Recruitment Privacy Notice

Recruitment process

We will only process your personal information for specified and lawful processing purposes suchas entering intoan employmentcontract with you, complying with our legal obligations, when necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by us or that of a third party in the following instances: ·

Profile management: We may process personal data to manage your profile in our recruitment systems so that we can provide current and future job opportunities, tailoring the content we provide you, based on your skills, interests, location, etc.

Pre-screening: We check that you can lawfully enter into a contract and fulfil the essential job criteria e.g. you have the relevant work authorisation and have answered job specific screeningquestions. This process may be automated. Anautomateddecision is a decision which is made solely by automatic means, where no humans are involved in the decision-making process related to your personal data.

Profile Evaluation:

• o Profile review: To assist our recruitment staff identify potential candidates, your profile (work experience, qualifications etc.) may be evaluated and ranked using a customized machine learning model.
• o Gamification:Youmaybe invitedtoplay a set of neurosciencegameswhich collect objective behavioural data and evaluate it, using Unilever customized machine learning models, to predict your potential for the role which you have applied for, by comparing you against a benchmark.
• o Video interview: You may be invited to a video interview to answer a set of pre-defined questions. A machine learning model analyses the recorded videos, comparing you against a benchmark and thereby evaluates your suitability for the role for which you have applied. All profile evaluation tools are regularly tested to confirm they have used fair and unbiased criteria.

Personal interview: When you are invited for a physical or video conferencing interview (e.g. Skype), the interviewer may ask relevant questions to assess your suitability for the role.

Communication: We may use a chatbot for answering recruitment related queries, sending communications & scheduling interviews.

Statistical research: We perform general statistical research using your data and data of other candidates to analyse the effectiveness of our selection process and we use aggregated information to create reports. This may include processing session data on online visitor activity.

We do not hire individuals solely based on automated processing. Where automatic processing supports the recruitment process, you may have the right to review such decision by requesting human intervention.

We will retain your personal datafor as long as is considered necessary for the purpose(s) for which it was collected (including as required by applicable law or regulation). If your application is unsuccessful, Unilever may retain and use the information you provided to us for a reasonable period of time to deal with any matter which may arise in connection with your application, for contacting you regarding other employment opportunities, and for Unilever’s legitimate business purposes. Where personal data is no longer necessary or relevant for our identified purposes or where you have indicated that you are no longer interested in staying in contact with us, we will securely dispose of your personal data.

We may share your personal data for purposes related to the recruitment process with:

•  Other companies within the Unilever Group, including with those which may be located outside of your location;
  
•  Authorized third party agents, service providers and/or subcontractors of Unilever and in particular authorized third parties who carry out reference and background checks on behalf of Unilever; and
• Competent public authorities, government, regulatory or fiscal agencies, to comply with a legal obligation.
  

International data transfers

We may share personal data within the Unilever Group or with third-parties for purposes described in this Privacy Notice.

Further, Unilever may send your personal data out of Sri Lanka to any country prescribed by the Data Protection Authority of Sri Lanka pursuant to an adequacy decision, or if it is to a country not so prescribed, only when Unilever is satisfied that:

(i) regardless of transfer of your personal data to such country, we are able to comply with our mandatory obligations under the Personal Data Protection Act, and

(ii) only after executing an appropriate instrument as may be prescribed by the Data Protection Authority of Sri Lanka, with the recipient of data in such country.

You may have certain rights under your local law in relation to the personal data we hold about you. In particular, you may have a right to:

• to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data;
•  request a copy of personal data we hold about you;
• requestthat weupdatethe personal datawe holdaboutyou, or correct suchpersonal data that you think is incorrect or incomplete;
• request that we delete personal data that we hold about you;
•  request toobjecttoour processingof your personal data under certain circumstances in which case, we will stop processing your personal information unless the applicable law permits us to process your personal information;
• request for a review of a decision where such decision in relation to you is based solely on automated processing and has created or which is likely to create an irreversible and continuous impact on your rights and freedoms under any written law;
•  request to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data to the extent such processing is based on consent and consent is the only permissible basis for processing (although if you do so, it does not mean that anything we have done with your personal data with your consent up to that point is unlawful);
•  complain to the Data Protection Authority in Sri Lanka.

Exercising your rights

In order to exercise your data privacy rights you can send a written request to the HR team

In the event you make such request, we will respond to you, within twenty one (21) working days and inform you whether your request has been granted, refused (with reasons therefor) or whether we have refrained from further processing your personal information.

We sometimes need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and to ensure that you have the right to exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal information.

We may refuse your request based on certain grounds to the extent permitted by applicable law.

If your request has not been resolved to your satisfaction, you may contact our data protection officer by writing to us via email dataprivacy.advisorSL@unilever.com

Please only submit applications for a current position using the proper channels (e.g. on Unilever career sites). Receiving your request at the right contact point helps us process your request faster.”

This Privacy Notice may be changed over time. This Privacy Notice was last updated in December 2022.