For Website Visitors
Your privacy is of utmost importance to us at ProKatchers. We highly value the protection of personal privacy for all individuals whose data we collect. We handle and safeguard this data with the utmost care and in accordance with the applicable laws in every country where we operate. Our goal is to ensure that the data you provide to us is protected against loss, destruction, publication, unauthorized access, or improper use.
When you visit our website, we collect information related to your device, browser, and your interactions with our website content. This includes:
• Internet Protocol (IP) address of your device
• IP address of your Internet Service Provider
• Device screen resolution
• Device type (unique device identifiers)
• Browser and operating system versions
• Geographic location (country only)
• Preferred language used for display.
• Date and time of website access
• Internet address from which you were directly linked to our website.
• Control system that you use.
• Parts of the website visited.
• Pages of the website visited, and the information viewed.
• Hyperlinks clicked.
• Material sent to or downloaded from our website.
If you choose to download our reports or white papers, subscribe to our newsletter for news, events, and alerts, or submit an inquiry, we may ask you to fill out a form with information such as your name, email address, job title, and company. Once you engage in any of the actions, we will be able to directly link the above information about your device, browser, and website navigation to you.
Purpose of Collecting Personal Information
- Managing the website and for system administration purposes (e.g., diagnosing technical problems, analyzing website traffic).
- Conducting web analytics to optimize user experience, analyze visitation patterns, trends, and measure engagement with our website.
- Providing content requested when downloading reports or white papers, subscribing to news, events, and alerts, or filling in web forms. We may also communicate with you, including sending related information of potential interest, and improve our marketing and communication strategy.
- Managing specific inquiries.
- Cooperating with law enforcement agencies/courts, managing legal disputes/claims, and handling reports through ProKatchers’ misconduct reporting procedure.
- Providing IT support.
- Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data
- ProKatchers processes your personal data based on the following legal grounds:
- Legitimate interest in managing our website, marketing, and communication strategy. In cases where local mandatory law requires it, processing may be based on consent.
- Legitimate interest in improving our website, marketing, and communication strategy. In cases where local mandatory law requires it, processing may be based on consent.
- Consent for receiving white papers, newsletters, events, and alerts from ProKatchers. You can opt-out from receiving such communications at any time.
- Legitimate interest in improving our website, marketing, and communication strategy. In cases where local mandatory law requires it, processing may be based on consent.
- Processing necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by ProKatchers, including the protection of company assets, managing legal claims/disputes, and handling reports of potential misconduct.
- Processing necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by ProKatchers, including safeguarding our assets and ensuring the security of our information systems.
- Please note that local mandatory law may supersede the legal bases mentioned above.
Your continued use of our website implies your consent to the collection and processing of your personal data as outlined in this Privacy Policy
For Candidates
At ProKatchers, we prioritize your privacy. When recruiting and selecting candidates for internal or for our client job vacancies at Prokatchers, we utilize your personal data. By innovating at scale, ProKatchers aims to fulfill our vision of empowering lifelong employability and delivering on our brand promise of proactivity, transparency, and guidance to offer a truly enriching talent experience for finding a job at ProKatchers.
Personal Data Collected
As a candidate, we collect and process the following personal data about you:
- Identification information: We may process your name, contact information (including home address, home phone number, and mobile phone number), citizenship and country of residence, date of birth, gender (in exceptional cases), digital signature, and languages spoken.
- CV/resumes and other recruitment information: We may process your CV/resume, work history, information about your skills, experience, educational background, and other relevant information (such as your photograph, interview notes, and personal data included in the cover letter or as part of the application process).
- Compensation and benefits information: We may process personal data relating to your current compensation and benefits, including (but not limited to) your current bonus, recurring payments, and benefits.
- Government-issued identifiers: We may process government-issued identifiers, including (but not limited to) the national identification number, social insurance number, and social security number, as legally required.
- Photographs and video footage: When participating in recruitment-related events, meetings, conferences, etc., we may process photographs or videos of you.
- Visitor information: When accessing our or client buildings, we may collect your name, contact details, car plate number, and other identification for security reasons. In cases where legally required, we may also ask you to disclose information about your health (including information related to viral infections, flu, etc.) for health and safety reasons.
- Information you choose to share with us: We may process additional personal data if you choose to share it with us. This data may be obtained directly or indirectly from you. In the latter case, we will inform you of the purpose and data sources we use when we communicate with you in connection with our services (e.g., alerting you about a job opportunity), or within one month of indirectly obtaining your data, except where providing this information would cause disproportionate efforts. In such cases, we may take alternative measures to protect your rights and freedoms.
Purpose of Collecting Personal Information
We process your personal data for the following purposes:
- Recruiting and selecting candidates for internal positions, including matching and proposing you to hiring manager, internal stakeholders, conducting interviews, and assessments. This processing is necessary to provide you with matching services and is based on (pre-) contractual necessity.
- Training and updating of systems/statistical purposes: We may process personal data for training and updating our systems, including machine learning technology. Additionally, we may process personal data in an aggregated manner for statistical purposes. This is based on our legitimate interest in improving our systems, and we have implemented measures to protect your privacy, such as de-identification and providing an easy opt-out for your choices.
- Dispute management, litigation, and handling reports through ProKatchers’ misconduct reporting procedure: Processing is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by ProKatchers, which include the protection of company assets, legal interests, managing claims/disputes, and handling reports of potential misconduct.
- Compliance with labor, tax, and social security laws, as well as other legal or regulatory requirements (e.g., equal opportunity and workplace diversity requirements): Processing is necessary for compliance with employment and social security obligations.
- Facilities, security, and contingency planning purposes: Processing is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by Randstad, which include safeguarding and securing our assets, facilities, information systems, and people.
- Conducting corporate transactions (including mergers, acquisitions, and divestments): Processing is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by ProKatchers, which include developing its business through such transactions.
If you choose to download our reports or white papers, subscribe to news, events, and alerts, or fill in web forms, we will use the information you provide to send you the requested content, communicate with you (including related information that might be of interest to you if you agree), and improve our marketing and communication strategy. ProKatchers will send whitepapers, newsletters, events, and alerts only if you have given consent to receive them. You can opt-out from receiving such communications if you are no longer interested.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Data Retention
We may retain your personal data for a period of 2 years from our last interaction with you for the purpose of providing our services to you.
We value your privacy and take the necessary steps to protect your personal data. It is important to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates or changes.
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