Our objective is to empower 10 million youths with vital skills that will prepare them for employment opportunities by 2030. As a participant in the Unilever Youth Development Initiatives, we kindly request that you share specific personal information. We understand the importance of safeguarding your personal data and its usage, and we are committed to ensuring that Unilever handles your information with utmost care. This Privacy Notice has been crafted to provide clarity on the types of personal data we collect, the rationale behind the collection, and the ways in which it is utilized. Additionally, this notice clarifies your rights and outlines the methods through which you can exercise them.
The data we collect comprises personal information such as your name and email address, in addition to your professional interests. These include the roles and seniority levels you are seeking, specific areas of interest for updates, such as career and job opportunities, professional development options, volunteering opportunities, and engaging stories related to relevant subjects. We also tailor our updates based on your preferred countries for receiving specific information.
We will use your personal data information to accurately identify and support you as you engage in our Youth Development Initiatives. The data will enable us to keep you informed on the progress of these initiatives. Furthermore, by documenting your participation, we can track the number of young individuals who have completed our programs, thereby allowing us to gauge our progress towards achieving our goal of equipping 10m youths with essential skills for employment opportunities by 2030.
Lawfulness of data processing
Unilever processes your personal data lawfully. Legal grounds on which we may base our processing activities depending on jurisdiction may include:
We will keep your personal data for as long as we need it for the purpose it is being processed for as outlined above. For the reporting we retain the identifiable data we collect until 2036, after which we employ measures to permanently delete it.
Unilever shares personal data within the Unilever Group or with third parties for purposes described in this Privacy Notice. We will not use or share your personal data for marketing purposes without your explicit consent.
Unilever will only send personal data collected within the European Economic Area (EEA) to foreign countries in circumstances such as:
If we do transfer personal data abroad, Unilever will make sure that the personal data is protected with a similar level of protection as required by law in its country of origin. If we do transfer personal data to outside of the EEA, Unilever will make sure that it is protected in the same way as if it was being used in the EEA. We’ll use one of the following safeguards:
We may share your personal data with competent public authorities, government, or regulatory bodies, if necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
Unilever takes the security of your personal data very seriously. We take every effort to protect your personal data from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
Our measures include implementing appropriate access controls, investing in the latest Information Security capabilities to protect the IT environments we leverage, and ensuring we encrypt, pseudonymise and anonymise personal data wherever possible.
Access to your personal data is only permitted among our employees and agents on a need-to-know basis and subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations when processed by third parties.
You may possess certain rights under local laws concerning the personal data we maintain about you. These rights may include:
Exercising your rights
In order to exercise your data privacy rights you can access the following link or contact your local HR department.
Unilever's nominated Chief Data Protection Officer can be contacted at Unilever PLC, Port Sunlight, Wirral, Merseyside, CH62 4ZD, United Kingdom or by at email: unilever.privacy@unilever.com.
If you have any questions or concerns about Unilever’s Privacy Notice or data processing or if you would like to make a complaint about a possible breach of local privacy laws, please do so by sending an email or submitting a request through the “Contact Us” form on our websites.
If you are unsatisfied with the reply received, you may refer your complaint to the relevant Supervisory Authority in your Country.
If you ask us, we will endeavour to provide you with information about relevant complaint avenues which may be applicable to your circumstances.