Recruitment Privacy Notice

RECRUITMENT PRIVACY NOTICE

1. OVERVIEW

1.1       As part of any recruitment process, Sleaford Quality Foods collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The organisation is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

2. INFORMATION COLLECTED
   
   2.1 The organisation collects a range of information about you. This may include:

• your name, address and contact details, including email address and telephone number;
• details of your qualifications, skills, experience and employment history;
• information about your current level of remuneration, including benefit entitlements;
• whether or not you have a disability for which the organisation needs to make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process;
• information about your entitlement to work in the UK; and
• equal opportunities monitoring information, including information about your ethnic origin, sexual orientation, health, and religion or belief.

2.2       The organisation collects this information in a variety of ways. For example, data might be contained in application forms, CVs or resumes, obtained from your passport or other identity documents, or collected through interviews or other forms of assessment which may include online tests.

2.3       The Company may also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as references supplied by former employers and data from recruitment agencies.

2.4       Data will be stored in a range of different places, including on your application record, in HR management systems and on other IT systems (including email).

3. PURPOSE OF DATA PROCESSING

   3.1 The organisation needs to process data at your request prior to entering into a contract with you. It also needs to process your data to enter into a contract with you.

   3.2 In some cases, the organisation needs to process data to ensure that it is complying with its legal obligations. For example, it is required to check a successful applicant’s eligibility to work in the UK before employment starts.

3.2       The organisation has a legitimate interest in processing personal data during the recruitment process and for keeping records of the process. Processing data from job applicants allows the organisation to manage the recruitment process, assess and confirm a candidate’s suitability for employment and decide to whom to offer a job. The organisation may also need to process data from job applicants to respond to and defend against legal claims.

3.3       The organisation processes health information if it needs to make reasonable adjustments for employees who have a disability. This is to carry out its obligations and exercise specific rights in relation to employment.

3.4       Where the organisation processes other special categories of data, such as information about ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender or marital status, this is done for the purposes of equal opportunities monitoring with the explicit consent of job applicants, which can be withdrawn at any time.

4. DATA ACCESS

4.1       Your information will be shared internally for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes members of the HR and recruitment team, interviewers involved in the recruitment process and managers in the business area with a vacancy if access to the data is necessary for the performance of their roles.

4.2       The organisation will not share your data with third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and it makes you an offer of employment. The organisation may then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you.

4.3       Your data may be transferred outside the UK to our parent company in India should it be relevant to the recruitment process.  Your consent will be obtained prior to transferring any such data.

5. DATA PROTECTION

5.1       The organisation takes the security of your data seriously. It has internal policies and controls in place to ensure that your data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, misused or disclosed, and is not accessed except by our employees in the proper performance of their duties

6. DATA RETENTION

   6.1 Data relating to unsuccessful candidates

6.1.1    When a recruitment exercise ends the Company will retain data on unsuccessful candidates for a period of six months.

6.1.2    The Company may also choose to retain data on unsuccessful candidates for consideration against future vacancies beyond six months. In such circumstances we will clearly state the timescale for the retention and only do so with the explicit consent from the candidate. The candidate will have the right to withdraw their consent at any time and the Company will then delete that data. Such Data will not be retained indefinitely. The same process will apply for CV’s received on an unsolicited basis (I.e. through speculative applications).

• Data relating to successful candidates

6.2.1    A recruitment exercise will generate personal data relating to the successful candidate, some of which the Company will need to transfer to their personnel file. Only data that is necessary for the ongoing employment relationship and where we can identify a legal basis for processing it will be retained.

7. YOUR RIGHTS

   7.1 As a data subject, you have a number of rights. You can:

• access and obtain a copy of your data on request;
• require the organisation to change incorrect or incomplete data;
• require the organisation to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing;
• object to the processing of your data where the organisation is relying on its legitimate interests as the legal ground for processing; and
• ask the organisation to stop processing data for a period if data is inaccurate or there is a dispute about whether or not your interests override the organisation’s legitimate grounds for processing data.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact the HR Department.

7.2       If you believe that the organisation has not complied with your data protection rights, you can complain to the Information Commissioner.

8. NON-PROVISION OF PERSONAL DATA

   8.1 You are under no statutory or contractual obligation to provide data to the organisation during the recruitment process. However, if you do not provide the information, the organisation may not be able to process your application properly or at all.

   8.2 You are under no obligation to provide information for equal opportunities monitoring purposes and there are no consequences for your application if you choose not to provide such information.

9. AUTOMATED DECISION MAKING

9.1       Recruitment processes are not based solely on automated decision-making.