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GDPR Candidate Privacy Notice

Bailey of Bristol (“Bailey” or “we”) is a Data Controller. This means that Bailey is responsible for determining the purposes for which and the way any personal data are, or are, to be processed.

You are therefore reading this document as you are either interested in working for Bailey, or you have applied directly to work for Bailey of Bristol. This notice makes you aware of how and why your personal data will be used, namely for the purposes of the recruitment exercise, and how long it will usually be retained for, in line with General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (GDPR).

Data protection principles

We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:

  • Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
  • Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
  • Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
  • Accurate and kept up to date.
  • Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
  • Kept securely.

The kind of information we hold about you

In connection with your application for work with us, we will collect, store, and use the following categories of personal information about you:

  • The information you have provided to us in your curriculum vitae and covering letter.
  • Any information you provide to us during an interview.
  • Any information obtained from test results, including but not limited to numerical and verbal reasoning tests, personality profiling and problem-solving tests.

How is your personal information collected?

We collect personal information about candidates from the following sources:

  • You, the candidate.
  • Your named referees, from whom we collect the following categories of data: dates of employment, job title, reason for leaving, key purpose in job, attendance, punctuality, disciplinary and capability records and dates and duration of any parental leave during employment.

How we will use information about you

We will use the personal information we collect about you to:

  • Assess your skills, qualifications, and suitability for the work or role.
  • Communicate with you about the recruitment process.
  • Keep records related to our hiring processes.
  • Comply with legal or regulatory requirements.
  • It is in our legitimate interests to decide whether to appoint you since it would be beneficial to our business to appoint someone to undertake the work or the role.

We also need to process your personal information to decide whether to enter into a contract of employment with you.

At the point of registering your interest in a role with Bailey, we will ask you to expressly consent to receiving notifications about future opportunities that we may wish to consider you for.

If you fail to provide personal information

If you fail to provide information when requested, which is necessary for us to consider your application (such as evidence of qualifications or work history), we will not be able to process your application successfully.

How we use particularly sensitive personal information

We will use your particularly sensitive personal information in the following ways:

  • We will use information about your disability status to consider whether we need to provide appropriate adjustments during the recruitment process, for example whether adjustments need to be made during a test or interview.
  • We will use information about your race or national or ethnic origin, religious, philosophical or moral beliefs, or your sexual life or sexual orientation, to ensure meaningful equal opportunity monitoring and reporting.
  • We process the above information in order to comply with our obligations as an employer.

Information about criminal convictions

We will collect information about your criminal conviction history in order to satisfy ourselves that there is nothing in your criminal convictions history which would make you unsuitable for the role. We will only use information relating to criminal convictions where the law allows us to do so.

Data sharing

Why might you share my personal information with third parties?

We may share your personal information with legal advisers and occupational health providers.

All our third-party service providers and other entities in the group are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with our policies. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need-to-know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

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

Data retention

How long will you use my information for?

We will retain your personal information for a period of 13 months after we have communicated to you our decision about whether to appoint you to the role or to undertake the work. We retain your personal information for that period so that we can show, in the event of a legal claim, that we have not discriminated against candidates on prohibited grounds and that we have conducted the recruitment exercise in a fair and transparent way. After this period, we will anonymise your personal information and securely store such information for statistical purposes only.

Rights of access, correction, erasure, and restriction

Your rights in connection with personal information

Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:

  • Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
  • Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
  • Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
  • Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
  • Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
  • Request the transfer of your personal information to another party.

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 [email protected].

Right to withdraw consent

You have the right to withdraw your consent for processing of your personal data at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact [email protected].

Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your application and we will dispose of your personal data securely, unless we are permitted or required by law or regulatory requirements to process your personal data without your knowledge or consent. In such a case, we will not process more personal data than is required under the circumstances.

Contact and complaints

If you want to exercise any of your rights, if you have any questions regarding this privacy notice or the processing of your personal data, you may contact the HR department by email: [email protected].

If you have any complaints regarding the processing of your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can also file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority:

Information Commissioner’s Office (”ICO”)
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AT

Telephone: 0303 123 1113 or 01625 545745

Live chat and online reporting – www.ico.org.uk

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