Privacy policy

We are strongly committed to protecting your privacy. Your personal data is protected by both our safeguards and the Data Protection Act (UK). This act requires that the data we hold about you must be processed lawfully and fairly. The data should be accurate, relevant, not excessive and not retained for longer than necessary.

Our promise

We respect your privacy, so the personal information you supply us including your name, all contact details (such as your address and telephone numbers), academic and demographic information will be restricted to the westLB Group. The information will be used for the sole purpose of westLB to evaluate your application for a graduate position.

You have our assurance that we will not sell, rent or loan any personal information about you to a third party without your consent, except as we are required to do so by law. Certain anonymous information may be shared internally and with third parties to illustrate demographic trends. However, this information will not include any personally identifiable information.

All data provided by you will be managed and stored by us safely and securely to prevent unauthorised access. Our website is hosted in a fully secure environment, and is protected from malicious code, defacing and redirecting.

As further protection, we do not use cookies to automatically recognise your computer or capture and store personal information from visitors to our site. Instead, we request that you give your user name and password every time you want to access your application form.

Your promise

By submitting your personal details to westLB for employment purposes, you are confirming that your responses are complete and factual and realise that any inaccuracy or omission may affect your employment opportunities with westLB. Further, you are authorising westLB to investigate all information from you and statements made by you, and understand consideration for employment also depends on satisfactory references.