Introduction

Thank you for collaborating with 180 Degrees Consulting Berlin (“180DC”)! Your trust is important to us and we are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. The information that is shared with us helps us to provide a great experience within 180DC. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, process, and disclose your personal information in accordance with the European General Data Protection Law (“GDPR”).

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Your consent

In keeping with the law and our own principles, we have to ask permission for you to share your data with us. Here are the basics:

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What data are we asking you to share?

• The information you provide to us on this webpage and that is included in the documents that you submit to us, such as resumés. 

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What will we do with your data?

• Use the information to contact and match you to our events within 180DC and our network.

• Process information that is relevant to you as a candidate or as an applicant, which in some cases might require key strategic validations for skills and professional standing. Such may be as follows:

  • contact and identification information (e.g. name, first name, last name, gender, date and place of birth, nationality, email and/or postal address, fixed and/or mobile phone number immigration status, electronic email );

  • family, hobbies or interests (not mandatory and only as you deem necessary to share);

  • education and professional standing (such as employment and education history, professional qualifications, certifications and experience, past employers and their contact data);

  • electronic identification data (e.g. picture or facial image, publicly available profiles on social media, online identifiers/cookies, access and connexion times, sound or image recording such as remote conferencing platforms, on-site CCTV or voice recordings for security purposes);

  • More generally, 180DC will process information that you voluntarily and willingly disclose mostly during interviews and which should be strictly related to your professional capacity and fit for the corresponding open position.

  • Processing for specific purposes. In this context, we will process the above personal data for the following purpose(s):

  • phone or electronic communications, including interviews in person or remotely;

  • apply assessments, tests or suitability evaluations, fitted to the corresponding open position;

  • perform background or employment checks (when applicable);

  • verify your identity, academics or qualifications;

  • perform data analytics to improve our internal processes, as well as to provide a better service to you when applying for an open position at 180DC;

  • share relevant information to the hiring manager, interviewers or selection committees, when applicable;

  • keep a temporal database of key-position applicants for future reference. 180DC may, prior express consent from you, share your information with other organisations for similar purposes, only;

  • as required under applicable law.

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Can I get a copy of the data you keep?

• At any time, you may contact us at berlin@180dc.org and request a copy of all of the Personal Data that we hold on you, which we will provide to you within 15 days of receiving your request.

• How long will you keep my data?

• We will keep your personal data for 5 years for the purpose of contacting and matching you to our events, opportunities, and alumni resources. After this period of time, we will delete your personal data. 

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Log Data 

• Like many website operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site ("Log Data"). 

• This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. 

• In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze the aggregated data.

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Cookies 

• Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer's hard drive. 

• Like many sites, we use cookies to collect information in order for the Site to function correctly. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site. 

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Third-Party Links

• The Site may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our Site, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

Security 

• The security of your Personal Data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

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Changes to This Privacy Policy 

• This Privacy Policy is effective as of 22 September 2020 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page. 

• We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued collaboration with 180DC after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy. 

• If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website. 

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Your Rights 

• Under the GDPR you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

• Access your Personal Data;

• Require us to correct any mistakes in your Personal Data or delete your Personal Data which we hold;

• Require that we anonymize, block, or delete unnecessary or excessive data or data that is not being processed in compliance with the GDPR; 

• Receive the Personal Data concerning yourself which you have provided to us;

• Object in certain circumstances against our continued processing of your Personal Data;

• Revoke consent or otherwise restrict our processing of your Personal Data. 

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For further information on each of those rights including the circumstances in which they apply see the website of the Bundesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit – “BfDI”. 

 

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please email us at berlin@180dc.org. The GDPR also gives you the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. At the time of writing this Policy, the supervisory authority has not yet been created.

 

I confirm that I understand the above-stated and I agree to the processing of my personal data.

 

By submitting my application, I confirm that, only if expressly required, I consent to the Employment, Background and Legal Standing Checks, where legally permitted and as required for the specific open position, on my personal information as outlined above. Such checks may be performed or conducted by 180DC.

 

I hereby authorize and agree to assist 180DC to verify the information provided by me to the extent permitted by law, in connection with my application for employment.

 

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