1. Declaration
By submitting your application, you confirm that Mitsubishi Chemical Group can collect and otherwise process, store and use your personal data for recruitment purposes as identified herein to assess your qualification and suitability for the position for which you applied. You confirm that all information provided in this application is accurate, complete, and truthful to the best of your knowledge. You understand that any misrepresentation may result in disqualification from the recruitment process or, if discovered after employment commences, may lead to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.
Your information will be handled confidentially and used solely for evaluating your candidacy.
2. Data Processing Consent
By submitting this form you provide explicit consent for Mitsubishi Chemical Group to process your personal data for recruitment purposes in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the EU-General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and other applicable national data protection legislation.
3. Data Controller Information
The data controlling contact for your personal information is: careers-mce@mcgc.com
4. Categories of Personal Data Processed
We may process the following categories of your personal data:
- Contact information (name, address, e-mail, phone number)
- Employment history and qualifications
- Educational background
- Information provided in your CV/cover letter
- Assessment results and interview notes
- References (if provided)
- Diversity information (if voluntarily provided)
- Your photograph (if voluntarily provided)
5. Legal Basis for Processing
Our legal basis for processing your personal data is:
- Your explicit consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR)
- When processing special category data, your explicit consent (Article9(2)(a) GDPR)
6. Data Retention Period
Your personal data will be retained for one month after the conclusion of the recruitment process. If your application is successful, your data will be transferred to your employee file and retained in accordance with our employee data retention policy and applicable laws.
7. Data Rights
Under GDPR, you have the right to:
- access your personal data
- request rectification of inaccurate data
- request erasure of your data (“right to be forgotten”)
- restrict processing of your data
- data portability
- object to processing of your data
- withdraw consent at any time (note this may affect your application status)
To exercise these rights, contact the following mail address: careers-mce@mcgc.com
8. Data Sharing
We will not share your personal data with third parties except:
- with third-party service providers engaged for recruitment purposes (e.g., assessment providers, background check services)
- when legally required to do so
- with our group companies for legitimate business purposes. A list of our group companies can be found here: Group Companies | Mitsubishi Chemical Group. If you are an applicant, the individual group company to which you have applied may, with your consent, share your data with other companies within group companies so that they can contact you in the event of future job opportunities with them that may be of interest to you.
9. International Data Transfers
Where your personal data is transferred outside the EEA, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place in accordance with GDPR requirements. During recruitment process we may disclose data to other parties. Not all of them are located in Germany (depending on the location where the GDPR contact person is based). Your data may therefore be processed both in Europe and in Japan; in exceptional cases, in any country in the world. If a recipient is located in a country without adequate statutory data protection, we require the recipient to undertake to comply with data protection. For this purpose, we use the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses, which can be accessed here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2021/914/oj.
10. Disclaimers
Please note that submitting an application does not guarantee employment. The company reserves the right to modify or discontinue the recruitment process at any time without prior notice.
You can revoke your consent at any point in time. Such revocation will be effective only for the future. If you revoke your consent, you will be excluded from recruitment process immediately. You can revoke your consent, ask any questions or submit any other request with regard to your data subject rights by contacting careers-mce@mcgc.com. All questions, notes or complaints will be forwarded immediately to the responsible person within the company.
If you have concerns about how we process your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in your jurisdiction.
11. Consent Confirmation
I agree to the processing of my personal data as described above. I confirm that I have read and understood the above, that all my questions were answered satisfactorily and that I am giving my consent voluntarily.