English law and jurisdiction applies with respect to the content of this site and the information submitted. In particular we recognise and address our obligations under the provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998). For the purposes of the Data Protection Act (1998), the data controller is Howells Consulting.

Except as set out herein and where required or permitted by law or a court of competent jurisdiction, we will not reveal any personal data about you to any third party.

We collect and use personal information in order to provide you with recruitment services, information about job vacancies and opportunities or to carry out market research and marketing analysis.

We will, to the extent that it is necessary in connection with the business of the Firm, pass your data to our emloyees for the purpose of supplying recruitment services to you.

We may disclose or transfer your data to prospective employers but only with your prior consent.

We may need to collect and process personal information about you (including your name, e-mail address, postal address and telephone number), along with details of your current and previous employment history, education and training. This may include sensitive data relating to you, including medical details, details of religious or philosophical beliefs, criminal offences or proceedings and details of race and ethnic origin. We may receive this information through this site or via one of our consultants.

We may occasionally contact you with information about some of our other recruitment opportunities that we feel may be of interest to you. This will only come from us and only if you have not objected.

We may analyse and disclose aggregate statistics about our site visitors and candidates in order to describe our services to prospective partners, clients and other reputable third parties and for other lawful purposes, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information.

We may disclose personal information, if required to do so by law or if we believe that such action is necessary, to protect and defend the rights, property or personal safety of the Firm, the site or its visitors.

Certain links contained within this website may lead to external servers and sites which are maintained by third parties unconnected to Howells Consulting, over which we have no control. We can accept no responsibility or liability in respect of any material contained within those sites or servers.

We log IP addresses for analysing visitor trends and traffic on our website. This information is not passed on to third parties.

The Firm regularly reviews the personal data it processes to ensure that it is up to date, accurate and not held for longer than necessary for our internal processes or as otherwise required by law. Your co-operation in helping us to keep your data accurate by informing us of any change of name or change of address is an important part of this. If you would like to review or change the details you have supplied us with, you may do so at any time.

You consent to us processing your information for the purposes of providing you with our services and maintaining our records. You also consent to your data being disclosed to any person, firm or company to whom we sell the whole or a substantial part of our business or to whom we may transfer any part of our rights or obligations.

If we change our privacy policy in any way, we will post these changes on this page.

You have a legal right to a copy of all the personal information about you held by us. You also have a right to correct any errors in that information.