Data controller: dpo@prodigi.com
What information does Prodigi Group collect?
Prodigi Group 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 Prodigi needs to make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process; and
- information about your entitlement to work in the UK.
Prodigi Group collects this information in a variety of ways. For example, data might be contained in application forms, CVs or resumes, obtained from your passport or other identity documents, or collected through interviews or other forms of assessment, including online tests.
Prodigi Group will also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as references supplied by former employers. Prodigi Group 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 Prodigi Group process personal data?
Prodigi Group needs to process data to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with you. It also needs to process your data to enter into a contract with you.
In some cases, Prodigi Group 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.
Prodigi Group 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 Prodigi Group to manage the recruitment process, assess and confirm a candidate's suitability for employment and decide to whom to offer a job. Prodigi Group may also need to process data from job applicants to respond to and defend against legal claims.
Prodigi Group processes health information if it needs to make reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process for candidates who have a disability. This is to carry out its obligations and exercise specific rights in relation to employment.
For some roles, Prodigi Group is obliged to seek information about criminal convictions and offences. Where Prodigi Group seeks this information, it does so because it is necessary for it to carry out its obligations and exercise specific rights in relation to employment.
If your application is unsuccessful, Prodigi Group will keep your personal data on file in case there are future employment opportunities for which you may be suited. Prodigi Group will ask for your consent before it keeps your data for this purpose and you are free to withdraw your consent at any time.
Who has access to data?
Your information will 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.
Prodigi Group will not share your data with third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and it makes you an offer of employment. Prodigi Group will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you, employment background check providers to obtain necessary background checks and the Disclosure and Barring Service to obtain necessary criminal records checks.
Prodigi Group will not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.
How does Prodigi Group protect data?
Prodigi Group 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.
For how long does Prodigi Group keep data?
If your application for employment is unsuccessful, Prodigi Group will hold your data on file for 6 months after the end of the relevant recruitment process. If you agree to allow Prodigi Group to keep your personal data on file, Prodigi Group will hold your data on file for a further 12 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 Prodigi Group to change incorrect or incomplete data;
- require Prodigi Group to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing;
- object to the processing of your data where Prodigi Group is relying on its legitimate interests as the legal ground for processing; and
- ask Prodigi Group to stop processing data for a period if data is inaccurate or there is a dispute about whether or not your interests override Prodigi Group's legitimate grounds for processing data.
If you would lik to exercise any of these rights, please contact dpo@prodigi.com. You can make a subject access request by emailing Prodigi Group's Data Protection Officer using dpo@prodigi.com.
If you believe that Prodigi Group 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 Prodigi Group during the recruitment process. However, if you do not provide the information, Prodigi Group 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.