Equinix Consent Form
Equinix Consent Form
Your privacy is important to Equinix. This statement (the “Privacy Statement”) aims at
informing you of how Equinix entities will use the information you submit when applying for a
job at Equinix. Equinix Inc, One Lagoon Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065 (the “Employer”),
directly or through an affiliated Equinix entity, has asked a third-party service provider, First
Advantage Background Services Corp. & its Affiliated Background Screening Entities (“First
Advantage”), headquartered at 1 Concourse Parkway, NE, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 30328, to
process certain personal information relating to you in connection with your application for
employment at Equinix Inc, One Lagoon Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065 (the “Employer”),
directly or through an affiliated Equinix entity.
This form is intended to describe the personal information First Advantage will process on
behalf of the Employer (or any affiliated Equinix entity), and to obtain your consent to these
activities.
If you intend to provide the Employer with details of a reference (or any other third party) as
part of your application for employment, itis your responsibility to obtain consent from
references before providing their personal information to us.
For the avoidance of doubt, Equinix does not wish to receive any confidential or proprietary (or
patented) information which you have received from your previous employers.
First Advantage, on behalf of the Employer, envisages that it will process information about
criminal proceedings and/or convictions (where applicable and authorised to do so pursuant to
local country legalisation).
First Advantage will collect information about your criminal proceedings and/or convictions
history if you are to be offered the job you applied for (conditional on checks and any other
conditions, such as references, being satisfactory). First Advantage shall carry out a criminal
record check to satisfy itself and the Employer that there is nothing in your criminal convictions
history which makes you unsuitable for the role.
Select employees of Equinix - such as your potential future manager(s), employees of the
Human Resources Department, and IT (for maintenance purposes only) - and select employees
of our external service providers who support the Employer with the administration of
recruitment applications, have access to your Job Application Data.
If you are successful in your job application, your Job Application Data may be shared with
the Employer’s customers (where you provide support in your employment to such customers)
to ensure that the Employer can comply with its contractual obligations (including customer
audit requirements) and/or to ensure that the Employer’s legitimate interest in maintaining
adequate levels of data security and in particular, to ensure that sufficient technical and
organisational measures are in place in this regard.
Your Job Application Data is stored in a secure and safe manner and used and processed
fairly, in compliance with all applicable data protection and privacy principles.
Equinix will not supply any data to any third party other than those identified above without
your express authorization. All of the third parties that Equinix may supply your data to are
required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data in line with our
Equinix’s policies. Equinix does not allow any third- parties to use your personal data for their
own purposes. Equinix only permits them to process your personal data for specified purposes
and in accordance with our instructions.
DATA SECURITY
Equinix has put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information
from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In
addition, Equinix limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents,
contractors and other third parties who have a business need-to-know. They will only process
your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
Equinix has put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will
notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where Equinix is legally
required to do so.
APPLICABLE LAWS.
Equinix recognizes that certain laws may require stricter standards than those described in the
present Privacy Statement. Equinix entities will handle Job Application Data in accordance
with local law applicable at the place where the Job Application Data are processed. Where
applicable local law provides less protection than that established by this Privacy Statement,
Equinix will handle your Job Application Data in accordance with the present Privacy
Statement.
Providing your Job Application Data is voluntary. However, if you choose not to provide all of
the data that is requested for your application, this may impact Equinix’s ability to consider
you as a candidate.
The Job Application Data you provide will be used to assess your application for employment
at Equinix (or any affiliated Equinix entity), to verify your information and conduct reference
checks, and to communicate with you and inform you of further career opportunities. It is our
legitimate interest to use the Job Application Data to assess your application for employment
at Equinix (or any affiliated Equinix entity) as set out here.
If you accept employment with Equinix (or an affiliated Equinix entity), the information
collected will become part of your employment record and will be used for employment
purposes.
Your Job Application Data is stored in our applicant’s data base for 12 months as from your
most recent submission of the Job Application Data. You can access your Job Application
Data, correct it or delete it at any time as explained below.
YOUR RIGHTS.
You can access your Job Application Data, correct it or delete it at any time by logging into
the First Advantage application webpage “insert First Advantage weblink”. You can also get
further information regarding the processing of your Job Application Data and on Equinix’s
general Privacy Policy by sending an e-mail to [email protected]
YOUR CONSENT.
By submitting your Job Application Data, you are granting your consent to the processing of
that information (including to the transfer of your Job Application Data worldwide) in
accordance with this Privacy Statement.
Date: 17.03.2020
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