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During the course of your business relationship with Pilgrim’s Pride Ltd. (Company number: 608077) (“PPL”), we will process your personal data in accordance with this privacy notice. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. PPL is the controller in relation to the personal data which is collected and processed in connection with our business relationship.
This privacy notice sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us will be processed by us. Please read this carefully to ensure you understand our processes regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
Personal data, or personal information, means any information from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity of the person has been removed (anonymous data).
We will collect and process the following personal data about you:
We do not routinely collect any special categories of personal data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, genetic and biometric data). We do not collect any information from you about criminal convictions or offences.
We provide access to an ethics hotline to allow both employees and third parties to raise any concerns they might have in relation to our operations that employees and third parties cannot or do not feel able to raise in other ways. In order to allow for an element of confidentiality, this ethics hotline is operated by an independent third-party processor. However, you will appreciate that in order to investigate and deal with some cases, it may be necessary for the information you provide to the ethics hotline (which may include personal data) to be shared with us, or other companies in our group. We will use the data for the purposes of investigating the matter to which it relates and will handle your data during such investigations in accordance with this privacy notice.
PPL is a member of the Modern Slavery Intelligence Network (MSIN). The MSIN is a non-profit collaboration of organisations in the UK food and agriculture industry who are coming together to share intelligence relating to modern slavery and trafficking with the aim of interrupting worker exploitation and preventing instances of Modern Slavery.
The MSIN is a working pilot to develop and trial a structured intelligence-sharing mechanism between its members which will enhance the effectiveness of their contribution to the disruption of modern slavery and labour exploitation practices. PPL may share details of actual or suspected worker exploitation or modern slavery with the members of MSIN with the intention of detecting, preventing and disrupting modern slavery and labour exploitation activity, protecting workers and improving outcomes for victims. The NGO Stop the Traffik has been appointed as a data sharing partner to develop an online platform for secure sharing of data by members.
We process the information, including personal data, which we receive in connection with our business relationship for the following purposes:
The primary basis of our processing of your personal data is for the performance of the contract between you and PPL. We may also process your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. prior to entering an agreement with you or to recover debts due to us) or as is necessary to comply with legal obligations (e.g. supply chain traceability and visibility). Furthermore, in very limited circumstances, your personal data may be processed on the basis of your consent.
We will only use your personal data 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. If we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
We may combine any information we receive from other sources (e.g. credit reference agencies) with information you give us and information we collect about you. We may use this information for the purposes set out above.
The list of reasons and purposes may be ongoing and updated in order to comply with other business needs and/or statutory requirements.
If you fail to provide certain information when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we are trying to enter into with you or have entered into with you, or we may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
In the normal course of business, your information may be transferred/disclosed to the following recipients:
In addition, we may give information about you (‘Debtor Information’) to our bank (‘The Bank’) to allow them to provide services to us and to manage our account. The Debtor information may also identify the names or other personal information (such as address information) of your owners, partners or directors.
The Debtor Information may include details of account balances, historical payment experiences, and other information regarding the conduct of your account such as disputes, defaults etc.
The Bank may store and process the Debtor Information on their computer system (s) and in any other way. Such information may be used by them and other companies within their Group for training purposes, credit or financial assessments, market and product analysis, making and receiving payments, recovering monies and preparing statistics. They may also use such information to prevent fraud, bad debts and money laundering.
The Bank may also give information about your account and its indebtedness to: their insurers or re-insurers so they can quote for and issue any policy or deal with any claim; any guarantor or indemnifier of our obligations to them (if any); and Group company of them or any advisor acting on our or their behalf
Your personal data may be disclosed to our ultimate parent company Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation and its majority shareholder JBS USA. We also utilise the services of Pilgrim’s Shared Services Ltd (PSSL) to provide IT, accounts and payments and other key function services which means that we may share your information with PSSL who are bound by terms of confidentiality and must meet our standards in regards data protection. PSSL will be acting as a data processor for us in this respect. We will also share your information as necessary with our UK based sister companies including Moy Park Limited, Pilgrim’s Food Masters (UK) Limited and Pilgrim’s Food Masters Ireland Limited and their affiliates.
Our ethics hotline is provided by a third-party company who store the data in the EEA but the data will be shared with JBS USA who administer the ethics investigations in the USA. Copies of the applicable privacy notice will be made available to you at the time of logging any complaints via the ethics line. Certain personal data may also be reported to government authorities such as HMRC, where required by law.
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions of sale, terms and conditions of purchase, terms of any contract with you and other agreements; or to defend or make any legal claim; or to protect the rights, property or safety of PPL, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
If your personal data is transferred to controllers or processors located in countries outside the United Kingdom and the EEA, including group entities, not ensuring an adequate level of protection, such transfer will be safeguarded by either the EU Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses or the Standard Contractual Clauses issued by the Information Commissioner pursuant to section 119A of the Data Protection Act 2018, other appropriate safeguards, or any approved derogations under applicable data protection legislation. Otherwise, you will be asked to provide your explicit consent to the transfer.
As a general rule, your personal data will be kept 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. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we may consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
In some circumstances, we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
If our business relationship no longer exists, we will store your personal data for seven years after cessation of our relationship.
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. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.
Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:
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 gpo@pilgrimssharedservices.com
Right to withdraw consent
In the very limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that processing of your personal data at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact gpo@pilgrimssharedservices.com
Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your personal data and we will dispose of your personal data securely, unless we are permitted or required by law or regulatory requirements to process your personal data without your knowledge or consent. In such a case, we will not process more personal data than is required under the circumstances.
We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time and any changes will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy notice. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information.
If you want to exercise any of your rights, if you have any questions regarding this privacy notice or the processing of your personal data, you may contact: gpo@pilgrimssharedservices.com.
If you have any complaints regarding the processing of your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact us. You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to:
Information Commissioner’s Office (”ICO”)
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AT
Telephone: 0303 123 1113 or 01625 545745
Live chat and online reporting – www.ico.org.uk
We would, however, appreciate the opportunity to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
We are also committed to driving the highest possible standards of safety and ethics for our people and operations.
Their role is to protect vulnerable and exploited workers. Through the intelligence they receive from our inspections, the public, businesses and other government departments, they investigate reports of worker exploitation and illegal activity such as human trafficking, forced labour and illegal labour provision.
They all aspects of labour exploitation in England and Wales but we also work with partner organisations such as the police, the National Crime Agency and other government law enforcement agencies to target, dismantle and disrupt serious and organised crime across the UK.
Our licensing scheme regulates businesses and labour agencies, such as Staffline, who provide workers into the food industry to make sure they meet the employment standards required by law.
Stronger Together is a multi-stakeholder business-led initiative that aims to reduce modern slavery particularly forced labour, labour trafficking and other hidden third party exploitation of workers. It provides guidance, training, resources and a network for employers, labour providers, workers and their representatives to work together to reduce exploitation
The ALP was established in 2004 at the instigation of the UK government, ALP is a specialist trade association, of which Pilgrims in an active associate member, which promotes responsible recruitment and good practice for organisations that supply the workforce to the food processing, agricultural and wider consumer goods supply chain.
The ALP and its members work to influence government, regulatory policy and provides a range of useful information and services to its members.
Bright Future is a unique collaboration between business and the charity sector. It has recently been established as a stand alone co-operative. Pilgrims is a founding member of this and has been involved since 2017. This has helped Pilgrims to ensure that we have more than doubled the number of modern slavery survivors we have helped into permanent employment over the past 12 months
The Responsible Recruitment Toolkit (RRT) enables labour providers, employers and brands to raise the standard of recruitment in their business and global supply chains.
RRT is an online toolkit that provides comprehensive and practical step by step guidance, tools and resources to support businesses to embed responsible recruitment practices, within their business and supply chain. Pilgrims is a “Plus” member, as we are supported by our customers, such as Waitrose and Co-Op, to drive change in this area through all our wider supply chains
Hope for Justice is a charity that exists and is focussed to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives and reforming society
Slave-Free Alliance is a social enterprise and membership initiative launched by anti-slavery charity Hope for Justice.
Membership includes global multinationals, household names like Aviva, Dixons Carphone, Clarks and Arriva, as well as small to medium enterprises (SMEs) with only a few employees. They all share a common goal: working towards a slave-free supply chain.
Pilgrims is proud the be the first meat company in the UK to sign up to support this unique partnership.
We are also committed to driving the highest possible standards of safety and ethics for our people and operations.
Their role is to protect vulnerable and exploited workers. Through the intelligence they receive from our inspections, the public, businesses and other government departments, they investigate reports of worker exploitation and illegal activity such as human trafficking, forced labour and illegal labour provision.
They all aspects of labour exploitation in England and Wales but we also work with partner organisations such as the police, the National Crime Agency and other government law enforcement agencies to target, dismantle and disrupt serious and organised crime across the UK.
Our licensing scheme regulates businesses and labour agencies, such as Staffline, who provide workers into the food industry to make sure they meet the employment standards required by law.
Stronger Together is a multi-stakeholder business-led initiative that aims to reduce modern slavery particularly forced labour, labour trafficking and other hidden third party exploitation of workers. It provides guidance, training, resources and a network for employers, labour providers, workers and their representatives to work together to reduce exploitation
The ALP was established in 2004 at the instigation of the UK government, ALP is a specialist trade association, of which Pilgrims in an active associate member, which promotes responsible recruitment and good practice for organisations that supply the workforce to the food processing, agricultural and wider consumer goods supply chain.
The ALP and its members work to influence government, regulatory policy and provides a range of useful information and services to its members.
Bright Future is a unique collaboration between business and the charity sector. It has recently been established as a stand alone co-operative. Pilgrims is a founding member of this and has been involved since 2017. This has helped Pilgrims to ensure that we have more than doubled the number of modern slavery survivors we have helped into permanent employment over the past 12 months
The Responsible Recruitment Toolkit (RRT) enables labour providers, employers and brands to raise the standard of recruitment in their business and global supply chains.
RRT is an online toolkit that provides comprehensive and practical step by step guidance, tools and resources to support businesses to embed responsible recruitment practices, within their business and supply chain. Pilgrims is a “Plus” member, as we are supported by our customers, such as Waitrose and Co-Op, to drive change in this area through all our wider supply chains
Hope for Justice is a charity that exists and is focussed to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives and reforming society
Slave-Free Alliance is a social enterprise and membership initiative launched by anti-slavery charity Hope for Justice.
Membership includes global multinationals, household names like Aviva, Dixons Carphone, Clarks and Arriva, as well as small to medium enterprises (SMEs) with only a few employees. They all share a common goal: working towards a slave-free supply chain.
Pilgrims is proud the be the first meat company in the UK to sign up to support this unique partnership.
For employee liability claims which occurred before October 1st 2017:
Insurer NFU Mutual, policy number : 1080X4412906. portal ID (C00068), Generic email GCB_Mailbox_TC@nfumutual.co.uk
For employee liability claims which occurred after October 1st 2017:
Insurer: HDI Global, Policy number 110-01164434-14000, portal ID (C00483), Generic emails address for reporting is claims@hdi.uk.global
For public and product liability claims:
Insurer IF P&C, policy number LP446007, portal ID (D00179) handling solicitors Weightmans generic email is tulipclaims@weightmans.com
For further held and advice, please visit www.claimsportal.org.uk
REGISTERED OFFICE
Pilgrim’s Pride Ltd.
Seton House
Warwick Technology Park
Gallows Hills
Warwick
CV34 6DA
Tel: 01926 475680
Fax: 01926 475688
Registered in England
Company reg number 608077
VAT number 390583825
CONTACT DETAILS
Tel: 01926 475680
Email: Warwick.Reception@pilgrimsuk.com
Pilgrim’s UK has been at the forefront of the industry in adopting appropriate measures to keep our people safe throughout the coronavirus pandemic. This has enabled the business to maintain its strategically important role in the UK food supply chain to some of the country’s leading grocery retailers.
We are proud to have been pro-active in taking all necessary steps in order to protect our people whilst maintaining the continuity of our supply chain to deliver food to the nation.
We recognise the important and demanding role our organisation and our people have to play in the current climate and we are immensely proud of the way they have collectively responded to the responsibility which has been thrust upon them during what has been an extremely concerning time for all.
Safety is a condition in our organisation and our food production environments conform to stringent health, safety and hygiene standards at all times. We have followed UK Government Covid-19 guidance from the outset of the crisis and, along with the external regulatory bodies which audit and assess our sites, we are satisfied that our operations have adhered to the specific rules for food processing facilities.
Our Operational Leadership Trainee programme is aimed at people with a passion for food along with the ambition, initiative, motivation and drive to succeed in a faced paced food production business. Trainees should have obtained (or be expecting to obtain) a 2.2 degree by September 2020 OR a Higher Apprenticeship (level 5).
All our sites are located throughout the UK and this programme will involve working across multiple sites, therefore flexibility is key.
Across two years you will spend time in Production, Finance, Technical, HR, New Product Development and more across a number of our UK sites before progressing into a relevant role.
This programme is designed for ambitious individuals who aspire to be future Site Directors, Production Managers, Factory Managers, Projects Managers and more!
On day one you will be enrolled onto Discovery’s OPEN programme. This is a 12-15-month unique learning programme designed to improve your organisational performance, personal effectiveness, interpersonal excellence and behavioural impact. experience.
The OPEN programme involves residential workshops with other graduates and apprentices across the food industry and beyond.
At the end of the programme you will receive a diploma in Leadership and Management.
The application process is as follows:
If you have any further questions about the Operational Leadership Trainee programme, please email: recruitment@tulipltd.co.uk
We’d love to hear from you!
Our award-winning apprenticeships encourage development and progression opportunities with bespoke on the job training, unrivalled support and top-class training. Our programmes are designed for anyone who is looking to kick-start their career in food manufacturing while earning and learning!
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