Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer (Email)

The information contained in this email, residing on any website linked to by it, or in any attachment to it, is intended for the addressee only. It may contain information that is confidential and/or copyright material. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, any usage, disclosure, copying or distribution is prohibited. No responsibility is accepted for any action taken or not taken in reliance on the contents. If this message was received in error please use the 'reply' facility to inform us of the misdirection.

Any files enclosed or residing on any website linked to by this email, unless stated otherwise, reflect the current state of the design and should not be relied upon beyond the limit of what they show when printed at their intended scale. Any decisions to be made on the basis of these files, whether as to Project viability, pre-letting, lease agreements or the like, should include due allowance for the increases and decreases inherent in the design development and building processes.

Any editable information enclosed, or residing on any website linked to by this email is uncontrolled information issued to enable the recipient to make alterations and/or additions to it, based on background information current at the time of issue. Hopkins Architects Ltd accepts no liability for any use of such information, including any such alterations or additions or arising out of changes to such background information which occur prior to such alterations or additions being made.

Any opinion or other information in this email, residing on any website linked to by it, or within its attachments, that does not relate to the business of Hopkins Architects Ltd is personal to the sender and is not given or endorsed by Hopkins Architects Ltd.

Virus Notice

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Privacy notice – Job Applications

This notice explains what personal data (information) we will hold about you, how we collect it, and how we will use and may share information about you during the application process.

We are required to notify you of this information, under data protection legislation. Please ensure that you read this notice and any other similar notice we may provide to you from time to time when we collect or process personal information about you.

Who collects the information

Hopkins Architects (‘the Practice’) is a ‘data controller’ and gathers and uses certain information about you.

Data protection principles

We will comply with the data protection principles when gathering and using personal information, as set out in our Data Protection Policy (available on request).

About the information we collect and hold

We may collect the following information up to and including the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process:

Your name and contact details (i.e. address, home and mobile phone numbers, email address)

Details of your qualifications, experience, employment history (including job titles, salary and working hours) and interests

Your racial or ethnic origin, sex and sexual orientation, religious or similar beliefs

Information regarding your criminal record – if applicable

Details of your referees.

We may collect the following information after the shortlisting stage, and before making a final decision to recruit:

Information about your previous academic and/or employment history, including details of any conduct, grievance or performance issues, appraisals, time and attendance, from references obtained about you from previous employers and/or education providers.

Information regarding your academic and professional qualifications

Information regarding your criminal record, in criminal records certificates (CRCs) and enhanced criminal records certificates (ECRCs) * - if applicable

Your nationality and immigration status and information from related documents, such as your passport or other identification and immigration information *

* You are required (by law or to enter into your contract of employment) to provide these categories of data to us to enable us to verify your right to work and suitability for the position.

How we collect the information

We may collect this information from you, your referees (details of whom you will have provided), your education provider, the Architects Registration Board, the Disclosure and Barring Service (if applicable) and the Home Office.

Why we collect the information and how we use it

We will typically collect and use this information for the following purposes (other purposes that may also apply are explained in our Data Protection Policy):

to take steps to enter into a contract

for compliance with a legal obligation (e.g. our obligation to check that you are eligible to work in the United Kingdom)

for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest

for the purposes of our legitimate interests, but only if these are not overridden by your interests, rights or freedoms.

We seek to ensure that our information collection and processing is always proportionate. We will notify you of any changes to information we collect or to the purposes for which we collect and process it.

How we may share the information

We may also need to share some of the above categories of personal information with other parties, such as HR consultants and professional advisers. Usually, information will be anonymised, but this may not always be possible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations. We may also be required to share some personal information with our regulators or as required to comply with the law.

Sensitive personal information

Further details on how we handle sensitive personal information are set out in our Data Protection Policy.

Where information may be held

Information may be held at our offices and third-party agencies, service providers, representatives and agents as described above.

How long we keep your information

We keep the personal information that we obtain about you during the recruitment process for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed. How long we keep your information will depend on whether your application is successful, and you become employed by us, the nature of the information concerned and the purposes for which it is processed.

We will keep recruitment information (including interview notes) for no longer than is reasonable, taking into account the limitation periods for potential claims such as race or sex discrimination (as extended to take account of early conciliation), after which they will be destroyed. If there is a clear business reason for keeping recruitment records for longer than the recruitment period, we may do so but will first consider whether the records can be pseudonymised, and the longer period for which they will be kept.

If your application is successful, we will keep only the recruitment information that is necessary in relation to your employment.

Further details on our approach to information retention and destruction are in our Record Retention Policy (available on request).

Your rights to correct and access your information and to ask for it to be erased

Please contact our HR department if (in accordance with applicable law) you would like to correct or request access to information that we hold relating to you or if you have any questions about this notice. You also have the right for some, but not all, of the information we hold and process to be erased (the ‘right to be forgotten’) in certain circumstances.

Email: hr@hopkins.co.uk

Keeping your personal information secure

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information 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.

How to complain

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information. If not, you can contact the Information Commissioner at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

or telephone: 0303 123 1113 for further information about your rights and how to make a formal complaint.