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Careers Privacy
Privacy Notice for California Job Applicants
Effective Date: January 1, 2023
Last Reviewed on: December 1, 2022
This Privacy Notice for California Job Applicants applies solely to all job applicants who reside in the State of California ("you"). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and any amendments, and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
Information We Collect
We collect information from job applicants that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular job applicant ("personal information"). In particular, Samsung Semiconductor Inc. (“SSI”) has collected the following categories of personal information from its job applicants within the last twelve (12) months:
| Category | Examples 1 | Collected | Purpose | Third Parties Shared | Retention Period |
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| A. Identifiers. | A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers. | YES |
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We will retain information about you for so long as we have a legal or business purpose for it or a legal requirement to maintain it. Once we no longer have a legal or business purpose for the information and no legal requirement to maintain the information, we will promptly purge the information |
| B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). | A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. | YES |
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We will retain information about you for so long as we have a legal or business purpose for it or a legal requirement to maintain it. Once we no longer have a legal or business purpose for the information and no legal requirement to maintain the information, we will promptly purge the information. |
| C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. | Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information). | YES |
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We will retain information about you for so long as we have a legal or business purpose for it or a legal requirement to maintain it. Once we no longer have a legal or business purpose for the information and no legal requirement to maintain the information, we will promptly purge the information. |
| D. Commercial information. | Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. | NO | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| E. Biometric information. | Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. | NO | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| F. Internet or other similar network activity. | Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. | YES |
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We will retain information about you for so long as we have a legal or business purpose for it or a legal requirement to maintain it. Once we no longer have a legal or business purpose for the information and no legal requirement to maintain the information, we will promptly purge the information. |
| G. Geolocation data. | Physical location or movements within SSI office locations | NO | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| H. Sensory data. | Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. | NO | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| I. Professional or employment-related information. | Current or past job history or performance evaluations. | YES |
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We will retain information about you for so long as we have a legal or business purpose for it or a legal requirement to maintain it. Once we no longer have a legal or business purpose for the information and no legal requirement to maintain the information, we will promptly purge the information. |
| J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)). | Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. | YES |
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We will retain information about you for so long as we have a legal or business purpose for it or a legal requirement to maintain it. Once we no longer have a legal or business purpose for the information and no legal requirement to maintain the information, we will promptly purge the information. |
| K. Inferences drawn from other personal information. | Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. | NO | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| L. Sensitive personal information | Personal information that reveals government IDs; information providing access to a financial account; racial or ethnic origin; personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s health, sex life, or sexual orientation. | NO | N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 1. Examples listed herein are illustrative of the types of personal information included in each category and may or may not be the specific types of personal information collected on an individual employee or job applicant. Some personal information included in these categories may overlap with other categories.
SSI obtains the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
• Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete.
• Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your interactions with our computer systems, products or services.
• Third Parties. For example, from vendors used for background checks.
Use of Personal Information
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following purposes:
• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, to determine the viability of your candidacy.
• To investigate and help prevent fraud or otherwise ensure compliance with policies and procedures.
• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
• To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our systems, services, databases and other assets.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of SSI’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by SSI about our users is among the assets transferred.
SSI will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We may share your personal information for business purposes by disclosing it to the categories of third parties identified in the chart above. We only make these business purpose disclosures under written contracts that describe the purposes, require the recipient to keep the personal information confidential, and prohibit using the disclosed information for any purpose except performing the contract.
We do not sell or share (as the term is defined in the CCPA2) your personal information.
- 2. The CCPA defines “sharing” as communicating personal information to a third party for cross-context or targeted behavioral advertising.
Your Rights and Choices
You have rights regarding your personal information. This section describes the rights you have and explains how to exercise those rights.
Access to Specific Information
You have the right to request that SSI disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months, including:
• The categories of personal information we collected about you.
• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.
• If we disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, identification of the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
Deletion Request Rights
You have the right to request that SSI delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. If an exception applies, we will advise you of the applicable exception and the reason for denying your request.
Correction Request Rights
You have the right to request that SSI correct any inaccurate personal information we may hold about you. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct inaccurate personal information, taking into the account the nature of the personal information and the purpose for our processing.
Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.
Exercising Your Rights
To exercise your rights described above, please submit a request by either:
• Sending an email to compliance@ssi.samsung.com
• By mail:
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
ATTN: Legal/Compliance
3655 N First St.
San Jose, CA 95134
We may need to validate your request. In order to validate your request, we may ask you for the following information: your name and ways for us to understand your previous interaction history with Samsung Semiconductor Inc., e.g., the position you applied for or the name of your Samsung Semiconductor Inc. contact. Only you or an authorized agent may make a request related to your personal information. To designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, please complete the following form here or provide us with a power of attorney or other legally binding written document signed by you and identifying your agent. We may also verify the identity of your designated agent.
Changes to This Privacy Notice
SSI reserves the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will update this privacy policy on and post the updated notice on our job applicant portal and update the notice's effective date.
Questions About This Privacy Notice
If you have any questions or comments about this notice or the ways in which SSI collects and uses your information, please contact us by either:
• Sending an email to compliance@ssi.samsung.com
• By mail:
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
ATTN: Legal/Compliance
3655 N First St.
San Jose, CA 95134