Privacy Policy

2. Information Collection

A. What information we collect about Talent.

Before, during and after your application to become part of the 10x Team Talent community, including time spent on the Site, we may collect and process information about you. We may collect the following information about you:

• Personal details: Name, home contact details (email, phone numbers, physical address) languages(s) spoken, gender, date of birth, passport (if required for a specific reason), driver’s license information, accommodation requests, emergency contact information and photograph;
• Account information: Username and password;
• Financial information: Bank account details;
• Documentation required under immigration laws: Citizenship and passport data, details of residency or work permit;
• Talent management information: Details contained in letters of application and resume/CV (previous employment background, education history, professional qualifications and memberships (such as licenses, and permits), language and other relevant skills, certification, certification expiration dates), writing samples, information necessary to complete a background check to the extent permitted by law and information received during these checks, information relating to references such as referees’ names and contact details, details on performance management ratings, development programs planned and attended, e-learning programs, performance and development reviews, willingness to relocate, and information used to populate employee biographies;
• Any other information: Such as current fees or salary, desired fees or salary, employment preferences, references, whether you are subject to prior employer obligations, information from job application materials (for example, your cover letter, references, work history, education transcripts);
• Sensitive information: Such as information revealing racial or ethnic origin (where relevant, solely for diversity purposes), Data concerning health (where relevant, information needed to understand and assess accommodation requests regarding potential disabilities or other health conditions).

We ask that you avoid submitting sensitive information, unless such information is legally required and/or 10x Team specifically requests you to submit such information. Any information you submit through the Site must be true, complete and not misleading. Submitting inaccurate, incomplete or misleading information may lead to a rejection of your application to join the 10x Team Talent community or disciplinary action including immediate termination of your community participation. In addition, it is your responsibility to ensure that the information you submit does not violate any third party’s rights.

If you provide us with personal data of a referee or any other individual as part of your application to join the 10x Team Talent community, it is your responsibility to obtain consent (to the extent required by applicable laws) from that individual prior to providing the information to us.

In certain cases, we may ask you for additional information for purposes of complying with applicable laws.

B. Sources of Information.

Where permitted by governing law, we may collect information from the following sources:

• Talent: In person, online, by telephone or in written correspondence and forms;
• Third-party and 10x Team websites: Where you can apply to join the 10x Team Talent community;
• Previous employers and other referees: In the form of employment references;
• Educational establishments: In the form of education references;
• Background check: As part of the recruitment process;
• Other persons acting on your behalf;
• Providers of sanctions and “politically exposed persons” screening lists;
• 10x Team personnel;
• Publicly accessible sources: For example, tax codes from applicable tax authorities, through job search or career networking sites or social media profiles;
• Automatic data collection tools: For example, cookies and other similar technologies when you use the Site. To learn more about these cookies and other technologies, please visit our Cookie Policy.

If you provide us with details of referees, you confirm that your referees have consented (to the extent required by applicable laws) to our collection, use and disclosure of their personal information for the purposes of contacting them as referees, and being contacted by us in connection with your application.

3. Information Use and Disclosure

A. Why we collect your information.

We may use your personal information, to manage and facilitate the recruitment process to join the 10x Team Talent community or as otherwise described when you provide your information (or when information is provided on your behalf), to:

• Managing the community workforce: Managing recruitment and assessing your suitability, capabilities and qualifications to join the 10x Team Talent community, processing your 10x Team Talent community participation including by sharing information about roles about which you may be interested and sharing information with potential employers, processing your application and performing background checks (to the extent permitted by law) if we offer you the ability to participate in the 10x Team Talent community, such as credit checks, anti-fraud checks and checks to prevent fraud and money laundering, enabling us to conduct our business, managing IT systems and infrastructure, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment processes, accommodating disabilities or health conditions, and providing you with customized content;
• Operating the Site: Operating the Site and any other site to which this Privacy Statement is posted;
• Communications: Facilitating communication with you regarding your application;
• Taking legal action: Pursuing legal rights and remedies, defending litigation and managing any internal complaints or claims, conducting investigations and complying with internal policies and procedures, complying with internal policies and procedures, protecting our, your or others’ rights, safety and property, investigating and deterring against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, and other business operations;
• Compliance: Complying with legal (including, in respect of sensitive information, obligations under employment law) and other requirements, such as record-keeping and reporting obligations, conducting audits, compliance with government inspections and other requests from government or other public authorities, responding to legal process such as subpoenas, sharing information with government authorities, law enforcement and private parties where we have a good-faith belief it is necessary;
• Analytics: Creating anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data that we use and share to analyse our application and recruitment activities, business and for other lawful business purposes.

We may use your information for other business operations to the extent permitted by law. There may be more than one purpose that justifies our use of your information in any particular circumstances. We will only use your information for the purposes for which we collected it, 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 information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and explain the legal basis which allows us to do so. If you fail to provide certain information when requested, we may not be able to review your application or we may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.

If we think you are suitable to join the 10x Team Talent community, we will use your information to assess your suitability for roles you may be interested in and to inform you about these vacancies or opportunities as well as to share your information with potential employers.

For certain positions, it will be necessary for us to verify the details you have supplied (for example, in relation to your academic credentials or your employment history) and/or carry out pre-employment checks in the event that we extend an offer to join the 10x Team Talent community (for example, in relation to previous criminal convictions). If a position that is or may be of interest to you requires pre-employment vetting, we will tell you about this. Such vetting will not usually occur unless and until an offer has been made. We will carry out background checks only where permitted by law.

Some information we collect is required in order for you to use the Site and/or apply to join the 10x Team Talent community. We may also require personal information to comply with legal or contractual obligations and the provision of such information is mandatory. If such information is not provided, please note that we will not be able to process your application to join the 10x Team Talent community or maintain our relationship with you, as applicable.

B. To whom we disclose your information.

We may disclose your personal information to:

• Corporate affiliates, such as entities that are a holding company or a subsidiary of 10x Team for purposes set out in this Privacy Statement, including recruitment and human resource management purposes, for the purposes of compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and IT support.
• Service providers, these are entities or people that provide products and services to 10x Team such as IT systems suppliers and support, assessment providers, background and credit check providers, and hosting service providers.
• Governmental authorities, law enforcement and others: Entities that regulate or have jurisdiction over 10x Team such as regulatory authorities, law enforcement bodies, public bodies, and judicial bodies, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
• Private parties: For the purposes specified in this Privacy Statement such as to comply with legal process.
• Professional advisors: Lawyers, immigration advisors and other outside professional advisors such as accountants.
• Business transferees: We may sell or purchase assets during the normal course of our business. If another entity acquires us or any of our assets, information we have collected about you may be transferred to such entity. In addition, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, such information will be considered our asset and may be sold or transferred to third parties. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to require that the transferee use your personal information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Statement.
• Customers and business partners: 10x Team corporate and non-profit customers and individuals with whom 10x Team does business or is exploring a business relationship to facilitate your employment with such partners. We are not responsible for how any partners process your personal information. Please review the relevant partner’s privacy policy to understand how it may use your personal information.

C. Legal Bases for Processing.

We may use your personal information only as permitted by law. Our legal bases for processing the personal information described in this Privacy Statement are described below.

Processing purpose

Details regarding each processing purpose listed below are provided in the section above titled “Information Use and Disclosure”.

Legal basis

• Managing the community workforce
• Operating the Site
• Communications
• Taking legal action
• Analytics
• For research and development
• To send you marketing communications
• To display advertisements
• For compliance, fraud prevention and safety
• To create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data

These activities constitute our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal information for these activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent, the processing is necessary for the performance of the agreement executed between you and us, or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).

Compliance with legal obligations

Processing is necessary to comply with our legal obligations.

With your consent

Processing is based on your consent. Where we rely on your consent you have the right to withdraw it any time in the manner indicated when you consent or otherwise instructed.

In particular, we may use your sensitive information with your consent, such as health/medical information, in order to accommodate a disability or illness during the application to become part of the 10x Team Talent community process, your diversity-related information (such as race or ethnicity) in order to comply with legal obligations relating to diversity and anti-discrimination, and we are legally able to do so.

D. Automated Decisions.

10x Team does not envisage that you will be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision making.

4. International Data Transfer

10x Team may transfer your personal information to countries throughout the world that are not your country or jurisdiction of residence. The countries to which your information may be transferred may not have equivalent data protection laws to that which applies in your own country or jurisdiction. Your personal information will be stored and processed manually and electronically through global systems and tools for the purposes specified in this Privacy Statement. If we transfer your personal information out of Europe to a country not deemed to provide an adequate level of personal information protection by the European Commission, we will provide for approved transfer mechanisms, like approved standard clauses or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. You may contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal information out of Europe.

5. Information Retention

10x Team’s retention periods for information collected under this Privacy Statement are based on business needs and legal requirements. We retain information for as long as is necessary for the processing purpose(s) for which we collected the information, as set out in this Privacy Statement, and any other permissible, related purposes. Unless instructed otherwise or required by applicable law, we will retain information you have supplied to us for the purposes specified in this Privacy Statement including, without limitation, in order to contact you (including by email) about other suitable vacancies and opportunities which may become available from time to time. Details about successful applicants to join the 10x Team Talent community will be transferred to 10x Team customer community members and information regarding their retention periods may be shared with you by such member, if applicable. When your information is no longer needed, we destroy the data.

6. Information Security

We maintain technical, administrative, physical and procedural security measures designed to protect your personal information from misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, loss alteration or destruction.

Because there is always some risk in transmitting information over the Internet, while we make every effort to help ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee our security measures. Users of this Site are required to keep their password confidential.

7. Links to Other Sites or Apps or Third-Party Services

Where this Site has links to third-party sites or applications, such sites may have privacy policies that differ from our own. When you use these links you will leave our website and enter sites we have no control over. This Privacy Statement does not cover your use of these sites or govern the personal information which you may provide. We are not responsible for the practices of such sites or applications. To protect your privacy, we suggest that you review the individual privacy statement on any third-party website before using the site or submitting any personal information. This Privacy Statement does not address, and we are not responsible for, the practices of any third parties, which may have their own rules for how they collect and use your information.

8. Children

This Site is not intended for minors under the age of 18.

9. Your Choices and rights

In certain circumstances, you may exercise choices in relation to the information we hold about you. We set out below an outline of these choices and how to exercise them. Please note that for each of the choices below, we may have valid legal reasons to refuse your request, in such instances we will let you know if that is the case. If you want more detail on when the choices apply, please contact [email protected].

Deleting Your Information.

When you deactivate your account, we will still store your data as described in this Privacy Statement. To delete your data, please email us at [email protected]. We reserve the right to retain your data for the time periods set out in this Privacy Statement.

Objection to Marketing.

At any time you may object to our processing of information about you in order to send you information about roles that we think you may be interested in, including where we build profiles for such purposes and we will stop processing the data for that purpose. If you no longer wish to receive any updates from us regarding new job opportunities and vacancies, you should contact [email protected].

C. Complaints.

In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how we process your personal data, please contact us in the first instance at [email protected]. We will promptly take all reasonable steps to investigate any complaints or requests in relation to personal information. You have the right to lodge a complaint with applicable supervisory authorities, such as the Dutch Data Protection Authority.

D. Do Not Track.

Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

E. Choosing Not to Share Your Information.

Where we are required by law to collect your information or where we need your information in order to consider your candidacy, if you do not provide this information when requested (or you alter ask to delete it), we may not be able to consider your candidacy. We will tell you what information you must provide at the time of collection or through other appropriate means.

F. Your Rights.

In certain circumstances, you have rights in relation to the personal information we collect about you. We set out below an outline of those rights and how to exercise them.

• Access and portability: You have the right to know whether we process personal information about you, and if we do, to access information we hold about you and certain information about how we use it and with whom we share it. You also have the right to receive the information you have provided to 10x Team in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format for onward transmission.
• Correction, erasure and restriction of processing: You have the right to require us to correct any personal information held about you that is inaccurate and have incomplete information completed or ask us to delete information (i) where you believe it is no longer necessary for us to hold the personal information; (ii) where we are processing your information on the basis of our legitimate interest and you object to such processing; or (iii) if you believe the personal information we hold about you is being unlawfully processed by us. You can ask us to restrict processing information we hold about you other than for storage purposes if you believe the personal information is not accurate (whilst we verify accuracy); where we no longer need the personal information for the purposes of the processing but you require us to retain the information for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or where you have objected to us processing personal information and we are considering your objection.;
• Objection: You have the right to object to our processing of information about you based on legitimate interests and any automated decision-making and we will consider your request. Please provide us with detail as to your reasoning so that we can assess whether there is a compelling overriding interest in us continuing to process such information or we need to process it in relation to legal claims;
• Complaints: In the event that you wish to make a complaint about how we process your personal information, please contact us in the first instance at [email protected]and we will endeavor to deal with your request. This is without prejudice to your right to raise a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority.

You may exercise the rights set out at above by emailing [email protected]. Please note that we will require you to verify your identity before responding to any requests to exercise your rights by providing suitable forms of identification.

Please note that for each of the rights above we may have valid legal reasons to refuse your request, in such instances we will let you know if that is the case. If you want more detail on when the rights apply, please contact [email protected]. You also can file a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find your data protection regulator here.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by sending an e-mail to [email protected].

10. If You Have Questions

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement or the practices described herein, you can contact us at [email protected].

11. Revisions to This Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Statement at any time. If we do so, we will post such change(s) on the Site. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this Privacy Statement. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised notice on our Site or as otherwise indicated.