Privacy notice

We're a construction recruitment business, so we handle information about people every day. This notice explains what we collect, why we need it, who sees it and the choices you have. If anything isn't clear, ask us.

Last updated: 30 October 2026

Who we are

Edward Russell Associates Ltd is responsible for (the “controller” of) the personal information described here. We're registered in England and Wales, company number 17423763, and our registered office is 128 City Road, London EC1V 2NX.

For anything about your personal information, email hello@edrus.co.uk or write to us at the address above.

Who this notice covers

• Candidates: people who apply for a role, register a CV or sign up for job alerts, and people we contact about an opportunity.
• Clients: people we work with at the companies we recruit for, and anyone who sends us a vacancy or enquiry.
• Referees and other contacts whose details are passed to us.
• Visitors to this website.

What we collect

About candidates:

• your name and contact details
• your CV and career history, qualifications, professional memberships and site or safety cards
• the roles, locations and salary you're looking for, your current package and your notice period
• notes from our conversations, and feedback from clients you've interviewed with
• whether you have the right to work in the UK, where a role requires it
• details of referees, if you give them to us

About clients and other contacts: your name, job title, employer and work contact details, notes of our conversations and the roles you're recruiting for.

We don't ask for sensitive information such as health, ethnicity or religion. If you choose to tell us something like this, for example to ask for adjustments at an interview, we'll use it only for that purpose.

Where we get it

• From you, when you use the forms on this website, email or call us, or message us on LinkedIn.
• From professional sources where you've made your profile available, such as LinkedIn, job boards, CV databases, company websites and industry press.
• From other people, such as a contact who recommends you, or a client giving feedback after an interview.

If we find your details through one of these sources, we'll tell you when we first contact you (and within a month at the latest) and point you to this notice.

How we use it, and why we're allowed to

Data protection law requires a lawful reason for each use of personal information. Ours are:

• Finding and telling you about suitable roles, and keeping in touch about your career: our legitimate interest in running a recruitment business, which we always balance against your rights. When you apply through this website, we also ask for your agreement to hold your details and CV.
• Putting you forward for a role: we always speak to you and get your agreement before your CV or details go to a client.
• Job alerts: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
• Working with clients and answering enquiries: our legitimate interests, and the agreement we have with your company where there is one.
• Keeping the records the law requires and dealing with any legal claims: our legal obligations.

We never sell personal information, and we don't use it to make automated decisions about you. People make every decision.

Who we share it with

• Clients, only for roles you've agreed to be put forward for, and only what's relevant to that role.
• Companies that run systems for us, including our website host and form handler (Netlify), our email provider (Krystal), the database behind our job listings (Supabase) and the system we use to keep candidate and client records. They may only use your information on our instructions.
• Professional advisers, insurers and authorities where the law requires or allows it.

Transfers outside the UK

Some of these providers store information outside the UK. For example, Netlify, which handles the forms and CV uploads on this website, is based in the United States. Where information leaves the UK, we make sure it's protected by the safeguards UK data protection law requires.

How long we keep it

• Candidate information: up to two years after we were last in touch, after which we delete it or make it anonymous. We'll delete it sooner if you ask, unless the law requires us to keep part of it.
• Records the law requires recruitment businesses to keep: at least one year.
• Job alert sign-ups: until you unsubscribe.
• Client and enquiry records: while we work together and up to two years after our last contact, plus any business records the law requires us to keep for longer.

Keeping it secure

Access is limited to our team, our systems are password protected, and everything you send through this website is encrypted in transit.

Your rights

You can ask us to:

• give you a copy of the information we hold about you
• correct anything that's wrong or out of date
• delete your information
• limit how we use it, or stop using it altogether (you can stop job alerts at any time)
• give your information to you, or to another organisation, in a common format

Where we rely on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time. Email hello@edrus.co.uk. We'll reply within one month and won't charge you.

Complaints

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, please tell us first at hello@edrus.co.uk. We'll acknowledge your complaint within 30 days and keep you updated until it's resolved.

You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's data protection regulator, at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or on 0303 123 1113.

This website

We don't use cookies for analytics or advertising. Our pages load fonts from Google Fonts and some photographs from Unsplash, so, as with any website, those services receive your device's IP address in order to deliver the files. Our host, Netlify, keeps standard server logs to run and protect the site.

Anything you send through a form on this site, including a CV, is passed to us by Netlify and emailed to our team.

Changes to this notice

We'll update this page if the way we use personal information changes. The date at the top shows when it was last updated.