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All our third-party service providers and other entities are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information.  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. 

10. Data security 

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, or be 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 / purpose for accessing the data.  They will only process your personal information for the purpose of the recruitment process 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. 

11. Data retention - How long will you use my information for? 

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 to role.  We retain your personal information for that period so that we can show, in the event of a

WELCOME TO HARTLEPOOL BOROUGH COUNCIL RECRUITMENT WEBSITE 

From 1st July 2025, all job applications will be processed via North East Jobs.  This applies to all vacancies advertised from 1st July 2025 onwards.  Any vacancies advertised prior to 1st July 2025 will continue to be processed via this site.

We are delighted that you are interested in working for HBC.  

Please take the time to read our Application Guidance notes above.  A range of our vacancies are shown below but to view all vacancies please click on "Search" and a complete list will appear. To apply for Council vacancies, you must first create an account by clicking on “Register”.  

We only accept online applications and all correspondence will be sent via the email address you provide to us. If you would like help or advice with your application, setting up an email account or registering to use our recruitment website, you can email us at workforce.support@hartlepool.gov.uk or reach us by telephone on 01429 401804 or 01429 523546.

Once you have completed a section of the applic 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 in accordance with our records management policy. 

If you are recruited to a post and become an employee, worker or volunteer we have additional policies and procedures that cover the management of your personal data.

12. Rights of access, correction, erasure, and restriction 

Your rights in connection with personal information.  

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 belation form, please click 'save' before proceeding to the 'next' section of your application to ensure the information enteredhas been saved.