third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specific purposes and in accordance with our instructions. Data security We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need-to-know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. Details of these measures may be obtained from councils Data Protection Officer. 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. Data retention How long will you use my information for? We will retain your personal information for a period of six months after we have communicated to you our decision about whether to appoint you to the position. We retain your personal information for that period so that we can show, in the event of a legal claim, that we have not discriminated against candidates on prohibited grounds and that we have conducted the recruitment exercise in a fair and transparent way. After this period, we will securely destroy your personal information in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Rights of access, correction, erasure and restriction Your rights in connection with personal information Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to: Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a subject access This enables you to receive a copy of the “data request”). personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it. Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected. of your personal information. This enables you to ask Request erasure us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete
third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specific purposes and in accordance with our instructions. Data security We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need-to-know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. Details of these measures may be obtained from councils Data Protection Officer. 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. Data retention How long will you use my information for? We will retain your personal information for a period of six months after we have communicated to you our decision about whether to appoint you to the position. We retain your personal information for that period so that we can show, in the event of a legal claim, that we have not discriminated against candidates on prohibited grounds and that we have conducted the recruitment exercise in a fair and transparent way. After this period, we will securely destroy your personal information in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Rights of access, correction, erasure and restriction Your rights in connection with personal information Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to: Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it. Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected. Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete
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