Privacy notice: hiring

When you apply for a job with Open Data Services Co-operative Limited, we will use the data you provide for the purposes of carrying out the hiring procedure, as set out below.

Open Data Services Co-operative Limited is a company limited by shares registered in England, company number 09506232. Our registered address is 1st Floor, Holyoake House, Hanover Street, Manchester M60 0AS. We can be contacted by email on jobs@opendataservices.coop.

Our lawful basis for processing this data is our “legitimate interest” (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)) to carry out a hiring procedure. We are unable to proceed with your application for a job with us without it.

Your name, contact information, CV (where supplied) or sift question responses are accessible to our recruitment administrators for the purpose of processing job applications.

Your anonymised sift question responses are accessible to our sifting and interview teams, for the purpose of determining your suitability for the role. Your sift scores are accessible for the purposes of shortlisting for interviews.

If you are shortlisted for an interview, we may share your name and CV (if supplied) with current employees of Open Data Services Co-operative Ltd who are not otherwise involved in the hiring process, for the purpose of seeking internal references to determine your suitability for the role.

Your name and contact information may be made available to the interview team for the purpose of arranging interviews.

No demographic information, for example about protected characteristics, collected by the Applied platform is available to our hiring team except as aggregate statistics (see the Applied Privacy Policy for more details).

We will use your contact information to contact you about future vacancies if and only if you have given permission for us to do so via the Applied platform.

We will retain your data within the Applied platform for no longer than two years.

You have the following rights concerning this data:

Our supervisory authority is the ICO in the UK. You have the right to lodge a complaint with them.