Valentine Thomas & Partners take protecting your data seriously and, as a team, are fully aware of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which took effect on May 25, 2018. We have reviewed our processes to ensure that we have the correct procedures in place to protect the privacy of personal data. By choosing to provide Valentine Thomas with your personal information, by whatever means, you indicate your willingness to share and have your information stored by Valentine Thomas for the purposes of our business.

As an executive search firm, we conduct assignments on behalf of our clients which require identification, evaluation and selection of qualified candidates. Within our proprietary and highly confidential database we may retain a variety of personal data including your contact details (together with your e-mail address and mobile number) and other relevant information from your CV, and/or the public domain or third party sources including career and education history and professional relevance.

If you are engaged with us as a potential candidate in connection with specific executive search assignments your data may also include, without limitation: nationality/employment status and gender (only to the extent allowed by law), compensation details, a record of our contact history with you and comments/informal verification from third parties. We advise you not to provide information which may be deemed sensitive on your CV as we will retain any documents that you have provided. You maintain the right to withdraw your consent at any time or to access and request that we rectify or remove your record from our database.