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General Data Protection Regulations - DHL International (UK) Ltd

Privacy notice for employees, workers & contractors


During the course of your employment with DHL International (UK) Limited we will process personal data about
our employees and we recognise the need to treat it in an appropriate and lawful manner. We are committed to
protecting the privacy and security of your personal information and the purpose of this notice is to make you
aware of how we collect and use personal information about you during and after your working relationship
with us.

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Therefore, please keep
us informed if your personal information changes (such as address, contact details etc) during your time with us.

We will comply with data protection law which says that the personal information we hold must be:

1. Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way


2. Collected only for valid purposes and not used in any way that is incompatible with those
purposes
3. Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
4. Accurate and kept up to date
5. Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
6. Kept securely

The kind of information we hold about you

We may collect, store, and use the following categories of personal information about you:

• Personal contact details such as name, date of birth, gender, title, addresses, telephone
numbers, and personal email addresses
• Marital status and dependant
• Next of kin and emergency contact information
• National Insurance number
• Bank account details, payroll records and tax status information
• Salary, annual leave, pension and benefits information
• Location of employment or workplace
• Copy of driving licence
• Recruitment information (including copies of right to work documentation, references and
other information included in a CV or cover letter or as part of the application process)
• Employment records (including job titles, work history, working hours, training records and
professional memberships)
• Compensation history
• Performance information
• Disciplinary and grievance information
• CCTV footage and other information obtained through electronic means such as swipe-card
records.
• Information about your use of our information and communications systems
• Photographs
• Operational contact data, access data to IT systems, online profiles that you can take care of
yourself, for example in the DP DHL Group Corporate Phone Book
• Operational communication via Skype for Business and Yammer
• Communication in social media provided by the employer, e.g. Extranet
• Operations’ data, e.g. shift planning data

We may also collect, store and use the following "special categories" of more sensitive personal information:

• Information about your race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and political
opinions
• Information about your health, including any medical condition, health and sickness records
• Information about criminal convictions and offences
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• Genetic information and biometric data

We typically collect personal information through the application and recruitment process, either directly from
candidates or sometimes from an employment agency, background check provider or former employer. We will
also collect additional personal information in the course of job-related activities throughout the period of you
working for us.

How we will use information about you

We will only use your personal information when the law allows us to, for example, to allow us to perform our
contract of employment with you and to enable us to comply with legal obligations. In some cases we may use
your personal information to pursue legitimate interests of our own or those of third parties, provided your
interests and fundamental legal rights do not override those company interests. We may also process
information where we need to protect your interests (or someone else’s interest) or where it is required in the
public interest or for an official purpose. The situations in which we will process your personal information
include:

• Making a decision about your recruitment or appointment


• Determining the terms on which you work for us
• Checking you are legally entitled to work
• Paying you and, if you are an employee, deducting tax and National Insurance contributions
• Providing employment benefits to you
• Administering your pension
• Administering the contract we have entered into with you
• Equal Opportunities Monitoring
• Business management and planning, including accounting and auditing
• Conducting performance reviews, managing performance and determining performance requirements.
• Making decisions about salary reviews and compensation
• Assessing qualifications for a particular job or task, including decisions about promotions
• Gathering evidence for possible grievance or disciplinary hearings
• Making decisions about your continued employment or engagement
• Making arrangements for the termination of our working relationship
• Education, training and development requirements
• Dealing with legal disputes involving you, or other employees, workers and contractors, including
accidents at work
• Ascertaining your fitness to work
• Managing sickness absence
• Complying with health and safety obligations
• To prevent fraud
• To monitor your use of our information and communication systems to ensure compliance with our IT
policies
• To ensure network and information security, including preventing unauthorised access to our computer
and electronic communications systems and preventing malicious software distribution
• To conduct data analytics studies to review and better understand employee retention and attrition rates
• Employee screening according to anti-terrorism law

Some of the above grounds for processing will overlap and there may be several grounds which justify our use of
your personal information
We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably
consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.
Please note that we may process your personal information without your knowledge or consent, in compliance
with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law

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How we use particularly sensitive personal information

"Special categories" of particularly sensitive personal information require higher levels of protection. We may
process special categories of personal information in the following circumstances:
1. In limited circumstances, with your explicit written consent
2. Where we need to carry out our legal obligations and in line with our policies
3. Where it is needed to assess your working capacity on health grounds, subject to appropriate
confidentiality safeguards;
4. In relation to legal claims;
5. Where it is needed to protect your interests (or someone else's interests) and you are not capable of
giving your consent, or where you have already made the information public
We will use your sensitive personal information in the following ways:
• We will use information relating to leaves of absence, which may include sickness absence or family
related leaves, to comply with employment and other laws
• We will use information about your physical or mental health, or disability status, to ensure your health
and safety in the workplace and to assess your fitness to work, to provide appropriate workplace
adjustments, to monitor and manage sickness absence and to administer benefits
• If provided we will use information about your race or national or ethnic origin, religious, philosophical
or moral beliefs, or your sexual life or sexual orientation, to ensure meaningful equal opportunity
monitoring and reporting

We may only use information relating to criminal convictions where the law allows us to do so, for example,
where such processing is necessary to carry out our obligations and provided we do so in a lawful manner. We
will collect information about criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process or, where necessary, during
the course of employment.

Automated decision-making

We do not envisage that any decisions will be taken about you using automated means, however we will notify
you in writing if this position changes.

Data sharing

We may have to share your data with third parties where it is required by law or where it is necessary to
administer the working relationship with you or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so, for
example, to third-party service providers (such as payroll), and other entities in the group. However, we will not
disclose your personal data unless we are satisfied that they are legally entitled to view the data. Where we do
disclose your personal data, we require third parties to respect the security of your data and to treat it in
accordance with the law.
If we transfer personal data to so-called third countries, this shall be done in accordance with the Deutsche Post
DHL Data Privacy Policy and / or corresponding agreements between the Group company you are employed with
and the recipient; you can view a copy of the Deutsche Post DHL Data Privacy Policy in your HR department or
on myNet under https://mynet.dpdhl.com/web/express-uk/article/-/display/20150211160258688876_en

Data security and retention

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being
accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed.
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.
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for,
including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Once you are no longer an employee, worker or contractor of the company we will retain and securely destroy
your personal information in accordance with applicable laws.

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If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of
your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please
contact your HR Department in writing (contact details below).
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights).
However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive.
Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.

Your rights in connection with personal information

Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:

• Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you


• Request the 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
• Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend
the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or
the reason for processing it
• Request the transfer of your personal information to another party
• 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

Data protection officer

We have appointed a data privacy manager to oversee compliance with this privacy notice. If you have any
questions about this privacy notice or how we handle your personal information, please either contact your HR
Department or the data privacy manager. If you have a complaint or concern please raise this with the HR
Department, or DPO in the first instance, you do have the right to make a complaint at any time to the
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues.

Changes to this privacy notice

This privacy notice does not form part of your contract of employment and we reserve the right to update it at
any time. If we do we will inform you of any changes when we make any substantial updates.

Company Details for Data Protection issues

Name and address of Group company:


DHL International (UK) Limited, Southern Hub, Unit 1 Horton Road, Colnbrook, Berkshire, SL3 0BB

Responsible HR Department:
HR Department, People Services, Southern Hub, Unit 1 Horton Road, Colnbrook, Berkshire, SL3 0BB
Tel: +44 (0) 1753 283700 | E-mail: hr-express-uk@dhl.com

Data Privacy Manager, available at (address and email):


James Holmes, CIO UK & Ireland, Southern Hub, Unit 1 Horton Road, Colnbrook, Berkshire, SL3 0BB,
(gdprinfouk@dhl.com)

Competent supervisory authorities:


For UK - Information Commissioner (ICO),
tel: 0303 123 1113 or https://www.gov.uk/data-protection/make-a-complaint

For Ireland - Information Commissioner - tel. +353-1-639 5689 or email: info@oic.ie

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