Candidate Privacy Notice

By sending your resume and/or additional personal information (hereinafter referred to as “personal data”) for the purposes of applying to a position for employment or similar relationship with (Blueprint Power Slovakia s.r.o., with a principal place of business at Kominárska 1552/3A, 831 04 Bratislava, Slovakia, ID number: 55011578 (such entities, as applicable, “Blueprint”, “we”, or “us”), you express your consent to the processing of personal data in accordance with § 13 par. 1 letter a) of Act no. 18/2018 Coll., on the protection of personal data as amended, in conjunction with section Art. 6 par. 1 letter a) Regulations of the European Parliament and the Council (EU) No. 2016/679 of April 27, 2016, General Data Protection Regulation.

Data Protection Principles

Blueprint will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:

  • Used lawfully, lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.

  • Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.

  • Kept securely.

The kind of information we hold about you:

In connection with your application for work with us, we will collect, store, and use the following categories of personal information about you:

  • The information you have provided to us in your resume and cover letter.

  • Any information you have provided on our application form, including name, title, address, telephone number, personal email address, date of birth, gender, employment history, qualifications.

  • Information obtained as a result of a background check.

  • Any information you provide to us during an interview.

  • Personal information provided accompanying any “project” or “test” completed as a part of the interview process.

  • Interviewer feedback during face to face interviews.

How is your personal information collected?

We collect personal information about candidates from the following sources:

  • You, the candidate.

  • Your named referees.

  • Third-party background check service providers.

  • Publicly accessible databases such as LinkedIn.

How we will use information about you:

We will use the personal information we collect about you to:

  • Assess your skills, qualifications, and suitability for the work.

  • Carry out background and reference checks, where applicable.

  • Communicate with you about the recruitment process.

  • Keep records related to our hiring processes.

  • Comply with legal or regulatory requirements.

  • Keep your information for consideration for future roles

It is in our legitimate interests to decide whether to appoint you to work since it would be beneficial to our business to appoint someone to that work.

We also need to process your personal information to decide whether to enter into a contract with you, which may include any resume, cover letter, application you submit, test you participate in or reference details you provide.

If you fail to provide personal information:

If you fail to provide information when requested, which is necessary for us to consider your application (such as evidence of qualifications or work history), we will not be able to process your application successfully. For example, if we require a credit check or references for this role and you fail to provide us with relevant details, we will not be able to take your application further.

Automated Decision-Making

You will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making.

Data Sharing

How long will you use my information for?

We will retain your personal information for 24 months after we have communicated to you our decision about whether to appoint you to work. We retain your personal information for that period so that we can show, in the event of a legal claim, that we have not discriminated against candidates on prohibited grounds and that we have conducted the recruitment exercise in a fair and transparent way. 

With whom will we share your information?

Your information will be processed by our data processors. Our main data processor is:

  • Blueprint Power Technologies Inc., so sídlom 211 E 43rd St., Unit 1003, New York, NY 10017 Spojené štáty Americké. Identifikačné číslo: 82-2670100;

Rights of Access, Correction, Erasure, and Restriction

Your rights in connection with personal information

Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:

  • Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

  • Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.

  • Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process.

  • Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.

  • Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.

  • Request the transfer of your personal information to another party.

If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact people@blueprintpower.com.

Right to Withdraw Consent

When you applied for this role, you provided consent to us processing your personal information for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. You have the right to withdraw your consent for processing for that purpose at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact people@blueprintpower.sk. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your application and, subject to our retention policy, we will dispose of your personal data securely.