Our Commitment to Your Privacy
EF Education First (“EF”) is committed to protecting the privacy of its potential employees. The EF candidate privacy notice (the “Candidate Privacy Notice”) describes how EF handles and protects your Personal Data (as defined below) in connection with EF’s recruiting processes and programs.
The Candidate Privacy Notice only applies to the Personal Data of job applicants, potential candidates for employment, and any recruiting programs and events. It does not apply to our employees, contractors or clients, or other Personal Data that EF collects for other purposes. This Candidate Privacy Notice does not form part of any contract of employment offered to candidates hired by EF.
If you cannot, or will not, provide us with the Personal Data we require, we will be unable to receive and process your application.
EF Invest International AG, Zurich, Switzerland, is the controller for the processing of your Personal Data (as defined below). Being the controller means that this company is responsible for ensuring that your Personal Data is processed in compliance with applicable privacy and data protection legislation.
Personal Data
As used in this Candidate Privacy Notice, “Personal Data” means information that identifies job applicants and potential candidates for employment with us, either submitted as part of the online application and/or through alternative channels (e.g., via external recruitment firms).
Personal Data we collect
The types of Personal Data that we request from you and the ways how we process it are determined by the requirements of the country in which the position is located, and not the country in which you reside. Should you apply to more than one location or should the role to which you apply be available in more than one country, the types of Personal Data we request from you and the ways that we process it are determined by the requirements of all the countries in which the position is located. Furthermore, we request Personal Data from you for statistical purposes or to conduct internal surveys on our candidate pool (e.g., information relating to gender or age).
We usually collect Personal Data directly from you when you apply for a job with us, such as your name, address, contact information, work and educational history, achievements, and test results. We may also collect Personal Data about you from third parties, such as professional recruiting firms, your references, prior employers, EF employees that know you or with whom you have interviewed, and employment background check providers, to the extent this is permitted by applicable law.
Sensitive Personal Data is a subset of Personal Data and includes ethnicity, health, trade union membership, philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, as well as other categories as prescribed by law. We do not generally seek to obtain and will not collect such data about a candidate unless permitted to do so by applicable laws or if you have specifically consented to provide us such information.
We may also collect Personal Data through cookies. Cookies allow a web server to transfer data to a computer or device for recordkeeping and other purposes. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to decline the use of cookies. To learn more about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/. For detailed information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, please see our Cookie Policy available online under www.ef.com/legal/cookie-policy.
Use of your Personal Data
We collect and use your Personal Data for legitimate human resources and business management reasons including:
- identifying and evaluating candidates for potential employment, as well as for future roles that may become available;
- recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring;
- ensuring compliance with legal requirements, including requests from unemployment authorities or diversity and inclusion requirements and practices;
- conducting criminal history checks as permitted by applicable law;
- protecting our legal rights to the extent permitted by law; or
- emergency situations where the health or safety of one or more individuals may be endangered.
We may also analyze your Personal Data or aggregated/pseudonymized data to improve our recruitment and hiring process and augment our ability to attract successful candidates.
We process your Personal Data for the purposes described above when we have your consent to do so. If applicable to you, we also process your Personal Data for the following purposes: (i) to enter into an employment contract with you, (ii) for us to comply with a legal obligation or (iii) for the purposes of our legitimate interests.
We may desire to retain your Personal Data to consider you for future em