PRIVACY POLICY

1. GENERAL INFORMATION

The protection of personal data is a major concern for Altera.

 

This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) forms an integral part of the terms and conditions of use of the website alteraconsulting.jp (the “Website”). It aims to provide you with all relevant information relating to the processing of your personal data (hereinafter the “Personal Data”) and describes the methods of collection, registration and processing of Personal Data obtained during the consultation or registration on the Website, as part of our recruitment process or our commercial and marketing actions.

 

We may update this information regularly; we advise you to review this Privacy Policy regularly. 

2. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

Altera undertakes that your Personal Data is obtained and processed fairly lawfully and transparently, is collected for specified and lawful purposes, is used in accordance with these purposes and is adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to these purposes in accordance with the principle of minimization.

 

Personal Data may be collected directly when, for example, you take an active approach on the Website (in particular by making a contact request) or when you respond to a job offer posted on our career website (in particular by filling out a form) or indirectly when, for example, the information is automatically issued by your computer (including through cookies depending on your choice).

 

Some of the Personal Data is essential for the provision of the service you want, the evaluation of your application for a position within the group or the use of certain tools as part of the recruitment process.

2.1 Type of Personal Data collected

With regard to the communication, marketing and commercial actions (including registration for an event / newsletter / webinar or others, download of documentation, etc.) or requests for contact or information, the different categories of Personal Data collected are the following:

  • – Personal identification data (in particular surname, first name);
  • – Contact information (including mailing address, email address, phone number);
  • – Professional data (in particular name of the company, title).

With regard to the recruitment process, the different categories of Personal Data collected are as follows:

  • – Personal identification data of candidates (including name, surname, photograph, marital status, date of birth, postal address, telephone number, e-mail address);
  • – Professional data contained in the documents / videos submitted (in particular concerning professional experience, training, languages and other hobbies). 

With regard to browsing the Website, the different categories of Personal Data collected by Altera are as follows:

  • – Browsing and connection data (including web pages visited, IP address of your computer, connection logs, called destinations, chosen language).

3. PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA PERSONAL

Data is processed for the following purposes, it being specified that any other purpose may be specified at the time of collection.

 

With regard to communication, marketing and commercial actions, the processing of Personal Data collected is done on the basis of consent or the legitimate interests. The goals are:

  • – organization, management and monitoring of all marketing and communication actions of the Company,
  • – dissemination of information on the Company, its products and services and prospecting,
  • – Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database management,
  • – follow-up of requests and contacts,
  • – participation in surveys of satisfaction, survey or questionnaire or equivalent,
  • – statistics.
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With regard to the recruitment process, the processing of the Personal Data collected is done on the basis of the legitimate interest as well as the need to take the steps prior to entering an employment contract. The goals are:

  • – assessment of a candidate’s ability to fill a position from a recruitment perspective,
  • – organizing the recruitment process and interviews and recruitment campaigns,
  • – planning of HR development actions,
  • – reimbursement of expenses related to recruitment,
  • – setting up the employment contract.
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With regard to browsing the Website, the Processing of the Personal Data collected is carried out on the basis of legitimate interest.

4. RECIPIENTS OF PERSONAL DATA

Your Personal Data may be processed by persons who need access to such Personal Data as part of their duties within the Company (including marketing, commercial, administrative, functional support or human resources, etc.).

 

Your Personal Data may also be processed by external service providers on our behalf. In this case, Altera ensures that they have an appropriate level of personal data protection. They may be hosting providers or service providers helping us to manage or maintain the Website, as well as tools or computer or digital media, or service providers facilitating the recruitment process or allowing us to conduct our business.

 

We may also share your Personal Data with our publisher partners with whom we are in a relationship and in the context of certain commercial, marketing and communication actions.

 

We may also disclose or share your Personal Data to comply with a legal obligation or to protect rights, property or safety. We may also disclose your Personal Data to a potential purchaser of an activity or assets. 

5. TRANSFER AND STORAGE OF PERSONAL DATA

Some of your Personal Data may be transferred, accessed, and stored in a country outside Japan.

 

As some countries may not have laws governing the use and transfer of Personal Data, we undertake to take all necessary steps to ensure that third parties comply with the terms of this Privacy Policy. These measures may include a review of the standards applied by these third parties for the protection of Personal Data and security and / or the signing of appropriate contracts.

 

Some tools used in the recruitment process may be hosted outside Japan. In all cases, these transfers benefit from appropriate guarantees in accordance with regulations.

 

For further information, please contact us in accordance with the instructions in section 9 below.

 

We take all reasonable and useful precautions regarding the nature of the Personal Data and the risks presented by its processing, to protect against any form of damage, loss, misappropriation, intrusion, disclosure, alteration or destruction.

6. RETENTION OF PERSONAL DATA

Altera only stores your Personal Data for as long as necessary for the purpose of the processing or to fulfill legal obligations. 

7. AUTOMATED PROFILING/DECISION AS PART OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

As part of a first selection of candidates, we can use solutions developed by third-party suppliers to analyze your application and profile, its suitability to the positions to which you apply or which could correspond within the Company or the Group, the objective being to optimize the selection of the candidates and to retain the profiles the most adapted for a determined position.

 

However, these solutions are not the only tools used and other criteria can be taken into account. In all cases, decisions are not fully automated.

8. YOUR RIGHTS

At any time, you have the right to :

  • – Be informed regarding the processing of your Personal Data,
  • – Access your Personal Data processed by Altera and modify them,
  • – Be forgotten which allows you to demand the deletion of your Personal Data by Altera,
  • – Limit the processing that allows you to control how your Personal Data is processed,
  • – Object to the processing of your Personal Data, which means that you can demand that Altera stops to process it,
  • – Portability, allowing you to request to receive your Personal Data in a structured and standardized format.

 

No sensitive Personal Data is collected, that is no data concerning health, sexual preferences, religious beliefs, ethnic group, political affiliation or membership in any community or trade union group.

 

You are informed of the existence within Altera of a Data Protection Officer (DPO) to whom you can request the benefit of one of these rights above, by e-mail to the following address: dpo@alteraconsulting.jp

 

You have the option to unsubscribe information that you receive from our Company and no longer receive emails, detailed unsubscribe instructions are included at the bottom of each email.

9. EXTERNAL WEBSITE

Our Website may contain links to partner websites or be accessible from the websites of our partners, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to one of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and we can not be held responsible for these policies. Please check these policies before submitting Personal Data to these sites.

 

In addition, in a recruitment made by job offers on an external website, you define the settings of social networks that you will use to apply for or to communicate information about you. Each website has its own privacy policy. 

10. COOKIES

Altera complies with the Japanese regulations on the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector. Below you will find all the information to manage the cookies we use while you visit our Website. 

10.1 Définition

A cookie or any similar plotter (the “Cookies”) is a plotter that can be saved in your terminal (computer, tablet or smartphone) and / or when consulting or using an application with software navigation, via the Website or an application. A cookie allows its issuer, during its period of validity, to recognize the relevant terminal each time the terminal accesses digital content containing cookies from the same issuer, and according to the Cookie, to collect several pieces of information.

10.2 Your consent

The registration of a Cookie is essentially subject to the will of the user, which he can express and modify at any time and free of charge under the conditions provided below. Your browser can also be set to notify you which Cookies are placed on your computer and ask you to accept them or not.

 

You can give your consent or not by clicking on the different icons for this purpose, in a global way or specifically by purpose via preference management, with the exception of necessary Cookies which do not require the collection of your consent.

 

We remind you that the setting is likely to modify your conditions of access to our services requiring the use of Cookies. You can always refuse the registration of Cookies in your terminal or delete those already registered, but your experience on the site may be degraded.  

10.3 Purpose of the cookies

The Cookies placed by Altera allow the Website to function efficiently, to remember your preferences to provide the Company with information for statistical purposes, to allow the viewing of videos and sharing on social networks.