Terms and conditions of use

GENERAL

 

Alliance Medical Limited is part of the Life Healthcare Group operating in a number of countries including the UK. The ultimate parent company operates in South Africa and other members of the Group operate in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Northern Europe, Spain, and Italy through its subsidiary companies.

 

The business for the purposes of employment in the UK is operated through its subsidiary companies Alliance Medical Limited (“AML”) Alliance Medical Radiopharmacy Limited (“AMRL”) and the European Scanning Centre (Harley Street) Limited (“ESC”).

 

AML employs individuals directly or via ESC for its diagnostic imaging business or via AMRL for its radiopharmacy business.

 

Applicant Tracker - Website/Portal

 

 These terms relate to your use of the Applicant Tracker Website and/or Portal (“Website/ Portal”),confirm your obligations whilst using the Website/Portal and set out details of how we will use  the information you provide via this Website/Portal in connection with applications for employment with AML,AMRL and/or  ESC respectively(“the Terms”).

 

Please note that with certain applications for employment we may adopt profiling and or/automated decision making linked to the job role and any specific requirements to assist with the application process.

By using the Website and/or Portal, you confirm that you accept these Terms and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to all of the Terms, you must stop using the Website and/or Portal.

These Terms are in addition to any other contractual agreement you may have with AML/AMRL or ESC which must be strictly complied with. Your use of the Website and/or Portal is subject to any relevant conditions, including but not limited, to those contained in any contractual agreement you may have with AML, AMRL, and ESC.

 

We update the Terms from time to time ("Updated Terms") and will give you reasonable notice of any major changes. Where we do so, the Updated Terms will be brought to your attention and your continued use of the Website and/or Portal following such notification will indicate your acceptance of any Updated Terms.

 

We do not guarantee that the Website and/or Portal, or any content on it, will always be available, uninterrupted or suitable for viewing on your computer or other device. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of the Website and/or Portal for business and operational reasons. We will endeavour to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

 

2. Creating an Account

 

In order to use the Website and/or Portal we will provide you with a username and a password to create and activate your Account. Once you have logged in to your Account for the first time, you must change your password to a strong password that you will remember. You are responsible for all of the activity that occurs in association with your Account.

 

If you choose, or you are provided with, a password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

 

We reserve the right to disable your Account at any time if, in our reasonable opinion, you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of the Terms.

 

3. Acceptable Usage

 

The Website and/or Portal may be used by any person who has created an Account.

 

You may print off a copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from the Website and/or Portal solely for the purpose of recruitment and/or potential employment. If you print off, copy or download any part of the Website and/or Portal in breach of the Terms, your right to use the Website and/or Portal will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

 

You must not use the Website and/or Portal for unlawful purposes.

 

When using the Website and/or Portal you must not:

 

  • do anything that breaches any applicable laws;
  • access or attempt to access sections of the Website and/or Portal that you do not have authority to access;
  • do anything which places an unreasonably large load on the Website and/or Portal or the computer systems on which the Website and/or Portal runs;
  • modify, adapt or reverse engineer any element of the Website and/or Portal;
  • knowingly or recklessly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful or malicious programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware ("Computer Viruses");
  • attempt to disrupt or interfere with the Website and/or Portal or another person's use of the Website and/or Portal in any way or use the Website and/or Portal to disrupt or interfere with our network;
  • upload, post, comment or share any content to the Website and/or Portal that is:
  • inaccurate or defamatory;
  • contains any material that is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
  • promotes sexually explicit material, violence or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
  • infringes any intellectual property right of us or any other person;
  • breaches any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
  • promotes any illegal activity;
  • constitutes an invasion of another's privacy;
  • is likely to harass, upset or embarrass another person.
  • probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Website and/or Portal or any network to which it is connected;
  • intentionally or recklessly corrupt any data, documents or material available through the Website and/or Portal; or assist, encourage or permit any other person to do any of the acts described above.

 

You also agree that you will not:

 

  • post any copies or downloads of materials which come from the Website and/or Portal on any networked computer, or publish them or make any statements or undertake any actions in relation to them;
  • modify, reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of the Website and/or Portal or copies (digital or paper) of any materials you have printed off from the Website and/or Portal;
  • remove any indications of ownership from any material which came from the Website and/or Portal or claim it as your own or as that of any other organisation or person.
  • If you use the Website and/or Portal to upload, comment, post or share any content in breach of section 4.4. (g) above, we will flag such content as inappropriate and remove it from the Website and/or Portal.

 

4. Content generated by other users

 

The Website and/or Portal may include information, comments, suggestions or posts by other users of the Website and/or Portal, and these have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed on the Website and/or Portal by other users do not represent our views or values. If you wish to complain about information and materials uploaded by other users, please contact us (see Who we are and how to contact us above).

 

5. Your Privacy

 

We will only hold and process any personal data (including sensitive personal data) collected for the purpose of administering the Website and/or Portal in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulations(“GDPR”) as amended from time to time.

 

You may give us information when you create an Account, comment or post via the Website and/or Portal or by corresponding with us (for example by telephone or email) in relation to the Website and/or Portal. This may include without limitation, your name, personal address, email address, salary information, employment history, telephone number, criminal convictions, reference information, equal opportunities anonymised information for reporting purposes and any criminal convictions. We may also automatically collect information from your browser when you interact with the Website and/or Portal.

 

This may include your IP address, your visits to the Website and/or Portal and location information.

 

We may use any personal data collected in connection with your use of the Website and/or Portal in the following ways:

 

- to contact you in relation to your application submitted by you via the Website and/or Portal;

- to assist with profiling/automated decision making and processing;

- to facilitate the recruitment process;

- to manage your Account and respond to your queries;

- to deactivate your Account for any reason;

- to carry out our obligations arising from any contractual agreements that you may have;

- to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to;

- to contact you with any updates or changes to the Website and/or Portal Terms;

- to answer your support queries in the event that you contact us about a technical issue that you are experiencing with the Website and/or Portal;

- to administer the Website and/or Portal;

-to use your information on an anonymised basis to monitor compliance with our equal opportunities policy

- to deal with any complaints or alleged misuse or misconduct through your use of the Website and/or Portal, in breach of these Terms or otherwise;

- to meet our legal and regulatory obligations and to protect our legitimate interests.

 

6. Sharing Your Data

 

We may share some or all of the data we collect from you in connection with your use of the Website and/or Portal with third parties:

 

  • for the purposes of operation of the Website and/or Portal;
  • where we have retained third parties to provide services that we have requested including references, qualifications and criminal reference checking services, verification of the details you have provided from third party source, psychometric evaluation or skill test;
  • in connection with any regulatory or legal requirements to regulatory  if we believe in good faith that we are required by law to disclose it in connection with the detection of crime, the collection of taxes or duties, in order to comply with any applicable law or order of a court of competent jurisdiction, or in connection with legal proceedings;
  • on an anonymised basis to monitor compliance with our equal opportunities policy;

 

In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;

 

 If you wish to delete your Account you can do so via the profile section.

 

7. Transfers of Data outside of the EEA

 

In limited and necessary circumstances, your information may be transferred outside of the EEA to systems hosted by other Life Healthcare group companies and/or other third party suppliers for purposes in connection with your  the use of the system for employment purposes. Where we do so we will ensure that there are organisational and technical measures in place to ensure the security of your data.

 

8. Protection of Your Personal Data

 

We take the security of your data seriously. Alliance Medical has internal policies and controls in place to govern the use of your data and has measures in place to endeavour data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, misused or disclosed, and is not accessed except by its employees in the performance of their duties. These controls include, but are not limited to, the use of best practice when securely storing and processing your information; clear information governance policy and guidance; and regular internal and external audits on compliance and security.

 

Where we engage third parties to process personal data on our behalf, they do so on the basis of written instructions, are under a duty of confidentiality and are obliged to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the security of data

 

9. Your Rights

 

 The Data Protection Act 2018 and (GDPR ) gives you the right to access information held about you. You have the right to request access to and rectification or erasure of your personal data, the right to restrict processing, object to processing as well as in certain circumstances the right to data portability.

 

If you have provided consent for the processing of your data you have the right (in certain circumstances) to withdraw that consent at any time which will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before your consent was withdrawn.

 

If you would like to make such a request, please write to us using the contact details set out in the “contact us" section of the website.

 

You have the right to lodge a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you believe that we have not complied with the requirements of the GDPR or DPA with regard to your personal data.

 

10. Identity and contact details of controller and Data Protection Officer

 

We are the controller and processor of data for the purposes of the DPA and the GDPR.

 

If you have any queries or concerns as to how your data is processed you can contact our Data Protection Offer at dataprotectionofficer@alliance.co.uk.

 

11. Accuracy of Website and Portal

 

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on the Website and/or Portal, we make no representations or warranties, express or implied, that the content on the Website and/or Portal is accurate, complete or up to date.

 

Although we make reasonable efforts to ensure that the Website and/or Portal is a secure environment we do not guarantee that the Website and/or Portal will be secure or free from Computer Viruses. We shall not be liable for any loss or damage you may suffer as a result of a Computer Virus harmful content transmitted via the Website and/or Portal.

 

 We will not be liable, in contract, tort (including, without limitation, negligence), pre-contract or other representations (other than fraudulent or negligent misrepresentations) or otherwise out of or in connection with these Terms for any indirect or consequential loss or damage arising out of your use of or in connection with the Website and/or Portal.