WEB-SCRAPING AND COLD MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS NOTICE
We Are Tax Revolution Ltd (“we”, “us”, “our”) operates a recruitment and talent sourcing service that identifies and connects professionals with relevant career opportunities and organisations.
As part of our service, we may collect and process personal data relating to individuals who are active or passive candidates in the professional market.
We may obtain this information from professional networking platforms, corporate websites, job boards, public directories, and other publicly accessible sources, as well as from trusted third-party data providers and group companies within our organisation.
We use this information to build and maintain a professional talent database, to assess suitability for current and future roles, and to provide recruitment and talent matching services to our clients. We may also enrich and update this information using additional publicly available or commercially sourced data to ensure accuracy and relevance.
We may use this data to contact individuals directly by email, telephone, or professional networking platforms (such as LinkedIn) to inform them about relevant job opportunities, career updates, or recruitment services that may be of interest.
When we contact you for the first time, we will provide you with a copy of this Privacy Notice.
You have the right to object, at any time, to any of the following:
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@wearerevolution.co.
Read the Privacy Notice below to learn more.
This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, process, and share your personal data.
Name: We Are Tax Revolution Ltd (T/a We Are Legal Revolution & We Are Tax Revolution & We Are Data Revolution)
Business address: 15 Clarence Road, Southend-On-Sea, England, SS1 1AN
Contact email: info@wearerevolution.co
When you register on our websites/platforms or click on a job advertisement to fill out an application, you provide us with your data directly and voluntarily. When you respond to our cold outreach, you may submit additional details about yourself.
We use automated tools such as web-scraping technologies to collect personal data from a range of professional and publicly available sources. This may include professional networking platforms such as LinkedIn, corporate websites, job boards, public directories, and other commercially available data sources. We also use technology-enabled tools to identify and consolidate publicly available personal data.
As addressed in section 7 of this Privacy Notice, we obtain personal data of individuals and legal entities from Watts & Associates Recruitment Limited. This may include your contact details, the organisation you are affiliated with, your role in the organisation, and other details.
Personal & Contact Information: Full name, address, phone number, email; Date of birth/age; National ID or passport details (for right-to-work checks); Photo (sometimes)
Business Data: Your business email address, the organisation you are affiliated with, and your role.
Professional Background: CV/resume (work history, job titles, employers, dates), other data submitted by the candidates
Job Search Preferences: Desired role, industry, location; Salary expectations; Availability/notice period; Full-time vs. part-time, remote preferences; Willingness to relocate or travel
Assessment & Screening Data: Data concerning assessments completed by candidates.
Sensitive / Special Category Data: Ethnicity, gender, disability status — for diversity monitoring; Criminal record checks (DBS/background checks); Right-to-work status/visa/immigration information; Health information relevant to role adjustments
Communications: Emails, messages, and notes exchanged with recruiters
Data from third parties: Publicly available professional information may be collected and consolidated using automated and manual methods, including data aggregation and enrichment tools.
Referral data: Third parties may submit your data for referencing purposes.
To send you promotional social media messages and emails about relevant job openings that you may be suitable for;
To scrape your personal data from publicly available third-party sources such as LinkedIn, company websites, and A.I-assisted tools to send you direct marketing emails/messages, and to build a candidate profile.
To connect you with relevant organisations;
To provide our talent sourcing services to our clients;
To share your data with our clients, who are organisations that are looking to fill positions;
To share your data with Watts & Associates based on legitimate interests, so that Watts & Associates may send you promotional messages about relevant job opportunities and may connect you with organisations for job opportunities.
To send you promotional social media messages on LinkedIn and emails about our talent sourcing services.
To enrich your profile data by combining it with data we obtain from third-party sources such as publicly available information, A.I-assisted tools, and data suppliers.
While we use automated tools to assist with candidate identification, profiling, and matching, these tools support human decision-making but do not determine outcomes without human review.
We process personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests in operating a recruitment and talent sourcing business, including identifying suitable candidates, matching professionals with employment opportunities, and providing recruitment services to clients.
Our legitimate interests assessment (LIA) is available upon request.
When we collect and process your sensitive data, we also rely on one of the appropriate conditions under Article 9 of the UK GDPR.
Watts & Associates Recruitment Limited is a member of our corporate group, and we may share your data with them based on legitimate interests under Article 6.1.f of the UK GDPR.
Personal data may be shared between group entities operating under the We Are Tax Revolution group structure for the purposes of recruitment delivery, candidate matching, and client servicing. Each entity may access the shared database in accordance with internal access controls and role-based permissions.
The purpose of sharing your data with Watts & Associates Recruitment Limited is for Watts & Associates Recruitment Limited to access your data to submit your information to specific clients, to brief candidates like yourself on specific roles, and to conduct individual consultant outreach.
They may also use your data to send promotional messages and emails to job candidates like you or to organisations.
Based on legitimate interests, we may obtain data from Watts & Associates, such as your business email address, the organisation you are affiliated with, and your role at the organisation, to send you promotional social media messages on LinkedIn and emails about our talent sourcing services.
We establish and implement appropriate data security measures to ensure the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of your data. You may contact us to learn more about the specific data security measures we implement.
We retain your personal data for so long as it is strictly necessary for the purpose for which it is collected and processed. When determining the applicable data retention period, we take into account various criteria such as statutory requirements, sensitivity of data, our legitimate interests, and your rights and legitimate expectations.
Where we transfer your personal data outside the United Kingdom, we ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your data. This is done either on the basis of an adequacy decision issued by the UK government, confirming that the destination country provides an adequate level of data protection, or by relying on one or more appropriate safeguards recognised under Article 46 of the UK GDPR.
These safeguards may include, where applicable, the use of standard contractual clauses approved by the UK authorities.
Under the UK GDPR and EU GDPR, individuals have a number of rights in relation to their personal data, including the following:
• Right of access:
You may request confirmation as to whether we process your personal data and obtain a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification:
You may ask us to correct or update any personal data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Right to object:
You may object to our processing of your personal data where we rely on legitimate interests as the legal basis for processing.
• Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”):
In certain circumstances permitted by law, you may request that we delete your personal data.
• Right to data portability:
You may request that we provide your personal data to you or transmit it directly to another organisation, where technically feasible.
• Right to restriction of processing:
You may ask us to limit how we use your personal data, for example, where you dispute its accuracy or object to its use.
• Right to lodge a complaint:
Under the UK GDPR, you have the right to raise concerns or complaints with the data controller.
• Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling:
Where applicable, you have the right not to be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling, where such decisions produce legal or similarly significant effects, except where such processing is legally permitted.
If the CCPA or another US-state privacy law applies to the collection and processing of your data, you may exercise the following rights:
The CCPA provides California residents with the following rights with respect to their Personal Information:
The Right to Know what Personal Information we collected, used, and disclosed about you
The Right to Delete Personal Information
The Right to Opt-Out if we sell or share your Personal Information
The Right to Limit Use or Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information by us
The Right Not to Receive Discriminatory Treatment by us when you exercise any of your CCPA privacy rights.
We do not sell personal information in the conventional sense; however, we may share personal information for recruitment and business development purposes.
You may exercise your rights by contacting us via email at info@wearerevolution.co
Under the UK GDPR and EU GDPR, you have the right to raise a complaint with the appropriate data protection supervisory authority.
If you are located in the United Kingdom, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to report concerns about how your personal data is handled, including via its website: https://ico.org.uk.
If you are located within the European Union, you can consult a list of national data protection authorities and their contact details here: https://iapp.org/resources/global-privacy-directory.