At Ogi our greatest strength is our people – we are all unique and that diversity of skills and perspectives is exactly what we need to grow into one of Wales’s leading broadband companies.

We are committed to ensuring that our workforce is welcoming and inclusive to all: not only is it important in itself, it’s also crucial to our ability to provide the best possible service to all our customers. Valuing diversity and being representative of communities across south Wales is core to our approach, and central to our success.

We are a ‘data controller’. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about you. This privacy notice is intended to make you aware of how and why your personal data will be used, namely for the purposes of recruitment, and how long it will usually be retained for. It provides you with certain information that must be provided under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (GDPR).

We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:

• Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
• Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes
• Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
• Accurate and kept up to date
• Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
• Kept securely.

In connection with your application for work with us, we will collect, store, and use the following categories of personal information about you:

• The information you have provided to us in your curriculum vitae and covering letter
• Any information you provide to us during an interview, including assessments
• Proof of your eligibility to work in the UK.

We may also collect, store and use the following “special categories” of more sensitive personal information:

• Information about your race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and political opinions
• Information about your health, including any medical condition, health and sickness records
• Information about criminal convictions and offences.

We may collect personal information about candidates from the following sources:

• You, the candidate
• Disclosure and Barring Service in respect of criminal convictions
• Your named referees.

We will use the personal information we collect about you to:

• Assess your skills, qualifications, and suitability for the role applied for
• Carry out background and reference checks, where applicable for the role
• Communicate with you about the recruitment process
• Keep records related to our hiring process
• Comply with legal or regulatory requirements.

It is in our legitimate interests to decide whether to appoint you to the role you have applied for, since it would be beneficial to our business to appoint someone to that post.

We also need to process your personal information to decide whether to enter into a contract of employment with you.

If you fail to provide information when requested, which is necessary for us to consider your application (such as evidence of qualifications or work history), we will not be able to process your application successfully. For example, if we require references for this role and you fail to provide us with relevant details, we will not be able to take your application further.

We will use your particularly sensitive personal information in the following ways:

• We will use information about your disability status to consider whether we need to provide appropriate adjustments during the recruitment process, for example whether adjustments need to be made during a test or interview.

• We may use information about your race or national or ethnic origin, religious, philosophical or moral beliefs, or your sexual life or sexual orientation, to ensure meaningful equal opportunity monitoring and reporting.

We envisage that we will process information about criminal convictions, where the role or customer project requires such a check is undertaken, and we will comply with our obligations under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 in order to do so.

We have in place an appropriate policy document and safeguards which we are required by law to maintain when processing such data.

You will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making.

Why might you share my personal information with third parties?

We will only share your personal information with third parties for the purposes of processing your application. All our third-party service providers are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with our policies. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

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.

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.

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. 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.

If we wish to retain your personal information on file, on the basis that a further opportunity may arise in future and we may wish to consider you for that, we will write to you separately, seeking your explicit consent to retain your personal information for a fixed period on that basis.

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 or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
• Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
• Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
• Request the transfer of your personal information to another party.

If you want to make a complaint about the way we have processed your personal information, you can contact us at the details below.

You can also complain directly to the UK supervisory authority (ICO).

If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact the data protection officer in writing using details below.

When you applied for this role, you provided consent to us processing your personal information for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. You have the right to withdraw your consent for processing for that purpose at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact the People Director at the company. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your application and, subject to our retention policy, we will dispose of your personal data securely.

Email: peopleexperience@ogi.wales
Phone: 029 2002 2370
Write to: Tŷ Ogi, Hodge House, 114-116 St. Mary Street, Cardiff, CF10 1DY.