Privacy Policy
Last updated: 08/01/2025
Introduction
- This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use and process your personal data, and how, in doing so, we comply with our legal obligations to you. Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting and safeguarding your data privacy rights.
- This Privacy Policy applies in respect of the personal data of the following categories of people: Candidates, Temporary Workers, Clients, Suppliers and Third Parties, People Whose Data We Receive, Website Users, Staff Alumni, and Visitors.
- If you are:
- a member of Hays' Staff, you should refer to the Hays' Staff Privacy Policy which is available on the Hays Intranet; or
- seeking employment with Hays internally, you should refer to the Recruits Privacy Policy.
- For the purpose of applicable data protection legislation including but not limited to the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (the “GDPR”), and the UK GDPR, please note that when we refer to the GDPR throughout this Privacy Policy, we are referring to both the GDPR and UK GDPR.
- The company responsible for your personal data (“Hays”, “we” or “us“) can be found here.
- It is important to point out that we may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please just visit this page if you want to stay up to date, as we will post any changes here.
- If you are dissatisfied with any aspect of our Privacy Policy, you may have legal rights and, where relevant, we have described these in this document.
How to use this privacy policy
- This Privacy Policy tells you a few things about how we use your personal data, and perhaps more importantly, what your rights are in relation to this (you have, for example, the right to ask us to delete or confirm the nature of information that we hold about you at any time, withdraw any consents that you may previously have given and/or lodge a complaint with our Data Protection Officer or a supervisory authority if you are not happy about something we have done).
- The Privacy Policy is broadly divided into two sections:
- Context-specific privacy information that applies to the different categories of person covered by this Privacy Policy, as follows:
- General privacy information that applies to all of the different categories of people covered by this Privacy Policy, including:
- Who do we share your personal data with?
- How do we safeguard your personal data?
- How long do we keep your personal data for?
- How can you access, amend or take back the personal data that you have given to us?
- Who is responsible for processing your personal data when you access the Hays website?
- How do we store and transfer data internationally?
- Cookies Policy
- Use of third party services
- This Privacy Policy applies in relevant countries throughout our international network. Different countries may approach data privacy in slightly different ways and so we also have country-specific parts to this Privacy Policy. You can find country-specific provisions for your jurisdiction here. This allows us to ensure that we're complying with all applicable data privacy protections, no matter where you are.
- This Privacy Policy also contains a number of defined terms (which we distinguish by starting them with a capital letter), so we have included a Glossary at the end of this document.