Westmorland Family privacy policy

Job Applicant Privacy Notice 

As part of our recruitment processes, we collect and process personal information relating to job applicants. This privacy notice explains what we do with this personal data. 

Name and contact details of the Data Controller: 

Westmorland Limited 

Westmorland Place 

Orton 

Penrith 

CA10 3SB 

Tel: 015396 24511 

Email: data.protection@westmorlandfamily.com 

What information do we collect? 

We collect and process a range of information about you during the recruitment process. This includes: 

 Your name and contact details including address, telephone numbers, and email addresses. 

 Details of your skills and experience, education and qualifications and your employment history. 

 Information about your current pay and benefit entitlements. 

 Information about your nationality and right to work in the UK. 

 

How is this information collected and stored? 

This information is collected from you in a variety of ways including application forms, CV’s, identity documents (which may include your passport, birth certificate and national insurance number), interviews and assessments. 

Information is not collected from third parties prior to an offer of employment being made. If this is the case you will be provided with further details at the time. 

Data is stored using our application management systems and on other IT systems including email. For successful applicants this data is transferred onto personnel files and our electronic HR management system. 

Why do we process personal data? 

We need to process your data in order to process your application for employment. 

In certain instances we have to process your data in order to comply with our legal obligations. This would include, for example, checking your entitlement to work in the UK. 

Whilst there are no contractual obligations regarding your data at the recruitment stage, should you be successful we would need to process your data in order to enter into a contract with you. 

As well as the above, we have a legitimate interest in processing personal data during the recruitment process and for keeping records of the process. This allows us to manage the process, assess a 

candidates suitability for a position and decide to whom to offer employment. We may also need to process personal data from job applicants in order to respond to and defend legal claims. 

Who has access to data? 

Your information may be shared internally for the purposes of recruitment. This includes members of the HR team and managers with responsibility for recruitment. 

If your application for employment is successful, information may be shared with third parties in order to seek references from former employers. If your application is unsuccessful, information will not be shared with third parties. 

Your data will not be transferred outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). 

How long do we keep personal data? 

Unsuccessful applicants 

If your application for employment is unsuccessful, we will hold your data on file for a period of six months after the end of the recruitment process. 

If you agree, we will hold your data for a further six months for consideration for future vacancies. At the end of that period, or if you withdraw your consent prior to this, your data will be deleted or destroyed. 

Successful applicants 

If your application for employment is successful, your data will be transferred to your personnel file and subject to the retention periods outlined in our Employee Privacy Notice. 

Your rights 

As a ‘data subject’ you have a number of rights in relation to your personal data. You can: 

 Obtain a copy of your personal data on request. 

 Ask us to change incorrect or incomplete data. 

 Ask us to delete or stop processing your data, for example where it is no longer necessary. 

 Object to the processing of your data under certain conditions (specifically where it is being processed due to our legitimate interests). 

 Object to direct marketing. 

 

If you believe that we have not complied with your data protection rights you can complain to the Information Commissioner, which is the supervisory authority for data protection in the UK. 

What if you do not provide personal data? 

Whilst you are under no statutory or contractual obligation to provide us with data during the recruitment process, if you fail to do so we will not be able to process your application for employment. 

Automated decision making 

No decisions that affect recruitment are made solely by automated means. 

This Privacy Notice was updated on 24 May 2018.