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Recruitment agencies handle large volumes of sensitive candidate information, making GDPR compliance essential at every stage of hiring. This guide explains lawful bases, CV sharing, retention periods, candidate rights, speculative applications and staff training under UK GDPR. Learn how to build transparent, secure recruitment processes that protect personal data while supporting efficient candidate sourcing and client relationships.

Consent under UK GDPR is more than a checkbox. For consent to be valid, it must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous — and people must be able to withdraw it just as easily as they gave it. This guide explains when consent is the right lawful basis, where organisations often get it wrong, and how UK teams can collect, record and manage consent with confidence.

Cookie consent is more than adding a banner to your website. Under PECR and UK GDPR, users must have a genuine choice over non-essential cookies, with clear information, granular options and an easy way to reject or withdraw consent. This guide explains which cookies need consent, what a compliant cookie banner should look like, and how UK marketing and web teams can avoid common compliance mistakes.

UK GDPR fines rarely happen because of one isolated mistake. They usually follow a chain of preventable failures — weak security, poor response planning, missed processor checks, or gaps in staff awareness. This blog looks at real UK GDPR enforcement cases, what they cost, and the practical lessons businesses can apply before a breach becomes a headline.

Two laws, one framework — and most UK businesses can't say exactly where one ends and the other begins. This guide breaks down what the Data Protection Act 2018 and UK GDPR each actually cover, where they overlap, and what's changed now that the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 has rewritten parts of both.

Many GDPR mistakes employees make are simple everyday errors, from sending personal data to the wrong person to using weak passwords, missing subject access requests or failing to report a breach. This practical guide explains ten common GDPR errors UK staff make, why they matter, and how employee data protection training can help organisations reduce risk.