Knight Recruitment Services Limited is committed to protecting the privacy of our candidates, clients and other users of our websites and services.
Where you provide us with your personal data, in person, by email, through this website or directly through our office, we will endeavour to ensure that such data remains private and is only used in accordance with this policy. By providing us with your personal data, you also consent for us to collect, hold, use and disclose your personal data in accordance with this policy. Knight must comply with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance in Hong Kong and similar laws in the other countries in which we operate.
Collection of Personal Data
Knight may collect your personal data from you, including (and not limited to) your name, contact details, qualifications, work history, your right to work in a particular country, languages spoken, professional memberships and accreditations, your work objectives and other data from your Curriculum Vitae ("CV"). If you are to be considered for a particular position, we may also contact and collect references from your nominated referees. All the personal data we collect is held, used and disclosed for the purposes set out below.
Use and Disclosure of Personal Data
Knight holds, uses and discloses your personal data for the following purposes:
- to provide our services to you;
- to maintain our business relationship, where you are a client, a candidate or a user of our website;
- to enable you to submit your CV generally or to apply for specific jobs;
- to match your details with job vacancies, to assist us in finding a position that is most suitable for you and, where you provide your prior consent as a candidate, to send your personal data to clients in order to apply for jobs;
- to answer your enquiries;
- where you are registered as a candidate on our database, your personal data will be accessible by all of our offices.
- we may also release personal data to regulatory or law enforcement authorities, if they require us to do so; and
- we may also seek your consent to collect, hold, use and disclose your personal data for any other purpose not listed above.
Privacy on Our Websites
a.) Submitting Your CV and Applying for Jobs
You may submit your CV to Knight via this website, either for general consideration by our recruitment consultants for positions as they arise or to apply for a specific advertised job. Once submitted, your CV will be sent directly to the relevant Knight recruitment consultant who will review your details and only the shortlisted candidates will be notified and contacted. Your CV will be stored in our database. This database, including your personal data, can be accessed by any of our recruitment consultants working in other offices of Knight, both inside and outside Hong Kong. You can update your CV at any time, simply by following the same procedure to submit a new CV via our websites.
b.) Aggregate Information About Website Visitors
We gather information and statistics about all visitors to this website, including the most frequently accessed pages and most frequently used services. We only use such data in aggregate form (that is, the information does not identify any one individual). This information helps us determine the most beneficial parts of our websites and ways in which we can continually improve our online services to create a better overall experience for our users.
c.) Cookies
Knight uses Google Analytics to collect information about how you use our websites. The information collected is used to improve how our websites work or the effectiveness of our web services to you. Information collected include (but not limited to) your login details, to track web traffic on an aggregate basis and to keep session information in cache to assist your use of our website, such as your last search (however, this information is discarded every time you close your web browser). You may wish to opt out by turning off cookies (please refer to the help menu on your browser), however, switching off cookies will restrict your use of our websites. For more information on analytics cookies, please visit Google’s website.
Access to Personal data
You may request access to or updating of your personal data held at Knight by contacting us directly. We may ask to verify your identity and for more information about your request. Where we are legally permitted to do so, we may refuse your request and give you reasons for doing so. Where you request your personal data to be updated and there is a dispute about the facts, we will make a note on your personal data of such dispute. You may also request that Knight stops using your information and contacting you and we will comply with your request. However, if this involves a request for deletion of your file, please be aware that we will need a minimum of 14 days to process your request.
Security
Knight takes reasonable steps to keep personal data secure, accurate and up to date. The Internet is not always a secure method of transmitting information. Accordingly, while we seek to protect your personal data by implementing digital security systems in various parts of our website, Knight cannot accept responsibility for the security of information you send to or receive from us over the Internet or for any unauthorised access or use of that information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Knight Recruitment Services Limited may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time without prior notice. We suggest that you visit our website regularly to keep up to date with any changes.
