Your rights as a candidate at Professional Placements
(According to the new General Data Protection Regulations your rights are stated as follows)
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Right to be informed that your information is collected and processed
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Right to at any time gain insight into how your information is processed
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Right to correct incorrect data about you and limit the process
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Right to delete your data
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Right to object to the processing and disclosure of your information
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Right to receive your data
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Right to revoke your consent
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Right to appeal to the Data Protection Agency
Data security
We have put in place measures to protect the security of your information.
Third parties will only process your personal information on our instructions and where they have agreed to treat the information confidentially and to keep it secure.
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 only give access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who need to work on your recruitment process.
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.
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. We will retain the data, so we can contact you in future if a suitable vacancy arises.
The length will depend on:
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the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data
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the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data
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the purposes for which we process it
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whether we can achieve those purposes in other ways
For documents supporting recruitment, application and sifting the retention period is 3 years.
If you are unsuccessful, personally identifiable data is removed 12 months after your most recent application.
Your rights
You have the right to:
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Request access to your personal information - you’ll receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you, so you can check that we are lawfully processing it. It also allows you to request an electronic copy of any data you have provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format
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Request that we correct incomplete or inaccurate personal information that we hold about you
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Request we delete or remove your personal information - you can do this when there is no good reason for us to keep it - you can ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below)
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Withdraw your consent for any data processed under the lawful basis of consent (see below)
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Object to the processing of your personal information where we are relying on the legal basis that we are carrying out our public task (see legal bases above)
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Request we restrict the processing of your personal information - you can ask us to stop processing your personal information, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it
To make any of these requests or to ask us to transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, contact Mr Charalambous Ioannou at: charlie@professionalplacement.co.uk
Questions or complaints
If you have any questions about this privacy notice contact Mr. Charalambous Ioannou at: charlie@professionalplacement.co.uk