Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last modified: June 2020

FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS: Your Privacy Rights and How To Exercise Them

Data Protection and Privacy Policy

Michael Page's online service is committed to protecting the privacy of our users. We want to provide a safe and secure user experience.  We will ensure that the information you submit to us via our website at michaelpage.com (The Michael Page Site) remains private, and is only used for the purposes set out in this policy.

The Information We Collect and How We Use It

Your personal details, including your name, e-mail address and resume, are held and used by us for the following purposes:
  • For matching your coded details with job vacancies, to assist us in finding you the position that most suits you;
  • For keeping you informed of Michael Page services, news and wider developments in your chosen field;
  • For tailoring the version of our website you see when you log on to make it relevant to you; and/or
  • For compiling salary and other surveys of our candidates. 

Disclosures of Your Information

We will share your information within the Michael Page group of companies where necessary in order to provide you with our recruitment services.

It is possible that Michael Page could merge or be acquired by another business. If this happens, we may share the information that relates to you with the new owners of the business and their advisers. You will be sent notice of such an event.

Your resume and related information will be sent to prospective employers but only where you give your consent.

 We may also release information relating to you to regulatory or law enforcement authorities, if required to do so. We also reserve the right to disclose the information we have collected about you to our professional advisors and to other persons to the extent that Michael Page contracts out any aspect of the operation of its recruitment agency services. These third parties will be acting under similar undertakings of confidentiality as Michael Page.

Data Security

Michael Page employs a full suite of industry standard data security measures.

Job Alerts

To subscribe to job alerts emails, you will be required to provide your e-mail address, which will be used for the purpose of keeping you informed, by e-mail, of the latest jobs in your nominated industry and/or industry news via job alerts.

Should you decide that you no longer wish to receive this information, unsubscribe links are provided in every job alert email that you receive.

Job alerts can also be received via RSS feeds without having to provide your email address.

Resume

We give you the option of submitting your resume via this website. You can do this either to apply for a specific advertised job or for consideration by our recruitment consultants for positions as they come up. Although your resume will be stored online, it will only be accessible by Michael Page group recruitment consultants. Your resume will also be e-mailed directly to our recruitment consultants who review your details and enter them onto our central in-house database.

You can update your resume at any time, simply by following the same procedure to submit a new resume. Your old resume will automatically be replaced.

Aggregate Information About Michael Page Online Visitors

We gather information and statistics collectively about all visitors to this website and all of the Michael Page websites worldwide, for example, which area users' access most frequently and which services users' access the most. We only use such data in the aggregate form. This information helps us determine what is most beneficial for our users and how we can continually improve our online services to create a better overall experience for our users.  We also publish some of this information on the Michael Page websites worldwide.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a small data file which is sent from a web server to a web browser when that browser visits the server's site. Find out more about the use of cookies on www.allaboutcookies.org. Cookies are used, on the michaelpage.com website to remember your login, to track web traffic on an aggregate basis so that no individuals are identified, to keep session information such as your last search (this information is disposed of every time you close your web browser). Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies. If you want to know how to do this please look at the help menu on your browser[1]. However, switching off cookies will restrict your use of our website.

Access

You have the right at any time to ask us for a copy of the information supplied by you that we hold. We have the right to charge an administrative fee for this service. If you would like to make a request for information, please contact websites@michaelpage.com. You also have the right to ask Michael Page to stop using your information.
 

Other Websites

Please note that clicking on to links and banner advertisements may result in your transfer to another website, where data privacy practices may be different to that of Michael Page. Visitors should consult the other websites' privacy policies as we are not responsible for, and have no control over, information that is submitted to or collected by these third parties.

Internet-based Transfers

Given that the Internet is a global environment, using the Internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an basis. Therefore, by browsing this web site and communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way.

Authorized Agents

You may designate an authorized agent to exercise your right to know or your right to delete by submitting to us a completed “Authorized Agent Designation” form.  You can obtain the designation form by contacting us at datacompliance@michaelpage.us.com.

If an authorized agent submits a request to know or a request to delete on your behalf, the authorized agent must submit with the request either (a) a power of attorney that is valid under California law, or (b) a document signed by you that authorizes the authorized agent to submit the request on your behalf.  In addition, we may ask you to follow the applicable process described above for verifying your identity.

Company’s Non-Discrimination Policy

California consumers have the right not to be subject to discriminatory treatment by Company for exercising their privacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, and Company will not discriminate on that basis. However, Company may charge a California consumer a different price or rate or provide a different level or quality of goods or services if the difference is reasonably related to the value provided to the California consumer by the consumer’s personal information.  If Company does so, it will provide consumers with any legally required notice.

For More Information

For questions or concerns about Company’s privacy policies and practices, please contact us at datacompliance@michaelpage.us.com.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

This privacy policy may be changed by Michael Page at any time. If we change our privacy policy in the future, we will set out those changes here and update the privacy policy modification date above, so that you will always know what personal information we gather, the purposes we might use it for and to whom we might disclose it. If we materially change this privacy policy in a way that affects how we use or disclose your personal data, we will provide a prominent notice of such changes and the effective date of the changes before making them. If, at any time, you have questions or concerns about Michael Page's online privacy commitment, please feel free to e-mail us at websites@michaelpage.com or call your local office to speak to one of our representatives.