Fluid Privacy Policy – a division of Fford & Stone International Ltd.
Fluid may collect your personal details, including but not limited to details from your CV including your name and contact details and other information submitted to us. On occasion this may also include sensitive personal information. This information is held, used and disclosed by us as follows:
To provide services to our candidates and clients, to match your profile with vacancies, to answer enquiries, to enable information to be submitted such as CV’s, to apply for positions, to subscribe to alerts, to enable marketing communications and to fulfil our contractual obligations to our clients.
You may unsubscribe from marketing communications by contacting info@ffordstone.com
To enable us to provide our service to you we may also share your details with third parties for purposes such as reference and criminal record checking, qualification verification, skills testing and psychometric evaluations.
We may release personal information to law enforcement agencies or regulatory bodies upon demand. We will only disclose information where permitted and required to do so by law.
Cookies
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping baskets, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.
Curriculum Vitae / Résumé
Upon submission your CV will be stored in the Fluid (Fford & Stone Ltd) database and will be accessible by Fluid (Fford & Stone Ltd).
You can update your CV at any time by contacting us at info@ffordstone.com
Equal Opportunities
Fluid is an equal opportunities company and we are committed to diversity. All job applicants will receive equal treatment.
Access to information held by Fluid (Fford & Stone Ltd)
Clients and candidates of Fluid have the right to request a copy of information held by us that relates to you. Fluid will ask you to verify your identity and reserves the right to charge an administration fee for this service. Where Fluid (Fford & Stone Ltd) is legally permitted or required to do so, we may refuse your request but will provide our reasons for doing so.
If you would like to make a request for information, please contact: info@ffordstone.com
You have the right to ask Fluid to stop using your information. However, if this involves a request to delete your file be aware that Fluid (Fford & Stone Ltd) may not be required or able to do so, especially where your file holds information connected to our clients or financial information that we are required to keep for up to six years (i.e. for tax purposes).
Where we are unable to comply with your request we will provide our reasons for this.
Partner and third-party websites
Clicking on links and banner advertisements may transfer you to other websites. The privacy policies of these websites may differ to that of Fford & Stone International Ltd. Fluid (Fford & Stone Ltd) is not responsible for and has no control over third party / other websites.
Website and internet transfers
By browsing our website and communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to our processing your personal data by transmission on an international basis.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may be changed by Fluid (Fford & Stone Ltd) at any time.
GDPR
By submitting an application, or any of your details by any means (including 3rd party websites, email, post etc) you agree to the storage of all personal data provided by you directly or from accessible sources in the public domain (i.e. professional networking sites, social media, CV databases etc) where your details are registered.
You agree to your details being stored and / or accessed throughout any recruitment process (CV, references, letter of application, interviews etc) and beyond in order that we may render our professional services to you in the future.
You may remove your consent to this agreement at any time. In order to do so please contact Fford & Stone’s Data Protection Officer.
To contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) please email dpo@ffordstone.com
LEGAL – FLUID (Fford & Stone Ltd)
Indemnity
Unless otherwise specified Fluid acts as an introductory agency only. Under no circumstances shall Fford & Stone Ltd be liable and all those that use our services shall indemnify and hold Fford & Stone Ltd harmless for any loss, expense, delay, damage or other claim arising from any introduction or engagement.
No warranties, conditions or representations, express or implied, are given by Fford & Stone Ltd other than those implied by law. Our service users acknowledge that Fford & Stone Ltd is neither responsible for the acts and omissions of any candidate or client, or for the candidate or client themselves.
Fluid service users acknowledge that the limitations and exclusions of liability herein set out are reasonable and reflected in the fees payable to Fford & Stone and agree that they shall bear any risk associated with the services provided by Fluid.
Fluid (Fford & Stone Ltd) will endeavour to maintain a high standard of service and integrity but give no warranties express or implied. Service users shall take such steps as deemed necessary to satisfy themselves of the suitability of the services being rendered at the time of engagement.
For a full copy of Fford & Stone terms and conditions contact us.
Contact
If you have any enquiries you can contact us at: info@ffordstone.com
Our registered office is:
Fford & Stone International Ltd
27 Old Gloucester Street
London
WC1N 3AX
IR35
UK HMRC IR35 LEGISLATION FOR PRIVATE COMPANIES FROM APRIL 2020.
This information is intended for hiring organisations who will be impacted as a result of the off-payroll working rules (IR35 reform) in effect as of April 2020. It is provided for general information and use only and it is not intended to amount to advice on which you rely.
Newly introduced legislation for the UK requires, that in relation to private sector contractor services, the client (fee payer) is responsible for deducting tax and N.I. contributions ‘at source’ if the contract is deemed inside IR35.
This new legislative requirement is intended to help combat misclassification of status due to non-compliant blanket or role-based assessments. Crucially, the draft amendments clarify that the requirement for an SDS is not met if the client fails to take ‘reasonable care’ in arriving at its decision. Should this be the case, the client assumes the position of ‘fee-payer’ which would typically be held by a recruitment agency.
As the fee-payer, the client assumes liability for any tax deemed unpaid as a result of the engagement. They also assume responsibility for reporting and deducting tax from payments made to contractors. Consequently, for hiring organisations, providing a valid and accurate status determination statement is essential to meet their statutory obligations and mitigate any financial risk.
The Off-Payroll rules require the end client to supply a Status Determination Statement as part of their duty of “reasonable care”.
An SDS should be completed by the relevant person(s) and subsequently provided to the relevant parties for each new PSC engagement and existing PSC engagement who will, or is expected to, receive a payment on or after 6th April 2020.
According to the draft legislation published on 11th July 2019, the statement must include:
- The status decision made on the engagement
- The reasons which led to this decision
The statement must be shared with both the contractor and the next party in the supply chain from the client (in most cases this would be the recruitment agency placing the contractor (the fee payer), however in more complicated supply chains, this may be a different party who will be obliged to pass on the statement until it reaches the fee payer).
Note:
- An IR35 ‘status determination statement’ (SDS) should be provided when assessing the IR35 status of contractors, before a contract begins.
- Fluid (Fford & Stone International Ltd) always recommend you consult with your legal teams and/or a specialist review service prior to supplying a Status Determination Statement.
- This determination can be produced using HMRC’s CEST Tool / an independent status review service / in-house expertise.
See the HMRC Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) online tool here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-employment-status-for-tax)