CANDIDATE PRIVACY NOTICE
Last updated on 15 January 2021
What is the purpose of this document?
Fnality International is a "data controller". This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about you. You are being sent a copy of this privacy notice because you are applying for work with us (whether as an employee, worker or contractor) or you are being considered to be appointed as a director of Fnality International Ltd. This privacy notice will make you aware of how and why your personal data will be used, namely for the purposes of the candidate selection, 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).
Data protection principles
We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:
The kind of information we hold about you
In connection with our candidate selection process, we may collect, store, and use the following categories of personal information about you:
We may also collect, store and use the following types of more sensitive personal information:
How is your personal information collected?
We collect personal information about candidates from the following sources:
How we will use information about you
We will use the personal information we collect about you to:
Please see below for more information about how we will use sensitive personal information and information about criminal convictions.
It is in our legitimate interests to decide whether to appoint you to role since it would be beneficial to our business to appoint someone to that role.
We also need to process your personal information to decide whether to enter into a contract with you to confirm your appointment.
Having received your application, 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 we decide to offer you the role, we will then take up references and carry out various checks (including a criminal record and credit check) before confirming your appointment. Please note that the above candidate selection process may differ depending on the role, for example in respect of our directors appointment process.
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. For example, if we require a credit check or references for this role and you fail to provide us with relevant details, we will not be able to take your application further.
How we use particularly sensitive personal information
We will use your particularly sensitive personal information in the following ways:
Information about criminal convictions
We may collect information about your criminal convictions history once we have offered you the role (conditional on checks and any other conditions, such as references, being satisfactory). We are entitled to carry out a criminal record check in order to satisfy ourselves that there is nothing in your criminal convictions history which makes you unsuitable for the role. This is a requirement forming part of generally accepted principles of good practice in the financial services industry. In particular:
We have in place an appropriate policy document and safeguards which we are required by law to maintain when processing such data.
Automated decision-making
You will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making.
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 sharing
We will share your personal information with third parties only where required by law, where it is necessary in connection with the candidate selection process or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so.
"Third parties" includes third-party service providers (including contractors), professional advisers and other entities within our group. The following activities may be carried out by third-party service providers: candidate verification and background checks (if we use a candidate verification agency), candidate recruitment and liaison (if we use recruitment agency).
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.
We may share your personal information with other third parties, for example in the context of the possible sale or restructuring of the business. In this situation we will, so far as possible, share anonymised data with the other parties before the transaction completes. Once the transaction is completed, we will share your personal data with the other parties if and to the extent required under the terms of the transaction.
We may also need to share your personal information with a regulator or to otherwise comply with the law. This may include making returns to HMRC, disclosures to regulators and disclosures to shareholders such as directors' remuneration reporting requirements.
Some of our external third parties may be based outside the EEA in which case their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA. Whenever we permit for a transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
Data retention
How long will you use my information for?
We will retain your personal information for a period of 6 months after we have communicated to you if you have been unsuccessful for a role. 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 you are successful in your role, we will retain all data related to your recruitment process in line with our personnel privacy notice, which will be notified to you when you join us.
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 period of 2 years 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:
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 email data.protection@fnality.org.
We do not rely on consents for the processing of personal data in connection with our recruitment process. However, if we do ask for your consent for a specific processing activity, you have the right to withdraw your consent for processing for that purpose at any time. To withdraw your consent, please email data.protection@fnality.org. 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.
Data protection manager
We have appointed a Data Protection Manager to oversee compliance with this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice or how we handle your personal information, please email data.protection@fnality.org. 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.