Privacy Policy

TalenD Consultants (TDC) takes the privacy and security of your information seriously. This Policy describes how TDC and its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively “TDC”, “we” or “us”) collect, use, transfer, and disclose your information. A list of our affiliates and subsidiaries is available from our Privacy Office as described below.

This Policy covers information TalenD Consultants  collects in connection with our Recruitment Services, Consulting Services, and Products (collectively, the “Services”). This Policy also covers information collected through:

  • Web sites we operate from which you are accessing this Policy (the “Site”),
  • The software applications we make available for use on or through computers or mobile devices (the “Apps”),
  • Our social media pages and apps to which the Site links (collectively, our “Social Media Pages”), and
  • HTML-formatted email messages we send to you that link to this Policy (collectively, including the Site, Apps, and our Social Media Pages, the “Online Systems”).

This Policy also covers other means by which we collect information. For example, it also covers how we collect information from in person discussions, telephone conversations, and through non-electronic communications (i.e., collection through other means than our Online Systems).

WHO WE ARE

TalenD Consultants  is a consulting business. We help companies design their organization – the structure, the roles and responsibilities, as well as how they develop and motivate their people. We also help organizations assess and hire the talent they need to execute their strategy.

TalenD Consultants  offers services to help companies recruit new personnel and attract talent (“Recruitment Services”). We provide Recruitment Services to clients searching for talent at the experienced, middle-level, other senior executive positions. Our teams also provide recruitment process outsourcing or project recruitment services to help clients attract top people.

We are also a global management consulting firm that provides talent management and consulting services (“Consulting Services”). We help our clients implement their business strategy by consulting with them on strategy execution and organization design, talent strategy and work design, assessment and succession, leadership development, and other talent needs.

TalenD Consultants  also has products that may be used by you or our clients to conduct assessments, participate in surveys and career coaching, as well as provide HR Advice as per employment legislation for eliminate business employment, compliance risks. 

Often, our client may be your employer or an organization with which you are seeking employment.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

TalenD Consultants  collects information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual (“Personal Information”) to provide Services to you, our clients and to operate our business. The type of Personal Information we collect about you depends on the situation at hand.

  • We may collect your name, contact details and your preferred means of communication. We may also collect your responses to survey and assessment questions.
  • In the course of our Recruitment Services, we may collect the following types of information about you as a potential candidate: name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, resume information (employment history, education, professional credentials, memberships in professional organizations, skills, etc.), citizenship, information from former employers and other references, and additional information to the extent we have acquired or you have provided us with such information. We also use photos of you that you provide to us or that you make publicly available on the Internet (e.g., LinkedIn). As permitted by applicable laws, we obtain background verification information.
  • When you are utilizing our Online Systems, we may collect login user credentials like user names, passwords, and password hints.
  • Where permitted by law, we may collect compensation and benefits information about you to consult with you or our clients on rewards and benefits.
  • In certain cases, we request sensitive Personal Information about you. We may use this information to ensure that our Services conform with legal requirements, including equal opportunity laws. Our assessments and surveys may include demographic survey questions like questions about gender, race, age, or country of origin. Except in these limited cases, we encourage you not to provide any other sensitive Personal Information to us, such as government identification numbers, payment card numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background, or trade union membership.

Please do not provide us with any Personal Information if you do not agree with this Policy.

HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

As you interact with TalenD Consultants , you provide some Personal Information directly.

  • We may collect Personal Information when you register to use our Online Systems, submit a resume, respond to employment opportunities, complete online assessments or surveys, participate in online courseware, provide Personal Information about yourself to our coaches or contact us via e-mail, electronic forms, telephone or postal mail.
  • If you submit any Personal Information about other people to us or to our service providers, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Policy.

Personal Information about you may also come from our clients to whom we provide Services.

We may also obtain Personal Information about you from third parties.

  • When someone participates in an assessment or coaching experience, they may share Personal Information about you.
  • When providing our Recruitment Services we may also obtain Personal Information about you from referrals, networking activities, public databases, joint marketing partners, licensed databases, and social media platforms. The information we collect from these third parties includes information about the identity of potential candidates (e.g., an individual’s name, address, telephone number, e-mail address), information about their background and qualifications (employment history, education, professional credentials, memberships in professional organizations, skills, etc.), citizenship, information from former employers and other references. We also use photos of you that you provide to us or that you make publicly available on the Internet (e.g., LinkedIn). As permitted by applicable laws, we obtain background verification information.

We use third-party companies to handle the sale of books, assessments, and other physical products featured on our Online Systems. If you wish to purchase a physical product or register for enrolment to courses for education purposes, you may be directed to a webpage that is hosted by the third party (or its service providers) and not by TalenD Consultants .

  • Any Personal Information that you provide through those pages to the third party will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy, rather than this Policy. TalenD Consultants  does not control, and is not responsible for, the third party’s use of information collected through those pages. Please note that this Policy does not address the collection and use of information through the third party’s page or the privacy or information practices of the third party.

HOW WE USE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

TalenD Consultants  uses the Personal Information it collects in several ways. The summary below provides additional details about the ways we use the Personal Information we collect.

We use your Personal Information to provide our Services. 

We use Personal Information to render Services to you and our clients. We do this to fulfill our contractual relationships with you and our clients and where we have a legitimate, beneficial interest in using Personal Information to conduct our business.

In the course of our Recruitment Services, we may use Personal Information that we have collected to create a profile about you. This profile may be used to identify professional opportunities that we think may be of interest to you.

  • We may contact you from time to time regarding those opportunities. We may solicit names of, or additional Personal Information regarding, potential candidates in connection with our Recruitment Services to understand the market and provide other advisory services to our clients.

You can always object to our creating a profile about you, see the ‘Choices and Access’ section below on how you can object.

  • If you object, we will remove your profile from our database, but this will also mean that you will not be considered for opportunities in the future.

In the course of our Recruitment Services: 

We further use your Personal Information that we collect to aggregate and disclose diversity and other statistical information regarding our candidates and placement activities. We do so to manage our contractual relationship with you, with your consent, or because we have a legitimate business interest.

We use your Personal Information to respond to your inquiries, to verify your information, or to share information with you.

  • We use your Personal Information to respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests. If you contact us, we keep a record of your contact information and correspondence, and we use information you provide in your message to respond to your inquiry. We do so to manage our contractual relationship with you.

From time to time we use your Personal Information to send you important information regarding the Online Systems, changes to our terms, conditions, policies, and other administrative information.

  • We may also contact you to verify that the Personal Information we collected about you is accurate and current. We use the Personal Information to manage our contractual relationship with you or to comply with a legal obligation.

We use your Personal Information to operate our business.

We use your Personal Information for our business purposes, such as audits, internal communication regarding candidates and clients, determining the effectiveness of our promotional activities, administering our Services, maintaining and securing our infrastructure, and for procurement and financial transactions.

  • We use this Personal Information to manage our contractual relationship with you and our clients, to comply with a legal obligation, and because we have a legitimate beneficial business interest.

We may use Personal Information to conduct analytics and thought leadership materials. Any published product will refer only to larger aggregations of individuals and will not identify you personally or include any results attributable to you. We perform analytics because we have a legitimate beneficial business interest in doing so.

We may use your Personal Information to send you information or marketing materials. Please note that if we obtained your Personal Information because of a consulting engagement with our client, or you are using our Products at the request of your employer, you will not receive marketing materials as a result of the Personal Information we obtained from those Services.

TalenD Consultants  sends informational e-mails, articles, white papers, proposals, engagement letters, and information regarding our Services. We also use your Personal Information to conduct surveys. 

  • We do so either with your consent or because we have a legitimate beneficial business interest.
  • Occasionally, we may desire to use your Personal Information in press releases and direct marketing materials. Before we use your Personal Information in that way, we will obtain consent from you.

WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

How your Personal Information is disclosed will depend upon the situation. We use your Personal Information to provide our Services. 

While providing our Services, we may disclose your Personal Information to clients who have engaged our services. 

  • In the course of our Recruitment Services, we disclose Personal Information regarding candidates, including the results of assessments and related data, to prospective employers that have engaged TalenD Consultants  to fulfill recruitment requests, or to reference sources.
  • In the course of our Consulting Services and in providing our Products, we disclose Personal Information to our client. Our client can be your employer or an organization with whom you are seeking employment.
  • If you have completed an assessment or survey at our client’s request as part of our Consulting Services or related to a Product, we will not share your assessment results with other clients without obtaining the appropriate consent.

As business, we have affiliates and subsidiaries around the world. To the extent permitted by law, we may share Personal Information with our affiliates and subsidiaries to provide seamless Services for you and our clients. TalenD Consultants  is responsible for managing jointly-used Personal Information.

From time to time, we also disclose Personal Information to our strategic alliance partners and to our network of independent consultants who provide services on TalenD Consultants ’s behalf for the purposes stated above. 

TalenD Consultants  discloses Personal Information to third parties who provide support for our Services or business operation.

  • TalenD Consultants  works with third parties who provide services that may include, but are not limited to, assessment services, including assessment validation services, website hosting and IT consulting services, data analysis, resume verification, public relations services, marketing services, attorneys, accountants, and other administrative and back-up and security services.
  • As part of providing services, these third parties will be provided with access to Personal Information. In addition, our software development partners may use Personal Information to modify, improve, refine, and validate their technology, research and development.

TalenD Consultants  may disclose or transfer all or part of your Personal Information in the event of a sale of our company or one or more of our affiliates.  We may also disclose or transfer all or part of your Personal Information in the event of a merger or consolidation involving our company or one or more of our affiliates.  This may also occur if there is a sale or transfer of assets or of any portion of our business or the business of one or more of our affiliates.

There may be other times that we disclose your Personal Information.

  • TalenD Consultants  may also use or disclose Personal Information (to comply with a legal obligation or because we have legitimate interest to do so) in order to: (i) comply with applicable laws, (ii) respond to inquiries, requests or orders from public or government authorities, including those outside of your country of residence, or (iii) protect the rights, privacy, safety or property, of TalenD Consultants  and our affiliates, you or others.
  • We cannot and do not assume any responsibility for the actions or omissions of third parties, such as clients, including the way they use Personal Information received either from TalenD Consultants  or from other independent sources.

OTHER INFORMATION WE COLLECT

TalenD Consultants  collects other information that does not reveal your specific identity (“Other Information”), such as:

  • Information collected through cookies, pixel tags, and other technologies,
  • Demographic information and other information provided by you, and
  • Aggregated information.

Because Other Information does not reveal your specific identity, we may use it for any purpose. If we combine Other Information with Personal Information that identifies you directly (like combining your name with your location), we will treat the combined information as Personal Information for as long as it is combined. 

If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, we may use and disclose it for the purposes for which we use and disclose your Personal Information as detailed in this Policy.

We and our third-party service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways.

We use “cookies” (small text files placed on a visitor’s computer hard drive) and other similar technologies to help us determine information like the type of content a visitor to the Site consumes, and the length of time each visitor spends at any area of the Site. Cookies and similar technologies enhance your experience on the Site. You can configure your browser settings to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer to your computer of a particular cookie(s) from a particular site. If you disable cookies and similar technologies, your experience on the Site may be diminished and some features may not work as intended.

KEEPING YOUR DATA UPDATED OR REQUEST DELETION 

RETENTION PERIOD

We retain your Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted considering the purpose(s) for which it was obtained.

The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

  • The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you or our client (e.g., for as long as you have an account with us or keep using the Services),
  • A period beyond the time of the ongoing relationship if we have a legitimate internal operations need, such as a need to retain such information for analysis, record-keeping and compliance with data retention schedules,
  • Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period before we can delete them), or
  • Whether retention is advisable considering our legal position (such as regarding applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).

Please help us to ensure the personal information you have provided remains up to date by informing us of any changes, or, if at any time you wish to request that your personal information be removed, please email the details of your request to inquiries@talendconsultants.com 

Where deletion of details is requested, please note that there may be a requirement to retain some data in relation to any particular services which you may ask us to provide.

ACCESS TO YOUR DATA

If you would like a copy of any personal information we hold about you, please contact our admin team to request a Subject Access Request Form, fully complete the form and return it to inquiries@talendconsultants.com

UPDATES TO THIS POLICY

TalenD Consultants reviews its privacy policy regularly, and those practices are subject to change. You can determine when this Policy was last revised by checking the “Revised Date” legend at the bottom of the Policy. Any changes to the Policy will become effective upon posting of the revised Policy on the Internet, accessible through the Site.