Data Privacy Statement for applicants (recruitment)

This Data Privacy Statement explains how Beiersdorf processes 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”. 

This Data Privacy Statement supplements our existing General Data Privacy Statement, which gives you specific information on how we process personal data obtained from you visiting our website and related to non-application-specific topics. In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between this Data Privacy Statement and the General Data Privacy Statement, this Data Privacy Statement will apply to the extent of any such conflict or inconsistency.

By agreeing to this Data Privacy Statement, you are providing your consent to us processing your personal data in accordance with this Data Privacy Statement (including the General Data Privacy Statement). Providing your personal data as part of the application process is voluntary. However, the provision of personal data is necessary for the processing of your application or the conclusion of an employment contract with us. Please ensure that you review this Data Privacy Statement in detail.

1. Contact details

If you have any queries or concerns in relation to our processing of your personal data, please contact us at: NIVEA - Beiersdorf Middle East FZCO, 1st Floor, Zee Tower - Dubai - Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, +971 4 367 1047. 

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, country, e-mail, phone number.
  • 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).
  • Data which you have provided to us in your application documents (curriculum vitae CV, cover letter) including work experience, qualifications and language skills.
  • Data from online assessments (e.g. personality tests, cognitive ability tests) and video interviews (if applicable). Your participation in such tests is voluntary.
  • Data provided to us by your referees (if applicable). These are reference points that you have given us to contact.
  • Data provided to us by you as part of a survey on your satisfaction with the application process at Beiersdorf.

We 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 publicly available information from professional social networks, such as LinkedIn, job boards such as Monster, 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.

3. Use of personal data

Your personal data may be used for the following purposes:

  • To assess your application for the job offered and to communicate with you within the recruitment process.
  • To contact you in case of an alternative career opportunity within the Beiersdorf group (you can restrict the visibility of your candidate profile to the team involved in your current application or grant it to Beiersdorf’s recruiters worldwide).
  • To ask you about your experience within the recruitment process.
  • To contact you following your unsolicited application.

Furthermore, we may process personal data about you where this is necessary to defend ourselves against legal claims arising from the application process that are brought against us. 

4. Data sharing

We may transfer your personal data to companies affiliated with us provided this is permissible within the scope of the purposes 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. 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, see section “Data retention”.

Furthermore, personal data may be processed on our behalf, especially by providers of systems for applicant 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 section “Use of personal data”.

Should we transfer personal data to service providers or Group companies outside the UAE, the transfer will only take place if appropriate data protection guarantees are available. Beiersdorf has reasonable safeguards in place to protect this information.

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.

5. Rights in relation to personal data and how to exercise them

5.1. Right of access

You can request information about your personal data. You can exercise this right by contacting us under the above mentioned contact details. 

5.2. Right to rectification and erasure

If you wish to update the personal data provided to us, you can send us an email to RC@beiersdorf.com or you can modify the data yourself in the relevant application within your candidate profile. Under certain conditions, you can ask us to erase your personal data. 

5.3. Right to restriction of processing

Under certain conditions you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data, e.g. when you want us to verify the accuracy of your personal data. You can adjust the visibility of your profile at any time or opt out of notifications.

5.4. Right to data portability

Under certain conditions you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you which you provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. 

6. Data retention

We retain your data for a period of 6 months after your last log in date in your profile. 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. You can manage the visibility settings 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 RC@Beiersdorf.com.

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 Data Privacy Statement for employees that we will provide to you on acceptance of the Job.