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APPLICANT PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated: January 25, 2016
This Applicant Privacy Policy explains the types of information we collect from you when you submit your personal information and other information (collectively "Information") to the Company, how and why we use the Information you provide and with whom we share the Information. It applies to the Information that you submit to Activision Blizzard and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) via our job application website (the "Website") and other job application methods.
We appreciate your interest in our Company, products and services, and we take care to process and use your personal information responsibly.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
The Company reserves the right to modify this Applicant Privacy Policy at any time. Please review this website periodically to ensure you are aware of any changes. You can see when this Applicant Privacy Policy was last updated by checking the date at the top of this page.
Scope of this Policy
This Applicant Privacy Policy applies only when you submit Information through our Website or other job application methods to apply for a position with the Company. It does not apply to the use of Activision Products and Services (“Activision Property”). By using any Activision Property, including this Website, you are subject to the Activision Privacy Policy, located here. When visiting a Blizzard website, you are subject to the Blizzard Entertainment Online Privacy Policy.
Information We May Collect From You
To process your application, we ask you to provide Information about yourself. All Information is provided on a voluntary basis. However, some Information may be necessary to complete an evaluation of your application; if it is not provided, our ability to consider you as a candidate may be limited.
- You will be asked to create an applicant account through our system. We ask that you provide us with some personal information, including your name, mailing address, postal code, e-mail address, telephone number, and other Information which is necessary for the purposes set forth below;
- You may send us your CV, résumé, and/or other relevant documents;
- If we ask you to provide references, it is your responsibility to obtain consent from your references before providing their personal information to the Company;
- We may require additional Information for the specific purpose of background checks. We will only collect this Information after giving you notice of the background check process and obtaining your consent. A background check will only be carried out where it is permitted or required by law;
- We may collect additional Information from third parties who are lawfully entitled to share your Information with us, where this is relevant to your application (e.g. references); and
- We may also collect information from you about your visit to the Website. Please see the "cookies" section of our Privacy Policy for further information on this topic.
How We May Use Your Information
Information we collect is used solely for the purposes expressly set forth hereunder:
- Accepting and evaluating candidate submissions for job postings;
- Reviewing your qualifications and making hiring decisions;
- Communicating with you (e.g., providing information regarding potential interview dates and notification of the results of the recruitment process);
- Where you have asked us to do so, contacting you about vacancies at the Company which arise and for which we think you may be suitable. You can stop receiving these emails at any time by logging into your account and changing your email notification settings;
- Keeping records relating to our hiring practices for use in future recruitment activities and to ensure compliance with local laws;
- Preparing an employee’s basic information materials for use in employment management within the Company after a decision to recruit the applicant has been made;
- Complying with legal and regulatory obligations; and
- Resolving disputes and/or as a part of a legal defense, if necessary.
With Whom We May Share Your Information
Access to your Information will be restricted to those members of the Company’s staff, hiring managers and designated agents who have a need to know the specific Information in question in order to carry out their responsibilities with regard to recruitment or employment law. We may share some of your Information for the purpose of undertaking a background check. Such sharing will only take place where background checks are permitted or required under the law. We will share your Information with suppliers and service providers that we engage to process Information on our behalf, such as the company Taleo, which hosts the Website. Upon request or pursuant to our legal obligations, your Information may also be disclosed to governmental entities in compliance with applicable laws, such as to those agencies authorized to review and enforce equal opportunity laws. We do not disclose applicant Information to job banks or to other companies without your prior consent.
Your Rights
If for any reason you wish to view, correct, update or delete your personal information, simply access your Applicant account and edit and/or delete your Information as necessary. You will need your e-mail address and password to access your personal account. You may also send us an email asking us to access, update, or delete your Information at removeaccount@activision.com. However, we may still retain some Information to comply with legal and regulatory requirements and to resolve disputes; in this case, your personal information will not be used for any other purpose.
Transfer of Your Information to the United States
Information collected outside the United States, including in the European Economic Area and Switzerland, is transferred to the United States. Your Information is stored on our US servers, but it is also processed and stored in the jurisdiction where the contact for your position is located. We will protect your Information in accordance with this Applicant Privacy Policy wherever it is processed.
Security Measures
The Company takes a range of security measures designed to protect your Information and keep it confidential and in its original form, free from any alteration. In addition, we request that third parties who process Information on our behalf take a range of security measures designed to help protect your Information.
Employment Disclosures
All open jobs offered by the Company are subject to specific job skill requirements. The job skill requirements, qualifications and preferred experience are determined by the office offering the position. The Company is an equal opportunity employer, and all hiring decisions are subject to federal, provincial, state, and local employment laws and regulations, including immigration laws pertaining to work authorization requirements and any other applicable government permissions or compliance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, military status, veteran status, age, or any other ground of discrimination prohibited by applicable law.
Contacting Us
If you are an applicant from the United-States, Canada, or Mexico, the Information you submit is controlled by Activision Publishing, Inc., 3100 Ocean Park Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90405, USA.
If you are an applicant from any other country, the Information you submit is controlled by Activision Blizzard UK Ltd. of Ditton Park, Riding Court Road, SLOUGH, Berks, SL3 9LL, UK. Activision Blizzard UK Ltd. is registered as a data controller with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, with registration number Z1095341.
Beenox and Other Quebec Openings
I hereby acknowledge that I am satisfied that this Applicant Privacy Policy be drawn up in the English language. Je reconnais être satisfait que la présente Politique de protection de la vie privée pour candidats soit rédigée en anglais.
Activision reserves the right, at its sole and absolute discretion, to change, modify, add to, supplement or delete any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement at any time, effective with or without prior notice; provided, however, that Activision will disclose material changes (as determined in Activision's sole and absolute discretion) in one or more of the following ways: by posting notification on any Product website, by email, through a patch process, pop-up screen, or in-Product notice. Your continued use of the Product following any revision to this Agreement constitutes your acceptance of any such changes. Additionally, you may be asked to affirmatively accept updates to this Agreement from time to time. Note that if you do not accept affirmatively indicate your acceptance when requested, you may not be able to continue to use the Product or Service Provided Content. In relation to Products and Service Provided Content you have paid for, if you do not wish to accept a change to the Agreement, please stop using the Product or Service Provided Content and contact Activision for refund options.
Activision reserves the right, at its sole and absolute discretion, to change, modify, add to, supplement or delete any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement at any time, effective with or without prior notice; provided, however, that Activision will disclose material changes (as determined in Activision's sole and absolute discretion) in one or more of the following ways: by posting notification on any Product website, by email, through a patch process, pop-up screen, or in-Product notice. Your continued use of the Product following any revision to this Agreement constitutes your acceptance of any such changes. Additionally, you may be asked to affirmatively accept updates to this Agreement from time to time. Note that if you do not accept affirmatively indicate your acceptance when requested, you may not be able to continue to use the Product or Service Provided Content. In relation to Products and Service Provided Content you have paid for, if you do not wish to accept a change to the Agreement, please stop using the Product or Service Provided Content and contact Activision for refund options.
Activision reserves the right, at its sole and absolute discretion, to change, modify, add to, supplement or delete any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement at any time, effective with or without prior notice; provided, however, that Activision will disclose material changes (as determined in Activision's sole and absolute discretion) in one or more of the following ways: by posting notification on any Product website, by email, through a patch process, pop-up screen, or in-Product notice. Your continued use of the Product following any revision to this Agreement constitutes your acceptance of any such changes. Additionally, you may be asked to affirmatively accept updates to this Agreement from time to time. Note that if you do not accept affirmatively indicate your acceptance when requested, you may not be able to continue to use the Product or Service Provided Content. In relation to Products and Service Provided Content you have paid for, if you do not wish to accept a change to the Agreement, please stop using the Product or Service Provided Content and contact Activision for refund options.
Activision reserves the right, at its sole and absolute discretion, to change, modify, add to, supplement or delete any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement at any time, effective with or without prior notice; provided, however, that Activision will disclose material changes (as determined in Activision's sole and absolute discretion) in one or more of the following ways: by posting notification on any Product website, by email, through a patch process, pop-up screen, or in-Product notice. Your continued use of the Product following any revision to this Agreement constitutes your acceptance of any such changes. Additionally, you may be asked to affirmatively accept updates to this Agreement from time to time. Note that if you do not accept affirmatively indicate your acceptance when requested, you may not be able to continue to use the Product or Service Provided Content. In relation to Products and Service Provided Content you have paid for, if you do not wish to accept a change to the Agreement, please stop using the Product or Service Provided Content and contact Activision for refund options.
Activision reserves the right, at its sole and absolute discretion, to change, modify, add to, supplement or delete any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement at any time, effective with or without prior notice; provided, however, that Activision will disclose material changes (as determined in Activision's sole and absolute discretion) in one or more of the following ways: by posting notification on any Product website, by email, through a patch process, pop-up screen, or in-Product notice. Your continued use of the Product following any revision to this Agreement constitutes your acceptance of any such changes. Additionally, you may be asked to affirmatively accept updates to this Agreement from time to time. Note that if you do not accept affirmatively indicate your acceptance when requested, you may not be able to continue to use the Product or Service Provided Content. In relation to Products and Service Provided Content you have paid for, if you do not wish to accept a change to the Agreement, please stop using the Product or Service Provided Content and contact Activision for refund options.
Activision reserves the right, at its sole and absolute discretion, to change, modify, add to, supplement or delete any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement at any time, effective with or without prior notice; provided, however, that Activision will disclose material changes (as determined in Activision's sole and absolute discretion) in one or more of the following ways: by posting notification on any Product website, by email, through a patch process, pop-up screen, or in-Product notice. Your continued use of the Product following any revision to this Agreement constitutes your acceptance of any such changes. Additionally, you may be asked to affirmatively accept updates to this Agreement from time to time. Note that if you do not accept affirmatively indicate your acceptance when requested, you may not be able to continue to use the Product or Service Provided Content. In relation to Products and Service Provided Content you have paid for, if you do not wish to accept a change to the Agreement, please stop using the Product or Service Provided Content and contact Activision for refund options.
Activision reserves the right, at its sole and absolute discretion, to change, modify, add to, supplement or delete any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement at any time, effective with or without prior notice; provided, however, that Activision will disclose material changes (as determined in Activision's sole and absolute discretion) in one or more of the following ways: by posting notification on any Product website, by email, through a patch process, pop-up screen, or in-Product notice. Your continued use of the Product following any revision to this Agreement constitutes your acceptance of any such changes. Additionally, you may be asked to affirmatively accept updates to this Agreement from time to time. Note that if you do not accept affirmatively indicate your acceptance when requested, you may not be able to continue to use the Product or Service Provided Content. In relation to Products and Service Provided Content you have paid for, if you do not wish to accept a change to the Agreement, please stop using the Product or Service Provided Content and contact Activision for refund options.
