Privacy Policy

For the purposes of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the ‘controller’ of the personal data you provide is West Yorkshire Combined Authority (‘the Combined Authority’, ‘we’, ‘us’) of Wellington House, 40-50 Wellington St, Leeds LS1 2DE (tel: 0113 251 7272) who are the responsible statutory body for WY Metro. The Combined Authority is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office with registration number ZA051694.

The Combined Authority is collecting this data and will process it for the purpose of registering your details for use of the West Yorkshire Careers portal, to update you on relevant information and to gather feedback. Hush Digital, which is a digital agency, has been contracted by the Combined Authority to develop and provide support for the West Yorkshire Careers portal. If you have opted in we will use your personal information to provide you with notifications relating to requests for support to career related activities within schools and colleges, such as careers fairs, talks, work experience and workplace tours as part of the service provided to users of the Careers Portal. 

Hush Digital may have access to the personal data you provide, to provide support services for the portal.

We will not share your information with any organisation or third party save for those mentioned above, except in certain circumstances, which are:

  1. if we have a legal obligation to do so or if we are required or requested to do so by a competent authority such as the police or a court;
  2. if we need to use or disclose your information to obtain legal advice or in connection with legal proceedings;
  3. if we need to share your information to protect your vital interests if you are unable to give us consent or it is unreasonable for us to ask for your consent in the circumstances (e.g. if you are injured).

We will retain your information for the duration it’s required to deliver the portal services to you. We will review your account periodically every 2 years for inactivity. This is in accordance with our information retention policy and on the expiration of such period we will safely delete it.

Information provided to the Combined Authority will be processed under Article 6(1)(f) of the UK GDPR which states processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child, and under Article 6(1)(a) of the UK GDPR which states that the data subject has given consent to the processing of their personal data for one or more specified purposes.

As a data subject you have a number of rights under the UK GDPR. These include the right to access the information which we hold about you. In some cases you may have a right to have your personal data rectified, erased or restricted, and to object to certain use of your data.

This would not affect the legality of what we do with your personal data before you make such a request and would not stop us from continuing to use your data to the extent that we do not require your consent. It would stop us from further using data for purposes which require your consent (e.g. marketing). You can unsubscribe or modify your contact preferences at any time by contacting us or visiting the preferences page on the careers portal

We act in accordance with our corporate privacy notice, which provides further information on personal data processing, how to contact the Data Protection Officer, and how to make a request: https://www.westyorks-ca.gov.uk/footer/privacy-notice-and-cookie-policy/

If you are unsatisfied with the manner in which we collect or handle your personal data you have a right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Information about how to make complaints can be found on the ICO’s website at https://ico.org.uk