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California Job Applicant Notice of Collection
This Notice of Collection for California Job Applicants (“Applicant Notice”) applies solely to all individuals that reside in the State of California who are job applicants (“Applicants”) of thyssenkrupp North America, LLC and affiliated companies*. This Notice supplements thyssenkrupp North America’s Privacy Policy (links to Privacy Policies at end of document). We adopt this Notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Notice.
Information We Collect
We may collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Applicant or device (“Personal Information”). In particular, we may collect the following categories of Personal Information from Applicants who are subject to this Notice:
Categories of Personal Information which are collected
Identifiers and demographic data. This includes data like name, address, email, marital status, birth date, gender, educational data, etc.
Sensitive Data. This includes data like financial account numbers, SSN, biometric data, information about race, national origin, disability, sex, etc.
Transactional Data. This includes data you may share with us when you are acting in your capacity as a consumer instead of an applicant. For example, when you buy our products or services.
Internet Data or Network Activity: This includes information about applicants’ use of the Internet or other similar network activity, including the following: browsing history, search history, log in/out and activity on the Company's electronic resources, information regarding an applicant's interaction with an Internet web site, application, or advertisement, and publicly available social media activity.
Sensory of Surveillance Data: This includes audio/visual recordings of interviews and footage from video surveillance cameras.
Medical Information. This includes information collected in order to determine physical capacity necessary to perform a certain job or respond to a medical emergency.
Geolocation data. This can include location data we may collect as part of your use of a thyssenkrupp issued smart phone, or GPS data collected when you use one of our fleet vehicles.
Professional or employment-related information. This may include evaluations, membership in professional organizations, professional certifications, and employment history.
Non-public education information. This is information related to your education including academic credentials such as what school you went to, what your GPA was, what activities or sports you did in school, or other data on your school transcripts.
Background Screening Information: This includes results of the following types of background screening: criminal history; sex offender registration; motor vehicle records; credit history; employment history; drug testing; and educational history.
Personal Information does not include:
· Publicly available information from government records.
· Deidentified or aggregated information.
· Information excluded from the CCPA's scope
thyssenkrupp North America obtains the categories of Personal Information listed above from the following categories of sources:
· Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete or products and services you purchase (if any).
· Indirectly from you. For example, from location-tracking enabled devices connected to thyssenkrupp North America assets you may use as part of the application process with thyssenkrupp North America.
· From independent third parties related to your eligibility for employment, or our ongoing management of our business.
· thyssenkrupp North America Workers, as part of thyssenkrupp North America’s management, evaluation, and hiring processes.
Use of Personal Information
We may process or disclose the Personal Information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:
· To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to apply for a job at thyssenkrupp.
· To provide, support, personalize, and develop our application process.
· To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries.
· To comply with legal obligations including the reporting requirements of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Act, the federal Office of Contracting Compliance Programs (applicable to government contractors), and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act, and the contractual requirements of Company clients.
· To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
· To protect the security of thyssenkrupp’s physical locations and information systems.
· As described to you when collecting your Personal Information.
· Disclosures made in an effort to prevent or halt violations of thyssenkrupp policies, illegal activities, or as required by law.
· Disclosures that we reasonably believe are necessary to defend against or prevent us from incurring liability to third parties.
· To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding.
We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information or use the Personal Information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.
Sharing Personal Information
thyssenkrupp North America is part of an international group of companies where certain services are provided centralized by one or more affiliates for the entire group or a part of it. We, therefore, reserve the right to share personal information with our direct and indirect affiliates for all purposes described above. Whenever we share Personal Data with affiliates, we request from them that they commit themselves to process Personal Data in line with this Privacy Notice only.
We may disclose your Personal Information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose Personal Information for a business purpose, we enter into a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that Personal Information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract. These third parties are “Service Providers” as defined by applicable law. We do not share Personal Information with any third parties, who are not Service Providers, where thyssenkrupp North America may receive a financial benefit from such sharing.
We may also disclose your Personal Information to another company as part of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets to that company; or where required by thyssenkrupp North America policy, law, or in response to valid legal process compelling disclosure.
Disclosures of Personal Information
In the preceding twelve (12) months, thyssenkrupp North America has disclosed all of the categories of Personal Information as noted above, for the business purposes described above.
We disclose your Personal Information for a business purpose only to Service Providers, or, where required by law, or in response to valid legal process compelling disclosure.
Sales of Personal Information
In the preceding twelve (12) months, Company has not sold Personal Information. The Company does not and will not sell Personal Information of Workers.
Changes to Our Privacy Notice
thyssenkrupp North America reserves the right to amend this Applicant Notice at our discretion and at any time.
* thyssenkrupp North America, LLC and Affiliated Companies:
thyssenkrupp Materials NA, Inc.
thyssenkrupp Supply Chain Services NA, Inc.
thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America, LLC
Link to Privacy Policy