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We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal information about you during and after your working relationship with us, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It applies to all employees, workers and contractors. |
We will comply with data protection law. This says that the personal information we hold about you must be: 1. Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way. 2. Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes. 3. Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes. 4. Accurate and kept up to date. 5. Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about. 6. Kept securely. |
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). There are certain types of more sensitive personal data which require a higher level of protection, such as information about a person's health or sexual orientation. Information about criminal convictions also warrants this higher level of protection. |
3.1 We will collect, store, and use the following categories of personal information about you:
a) Personal contact details such as name, title, addresses, telephone numbers, and personal email addresses
b) Date of birth
c) Gender
d) Marital status and dependants
e) Next of kin and emergency contact information
f) National Insurance number
g) Bank account details, payroll records and tax status information
h) Salary, annual leave, pension and benefits information
i) Start date and, if different, the date of your continuous employment
k) Leaving date and your reason for leaving
l) Location of employment or workplace
m) Copy of driving licence
n) Recruitment information (including copies of right to work documentation, references and other information included in a CV or cover letter or as part of the application process)
o) Employment records (including job titles, work history, working hours, holidays, training records and professional memberships)
p) Compensation history
q) Performance information
r) Disciplinary and grievance information
s) At both Perth and Andover, we utilise use of CCTV footage and other information obtained through electronic means such as swipe card records and to detect crime such as vandalism, or theft.
t) Information about your use of our information and communications systems
u) Photographs
v) Results of HMRC employment status check, details of your interest in and connection with the intermediary through which your services are supplied
3.2 We may also collect, store and use the following more sensitive types of personal information:
a) Information about your race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and political opinions;
b) Trade union membership;
c) Information about your health, including any medical condition, health and sickness records, including:
d) where you leave employment and under any share plan operated by a group company the reason for leaving is determined to be ill-health, injury or disability, the records relating to that decision;
e) details of any absences (other than holidays) from work including time on statutory parental leave and sick leave;
f) where you leave employment and the reason for leaving is related to your health, information about that condition needed for pensions and permanent health insurance purposes; and
g) Information about criminal convictions and offences.
4.1 We collect personal information about employees, workers and contactors through the application and recruitment process, either directly from candidates or sometimes from an employment agency or background check provider. We may sometimes collect additional information from third parties including former employers, credit reference agencies or other background check agencies.
4.2 We will collect additional personal information in the course of job-related activities throughout the period of you working for us.
We will only use your personal information when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal information in the following circumstances: 1. Where we need to perform the contract we have entered into with you. 2. Where we need to comply with a legal obligation. 3. Where it is necessary for legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. We may also use your personal information in the following situations, which are likely to be rare: 1. Where we need to protect your interests (or someone else's interests). 2. Where it is needed in the public interest or for official purposes |
6.1 We need all the categories of information in the list above primarily to allow us to perform our contract with you and to enable us to comply with legal obligations. In some cases, we may use your personal information to pursue legitimate interests, provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. The situations in which we will process your personal information are listed below:
a) Making a decision about your recruitment or appointment. This could be an application form, CV, or recruitment assessments.
b) Determining the terms on which you work for us;
c) Checking you are legally entitled to work in the UK;
d) Paying you and, if you are an employee or deemed employee for tax purposes, deducting tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs);
e) Providing the pension benefits to you;
f) Enrolling you in a pension arrangement in accordance with our statutory automatic enrolment duties;
g) Liaising with the trustees or managers of a pension arrangement operated by a group company, your pension provider and any other provider of employee benefits;
h) Administering the employment contract we have entered into with you;
i) Business management and planning, including accounting and auditing and outsourced HR services;
j) Conducting performance reviews, managing performance and determining performance requirements;
k) Making decisions about salary reviews and compensation;
l) Assessing qualifications for a particular job or task, including decisions about promotions;
m) Gathering evidence for possible grievance or disciplinary hearings;
n) Making decisions about your continued employment or engagement;
o) Making arrangements for the termination of our working relationship;
p) Education, training and development requirements;
q) Dealing with legal disputes involving you, or other employees, workers and contractors, including accidents at work;
r) Ascertaining your fitness to work;
s) Managing sickness absence;
t) Complying with health and safety obligations;
u) To prevent fraud;
v) To monitor your use of our information and communication systems to ensure compliance with our IT policies;
w) To ensure network and information security, including preventing unauthorised access to our computer and electronic communications systems and preventing malicious software distribution;
x) To conduct data analytics studies to review and better understand employee retention and attrition rates;
y) Equal opportunities monitoring.
6.2 Some of the above grounds for processing will overlap and there may be several grounds which justify our use of your personal information.
"Special categories" of particularly sensitive personal information, such as information about your health, racial or ethnic origin, sexual orientation or trade union membership, require higher levels of protection. We need to have further justification for collecting, storing and using this type of personal information. We have in place an appropriate policy document and safeguards which we are required by law to maintain when processing such data. We may process special categories of personal information in the following circumstances: 1. In limited circumstances, with your explicit written consent. 2. Where we need to carry out our legal obligations or exercise rights in connection with employment. 3. Where it is needed in the public interest, such as for equal opportunities monitoring or in relation to our occupational pension scheme. Less commonly, we may process this type of information where it is needed in relation to legal claims or where it is needed to protect your interests (or someone else's interests) and you are not capable of giving your consent, or where you have already made the information public. |
We may only use information relating to criminal convictions where the law allows us to do so. This will usually be where such processing is necessary to carry out our obligations and, provided we do so in line with our data protection policy. |
Automated decision-making takes place when an electronic system uses personal information to make a decision without human intervention. We are allowed to use automated decision-making in the following circumstances: 1. Where we have notified you of the decision and given you 21 days to request a reconsideration. 2. Where it is necessary to perform the contract with you and appropriate measures are in place to safeguard your rights. 3. In limited circumstances, with your explicit written consent and where appropriate measures are in place to safeguard your rights. If we make an automated decision on the basis of any particularly sensitive personal information, we must have either your explicit written consent or it must be justified in the public interest, and we must also put in place appropriate measures to safeguard your rights. |
solely on automated decision-making, unless we have a lawful basis for doing so and we have notified you;
We do not envisage that any decisions will be taken about you using automated means, however we will notify you in writing if this position changes.
We may have to share your data with third parties, including third-party service providers and other entities. We require third parties to respect the security of your data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We may transfer your personal information outside the EU. If we do, you can expect a similar degree of protection in respect of your personal information. |
We have put in place measures to protect the security of your information. Third parties will only process your personal information on our instructions and where they have agreed to treat the information confidentially and to keep it secure. |
22.1 It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during your working relationship with us.
23.1 Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:
23.2 If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact the data protection officer, in writing.
24.1 You will have to pay a fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.
25.1 We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access the information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is another appropriate security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.
26.1 In the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact the data protection officer (DPO). Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law.
27.1 We have a data protection officer (DPM) to oversee compliance with this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice or how we handle your personal information, please contact the DPM. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues.
28. Changes to this privacy notice
28.1 We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new privacy notice when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, please contact the data protection manager Braden Anderson.
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