Job Applicant Privacy Notice
As part of any recruitment process, Cox collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. We are committed to being transparent about how we collect and use that data and to meeting our data protection obligations.
What information does Cox collect?
Cox collects a range of information about you. This includes:
· your name, address and contact details, including email address and telephone number;
· details of your qualifications, skills, experience and employment history;
· information about your current level of remuneration, including benefit entitlements;
· whether or not you have a disability for which Cox needs to make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process;
· information about your entitlement to work in the UK; and
· equal opportunities monitoring information, including information about your ethnic origin, sexual orientation, health and religion or belief.
Cox may collect this information in a variety of ways. For example, data might be contained in application forms, CVs, obtained from your passport or other identity documents, or collected through interviews or other forms of assessment.
Cox may also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as references supplied by former employers. Cox 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.
Why does Cox process personal data?
Cox 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, Cox 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.
Cox 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 Cox to manage the recruitment process, assess and confirm a candidate's suitability for employment and decide to whom to offer a job. Cox may also need to process data from job applicants to respond to and defend against legal claims.
Cox 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 Cox 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.
If your application is unsuccessful, Cox may keep your personal data on file in case there are future employment opportunities for which you may be suited. Cox will ask for your consent before it keeps your data for this purpose. You are free to withdraw your consent at any time.
Who has access to data?
Your information may be shared internally for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes members of the HR and recruitment team, interviewers involved in the recruitment process, managers in the business area with a vacancy and IT staff if access to the data is necessary for the performance of their roles.
Cox will not share your data with third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and it makes you an offer of employment. Cox will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you.
Your data may be transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA) if you are employed to work in areas outside of the EEA. Data is transferred outside the EEA on the basis of declarations of adequacy, appropriate safeguards and controls contained in contracts.
How does Cox protect data?
Cox 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. You will find details of these in our Data Protection Policy and Employee Privacy Notice.
For how long does Cox keep data?
If your application for employment is unsuccessful, Cox will hold your data on file for 8 months after the end of the relevant recruitment process. If you agree to allow Cox to keep your personal data on file, Cox may hold your data on file for a further 4 months for consideration for future employment opportunities. At the end of that period or once you withdraw your consent, your data is deleted or destroyed.
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.
Your rights
As a data subject, you have a number of rights. You can:
· access and obtain a copy of your data on request;
· require Cox to change incorrect or incomplete data;
· require Cox to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing; and
· object to the processing of your data where Cox is relying on its legitimate interests as the legal ground for processing.
If you believe that Cox has not complied with your data protection rights, you can complain to the Information Commissioner.
What if you do not provide personal data?
You are under no statutory or contractual obligation to provide data to Cox during the recruitment process. However, if you do not provide the information, Cox may not be able to process your application properly or at all.
Automated decision-making
Recruitment processes are not based solely on automated decision-making.