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rarerecruitment.co.uk,
targetoxbridge.co.uk,
contextualrecruitment.co.uk,
contextualrecruitment.com,
discusslaw.co.uk,
candidats.io,
candidx.io,
invessed.careers,
vantageapp.io and,
hemisphereapp.io (law, finance, education and general versions) (“Sites”)

You may give us personal data about you by filling in forms on our Sites, for example, the Vantage form on vantageapp.io or at rare.app.candidx.io/, by requesting a demo of our products or services, or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or in person during a meeting with us. This includes personal data you provide when you register to use our Sites, products or services, and when you report a problem with the same.
The personal data you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, photograph, gender and social mobility, qualifications and examination grades, work experience and extracurricular activities, job applications and the outcome of those applications.
You may also give us special categories of personal data, including details of your gender, race or ethnicity, health data and date of birth.

When you sign up to Vantage, we will ask you to provide certain personal data, including name, contact details, education history and education attainment. You will also be asked a series of questions about your socio-economic background (e.g. whether you have lived in care, whether you received free school meals, etc.). We use this information to help assess whether you overachieved academically in light of your surrounding personal circumstances by comparing your results with national statistics.
Vantage accounts are tiered:
- Vantage Passport - This is a basic Vantage account which will store your data and allow you to apply to multiple potential employers (“partner firms”) using Rare’s Applicant Tracking System, Candid ATS (“Candid ATS”), without having to input the same data multiple times. Your data is not published, and no other firms get access to your data unless you apply for a role with a specific partner firm that uses Candid ATS. A list of partner firms and links to their privacy policies can be found here.
- Vantage Connect – A Vantage Connect account allows you to connect with employers using Vantage (“Vantage partner firms”) and hear directly about opportunities. Your profile, including your personal data and contextual data, is published on Vantage and is available to search by Vantage partner firms.
Once you have created a Vantage account, we may contact you regarding your complete or partially complete Vantage profile or ongoing applications.
By completing your Vantage Connect profile, you acknowledge that the information you have provided, including personal data, and your contextual data, will be shared with Vantage partner firms, who may contact you directly regarding employment opportunities. A list of the Vantage partner firms who will have access to your information, and a link to their privacy policies, can be found here:

When you sign up to Hemisphere, you will be provided with an invitation code to create your account using your email address and a password. Your answers to any questions from the training will be deleted after you have completed the training, or after 30 days of account creation, unless you have provided explicit consent for us to store them.
We retain the following information:

Email address;
Invitation code;
Account creation date;
Whether you have completed the training;
Training completion date; and
How much time was spent on the training.

We do not retain your answers to any questions from the training, unless you have provided explicit consent for us to do so.
We will only send you emails related to your training. You can choose to unsubscribe from these emails if you wish.
We will not share your information with any third parties.

With regard to each of your visits to our Sites we may automatically collect the following information:
- technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, browser type and version and platform; and
- information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our Sites (including date and time); page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

We may receive personal data about you from employers and potential employers who you apply to with our help, who provide us with feedback and decision outcomes relating to your performance during the recruitment process, during internships and/or work placements.

Many employers in the UK use Rare’s Contextual Recruitment System (CRS) in the context of their application processes. This means that when you apply for a position with some employers you will be asked a series of questions about your socio-economic background (e.g. whether you have lived in care, whether you received free school meals etc).
Your answers to these questions are then passed to Rare (only with your consent) but will exclude identifying data such as your name, phone number, postal address, email address or date of birth unless otherwise stated on your application form.
The personal data you give us may include your age 14-16, 16-18 and university qualifications and examination grades, your home postcode at age 16, free school meals eligibility, whether you worked during school and university, whether you were first in your family to go to university, refugee/asylum seeker status, whether you spent time in care and parent/carer status .
This pseudonymised information is used to help assess whether you overachieved academically in light of your surrounding personal circumstances by comparing your results with national statistics. The results of Rare’s data processing are then passed back to the employer who can link the result to your individual application and further assess your application. If you consent to it when you apply for a position directly with a third party which uses CRS, the data which Rare receives from employers may also be used by Rare for further research purposes (e.g. to identify trends such as the number of people who have lived in care who achieve AAA in their A levels). Please note that the CRS does not involve automated individual decision-making (making a decision solely by automated means without any human involvement). The CRS collects specific data which allows a human recruiter to better evaluate the outperformance of an individual.

to carry out our obligations arising from any agreements between you and us and to provide you with the information and services that you request from us;
to send you information about suitable job opportunities
to allow employers to send you information about suitable job opportunities; and
to notify your school, sixth form college or university that you have applied to a programme, and the outcome of that application, if the opportunity was promoted to you by your school, sixth form college or university.

to provide your personal data to our clients (universities and their associated colleges, employers and Vantage partner firms) to whom you are applying or have registered for career events and with whom you have permitted us to share your personal data;
to send you information and newsletters;
to notify you about changes to our service;
to conduct periodic campaigns, satisfaction or market research surveys, as well as to analyse the results; and
to offer our services to you in a personalised way.

to perform those research activities described above (only fully anonymised data will be used for research purposes);
to resolve any disputes, if you lawfully exercise your rights or if you wish to dispute any part of our service offering;
to ensure the security of your data and our business, preventing or detecting fraud or abuses of our services, for example, by requesting verification information in order to reset your account password (if applicable);
to develop and improve our Sites, products and services, for example, by reviewing the use of our Sites by users;
to administer our Sites and for internal business administration and operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes; and
to comply with applicable law, for example, in response to a request from a court or regulatory body, where such request is made in accordance with the law.

In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
If Rare Recruitment Ltd or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Rare Recruitment Ltd, our customers, or others.
So that we can use third party software to contact you via text or email.
As described elsewhere in this policy.

Request correction of your personal data. You may have the right to obtain without undue delay the rectification of any inaccurate personal data we hold about you.
Request erasure of your personal data. You may have the right to request that personal data held about you is deleted.
Request restriction of processing your personal data. You may have the right to prevent or restrict the processing of your personal data.
Request transfer of your personal data. You may have the right to request the transfer of personal data directly to a third party where this is technically feasible.

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