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Processing of (personal) data by the entity in charge of the online application process

Data protection information for applicants in accordance with Art. 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO)

Thank you for your interest in our company. In accordance with the requirements of Articles 13, 14 and 21 of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), we would like to inform you about the processing of the personal data provided by you as part of the application process and, if applicable, collected by us. In order to ensure that you are fully informed about the processing of your personal data as part of the application process, please take note of the following information.

The person responsible for data processing is:

Polyteia  GmbH    

Schlesische Straße 27

10997 Berlin

Telefon: +49 30 5490832 0

E-Mail: info@polyteia.de


Our data protection officer    
In fulfilling our obligations under data protection law, we are supported by our data protection officer. The contact details of our data protection officer are:

Bitkom mbH

Albrechtstraße 10

10117  Berlin    

​E-Mail: datenschutz@bitkom-consult.de    

As an external data protection officer, Bitkom Servicegesellschaft mbH is required by law to treat data subject inquiries confidentially.    

Data we process
As part of the application process, we process personal data from you that we obtain through your application documents by e-mail or post, but also receive during the interview with you. This may include contact details, all data related to the application (CV, certificates, qualifications, photo, etc.) and, if applicable, data on bank details (for reimbursement of travel expenses).

We process your data first to carry out the application process and then to check whether we can offer you the position for which you have applied and hire you as an employee. The legal basis for this is Article 88 (1) DSGVO in conjunction with Section 26 (1) sentence 1 BDSG. Insofar as the data are special categories of personal data (such as data about your health) that you yourself provide to us (for example, information about a severely disabled status), the processing is carried out on the legal basis of Art. 9 Para. 2 lit. b DSGVO in conjunction with Section 26 Para. 3 BDSG.

If you have successfully completed the application process and accept our offer, we will store your data below for the purpose of implementing the employment relationship with you. The legal basis for the processing is Article 88 (1) DSGVO in conjunction with Section 26 (1) sentence 1 BDSG.    

Deletion of data
Unless there is a legal retention period, we delete your data as soon as storage is no longer necessary or the legitimate interest in storage has expired. If you are not hired, we regularly delete the data no later than six months after completion of the application process.

In individual cases, individual data may be stored for a longer period (e.g. travel expense reports, defense against claims under the General Equal Treatment Act). In this case, the duration of storage is based on the statutory retention obligations under the German Commercial Code or the German Fiscal Code (six or ten years) or the duration of legal proceedings.

If you are not hired, but your application is still of interest to us, we will ask you in advance, by obtaining your written consent, whether we may continue to store your application for future job openings.

If you are hired as an employee, we will store your data for the duration of the employment relationship with you. In this case, you will receive further information about the processing of your data in the employment relationship as soon as you start the employment relationship with us.

Recipients of your data
We will of course treat your data confidentially and will not pass it on to third parties. We have commissioned a service provider to provide our applicant management system. This service provider has access to your data within the framework of order processing. We also use service providers who support us in the areas of hosting, maintenance and support of IT systems as well as archiving and destruction of documents and with whom we have also concluded separate contracts for order processing.

Your data protection rights
As a data subject, you have the right to information about the personal data concerning you (Section 17 of the GDPR), to correction of incorrect data (Section 18 of the GDPR), and to deletion if one of the reasons stated in Section 19 of the GDPR applies, e.g. if the data is no longer required for the purposes pursued. There is also the right to restriction of processing if one of the conditions mentioned in § 20 DSGVO exists and in the cases of § 22 DSGVO the right to data portability. If you wish to assert your data protection rights, please contact us using the contact details above.

In addition, as a data subject, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of data relating to you violates data protection provisions.

The data protection supervisory authority responsible for us is:

Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit

Alt-Moabit 59-61

10555 Berlin

Tel.: +49 (0)30 13889-0

E-Mail: mailbox@datenschutz-berlin.de


Necessity of providing personal data
The provision of personal data in the context of application processes is neither required by law nor bycontract. You are therefore not obliged to provide information about your personal data. Please note, however, that these are required for the decision on an application or the conclusion of a contract relating to an employment relationship with us. If you do not provide us with any personal data, we will not be able to make a decision regarding the establishment of an employment relationship. We recommend that you only provide personal data in your application that is required to complete the application.

Automated decision-making
​Since the decision about your application is not based exclusively on automated processing, there is no automated decision-making in individual cases within the meaning of Art. 22 DSGVO.



















Processing of (personal) data by the operator of the recruitment website

General information

This recruitment website is operated by Personio SE & Co. KG, which offers a human resource and candidate management software solution (https://www.personio.com/legal-notice/). Data transmitted as part of your application will be transferred using TLS encryption and stored in a database. The sole controller of this data within the meaning of article 24 of the GDPR is the enterprise carrying out this online application process. Personio’s role is limited to operating the software and this recruitment website and, in this context, being a processor under article 28 of the GDPR. In this case, the processing by Personio is based on an agreement for the processing of orders between the controller and Personio. In addition, Personio SE & Co. KG processes further data, some of which may be personal data, to provide its services, in particular for operating this recruitment website. We will refer to this in more detail below.

The controller

The controller under data protection law is:
Personio SE & Co. KG
Seidlstraße 3
80335 München
Tel.: +49 (89) 1250 1004
Entry in the commercial register
Commercial register entry number: HRA 115934
Registration Court: Amtsgericht München
Data Protection Officer contact: privacy@personio.com

Access logs (“server logs”)

Each access to this recruitment website automatically causes general protocol data, so-called server logs, to be collected. As a rule, this data is a pseudonym and thus does not allow for inferences about the identity of an individual. Without this data, it would, in some cases, be technically impossible to deliver or display the contents of the software. In addition, processing this data is absolutely necessary under security aspects, in particular for access, input, transfer, and storage control. Furthermore, this anonymous information can be used for statistical purposes and for optimizing services and technology. In addition, the log files can be checked and analyzed retrospectively when unlawful use of the software is suspected. The legal basis for this is §25 subsection 2 Sentence 2 TDDDG. Generally, data such as the domain name of the website, the web browser and web-browser version, the operating system, the IP address, as well as the timestamp of the access to the software is collected. The scope of this log process does not exceed the common log scope of any other site on the web. These access logs are stored for a period of up to 7 days. There is no right to object to this.

Error logs

So-called error logs are generated for the purpose of identifying and fixing bugs. This is absolutely necessary to ensure we can react as quickly as possible to possible problems with displaying and implementing content (legitimate interest). As a rule, this data is a pseudonym and thus does not allow for inferences about the identity of an individual. The legal basis for this is §25 subsection 2 Sentence 2 TDDDG. When an error message occurs, general data such as the domain name of the website, the web browser and web-browser version, the operating system, the IP address, as well as the timestamp upon occurrence of the respective error message and/or specification is collected. These error logs are stored for a period of up to 7 days. There is no right to object to this.

Use of cookies

So-called cookies are used on parts of this recruitment website. They are small text files which are stored on the device with which you access this recruitment website. As a general rule, cookies serve the purpose of ensuring secure access to a website (“absolutely necessary”), implementing certain functionalities such as standard-language settings (“functional”), improving the user experience or the performance of the website (“performance”), or placing targeted advertisements (“marketing”). On this recruitment website, we generally use only cookies that are absolutely necessary, functional or performance-related, in particular for implementing certain default settings such as language, for identifying the job advertising channel, or for analyzing the performance of a job advert via which a user accessed this recruitment website. The use of cookies is absolutely necessary for providing our services and thus for the performance of the contract (article 6 (1) b) of the GDPR). Period of storage: up to 1 month or until the end of the browser session Right to object: You can determine via your browser settings whether you allow or object to the use of cookies. Please note that deactivating cookies may result in limited or completely blocked functionalities of this recruitment website.

Rights of data subjects

If Personio SE & Co. KG as the controller processes personal data, you as the data subject have certain rights under Chapter III of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), depending on the legal basis and the purpose of the processing, in particular the right of access (article 15 of the GDPR) and the rights to rectification (article 16 of the GDPR), erasure (article 17 of the GDPR), restriction of processing (article 18 of the GDPR), and data portability (article 20 of the GDPR), as well as the right to object (article 21 of the GDPR). If the personal data is processed with your consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent under article 7 III of the GDPR. To assert your rights as a data subject in relation to the data processed for the purpose of operating this recruitment website, please refer to Personio SE & Co. KG’s Data Protection Officer (see item B).

Concluding provisions

Personio reserves the right to adjust this data privacy statement at any point in time to ensure that it is in line with the current legal requirements at all times, or in order to accommodate changes in the services offered, for example when new services are introduced. In this case, the new data privacy statement applies to any later visit of this recruitment website or any later job application.