Applicant and Recruitment Privacy Policy

DAC Beachcroft is an international legal business which operates through separately constituted and regulated legal entities providing legal and/or claims handling services in accordance with the relevant laws of the Jurisdictions in which the different entities operate. 

DAC Beachcroft is committed to protecting the data of all people we deal with.  Our Applicant and Recruitment Privacy Policy ("Policy") is divided into separate sections for ease of reference. Each section sets out important information about how DAC Beachcroft may collect and use data depending upon the categories of individuals whose data we process (such reference to “data” means all forms of personal data).

This Policy applies if you are applying to join us as an employee, member, contractor, consultant, temporary or agency staff,  trainee solicitor, apprentice, or applying for work experience. It applies globally, and contains jurisdiction-specific provisions detailed in the Appendix below. Unless a capitalised term is defined in the body of this Policy or the context requires otherwise, the term has the meaning ascribed to it in the table set out in the Appendix.

The use of words and/or phrases such as "DAC Beachcroft", "we", "us" or "our" is for convenience only and refers to any of the entities listed on our website, each of which is a separate data controller in its own right.

WHAT DATA WE COLLECT AND WHERE DO WE GET IT FROM

DAC Beachcroft will collect, use and store your data for a wide variety of reasons in connection with your relationship with us and we collect your data from a range of sources.

The table below sets out the main categories of data that we collect and the sources we collect it from. The table is not exhaustive.

Referencing and vetting

As part of our referencing and vetting referred to above, we may contact certain third parties in order to verify your personal information (including personal information that you provide as part of the application and recruitment process). These third parties may include:

• former employers in order to verify your previous employment history, this may include contacting your current or former accountants where you are or were self-employed or an agency where you were paid through the agency (this information will be treated as confidential);
• universities and/or other establishments for higher education that you attended in order to verify your education history;
• other institutes in order to verify other qualifications (such as CIPD);
• verification agencies to verify your credit reference, directorships, identification and criminal record checks; and/or
• professional bodies in order to verify membership.

We will only seek this information in relation to successful candidates that have accepted a conditional offer of employment with us and we will specifically inform such candidates that we will be contacting these third parties in advance of doing so.

Please note that the majority of the data to be provided by you is mandatory in connection with our recruiting activities. Failure to provide mandatory data may affect our ability to accomplish the purposes stated in this Policy, including considering your suitability for employment and/or entering into an employment contract with you.

HOW WE USE YOUR DATA

DAC Beachcroft uses your data for a variety of purposes in order to take steps necessary to enter into a contract with you, to comply with legal obligations or otherwise in pursuit of our legitimate business interests.

We have set out in the table below the main purposes for which your data may be processed and the ‘lawful basis’ for the processing i.e. the legal reason we are able to process your data. The list below is non-exhaustive, and is subject to any Applicable Data Protection Legislation in your Jurisdiction. For information regarding how we use cookies and similar technologies in connection with your use of our website, applications and digital platforms or forms of communication, please read our Cookies Policy.

Personal data

Special Categories of Personal Data

Your special categories of personal data will be treated as highly confidential and will only be shared internally where there is a specific and legitimate purpose to do so.

When possible, monitoring relating to equal opportunities, treatment and engagement will be conducted using anonymised data (when anonymising data is not possible, monitoring will be conducted on a confidential basis) so individual colleagues cannot be identified. Data used for monitoring purposes will be maintained separately from general management and HR records.

WHEN WE SHARE DATA

DAC Beachcroft may, as follows, share your data with the following main parties in certain circumstances and where it is necessary to achieve the purposes detailed above:

• Recruitment agencies;
• Referencing & vetting specialists;
• Occupational health providers;
• HMRC (in the UK), Revenue (in Ireland) and/or any other applicable government body;
• Criminal records bureaus;
• Public domain (this includes within DAC Beachcroft's internal publications, printed media, external website, and social media sites);
• Accountants, lawyers and other professional advisers;
• Our regulators;
• Service providers (for example (but not limited to) screening check providers, online application service providers and video interviewing platform providers); and /or
• Diversity and inclusion partners

The list above is not exhaustive.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF DATA

As a leading international law business, DAC Beachcroft may transfer data to recipients located outside the jurisdiction where services are being provided or received. For example, this may be in relation to cross-jurisdictional legal advice, or where we are sharing information with our colleagues within the DAC Beachcroft Group, our global network and/or third party service providers.

Each Jurisdiction (where members of the DAC Beachcroft Group operate) has its own data protection laws and regulations. To ensure consistency and compliance with applicable laws and regulations, all DAC Beachcroft Group entities have entered into our Intra-Group Data Processing and Transfer Agreement, which incorporates the most up to date EU Standard Contractual Clauses ("SCCs") and the UK International Data Transfer Addendum to those EU SCCs.

Where we transfer data internationally (and, in the case of transfers to a country where an adequacy decision is not available), we ensure the relevant contractual measures are in place as required by the applicable legislation in that Jurisdiction.

As a leading international legal practice, we have robust IT security systems and policies in place to ensure appropriate protection of your data. This is underpinned by our ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus accreditations, which are certified by independent auditors.

OUR USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

In order to process your application, we use an online application service provided by Pinpoint. When applying for a job role with us, Pinpoint collects and processes your data on our behalf. Some of the processing activities carried out by Pinpoint involve the use of Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence (or "AI") is a term used for a range of technologies that can replace manual processes and solve complex tasks by carrying out functions that previously required human action. Tasks that we have traditionally undertaken by thinking and reasoning may be undertaken by, or with the help of, AI.

We use AI to support our existing activities. This means that how we collect your personal information and the types of personal information we use do not change.

We use AI to expediate and improve the way we manage candidate applications. For example, AI helps us to:

• produce high quality notes during the interview process;
• identify skills within candidate CV's and apply those skills identified as a tag to the candidate record for easy identification; and
• create digestible summaries of interview comments.

HOW WE KEEP DATA SECURE

We have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to protect data. We limit access to data to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing data will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We continually test our systems and are ISO 27001 (UK and Ireland offices only) and Cyber Essentials PLUS certified (all offices), which means we follow industry standards for information security.

We also have procedures to deal with any suspected data breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

HOW LONG WE KEEP DATA

DAC Beachcroft's policy is to retain data only for as long as needed to fulfil the purpose(s) for which it was collected, or otherwise as required under Applicable Data Protection Legislation and/or regulations and/or business continuity purposes. Under some circumstances we may anonymise your data so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to retain and use such anonymous data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you.

DAC Beachcroft will typically retain data for periods set out below subject to any exceptional circumstances and/or to comply with any Applicable Data Protection Legislation in your Jurisdiction or regulations and/or business continuity purposes:

For unsuccessful candidates:

• We will typically retain your data collected during the recruitment process for a maximum period of 2 years from the end of the process subject to any exceptional circumstances and/or to comply with particular jurisdictional laws and/or regulations and/or business continuity purposes.
• We may retain your data for a longer period than 2 years in order to follow up with you in relation to future vacancies; if you do not wish for your data to be maintained for this purpose, please inform us at Recruitment.optout@dacbeachcroft.com.

For successful candidates:

• If you are offered and accept employment with us, the data we collected during the application and recruitment process will become part of your employment record and we may use it in connection with your employment in accordance with our Colleague Privacy Policy available internally.

YOUR RIGHTS IN RELATION TO YOUR DATA

DAC Beachcroft will always seek to process your data in accordance with our obligations, our rights and your rights.

You will not be subject to decisions based solely on automated data processing without your prior consent.

In certain circumstances, you have the right to seek the erasure or correction of your data, to object to particular aspects of how your data is processed, and otherwise to seek the restriction of the processing of your data. You also have the right to request the transfer of your data to another party in a commonly used format.

You have a separate right of access to your data processed by DAC Beachcroft. You may be asked for information to confirm your identity and/or assist DAC Beachcroft to locate the data you are seeking as part of DAC Beachcroft's response to your request. If you wish to exercise your rights, please contact our Office of the General Counsel using the details outlined below ('How to contact us'). 

HOW TO MAKE A COMPLAINT

Should you have any concerns or wish to raise a complaint regarding our processing of your data, we would like the opportunity to work with you to resolve them. You can report a concern or raise a complaint by contacting our Office of the General Counsel using the details outlined below ('How to contact us'). 

You also have the right to raise any concerns or complain to the relevant Data Protection Supervisory Authority (as detailed in the Appendix) about how your data is being processed. We have elected the Data Protection Commission ('DPC') as our Lead Supervisory Authority within the EU.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Policy, want to exercise any of your rights in relation to your data as set out above or want to raise any concerns or complain about how your data is being processed, please use our contact details below in the first instance:

Email: ogc@dacbeachcroft.com

Post: Office of the General Counsel
DAC Beachcroft
St Paul's House
23 Park Square South
Leeds
United Kingdom
LS1 2ND

DO YOU NEED EXTRA HELP?

If you would like this Policy in another format (for example audio or large print), please contact us (see ‘Where can you get further information’ above).

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may update this Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, legal obligations, or technology.

This Policy was last updated in May 2026.

APPENDIX – JURISDICTIONS

This Appendix contains jurisdiction-specific information for every applicable DAC Beachcroft entity.

Further details on the DAC Beachcroft Group can be found on our website.

UNITED KINGDOM

DAC Beachcroft LLP, DAC Beachcroft Claims Limited, DAC Beachcroft Services Limited, DAC Beachcroft (International) Limited

DAC Beachcroft (N. Ireland) LLP

DAC Beachcroft Claims Scotland LLP, DAC Beachcroft Scotland LLP

ASIA PACIFIC

DAC Beachcroft Hong Kong

DAC Beachcroft Pte. Ltd

EUROPE

DAC Beachcroft France Association d'Avocats à Responsabilité Professionnelle Individuelle (AARPI)

DAC Beachcroft Ireland LLP

DAC Beachcroft Italia Società tra Avvocati a responsabilità limitata (S.t.A.r.l)

DAC Beachcroft Sociedad Limitada Profesional Unipersonal (SLPU)

LATIN AMERICA

DAC Beachcroft Chile Limitada

DAC Beachcroft Colombia Abogados Sociedad por Acciones Simplificadas (SAS)

DAC Beachcroft Sociedad Civil (SC)

DAC Beachcroft Perú Sociedad Anónima Cerrada (SAC)

NORTH AMERICA

DAC Beachcroft LLP

MIDDLE EAST

DAC Beachcroft LLP