Job Applicant Privacy Policy
This Job Applicant Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how GoPro, Inc. (“GoPro”, “we”, “us” and “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your “personal information”. To the extent applicable local laws create additional responsibilities or obligations from those set out in this Policy, we will comply with those additional legal obligations..
1. Types of Personal Information We Handle
We collect, store, and use various types of personal information through the application and recruitment process. We collect such information either directly from you or (where applicable) from another person or entity, such as an employment agency or consultancy, background check provider, or other referral sources. This information includes:
- Identification and contact information, and related identifiers such as full name, date and place of birth, citizenship and permanent residence, home and business addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and such information about your beneficiaries or emergency contacts.
- Professional or employment-related information, including:
- Recruitment, employment, or engagement information such as application forms and information included in a resume, cover letter, or otherwise provided through any application or engagement process; and copies of identification documents, such as driver’s licenses, passports, and visas; and background screening results and references.
- Career information such as job titles; work history; work dates and work locations; information about skills, qualifications, experience, publications, speaking engagements, and preferences; and professional memberships
- Education Information such as institutions attended, degrees, certifications, training courses, publications, and transcript information.
- Legally protected classification information such as race, sex/gender, religious/ philosophical beliefs, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service, nationality, ethnicity, request for family care leave, political opinions, and criminal history.
- Other information such as any information you voluntarily choose to provide in connection with your job application.
2. How We Use Personal Information
We collect, use, share, and store personal information from job applicants for our and our service providers’ business and operational purposes in the recruitment process such as: processing your application, tracking your application through the recruitment process, contacting references with your authorization, conducting background checks you authorize, and making hiring decisions. We will also use job applicant information for internal analysis purposes to understand the applicants who apply and to improve our recruitment process. We may sometimes need to use applicant information for legal purposes, such as in connection with any challenges made to our hiring decisions.
3. Legal Basis
Where we collect, handle or process your personal information as part of our recruiting process, we may rely on certain legal bases to do so, depending on your country of residence, the position you apply for, and the respective applicable law. These legal bases for processing your personal information may include, without limitation:
- Your consent;
- As necessary to perform or fulfill a contractual obligation with you;
- To comply with our legal or regulatory obligations; and
- As necessary for our legitimate interests, including our interest in considering a broad array of candidates for current and future employment opportunities within GoPro and our interest in maintaining or improving our recruiting processes, provided that the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of you, under applicable law, are not overridden.
4. With Whom We Share Personal Information
We will disclose job applicant personal information to the following types of entities or in the following circumstances (where applicable):
- Internally: to other GoPro personnel involved in the recruiting and hiring process.
- Service Providers: such as technology service providers, travel management providers, human resources suppliers, background check companies, and employment agencies or recruiters, where applicable.
- Legal Compliance: when required to do so by law, regulation, or court order or in response to a request for assistance by the police or other law enforcement agency.
- Litigation Purposes: to seek legal advice from our external lawyers or in connection with litigation with a third party.
- Business Transaction Purposes: in connection with the sale, purchase, or merger.
5. International Transfer
By submitting your personal information you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to GoPro, Inc. and our service providers based in the United States. We have taken steps to make sure your personal information is protected in line with applicable law. You can request further information relating to the transfers of your personal data by contacting privacy@gopro.com and recruitingfeedback@gopro.com.
6. Data Retention
We keep your personal information for as long as is necessary for the purposes identified above. If you are hired, this will be the duration of your employment plus a period to fulfil any post-employment obligations. If you are not hired, we will retain information to deal with claims in accordance with applicable laws. If you would like to be considered for future vacancies that are relevant to your interests and you provide us your consent, we will also keep your personal information so we may contact you about such vacancies. You may withdraw such consent at any time by contacting privacy@gopro.com and recruitingfeedback@gopro.com.
7. Your Rights Under This Privacy Policy
You have a number of rights when it comes to our handling of your personal information. These include the following rights (in addition to any other statutory rights you may have under applicable local law):
- Right to access personal information;
- Right to restrict processing of personal information;
- Right to object to processing of personal information;
- Right to correct inaccurate personal information;
- Right to request that personal information be erased; and
- Right to data portability.
Where we contact you about future opportunities that may match your profile, you have the right to object to this at any stage, and opt out of future updates. You also have the right to object to processing of your personal information where the legal basis of the processing is our legitimate interests.
If you have a complaint about our handling of your personal information, you may complain to your data protection supervisory authority local to where you live, work or where a breach of the data protection legislation has taken place.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact our privacy team at privacy@gopro.com.
8. How to Contact Us About this Policy
If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact privacy@gopro.com and recruitingfeedback@gopro.com.