Operations Nation’s Privacy Notice

When you apply for a job with us, we will ask you to provide some information about yourself in order to manage your recruitment process, such as your name, CV, email address, phone number, interview notes and references from previous employers. The legal grounds we rely on for this processing are Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR - Legitimate Interests.

We make use of a cloud-based Human Resources platform to store recruitment data.

Where a cloud-based application is headquartered outside the EEA or countries deemed ‘adequate’ by the EU or UK, for the transfer of data it has incorporated EU Commission approved Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) in their contracts along with the UK Addendum where applicable.

We will keep your details on file for 12 months unless you ask us not to.

When you subscribe to the Operations Nation newsletter, we'll need some information from you, your email address and your name. We may also track the use of our community platform so we can make improvements. For all this processing we rely on Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR - Legitimate Interests.

We will retain newsletter lists only while participants agree to their data use; participants can unsubscribe at any time.

When you join the Operations Nation community, we'll need some information from you, such as your name, contact details, location, job title, company details and current role, interests, LinkedIn url, and sometimes a profile photo. We may also track the use of our community platform so we can make improvements. For all this processing we rely on Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR - Legitimate Interests.

We use cloud-based applications that may make use of your email address for communication and collaboration. These include video meeting systems, messaging platforms and similar shared user interfaces. We also make use of a reporting and analytics application.

We may also keep some data on administrative systems such as spreadsheets and forms.

Where any of these cloud-based applications are headquartered outside the EEA or countries deemed ‘adequate’ by the EU or UK, EU Commission approved Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for the transfer of data are incorporated in their contracts along with the UK Addendum where applicable.

We will retain your data for as long as you are part of our community, and for a short period afterwards.

When you join one of our events, we will ask you to provide some information about yourself, such as your name, contact details, company name, job title, interests and expectations, and payment details. We will rely on Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR - Contractual Obligation and Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR - Legitimate Interest for this processing. We may send feedback and emails with information about new events that we think will interest you. We rely on Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR - Consent for this processing.

We may use an email provider to contact you with relevant details, and a video meeting system and event management platforms to deliver the event.

We provide various payment options and partner with payment platforms for this purpose. All data is processed strictly within applicable data protection law.

We will record events and may upload sections to social media platforms.

We will retain your event attendance data for 2 years in line with our business needs.

When you take part in a survey, we will collect some information about you, such as your name, email address, company name, gender, ethnicity and sometimes your salary for the purpose of compensation benchmarking surveys, along with your opinion based survey responses. For the processing, we rely on UK GDPR Article 6(1)(a) - Consent as well as Article 9(a) Explicit Consent condition.

We will collect data using a cloud based application and may make use of a cloud collaboration service or similar shared user interface. Anonymised surveys may be published on our website.

Where any of these cloud based applications are headquartered outside the EEA or countries deemed ‘adequate’ by the EU or UK, for the transfer of data they have incorporated EU Commission approved Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) in their contracts along with the UK Addendum where applicable.

We will retain survey lists only while participants agree to their data use; participants can unsubscribe at any time. We will retain the survey data in line with our business needs and in accordance with our retention policies.

When you use our website, the cookies can be stored on your device are either first party cookies, which are placed and read by us directly while you are using our website or third party cookies, which are set by other third parties we have partnered with.

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