What we collect, and why.

Best Recruitment Agencies is run by Blankk Ventures Pte. Ltd., Singapore, which is responsible for the personal data described here. We handle it under Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act and, for people in the UK and the EU, the UK GDPR and the GDPR. Our data protection officer, Manuel Biermann, is reachable at [email protected]. Company details are in our legal notice.

We build firm profiles from public sources: firm websites, their jobs pages and job feeds, the public job boards firms publish on (such as Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and Workable), company registries (such as US state registries, Companies House, the Handelsregister, ACRA, the Hong Kong Companies Registry, ABN Lookup, the Philippine SEC, Corporations Canada, the Irish CRO and Dubai trade licences), public agency licence lists (NYC DCWP, Singapore MOM, Hong Kong Labour Department, Ireland's Department of Enterprise, the UAE's MOHRE, Ontario's Ministry of Labour) and links to Google Business profiles, whose reviews we don't copy. This is information about businesses, not private individuals. We don't publish the names of a firm's clients or candidates.

For firms and employers in the UK and the EU, we process personal data under the UK GDPR and the GDPR, and in Australia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Canada and the UAE under the Privacy Act 1988, the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, the Data Privacy Act of 2012, PIPEDA and Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021. We use public firm data to run the index, research the recruitment market, plan and improve our products (including TalentSourcer AI), and find and contact firms that may want them. Our lawful basis for public firm data is legitimate interest; for briefs and claims it is your consent or the service you asked us for.

When we research a firm we also note the names and job titles of its founders, directors or partners, and their work email or phone number where the firm's own website publishes them. We take these only from the firm's website and company registries, never from LinkedIn profiles or contact-data providers, and we keep the page we found them on.

We don't publish these details. We use them to:

• tell the firm about its profile, invite it to claim it and keep the profile accurate;
• contact you by email, phone or professional networks about our own products and services for recruiters, including TalentSourcer AI, which Blankk Ventures Pte. Ltd. also builds;
• research the recruitment market, and plan and improve our products.

Our lawful basis is legitimate interest: these are work details the firm chose to publish, used to reach you in your professional role. Where local law requires consent before a marketing message (for example for email in Germany), we ask first or don't send one. Every message says how to opt out. You can ask us at [email protected] to stop contacting you, about any of these purposes or all of them, which we record so you aren't added again, or to delete your details entirely. The firm's main phone number and its own social media pages are business details and are shown on its profile.

We collect your name, work email and role so we can verify that you work at the firm and let you manage its profile. We use your email to sign you in and to send you briefs and service messages about your profile. Terms, placements and other details you add are published on the profile; your personal contact details are not.

We collect the role details you give us plus your name, work email and, optionally, your company. We share the brief, including your contact details, only with the firms it's routed to, so they can reply. We don't publish briefs.

Survey answers are linked to a firm only so each firm answers once. They are never shown individually or tied to a firm in the report, and ranges are only published when enough firms have answered.

TalentSourcer AI is built by Blankk Ventures Pte. Ltd., the company that runs this site. When you claim a firm, agreeing to hear about TalentSourcer AI is separate, optional and unticked by default. Saying no changes nothing. You can unsubscribe from any email, or write to us, at any time.

Anyone can ask us to correct a profile using the "Request a correction" form on that profile. The same form, or an email to [email protected], works for removal requests and for access to or deletion of any personal data we hold about you. We store the email you give us with a correction so we can reply.

• Details of people who run listed firms: while the firm is listed, and no longer than 24 months after we last contacted them without a reply.
• Accounts of people who claimed a firm: until they delete their account or the firm leaves the index.
• Briefs: 24 months after they're posted.
• Correction and removal requests, with the email given: 12 months after we close them.
• Opt-outs and consent decisions: for as long as we need them to respect your choice, so you aren't contacted or added again.

We use these service providers. They process data on our behalf and only for that purpose:

• Hetzner Online, which hosts the site and its database, on servers in Singapore and the US;
• Resend, which sends our email, in the US;
• Cloudflare, which stores firm logos and other uploads (R2).

Where data is stored outside Singapore, we only use providers that protect it to a comparable standard, and for people in the UK and the EU we rely on the standard contractual clauses. We don't sell personal data, and we don't use advertising trackers.