Notice: Recruitment privacy notice

How the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) uses your personal data when you apply for a job.

Applies to England, Northern Ireland and Wales

This notice is to inform you how the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) processes your information (‘personal data’) when you apply for a job with the SFO, including the application process and pre-employment checks. The SFO is the data controller for the processing set out in this notice, which means we decide how and why your data is processed, either on our own or jointly with another organisation.

We process the following information about you in order to conduct recruitment based on merit having assessed candidates through fair and open competition:

information included in your application, such as your work experience and education history

whether you are applying under one of our recruitment schemes, such as the Disability Confident scheme

information you have provided in relation to any reasonable adjustments you may need as part of the recruitment process

information used to assess your suitability for the position you have applied for, such as interview notes or test results

information provided any external recruitment consultants engaged by us

If we make a conditional employment offer which you accept, we will collect the following additional information in order to conduct our pre-employment checks. This information is to confirm your identity and right to work in the United Kingdom, as well as to seek assurance as to your trustworthiness, integrity and reliability:

evidence of your identity and right to work in the UK

evidence of your educational attainments

evidence of any existing National Security Vetting clearance you hold

any information provided to us by UK Security Vetting, with whom the SFO is a joint data controller, in order for us to make a decision about your suitability to hold security clearance at the SFO. SFO and UKSV are Joint Controllers. You can read more about how UKSV and the SFO process personal data for vetting purposes.