DATA PRIVACY STATEMENT - RECRUITMENT AND JOBS APPLICATIONS

  1. Purpose and Scope of the Statement

The Euronext Group (“Euronext”, “we”, “us”) is strongly committed to protecting your Personal Data and upholding your right to privacy. This Statement describes how we collect and process your Personal Data and provides an overview of your rights in relation to your Personal Data. It applies to information which you may provide directly to us or via third parties, in the following cases :

  • You participate in a Euronext recruitment initiative
  • You voluntarily submit your resume to a representative of Euronext on an ad hoc basis
  • You apply for an advertised job
  • A recruiter provides your resume or details to Euronext
  • Euronext finds your CV / details in online searches e.g. LinkedIn
  • You are referred to an open position by an employee as part of the Euronext Referral Program.

This Statement applies to any and all job applications submitted and recruitment initiatives co-ordinated by Euronext .. 

IMPORTANT: should you send your resume via a recruiter with whom you have engaged with, we encourage you to read the relevant recruiter's data protection Statement to understand how your Personal Data is processed by such a recruiter who is a controller of your Personal Data independently of Euronext’s concerned entity.

 

  1.  Application of this Statement

This Statement applies to the way we collect and process your Personal Data from the time you provide Personal Data in an application, up to the point at which we decide not to continue the recruitment process with you or when you start working for us (if applicable). On this latter case, the way we process your Personal Data will no longer be dealt with under this Statement, but will instead be governed by our Data Privacy Notice.

 

 

  1. The personal data we process

As part of the recruitment and job application process, we collect the Personal Data that you / your agency / your referrer submit to us, which may include:

 

 

PERSONAL DETAILS

 

This may include general Personal Data such as your name, gender, residential address, email address, contact telephone numbers, nationality, marital status, etc.

 

 

DETAILS ABOUT YOUR PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

 

 

 

Such as the former company names, length of service, business titles and details on your previous roles.

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS

 

Such as your skills, education, the languages you speak (including your level of proficiency), your eligibility to work in a particular country (e.g. minimum legal age to work, citizenship or visa details), your experience in the job you apply for and other industries, etc.

 

PREFERENCES

 

Such as positions you may be interested in, information about when you may be available to interview and/or start date for Euronext or work on ongoing basis (e.g. full or part time or on weekends), whether you are open to relocation or working remotely, whether you are willing to travel for work and whether you have your own transport.

 

PUBLICLY  AVAILABLE INFORMATION

 

Details about you which we gather from publicly available sources over the internet and your social media accounts where such searches are relevant to the job you have applied for within Euronext.

 

 

  MEDICAL RESULTS

 

 

Where legally applicable (Portugal, United Kingdom and Ireland), results on aptitude and/or pre-employment medical tests which we may ask you to undergo after accepting our offer of employment.

 

OTHER  INFORMATION

 

Details you may provide us in response to our queries or questions at interview stage (including information about you which we generate throughout the interview and/or recruitment process), at reference check stage, to complete psychometrics tests (where applicable) or details required where mandatory in the respect of local requirements laws (e.g. Fitness & Probity eligibility in Ireland)

 

 

If you apply for a position through the “Apply with LinkedIn” option, we may use the information you have previously provided to LinkedIn to populate your application. You are free to remove some details.

 

The main mandatory information we need to proceed with your recruitment is your resume. You may remove personal data from your resume.

 

It is necessary for us to process your Personal Data in order to assess your job application and/or include you in a recruitment initiative. Ultimately, it may also be necessary for us to process your Personal Data in order to take steps to offer and enter into a contract of employment with you. In the event that you do not wish to provide us with your Personal Data for the purposes outlined in this Statement, we will not be able to assess your job application and/or include you in a recruitment initiative and/or offer you a contract of employment.

Please note that should you include information you think is relevant to your job application or the recruitment initiative, including cover letters, references from your previous employers and other documents you see fit. For information containing  Personal Data, we will hold and process any such Personal Data in accordance with the terms of this Statement.

 

 

  1. Websites and Cookies

Euronext N.V. is responsible (the controller) for the websites of Euronext Group, through which you will be able to apply.

For more information about the filing of cookies, please refer to Euronext's general privacy statement available at the following address : https://www.euronext.com/en/privacy-policy.

Euronext is not responsible for the placement of cookies placed during your application on third-parties’ websites. Please refer to the Important Note on the first page of this statement.

  1. How and Why we process your personal data

The following table details the key context for which ("Legal Basis") and why ("Purposes") we collect, obtain and process your Personal Data within Euronext. The third parties and those within Euronext with whom we may share your Personal Data ("Recipients") are detailed in section 6 (Disclosure of your Personal Data) of this Statement.

 

 

LEGAL BASIS

PURPOSE

 

 

LEGITIMATE INTERESTS

 

It is necessary to process your Personal Data where it is necessary for the purpose of initiate and facilitating the recruitment process.

 

 

 

 

We obtain, collect and process your Personal Data:

 

 

  • to process your job application, including to contact you in relation to interviews and/or offer you a job after the interview stage ;

 

  • to assess your Personal Data against vacancies which we think may be suitable for you ;

 

 

  • to request information from third parties such as qualifications and references ;

 

  • to carry out background checks which aim to verify details you have provided to us, potentially using third party sources in UK & US. You will be notified in advance of the use of third parties for the background check.

 

  • to retain your information  in order to contact you in relation to future vacancies within Euronext Group that may be of interest to you;

 

 

  • to collect feedback on and evaluate the recruitment process ;

 

  • to promote internal and external recruitment events such as job fairs, campus events… ;

 

  • where legally applicable (Portugal, United Kingdom and Ireland), to assess if you are fit to work or not fit to work (e.g. where you suffer from a health condition which may affect your work capacity).

 

 

 

 

COMPLIANCE WITH A LEGAL OBLIGATION

 

It is necessary to process your Personal Data in order to comply with legal obligations imposed on us as an employer under applicable Irish and European Union law.

 

 

 

We obtain, collect and process your Personal Data in order to comply with legal obligations, which may include:

 

  • to comply with European Union employment, equality and health & safety law ;

 

  • to comply with European Union Tax Law ;

 

  • to comply with other applicable European Union laws ;

 

  • to comply with the Fitness and Probity requirements (applicable only in Ireland).

 

 

IMPORTANT :

When we process your Personal Data based on our legitimate interests, we make sure to consider and balance any potential impact on you and your data protection rights. We will not use your Personal Data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted by law).

We will only use your Personal Data for the purposes for which we collect it (as outlined in this section 5), unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your Personal Data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you in accordance with section 10 of this Statement and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

 

  1. Disclosure of your personal data

We may disclose some or all of your Personal Data to the following parties :

 

    • Internal business units such as Human Resources, IT, Finance/Payroll, Managers, system administrators, our trusted third party service providers and our IT service providers;
    • Your previous employers when you have provided them as a reference third parties that may be contacted to provide additional information related to your previous work experiences;
    • Recruitment agencies;
    • Regulatory authorities:
    • Outsourced service providers who assist Euronext with recruitment initiatives and campaigns such as recruitment agencies, technical test assessment, background check and health assessment companies (where applicable);etc.
    • Professional advisors such as legal advisors, consultants and accountants.

 

  1. Transfer of your personal data

We store and process your personal data on servers located within the European Economic Area (the "EEA"). We only transfer your personal data outside the EEA where the European Commis-sion has decided that the third country in question ensures an adequate level of protection in line with EEA data protection standards or where there are appropriate safeguards in place to protect your personal data.
We may transfer the personal information we collect about you to recipients in countries other than the country in which the information originally was collected. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. When we transfer your information to recipients in other countries (such as the U.S.), we will protect that in-formation as described in this Privacy Policy and will comply with applicable legal requirements providing adequate protection for the transfer of personal information to recipients in countries other than the one in which you provided the information, including by selecting service providers that are located in a country recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection or by implementing appropriate safeguards based on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, where applicable. Subject to applicable law, you may obtain a copy of these safeguards by contacting us as indicated below.

Euronext U.S., Inc. and its subsidiaries Euronext FX LLC. and Euronext Market Services LLC. are certified under the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield frameworks developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the European Commission and the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, respectively, regarding the transfer of personal information from the EEA, UK and Switzerland to the U.S. Click here to view our EU/Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Privacy Policy.  As of July 16, 2020, we no longer rely on the EU-U.S. or Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield to transfer personal data from the EEA, UK or Switzerland to the United States.

Furthermore, pending the potential introduction of adequate safeguards for the transfer of personal data to the United Kingdom (such as an adequacy decision), Euronext undertakes to regulate such transfers through the introduction of Standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data from the community to third countries (controller to controller transfers) (2004/915/EC) or Standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data from the community to third countries (control-ler to processor transfers) (2010/87/EU).
 

  

  1. Retention of your personal data

Where you are a successful job applicant, the Personal Data generated by us and provided by you over the course of the job application/recruitment process will be retained by us for the purpose of your contract of employment. Such Personal Data will be retained in accordance with our Staff Data Protection Policy and Retention Policy (which will be available to you when you commence employment).

Where you are an unsuccessful job applicant, we will retain your Personal Data for a period of up to 12 months after it is determined that your application has been unsuccessful for the purposes of both contacting you in relation to future vacancies within Euronext which we think may be of interest to you and, for the purpose of defending any potential employment equality claims.

Please note that in certain circumstances, we may hold your data for a longer period, for example, if we are processing an ongoing claim or believe in good faith that the law or a relevant regulator may reasonably in our view expect or require us to preserve your Personal Data.

 

  1. Security of your personal data

Your Personal Data are dealt with in confidence and Euronext has taken appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your Personal Data against loss, misuse, alteration and/or destruction. You will find details of these measures in the following general privacy statement available at the following address : https://www.euronext.com/en/privacy-policy.

 

  1. Your rights and How to exercise them

The table below sets out the rights which you have to address any concerns or queries with us about our processing of your Personal Data. Please note that these rights are not absolute and are subject to certain exemptions under applicable data protection law.

 

RIGHT

 

FURTHER  INFORMATION

 

RIGHT TO BE
INFORMED

 

You have the right to know your Personal Data is being processed by us, how we use your Personal Data and your rights in relation to your Personal Data.

 

RIGHT OF
ACCESS

 

You have the right to ascertain what type of Personal Data Euronext holds about you and to a copy of this Personal Data.

 

RIGHT TO
RECTIFICATION

 

You have the right to have any inaccurate Personal Data which we hold about you updated or corrected.

 

RIGHT TO ERASURE

 

In certain circumstances you may request that we delete the Personal Data that we hold on you. You have also the right to give post-mortem instructions regarding your personal data.

 

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RIGHT TO
RESTRICTION OF
PROCESSING

 

You have the right to request that we stop using your Personal Data in certain circumstances including if you believe that the Personal Data we hold about you is inaccurate or that our use of your Personal Data is unlawful. If you validly exercise this right, we will store your Personal Data and will not carry out any other processing until the issue is resolved.

 

RIGHT TO
OBJECT

 

Where we rely on our legitimate interests to process your Personal Data, you have a right to object to this use. We will desist from processing your personal information unless we can demonstrate an overriding legitimate interest in the continued processing.

 

RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY

 

In case the processing is based on your consent or a contract conclude with you, you may request us to provide you with certain Personal Data which you have given us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you may request us to transmit your Personal Data directly to another controller where this is technically feasible.

 

You can exercise any of these rights in accordance with the “Data Subject Rights Request Information Procedure” by :

•           submitting a request through the following form.

•           sending a request to us at dpo@euronext.com

•           sending a letter to the following address:

Euronext

Compliance Department

Data Protection Officer

14, place des Reflets – CS30064

92054 Paris-la Défense.

 

Furthermore, you may also submit a complaint to the competent Data Supervisory Authority.

 

  1. Changes to this Statement

We may occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect changes in our business or to comply with applicable law and regulations. We therefore advise you to review this statement regularly to ensure that you are updated with any changes.

 

  1. Questions and Requests

Should you have any questions or requests about this Statement, please contact us via dpo@euronext.com "> dpo@euronext.com .

 

Annex – List of Euronext Group Companies

 

Euronext NV and all its direct and indirect wholly owned subsidiaries:

 

  • Enternext S.A.
  • Euronext Amsterdam N.V.
  • Euronext Brussels N.V./S.A.
  • Euronext Corporate Services B.V.
  • Euronext Hong Kong Ltd
  • Euronext IP & IT Holding B.V.
  • Euronext Lisbon, Sociedade Gestora de Mercados Regulamentados, S.A.
  • Euronext London Ltd
  • Euronext N.V.
  • Euronext Paris S.A.
  • Euronext Synapse LLC
  • Euronext Technologies Holding, S.A.S.
  • Euronext Technologies Ltd
  • Euronext Technologies S.A.S.
  • Euronext Technologies Unipessoal, Lda
  • Interbolsa, Sociedade Gestora de Sistemas de Liquidaçao e de Sistemas Centralizados de Valores Mobiliários, A.S.
  • IR Soft Ltd
  • Company Webcast B.V.,
  • Insiderlog
  • iBabs B.V.,
  • Commcise Ltd
  • The Irish Stock Exchange plc., t/a Euronext Dublin
  • Euronext FX Inc