries@centrepeople.com

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection supervisory authority.

For matters relating to Centre People Appointments Limited in the United Kingdom, the relevant authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Website: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/

For matters relating to Centre People Appointments B.V. in the Netherlands, the relevant authority is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.

Website: https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/

You may also be entitled to complain to the supervisory authority in the country in which you live, work or believe an infringement has occurred.