Introduction
Dubai Taxi Company PJSC (“DTC”) has prepared this Candidate Privacy Notice (“Notice”) to be provided to DTC job applicants and other individuals whose personal information we process for recruiting purposes (collectively, “Candidates”). The purpose of this Notice is to give you information about the type of personal information we may collect, process, and use for these purposes.
Please note that this Notice does not apply to DTC’s handling of data gathered about you in your role as a user of DTC’s services. If and when you interact with DTC in that capacity, the Privacy Policy associated with the relevant services applies.
DTC needs to process certain personal information in order to evaluate your candidacy. There are also statutory requirements and other contractual requirements with which we must comply regarding your job application and any hiring process. If we are unable to carry out the processing activities that we describe in this Notice, we may not be able to evaluate your candidacy or hire you.
This Notice does not guarantee that you will be hired and, if you are hired, this document does not create a contract of employment.
Types of information we handle
DTC may collect, process, and use the following categories of personal information:
- Identification information. This includes contact information such as your full name, address, mobile and telephone numbers and email addresses.
- Career information. DTC may handle recruitment or engagement information such as application forms and information included in a CV, cover letter, or otherwise provided through any application or hiring process; qualification testing results; references; information related to your previous or current job titles, work history, work dates, and work locations; information about skills, qualifications, experience; information about publications, speaking engagements, if provided by you; and professional memberships.
- Education information. DTC may have information related to the academic institutions you attended, degrees, certifications, training courses, publications, and transcript information, if provided by you.
- Other data you provide to us that is relevant to the potential employment relationship, including information gathered about you through interviews with you.
- Other legally protected information. DTC may collect, on an optional basis, and only to the extent consistent with or required by applicable law, information that relates to your gender, military service, nationality, disability status, and other legally protected information.
How we collect your information
In most cases, DTC collects personal information directly from you. For example, through your application or during interviews. At times, DTC may also receive personal information about you from third-party sources, including external recruiters and other referral sources, staffing agencies, references you provide or publicly available sources, such as your professional LinkedIn profile.
How we use information about you
We collect and use personal information for a variety of activities as part of the hiring process, which include, where applicable:
- Evaluating and responding to your employment application, including reviewing your education and job history, facilitating interviews, checking references, and notifying you of relevant additional vacancies with us that may interest you.
- Communicating with you, DTC employees, and third parties, regarding your application and recruiting process.
- Responding to and complying with requests and legal demands from regulators or other authorities, but only where we believe in good faith that we must use your information for these purposes.
- Analysing and improving the recruiting process, such as with respect to cost/budgeting analysis and recruiting outcomes.
The laws in some jurisdictions require companies to tell you about the legal grounds they rely on to process your information. Our legal basis for processing your information as described in this Notice are as follows:
- Where use of your information is necessary to take steps to enter into a contract of employment or another contract with you.
- Where we use your information to comply with applicable legal obligations, in particular in the area of labour and employment law, social security and social protection law, data protection law, tax law, and corporate compliance laws.
- Where use of your information furthers our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others. For example, to provide security for our services, operate our business and our services, and defend our legal rights.
- Where you have consented to our processing of your information for a particular purpose.
With whom we share your information
DTC may disclose information to the following types of entities or in the following circumstances (where applicable):
Within DTC: people within the DTC to carry out the purposes described in this Notice, including human resources, as well as other personnel within DTC, such as legal and compliance.
With third parties: service providers: recruiting and other human resource providers.
Legal and compliance: when required to do so by law, regulation, or court order or in response to a request for assistance by the police or other law enforcement agency.
Data transfers
DTC may transfer, store, and/or process your information to or with third parties such as trusted service providers and partners for the purposes described in this Notice. Wherever your information is transferred, stored, or processed by us, we take reasonable steps to protect your information in accordance with our Information Security policies and procedures and applicable laws. These measures may include implementing Standard Contractual Clauses to govern the transfer of your information, or other means recognized by applicable laws.
Data retention
DTC will retain information of candidates for different periods of time depending on the purposes for which we collect and use it, as described in this Notice. We will delete or de-identify information when it is no longer needed to fulfil these purposes.
Security of your information
We are committed to protecting your information. We use a variety of technical, physical, and organizational security measures designed to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of information. However, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. As such, we cannot guarantee the security of your information. We regularly monitor our Services for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. If you have any concerns about the security of our Services, please contact us.
Your rights
In the United Arab Emirates, you have the ability to exercise legal rights regarding our collection, use, and sharing of your information. Your legal rights may include access to, or a copy of, your information, delete certain information, correct your information, restrict our processing of certain information, if you have provided consent for us to use your information for a specific purpose, you may also withdraw that consent at any time.
Under certain circumstances, you may also have the right under applicable law to object to our processing of your personal information on specific grounds relating to your particular situation.
If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us. Please note that we will process your request in accordance with applicable law.
