Candidate Privacy Notice

• Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
• Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
• Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
• Accurate and kept up to date.
• Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
• Kept securely.

• Your identification and contact details (which may include age, gender and nationality);
• Information about your education, qualifications, professional memberships, employment history, skills and experience;
• Information relating to any tests or skills assessments you undertake as part of the recruitment process;
• Any personal information you (or someone on your behalf) provide to us during the course of your application, including details about your career aspirations, personal circumstances and interests.
• Information in the public domain may also be obtained, such as public records relating to professional memberships/admission, information on LinkedIn or other social media sites and information on your current employer’s website.

• professional conduct and standing, credit status (such as identity checks, bankruptcy/court orders etc.); legal/ employment restrictions on your ability to perform the role;
• unspent criminal convictions and offences;
• health and ability to perform the role in question;
• employment / academic records as part of our referencing process, usually covering the previous five years.
• information to establish you as an employee, such as bank details, national insurance number, emergency contacts and other details required to process your pay and benefits and protect you as an employee.

• Assess your skills, qualifications, and suitability for the role.
• Communicate with you about the recruitment process.
• Keep records related to our hiring processes.
• Comply with legal or regulatory requirements.
• Carry out background and reference checks.

• We will use information about your disability status to consider whether we need to provide appropriate adjustments during the recruitment process, for example whether adjustments need to be made during an interview. Following acceptance of an offer, we may also obtain and use your health information to take appropriate care of your health and safety and ensure you are fit to take up the position and to make any reasonable adjustments required to accommodate to a disability.
• We will use information about your race or national or ethnic origin, religious, philosophical or moral beliefs, or your sexual life or sexual orientation, to ensure meaningful equal opportunity monitoring and reporting.
• We may use information about your nationality in connection with checks to ensure your right to work in the United Kingdom.
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To monitor recruitment activity and help us take management decisions to improve our processes; For reference should you apply for a similar role within that period, to help us assess your suitability; In case you reapply through a different recruitment agent and there is a dispute about introduction fees; To enable us to defend any claim (such as a discrimination claim) made in relation to your application. If your application results in an appointment with us we will retain information relating to your application within your HR records and in accordance with our Employee Privacy Notice.

• Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
• Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
• Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
• Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
• Request the transfer of your personal information to another party.