Job Applicant Privacy Notice
As part of any recruitment process, the University collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants.
The University is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.
Data Controller
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Canterbury Christ Church University, North Holmes Road, Canterbury, CT1 1QU |
Data Protection Officer | Robert Melville, Assistant University Secretary |
The University collects a range of information about you. This includes:
The University may collect this information in a variety of ways. For example, data might be contained in application forms, CVs or covering letters, obtained from your passport or other identity documents, or collected through interviews or other forms of assessment, including online tests.
The University may also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as references supplied by former employers, information from criminal records checks.
The University will seek information from third parties only once a job offer to you has been made and will inform you that it is doing so.
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).
The University needs to process data to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with you. It may also need to process your data to enter into a contract with you.
In some cases, the University 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.
The University 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 University to manage the recruitment process, assess and confirm a candidate's suitability for employment and decide to whom to offer a job. The University may also need to process data from job applicants to respond to and defend against legal claims.
The University may process information about whether or not applicants are disabled to make reasonable adjustments for candidates who have a disability. This is to carry out its obligations and exercise specific rights in relation to employment.
Where the University processes other special categories of data, such as information about ethnic origin, sexual orientation, health or religion or belief, this is for equal opportunities monitoring purposes.
For some roles, the University is obliged to seek information about criminal convictions and offences. Where the University seeks this information, it does so because it is necessary for it to carry out its obligations and exercise specific rights in relation to employment.
The University will not use your data for any purpose other than the recruitment exercise for which you have applied.
Your information may be shared internally for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes HR&OD, interviewers involved in the recruitment process and managers in the area with a vacancy.
The University will not share your data with third parties, unless you have given permission for the University to obtain references from former employers and also the Disclosure and Barring Service to obtain necessary criminal records checks.
The University will not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
The University 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.
If your application for employment is unsuccessful, the University will hold your data on file for one year after the end of the relevant recruitment process.
If your application for employment is successful, personal data gathered during the recruitment process will be transferred to your personnel file and retained during your employment. The periods for which your data will be held will be provided to you in a new privacy notice.
Canterbury Christ Church University is the Data Controller for this personal data.
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Title: | Privacy Notice - Job Applicant |
Applicable to: | Prospective Employees |
Approved By: | HR&OD |
Date approved: | 25 May 2018 |
Date of review: | 25 May 2020 |
Date last amended: | 30 March 2020 |