Recruitment Privacy Policy.

Viper Innovations Ltd – Recruitment TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Purpose of this document

When you provide your personal information to Viper Innovations Ltd (“Viper”) as part of an application for employment (whether as an employee, worker or contractor), Viper is the “data controller” in respect of that information. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use it.  This policy 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. It provides you with certain information that must be provided under the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (GDPR).

Who we are

Viper Innovations Ltd

45 Martingale Way

Portishead

Bristol

BS20 7AW

United Kingdom

Tel:   +44 (0)1275 78 78 78    E-mail:       hr.administration@viperinnovations.com

Viper is a company registered in England and Wales, company number 06213408. Viper is also registered as a data controller with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, reference ZB076869.

Data protection principles

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

The kind of information we hold about you

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

1. The information you have provided to us in your curriculum vitae and covering letter
2. Any information you provide to us during an interview including any results relating to a task we have specified for you to do, for the role you have applied for.

How is your personal information collected?

We collect personal information about candidates from the following sources:

1. You, the candidate
2. A recruitment agency, from which we collect the information contained in your curriculum vitae and any covering letter
3. Through an advertising source for example LinkedIn/Indeed if the candidate has applied directly to the role we are advertising.

How we will use information about you

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

1. Assess your skills, qualifications, suitability for work or the role you have applied for
2. Carry out background and reference checks, where applicable
3. Communicate with you about the recruitment process
4. Keep records related to our hiring processes
5. Comply with legal or regulatory requirements

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

Having received your application and the results from any assessments, we will then process that information to decide whether you meet the basic requirements to be shortlisted for the role. If you do, we will decide whether your application is strong enough to invite you for an interview. If we decide to call you for an interview, we will use the information you provide to us at the interview to decide whether to offer you the role.

If you fail to provide the 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.

Data sharing

We will not share your information with third parties.

Data storage

All data which we hold about you will be held on our automated tracking system (ATS) system within our HR system.

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 six months after we have communicated to you our decision about whether to appoint.

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 securely destroy your personal information in accordance with our data retention policy. If we wish to retain your personal information on file, on the basis that a further opportunity may arise in future and we may wish to consider you for that, we will write to you separately, seeking your explicit consent to retain your personal information for a fixed period on that basis.

Rights of access, correction, erasure, and restriction

Your rights in connection with personal information, under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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).
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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 us in writing.

Right to withdraw consent

When you applied for a role, you provided consent to us processing your personal information for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. You have the right to withdraw your consent for processing for that purpose at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact us. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your application and, subject to our retention policy, we will dispose of your personal data securely.

Questions and complaints

If you have any questions about this privacy notice or how we handle your personal information, please contact us as detailed above. 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.