“personal data” is information relating to you (or from which you may be identified) which is processed by automatic means or which is (or is intended to be) part of a structured manual filing system. It includes not only facts about you, but also intentions and opinions about you.
Data “processed automatically” includes information held on, or relating to use of, a computer, laptop, mobile phone or similar device. It covers data derived from equipment such as access passes within a building, data on use of vehicles and sound and image data such as CCTV or photographs.
“processing” means doing anything with the data. For example, it includes collecting it, holding it, disclosing it and deleting it.
Personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, health, sexual orientation, sex life, trade union membership and genetic and biometric data are subject to special protection and considered by EU privacy law to be “sensitive personal data”.
References in the Privacy Notice to employment, work (and similar expressions) include any arrangement we may have under which an individual provides us with work or services. By way of example, when we mention an “employment contract” that includes a contract under which you provide us with services; when we refer to ending your employment that includes terminating a contract for services. We use the word “you” to refer to anyone within the scope of the notice.
Under applicable data protection law, there are various grounds on which we can rely when processing your personal data. In some contexts more than one ground applies. We have summarised these grounds as Contract, Legal obligation, Legitimate Interests and Consent and outline what those terms mean in the following table.
| Term | Ground for processing | Explanation |
| Contract | Processing necessary for performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request to enter a contract | This covers carrying out our contractual duties and exercising our contractual rights. |
| Legal obligation | Processing necessary to comply with our legal obligations | Ensuring we perform our legal and regulatory obligations. For example, providing a safe place of work and avoiding unlawful discrimination |
| Legitimate Interests | Processing necessary for our or a third party’s legitimate interests | We or a third party have legitimate interests in carrying on, managing and administering our respective businesses effectively and properly and in connection with those interests processing your data.Your data will not be processed on this basis if our or a third party’s interests are overridden by your own interests, rights and freedoms. |
| Consent | You have given specific consent to processing your data | In general processing of your data in connection with employment is not conditional on your consent. But there may be occasions where we do specific things such as provide a reference, deduct union dues or obtain medical reports and rely on your consent to our doing so. |
If we process sensitive personal data about you, as well as ensuring that one of the grounds for processing mentioned above applies, we will make sure that one or more of the grounds for processing sensitive personal data applies. In outline, these include:
The Core Notice outlines the purposes for which we process your personal data. More specific information on these, examples of the data and the grounds on which we process data are in the table below.
The examples in the table cannot, of course, be exhaustive. For example, although the table does not mention data relating to criminal offences, if we were to find out that someone working for us was suspected of committing a criminal offence, we might process that information if relevant for our purposes.
| Purpose | Examples of personal data that may be processed | Grounds for processing |
| Recruitment | Information concerning your application and our assessment of it, your references, any checks we may make to verify information provided or background checks and any information connected with your right to work in the UK. If relevant, we may also process information concerning your health, any disability and in connection with any adjustments to working arrangements. | ContractLegal obligation
Legitimate interests |
| Your employment contract including entering it, performing it and changing it. | Information on your terms of employment from time to time including your pay and benefits, such as your participation in pension arrangements, life and medical insurance; and any bonus or share schemes. | ContractLegal obligation
Legitimate interests |
| Contacting you or others on your behalf | Your address and phone number, emergency contact information and information on your next of kin | ContractLegitimate interests |
| Payroll administration | Information on your bank account, pension contributions and on tax and national insuranceInformation on attendance, holiday and other leave and sickness absence | ContractLegal obligation
Legitimate interests |
| Supporting and managing your work and performance and any health concerns | Information connected with your work, anything you do at work and your performance including records of documents and emails created by or relating to you and information on your use of our systems including computers, laptops or other device.Management information regarding you including notes of meetings and appraisal records.
Information relating to your compliance with our policies. Information concerning disciplinary allegations, investigations and processes and relating to grievances in which you are or may be directly or indirectly involved. Information concerning your health, including self-certification forms, fit notes and medial and occupational health reports. |
ContractLegal obligation
Legitimate interests |
| Changing or ending your working arrangements | Information connected with anything that may affect your continuing employment or the terms on which you work including any proposal to promote you, to change your pay or benefits, to change your working arrangements or to end your employment | ContractLegitimate interests |
| Physical and system security | CCTV imagesRecords of use of swipe and similar entry cards
Records of your use of our systems including computers, phones and other devices and passwords. |
Legal obligationLegitimate interests |
| Providing references in connection with your finding new employment | Information on your working for us and on your performance. | ConsentLegitimate interests |
| Providing information to third parties in connection with transactions that we contemplate or carry out | Information on your contract and other employment data that may be required by a party to a transaction such as a prospective purchaser, seller or outsourcer | Legitimate interests |
| Monitoring of diversity and equal opportunities | Information on your nationality, racial and ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability and age | Legitimate interests |
| Monitoring and investigating compliance with policies and rules – both generally and specifically | We expect our employees to comply with our policies and rules and may monitor our systems to check compliance (.e.g. rules on accessing pornography at work). We may also have specific concerns about compliance and check system and other data to look into those concerns (e.g. log in records, records of usage and emails and documents, CCTV images). | Legitimate interests |
| Disputes and legal proceedings | Any information relevant or potentially relevant to a dispute or legal proceeding affecting us. | Legitimate interestsLegal obligation |
| Trade union check off arrangements | Details of trade union membership and deductions of contributions made at source | Contract |
| Day to day business operations including marketing and customer/client relations | Information relating to the work you do for us, your role and contact details including relations with current or potential customers or clients. This may include a picture of you for internal or external use. | Legitimate interests |
| Maintaining appropriate business records during and after your employment | Information relating to your work, anything you do at work and your performance relevant to such records. | ContractLegal obligation
Legitimate interests |
Please note that owing to the fact that you are appearing in one of programmes, on some occasions we or third parties will rely upon exemptions to data protection rules in relation to journalistic freedom, the right to artistic expression or more generally, the right to freedom of expression (as mentioned in article 85 of the General Data Protection Regulation and in various jurisdictions’ data protection rules, for example in the UK’s Data Protection Bill section on the exemption for ‘journalistic, academic, artistic or literary purposes’.
When you start employment with us, the initial data about you that we process is likely to come from you: for example, contact details, bank details and information on your immigration status and whether you can lawfully work. We may also require references and information to carry out background checks. In the course of employment, you may be required to provide us with information for other purposes such as sick pay (and SSP) and family rights (e.g. maternity and paternity leave and pay). If you do not provide information that you are required by statute or contract to give us, you may lose benefits or we may decide not to employ you or to end your contract. If you have concerns about this in a particular context, you should speak to HR.
In the course of your work, we may receive personal data relating to you from others. Internally, personal data may be derived from your managers and other colleagues or our IT systems; externally, it may be derived from those with whom you communicate by email or other systems.
Internal use: Your personal data may be disclosed to your managers, HR and administrators for employment, administrative and management purposes as mentioned in this document. We may also disclose this to other members of the All3Media Group.
External use: We will only disclose your personal data outside the group if disclosure is consistent with a ground for processing on which we rely and doing so is lawful and fair to you. We may disclose your data if it is necessary for our legitimate interests as an organisation or the interests of a third party (but we will not do this if these interests are over-ridden by your interests and rights in particular to privacy). We may also disclose your personal data if you consent, where we are required to do so by law and in connection with criminal or regulatory investigations.
Specific circumstances in which your personal data may be disclosed include:
Although there is no specific period for which we will keep your personal data, we will not keep it for longer than is necessary for our purposes. In general, we will keep your personal data for the duration of your employment and for a period afterwards. In considering how long to keep it, we will take into account its relevance to our business and your employment either as a record or in the event of a legal claim.
If your data is only useful for a short period (for example, CCTV or a record of a holiday request), we may delete it.
Personal data relating to job applicants (other than the person who is successful) will normally be deleted within 24 months.
In connection with our business and for production, broadcasting, distribution, administrative, management, marketing and legal purposes, we may transfer your personal data outside the EEA to members of our group and data processors in other jurisdictions in which we are established. Some of our systems are hosted outside of the EEA. We will ensure that any transfer is lawful and that there are appropriate security arrangements.
We try to be as open as we reasonably can about personal data that we process. If you would like specific information, just ask us. You also have a legal right to make a “subject access request”. If you exercise this right and we hold personal data about you, we are required to provide you with information on it, including:
If you make a subject access request and there is any question about who you are, we may require you to provide information from which we can satisfy ourselves as to your identity.
As well as your subject access right, you may have a legal right to have your personal data rectified or erased, to object to its processing or to have its processing restricted. If you have provided us with data about yourself (for example your address or bank details), you have the right to be given the data in machine readable format for transmitting to another data controller. This only applies if the ground for processing is Consent or Contract.
If we have relied on consent as a ground for processing, you may withdraw consent at any time – though if you do so that will not affect the lawfulness of what we have done before you withdraw consent.
If you have complaints relating to our processing of your personal data, you should raise these with HR in the first instance or with your Information Officer. You may also raise complaints with the Information Commissioner who is the statutory regulator. For contact and other details ask HR or see: https://ico.org.uk/ICO.
This notice does not form part of your contract of employment and does not create contractual rights or obligations. It may be amended by us at any time.
