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(b)    to provide you with a personalised browsing experience when using the Website;

(c)    to fulfil any contractual agreements between you and us;

(d)    to tailor our advertising on social media to your use of the Website;

(e)    to manage your Jobseeker account that you hold with us;

(f)     to allow you to use the full range of features on or via our Website;

(g)    to comply with legal and regulatory requirements;

 (h)   to allow advertising organisations that provide Online Vacancy Listings or Content to perform market research (as more fully set out in paragraph 12 below); and

5. Storage of Information

5.1   All information is stored on our secure servers. When you register, we will ask you to choose a password which enables you to access the Online Content. You are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share this password with anyone.

6. Legal Basis for Processing Your Information

6.1   Our, legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.

6.2   However, we will normally collect personal information from you only (i) where we have your consent to do so, (ii) where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or (iii) where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your rights. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you.

6.3   If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as the possible consequences if you do not provide your information).

6.4   Similarly, if we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests, we will make clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are.

7. Disclosure of Your Information

7.1    We may disclose your personal information to third parties when permitted by law including:

(a)    with your consent;

(b)  to our suppliers in order for them to help us provide our services to you, this includes:

• our provider of file storage and management services if you email us directly;
• our customer service software if you contact our support team; and
• providers of assessments and marking services when you submit an application form where our recruitment process includes external assessments.

These suppliers’ use of your personal data may be subject to their own privacy policies, which are available on their websites, and which we suggest you familiarise yourself with in the relevant circumstances set out above.

(c)    if we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets, provided that they continue to use your information substantially in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy;

(d)    if all, or substantially all of our assets, are acquired by a third party provided that they continue to use your i

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.

Once you have completed a section of the applicnformation substantially in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy, in which case information held by us will be one of the transferred assets; and

(e)    if we are under a duty to disclose or share your information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms and other agreements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

8.  Data Retention

8.1   We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).

8.2   When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

9. Your Rights

9.1      You have the following data protection rights:

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

  Please ensure the 'Previous' and 'Next' buttons are used to navigate through the application form, do not use the 'Back' button on your browser as information may be lost.

  Thank you for your interest and we look forward to receiving your completed application.

  Please Note: 

  If you have not received a response to your application within 3 weeks of the closing date please assume you have been unsuccessful. 

  All successful applicants for jobs with the Council will be required to provide evidence of a right to work in the UK.  Applicants for jobs who are EU/EEA/Swiss nationals should be aware that the UK has left the EU and the transition period has expired.  This means that to apply for and undertake work in the UK after 1st July 2021 EU/EEA/Swiss citizens now have to provide evidence of a right to work in the UK, e.g. Settled or Pre-Settled Status.  https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families The new system will treat EU and non-EU citizens equally.  Currently HBC are not a Sponsor employer. 

  Irish citizens and Crown Dependencies Jersey, Guernsey, or the Isle of Man are exempt from theUK’s points-based immigration system and there will be no change to the arrangements for the Common Travel Area and assuch rights to work etc. continue. 

  Be assured Hartlepool Council welcomes job applications from everyone who has the right to work in the UK.  Immigration information may change / be updated so please regularly check the government websites.

  A GDPR privacy statement for Employee Candidates is available at https://www.hartlepool.gov.uk/downloads/download/882/privacy_notices

  Web: www.hartlepool.gov.uk

  Facebook: /hartlepoolcouncil

  Twitter: @HpoolCouncil  

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