Applicant Privacy Statement
Last updated: 01 September 2023
Seagate Technology LLC or an affiliate controlled by, under common control with, or controlling Seagate Technology LLC, including but not limited to affiliates operating under the LaCie name or brand (collectively, "Seagate", "we", "us", "our") collects information about you that you provide directly through this Careers website (“Website”) or that is received indirectly using a Seagate or any third party application or service in connection with your application for employment with Seagate, for example mobile applications or recruiting CRM (“Applications”). Seagate collects, uses, and processes this information for purposes stated below in this Applicant Privacy Statement (“Statement”). Information submitted elsewhere on Seagate’s websites will be used in accordance with our general online Privacy Statement.
Personal information means information that you provide or Seagate collects in any form that relates to you, identifies you, or relates to an identifiable individual. We may collect personal information from you, such as your name, e‐mail address, postal address and telephone number, details of your current and prior employment history, work performance, education, and training. We may also retain a record of your correspondence with us, interests, and any other information about you included in a submitted profile or resume.
Sensitive information includes information related to government identification, race, religion, ethnicity, nationality or national origin, age, gender identity, sex life or practices or sexual orientation, marital status, medical or health information (including disability status), genetic or biometric information, biometric templates, political or philosophical beliefs, political party or trade union membership, veteran status, background check information, judicial data such as criminal records or information on other judicial or administrative proceedings, financial account, whereabouts and tracks or any other information which may affect you in the same manner prescribed under applicable law.
In certain cases, depending on your geographic location, we may ask questions about race/ethnic origin, gender, age, and disability of our applicants, for monitoring equal opportunity. We may also inquire about criminal conviction history through our background check process. We will do so only where permitted by applicable law. Otherwise, we ask that you avoid submitting information which may qualify as sensitive information under applicable law, except where such information is legally required.
Any information you submit through the Website or Applications must be true, complete, and not misleading. Submitting inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading information may lead to a rejection of your application during the application process or disciplinary action including termination of employment. In addition, it is your responsibility to ensure that information you submit does not violate any third party’s rights. If you provide us with personal information of a third party (such as a reference or any other individual as part of your application, including information of your family members), it is your responsibility to notify those other individuals of the details of this Statement, including relying on applicable legal basis or obtaining any required consent (where consent is required) from that individual prior to providing the information to us. You must also ensure that we can lawfully collect, use, or disclose those individuals’ personal information as set out in this Statement. We may allow you to share information with third party social media sites, or use social media sites or other sites to create or connect to your account (e.g. LinkedIn). Those social media sites may give us access to certain personal information stored by them (e.g., content viewed and information about the advertisements within the content you have been shown or may have clicked on, etc.) from your interaction with the online services. You may control the personal information you allow us to have access to through the privacy settings on that third party site and the permissions you give us when you grant us access.
For the purpose of background check reports in connection with your application, and as permitted by applicable law, Seagate obtains information about you from other sources, including:
We collect and process personal information about you for one or more of these reasons:
Where the collection or processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Seagate may use personal information for its global personnel recruitment, management, and planning purposes, as permitted by applicable law:
Seagate may also use the information to prevent potentially illegal activities and activities that are detrimental to you or other users, in order to comply with a legal obligation, or based on our legitimate interests.
The information about you will be added to Seagate’s international candidate database and can be retained and used to consider you for opportunities at Seagate other than the one(s) for which you apply. If you do not wish us to do this, please contact us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.
If we hire you, personal information we collect in connection with your application can be incorporated into our human resources system and used to manage the new‐hire process; any such information can become part of your employee file and used for other employment‐related purposes. In some instances, we may offer a select group of individuals an equity grant. We will request your consent to process your information for this purpose.
Providing personal information to us through the Website and Applications is voluntary. Do not upload or submit your resume or other information, including sensitive information, if you do not want your personal information processed via our Website or Applications. However, if you do not provide sufficient information, Seagate may be unable to consider your employment application or, if you are hired, Seagate may be unable to consider your subsequent promotion, transfer, or relocation, or may be prevented form complying with the applicable legal obligations. Contact Seagate in accordance with the ‘Contact Us’ section below or follow the instructions provided in email to change your preferences or delete your information.
Within some jurisdictions, Seagate may use the DocuSign application (‘DocuSign’) to enable contracts and notices to be signed and provided electronically. In using this tool, you may be required provide limited personal information (such as your name, email address and electronic signature) to Seagate and DocuSign for the purposes of executing your employment contract and/or other documents with Seagate. This personal information will be held by Seagate only for as long as necessary to execute the contract or fulfill any other legitimate business interest related to the signed matter. We encourage you to review DocuSign’s privacy practices, which are located here.
DocuSign is an optional feature, which you are not required to consent to use. If you decide to withdraw consent or refuse to provide consent, you may print a pdf copy of your employment document(s) to be signed and returned to Seagate. Please contact your recruiter or data.protection.officer@seagate.com if you have any questions or concerns using DocuSign.
Seagate may disclose and transfer personal information to its departments and affiliated companies in connection with the above purposes.
We will limit access to personal information to personnel with a business need to know the information for the purposes described in this Statement, including personnel in the recruiting, human resources, and information technology departments, and in the department responsible for the position for which you are applying. Seagate may also disclose and transfer personal information to third parties that offer services or otherwise assist with the above purposes, for example, when conducting a background investigation or processing tax filings. Seagate will establish that such parties process your personal information in accordance with Seagate’s instructions or with an adequate level of protection for such data.
Seagate may transfer personal information to its departments, affiliated companies, and third parties outside of your country of residence, and some of these recipients may be located in another country where they may not have adequate data protection standards similar to your country of residence. For example, we may host this Website and Applications on servers in the United States. Personal information will be available for use, review, and transfer within the United States and other countries where we or our service providers have operations, for the purposes stated. When we transfer your personal information outside your country of residence, we may put in place appropriate safeguards in accordance with our legal obligations to ensure that your personal information is adequately protected irrespective of the country to which it is transferred.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), this transfer may include countries outside of the EEA. Some of these countries are recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of protection according to EEA standards (the full list of these countries is available here). For transfers to other countries, we have put in place adequate measures, such as standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission, to protect your information.
Employees in the EEA may obtain a copy of these measures by contacting us in accordance with the ‘Contact Us’ section below.
Seagate will not sell or share your personal information for third‐party marketing purposes. Seagate reserves the right to disclose personal information as necessary or appropriate, especially when we have a legal obligation or legitimate interest to do so, for example:
If you register on the Website, you may access, review, and change your personal information stored therein by logging into the Website and updating your account information. The updated profile will be used as the default the next time you apply for a job using your account online. To change personal information that you have already submitted for consideration for a specific position, please update your profile and resubmit your application for that position. We encourage you to promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate.
You may, where permitted by applicable law, request to review, access, correct, update, or delete your personal information, as well as restrict, suppress, or object to the processing of it. You may also request that we cease using your personal information as permitted by applicable law, request a copy or portability of your personal information, or lodge a complaint with a competent authority. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law. We may decline to process requests where permitted by applicable law. Please contact Seagate as indicated below in the ‘Contact Us’ section or follow the removal instructions in the communications that you receive if you wish to exercise such rights, but note that if you object to the processing of your personal information, or ask Seagate to delete your personal information, Seagate may not be able to send you information about employment opportunities.
We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be changed or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical or for which access is not otherwise required.
Please note that certain personal information may be exempt from such requests pursuant to applicable data protection laws or other laws and regulations.
We will retain personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Statement unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. The criteria used to determine our retention periods are: (i) the duration of the application process; (ii) as long as we have an ongoing relationship or the possibility of an employment relationship with you; and (iii) as required or limited by law; and (iv) as advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).
We may remove personal information for inactive accounts from our database, subject to any applicable legal or regulatory obligations. Furthermore, Seagate can delete personal information about you (including your CV/résumé) from our database at any time and without providing any reason.
Therefore, please retain your own copy of the personal information provided to us.
Cookies and Similar Technologies. We and our service providers use “cookies” and similar technologies on the Website. Please see our Cookie Statement for more information.
We use Adobe Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about the use of the services and report on activities and trends. If you are a registered user of our Sites and/or Offerings, we may use this information, in combination with other information that you provide, to improve the services and other offerings of the program or website. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. You can learn about Adobe’s practices by going to https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html.
Seagate maintains reasonable security measures to protect personal information, including sensitive personal information, from unauthorized access or review. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is ever 100% secure. We strongly advise you not to upload or otherwise communicate any sensitive or confidential information on this Website or any Application.
Seagate hereby disclaims, as far as permitted by local laws, any liability for itself and contractors for any personal information we collect in connection with your application that is lost, misused, illegally accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed, or not delivered in a timely fashion to our Website or Applications.
This Statement does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service to which the Website or Applications link (e.g. SuccessFactors, LinkedIn). The inclusion of a link on the Website or Application does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by Seagate.
The Website and Applications allow you to apply for jobs world‐wide, as a benefit of Seagate’s centralized global recruitment function. The Website and Applications are operated from the United States.
Accordingly, any personal information you submit to the Website or Applications will be collected in the United States and will be subject to U.S. laws. However, if we share your personal information with an affiliate located in another country in its capacity as a potential employer, the affiliate will handle your personal information in accordance with this Statement. Any hiring or other employment‐related decisions will be made by the hiring affiliate in accordance with the laws of the country where the job will be located.
The Website and Applications are not intended for or directed to individuals under the age of majority in their jurisdiction. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe we may have information from a child, please contact us.
If you currently work for Seagate or one of our affiliates, you must be eligible to apply for a different position within Seagate to use the Website or Applications. If you accept such a position, your benefits programs and Human Resources policies may change. Please consult with the HR manager for the new position concerning application eligibility, benefit programs, and HR policies applicable to that position. The Website and Applications are not intended for distribution to, or use by, any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to local law or regulation.
If you require assistance to change or update your personal information, or if you have questions or requests, please contact Seagate at data.protection.officer@seagate.com or contact us by post to provide the updated or changed information, at:
Seagate Technology LLC
47488 Kato Road
Fremont, CA 94538 USA
Attention: HR Central US - Data Privacy
If you reside in the EEA, you also may:
Contact our data protection officer (DPO) responsible for your country or region, if applicable. Email us at data.protection.officer@seagate.com or write to us at:
Seagate Technology LLC
Attn: Legal Department – Privacy 47488 Kato Road
Fremont, CA 94538 USA
In Germany, contact Data Protection Officer: Dr. Sebastian Kraska
IITR GmbH
Marienplatz 2
80331 München http://www.iitr.de
Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority for your country or region, or in the place of the alleged misconduct.
This California Privacy Notice (“Notice”) is provided on behalf of Seagate Technology LLC and any of its affiliates, (collectively, “Seagate” or “we” or “us”). As required by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.100 et seq. (“CCPA”) and its implementing regulations, as modified by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), this Notice provides additional information to California residents on Seagate’s collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information and the rights available to California residents. This addendum is prepared to supplement the Applicant Privacy Statement (“Statement”).
Certain terms used in this Notice have the meaning given to them in the CCPA or CPRA and their implementing regulations. This Notice only applies to applicants who are residents of the State of California.
For purposes of this Notice, “Personal Information” is defined as the information that can identify, relates to, or could reasonably be linked with a particular California resident or household.
We collect Personal Information from our interactions with you. For example, when you submit an application, contact us via our Website or on the phone, we may collect your Personal Information. We also collect Personal Information from other sources, such as from your references or educational institutions. We may collect, and have collected within the last 12 months, the following categories of Personal Information:
We collect Personal Information you voluntarily provide to us during the application process (for example, in job interview notes, responses to screening questions, assessment results) or when you otherwise contact us. We may also collect certain information, such as IP addresses and device identifiers, automatically from your device.
We may combine Personal Information you voluntarily provide to us with information we collect from other sources, such as:
We may use your Personal Information described in this Notice for the purposes described in the Statement under the Use of Personal Information section, including for personnel recruitment, management, and planning purposes, and as permitted by applicable law. For example, we may use your Personal Information to:
We will retain your Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and as described in the Statement in the Data Retention section.
In the past 12 months, we may have disclosed your Personal Information to third parties, such as our service providers and affiliates, for our operational business purposes and as described in the Statement.
Third parties with whom we may share Personal Information include:
When we disclose Personal Information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
We have not “sold” or "shared" Personal Information within the meaning of the CCPA or CPRA in the preceding 12 months. For purposes of this Notice, and as per the CCPA / CPRA:
We also do not sell or share the personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.
If you are a California resident, you may request that a business:
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information, subject to certain exceptions including where responding to your request is impossible or involves disproportionate effort. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable request, we will disclose to you the following, unless an exception applies:
You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies.
You have the right to request that we correct any of your Personal Information that we collected from you that is inaccurate, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable request, we will correct such inaccurate information from our records, unless an exception applies.
As described in the Section "Sale and Sharing of Personal Information" above, we do not “sell” or "share" Personal Information within the meaning of the CCPA or CPRA.
As described in the Section "Sale and Sharing of Personal Information" above, we do not “sell” or "share" Personal Information within the meaning of the CCPA or CPRA.
We do not use or disclose "sensitive personal information" other than as described in the Section "Use of Personal Information" above or as otherwise permitted under the CPRA. In addition and as explained above, we do not “sell” or "share" Personal Information within the meaning of the CCPA or CPRA.
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) also permits California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not disclose Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
To make a request for the disclosures, correction, or deletion of your Personal Information as described above, please submit your request by email to data.protection.officer@seagate.com or by contacting us at 1-800-SEAGATE (1-800-732-4283). If you register on the Website, you may access, review, and change your personal information stored therein by logging into the Website and updating your account information.
To protect the personal information that we maintain, we will verify your identity when you make a request. In some instances, we may decline to honor your request where an exception applies. For example, we may decline your request when we are unable to verify your identity. We may also decline your request if the rights and freedoms of another individual would be negatively affected. We will only use personal information provided for verification to confirm the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
If you are an authorized agent making a rights request on behalf of another consumer, please contact data.protection.officer@seagate.com.
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.
You have the right to be free from unlawful discrimination for exercising your rights under the CCPA and CPRA. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA or CPRA rights.
We may make changes to this Notice. Notification of changes will be posted on this page. You should review this Notice periodically to keep up to date on our most current policies and practices.
Please find additional information regarding your rights and our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information below.
The personal information collected by us may also include date of birth, national ID number/passport number, details of your education (e.g., a copy of transcripts and student ID number), and your employment and financial details (e.g., a copy of first and last pay slips or tax forms and employee ID number).
For the purpose of background check reports in connection with your application, and as permitted by applicable law, Seagate obtains information about you from other sources, including:
The Website and Applications are not intended for individuals under the age of twenty (20).
If you have any questions or concerns about this Statement or would like to contact us or exercise your rights, please contact us at data.protection.officer@seagate.com or at:
Seagate Technology (Thailand) Limited 1627 Moo 7, Teparuk Road
Tambol Teparuk, Amphur Muang Samutprakarn 10270 Thailand
If you are a resident of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”), please find additional information regarding your rights and our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information below.
The personal information collected by us may also include date of birth, national ID number/passport number (including a copy of national ID/passport), foreign work pass, details of your education (e.g., a copy of transcripts and student ID number), your employment and financial details (e.g., a copy of first and last pay slips or tax forms and employee ID number) and your employment, compensation and benefits information with your previous employers.
According to the applicable laws and regulations, the legal basis on which Seagate process your personal information include:
One or more types of your personal information, as listed in this Statement, may be transferred electronically via a secure private internet connection outside the PRC, in accordance with applicable law, to Seagate Companies (“Overseas Recipients”) for the purpose of global personnel recruitment, management, and planning on the SAP SuccessFactors platform and other purposes as described in this Statement. If Seagate needs to transfer your personal information outside of the PRC, Seagate will complete the corresponding procedures in accordance with the requirements of relevant laws and regulations and provide protection standards not lower than those stipulated by PRC laws. The name and contact information of the initial Overseas Recipient is as follows:
Seagate Singapore International Headquarters Pte. Ltd.
90 Woodlands Avenue 7, Singapore, 73791
Data.protection.officer@seagate.com
If you are a resident of the PRC, you may have the following rights with respect to your personal information, subject to applicable law:
If you would like to exercise your rights, or if you have any questions or concerns about this Statement or would like to contact us, please contact us at data.protection.officer@seagate.com or at:
Seagate Technology International (Wuxi) Co. Ltd. Wuxi Export Processing Zone B,
NO.2 Xing Chuang Er Lu, Wuxi Jiangsu, P.R. China
Tel: (86 510) 8527 8888
Seagate Technology Services (Shanghai) Co., Ltd Unit 3301-3305,Tower 2 Grand Gateway,
No. 3 Hongqiao Road, Xu Hui District, Shanghai, China
Tel: (86 21) 61416202
Email: data.protection.officer@seagate.com
Seagate Technology Services (Shanghai) Co., Ltd Beijing branch
West Tower of Beijing IFC, Tower B, 8/F, Units 805-807, No.8 Jianguomenwai Avenue,Chaoyang District,
Beijing China,
Tel: (86 10) 5875 1922
Email: data.protection.officer@seagate.com
Seagate Technology Services (Shanghai) Co., Ltd Shenzhen branch Room 6512, 65/F, Shun Hing Square DiWang Commcercial Centre
5002 Shennan East Road Shenzhen, P.R. China,
Tel: (86 755)25471500 to 25471599
Email: data.protection.officer@seagate.com
Seagate Technology Services (Shanghai) Co., Ltd Chengdu branch
Unit 01 Floor 11,Tower 2, Raffles City, No. 3, Section 4 Renmin South Road
Tel: (86 21)61416200 to 61416299
Email: data.protection.officer@seagate.com
Seagate Technology Services (Shanghai) Co., Ltd Hangzhou Branch
Room 1103 & 1104,Building B, No. 459, QianMo road, BinJiang District, HangZhou City China
Tel: (86 571)2809 1899
Email: data.protection.officer@seagate.com
Seagate (Hangzhou) Data recovery services Co.,Ltd.
Room 201,Building B, No. 459, QianMo Road (JuGuang Center) ,Hangzhou,Zhejiang
Email: data.protection.officer@seagate.com
Seagate Singapore International Headquarters Pte. Ltd.
90 Woodlands Avenue 7, Singapore, 73791
Email: data.protection.officer@seagate.com
The Website and Applications are not intended for individuals under the age of fourteen (14).
Seagate may amend this Privacy Statement at any time. If Seagate is going to use personal information collected though this Website or any Application in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection, Seagate will notify users via email and/or by posting a notice on the Website prior to such use or by other means as required by law. Where applicable and required by applicable law, we may ask for your consent for any change for which your consent is needed.
The “Last Updated” legend at the bottom of this Statement indicates when this Statement was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Statement on this Website.
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