Recruitment and Employment Privacy
Providing transparency over how we use your data for recruitment and employment
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives employees more control over how companies like ours use your personal information and makes it quicker and easier for you to check and update the information we hold about those who apply for a position as well as those who work for our firm.
As part of our service to you, we will continue to collect, use, store and share your data safely and securely where we have a legitimate interest or contractual or legal obligation to do so. This doesn’t require any action on your part. Beyond May 25th we will continue to communicate with you for things that you would reasonable expect to receive from us.
We have provided some useful, clear English information on how we collect and use your data below, full details of our recruitment and employment privacy policies can be located within our staff handbook or on request.
Requesting to see what information we hold on you
(Subject Access Requests)
Since May 25th 2018 individuals have the right to request information from companies about the information they hold on them. Companies are not allowed to charge for this data and must respond within 1 month.
If you would like to make a subject access request to Harrison Drury Solicitors please do so by sending an email to
If you would like to make a complaint, or would like us to stop processing your data
Under current data protection regulations individuals have the right to request that their data is removed. Whilst we always try to comply with any reasonable and lawful request for removal of your data from our systems there are some circumstance we may refuse your right to be forgotten.
To make a complaint or to make a request for us to stop using your data please contact
richard.blackburn@harrison-drury.com
By opting out of receiving communications from us you will no longer receive information on up-coming events, news, or legal updates. However, we may still be required to send you emails relating to any recent or ongoing legal matters and we may contact you if we feel there are similar services you could benefit from if we believe there is a genuine legitimate interest to do so”).
