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Privacy Notice: Careers

Privacy Notice (Employers, Universities, Alumni etc)

Under data protection law, individuals have a right to be informed about how Peter Symonds College uses any personal data that we hold about them. We comply with this right by providing ‘privacy notices’ (sometimes called ‘fair processing notices’) to individuals where we are processing their personal data.

This privacy notice explains how we collect, store and use personal data about individuals who support the careers programme at the College, through potentially delivering talks, attending fairs & events, or providing destination data for advertising.

We, Peter Symonds College, are the ‘data controller’ for the purposes of data protection law.

Our Data Protection Officer is our Deputy Principal (Stakeholders, Systems & Services)

The personal data we hold

We process data relating to those who are not employed at the College but who offer to support the Careers Department and careers programme across the College. Personal data that we may collect, use, store and share (with staff and students within the College when appropriate) about you includes, but is not restricted to:

  • Your contact details
  • Contact details
  • Name, year left college
  • Name of organisation and industry area
  • Qualifications and employment history
  • Areas you are willing to support the careers programme with
  • Reflection on careers support whilst at college
  • Photograph
  • CCTV footage
  • Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check information
  • Vehicle details for those who park on site

We may also collect, store and use information about you that falls into "special categories" of more sensitive personal data. This includes information about (where applicable):

  • Health, including any medical conditions

Why we use this data

The purpose of processing this data is to provide students with an excellent careers programme that could be used by any department in the College, along with helping us run the College, including to:

  • Fulfil our safeguarding obligations towards students
  • Assess your suitability for the position you hold
  • Enable us to support you in an emergency on site
  • Assist us in making adjustments for disability

Our lawful basis for using this data

We only collect and use personal information about you when the law allows us to.
The data provided by you will be provided with your consent. We may also have the following lawful grounds for some elements of processing:

  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To carry out a task in the public interest
  • To protect your vital interests (or someone else’s interests)

Where you have provided us with consent to use your data, you may withdraw this consent at any time. We will make this clear when requesting your consent, and explain how you go about withdrawing consent if you wish to do so.

Some of the reasons listed above for collecting and using personal information about you overlap, and there may be several grounds which justify the College’s use of your data.

Collecting this information

Whenever we seek to collect information from you, we make it clear whether you must provide this information (and if so, what the possible consequences are of not complying), or whether you have a choice.

How we store this data

All data linked to the careers programme contacts and alumni is stored either on our College servers, or on Google workspace. Our contract with Google stipulates that this data is held in UK or EU data centres.

Data sharing

We do not share information about you with any third party without your consent unless the law and our policies allow us to do so.
Where it is legally required, or necessary (and it complies with data protection law) we may share personal information about you with:

  • Local Authorities – to meet our legal obligations to share certain information with it, such as safeguarding concerns and for some other purposes e.g. NQT training
  • The DBS disclosure application processor
  • Your family or representatives – to protect your vital interests
  • Suppliers and service providers – to enable them to provide the service we have contracted them for, such as the payroll software company
  • Occupational health advisers
  • Security organisations
  • Professional advisers and consultants
  • Police forces, courts, tribunals
  • Professional bodies
  • Potential future employers for reference purposes
  • Previous employers/individuals for reference purposes
  • The Health & Safety Executive

Transferring data internationally

Where we transfer personal data to a country or territory outside the European Economic Area, we will do so in accordance with data protection law.

Your rights

How to access personal information we hold about you

Individuals have a right to make a ‘subject access request’ to gain access to personal information that the College holds about them.
If you make a subject access request, and if we do hold information about you, we will:

  • Give you a description of it
  • Tell you why we are holding and processing it, and how long we will keep it for
  • Explain where we got it from, if not from you
  • Tell you who it has been, or will be, shared with
  • Let you know whether any automated decision-making is being applied to the data, and any consequences of this
  • Give you a copy of the information in an intelligible form

You may also have the right for your personal information to be transmitted electronically to another organisation in certain circumstances.

If you would like to make a request, please contact our Data Protection Officer.

Your other rights regarding your data

Under data protection law, individuals have certain rights regarding how their personal data is used and kept safe. You have the right to:

  • Object to the use of your personal data if it would cause, or is causing, damage or distress
  • Prevent your data being used to send direct marketing
  • Object to the use of your personal data for decisions being taken by automated means (by a computer or machine, rather than by a person)
  • In certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data corrected, deleted or destroyed, or restrict processing
  • Claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the data protection regulations

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer.

Complaints

We take any complaints about our collection and use of personal information very seriously.

If you think that our collection or use of personal information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate, or have any other concern about our data processing, please raise this with us in the first instance.

To make a complaint, please contact our Data Protection Officer.

Alternatively, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office:

  • Report a concern online at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
  • Call 0303 123 1113
  • Or write to: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Contact us

If you have any questions, concerns or would like more information about anything mentioned in this privacy notice, please contact our Data Protection Officer:

About this privacy notice:

Does this notice impact on equal opportunities within the College? No
If so, give details and, if appropriate, indicate how these will be ameliorated.

Created: October 2024
Review: October 2026