Data processing - applicants
Data processing - applicants
The following provides an explanation of how and pursuant to which principles ERGO (i.e. ERGO Insurance SE and/or ERGO Life Insurance SE Eesti filiaal) processes personal data of job applicants (hereinafter – applicants) of ERGO.
ERGO processes personal data being guided by the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Personal Data Protection Act, the Employment Contracts Act, and requirements of other relevant legal acts.
One of the central principles for the protection of personal data is fair and transparent processing of personal data, which requires that ERGO as an employer and data controller notifies applicants of processing of personal data and purposes thereof.
Definitions
General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC.
Employer and data controller means ERGO who processes personal data or on whose assignment personal data are processed.
Applicant means the natural person with whom ERGO plans to hold or holds negotiations for entry into an employment contract.
Third party means a person other than ERGO or the applicant or a data processor of ERGO.
Data subject means the person whose personal data are processed.
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
Personal data processing means any operation performed on personal data (e.g. collection, recording, storage or alteration of personal data, granting access to personal data, or retrieval, use or transmission of personal data).
Data processor means a person who processes personal data on behalf of ERGO and on the basis of an agreement entered into with ERGO.