Privacy Policy – Avery Fairbank

Last updated: September 2026

Avery Fairbank (“we”, “us” or “our”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect your personal data when you visit our website (afgroup.theprogressteam.co.uk), contact us, register your interest in a role, or engage with us as a client or candidate.

Avery Fairbank is the trading name of Taylor Fairbank Limited (Company number: 13604456), registered in England and Wales, with its head office in Harrogate and offices in London (Mayfair), United Kingdom.

For the purposes of applicable data protection law, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018, we are the data controller of your personal data. If you have any questions about this policy or how we handle your personal data, please contact us at enquiries@averyfairbank.com or call us on +1 646 490 1228 (United States).

1. The personal data we collect

We may collect and process the following categories of personal data about you:

Identity and contact data — your name, job title, company, email address, telephone number and postal address.
Professional and career data — your CV/résumé, employment history, qualifications, skills, experience, professional memberships, references, remuneration details and notice period.
Enquiry data — the details you provide when you contact us, including the type of enquiry (for example hiring, looking for a move, or joining Avery Fairbank), the sector you work in, and the content of your message.
Technical and usage data — your IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system, and information about how you use our website, collected through cookies and similar technologies.
Marketing and communications data — your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.

We do not knowingly collect special category personal data (such as information about your health, race or political opinions) through this website. If you choose to include such information in a CV or message, we will handle it in accordance with data protection law.

2. How we collect your personal data

We collect personal data in the following ways:

Direct interactions. You give us your data when you complete a contact or enquiry form, send us an email, call us, connect with us on LinkedIn, or send us your CV.
Automated technologies. As you interact with our website, we automatically collect technical data about your device and browsing behaviour using cookies, server logs and similar technologies.
Third parties. We may receive your data from professional networking sites such as LinkedIn, from referrals by clients or candidates, and from publicly available sources such as company websites and professional directories, as part of our executive search and market mapping activities.

3. How we use your personal data

We use your personal data only where the law allows us to. Most commonly, we rely on the following lawful bases:

Legitimate interests — to provide executive search and recruitment services, to identify and approach potential candidates for senior appointments, to respond to your enquiries, to manage our relationship with you, and to improve our website and services. We have balanced these interests against your rights and freedoms and consider that they do not override your interests.
Performance of a contract — where we are providing recruitment services to you as a client, or where steps are being taken at your request before entering into a contract (for example, progressing your candidacy for a role).
Consent — where you have given us consent, for example to receive marketing communications or to store your details for future opportunities. You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us.
Legal obligation — where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory requirement.

Specifically, we use your data to:

Introduce candidates to clients for executive search engagements and manage the recruitment process;
Carry out market mapping and research in our sectors, including Data Centers, Civil Infrastructure, Commercial Construction, MEP and Specialty Trades, Real Estate Development, and Power and Energy;
Respond to enquiries submitted through our website or by email or telephone;
Assess your suitability for roles and, with your permission, put you forward to clients;
Send you market insights and information about opportunities and services, where you have asked us to or where we otherwise have a lawful basis to do so;
Administer and protect our website and business, including troubleshooting, data analysis and security.

4. Confidentiality of candidate information

If you are a candidate, your details are never shared with a client, and you are never put forward for any role, without your explicit permission. Your current position, your network and your reputation are protected at every step.

5. Who we share your personal data with

We may share your personal data with:

Clients — where you are a candidate and have given us permission to present you for a role;
Service providers — IT and CRM providers, website hosting, email and analytics providers who process data on our behalf and only on our documented instructions;
Professional advisers — lawyers, accountants and insurers, where necessary;
Regulators and authorities — where required by law or to protect our legal rights.

We require all third parties that process personal data on our behalf to respect the security of your data and to treat it in accordance with data protection law. We do not sell your personal data.

6. International transfers

We are headquartered in the United Kingdom with an operating presence in the United States. Your personal data may be transferred to and processed in the UK, the US and other countries where our clients operate. Wherever we transfer personal data outside the UK or European Economic Area, we ensure an adequate level of protection by relying on appropriate safeguards, such as the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, EU Standard Contractual Clauses, or adequacy regulations.

7. Data security

We have put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access. These measures include access controls, confidentiality obligations on our staff, and secure storage of candidate records. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents and partners who have a genuine business need to know it.

8. Data retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including to satisfy any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. As a general guide:

Candidate data is retained while you are actively engaged with us in a search, and for up to [five] years afterwards so we can contact you about relevant future opportunities, unless you ask us to delete it sooner;
Client and enquiry data is retained for the duration of our relationship and for up to [six] years afterwards, in line with limitation periods for contractual claims;
Website and technical data is retained in accordance with our cookie and analytics settings, typically for no longer than [26] months.

You may ask us to delete your data at any time (see section 9 below).

9. Your rights

Under data protection law, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

Access — to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you;
Rectification — to ask us to correct any inaccurate or incomplete data;
Erasure — to ask us to delete your personal data in certain circumstances;
Restriction — to ask us to restrict the processing of your data in certain circumstances;
Objection — to object to our processing of your data where we rely on legitimate interests, including any processing for direct marketing purposes (we will always stop marketing communications if you object);
Data portability — to receive the data you provided to us in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, where processing is based on consent or contract;
Withdrawal of consent — where we rely on consent, to withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at enquiries@averyfairbank.com. You will not usually have to pay a fee, and we aim to respond within one month.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), at ico.org.uk or by calling 0303 123 1113. We would appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns first.

10. Cookies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to distinguish you from other users, keep the site secure, and understand how the site is used. You can set your browser to refuse all or some cookies, though this may affect how the website functions. For detailed information about the cookies we use and how to manage them, please see our Cookie Policy. [Note: link this to your Cookie Policy page, or delete this sentence if you do not publish one.]

11. Third-party links

Our website may include links to third-party websites, such as LinkedIn. We do not control, and are not responsible for, the privacy practices of those websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how we protect your personal data.

13. Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us:

Email: enquiries@averyfairbank.com
Telephone: +1 646 490 1228 (United States)
Post: Avery Fairbank, Taylor Fairbank Limited, Head Office, Harrogate, United Kingdom [insert full registered address]