Legal & Regulatory Compliance
Full statutory disclosures under the UK Employment Agencies Act 1973, Conduct Regulations 2003, and UK GDPR.
1. Employment Agencies Act 1973 Compliance
Section 6(1)(a) of the Employment Agencies Act 1973 prohibits an employment agency from charging a work-seeker any fee for finding or seeking to find them employment.
Career Crucible Ltd is not an employment agency. Consistent with the High Court judgment in Equity v Talent Systems Europe (t/a Spotlight) [2025] EWHC 2254 (KB), Career Crucible is a provider of self-service software, structured career data hosting, and diagnostic analytics operated directly by the candidate.
2. UK GDPR & Data Protection
We recognize that job application details, right-to-work documentation, visa records, and disability disclosures represent sensitive and special-category personal data.
All candidate Career Graphs and Sealed Application Records are stored in encrypted Postgres databases with row-level security. We maintain strict Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) with infrastructure and AI model providers that prohibit using candidate data for third-party foundation model training.
Right to Erasure (Article 17): Candidates retain permanent control over their records. You may export your entire Career Graph and sealed submissions as a JSON/DOCX archive, or execute full deletion at any time.
3. Copyright & Private Study Exception (CDPA 1988)
Under Section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, archiving job vacancy announcements and employer application forms for an applicant's own private research, interview preparation, and record-keeping is permitted fair dealing.
To maintain strict legal defensibility, all Sealed Application Records are maintained strictly within the applicant's private authenticated account. Career Crucible never publishes or republishes scraped public job mirrors.