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Candidate Privacy Policy

A. CANDIDATE PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: 30 May 2023

Shure Incorporated and its affiliates (collectively “Shure”, "us", "we", "our") are committed to protect your privacy. In this policy we outline as to how we ensure your privacy of the personal data we have collected from you throughout the application process.

This Candidate privacy policy applies to all applicants and candidates for employment at Shure (collectively "Candidate" or "you" or "your").

1. Who controls the processing of your personal data?

The responsible data controller is

Shure Incorporated
5800 West Touhy Avenue
Niles, IL 60714
USA

Contact

Please take note that additional Shure entities may have access to your personal data, depending on the specific characteristics and location of the job to which you are applying. To review the complete list of Shure entities that may have access to your data, click here.

2. What types of personal data do we collect and process about you?

We may collect various types of personal data about you for the purposes described below in the section headed “What are the purposes and legal bases for the processing of your personal data? ” including

a. General personal information: your name, contact details (address, telephone number, email), nationality, degree, title, date of birth, gender and personal photo;

b. Recruitment data: Information obtained throughout your recruitment process, including information provided in your application (such as personal details, CV, resumes, application form, references, employment history and experience and qualifications), record of interview or interview notes, salary expectations selection and assessment information, personality profile, professional certifications, special skills, language skills, memberships of committees or other bodies and education history, vetting and verification and pre-employment screening carried out, but only to the extent required for our hiring decision with regard to the specific position you have applied for (e.g. references, credit checks, criminal record checks);

You usually provide this information directly via our application tool. You are not required to provide any of the above personal data to us, but if you fail to do so we might not be able to consider your application for our recruitment. We will let you know whether the provision of the respective data it is mandatory.

We may also obtain the above-mentioned information from third parties. We may obtain your personal data from the following categories of sources:

  • previous employers
  • recruitment agencies
  • supplier of background checks
  • e-portals the system is linked to

3. What are the purposes and legal bases for the processing of your personal data?

We process your personal data for the following purposes, based on the legal bases listed:

No. Purpose for processing Legal basis for processing Description of legitimate interest for processing if applicable
1. To assess whether your professional profile matches the candidate criteria we require for a certain position and decide whether to offer you employment. This processing is necessary for our hiring decision based on Shure’s legitimate interest.
This processing is also necessary for the compliance with legal obligations to which we are subject including the requirement to ensure we do not unlawfully discriminate in our recruitment decision.
In case we are provided with special categories of your personal data (such as religion, trade union membership, racial data or sexual orientation), we will only process this data if this is necessary to exercise rights or comply with legal obligations derived from labour law, social security and social protection law, but only if there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding legitimate interest in Shure not processing the data.
Shure has a legitimate interest in ensuring that Candidates are suitable to work for Shure.
2. Vetting and verification and pre-employment screening, but only to the extent required for our hiring decision with regard to the specific position you have applied forThis processing is necessary for our hiring decision based on Shure’s legitimate interest.
Additional screening is necessary for the purpose of the legitimate interests pursued by Shure.
In case we are provided with sensitive data, we will only process this data if this is necessary to exercise rights or comply with legal obligations derived from labour law, social security and social protection law, but only if there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding legitimate interest in Shure not processing the data.
Shure has a legitimate interest in ensuring that Candidates do not pose an unacceptable risk to the business or its customers, in preventing crime and other unlawful acts and to protect the business and customers from fraud, dishonesty or incompetence.
3. Making job offersThis processing is necessary for our hiring decision. N/A
4. To contact you if your application is not successful should another potentially suitable vacancy arise during the year following completion of the recruitment process for the role you applied for (personal data retained not longer than 4 years for all candidates being resident in the European Union or any other country outside of the United States of America)This processing is based on your consent. N/A
5. To centralise HR administration and management processing operations in an efficient manner for the benefit of our staff This processing is necessary for the purpose of the legitimate interests pursued by Shure.
In case we are provided with special categories of your personal data (e.g. if this is contained in your application and this needs to be made available to the person making your hiring decision), we only process it if this is necessary to exercise rights or comply with legal obligations derived from labour law, social security and social protection law, but only if there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding legitimate interest in Shure not processing the data.
Shure has a legitimate interest in centralising its HR administration and management, in particular with regard to its candidates, for internal administrative purposes, in order to manage applications more efficiently.
6. To deal with any query, challenge, request for feedback or claim received in relation to our recruitment decisionsThis processing is necessary for the compliance with legal obligations to which Shure is subject including ensuring Shure is able to demonstrate its compliance with data protection laws and anti-discrimination laws.
eyond legal compliance, processing is necessary for the purpose of the legitimate interests pursued by Shure.
If it is necessary to process sensitive data for this purpose (e.g. because it is relevant to the query), Shure will do so for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Shure has a legitimate interest in being able to provide feedback to candidates and to be able to defend any challenge or claim made in connection with our recruitment decision. This will assist Shure to avoid the risk of financial exposure or costs incurred through challenges to recruitment decisions and to maintain its reputation.

4. How do we share and disclose your personal data?

Except as set out in this privacy policy, we do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal data to outside parties. Your personal data may be transferred to the following categories of recipients:

4.1. Service providers

We provide access to or share your personal data with selected third parties who perform services on our behalf. Such parties might be concerned with data-hosting, managing and processing your application, etc. (see list below). We have signed with such providers contracts obliging them to obey at least the same data privacy rules as Shure does. They act only as so-called data processors on our behalf and subject to our instructions. We disclose your data to the following categories of service providers:

  • IT service providers (hosting service), Germany, Ireland, Singapore, USA;
  • Application management (provider of application management tool), USA

For transfers to service providers in non-EEA (European Economic Area) countries please refer to the section "Transfers of your data to countries outside the EEA ".

4.2. Affiliates

We will share your personal data with other entities of the Shure global group (affiliates as mentioned below) for the purposes as described in this privacy policy (in particular to centralise our HR administration and management processing operations in an efficient manner for the benefit of our staff). However, all affiliates within the Shure group have signed the Controller to Controller Model Clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries as provided by the European Commission. In such way all Shure entities need to obey the data privacy principles as outlined in this policy and by applicable data privacy law. For further information please refer to the section "Transfers of your data to countries outside the EEA ".

Affiliates including its branches as described herein can be found here.

4.3. Third parties

We also may disclose your personal data to trusted third parties, in particular to those who assist us in managing your application, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may disclose your personal data to the following categories of third parties:

  • To personnel providers and recruitment agencies who are engaged in certain applications;
  • To external auditors in the event of audits or investigations, if there is a legal requirement or legitimate business interest to do so;
  • In the event that we are subject to a merger or acquisition to the new owner of the business, if legitimate under applicable laws;
  • If we are required to do so by law, statute, regulation, or professional standard, or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or other legal request, in response to law enforcement authority or other government official request.

5. Transfers of your personal data to countries outside the EEA

We may transfer personal data to service providers, affiliates or other third parties located outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). In such cases we ensure prior to the transfer that the European Commission has decided that the third country ensures an adequate level of protection (Art. 45 GDPR, e.g. Switzerland) or that the transfer is either subject to appropriate safeguards, for example by entering into so-called standard data protection clauses of the European Union with the recipient (Art. 46 GDPR). In specific situations we might also ask for your explicit consent to the transfer (Art. 49 GDPR).

You may also receive an overview of third country recipients and a copy of the appropriate or suitable safeguards in place. Please use the details provided in the section "Who controls the processing of your personal data" to request such data.

6. For how long do we keep your personal data?

We store your data as long as it is necessary for the recruitment process or as long as we have a legitimate interest in continued storage. In all other cases, we delete your personal data with the exception of such data that we are required to retain for the purpose of contractual or statutory (e.g., taxation or commercial law) retention periods (e.g., invoices). We keep your personal data for the following periods of time:

If your application is successful, we will keep your data for the duration of your employment with us plus 2 years from the end of our employment relationship or plus any period we are required by statute or contractual obligation to keep the data.

If your application is not successful, we will delete your data within 6 months after your consideration for the job or you have let us know that you are no longer interested in an employment with us, unless you have agreed that we are allowed to keep your data for potentially suitable other vacancies in which case we will delete your personal data as soon as your consent expires or is withdrawn. We will, however, keep your consent log for an additional 4 years in order to be able to provide prove of the fact that you have provided your consent.

For candidates residing in the United States of America, we will keep your personal data in order to consider you for potentially suitable other vacancies. As soon as you notify us that you want us to delete your personal data, we will do as such without undue delay.

7. What are your rights and how can you exercise them?

You have the following rights during the application process and after you were notified that your application was not successful. If you have accepted a job offer of and started working for Shure, Shure will notify you about the respectively applicable privacy regulations.

  • Right of access: You have the right to obtain confirmation from us as to whether or not your personal data is being processed and a right to access your personal data that is being processed by us.
  • Right of rectification: You also have the right to obtain without undue delay the rectification of any inaccurate personal data relating to you and to have any of your personal data that is incomplete completed. In case we have transferred your personal data to third parties, we will inform them about this rectification and completion if required by law.
  • Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten'): You have the right to obtain the erasure of your personal data from us without undue delay and we have the obligation to erase your personal data without undue delay if one of the following grounds applies:
    • your personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed;
    • the processing of your personal data is based solely on your consent and you have withdrawn your consent;
    • you have objected to direct marketing;
    • you have objected to the processing that is based on our legitimate interest on grounds that relate to your particular situation and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing;
    • your personal data have been unlawfully processed;
    • o your personal data have to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation.

    In case we have transferred your personal data to third parties, we will inform them about this erasure if required by law.

    Please keep in mind that there are limitations to your right to erasure. We are for example not allowed to erase data that we are legally obliged to store (namely due to statutory retention periods). Also, your right to erasure does not apply if we need to store the data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

  • Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to restrict our processing of your personal data where
    • you contest the accuracy of the personal data until we have taken sufficient steps to correct or verify its accuracy;
    • the processing is unlawful but you do not want us to erase the data;
    • we no longer need your personal data for the purposes of the processing, but you require them for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or
    • you have objected to processing based on our legitimate interest (see below) pending verification as to whether we have compelling legitimate grounds to continue processing.

    Where personal data is subjected to restriction in this way, we will only process it with your consent or to a very limited extent, e.g. for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

  • Rights to object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data that is based on our legitimate interest, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time. You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for marketing purposes at any time. Please also refer to the section "Information on your rights to object".
  • Right to Data portability: Where we rely on your consent or the fact that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party as the legal basis for processing, and that personal data has been provided by you and is processed by automated means, you have the right to receive all such personal data which you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format, and also to require us to transmit it to another controller where this is technically feasible.
  • Right to withdraw consent: Where we rely on your consent to process particular information and you have provided us with your consent to process data, you have the right to withdraw such consent at any time. The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
  • Right to lodge a complaint with the Supervisory Authority: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a Supervisory Authority. You can appeal in particular to the Supervisory Authority, which is competent for your place of residence or your state or to the (lead) Supervisory Authority which is competent for us.

You may exercise your rights by contacting us via the contact details supplied in the section "Who controls the processing of your personal data?". Please ensure for this purpose that a clear identification of your person is possible for us.

8. Changes to this privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time to reflect changes in the law, our data collection and use practices, or advances in technology. We will make the amended privacy policy available on our websites.



B. INFORMATION ON YOUR RIGHTS TO OBJECT

RIGHT TO OBJECT TO DIRECT MARKETING

You may at all times object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes. Please take into account that, due to logistical reasons, there might be an overlap between your objection and the usage of your data within the scope of a campaign which is already running.

RIGHT TO OBJECT TO PROCESSING BASED ON LEGITIMATE INTEREST

Furthermore, you may have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you which is based on the legal basis legitimate interests.

You may address your objections to:

Shure Incorporated
Email: privacy@shure.com
5800 West Touhy Avenue
Niles, IL 60714