St Mungo’s is committed to keeping your data safe. We’re also committed to being up front and honest about what information we’re collecting, why we do this, and how we use it.
St Mungo’s collects this information in a variety of ways. For example, data is collected through application forms, CVs or resumes; obtained from your passport or other identity documents such as your driving licence; from forms completed by you at the start of or during employment (such as benefit nomination forms); from correspondence with you; or through interviews, meetings or other assessments.
In some cases, the organisation collects personal data about you from third parties, such as references supplied by former employers; recruitment agencies; assessment information provided by assessment providers; medical information provided by medical professionals and information from criminal records checks permitted by law.
We will collect additional personal information in the course of job-related activities throughout the period of you working with us.
We will use your particularly sensitive personal information in the following ways:
We may only use information relating to criminal convictions where the law allows us to do so. This will usually be where such processing is necessary to carry out our obligations and provided we do so in line with our policies in relation to Pre- Employment Checking and Employing People with Criminal Records.
Less commonly, we may use information relating to criminal convictions where it is necessary in relation to legal claims, where it is necessary to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests) and you are not capable of giving your consent, or you have already made the information public.
We may also process such information about members or former members in the course of legitimate business activities with appropriate safeguards.
We envisage that we will hold information about criminal convictions.
We will only collect information about criminal convictions if it is appropriate given the nature of the role and where we are legally able to do so. Where appropriate, we will collect information about criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process or we may be notified of such information directly by you in the course of you working for us. We will use the information about criminal convictions and offences in the following ways:
We are allowed to use your personal information in this way to carry out our duties as an employer working in fields with regulated activity and/or with vulnerable adults and/or children and/or in line with the requirements of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. We have in place an appropriate policy and safeguards which we are required by law to maintain when processing such data.
We may have to share your data with third parties, including third-party service providers. We require third parties to respect the security of your data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We may transfer your personal information outside the EU. If we do, you can expect a similar degree of protection in respect of your personal information.
Who we share with
“Third parties” include third-party service providers (including contractors and designated agents).
St Mungo’s shares your data with third parties who manage our databases and administrative systems and in order to obtain pre-employment references from other employers, obtain assessments as part of a recruitment process, obtain employment background checks from third-party providers and obtain necessary criminal records checks from the Disclosure and Barring Service. The organisation may also share your data with third parties in the context of a potential TUPE transfer or when running a staff survey.
St Mungo’s also shares your data with third parties that process data on its behalf, in connection with insurances and legal advice, employee relations matters, payroll, the provision of benefits and the provision of occupational health services.
Keeping your information secure
All our third-party service providers are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with our policies. With the exception of our occupational health provider (who uses your data for the purposes of advising you directly and safeguarding your wellbeing) 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 possible mergers or take-overs, 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. We may also need to share your personal information with a regulator or commissioner/funder or to otherwise comply with the law.
Sharing outside of the EEA
Subject to the exceptions below your data will not be processed outside of the European Economic Area (EEA).
St Mungo’s takes the security of your data seriously. We have internal policies and controls in place to try to ensure that your data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, altered, misused or disclosed, and is not accessed except as required by its employees in the performance of their duties. We operate under a suite of Data Protection Policies, a Data Retention Schedule and restrict access to our systems and files appropriately.
Where St Mungo’s engages third parties to process personal data on its behalf, it does so on the basis of written instructions and only where the third party has agreed to treat the information confidentially and to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the security of data.
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, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use of disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. For more information please see the Employee’s Data Summary Schedule.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such information without further notice to you. Once you are no longer an employee or worker of the company we will retain and securely destroy your personal information in accordance with our data retention policy.
The organisation collects a range of information about you. This includes:
The organisation collects this information in a variety of ways. For example, data might be contained in application forms, CVs, obtained from your passport or other identity documents.
The organisation will also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as references supplied by former employers, educational / training establishments, work experience providers or other appropriate referees as provided by yourself and information from criminal records checks.
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).
The organisation needs to process data to administer your volunteering application.
The organisation has a legitimate interest in processing personal data during the recruitment process and for keeping records of the process. Processing data from volunteer applications allows the organisation to manage the recruitment process, assess and confirm a potential volunteer’s suitability for the role you have applied for.
Where the organisation relies on legitimate interests as a reason for processing data, it has considered whether or not those interests are overridden by the rights and freedoms of volunteers and has concluded that they are not.
The organisation processes health information to see if reasonable adjustments can be made to support a potential volunteer’s application.
Where the organisation processes other special categories of data, such as information about ethnic origin, sexual orientation, health or religion or belief, this is for equal opportunities monitoring purposes.
For some roles, the organisation is obliged to seek information about criminal convictions and offences. Where the organisation seeks this information, it does so because it is necessary for it to carry out its obligations and exercise specific rights in relation to that volunteering role.
Following the conclusion of any recruitment exercise, the organisation will keep your personal data on file for six months to respond to any questions about the process.
Your information will be shared internally for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes members of the Volunteering team, volunteer supervisors in the service where the role is based and IT staff and business insight teams if access to the data is necessary for the performance of their roles.
The organisation will not share your data with third parties, unless your application to volunteer is successful. The organisation will then share your data with relevant individuals and organisations (provided by yourself) to obtain references for you, and the Disclosure and Barring Service to obtain necessary criminal records checks.
Subject to the exception below your data will not be processed outside of the European Economic Area (EEA).
Your data will only be processed outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) in the following circumstances:
St Mungo’s takes the security of your data seriously. We have internal policies and controls in place to try to ensure that your data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, altered, misused or disclosed, and is not accessed except as required by its employees in the performance of their duties. We operate under a suite of Data Protection Policies, a Data Retention Schedule and restrict access to our systems and files appropriately.
Where St Mungo’s engages third parties to process personal data on its behalf, it does so on the basis of written instructions and only where the third party has agreed to treat the information confidentially and to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the security of data.
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.
If your application to volunteer is unsuccessful, the organisation will hold your data on file for seven months after the end of the relevant recruitment process.
If your application to volunteer is successful, personal data gathered during the recruitment process will be transferred to your personnel file and retained during your volunteering. The periods for which your data will be held will be provided to you in a new privacy notice.
The organisation collects a range of information about you. This includes:
The organisation 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, or online surveys. The data might also be collected from publicly available sources, such as websites.
The organisation will also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as references supplied by former employers, educational / training establishments, work experience providers or other appropriate referees as provided by yourself and information from employment background check providers and information from criminal records checks. The organisation 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).
The organisation 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. It also processes your data for the purpose of assessing its own performance through recruitment processes.
In some cases, the organisation 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.
The organisation 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 the organisation to manage the recruitment process, assess and confirm a candidate’s suitability for employment and decide to whom to offer a job. The organisation may also need to process data from job applicants to respond to and defend against legal claims.
Where the organisation relies on legitimate interests as a reason for processing data, it has considered whether or not those interests are overridden by the rights and freedoms of employees or workers and has concluded that they are not.
The organisation 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. In addition this information is processed (along with advice from occupational health) to make a judgement in relation to whether someone is suitable for a role.
Where the organisation processes other special categories of data, such as information about ethnic origin, sexual orientation, health or religion or belief, this is for equal opportunities monitoring purposes.
For some roles, the organisation is obliged to seek information about criminal convictions and offences. Where the organisation 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.
Following the conclusion of any recruitment exercise, the organisation will keep your personal data on file for six months to respond to any questions about the process, or legal challenges. In some situations, we may also keep your personal data on file in case there are future employment opportunities for which you may be suited. The organisation will ask for your consent before it keeps your data for this purpose and you are free to withdraw your consent at any time.
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.
During the assessment process, the organisation will share your data with online test providing companies and in certain situations with assessment panel members external to St Mungo’s. Otherwise, the organisation will not share your data with third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and it makes you an offer of employment. The organisation will then share your data with relevant individuals and organisations (provided by yourself) to obtain references for you, employment background check providers to obtain necessary background checks, Occupational Health Advisor to obtain any necessary health advice, the Disclosure and Barring Service to obtain necessary criminal records checks and our contract administration system to issue a contract.
Subject to the two exceptions below your data will not be processed outside of the European Economic Area (EEA).
Your data will only be processed outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) in the following circumstances:
The organisation 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.
If your application for employment is unsuccessful, the organisation will hold your data on file for seven months after the end of the relevant recruitment process.
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.
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