Employee and Job Applicant Privacy Notice

The full workforce privacy notice – job applicants, employees, workers, contractors and former staff – with stage-by-stage purposes, lawful bases, special category conditions and retention.

Editable Word document
13
10pages
Guidance notes included
aml consultancy solutions

Data protection & GDPR

Employee and Job Applicant Privacy Notice

About this document

What it’s for

A detailed privacy notice covering everyone in your workforce lifecycle: applicants, employees, workers, agency staff, self-employed contractors and consultants, volunteers and former staff. It sets out what you collect at each stage, why, your lawful bases and Schedule 1 conditions, monitoring, sharing, transfers, retention and individuals’ rights. The People & HR pack contains a shorter Employee Data Privacy Notice; use this fuller version where you want a single, complete notice maintained by whoever handles data protection.

When to use it

  • Publish it on your careers page and give it to every applicant
  • Include it in starter packs and on the staff intranet, and send it to contractors when engaged
  • Use it to support your record of processing activities and appropriate policy document

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

  1. Who we are
  2. Who this notice applies to
  3. Recruitment: what we collect and why
  4. Use of technology and automated decisions in recruitment
  5. Unsuccessful applicants and talent pools
  6. What we collect and why during your employment
  7. Our lawful bases
  8. Special category data and criminal offence data
  9. Monitoring at work
  10. Automated decisions about staff
  11. Information about contractors and agency workers
  12. After you leave
  13. Where we get your information
  14. Who we share your information with
  15. International transfers
  16. How long we keep your information
  17. Security
  18. Your rights
  19. Complaints
  20. Who we are
  21. Who this notice applies to
  22. Recruitment: what we collect and why
  23. Use of technology and automated decisions in recruitment
  24. Unsuccessful applicants and talent pools
  25. What we collect and why during your employment
  26. Our lawful bases
  27. Special category data and criminal offence data
  28. Monitoring at work
  29. Automated decisions about staff
  30. Information about contractors and agency workers
  31. After you leave
  32. Where we get your information
  33. Who we share your information with
  34. International transfers
  35. How long we keep your information
  36. Security
  37. Your rights
  38. Complaints

Also included

  • Part A – About this notice
  • Acknowledgement of receipt (optional)

How to complete it

  • Work through Parts B to E and delete stages or rows that do not apply
  • Check the special category and criminal offence conditions in section 8 against what you actually collect
  • Complete the monitoring section (section 9) honestly – staff must be told before monitoring begins
  • Make sure the retention summary matches your Data Retention Schedule

Key points to check

  • Do not rely on consent for core HR processing
  • AI and automated tools in recruitment need a DPIA and the Article 22A–22D safeguards
  • The People & HR pack Employee Data Privacy Notice should not contradict this one – use one or the other

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

Included in the pack

Data protection & GDPR

£20

for every document in this category

Editable Microsoft Word files

Guidance notes in every document

Written for UK businesses

Download and keep

Get the packSee every document in this pack →

Need more than one category?

Documents All-Access gives you every category for 12 months for £295.

Compare options →

Need it tailored?

We can adapt any template to your business, or write a document from scratch.

Talk to us →