In the following we would like to give you additional information on the processing of your personal data in the context of your application.
You have applied for a position where the fulfilment of your tasks requires close cooperation with our US cooperation partner METER Group Inc USA, 2365 NE Hopkins Court Pullman, WA 99163 USA. Your application documents will therefore also be made available to the decision-makers at METER Group Inc. responsible for your application. Without forwarding your application, a decision on the establishment of an employment relationship with us is not possible.
We have made contractual arrangements to ensure that METER Group Inc. complies with the strict requirements of the EU Data Protection Regulation and other data protection regulations within the framework of our cooperation.
The transmission to the colleagues of METER Group Inc. involved in the application process is done through restricted access via shared folders of the data protection-compliant professional version of the “G Suite”. On a “Google Drive” cloud storage device provided by Google, we store the necessary application documents, which we have received from you in the context of the application (e.g. by post, e-mail), in PDF format,
The provider of the G Suite is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google is subject to and certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement between the European Union and the United States. By doing so, Google is committed to complying with the standards and regulations of European data protection law. For more information, please refer to the following linked article: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.
For more information about data processing in connection with Google Drive, please refer to Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
Google offers features and contractual obligations to its customers that are designed to meet EU privacy requirements and the privacy recommendations of the Article 29 Working Party. Google’s privacy policy in this regard can be found at the following links: https://gsuite.google.com/terms/
We have concluded corresponding EU standard contract clauses and order processing contracts with our service provider for the G Suite to ensure that the requirements of the EU data protection regulation are met.
Your data will be processed in data centers in Europe; with the use of the G Suite/Google Drive, data processing will also be carried out in the USA.