Applicant Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice sets out the basis on which the personal data collected from you, or that you provide to Us, will be processed by Us in connection with our recruitment processes. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how We will treat it. 

For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”) and the UK Data Protection Act 2018, the Data Controller is Safeguard Engineering Limited

Your personal information: information We collect from you

We collect and process some or all of the following types of information from you:

• Information that you provide when you apply for a role. This includes information provided through an online job site, via email, in person at interviews and/or by any other method.

• In particular, We process personal details such as name, email address, address, telephone number, date of birth, qualifications, experience, information relating to your employment history, skills experience that you provide to Us, as well as your video in case you conduct your interview using the Video Interview feature.

• If you contact Us, We may keep a record of that correspondence.

• A record of your progress through any hiring process that we may conduct.

Uses made of your information: lawful basis for processing

We rely on legitimate interest as the lawful basis on which We collect and use your personal data. Our legitimate interests are the recruitment of staff for our business.

Purposes of processing

We use information held about you in the following ways:

• To consider your application in respect of a role for which you have applied.

• To consider your application in respect of other roles.

• To communicate with you in respect of the recruitment process.

• To enhance any information that we receive from you with information obtained from third party data providers.

• To find appropriate candidates to fill our job openings.

How We store your personal data: security

We take appropriate measures to ensure that all personal data is kept secure including security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where We are legally required to do so.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although We will do our best to protect your personal data, We cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted through any online means, therefore any transmission remains at your own risk.

How long We keep your personal data

We will hold all the data for 12 months unless we receive a written request by you, or another person engaged by you, requesting that your data be deleted.

Your rights

Subject to local data protection laws and in particular under the GDPR and the UK GDPR, you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

• access to your personal data and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address

• require Us to correct any mistakes in your information which We hold

• require the erasure of personal data concerning you in certain situations

• receive the personal data concerning you which you have provided to Us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations

• object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for direct marketing

• object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you

• object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal data

• otherwise restrict our processing of your personal data in certain circumstances

• claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws.

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals rights under the UK GDPR.

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:

• contact us using our contact details below

• let Us have enough information to identify you,

• let Us have proof of your identity and address, and

• let Us know the information to which your request relates.

How to complain

We hope that We can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.

The General Data Protection Regulation and the UK GDPR also gives you right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.

Contact

All questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Notice should be addressed to forgetme@safeguardengineering.co.uk.