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Privacy Policy

Job Applicant Privacy Notice

Personal Information Collection Statement

As part of our recruitment process, The Langham, London (referred to from hereon as the Company) collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The Company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

What information does the Company collect?

The Company collects a range of information about you. This includes:

  • your name, address and contact details, including email address and telephone number;
  • details of your qualifications, skills, experience and employment history;
  • information about your current remuneration, including benefit entitlements;
  • whether or not you have a disability for which the organisation needs to make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process;
  • information about your entitlement to work in the UK; and
  • Equal opportunities monitoring information, which may include information about your ethnic origin, sexual orientation, health, and religion or belief.

The Company collects this information in a various 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.

The Company will also collect personal data about you from third parties, which may include references supplied by former employers; information from employment background check providers and information from criminal records checks. The Company 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.

Where we seek information about you this data will be stored in a range of different places, including on your application record, in HR management systems (both paper and electronic) and on other IT systems (including email).

Why does the Company process personal data?

The Company needs to process data to take steps, at your request, prior to entering into an employment relationship with you. It also needs to process your data to enter into an employment relationship with you.

In some cases, the Company 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 legally before employment starts.

The Company 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 Company to manage the recruitment process; assess and confirm a candidate's suitability for employment; and, decide to whom to offer a job. The Company may also need to process data from job applicants to respond to and defend against legal claims.

Where the Company 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 job applicants, employees or workers and has concluded that they are not.

The Company 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 under disability discrimination legislation.

Where the Company processes other special categories of data, such as information about ethnic origin, sexual orientation, health, religion or belief, age, gender or marital status, this is done for the purposes of equal opportunities monitoring with the explicit consent of job applicants, which can be withdrawn at any time.

For some roles, the Company 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 due diligence in relation to employment.

If your application is unsuccessful, the Company will keep your personal data on file in case there are future employment opportunities for which you may be suited. The Company will ask for your consent before it keeps your data for this purpose and you are free to withdraw your consent at any time.

Who has access to data?

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.

The Company will not share your data with third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and it makes you an offer of employment. The Company may then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you, employment background check providers to obtain necessary background checks and the Disclosure and Barring Service to obtain necessary criminal records checks.

Your data may be transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA) to Head Office with regards to employment matters. Data is transferred outside the EEA on the basis of binding corporate rules or other safeguards.

How does the Company protect data?

The Company 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 the Company’s employees in the proper performance of their duties.

For how long does the Company keep data?

If your application for employment is unsuccessful, the organisation will hold your data on file for six months after the end of the relevant recruitment process. If you agree to allow the Company to keep your personal data on file, the Company will hold your data on file for a further six months for consideration for future employment opportunities. At the end of that period or when you withdraw your consent, your data is deleted or destroyed.

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 Colleague Privacy Notice.

Your rights

As a data subject, you have a number of rights. You can:

  • access and obtain a copy of your data on request;
  • require the Company to change incorrect or incomplete data;
  • require the Company to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing;
  • object to the processing of your data where the Company is relying on its legitimate interests as the legal ground for processing; and
  • ask the Company to stop processing data for a period if data is inaccurate or there is a dispute about whether or not your interests override the organisation's legitimate grounds for processing data.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact Tim Gates, Director of Human Resources, on e-mail, tim.gates@langhamhotels.com.

If you believe that the Company has not complied with your data protection rights, you can complain to the Information Commissioner.

What if you do not provide personal data?

You are under no statutory or contractual obligation to provide data to the Company during the recruitment process. However, if you do not provide the information, the Company may not be able to process your application properly, or at all.

You are under no obligation to provide information for equal opportunities monitoring purposes and there are no consequences for your application if you choose not to provide such information.

Automated decision-making

Recruitment processes are not based solely on automated decision-making.

Legal Statement Agreement

I understand that the submission of the Application of Employment will not automatically result in an offer of employment.

I certify that the information I provided via this application system is true and complete. I understand that any false information or deliberate omissions will disqualify me from employment or may render me liable for dismissal.

** Important Notice**

Recently, it has come to our attention that there are parties not related to us, engaging in falsifying employment activities and fraudulently impersonating our hotel and our colleagues. We have reported the incident to the local authority and reserve our rights to take any further legal actions against any such fraudulent act.

Please be aware that we have not engaged any external third party to handle our employment applications nor negotiating any of our employment contracts. All employment applications should be made to us directly. If you are in doubt or unsure about the authenticity of any advertised position, please contact us directly on +44(0)20 7636 1000 or through email at lhl.recruitment@langhamhotels.com.

The Langham, London, Langham Hotels International Limited and/or its associates shall not be held liable to any person for any loss or damage which may arise from such fraudulently employment activity.