Privacy Notice for Candidates

Last revised: March 23, 2022

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Overview

embecta is committed to respecting and safeguarding your privacy by handling your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws. This Privacy Notice for Candidates (“Privacy Notice”) describes what personal data embecta, as controller (hereinafter “embecta”, us”, or “we”) collects about persons applying for positions (“Candidates”) published on our website or otherwise, how such data is used, and what privacy rights Candidates have in respect to their personal data.

For further information about how your personal data collected through this website is processed by embecta, please consult the embecta Privacy Policy.  

We may change or update this Privacy Notice from time to time in response to changing legal, regulatory, or operational requirements and notify you by posting a new Privacy Notice on this website.

  1. WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?
  2. FOR WHAT PURPOSES DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND WHY IS IT JUSTIFIED?
  3. WHO MIGHT EMBECTA SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITH?
  4. HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
  5. HOW LONG DO WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
  6. WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS AND HOW CAN YOU EXERCISE THEM?
  7. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US?

What personal data do we collect about you?

To support the recruitment and, where applicable, the employment process, embecta may collect, process, and use certain individually identifiable information about Candidates or other potential employees. Such data is either obtained from you when you apply for a job or create a profile in our talent pool or from certain third parties (e.g., recruiters) or from trusted public sources (collectively, personal data). Where your personal data is processed by external companies over which embecta has no control, the privacy policies of such companies apply.

In accordance with applicable law, the personal data we collect may include general information, identification and contact information that you voluntarily provide, information from your interviews, and information from reviews or background checks. Special categories of data will only be collected to a limited extent and only if required by applicable local laws and if the processing of such data is relevant for the purposes intended. Finally, usage data is automatically collected when you visit our website.

embecta may collect the following personal data about you:

  • General, identification and contact information, that you voluntarily provide to us, such as:
    • Details included in your CV and other information, including your contact details (your name, work, and home address, telephone numbers, and email address); country of origin or residence, nationality, date of birth, gender, civil status, information on partners, family members and dependents; images or recordings of you (optional), employment and education history, professional qualification, work experiences, and skills;
    • If applicable, your letter of motivation, certificates and letters of references, if you submit this information voluntarily;
    • Communication details including language, email content, chat, and another social media content;
    • LinkedIn and other social media profiles or a link to a professional website (optional);
    • Your function, degree and job title, work location, hire and termination date including the reason for leaving, information about the employment contract;
    • Information about your compensation and benefits including equity;
    • References and work permit;
    • Information necessary to complete background checks (subject to your explicit consent).
  • Information derived from your interviews, such as notes from the interviews or information from recruitment agencies;
  • Information from assessments or background checks, subject to your explicit consent, such as information obtained by asking for references and confirmations of your background (education, work experience) and criminal record;
  • Special categories of data: During the recruitment process, we may collect and transfer special categories of data, only if required and permissible by applicable local laws and necessary in connection with the application and hiring process. Such data may include information about your religion for tax purposes, ethnicity and origin for diversity reporting purposes; information about children and family allowances, and in particular cases, health related data.
  • In addition, when visiting our website, and subject to your consent, personal data is automatically collected, such as website usage data, geolocation data and other information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies. For further information, please consult the embecta Privacy Policy.  


The provision of personal data as described in this Privacy Notice is necessary for the processing purposes described above unless the provision is marked as optional. While the provision of your personal data is generally voluntary, you may not be able to benefit from the processing purposes if you do not provide the personal data.

For what purposes do we use your personal data and why is it justified?

By submitting your application via our website, by e-mail, by post or by any other means, you give your consent to the processing of your personal data to the extent necessary to manage your application. If applicable, we may further process your personal data as far as necessary to carry out the recruitment process and conclude a potential employment contract with you. In addition, embecta may process your personal data if required or permitted by law, if the processing is justified by embecta’s legitimate business interests, or in order to comply with legal obligations to which embecta is subject.

Your personal data will be processed for managing your application and recruitment process, assessing your professional competences for the job, and, subject to an additional specific consent, retaining your CV in order to match your profile with future positions, and ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Your personal data may be processed to:

  • manage your application and recruitment process, and in particular, subject to your consent, to process specific requests via contact forms, to contact you for a job interview, to verify your identity, academics or qualifications, to share your information to the hiring manager, to conduct job interviews in person or via phone and electronic communication channels, including video conferences, and to potentially perform the selection and hiring process;
  • assess the Candidates professional competences for the job: embecta may, subject to your consent, conduct background checks and carry out competence tests via assessment centres and in this context process your personal data;
  • retain Candidate CVs to match your profile with future positions: If you would like to be considered for future open positions at embecta, you may submit your CV to receive job alerts for open positions and receive news and insights about embecta as an employer. If your application was not successful for the particular position for which you applied, embecta may request your consent to retain your application after the completion of the selection procedure, even in the absence of a vacancy, in order to directly contact you via email, SMS, by phone or otherwise if your profile matches to a future open position or to provide other information that might be interesting to you including invitations to events.
  • ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, such as for archiving, record keeping and reporting purposes.


You have the right to withdraw your consent to receive communications from us or to be included in our talent pool at any time by contacting us as described in section 7.

Who might embecta share your personal data with?

In the course of our activities and for the same purposes as those listed in this Privacy Notice, your personal data may be accessed by or transferred to embecta group companies, service providers such as IT service providers or recruiters, certain acquiring or acquired entities or other third parties such as professional advisors, regulators or governmental authorities on a need-to-know basis.

  • Within the embecta group: embecta may share your personal data with embecta group affiliates as necessary for managing your application and carrying out the selection and hiring process.
  • With certain acquiring or acquired entities: If embecta is sold or transferred in whole or in part, or if another entity is being acquired by or integrated into embecta (or any similar transaction is being contemplated), your personal data may be transferred to the other entity prior to or after the transaction, subject to any rights provided by applicable law, including in jurisdictions where the other entity is located.
  • With data processors: Certain service providers such as IT support providers or recruiters (“processors”) may receive your personal data to process such data on our behalf and under appropriate instructions as necessary for the processing purposes, in particular to provide IT and other administrative support, to assist with compliance with applicable laws, to assist during the selection process of successful Candidates, to calculate the recruiter’s fees, to assist in performing the matching of open positions with job profiles stored in our systems, and for other activities in connection with the recruitment and hiring process. The processors will be subject to contractual obligations to implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to safeguard your personal data, and to process the personal data only as instructed. For more information about our service providers, please contact us as described in section 7.
  • With certain other third parties: embecta may share your personal data with professional advisors, regulators or governmental authorities as far as required by applicable laws or in our legitimate business interest.


Any access to your personal data within the embecta group is restricted to those individuals who have a need-to-know authorization in order to fulfill their professional responsibilities.


Some of the recipients with whom we may share your personal data may be located in countries that do not ensure the same level of data protection as your home country. Before transferring your personal data to those countries, we implement appropriate safeguards, such as entering into EU Standard Contractual Clauses. For further information about these safeguards or to receive a copy, please contact us as described in section 7.

How do we protect your personal data?

We have implemented reasonable technical and organizational measures to secure your personal data from unauthorized access, loss and misuse.

How long do we store your personal data?

Upon termination of the recruitment process, embecta will retain your personal data for as long as we need it to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including whether the retention is subject to a legal, contractual, or similar obligation.

If you have provided your consent to embecta to retain your CV and other information and to be informed about future open positions or if you have submitted your CV to us, your personal data will be stored as long as you do not withdraw your consent, or in accordance with how you otherwise manage your preferences in our systems.

What are your rights and how can you exercise them?

In accordance with applicable law, you may have the right to (i) request access to your personal data; (ii) request rectification of your personal data; (iii) request erasure of your personal data; (iv) request restriction of processing of your personal data; (v) request data portability; (vi) request information about how your personal data is shared with third parties; (vii) object to the processing of your personal data; and/or (viii) any other rights set forth by applicable law. Further, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time for future processing, where consent has been provided, although the withdrawal of such consent does not affect the lawfulness of previous data processing activities. Please note that these rights might be limited under applicable local data protection laws.

Assessing the Candidate’s professional competences for the job: embecta may, subject to your consent conduct background checks and carry out competence tests via assessment centres and in this context process your personal data.

Retaining of the Candidates CVs for future positions: If you would like to be considered for future open positions at embecta, you may submit your CV to receive job alerts for open positions and receive news and insights about embecta as an employer.

 

  • the right to withdraw your consent to manage your application, to perform assessments and competence tests, and to retain your personal data for future positions and contacting you via electronic communications. Such a withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the consent withdrawal. You can withdraw your consent at any time with respect to future processing by using the methods mentioned in the original or any related communication or otherwise by contacting us as described in section 7 of this Privacy Notice;
  • the right to request access to your personal data, respectively to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is processed, and, where that is the case, to request access to the personal data;
  • the right to request rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you;
  • the right request erasure of your personal data, under certain conditions;
  • the right to request restriction of processing, under certain conditions. In this case, the respective data will be marked and may only be processed for specific purposes as defined by law;
  • the right to request information about how your personal data is shared with third parties, under certain conditions;
  • the right to request data portability: As provided by applicable data protection law, you may – in cases where processing is based on consent or the performance of a contract, and the processing is carried out through automated means – have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you may have the right to transmit those data to another entity without hindrance from us;
  • the right to object: Under certain circumstances, you have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to the processing of your personal data by us and in such circumstances,  we are required to cease processing your personal data. If you have a right to object and if you exercise this right, your personal data will no longer be processed for such purposes by us.

 

Please note that these rights are not absolute, and we reserve the right to enforce the restrictions imposed by law.

To exercise your rights, please contact us as described in section 7 below. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority in some jurisdictions.

How can you contact us?

If you have questions or comments regarding this Privacy Statement or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

Embecta Corp.
1 Becton Drive
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey 07417-1880
Attention: Privacy Office
privacy-embecta@bd.com