Privacy Statement

You may submit information, including personal data and sensitive personal data to us via the on-line application forms and e-mail addresses as an application ("application data"). Sensitive personal data is information as to your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious, philosophical or similar beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual life, commission of criminal offences and/or involvement in criminal proceedings.

The processing of any data submitted by you, as well as other data derived from the monitor of this website, will be governed by BlackRock’s Privacy Policy. Please see: see http://www.blackrock.co.uk/individual/compliance/privacy-policy

In acknowledging an application we are not verifying the content, accepting the application or making any offer of employment or engagement. We are not obliged to accept any applications.

By storing and submitting your information you are agreeing to your application data being processed for the purposes of:

• Communication regarding recruitment with prospective employers and you
• Consideration of your applications and your recruitment by prospective employers

The provision of the services of WebSAF: (WebSAF functionality allows candidates to upload commonly asked personal details into an online application form. This information is only uploaded to an employer's online form at the candidate's request. The candidate then has the opportunity to edit any of this information and must then decide to submit it to that employer).

We may monitor your use of this website and record your e-mail address for our internal purposes. This may be done via "cookies". For more information about "cookies", please see http://www.blackrock.co.uk/individual/compliance/privacy-policy.  To process your application we may pass any information you submit to us to any of our offices or any of our affiliates, agents or appointed representatives wherever located.

We are an equal opportunity employer (in accordance with applicable legislation) and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability or any other basis covered by local legislation. All employment related decisions are made entirely on merit.

Data Protection and Confidentiality

We acknowledge that your contact details and application data (as defined above) ("your information") may be confidential. We will maintain the confidentiality of and protect your information in accordance with our normal procedures and all applicable laws.

We may use your application data and contact details solely for the purposes of recruitment or marketing or provision of WebSAF services, respectively, as more fully described above. We may use information obtained about you from monitoring your use of this website solely for internal purposes including site performance, evaluation site use and creating of marketing reports to aid future marketing of information about us and our products. Personal data collected by monitoring will be aggregate (i.e. it will not identify you as an individual), no personal or sensitive personal data will be used other than for the purpose for which it was originally obtained.

Your information may be controlled and processed by any of our offices. You acknowledge and agree that the location of our offices may change from time to time and that we may acquire other offices in any number of other countries or territories at any time, any one or more of which may act as a controller of and/or processor of your information. We will not disclose your data to any other third party unless for recruitment purposes or as required by law or regulators.

You acknowledge and agree that we may from time to time transfer any of your contact details and/or application data overseas to any of our offices or of any of our affiliates, agents or appointed representatives. Some of our offices and those of our affiliates, agents or representatives are located in countries outside the European Economic Area which do may not have well developed data protection legislation when compared to European law. While we will ensure your information is processed in accordance with this legal notice and privacy statement, you may not have rights under data protection legislation in those jurisdictions equivalent to those under European law. Please do not send us any personal data if you do not want that information to be processed by us in the ways described by this notice.

You have various rights in relation to your personal information. In particular, you have a right to: (i) object to the processing or your personal information; (ii) request a copy of personal information we hold about you; (iii) ask that we update the personal information we hold about you, or correct such personal information that you think is incorrect or incomplete; (iv) ask that we delete personal information that we hold about you, or restrict the way in which we use such personal information withdraw consent to our processing of your personal information (to the extent such processing is based on consent).

To exercise any of your rights, or if you have any other questions about our use of your personal information, please e-mail groupprivacy@blackrock.com or write to BlackRock’s Global Privacy and Data Protection Officer at 12 Throgmorton Avenue, London, EC2N 2DL, United Kingdom. You may also use these contact details if you wish to make a complaint to us relating to your privacy.

Occasionally third parties may provide storage services to us. In those circumstances those third parties shall be required to enter into a confidentiality agreement on no less stringent terms than found in this privacy statement and to process your data solely in accordance with our instructions