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The information you provide on this form will be used to progress your application for employment and, if your application is successful, to administer your personnel record. It will also be used to assist us in monitoring the diversity of our applicants. Before starting your online application and inputting your personal details please read our Privacy Statement that sets out the terms of use of the site. This contains details of our data collection policies and use of personal data. By choosing to “Submit Registration" below, you consent to the terms of the Privacy statement and agree to your information being held and used as described above.

Your Information

We may record, exchange, analyse and use relevant information about you for the purposes of recruitment, market research and administration. We may also use information obtained about you from monitoring your use of this website solely for internal purposes including site performance, evaluating site use and the creation of marketing reports to aid future marketing of information about us and our products.

The information you provide on this form will be used to progress your application for employment and, if your application is successful, to administer your personnel record. As part of your application a credit search will be undertaken as part of our recruitment process. This search will only be visible by HSBC and the applicant and will not affect your credit status. For security and administration purposes, we may monitor and record telephone calls.

To prevent crime and to verify your identity, we may exchange information (both within Ireland and, where appropriate, overseas) with other members of the HSBC Group, and, where appropriate, fraud prevention and other organisations.

We will check your details with/against fraud prevention databases. Should our investigations identify fraud or the commission of any other criminal offence by you [on your part] when applying for, or during the course of your employment with us, we will record details of this on fraud prevention databases. This information may be accessed from the Ireland and other countries and used by law enforcement agencies and by us and other employers (and potential employers) to prevent fraud and money laundering.

We will only collect and process data in a fair and lawful manner. Sensitive data (as defined by the Data Protection Act 1998) which may include information about health, racial origin, Trade Union membership or criminal convictions, will not be processed without your agreement, unless it is necessary for the purposes of administering our rights and obligations as an employer. The personal data that we retain about you may include:

• Information relating to references and records relating to your application.
• Information about your health that is used:
  • to ensure compliance with health and safety and occupational health obligations
  • when considering any health issues that may affect your ability to work
  • to help us to accommodate any disability
• Recording racial or ethnic origin or religious beliefs to fulfil our statutory obligations to ensure equality of opportunity at work and where you have given us information to help us accommodate any special dietary, dress or similar requirements.
• Information for security and fraud prevention purposes. We may in the course of your recruitment and from time to time during your career undertake appropriate security and credit reference checks.

Relevant information may also be exchanged with members of the HSBC Group and others for audit purposes and of required by appropriate governmental and non-governmental regulators or ombudsmen.

We may use other HSBC Group companies and/or third parties to process information and provide services on our behalf. Whether it is processed in Ireland or overseas, your information will be protected, in accordance with data protection legislation, by a strict code of secrecy and security which all members of the HSBC Group, their staff and any third parties are subject to and will only be used in accordance with our instructions.

Declaration

I confirm that the information given in this application is true and complete and I agree to the use of my information as detailed in the personal data statement.