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Data protection privacy notice (recruitment)

Currie Motors UK Limited

This notice explains what personal data (information) we will hold about you, how we collect it, and how we will use and may share information about you during the application process. We are required to notify you of this information, under data protection legislation. Please ensure that you read this notice (sometimes referred to as a ‘privacy notice’) and any other similar notice we may provide to you from time to time when we collect or process personal information about you.

Who collects the information

Currie Motors UK Limited (‘Company’) is a ‘data controller’ and gathers and uses certain information about you. This information is also used by our and so, in this notice, references to ‘we’ or ‘us’ mean the Company

Data protection principles

We will comply with the data protection principles when gathering and using personal information, as set out in our data protection privacy policy for employment.

About the information we collect and hold

We may collect the following information up to and including the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process as completed in a company application form or CV:

  • Your name and contact details (ie address, home and mobile phone numbers, email address);
  • Details of your qualifications, experience, employment history including job titles, salary and interests;
  • Details of your referees.

We may collect the following information after the shortlisting stage, and before making a final decision to recruit:

  • Information about your previous academic and/or employment history, including details of any conduct, grievance or performance issues, appraisals, time and attendance, from references obtained about you from previous employers and/or education providers;
  • Information regarding your academic and professional qualifications ☐;
  • Your nationality and immigration status and information from related documents, such as your passport or other identification and immigration information ☐;
  • A copy of your driving licence.

You are required by law or in order to enter into your contract of employment to provide the categories of information marked ‘☐’ above to us to enable us to verify your right to work and suitability for the position.

How we collect the information

We may collect this information from you, your referees (details of whom you will have provided), your education provider, the relevant professional body, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the Home Office as necessary.

Why we collect the information and how we use it

We will typically collect and use this information for the following purposes:

  • to take steps to enter into a contract;

for compliance with a legal obligation (eg our obligation to check that you are eligible to work in the United Kingdom);

for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest; and

for the purposes of our legitimate interests, but only if these are not overridden by your interests, rights or freedoms.

We seek to ensure that our information collection and processing is always proportionate. We will notify you of any changes to information we collect or to the purposes for which we collect and process it.

How we may share the information

We may also need to share some of the above categories of personal information with other parties within the Company, such as HR and recruitment team involved in the recruitment process and managers in the business area of the vacancy.,  The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.

Your rights to correct and access your information and to ask for it to be erased

Please contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) who can be contacted in writing C/O 161 Chertsey Road, Twickenham TW1 1ER.  If you would like to correct or request access to information that we hold relating to you or if you have any questions about this notice. You also have the right to ask our Data Protection Officer for some but not all of the information we hold and process to be erased (the ‘right to be forgotten’) in certain circumstances. Our Data Protection Officer will provide you with further information about the right to be forgotten, if you ask for it.

Keeping your personal information secure

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

How to complain

We hope that our Data Protection Officer can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information. If not, contact the Information Commissioner at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113 for further information about your rights and how to make a formal complaint

v2 March 2026