Information on processing and using your application data
We hereby inform you about the processing of your personal data in connection with your application by the company.
The Mercedes-Benz company that advertised the vacant position is responsible for data processing. The details can be found in the job advertisement. If you have applied to several Group companies, these individuals are also responsible for the respective application process. You can view a list of our Group companies of Mercedes-Benz Group AG
here. You can reach the respective Group company of Mercedes-Benz Group AG by email
here.
You can reach the data protection officer of the Mercedes-Benz Group at the following address: Mercedes-Benz Group AG, HPC W079, 70546 Stuttgart, data.protection@mercedes-benz.com.
Data categories that we process in connection with your application are those that you indicated in the application process. The processed categories of personal data include in particular your name, your contact data incl. private email address, your qualification data, your certificates and verifications as well as login data. We can also process personal data we lawfully obtained from publicly available sources (e.g. professional networks) in the application process.
We process your personal data in connection with the application in compliance with the legal requirements. Data processing serves the purpose of personnel selection. The primary legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 b) GDPR in conjunction with Art. 88. 1 GDPR in conjunction with Section 26. 1 BDSG. If an application process leads to an appointment, we will process the personal data you have received for the purpose of the employment relationship if this is necessary for the performance or termination of the employment relationship. Your data can also be processed regularly by statistical means and in combination with data from other internal sources for the further development of our recruiting, performance management, our personnel development, personnel planning, compensation, organizational development, organizational and work culture, innovation management and operational personnel management. The primary legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 f) GDPR.
As special categories of personal data pursuant to Art. 9 Para. 1 GDPR, the disclosure of the severe disability can be processed as part of personnel selection. This is done on the basis of Art. 9 Para. 2 b) GDPR in conjunction with Section 26 (. 3 BDSG. In order to meet the legal requirements, we use supporting data analytics methods to determine the disability status.
Recipients of your personal data within our company are the managers of the specialist unit responsible for filling the position and employees involved in personnel selection, as well as the responsible RR division and the responsible Works Council. For the statistical purposes described above, data analysts can also process your data.
If you have applied for training positions/dual study programs from different Group companies, these companies will also receive your personal data, which we collect as part of the online assessment and if the next selection stages are reached, possibly the on-site test and the selection day. The companies concerned can be found in the respective job advertisement. We will provide you with further information in this regard as part of our online assessment.
In addition, we sometimes use different service providers to fulfill our contractual and legal obligations and to process data. A list of the categories of contractors and service providers we use can be requested from RR.
With regard to the transmission of data to recipients outside the European Economic Area, please note the following (Art. 49. 1 sentence 1, letter b GDPR):
• When using service providers and sharing data with third parties, personal data may be transferred to recipients in countries outside the European Union (" EU "), Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (= European Economic Area) and processed there, in particular the USA, India.
• Data are transmitted to recipients in countries outside the European Economic Area in which there is no "adequate level of protection ". In these countries, there may be no data protection law comparable to the European Economic Area, no data protection authorities and/or no comparable means of dealing with data protection violations. Among other things, public sector bodies (e.g. authorities) may have easier access to and use of the data processed than in the European Economic Area.
As an applicant, you have the right:
- To request information from the controller about the personal data stored on you and about the personal data stored in Art. 15 GDPR.
- To request the Controller to correct incorrect personal data concerning you and, if necessary, to complete incomplete personal data (Art. 16 GDPR).
- To request that the controller delete personal data relating to you if this is no longer required for the application process and legal obligations. The specific reasons are described in Art. 17 GDPR (right of deletion).
- To request the controller to restrict processing if one of the conditions specified in Art. 18 GDPR is met, e.g. if you objected to the processing, for the duration of the review by the controller.
- To request that the controller provide data in a readable electronic format that you have provided electronically (Art. 20 GDPR)
- To object to data processing if your situation gives rise to special reasons that conflict with data processing. If there are no mandatory legitimate interests of the controller for data processing (e.g. the exercise of or defense against legal claims), the controller may no longer process your data (Art. 21 GDPR).
- You have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection officer or a supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR or other laws (Art. 77 GDPR).
- The company limits the storage of your data to the required period of time. We therefore regularly delete your personal data as follows:
• The application profile you have created remains active as long as you are in a selection process. If the applicant profile is inactive and after all selection procedures have been completed, your profile will remain stored for another 3 months. It is then deleted.
• The automatically created internal application profile of Group employees remains active as long as you are employees of a Group company. The internal applicant profile will be deleted three months after you leave the Group.
• If you decide to withdraw an application, you can do so at any time until the company makes a negative decision. In this case, this application will be deleted immediately.
• In the event of a negative decision, the information on the first and last names and your contact data in your application will be deleted 3 months after the end of the selection process. The remaining parts of your application will be stored for a further 21 months for the above-mentioned statistical purposes and then deleted.
• If you are hired, the data of your application will be stored to establish your employment relationship and for the above-mentioned statistical purposes, partly transferred to the follow-up systems (HR administration system) and kept for at least the period of your employment (and then subject to the applicable deletion periods for the corresponding data categories).
• If you are hired, your private email address will also be used for queries or information about the existing employment relationship, partly transferred to the follow-up systems (HR administration system) and kept for at least the period of your employment (and is then subject to the applicable deletion periods for the corresponding data category).
By submitting your application, you assure that your information is true. You are aware that false information can lead to the solution of a possible employment relationship.
Deviating local provisions of non-German Group companies will be made available to you as part of the application process.
