1. Who we are
Fourteen Search Ltd (“Fourteen Search”, “we”, “us” or “our”) is a specialist recruitment and executive search business focused on go-to-market hiring within Cloud Security and AI Security.
For the purposes of UK data protection law, Fourteen Search Ltd is the data controller in respect of the personal information described in this Privacy Policy.
Company: Fourteen Search Ltd
Company No.: 17466086
Registered in England and Wales
Registered Office: 128 City Road, London, United Kingdom, EC1V 2NX
Email: hello@fourteensearch.com
2. What information we collect
Depending on your relationship with us, we may collect and process information including:
- your name and contact details;
- current and previous employers;
- job title and professional experience;
- CV, résumé or employment history;
- skills, qualifications and education;
- salary, compensation and employment preferences;
- location and right-to-work information where relevant;
- LinkedIn profile and other publicly available professional information;
- information you provide during calls, meetings or correspondence with us;
- information relating to roles for which you may be suitable;
- client contact information and details relating to recruitment assignments;
- website enquiry information.
Where necessary and lawful, we may also process limited special-category or other sensitive personal information, for example where this is relevant to an application or required by law.
3. Where we obtain your information
We may obtain information directly from you when you contact us, apply for a vacancy, send us your CV, speak with us or otherwise engage with Fourteen Search.
We may also identify potential candidates through professional and publicly available sources, including:
- LinkedIn;
- company websites;
- professional networking platforms;
- industry directories;
- job boards;
- referrals;
- publicly available professional information.
As a recruitment business, we may contact individuals who we believe could reasonably be interested in a relevant professional opportunity.
4. How we use your information
We may use your personal information to:
- provide recruitment and search services;
- identify roles that may be relevant to you;
- assess your suitability for opportunities;
- contact you about potential employment opportunities;
- introduce you to clients where appropriate;
- manage applications and recruitment processes;
- maintain our professional candidate network;
- communicate with clients and prospective clients;
- understand clients' hiring requirements;
- provide information about our services;
- operate and improve our website and business;
- maintain appropriate business records;
- comply with legal and regulatory obligations;
- establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
We will not submit your CV or personal information to a prospective employer as a candidate without appropriate discussion or authority from you.
5. Our lawful bases for processing
Under UK data protection law, we rely on different lawful bases depending on why we are using your information.
These may include:
Legitimate interests – where processing is reasonably necessary to operate our recruitment business, identify suitable candidates, develop professional relationships and provide recruitment services, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights.
Contract – where processing is necessary to take steps at your request or to fulfil an agreement with you.
Legal obligation – where we are required to process information in order to comply with applicable law.
Consent – where consent is the appropriate legal basis, including in certain circumstances involving sensitive information or particular forms of marketing.
Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time.
6. Candidates identified by Fourteen Search
You do not need to have applied for a vacancy for us to hold limited professional information about you.
We may identify individuals whose professional backgrounds appear relevant to our clients or specialist markets.
Where we obtain your personal information from another source, we will handle it in accordance with applicable data protection requirements and provide appropriate privacy information.
7. Sharing your information
We may share personal information where appropriate with:
- clients and prospective employers;
- technology providers used to operate our business;
- CRM and recruitment software providers;
- email, communications and cloud-service providers;
- professional advisers such as accountants, lawyers and insurers;
- regulatory or governmental authorities where legally required.
We only share information where there is an appropriate reason for doing so.
Candidate information will not ordinarily be provided to a client as an active candidate submission without the candidate being aware of the relevant opportunity.
8. International transfers
Fourteen Search works internationally, including with organisations and candidates in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.
This means personal information may sometimes be transferred outside the United Kingdom.
Where required, we will use appropriate safeguards for international transfers in accordance with applicable data protection law. These may include recognised adequacy arrangements, contractual safeguards or other lawful transfer mechanisms.
9. How long we keep information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including recruitment, relationship management and legal or regulatory requirements.
For candidate information, we would normally review whether information remains relevant periodically and may retain professional recruitment records for up to 24 months following our last meaningful interaction, unless there is a legitimate reason to retain them for longer or you ask us to delete them.
Certain contractual, financial or legal records may need to be retained for longer periods.
10. Keeping information secure
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or loss.
Access to personal information is limited to people and service providers who reasonably require it for legitimate business purposes.
11. Your rights
Depending on the circumstances, you may have rights to:
- request access to personal information we hold about you;
- ask us to correct inaccurate information;
- request deletion of your information;
- restrict how we use your information;
- object to certain processing;
- request transfer of certain information;
- withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
These rights are not absolute and may depend on the circumstances.
To exercise your rights, contact:
You may also make a complaint to the UK Information Commissioner's Office if you have concerns about how we handle your personal information.
12. Marketing
We may occasionally contact professional contacts about Fourteen Search services or relevant industry matters where permitted by law.
You can ask us to stop sending marketing communications at any time.
Recruitment communications regarding a specific employment opportunity are treated separately from general marketing communications.
13. Third-party websites
Our website may contain links to third-party websites.
Fourteen Search is not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites, and you should review their privacy information separately.
14. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our business, technology or legal obligations.
The current version will always be published on our website.