A. Responsibility

We are delighted that you have visited a web page of PowerCo SE, Industriestrasse Nord, 38239 Salzgitter, PowerCo SE, entered in the register of companies at Braunschweig District Court under HRB 209737 (“PowerCo SE”).
In the following, we will inform you about the processing of your personal data by PowerCo SE (hereinafter referred to as “PowerCo”) in connection with your visit to the web page.

B. Processing your personal data

1. Processing of log files

When you visit our web page, we process data in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in being able to properly display the web page to you. The data is only processed for as long as you access our web page.
The following log files are processed by you and do not reveal your identity:

• An anonymous cookie ID, which does not allow your IP address to be identified
• The operating system and web browser you are using, and your selected screen resolution
• The date and time of your visit
• The pages you visited on our website
• The website from which you came to us

2. Contact form

You can contact us by e-mail and send us an inquiry. In this context, the legal basis for our processing of your data is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR as we process the following data in order to contact you and process your request:

• Name
• Email address
• Subject
• Message 

Once we have answered your request to your satisfaction, we will delete your data unless other retention periods (e.g. tax retention periods) prevent this.

3. Career website and job portal

Purpose and form of data processing

We process and use your personal data in our online application system solely for the purposes required to ensure the application process is carried out effectively and correctly. This also applies to data added during the application process, e.g. from queries and subsequently submitted documents. The online application process asks for data required for the online application. The fields provided for this purpose are marked as “required fields”. Additional voluntary information can also be entered in “optional fields”.
Relevant personal data includes the following:

• Master data (e.g. name, title, academic degree, gender, date and place of birth and nationality, private contact details, marital status, photos, language skills, etc.).
• Application data (e.g. cover letter and curriculum vitae, references, certificates, etc.).
• Information on marital status (marriage, registered civil partnership, children), which may indicate sexual orientation if provided as part of your application.
• Health data (severe disability): you have the opportunity to voluntarily provide particularly sensitive personal data regarding the date of severe disability so that we can ensure that the representative council of employees with disabilities is involved in the selection process.
• Your registration data (surname, first name, country of residence, email address and password) will be collected for the purpose of providing you with the access data for our career portal.

If you create an individual application profile after successful registration, your registration data will be transferred directly to your application profile. You no longer need to enter this information separately. This registration data is regarded as application data in further processing.

You are giving the option of sharing your applicant profile nationally or wordlwide. This means that your applicant profile can then be considered by our recruiters for jobs matching your applicant profile, regardless of any application you may have submitted. In such a scenario, we would contact you without obligation. You can change this in your applicant profile at any time, with effect for the future.

Furthermore, you have the opportunity to be included in our talent pool. This means that your applicant profile can then be considered for jobs that meet defined filter criteria, regardless of any application you may have submitted. In such a scenario, we would contact you without obligation. If you do not wish this to happen, you can independently block your applicant profile at any time, with effect for the future. This can be done by clicking the corresponding button in your applicant profile (removing the checkmark).

You have the option of withdrawing your acceptance of the Terms of use, Terms of application and Data Privacy Statement. In this case, your applicant profile will be permanently deleted and all information and active applications will be withdrawn.

In order to make our offers more attractive for future applicants, you can also tell us how you became aware of PowerCo and/or the job offer. This information is, of course, voluntary and has no influence on the application process. However, doing so is a great help to us.

Upon registration, you have the option of activating the Job Agent. The Job Agent will notify you by email as soon as new jobs are published that meet the criteria you specified in the job search or that have similar criteria to the position for which you activated the Job Agent. This results in the following 3 options for activating the Job Agent:

• Upon registration, notifications about new job postings can be activated.
• At the top of your applicant profile (Options > Job Notifications). Here, job notifications can be activated using a self-selected filter.
• Job notifications can be activated directly from the job search view using the self-selected filter.

All active Job Agents are listed in your applicant profile under Options > Job Notifications. At this point in the candidate profile, deactivate the Job Agent by clicking on the waste bin icon for the respective entry or via email.

Your data will be encrypted using a suitable method.

On what legal basis do we process your data?
We process your personal data primarily for the purpose of the application process and for hiring decisions on the basis of the first sentence of Section 26(1) of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). If necessary, we process particularly sensitive personal data to enable us to assess your employability on the basis of Section 22(1) no.1 lit c) of the Federal Data Protection Act.

Who processes my data?
In both the pre-selection and further selection processes, your application will not be checked in an automated manner. The application is viewed and checked by our recruiters and by personnel managers in the relevant department and by Works Council members of our company. This also applies in the event that a staffing requirement matches an existing application profile, insofar as you have created one with us. All persons involved in the processing are specifically bound to confidentiality and keep your data strictly confidential. Your data is stored on servers in Germany. For the proper operation of the career portal, we reserve the right to use service providers in the context of “contract processing”.

Third parties as processors
The PowerCo career website is being provided to us by SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG (Hasso-Plattner-Ring 7, 69190 Walldorf, Germany). Your data will therefore be processed by SAP SE as the processor.
Volkswagen Group Services GmbH (Major-Hirst-Str. 11, 38442 Wolfsburg, Germany; www.volkswagen-groupservices.com) can be commissioned by us for data processing. In this case, your data will be processed by Volkswagen Group Services GmbH as the processor.
The recruitment team of  PowerCo SE (Industriestraße Nord, 38239 Salzgitter, Germany) supports the recruitment team of Power HoldCo Spain S.A.U..  Your data will therefore be processed by PowerCo SE as processor.

Data deletion

Your data will be automatically deleted from the system 365 days after the end of the application process for which we received the data. Your candidate profile will be automatically deleted if you have not logged into your profile for more than 365 days. Shortly before this deadline expires, you will receive an automated announcement email. Automatic deletion does not take effect

• if you log into your profile within the 365 days in which you are in an active application process.
• You also have the option of independently updating or deleting your data/application profile in the system at any time.

You can withdraw your application at any time and/or deactivate your approvals. This is taken into account in the application process.
You can also delete your external profile at any time or ask us to do so.

C. Use of cookies 

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small data file (such as scripts, pixels and tags) that we store on the hard drive of your device, with the help of your web browser, if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device to help us remember information about your visit, making the site more useful and relevant to you the next time you visit.

How we use Cookies

Our websites use cookies to provide complete functionality, to provide you with a tailored experience when you browse and to enable us to optimise the performance of the site. 

Types of Cookies

We use following Cookies

Strictly necessary Cookies
These cookies help you to use our website, for example by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website, or saving the status of your cookie settings. Our website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Functional Cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make or information you enter (such as the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. They are also used to enable requested functions such as playing films or using maps. 

Advertising and Marketing Cookies
We use these cookies and tracking technologies to display advertising tailored to your interests on our and other websites. These cookies can be set by our advertising partners, via our website, and may be used to create a user profile based on your behaviour on our website in order to show you relevant advertisements on other websites. They work by clearly identifying your browser or your end device. Please note, if you disable these cookies you will still see our advertisements, they just won’t be tailored to your interests.

Cookie storage duration

The cookie type can be identified by how long it persists.

• Session cookies – these cookies are required only for the duration of your session and are deleted or become invalid as soon as you close our website.
• Persistent cookies – these cookies remain on your device for a pre-defined longer period of time. They enable you to access our websites more quickly without having to re-configure certain settings, such as your chosen language.

Third party Cookies

Our websites may contain 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 the content of, security or cookie policy of such sites. We recommend that you check the privacy, cookie and security policies of each website or social media service that you visit and/or sign up to.
Please note that during your visits to our websites you may notice some cookies that are not related to PowerCo or its suppliers. When you visit a page with content embedded from Vimeo, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. PowerCo does not control these cookies. You should check the relevant third party websites for more information regarding these cookies and how to opt out.

How to disable Cookies

If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites you can do this at any time with future effect by restricting or blocking cookies through your browser settings and in our cookie consent manager.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may negatively impact your experience on our websites.

D. Social media

PowerCo does not use so-called social media plug-ins (“plug-ins”) to display texts from social networks such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or YouTube on this web page, so no personal data is initially passed on to social media providers when users access the PowerCo web page. If you click on content from social media providers on our web page, a notice is displayed. You are notified that you will either leave the web page and go to a third-party site or that the selected content of the social media provider will be displayed on this web page. Only by confirming this notice do you give your consent to data processing (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR) and gain access to the web pages or content of the social media provider. To play videos via YouTube, for example, the provider’s JavaScript is loaded. The provider receives the information that you have accessed the video or image via our web page. This occurs regardless of whether you have set up a user account on the social network and are logged in there. If you are logged into the social network, the provider can directly assign this data to your user account. The respective social media providers may use the data to create use profiles.
PowerCo has no influence on the data collected by the provider and its further processing. The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the providers, as well as your rights and settings options in this regard to protect your privacy, please refer to the privacy policies of the respective provider.

E. Your rights

You are entitled to the following rights vis-à-vis PowerCo at any time free of charge. Further information on asserting your rights is provided in section F.

Right to information
You are entitled to receive information (Article 15 GDPR) from us relating to the processing of your personal data.

Right to rectification
You have the right to request that we rectify (Article 16 GDPR) any inaccurate or incomplete personal data that concerns you.

Right to erasure
You have the right to request that your data be erased if the conditions set out in Article 17 of the GDPR are met. For example, you may ask for your data to be erased if it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. You may also ask for your data to be erased if we process your data based on your consent and you have withdrawn that consent.

Right to restriction of processing
You have the right to ask for a restriction of the processing of your data if the conditions set out in Article 18 of the GDPR are met. That is the case, for example, if you dispute the accuracy of your data. You can then demand a restriction of processing for the period it takes to verify the accuracy of the data.

Right to object
IIn accordance with Article 21 of the GDPR, if processing is based on an overriding legitimate interest, you have the right to object to the processing of your data. An objection is permitted if processing is conducted either in the public interest or on the basis of a legitimate interest of PowerCo or a third party. If you object to the processing of your data, please notify us of the grounds for your objection.
You also have the right to object to data processing for the purposes of direct marketing. This also applies to profiling where this is connected to direct marketing. 

Right to data portability
You have the right to receive your data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to transfer this data to another data processor provided that data processing is based on consent or contract fulfilment and that automated processing methods are used (Article 20 of the GDPR).

Right to withdraw consent
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future, without being required to give any reason (Article 7 of the GDPR). Your withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your data based on your consent until the withdrawal. Your withdrawal is to be addressed to PowerCo and best sent by email to careers@powerco.de or by using the contact details provided in the Imprint. 

Right to lodge a complaint
You also have the right to lodge a complaint about our processing of your data with a supervisory authority (such as the Data Protection Commissioner for the State of Lower Saxony in Germany [Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz Niedersachsen]). 

F. Your contacts

Contacts for exercising your rights
For questions about exercising your rights and further information, please contact datenschutz@volkswagen.de.

Data protection officer
The data protection officer of Volkswagen AG is available to you as the contact person for data protection-related concerns:
Data Protection Officer, Volkswagen AG
Berliner Ring 2
38440 Wolfsburg
Germany
 
Version dated: January 2023