Recruitment Privacy Notice
Introduction
This Recruitment Privacy Notice explains the type of information Britannia Pharmaceuticals Limited processes, why we are processing it and how that processing may affect you.
What do we mean by “personal data” and “processing”?
“Personal data” is information relating to you (or from which you may be identified) which is processed by automatic means or which is (or is intended to be) part of a structured manual filing system. It includes not only facts about you, but also intentions and opinions about you. “Processing” means doing anything with the data. For example, it includes collecting it, holding it, disclosing it and deleting it. Personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, health, sexual orientation, sex life, trade union membership and genetic and biometric data are subject to special protection and considered by EU privacy law to be “sensitive personal data”.
Your personal data
We process your data for the purposes of fulfilling our recruitment practices. Some of the personal data that we process about you comes from you. For example, you tell us your contact details. Other personal data about you is generated from references and third party companies such as recruitment agencies. Your personal data will be seen internally by managers, administrative assistants to HR/hiring managers, payroll, IT, HR and relevant third parties. You are not obliged to provide us with this data. However, not doing so may adversely affect your chances of recruitment.
How long do we keep your personal data?
If you are successful in your application your data will be kept on your personnel file. If you are unsuccessful, your data will normally be destroyed 12 months after you have been informed that you were unsuccessful. Irrelevant data such as CCTV images may be deleted after a short period.
Legal grounds for processing personal data
What are the grounds for processing?
Under data protection law, there are various grounds on which we can rely when processing your personal data. In some contexts more than one ground applies. We have summarised certain grounds as Legal obligation and Legitimate Interests and outline what those terms mean below.
Term Ground for processing Explanation
Contract Processing necessary for performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request to enter a contract This covers carrying out our contractual duties and exercising our contractual rights. Legal obligation Processing necessary to comply with our legal obligations Ensuring we perform our legal and regulatory obligations. For example, providing a safe place of work and avoiding unlawful discrimination Legitimate Interests Processing necessary for our or a third party’s legitimate interests. We or a third party have legitimate interests in carrying out, managing and administering our respective businesses effectively and properly and in connection with those interests processing your data. Your data will not be processed on this basis if our or a third party’s interests are overridden by your own interests, rights and freedoms.
Processing sensitive personal data
If we process sensitive personal data about you, as well as ensuring that one of the grounds for processing mentioned above applies, we will make sure that one or more of the grounds for processing sensitive personal data applies, including that the processing is for equality and diversity purposes to the extent permitted by law. Further information on the data we process and our purposes Examples of the data and the grounds on which we process data are in the table below.
Processing sensitive personal data
If we process sensitive personal data about you, as well as ensuring that one of the grounds for processing mentioned above applies, we will make sure that one or more of the grounds for processing sensitive personal data applies, including that the processing is for equality and diversity purposes to the extent permitted by law.
Further information on the data we process and our purposes
Examples of the data and the grounds on which we process data are in the table below.
Who gets to see your data?
Your personal data may be disclosed to managers, HR and administrators for employment, administrative and management purposes as mentioned in this document. We may also disclose this to other members of our group, specifically any senior management for the business unit and for the company that is relevant in order to make decisions around hiring and remuneration.
Access to your personal data and other rights
We try to be as open as we reasonably can about personal data that we process. If you would like specific information, just ask us. You can contact us at [email protected]. You also have a legal right to make a “subject access request”. If you exercise this right and we hold personal data about you, we are required to provide you with information, including a description of the personal data, and an explanation of why we are processing it.
If you make a subject access request and there is any question about who you are, we may require you to provide information from which we can satisfy ourselves as to your identity.
As well as your subject access right, you may have a legal right to have your personal data rectified or erased, to object to its processing or to have its processing restricted. If you have provided us with data about yourself (for example your address or bank details), you have the right to be given the data in machine readable format for transmitting to another data controller. This only applies if the ground for processing is Consent or Contract.
If we have relied on consent as a ground for processing, you may withdraw consent at any time – though if you do so that will not affect the lawfulness of what we have done before you withdraw consent.
Complaints
If you have complaints relating to our processing of your personal data, you should raise these with HR or with the Data Protection Officer in the first instance. You may also raise complaints with the statutory regulator. For contact and other details ask HR or contact the regulator: www.ico.org.uk.
Scope
This notice does not form part of any contractual relationship between the Company and a job applicant. This notice can be changed at any time.
Right of Amendment
The Company reserves the right to continuously amend, update and modify this policy in the interests of the business and its employees.
