Privacy notice for job applicants

Rothesay Life Plc is an insurance company established in the UK with company registration number 06127279 and ICO registration number Z1003678. We are authorised in the UK by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority.

Rothesay Pensions Management Limited (company registration number 06195160 and ICO registration number Z1003616) is a company within the Rothesay group of companies. It employs individuals who carry out the day-to-day operations of Rothesay.

The registered office address for Rothesay and Rothesay Pensions Management Limited is The Post Building, 100 Museum Street, London WC1A 1PB.

Together Rothesay Life Plc and Rothesay Pensions Management Limited make decisions about the hiring of staff and the application process. As a result, we are joint controllers under data protection laws.

This privacy notice explains how we use and look after your personal data. This privacy notice also tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. 

This privacy notice contains information about:

• The personal data that we process as a controller
• Where the personal data has been obtained
• The reasons why we process your personal data and the lawful basis we use to do so
• The security measures that we have in place to keep your personal data secure
• The length of time we store your personal data for
• The organisations, or categories of organisation, with whom we might share your personal data
• International transfers of your personal data
• The rights you have under data protection laws in relation to our processing of your personal data

Please note that we may change this privacy notice from time to time.

To request a printed copy of this privacy notice please contact us using the contact details contained in the part of this privacy notice headed Contact details.

The categories of personal data we process include the following:

1. Applicant information: Personal data relating to each of our job applicants. Personal data in this category includes:

• Name
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Details of your relevant education and employment history
• Any personal data you have provided within your curriculum vitae, covering letter/emails and other correspondence with Rothesay
• Any personal data you have provided to us during an interview
• Assessment information (including online tests)

2. Induction information: personal data which we need to process to commence your employment with us following an offer of employment. Personal data includes:

• Bank details
• Right to work status
• National Insurance number
• Passport details

3. CCTV Information: Personal data relating to individuals processed by the CCTV system operated within our offices.

4. Sensitive personal data: This includes:

• Personal data concerning your race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and political opinions
• Personal data concerning your your health, such as any medical conditions you may have
• Information about your criminal record

Personal data will usually be collected directly from you through the recruitment exercise.

There will be instances where we collect personal data from other sources. These sources include:

1. Recruitment Agencies: We fill some of our roles through recruitment agencies. If you apply for a role through a recruitment agency, they will pass us details of your name, contact details, CV, and notes of the interview with the agency.

2. Your named referees: We may receive further personal data about you from your referees to aid the interview process.

3. Background check providers: We employ background check providers as part of the interview screening process. They may provide us with further personal data about you.

4. Social media networks: We may collect personal data about you from social media sites, such as LinkedIn, to the extent relevant and necessary in connection with your employment.

5. Candidate assessment providers: We will receive assessment information, including the results of online tests.

The table below provides details of the purpose and the lawful bases upon which we process personal data.

We may also process personal data including sensitive personal data to comply with other laws, regulations or criminal reporting requirements that we are subject to. This includes compliance with law enforcement agency procedures in connection with various investigations and compliance with any requirement to prevent or detect unlawful acts.

Our commitment to corporate security is demonstrated through the implementation of policies, controls and procedures, which are externally certified and audited to the international information security standard, ISO 27001:2013.

Our security policies, controls and procedures are regularly reviewed and updated so that we maintain good practices across our business to keep your information safe.

We have contractual arrangements in place with all of our service providers who process personal data which are compliant with data protection laws. We regularly check that our service providers are complying with their contractual commitments. This includes assessing and reporting on our service providers’ information security controls to check their compliance using questionnaires and/or on-site audits.

We will only keep your personal data for so long as it is reasonably required and, in any event, only for as long as our internal rules and polices allow us to fulfil our business or legal and regulatory obligations. This will usually be six months after an unsuccessful application.

If your application for a job with us is successful and you start work as our employee, please see the staff privacy notice for details of how long we will retain the data gathered during the recruitment exercise. If you apply for a new role with us when you are already our employee, this privacy notice applies in respect of any new information gathered during that application process, and the staff privacy notice continues to apply in respect of any information we already hold by virtue of you being a current employee.

We share personal data with a variety of other companies to operate our business. However, we only share the personal data where necessary to help us satisfy one or more of the reasons for processing set out above.

We have detailed the types of companies with whom we currently share personal data below. The companies fall into two categories.

Processors with whom we share personal data

For these companies, we determine the purposes for which the personal data we pass to them is processed and they should not process that personal data other than in accordance with our written instructions. Processors with whom we share personal data:

1. IT service providers
Our main IT infrastructure and core software is provided by Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.. This means that personal data we process is stored on Goldman Sachs’ IT systems.

2. Other service providers to our business
Other companies who process personal data on our behalf include those who provide day-to-day operational business services such as emails, archiving, document scanning and copying, document destruction and printing.

Controllers with whom we share personal data

For these companies, we do not determine the purposes for which the personal data we pass to them is processed once it is shared. To understand how the other controllers process your personal data , you should refer to their privacy notices. Controllers with whom we share personal data:

1. Background check provider

As a regulated firm, we have to share personal data with our background check providers so that they can conduct appropriate checks prior to offering you a contract with Rothesay.

2. Professional advisers

We sometimes have to share personal data with our professional advisers (including accountants and lawyers) where it is required for the purposes of their advice.

3. Regulators, law enforcement and auditors

We will share personal data when requested by regulators, law enforcement agencies or other third parties to comply obligations imposed on us by laws and regulations.

Where personal data is transferred to and processed in a country outside of the UK or the EEA (as applicable), we take steps to provide appropriate safeguards to protect your personal data, including by entering into approved standard contractual clauses obliging recipients to protect your personal data and only transferring personal data to the extent that an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data is ensured in compliance with data protection laws.

If you want further information on the specific mechanisms used by us when transferring your personal data outside of the UK or EEA, please contact us using the details contained in the part of this privacy notice headed Contact details.

Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights under data protection law:

• The right of access to personal data relating to you (known as Subject Access Requests)
• The right to correct any mistakes in your personal data
• The right to require us to delete your personal data
• The right to restrict our processing of your personal data
• The right to object to us processing your personal data, including for marketing purposes
• The right to have your personal data provided to another controller
• The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing

How to exercise your rights

If you wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact us using the details contained in the part of this privacy notice headed Contact details.

How to contact us regarding this privacy notice

You may want to contact us to:

• Ask any questions you have in relation to the information contained in this privacy notice
• Exercise any of your rights under the data protection laws
• Request a printed copy of this privacy notice printed in large print or braille
• Request an audio version of this privacy notice
• Make a complaint (see below)

To contact us you can email our Data Protection Officer (DPO) at dpo@rothesay.com or write to:

Data Protection Team, Rothesay Life Plc, The Post Building, 100 Museum Street, London WC1A 1PB

If you live within the European Union, you can also contact our European representative. Their details are as follows:

Address: Bird & Bird GDPR Representative Services SRL, Avenue Louise 235, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium.

Or email: EUrepresentative.Rothesay@twobirds.com

How to make a complaint

If you have a problem or concern relating to the ways we process your personal data or the contents of this privacy notice, please contact us in the first instance.

We hope that we will be able to address the problem or concern to your satisfaction. However, you also have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office. The process for making a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office is available here: 

www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Their contact details are as follows:

Address: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Or phone: 0303 123 1113

ico.org.uk