PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CANDIDATES AND APPLICANTS (RECRUITMENT)

This Privacy Notice, also referred to as Data Privacy Policy explains how the Beiersdorf group of companies (each Beiersdorf entity being "we", "us", "our") process your personal data when you apply for a position advertised by us. It also describes your data protection rights, including the right to object to some of Beiersdorf’s processing operations. 

For more information on your rights and how you can exercise them, please refer to the section “Legal rights in relation to personal data and how to exercise them”.

Where applicable, this Privacy Notice supplements our existing General Privacy Notice, which gives you specific information on how we process personal data obtained from you when visiting our website and when we process your personal data in relation to non-application-specific topics. 

For certain regions, we provide supplementary information about our use and processing of your personal data in accordance with the laws of the respective jurisdictions. If you reside in or work from any of these regions, please also review the respective annexes (see also section 8. Supplementary information for certain regions).

1. DATA CONTROLLER AND CONTACT DETAILS

Responsible for the processing of personal data within the meaning of Article 4 (7) of the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") or the equivalent under applicable data protection laws is the company stated in the job application and with regard to global HR management and management of global HR systems, Beiersdorf AG, Beiersdorfstraße 1-9, 22529 Hamburg, Germany, Tel.: +49 40 4909-0, E-Mail: dataprotection[at]Beiersdorf.com.

You can find the contact details of the Data Protection Officer under the following link: https://www.beiersdorf.de/meta-pages/datenschutzerklaerung/beiersdorf-datenschutzbeauftragter-webseite.

2. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

Within the recruitment process, we collect and store the following categories of personal data about you:

  • Data which you have provided to us in your candidate profile, including first and last name, gender, nationality, address, country, e-mail, phone number ("Candidate Profile Data").
  • Data which you have entered on our candidate application form, including desired annual salary, your motivation, information about disabilities (if and to the extent that it is relevant for the job offered) ("Application Form Data").
  • Data which you have provided to us in your application documents (curriculum vitae CV, cover letter) including work experience, qualifications and language skills ("Application Documents Data").
  • Data from online assessments (e.g. personality tests, cognitive ability tests) and video interviews (if applicable) ("Online Assessment Data").
  • Data provided to us by your referees (if applicable). These are reference points that you have given us to contact ("Referee Data").

During the recruitment we may evaluate the results of cognitive ability tests using relevant reference groups considering your profession and level of experience.

We collect personal data directly from you or from our external partners, e.g. headhunters. We can also obtain information from professional social networks, such as LinkedIn, job boards and from other publicly accessible sources (only information relevant to your professional life) for the purposes of actively approaching you with job offers or for the purpose of confirming the accuracy of the information presented by you within the course of the application ("Public Professional Data").

Providing your personal data as part of the application process is voluntary. However, the provision of personal data that is marked as mandatory is necessary for the processing of your application or the conclusion of an employment contract with us.

If you provide personal data of another person (e.g. referees) to us, you should show them a copy of this Privacy Notice prior to providing us with their personal data.

4. DATA SHARING

We may transfer your personal data to companies affiliated with us provided this is permissible within the scope of the purposes and legal bases outlined above. For the processing activities in our online recruiting system Beiersdorf Group companies are jointly responsible. The essence of the arrangement of this joint determination is that Beiersdorf AG, Germany, is predominantly responsible to fulfill information duties according to data protection law and provide information on the joint processing. We might share your candidate profile with other recruiting teams in the Beiersdorf Group if you chose this option in the application form. You can manage the visibility options of your profile by selecting whether your profile should be visible to the recruiting team involved in your current application or recruiting teams within the Beiersdorf Group worldwide. If you do not wish to be further considered for relevant job offerings, you can request the deletion of your candidate profile or use the self-service function.”).

Furthermore, personal data may be processed on our behalf on the basis of data processing agreements pursuant to Article 28 GDPR, or other applicable laws, especially by providers of systems for candidate management and selection procedures. We do not share data with third parties that have no reference to our application management and application procedures or other use cases we describe in this privacy notice. 

Where applicable such transfers may involve the transfer of personal data to recipients outside the European Union / European Economic Area. Standard contractual clauses (from the implementing decision (EU) 2021/914 of 4 June 2021) have been concluded with these recipients, unless they are based in countries with an adequacy decision pursuant to Article 45 GDPR (a list of these countries is available at: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/adequacy-decisions_en) or GDPR provides for an exception under Article 49 GDPR. Where the transfer in this context is made to a recipient acting as a processor for us (i.e., processing personal data on our behalf), Module Two (transfer from controller to processor) of the standard contractual clauses is relevant; where the transfer is made to third party controllers, Module One (transfer from controller to controller) is relevant. In case the transfers are carried out by a service provider, which we have engaged as a processor, to a sub-processor, Module Three (transfer from processor to processor) may be implemented to govern such transfers.

To request a copy of standard contractual clauses (to the extent we rely on such) you may contact us (see section "Data controller and contact details"). Please note that such copy may be redacted to the extent necessary to protect business secrets or other confidential information.

Further recipients can be found in the general recipients section 1.4 of the General Data Privacy Policy. In the event of a legal obligation, we reserve the right to disclose information about you if we are required to surrender it to competent authorities or law enforcement bodies to comply with legal obligations or this is necessary to safeguard our rights.

6. DATA RETENTION

Your personal data will generally only be stored until the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected (or otherwise processed).

We retain your Candidate Profile Data for as long as your candidate profile is active. We delete such profile and related Candidate Profile Data after 12 months of inactivity. Application Form Data, Application Documents Data, Online Assessment Data, Referee Data and Public Professional Data regarding a specific application will be retained for 12 months after finalizing the recruitment process related to a specific application and deleted afterwards. 

We further retain your personal data in that period in case there is a relevant job offering for which you will be a fitting candidate and you set the visibility of your candidate profile as described in 4 Data sharing. In addition, you can request the deletion of your candidate profile or the withdrawal of your application by contacting our recruitment experts at NOE_Careers[at]Beiersdorf.com

As an exception, personal data may be stored longer where their processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation – including compliance with statutory retention periods – to which we are subject or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

You can access your Candidate Profile and the information stored there via the link you received in our Mails. You can also unsubscribe from the Beiersdorf Job Agent and stop receiving information on current job postings in the menu of your candidate profile.

In case your application is successful we may store your personal data within the subsequent employment in compliance with the applicable legal regulations. More information can be found in the Privacy Notice for employees that we will provide to you on acceptance of the job or during your onboarding.

7. OBJECTION OR WITHDRAWAL OF YOUR CONSENT TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

If you have given your consent (Article 6 (1) a) GDPR or the equivalent basis under applicable laws) to the processing of your data, you can withdraw your consent at any time. Such a withdrawal influences the permissibility of processing your personal data after you have given it to us.

If we base the processing of your personal data on legitimate interests (Article 6 (1) f) GDPR or the equivalent basis under applicable laws), you may object to the processing. This is the case if processing is not necessary in particular to fulfil a contract with you, which is described by us in the Section Purposes of and Legal Bases for Processing. When exercising such objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will examine the situation and either stop or adjust data processing or point out to you our compelling reasons worthy of protection, on the basis of which we will continue processing.

8. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION FOR CERTAIN REGIONS

If you are located or are applying to work outside of the European Union/EEA, please also review the Privacy Notice applicable to your region. An overview is available here: https://www.beiersdorf.com/career/local/en/privacy-statement-recruitment/overview.

In the event of conflict between the content of this Privacy Notice and the applicable regional version, the latter shall prevail.