Privacy Policy

Fidelis Contract Services Ltd (collectively referred to as “Fidelis”, “we”, “us”, “our” in this Policy) understand that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. Fidelis respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits this website, www.fidelisgroup.co.uk (“ our website”) and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here, and in a way that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under the law.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of this Privacy Policy is deemed to occur upon your first use of our website and you will be required to read and accept this Privacy Policy when submitting any information on our website. If you do not accept and agree with this Privacy Policy, you must stop using our website immediately.

Definitions and Interpretation
In this Policy the following terms shall have the following meanings:

“Account”                    means an account required to access and/or use certain areas and features of our website;

“Cookie”                      means a small text file placed on your computer or device by our website when you visit certain parts of our website and/or when                                                          you use certain features of our website. Details of the Cookies used by our website are set out in this policy; and

“Cookie Law”              means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003;

Information About Us
Our website is owned and operated by Fidelis Contract Services Ltd registered at Holly House, Shady Lane, Birmingham, B44 9ER under company number 07682858.

We have appointed a person responsible for overseeing questions in relations to this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions, including any requests to exercise your rights in relation to data protection, please contact the following:

Name: Zuzana Kunertova

Telephone: 0121 289 3258

Email: gdpr@fidelisgroup.co.uk

What Does This Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of our website. Our website may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.

What is Personal Data?
Personal data is defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) as ‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier’.

Personal data is, in simpler terms, any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details, but it also covers less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.

What Are My Rights?
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:

        1. The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data. This Privacy Policy should tell you everything you need to know, but you can always contact us to find out more or to ask any questions using our contact details in this Policy.
        2. The right to access the personal data we hold about you. This Policy will tell you how to do this.
        3. The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete. Please contact us using the contact details provided in this Policy.
        4. The right to be forgotten, i.e. the right to ask us to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data that we have. Please contact us using the contact details provided in this Policy.
        5. The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data.
        6. The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes.
        7. The right to data portability. This means that, if you have provided personal data to us directly, we are using it with your consent or for the performance of a contract, you can ask us for a copy of that personal data to re-use with another service or business in many cases.
        8. Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling. We do not use automated decision-making and profiling.

For more information about our use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact us using the contact details provided in this Policy.

Further information about your rights can also be obtained from the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.

If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

What Data Do We Collect?
Depending upon your use of our website, we may collect some or all of the following personal and non-personal data (please also see use of Cookies and similar technologies):

  • Name;
  • Date of birth;
  • Gender;
  • Address;
  • Email address;
  • Telephone number;
  • Company name;
  • Job title;
  • Profession;
  • Driving Licence (Y/N)
  • Information about your preferences and interests;
  • IP address;
  • Web browser type and version;
  • Operating system;
  • A list of URLs starting with a referring site, your activity on our website, and the site you exit to;

How Do You Use My Personal Data?
Under the GDPR, we must always have a lawful basis for using personal data. This may be because the data is necessary for our performance of a contract with you, because you have consented to our use of your personal data, or because it is in our legitimate business interests to use it. Your personal data will be used for one of the following purposes:

  • Providing and managing your Account;
  • Personalising and tailoring your experience on our website;
  • Personalising and tailoring our services for you;
  • Communicating with you. This may include responding to emails or calls from you;
  • Supplying you with information by email that you have opted-in to (you may unsubscribe or opt-out at any time;
  • Analysing your use of our website and gathering feedback to enable us to continually improve our website and your user experience;
  • Recruitment. To enable us to consider you for employment with us.

With your permission and/or where permitted by law, we may also use your personal data for marketing purposes, which may include contacting you by email or telephone with information, news, and offers on our services. You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam. We will always work to fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and you will always have the opportunity to opt-out.

How Long Will You Keep My Personal Data?
We will not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

We retain your personal data as long as we are providing our services to you. We retain personal data after we cease providing services to you, even if you close your Fidelis account, to the extent necessary to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, and for the purpose of fraud monitoring, detection and prevention. We also retain personal data to comply with our tax, accounting, and financial reporting obligations, where we are required to retain the data by our contractual commitments to our financial partners, and where data retention is mandated by the payment methods that we support. Where we retain data, we do so in accordance with any limitation periods and records retention obligations that are imposed by applicable law.

We will retain your personal data as follows:

  • Usage data is retained for a maximum of 50 months;
  • Email enquiries, brochure requests and call back requests data will be retained for a maximum period of 3 months following the date of submission;
  • Reviews data will be retained for a maximum period of 6 years from date of submission;
  • For recruitment data, the jobs listings data is retained for a maximum of 3 months from date of expiry and the CV search communications are retained for a maximum of 3 months from date of being sent;
  • Website users accounts are retained for a maximum of 3 years from date of last log in unless they are connected to a listing organisation;
  • Email newsletter data is retained as long as the subscriber wishes to continue to receive the monthly newsletter.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

How and Where Do You Store or Transfer My Personal Data?
We will only store or transfer your personal data in the UK. This means that it will be fully protected under the GDPR.

The security of your personal data is essential to us, and to protect your data, we take a number of important measures.

Do You Share My Personal Data?
We will not share any of your personal data with any third parties for any purposes, subject to one important exception.

In some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.

How Can I Control My Personal Data?
In addition to your rights under the GDPR, when you submit personal data via our website, you may be given options to restrict our use of your personal data. In particular, we aim to give you strong controls on our use of your data for direct marketing purposes (including the ability to opt-out of receiving emails from us which you may do by unsubscribing using the links provided in our emails).

Can I Withhold Information?
You may access certain areas of our website without providing any personal data at all. However, to use all features and functions available on our website you may be required to submit or allow for the collection of certain data.

You may restrict our use of Cookies. For more information, see the below “How Do You Use Cookies?” section of this Policy.

How Can I Access My Personal Data?
If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details of that personal data and for a copy of it (where any such personal data is held). This is known as a “subject access request”.

All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email or postal addresses shown in the Policy. To make this as easy as possible for you, a Subject Access Request Form is available for you to use. You do not have to use this form, but it is the easiest way to tell us everything we need to know to respond to your request as quickly as possible.

There is not normally any charge for a subject access request. If your request is ‘manifestly unfounded or excessive’ (for example, if you make repetitive requests) a fee may be charged to cover our administrative costs in responding.

We will respond to your subject access request within one month of receiving it. Normally, we aim to provide a complete response, including a copy of your personal data within that time. In some cases, however, particularly if your request is more complex, more time may be required up to a maximum of three months from the date we receive your request. You will be kept fully informed of our progress.

How Do You Use Cookies?
About cookies
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Cookies that we use
We use cookies for the following purposes:

Status – we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website;

Personalisation – we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise our website for you;

Security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;

Analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services; and

Cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.

Cookies used by our service providers
Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Managing cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).


Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

Data protection registration
We are registered as a data controller with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

Our data protection registration number is ZA026841.

How Do I Contact You?
To contact us about anything to do with your personal data and data protection, including to make a subject access request, please use the following details:

Email address: gdpr@fidelisgroup.co.uk

Telephone number: 0121 289 3258

Postal Address: Holly House, Shady Lane, Birmingham, B44 9ER

Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection.

Any changes will be immediately posted on our website and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of our website following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.