Recruitment and Data Protection Policy Introduction

This website is owned, managed and operated by Carnival plc. Carnival UK is a trading name of Carnival plc. Any personal information provided to Carnival UK is controlled by Carnival plc (we and us). This Recruitment and Data Protection Policy explains how we collect, use and store personal information about you and your use of this website.

Recruitment Statement

We are committed to applying our equal opportunities policy at all stages of recruitment and selection. Short listing, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to gender, sexual orientation, marital status, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, age or trade union membership.

Please note that we are unable to assist people in their application for work permits, consequently there should be no restriction on you taking up employment in the UK if you wish to apply for one of the above positions.

Employment may be subject to criminal background check, drug testing, reference checks and physical examinations. Due to the high volume of speculative applications received, we are unable to respond to enquiries concerning positions other than those listed here.

What information do we collect and how do we use it?

We will not collect any information about you, except where it is specifically and knowingly provided as part of an application for a specific job vacancy. We may also invite you to complete surveys or provide us with feedback. We collect personal information such as name, address, telephone number and email address.. Other information that we collect may include information relating to criminal background checks, drug testing results, reference checks and physical examinations.  This allows us to process your employment application.  In furtherance of this, we may need to pass the information that you provide to us, to third parties involved in your prospective employment, or as required by law.  Such third parties may include the ultimate employer where this is not Carnival UK, government and enforcement agencies and public authorities.  By submitting your details to us you consent to us passing on the information for such purposes.  You are also confirming that the information provided is true and accurate.

If you provide us with the personal information of any third parties, for example a CV of a third party you must have the authority of those third parties to provide their personal information to us for the purposes set out in this Recruitment and Data Protection Policy.

If you have any questions or concerns about any personal information that we may hold about you then please contact us at Carnival House, 100 Harbour Parade, Southampton, SO15 1ST.

Cookies and web tags

Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser to identify your computer to our server. If you pro-actively click to indicate that you wish the website to remember certain details (such as a username and password) a cookie will be downloaded so that, upon re-visiting the same page in the website, the cookie will automatically re-populate the information remembered, without your having to re-enter it. Cookies do not identify you personally, but the computer used, unless you have knowingly provided us with personal information. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can change your browser settings to prevent this. The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. For more information about cookies and how to stop cookies being installed or how to delete existing cookies from your hard drive visit the following website: http://www.allaboutcookies.org. Some pages of our website have been coded with 'web tags' so as to enable us to monitor use of our website, by providing us with the following types of anonymous information:

• The number of unique users of, and visits to, our site
• The URL address you have left to come to our site
• Which search engine and search words you have used
• Whether you are a return visitor
• Which browser you are using and the country in which your computer is located
• The pages on which you enter and leave our site
• Which other pages of our site you visit and for how long
• The paths you use to navigate through our site

Over time, the information from these web tags, which is aggregated for all our site visitors, enables us to build up a picture of what types of visitors our website is attracting, how visitors use our site, and which of our products and offers most interest our visitors. This, in turn, helps us to improve our website and provide content which is of more interest and relevance. We use a third party website analytics provider to track and analyse the information recorded by the web tags on our behalf.

Links

We may from time to time establish relationships with other organisations that will enable you to access the web sites of such organisations directly from our site. Each individual organisation operates its own policy regarding the use and sale of personal information and the use of cookies. If you have a particular interest or concern regarding the way your personal information will be used then you are advised to read the privacy statement on the relevant site. We will try to provide you with links to high quality, reputable sites which we believe will be of interest and relevant to you, but please note that such third party sites are not under our control and we do not contribute to the content of such sites. When you click through to these sites you leave the area controlled by us. We cannot accept responsibility for any issues arising in connection with either the third party's use of your data, the site content or the services offered to you by these sites.


Policy changes

If we decide to change our Recruitment and Data Protection Policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. Any changes to this Recruitment and Data Protection Policy made by us will be posted here and will take effect immediately. This policy was last updated on 22 January 2010.