This notice explains what personal data (information) we hold about you, how we collect it, and how we use and may share information about you during the recruitment process. We are required to notify you of this information under data protection legislation. Please ensure that you read this notice (sometimes referred to as a ‘privacy notice’) and any other similar notice we may provide to you from time to time when we collect or process personal information about you.
Dals (the Company) is a ‘data controller’ and gathers and uses certain information about you. This information is also used by our affiliated entities and group companies, (our group companies) and so, in this notice, references to ‘we’ or ‘us’ mean the Company and our group companies.
We will comply with the data protection principles when gathering and using personal information, as set out in our data protection (employment) policy.
We may collect the following information during your employment/engagement:
We may collect the following information after the shortlisting stage, and before making a final decision to recruit:
We may collect the following information after the shortlisting stage, and before making a final decision to recruit:
You are required (by law or in order to enter into your contract of employment) to provide the categories of information marked ‘’ above to us to enable us to verify your right to work and suitability for the position.
We may collect this information from you, your referees (details of whom you will have provided), your education provider, the relevant professional body, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the Home Office.
We will typically collect and use this information for the following purposes (other purposes that may also apply are explained in our data protection policy (employment)):
We seek to ensure that our information collection and processing is always proportionate. We will notify you of any material changes to information we collect or to the purposes for which we collect and process it. You will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making.
We may also need to share some of the above categories of personal information with other parties, such as HR consultants and professional advisers. Usually, information will be anonymised but this may not always be possible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations. We may also be required to share some personal information as required to comply with the law.
Further details on how we handle sensitive personal information are set out in data protection policy (employment), available from our data protection officer.
Information may be held in hard copy or electronic format at our offices and those of our group companies, and third party agencies, service providers, representatives and agents as described above.
We keep the personal information that we obtain about you during the recruitment process for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed. How long we keep your information will depend on whether your application is successful and you become employed by us, the nature of the information concerned and the purposes for which it is processed.
We will keep recruitment information (including interview notes) for no longer than is reasonable, taking into account the limitation periods for potential claims such as race or sex discrimination (as extended to take account of early conciliation), after which they will be destroyed. If there is a clear business reason for keeping recruitment records for longer than the recruitment period, we may do so but will first consider whether the records can be pseudonymised, and the longer period for which they will be kept.
If your application is successful, we will keep only the recruitment information that is necessary in relation to your employment. For further information, see our data protection privacy notice (employment).
Further details on our approach to information retention and destruction are available in our data retention policy.
Where our processing of your information is based solely on our legitimate interests (or those of a third party), you have the right to object to that processing if you give us specific reasons why you are objecting, which are based on your particular situation. If you object, we can no longer process your information unless we can demonstrate legitimate grounds for the processing, which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Please contact our data protection officer, who can be contacted dpo@dals.co.uk if you wish to object in this way.
Please contact our data protection officer, who can be contacted at dpo@dals.co.uk if (in accordance with applicable law) you would like to correct or request access to information that we hold relating to you or if you have any questions about this notice. You also have the right to ask our data protection officer for some but not all of the information we hold and process to be erased (the ‘right to be forgotten’) in certain circumstances. Our data protection officer will provide you with further information about the right to be forgotten, if you ask for it.
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
We hope that our data protection officer can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information. If not, contact the Information Commissioner at ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113 for further information about your rights and how to make a formal complaint.
