Ovit Recruitment and Hiring Privacy Statement
 
If you use Ovit’s online career resources, we collect personal data that you submit to the website and use it for recruiting-related purposes. We may also use Cookies and other tracking technology and the same technologies we use for Marketing (including Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Databases, Targeted E-mail & Combining and Analysing Personal Data) to provide individuals with a personalised online experience, to send relevant information about careers and opportunities at Ovit, and to analyse the effectiveness of our recruitment efforts and resources. More information about how your data will be used by Ovit during the recruitment process can be found below, or at the Careers website.
 
Introduction / who is collecting your personal data?
 
When you apply for a job at Ovit, you acknowledge that we collect and use your personal data about you during the recruiting and any hiring process. As described in this Privacy Statement, your personal data may be retained and used by Ovit for the purpose of considering your qualifications for employment, as required by law. Please see below for information that Ovit may receive about you from third parties.
 
“Ovit” means the specific Ovit affiliates, subsidiaries, and contracted service providers who will collect, use, and maintain your personal data in connection with your application for employment, our Recruiting, Talent Management processes, and any hiring process if you are extended an offer of employment. A full list of Ovit entities by country and their contact information appears at the bottom of this Privacy Statement, as well as a list of contracted service providers who perform IT support or background checking services.
 
What Personal Data will Ovit collect?
 
The types of information requested from you and the manner in which that information is collected and accessed are determined by the requirements of the country in which the position is located, and not the country in which you reside. While, specific data requirements vary by country and the position being filled, the following categories of data will generally be collected by Ovit:

• Data you submit in résumés / CVs, letters, writing samples, or other written materials;

• Data generated by interviewers and recruiters, based on their interactions with you or basic Internet searches;

• Data provided by third-party placement firms, recruiters, or job-search websites, where applicable;

• Recommendations provided on your behalf by others;

• Data about your prior employment, education, and where applicable, credit history, criminal records or other data revealed during background screenings;

• Data about your health or disability where it is relevant to your ability or availability to work or to a workplace accommodation, subject to legal limits on the timing of collection of such data and other applicable limitations.

• Data about race / ethnicity / religion / disability / gender and self-identified LGBT status, for purposes of government reporting where required, as well as to understand the diversity characteristics of the Ovit workforce.

Your submission of personal data constitutes your consent to our use of your data and your verification that it is accurate.
 
By submitting your information, you acknowledge that you have read and understood the foregoing and consent to the uses of your information as set out above. You are not required to provide any requested information to Ovit, but failing to do so may result in not being able to continue your candidacy for the job for which you have applied.
 
By submitting your information, you acknowledge that all representations made by you are true and correct to the best of your knowledge and belief, and you have not knowingly omitted any related information of an adverse nature. Providing any inaccurate information may make you ineligible for employment.
 
 
What will Ovit do with your personal data?
 
Ovit will use your personal data to:

• Assess your suitability for employment for the role for which you are applying, as well as future roles that may become available;

• Perform administrative functions (e.g. reimburse you for interview-related expenses);

• Perform analysis of our applicant pool in order to better understand who is applying to positions at Ovit and how to attract top talent;

• In some cases, record your online interview for review by additional recruiters and hiring managers. In such cases, we will seek your express consent to be recorded;

• Transfer your contact information (only) to the Ovit Talent Connection—a site that we maintain to notify you about new positions that may be of interest to you. Your contact information will be used by the Ovit Talent Connection to send you one invitation to sign up for future position alerts and invitations to Ovit recruiting events, as well as one follow-up reminder. If you do not respond to these messages your contact information will be retained by the Ovit Talent Connection only for the purpose of ensuring that we do not contact you again. If you join the Ovit Talent Connection you will have future opportunities to opt-out of receiving messages and alerts if you choose.
• Perform any legally-required reporting, and respond to legal process.

          
From what sources will Ovit obtain your personal data?
 
Ovit may obtain data about you from the following sources:

• From you, when you submit resumes or other information online;

• From conversations with recruiters and interviews with hiring managers and other Ovit personnel or representatives, some of which may be recorded (with your express knowledge and consent) as well as from Internet searches that these individuals may perform, or data that they may obtain from job search or professional networking websites (e.g. monster.com, LinkedIn, etc.) where you may have made data about yourself publicly available;

• From third-party recruiters, staffing companies, or websites where you are introduced to Ovit through one. Ovit does not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party recruitment agencies, but does sometimes use such agencies subject to a written agreement. Any resume or other candidate information submitted outside of established candidate submission guidelines (including through the Careers website or via email to any Ovit employee) and without a written agreement or otherwise will be deemed to be provided for Ovit’s use, and no fee will be paid should the candidate be hired by Ovit; and

• From background checks, as applicable. Where permitted by law, Ovit may contract with a third party to perform a pre-employment background screening. The content of background check information varies by country to comply with local requirements, but may include information gathered from publicly available sources, your former employers or colleagues, schools you have attended, credit reporting agencies, and criminal records databases. These types of information will only be collected with your prior consent, and you will receive more information about the nature of such a background check before it begins. Where required by applicable local law, you may be asked to provide certain background check information, (which may include sensitive data) directly to Ovit.

 
Who will have access to your personal data? Where are they located?
 
In general, access to your personal data will be restricted to minimise the number of people in Ovit’s organisation who need it in order evaluate your application for employment, perform functions supporting our Recruiting and Talent Management functions, or to whom we are compelled to provide it by applicable law.
 
Where your personal data is transferred to a country other than the one in which you reside, be advised that such countries may not have the same legal protections for personal data as your home country. Ovit will, however, follow its internal privacy policy in such cases.
 
The following categories of individuals will have access to your Personal Data;          

• Recruiters working with the country where the position you are applying for is based. Such individuals may be based in a different country;
• Hiring managers and other interviewers. Often these individuals will be based in the country where the position is based, but in some cases they may be located in other countries;
• The Ovit Talent Management and Talent Connection teams, consisting of a limited number of individuals based in Greece and Cyprus;
• Individuals performing administrative and IT support functions;
• Authorised personnel at our service providers, including:
  • Jotform, which hosts and supports the Ovit Talent Acquisition System;
  • Viber, which hosts and supports the Ovit Talent Connection;
  • Companies contracted to perform background screenings, where applicable. These companies may be based in another country, and may obtain data from other countries where you have lived, worked or studied, as may be relevant as part of a background check. You will receive more information about any such check before it begins;
  • Government officials where legal reporting requirements may exist, or law enforcement agencies or private litigants in response to valid law enforcement process (warrant, subpoena, or court order); and
  • A successor to Ovit in the event that it sells or divests all or part of its business.

 
How long will Ovit retain my personal data?
 
If you are given and accept an offer of employment by Ovit, personal data collected during your pre-employment period will become part of your Ovit personnel records, to be retained throughout and for a period after your employment with Ovit (specific periods vary by country). If Ovit does not employ you, Ovit may nevertheless continue to retain and use personal data collected during the recruitment process in order to consider you for new positions, and, if appropriate, to refer back to an earlier application if you submit a resume or other information to Ovit again in the future, as well as for system administration, to perform research and analysis, and to invite you to join the Ovit Talent Connection.
 
 
How Ovit protects your personal data.
 
Ovit employs organisational, technical, and physical security measures in order to protect your data from loss or misuse. Where we contract with third-party suppliers to provide services that may enable them to access your personal data we require them by contract to have similar security controls in place.
 
 
How to obtain a copy of Ovit’s internal Privacy Policy, request access to your personal data or contact us with questions or feedback.
 
If you have a question, comment, or complaint, wish to obtain a copy of Ovit’s Policy—Data Privacy, or wish to access a copy of your personal data or to correct it if you believe it is inaccurate, you may Contact Us by clicking the link. Ovit has established a Data Privacy Officer to oversee compliance with local privacy requirements; you may also use the Contact Us form to contact the Ovit Data Privacy Officer for your country or to obtain more information about how your data will be used in your country.
 
For job seekers from Greece & Cyprus:
 
The European Data Protection Act (“Act”) requires Ovit to provide you this privacy statement in both Greek and English.