Data Privacy Statement

Recruitment

This statement relates to personal information we collect and use when you seek employment with us and gives you more detail about what we do with it. It also lets you know your rights.

Introduction

Thank you for interest in joining Derrycourt. As part of your application (whether made directly or through someone else, like a recruitment agency) you have provided us with personal information so we can consider you for employment. This personal information can include your:
  • name, address, contact details and photograph;
  • age, date of birth and place of birth;
  • nationality and marital status;
  • employment history (such as employers, dates of employment, duties, achievements, and reasons for leaving);
  • education history (such as places of education, education level and attainment);
  • personal interests and activities, personal achievements, and actual or expected levels of remuneration; and
  • documentation confirming identity (such as driver’s licence, passport), address, residency status in Ireland, and qualifications and certifications.
We collect and use this personal information to consider your application to work with us effectively, lawfully, and fairly. This means using your personal information to:
  • comply with our legal obligations in considering your application;
  • subject always to your rights, pursue Derrycourt’s legitimate interests in selecting and appointing the most suitable candidates for employment; and
  • protect our legal position.

How we use your personal information

We only use your personal information to consider you for a position with Derrycourt, and if you are successful, offering you employment.

Meeting our legal obligations

Derrycourt has legal obligations to consider your application fairly and without discrimination. We use your personal information where necessary for ensuring these and our other legal obligations are met.

Derrycourt’s legitimate interests

The personal information provided as part of your application is used in our legitimate interests to ensure we select the most suitable candidate(s) for employment.

Protecting our legal position

We will also use your personal information in our legitimate interest to exercise, establish or defend legal or other claims connected with your application and our recruitment process.

Personal data not obtained from you

Information relating to you coming from third parties is also treated as personal information. Your personal information may have been provided to us by:
  • a recruitment agency or other recruitment service provider; or
  • a referee you have provided to us.

Personal information relating to your health

We may occasionally ask for information relating to your health as part of our recruitment process. We only do this when it is necessary to
  • carry out our legal obligations, or exercise our rights as a prospective employer; or
  • protect our legal position.

Who else receives your personal information

We will share your personal information with the third parties detailed below. Your personal information is not shared with anyone else. It is not transferred outside the European Union (unless otherwise stated)

Governmental authorities

We may provide any of your personal information to relevant authorities, such as An Garda Síochána or the Revenue Commissioners, where necessary to discharge any legal obligations we have or to exercise or defend Derrycourt’s legal rights.

Information technology and systems

We use information technology and software providers to support our activities. These providers can only use the personal information we share to provide their services to us.

Recruitment advisers and service providers

We engage a range of third parties to provide recruitment services and professional advice. We may provide personal information to these service providers or advisers so they can provide their services or advice. These third parties include recruitment agencies, web-based recruitment services (such as Bid Recruit and Indeed.ie), and professional services firms (like law firms, accountancy firms, and insurance brokers).

Referees

Your personal information may be shared with third parties for the purposes of seeking references in accordance with your written and verified instructions.

How long do we keep this personal information?

We retain your personal information for a period of no more than twelve months after the relevant recruitment campaign has finished.

Your rights

Right to withdraw consent

Where we have asked for your consent for any of our processing of personal information, you can withdraw that consent at any time. Write to us at our address or email info@derrycourt.ie. Once your request has been verified, we will stop our processing within one working day. This only applies in respect of processing where your consent has been provided.

Accessing, deleting, rectifying and moving your personal information

Subject to certain limitations, you have the right to:
  • access your personal information;
  • require us to delete it;
  • rectify any personal information we hold that is incorrect; and/or
  • have your personal information transmitted to another data controller.
If you want to exercise these rights, please let us know in writing. You will need to provide sufficient information to verify and complete your request. We will complete your request within thirty days, subject to any legal or other requirements that requires or permits us not to complete your request.

Objecting to the use of your personal information

When we use your personal information in our legitimate interests, you have the right to object to this processing, which you can exercise at any time.

Lodging a complaint

You can at any time complain about our processing of your personal information with your local data protection authority. Derrycourt’s supervisory authority is:

Data Protection Commissioner, Canal House, Station Road, Portarlington, R32 AP23, Co. Laois, Ireland

www.dataprotection.ie

How do you contact us?

The data controller is Derrycourt Company LTD

You can write to us at: Century Business Park, St Margaret’s Road, Finglas, Dublin 11

You can email us at: privacy@derrycourt.ie