Privacy Policy

50plusjobsite.com (“We”, “US”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice (together with any other documents referred to herein) sets out the basis on which the personal data collected from you, or that you provide to US, will be processed by US in connection with Our recruitment processes. Please read the following carefully to understand Our views and practices regarding your personal data and how We will treat it.

For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) the Data controller is 50plusjobsite.com

Where you create a profile on 50plusjobsite.com, these Privacy Notice provisions will apply to Our processing of your personal information in addition to any other of Our Privacy Notices which may have been provided to you separately, or are available on Our Website.

Where you create a profile on 50plusjobsite.com you should note that the relevant Partner may retain your personal data and may also collect data from Us in respect of the progress of your application. Any use by the Partner of your data will be in accordance with the Partner’s Privacy Notice.

Information We collect from You

We collect and process some or all of the following types of information from you:

Information that you provide when you create a profile. This includes information provided through an online job site, via email, in person at interview and/or by any other method.

In particular, We process personal details such as name, email address, address, date of birth, qualifications, experience, information relating to your employment history, skills and experience, that you provide to Us. If you contact Us, We may keep a record of that correspondence. Also a record of your progress through any hiring process that We may conduct, details of your visits to 50plusjobsite.com including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data.

Information We collect from Other Sources

We will have the facility to link the data you provide to Us, with other publicly available information about you that you have published on the internet – this may include sources such as Linkedin and other social media profiles.

We are permitted to search various databases – some publicly available and others not, which may include your personal data (include your CV or Resume), to find possible candidates to fill Our job openings. Where We find you in this way we will obtain your personal data from these sources.

We may receive your personal data from a third party who recommends you as a candidate for a specific job opening or for our business more generally.

Lawful basis for processing

We rely on legitimate interest as the lawful basis on which We collect and use your personal data. Our legitimate interests are the recruitment of staff for Our businesses.

Where you apply for a job opening through the 50plusjobsite Apply functionality, we rely on your consent, which is freely given by you during the application process, to disclose your personal data to 50plusjobite on the basis described below:

Purposes of processing

We use information held about you in the following ways:

To verify your profile.

To verify your profile with respect to other roles.

To communicate with you in respect of the recruitment process.

To enhance any information that we receive from you with information obtained from third party data providers.

To help our service providers and Partners to improve their services.

Automated decision making/profiling

We may use technology to select appropriate candidates for / to be viewed by employers. The process of finding suitable candidates is automatic, however, any decision as to who will be engaged to fill the job opening will be made by the employer.

Disclosure of your information

As set out above, we pass your information to our third party service providers, who use it only in accordance with our instructions and as otherwise required by law.

Where you have created a profile using our functionality, and where you have consented to this disclosure, We will disclose certain personal data that We hold, including but not limited to an unique identifier to identify you, as well as tangible, intangible, visual, electronic, present or future information that we hold about you, such as your name, contact details and other information involving analysis of data relating to you as an applicant for employment (collectively “Disposition Data”).

Where you have applied to a job opening through another service provider, we may disclose data similar to the Disposition Data defined above to such service provider. The service provider shall be the data controller of this data and shall therefore be responsible for complying with all applicable law in respect of the use of that data following its transfer by Us.

Security

We take appropriate measures to ensure that all personal data is kept secure including security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost, or used, or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where We are legally required to do so.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, and although We will do Our best to protect your personal data, We cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted through any online means; therefore any transmission remains at your own risk.

Where We store your personal data

Where we store your personal data in our own systems, it is stored on our secure servers with the EEA.

The data that We collect from you and process may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for US or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, amongst other things, the fulfilment of your orders, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing.

A Data Processor Agreement will be signed between Us and any overseas group companies and between US and each of any data processors. These data processor agreements are designed to help safeguard your privacy rights and give you remedies in the unlikely event of a misuse of your personal data.

If you would like further information please contact Us (see ‘Contact’ page). We will not otherwise transfer your personal data outside of the United Kingdom or EEA or to any organisation (or subordinate bodies) governed by public international law or which is set up under any agreement between two or more countries.

How long We keep your personal data

We will hold all the data in perpetuity.

Your personal information will be deleted on one of the following occurrences:

Deletion of our personal information by you (or by another person engaged by the Customer):

On receipt of a written request by you (or another person engaged by the Customer) to us.

Your rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

Access to your personal data and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address; require US to correct any mistakes in your information which We hold; require the erasure of personal data concerning you in certain situations; receive the persona data concerning you which you have provided to Us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the:

Right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations, object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for direct marketing;
Object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you, object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal data;
Otherwise restrict our processing of your personal data in certain circumstances;
Claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws.

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please contact us using our Contact details below, and let Us have enough information to identify you, let Us have proof of your identity and address, and let Us know the information to which your request relates.

How to complain

We hope that We can resolve any query or concern you raise about Our use of your information.

The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live, or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

Make a complaint

If you have a concern about the way an organisation has handled your personal information, or you have an issue accessing information from a public body, you can report it to the ICO. You can report nuisance calls and span texts to the ICO using this reporting tool. Report span texts and cold calls to us and help us stop nuisance marketing messages. ico.org.uk or telephone 0303 123 1113.

Contact

All questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Notice should be addressed to info@50plusjobsite.com