We, at Windward put great efforts in making sure that we secure personal information related to you and use it properly. This notice explains our privacy practices and how we handle personal information related to you when you apply for a job with Windward. Specifically, this notice will provide details about:
Personal Information means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Please take the time to read this notice and the general Windward Privacy Policy, and do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about the job application process, your privacy rights, or our privacy policy in general. You can contact Windward’s privacy team here.
We collect personal information related to you for recruiting purposes – so that we could assess your candidacy and suitability for a job with Windward, whether it is the position that you applied for, or other vacant positions, to be in contact with you during the recruitment process and to prepare to offer you an employment contract if we decide to hire you.
We also use personal information related to you for Windward’s human resources’ management in general
When you apply for a job at Windward, we will ask you to provide certain personal information that will help us evaluate your qualifications and candidacy and to stay in touch with you during the application and recruitment process. The Information we collect includes but is not limited to the following:
When you visit our ‘Careers’ page on our website, or view job positions, or click on the ‘Apply for This Position’ button for specific positions, we and our third party service providers, collect information such as the IP address of your device, which provides your device location, and other non-identifiable information that is used for analytical purposes, such as the type of browser, browser language, type of operating system, domain name of Internet service provider, web pages visited, times and dates of visits and the content you access on and/or through the Site.
If you use our website to apply for a job with Windward, our HR platform service provider will collect personal information related to you on our behalf. Comeet Technologies, Inc. is our third-party service provider that handles our job recruitment process (see further information in the Sharing Personal Information section below).
Our legal basis for processing personal information collected about you in the EEA/EU is based on the following:
In certain circumstances, we will request you to explicitly consent to processing personal information related to you for a job application (for example, in some countries outside of the EU/EEA, we are required to receive your explicit consent before processing personal information related to you as part of the application process).
If we process personal information related to you based on your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time with future effect (although this may have an effect on our ability to consider your job application).
Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to the withdrawal and will have no effect on mandatory processing of your information under applicable law.
Applying for a job and submitting your job candidacy materials is voluntary and at any time, if you have already applied for a job and would like to withdraw your job candidacy, you can contact us and request that we stop considering your application and that we delete your profile and any materials we collected.
Our deletion of personal information related to you and job application materials will be completed in accordance with our Retention policy as described below in this notice.
If you were required to provide explicit consent before submitting your job application materials and personal information, you can revoke your consent at any time. You can exercise your choice by contacting the privacy team.
Windward uses both Session Cookies and Persistent Cookies for various purposes as further detailed in Windward’s general privacy policy.
If you are entitled to exercise the rights of access, rectification and deletion of inaccurate data, you can contact us here and request to exercise such right with regard to the personal information that we keep about you.
We will ask you to provide us certain credentials to make sure that you are who you claim to be and will make good-faith efforts to locate the personal information related to you.
In responding to your request, we will apply limitations available under applicable law, for example to protect our trade secrets and confidential information and to protect the privacy of others.
To the extent that you are entitled to a right of access under the applicable law, you can receive a copy of personal information related to you that we hold about you and request the correction, amendment or deletion of personal information related to you, if it is inaccurate or if you believe that the processing of such information is in violation of applicable law.
We will use judgement and due care to redact from the data which we will make available to you, personal information related to others.
If you are a Candidate in the EU/EEA, you have the additional following rights:
Please contact us if you wish to make a request to exercise your rights or if you have a question about your rights.
If you would like further information about your rights or if you believe that we are misusing or have misused personal information related to you, please contact your local data protection authority. Here is a link to the contact details of EU data protection authorities: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/article29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htm.
We store your job application documents and content for three (3) months after we have completed the job recruitment process for the respective position for which you have applied. We then delete the application documents from all our systems.
However, we will maintain a record with details about your submission of the application with us, such as your name, interview dates and locations, our decision whether to hire you or not and other relevant information, for archival purposes, to establish exercise and defend legal claims and if we are required under law to retain personal information related to you.
Retention periods can vary based on how long the recruitment process lasts and the time period between when you first apply and when a hiring decision is made in connection with your application.
You can let us know that you would like us to save personal information related to you for a longer period of time to take into account for future job postings.
You can contact us to request to exercise any choice or rights you may have in connection with our retention of personal information related you here.
We will share personal information related to you in the following instances:
If you are a resident in a jurisdiction where transfer of personal information related to you to another jurisdiction requires your consent, then you hereby provide Windward your express and unambiguous consent to such transfer.
To the extent necessary under EU privacy laws and regulations, Windward will implement data onward transfer instruments, such as the Controller to Processor EU-US Standard Contractual Clauses, the Privacy Shield Framework and a statement of compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice or have any concerns about how we handle personal information related to you, please contact us here.
