If you apply for a job at PlanetScale, the company collects your resume details, professional history, and any diversity information you choose to share, and uses this for recruiting purposes under a legitimate business interests basis.
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Diversity information, which may include characteristics protected under federal or state law, is collected from job applicants and retained for recruitment statistics purposes; applicants should understand what they are disclosing and how it may be used.
Interpretive note: The adequacy of a legitimate interests basis for processing voluntary diversity data under GDPR Article 9 is legally uncertain; special category data processing requirements may impose a higher standard than the policy currently reflects.
Job applicants provide PlanetScale with personal contact information, work history, and potentially sensitive diversity characteristics; this data is used for recruitment and statistics under a legitimate interests basis, and the Privacy Snapshot confirms it is in the 'sensitive personal information' category under California Civil Code 1798.140.
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"When you visit the Careers portion of our websites, we collect the information that you provide to us in connection with your job application. This includes but is not limited to business and personal contact information, professional credentials and skills, educational and work history and other information of the type that may be included in a resume. This may also include diversity information that you voluntarily provide. We use this information on the basis of our legitimate business interests to facilitate our recruitment activities and process employment applications, such as by evaluating a job candidate for an employment activity, to monitor recruitment statistics and to respond to surveys.Excerpt from PlanetScale's Privacy Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Collection of diversity information from job applicants engages federal and state employment discrimination laws, as well as CCPA/CPRA's definition of sensitive personal information under California Civil Code 1798.140, which the Privacy Snapshot …
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Diversity information, which may include characteristics protected under federal or state law, is collected from job applicants and retained for recruitment statistics purposes; applicants should understand what they are disclosing and how it may be used.
Job applicants provide PlanetScale with personal contact information, work history, and potentially sensitive diversity characteristics; this data is used for recruitment and statistics under a legitimate interests basis, and the Privacy Snapshot confirms it is in the 'sensitive personal information' category under California Civil Code 1798.140.
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