Legal
Privacy Policy
This notice explains what personal data Digitalent Recruitment Limited and Digitalent Australia Pty Ltd collect, why we collect it, who we share it with, how long we keep it and what rights you have. It covers candidates, clients, suppliers and anyone visiting this website. Effective 19 August 2026.
Who We Are
Digitalent Recruitment Limited is the data controller for the United Kingdom, the United States and anywhere outside Australia. Digitalent Australia Pty Ltd is the controller for Australia.
Digitalent Recruitment Limited, company number 10894480, registered in England and Wales, Manchester, United Kingdom. Contact us about anything in this notice at dataprivacy@digitalent.agency.
This notice applies to:
- Candidates we approach, represent or place
- Contractors and associates we place on assignment with a client
- Representatives of our clients, suppliers and partners
- Anyone visiting digitalent.agency
It does not apply to our own employees, who receive a separate notice.
What This Website Collects
Almost nothing. This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from a third party.
There is no tracking on this website. We do not use cookies, web beacons, pixels, advertising networks or analytics services, and we do not build a profile of you from your visit. There is nothing to opt out of, which is why you have not been asked to accept anything.
Our server keeps standard access logs, which include IP addresses, for security and troubleshooting. Once a week those logs are counted up into a summary of which pages were read and how many visits there were. That summary holds totals only: no IP address goes into it, nobody is followed from one page to the next, and no profile is built. The logs themselves are deleted after 30 days. A few links leave this site: to Calendly for booking a call, and to our own profiles on LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Those services have their own privacy notices and we suggest you read them before using any of them.
If you send us a message or your details through a form on this site, we receive what you type and use it only to reply. If you tell us how you heard about us, we use that to understand which channels work.
If we add an analytics service in future, this section will be updated before it goes live, and you will be asked to consent where the law requires it.
What We Collect About Candidates and Clients
The information needed to represent you properly, and nothing collected simply because it might be useful one day.
From everyone we deal with:
- Name, email address, telephone number and location
- Records of our correspondence and conversations with you
From candidates and contractors, in addition:
- Employment and education history, skills and qualifications
- Your CV and anything else you choose to send us
- Your professional profiles, such as LinkedIn or GitHub
- Compensation expectations and current package
- Right to work and visa or sponsorship status
- Interview notes, feedback and recorded first-stage interviews where you have agreed to one
- References, where you have given us the details
- Where we place you on a contract, the payroll and tax information required to pay you
We do not routinely collect special category data such as health, ethnic origin, religion or sexual orientation. Where a client runs diversity monitoring, that is done with your explicit consent and you can decline without it affecting your application.
Some information reaches us from public professional sources such as LinkedIn or GitHub, or from a referral. Where we approach you having found you that way, we will tell you so if you ask.
Why We Use It, and Our Legal Basis
To find people roles and to find clients people. Everything below follows from that.
- Legitimate interests. Matching candidates to roles, approaching people about opportunities, representing you to a client, managing our client relationships, keeping our records accurate, and protecting our business against fraud. You can object to this at any time and we will stop unless we have a compelling reason not to.
- Contract. Where we are placing you or working under terms of business with a client, to do what we have agreed.
- Consent. For recorded interviews, diversity monitoring, and any marketing. You can withdraw consent at any time.
- Legal obligation. Right-to-work checks, tax, and anything else the law requires of us.
We do not make decisions about you by automated means alone. A person decides who goes on a shortlist.
Who We Share It With
Clients you have agreed to be represented to, and the small number of suppliers who help us operate.
We share a candidate's details with a client only when the candidate has agreed to be put forward for that specific role. We do not circulate CVs speculatively.
We use suppliers for email, scheduling, recorded interviews, document storage and accounting. They act on our instructions and may not use your data for their own purposes. We will also disclose data where the law requires it, and in the event we sell or transfer the business.
We do not sell personal data, and we never have.
International Transfers
We operate across the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, so data moves between them.
Where data leaves the UK we rely on adequacy regulations where they exist, and on the International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to the European Commission's standard contractual clauses where they do not. Transfers involving Australia are covered by the Australian Privacy Act and the same contractual protections.
How Long We Keep It
For as long as it is useful to you and to us, and no longer.
- Candidates we have not placed: up to two years from our last meaningful contact, then deleted, unless you ask us to keep in touch for longer or ask us to delete it sooner.
- Candidates we have placed: six years from the end of the placement, which covers the limitation period for any claim and our tax and accounting obligations.
- Recorded interviews: deleted once the search is closed, unless you and the client have both agreed otherwise.
- Client and supplier records: six years from the end of the relationship.
Your Rights
You can ask us what we hold, correct it, delete it, restrict what we do with it, or object to it entirely.
In the UK, under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, you have the right to be informed, of access, to rectification, to erasure, to restrict processing, to data portability, to object, and not to be subject to solely automated decision-making. In Australia, the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles give you comparable rights of access and correction.
Email dataprivacy@digitalent.agency and we will respond within one month. There is no charge. We will not ask you to justify a deletion request.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk in the UK, or to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au in Australia. We would rather you came to us first, but you do not have to.
Security and Changes to This Notice
We protect data with encryption in transit, access controls and monitored infrastructure.
No system is perfectly secure, but we keep the amount of data we hold deliberately small, which is the most effective protection there is.
We update this notice when our practices change. The effective date at the top tells you when it last changed. Where a change is significant we will say so on the website rather than expecting you to notice.
Questions, or to exercise any right above: dataprivacy@digitalent.agency. Effective 19 August 2026.