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International recruitment privacy statement

The International Recruitment East Programme offers a regional hub and spoke infrastructure to support international recruits impacted by licence revocations to find and alternative employer, alongside signposting to other relevant support and advice (e.g. housing, legal, immigration, financial and pastoral etc.).

This privacy notice provides details on how we, Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC), will use your personal information within the International Recruitment East (IRE) Programme.

By 'use' we mean the various ways your personal information may be processed including storing and sharing the information.

What we will use your information for 

We will collect information to inform the support we provide to you to help you find an alternative employer and signpost you to other relevant support.

We may also use your personal contact details to contact you and ask if you would be prepared to:

  • Provide further feedback on the event that you attended.
  • Provide feedback or views on the International Recruitment East Programme as a whole.
  • Participate in a focus group discussion on the International Recruitment East Programme or aspects of international recruitment.
  • Tell us your story in relation to international recruitment, that with your consent we may use as a case study.

We may also use information you provide in other ways compatible with the above.

Feedback we obtain from you will be anonymised and included in the International Recruitment East programme monitoring and evaluation reports.

The purpose of programme monitoring, and evaluation is also to enable us to assess the quality and / or impact of the Programme's activities or resources and make the necessary adjustments in order to make improvements.

What personal data we collect and use about you

We will collect and use the following information:

  • Basic contact details, including name, address and contact email.
  • Details relevant to employment support: e.g. current employer, experience, qualifications, skills etc.
  • Other information relevant to your personal circumstances, e.g. ability to drive, home office/immigration status, wellbeing/support needs. Confirmation of new employment if found.

Who provides this information

We will receive your basic contact details from one of our International Recruitment Programme delivery partners who will have gathered your personal information as part of your initial referral to the International Recruitment East hub. The programme delivery partner will seek your consent before providing your personal information to us.

Additional information will be obtained directly from you as part of the assessment process conversations and communications.

Who has access to data?

Your information will be shared internally with staff in the international recruitment programme for the purposes of providing you job matching and signposting support in relation to your displaced worker visa status.

Cambridgeshire County Council will not share your personal data with other third parties unless there is a statutory requirement to do so, for example if required by law enforcement agencies, or if it is something you have specifically asked us to share.

If we need to use the information you provide for research or reports. The information will continue to be used in a summarised and anonymised form in any research reports or papers that are published. These anonymised reports may be shared with the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) who have funded this IRE Programme and may be held by them indefinitely. The anonymised information in the papers may be of historic interest and may be held in public archives indefinitely.

The processing of information must comply with the law relating to confidentiality, data protection and human rights. Having a lawful basis for processing information is an important part of meeting those legal requirements. We have legal grounds under the GDPR to process this information because you have provided consent for us to do so. You can remove your consent at any time by emailing us at irsupportcambs@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

How long will we keep your personal information for

We only keep information for as long as it is needed. Information will be kept in line with our retention schedules. The information will be securely deleted at the earliest of; you withdrawing consent; or when the information is no longer needed for the above purposes.

How we keep your information

The information is stored electronically, on the County Council's network including records management systems. We do not process your information outside of the UK and European Economic Area.

Automated decision making

We do not make automated decisions about you.

Changes to this notice

We may amend this privacy notice at any time so please review it frequently. The date below will be amended each time this notice is updated.This notice was created in August 2024.

Your rights

You have various rights around the data we hold about you.

  • Right of access (to receive a copy of your personal data)
  • Right to rectification (to request data is corrected if inaccurate)
  • Right to erasure (to request that data is deleted)
  • Right to restrict processing (to request we don’t use your data in a certain way)
  • Right to data portability (in some cases, you can ask to receive a copy of your data in a commonly-used electronic format so that it can be given to someone else)
  • Right to object (generally to make a complaint about any aspect of our use of your data)
  • Right to have explained if there will be any automated decision-making, including profiling, based on your data and for the logic behind this to be explained to you.

Any such request can be submitted to the Data Protection Officer. Whether we can agree to your request will depend on the specific circumstances and if we cannot then we will explain the reasons why.

If we are processing your information based on you giving us consent to do so, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Doing so may mean we are unable to provide the service you are hoping to receive and the implications of you giving or withdrawing your consent will be explained at the time.

If you are unhappy with any aspect of how your information has been collected and/or used, you can make a complaint to the Data Protection Officer.

You can also report your concerns to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Data Protection Officer contact details

If anything in this notice is not clear, or if you have further queries, please get in contact with the Data Protection Officer.

Email: Data.protection@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Tel. No: 01223 699 137

Post: Information and Records Team, OCT1224, Cambridgeshire County Council, New Shire Hall, Emery Crescent, Enterprise Campus, Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon PE28 4YE