Last updated: 7 October 2026
Who we are
rousefinerva.com is the careers and contact website of RouseFinerva, formed by the merger of Rouse Partners and Finerva. For the personal information collected through this website, the data controller is Rouse Partners LLP, a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales, number OC355817, of 55 Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1QL. Our registration number with the Information Commissioner’s Office is Z2277311.
If you have any question about this notice or how we use your information, contact our Data Protection Officer:
- Niki Lovett, Practice Manager and Data Protection Officer
- Email: niki.lovett@rousepartners.co.uk
- Post: Niki Lovett, Rouse Partners LLP, 55 Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 1QL
- Phone: 01494 675321
What we collect
Information you give us
| When | What |
|---|---|
| You apply for a vacancy, or register for job alerts | First and last name, phone number, email address, your CV, your cover letter, how you heard about us, and your confirmation that you have read these terms |
| You send us a message through the contact form | First and last name, company name, phone number, email address and your message |
Please do not include information about your health, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or similar sensitive matters in your CV or cover letter. If you need an adjustment, for example at interview, tell us what you need and we will ask for your explicit consent before recording any health information it involves. We do not collect equal-opportunities monitoring information.
Information collected automatically
| Source | What |
|---|---|
| Google Analytics | The pages you visit, how you reached the site, your approximate location (city and country), the type of device and browser you use, and actions such as starting or submitting an application. It does not record what you type into our forms. |
| Our hosting provider’s server logs | Your IP address, the date and time, the page requested, your browser type and the page you came from. These are kept by our host for seven days for security and troubleshooting. |
| Your cookie choice | Whether you have turned analytics on or off, stored in a cookie in your browser. |
Why we use it, and our lawful basis
| Purpose | Information used | Lawful basis under UK GDPR |
|---|---|---|
| Assessing your application, arranging interviews and making offers | Application details, CV, cover letter | Taking steps at your request before entering into a contract, and our legitimate interest in recruiting the right people |
| Contacting you about other suitable vacancies during the year we keep your application | Application details, CV, cover letter | Our legitimate interest in filling roles with suitable candidates. You can ask us not to at any time. |
| Checking your right to work in the UK, taking up references and verifying qualifications, if we make you an offer | Application details, plus what you provide at that stage | Legal obligation; legitimate interests |
| Making adjustments you ask for, such as at interview | Any health or similar information you choose to give us | Your explicit consent, which we ask for at the time and you can withdraw |
| Telling you about future vacancies and keeping your CV on file for them | Job-alert registration details and CV | Your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by emailing us |
| Replying to messages sent through the contact form | Contact form details | Our legitimate interest in responding to enquiries |
| Understanding how the site is used so we can improve it | Google Analytics data | Our legitimate interest in running an effective website. Where we ask for your permission before analytics runs, your consent is the basis instead. |
| Keeping the site secure and protecting forms from spam | Server logs; a bot check on our forms | Our legitimate interest in protecting the site and the people who use it |
We do not use your information for automated decisions about your application, and we do not use analytics to build profiles of individuals or for advertising.
Who we share it with
Within RouseFinerva, your application is seen only by the people involved in the recruitment decision. Outside the firm, we share it only with:
- Referees and past employers, and only once we have made you an offer and told you we are contacting them.
- Universities and professional bodies, to confirm qualifications you have told us about, again only once we have made you an offer and with your knowledge.
- The recruitment agency that introduced you, if you applied through one.
We also use these service providers, who process information on our behalf and only on our instructions:
| Provider | What they do | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Pressable, Inc. | Hosts this website, including applications submitted through it, keeps its server logs and makes encrypted backups. Pressable uses its own subcontractors under the same terms, including Automattic, which runs its data centres, and Amazon Web Services, which stores its backups. | Netherlands (Amsterdam). Standby and backup copies may be kept in the United States. |
| Cloudflare (Turnstile) | Checks that forms are submitted by a person rather than a bot. Your IP address and technical details of your browser are checked; the contents of your form are not sent. | United States |
| Microsoft 365 and Mimecast | Deliver form submissions to our recruitment and enquiries inboxes, and filter email for security | United Kingdom |
| Google (Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager) | Measure how the site is used, as described under Cookies and analytics | United States and elsewhere |
Transfers outside the UK. Google and Cloudflare are certified under the UK Extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, so transfers to them rely on the UK–US data bridge. Our website host, Pressable, is a US company. It runs this site from Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, which the UK recognises as providing adequate protection. Standby and backup copies of the site may be kept in its data centres in the United States, and its support staff and some of its subcontractors work outside the UK. These transfers are covered by our data processing agreement with Pressable, which includes the International Data Transfer Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses issued by the UK Information Commissioner.
We never sell your information, and we do not share it with advertisers.
How long we keep it
| Information | How long |
|---|---|
| Applications that do not lead to a job | 1 year after the vacancy is filled, so we can answer questions about the decision and contact you about other suitable roles, then deleted |
| Applications that lead to a job | Moved to your staff record and kept under our staff privacy notice |
| Job-alert registrations and CVs kept on file | Until you ask us to remove them, or 2 years after you register, whichever is sooner. We will ask before keeping them longer. |
| Messages sent through the contact form | 2 years after our last contact, unless you become a client |
| Google Analytics data | 14 months |
| Server logs held by our host | 7 days |
| Your cookie choice | 180 days, then we ask again or apply the default |
Applications are held in our recruitment system on this website and in our recruitment inbox. In the recruitment system, your email address and phone number are encrypted, and your CV and cover letter are stored encrypted and can only be opened by authorised staff who are signed in. Our recruitment team deletes both copies when the period ends.
Cookies and analytics
Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. This site uses one cookie of its own and, if analytics is on, two from Google Analytics. We do not use advertising cookies or social media tracking.
Analytics on this site
| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
rf_consent | RouseFinerva | Remembers whether you have turned analytics on or off | 180 days |
_ga | Google Analytics | Lets us count separate visitors without knowing who they are | 2 years |
_ga_2J1GKWWCTH | Google Analytics | Keeps track of a single visit | 2 years |
wordpress_*, wp-settings-* | WordPress | Only set for our own staff when they log in to edit the site | Up to 14 days |
Google Analytics does not store your IP address. We have set it to keep data for 14 months, turned off Google’s own use of the data for its products and services, and do not link it to advertising.
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The site works normally without them.
Your rights
You have the right to:
- ask for a copy of the information we hold about you;
- ask us to correct it if it is wrong or incomplete;
- ask us to delete it, or to stop or limit how we use it;
- object to our use of it where we rely on our legitimate interests;
- withdraw your consent at any time, where we rely on consent, such as for job alerts;
- ask for information you gave us to be sent to you or to another organisation in a common format.
To use any of these rights, contact us using the details under Who we are. We will reply within one month. There is no charge.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, please tell us first so we can put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or on 0303 123 1113.
Changes to this notice
We will update this notice when the way we use information changes, for example when more of our services move to this website during 2027. The date at the top shows when it was last changed.