Privacy notice

Robert Half Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG

Privacy notice

(updated on 14.10.2022)

This Privacy Notice("Notice") describes how Robert Half Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG (we, us, our or Robert Half) may use, process, store and disclose Personal Information that we may collect about individuals, including if you register with us via our Candidate Registration process, through this website and from other sources, such as when you apply for a job* through job sites. The types of data we collect are described in the section below'Your Personal Information and how we collect it'.

We act as a controller and we are responsible for the Personal Information we process. This Notice informs you how we protect your Personal Information and informs you about your privacy rights.

It is important that you read this Notice together with any other Privacy Notice we may provide such as the Notice contained in our Candidate Registration form and on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing your Personal Information so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your Personal Information. This Privacy Notice supplements other Notices you may receive from us and is not intended to override them.

This website is not intended for anyone under the age of 16 and we do not knowingly collect data relating to these minors.

*All "job" designations in this Privacy notice serve the purpose of simplification and describe orders, projects and operations, especially for the provision of independent contractors equally.

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Contact Details

If you have any questions about how we use your Personal Information, contact us at: [email protected].

Your Personal Information and how we collect it

Using this Website

When you use this website, we may ask for certain Personal Information including your name and contact information (email, home address and phone number). Depending on the nature of your enquiry or activities on our website, we may also ask for your job search criteria and preferences, employment experience, salary, and other background information together with any login ID and password created by you. You can request us to send you Job alerts through the website by completing your job search criteria and preferences. You can stop receiving these job alerts at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link contained in the job alert email. Applicants who have already registered can enter their RH applicant ID at their own discretion to simplify the registration process for the website

After you have successfully registered on our website, you can use the "Check Profile" function on the website to access, check and change the Personal Information you have provided.

Registering as a Candidate for our services (temporary employment services, placement of personnel and/or the provision of independent contractors)

We will collect your Personal Information directly from you and from other sources including when you apply for a job via a Job Board, directly through our website, from Social Media sites such as XING, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter or when you provide us with your details during a job fair, promotional, networking or training event.

When you ask us to provide you with our services (temporary employment services, placement of personnel and/or the provision of independent contractors) we will ask you to register as a Candidate. During our Candidate Registration process we will collect your Personal Information directly from you, your CV, from employment and educational referees and via online tests you may perform at our request. We may disclose your Personal Information to our Clients in UK, Europe and outside the EEA for relevant job vacancies. Our Clients may request additional Personal Information about you in relation to their job vacancies and requirements. Your Personal Information will be securely stored in our online candidate database. The categories of Personal Information we may collect include:

  • Your identity (your full name, previous names, evidence of a name change); Gender, date of birth and marital status;
  • proof of your right to work, which may include a photo, nationality, place of birth, driver's license, etc. (as required by law);
  • Contact details including your email address, home address and phone number that we can contact you by email and text message;
  • Bank details and social security details (so that we can make payments to you and your account);
  • Payroll information such as: your national tax number, your address, your seniority, your marital status, your bank account number, your family composition, your date of birth, your telephone number, your email address your job search criteria, preferences and expectations;
  • your job search criteria, preferences and expectations;
  • your qualifications, skills, experience and training;
  • current and desired remuneration and other benefits;
  • educational history;
  • employment history;
  • work and / or training certificates;
  • Details of disabilities (where provided by you and if it is relevant);
  • References;
  • other information contained in your CV or that you choose to provide to us;
  • technical data including internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website. We may also receive technical data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details;
  • profile data including your username and password, your interests, preferences, feedback and customer survey responses;
  • usage data including information about how you use our website and services;
  • marketing and communications data including your marketing and communication preferences.

To provide you with our services (temporary employment services, placement of personnel and / or the provision of independent contractors) our recruitment consultants will send you job alert emails matching your job search criteria and preferences. From time to time you may also receive job alerts which our consultants consider you may find interesting. You can stop receiving these job alerts at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link contained in the job alert email.

Applicants for Employed roles (not valid for temporary workers)

If you are applying for a role as our employee, we will collect Personal Information from you via your CV, referees, professional and educational organisations and other sources. We will process your Personal Information for the purposes of administering the application, managing the internal hiring process and assessing your suitability. We will store your Personal Information securely in our confidential online HR database. Your Personal Information cannot be viewed or accessed by anyone except for members of HR and Talent Acquisition, and the manager who is looking for a new co-worker, which can be located in the UK, Europe and the US and other staff if they are connected to the hiring process, such as interviewing, assessing your suitability for the role you have applied for and communicating with you. We do not share our HR database with any group companies (unless necessary for the hiring process) and we will take steps to ensure that your Personal Information is adequately protected, secure and kept confidential. If we engage a third party to provide pre-employment screening services or testing, we will ensure that access is limited to the Personal Information that is compatible with those services and the service provider is contractually obliged to comply with applicable data privacy laws, confidentiality and provide adequate safeguards to keep your Personal Information secure until it is deleted or anonymised.

By applying for employment with us, you consent to us processing your Personal Information for these purposes. You have the right to withdraw your consent for future use at any time. If you withdraw your consent, we will not be able to continue with your application.

If your employment application is unsuccessful, we will retain your Personal Information on our HR database for a period of 6 months for the purposes of evidencing that we have conducted the recruitment process in a fair and transparent way and have not discriminated against applicants on prohibited grounds. At the end of the retention period, your Personal Information will be automatically deleted. Occasionally we may ask if you would like us to retain your CV data if we consider that you may be suitable for future roles. We will only do this with your consent.

Special Categories of Personal Information

Details about your health and/or your criminal record (including checks against terrorist lists) are only processed if it is relevant to your application and in accordance with the restrictions imposed by law (for example to enable us to assess whether these present grounds for not taking your candidate registration or job application further).

This information will be retained for no longer than necessary before being deleted.

If you choose to provide us with sensitive personal data (e.g. in your CV) and we do not need it, we will disregard and exclude this data.

Please do not provide us with sensitive personal data that is not required - we already explicitly reject this personal data at this point.

Our Clients and Suppliers

If you are a Client or supplier or a potential client or supplier, of goods and services we will collect and process information about individuals in your organization. We may enter the individual’s name and business email address in to our database as a designated corporate point of contact for that organization, together with the individual’s other business contact data.

Usually the only Personal Information we process about a corporate contact is the individual’s name for the purposes of contacting the organization in relation to our services or the supplier as a recipient of the supplier’s goods and services. If the individual corporate point of contact is also a registered candidate we may be processing additional Personal Information for our services (and authorising time sheets) and other purposes as described in this Privacy Notice.

The source of a corporate point of contact may be the individual themselves, or their name and business details may be provided to us by a member of their HR or Procurement department or another hiring manager or existing business contact or a candidate we have placed at the organization. We may also obtain these details from websites, social media and other sources... We may send business to business email marketing to corporate points of contact. An individual corporate point of contact can ask us at any time to stop sending business marketing emails to their business email address by contacting: [email protected]

Website visitors

We collect a limited amount of information about the visitors of our website. We use this information to improve your experience with our website and to manage our services.

The following data is collected:

  • technical data including internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website. We may also receive technical data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details;
  • profile data including your username and password, your interests, preferences, feedback and customer survey responses;
  • usage data including information about how you use our website and services;
  • marketing and communications data including your marketing and communication preferences.

How we use your Personal Information

We use, process, store and disclose your Personal Information and other data we collect including during our Candidate Registration process, to provide you with our services (temporary employment services, placement of personnel and/or the provision of independent contractors) including sending you job alerts and career-related information through this website and by email, project-related assignments, project-related work, temporary employment and permanent and fixed term contract placements in finance, accounting, technology, administrative, legal, marketing and other related roles, employment opportunities and career-related information.

After you have completed our registration process, we will share your personal data with our clients and hiring organisations in connection with their vacancies.

We will also process your Personal Information for other legitimate business purposes such as service announcements, communications relating to changes to this Notice, producing statistics, analyzing how successful our marketing campaigns are, the number of visitors to our website and complying with other contractual, legal and regulatory obligations and duties.

If you provide us with information about third parties, we will assume that the third party has given you permission to do so and that Robert Half may collect, process and share your Personal Information to the same extent as your Personal Information.

No automated individual decision-making by Robert Half / Artificial Intelligence support

RH applies artificial intelligence (“AI”) to search personal data and match CVs with the specifics of positions in the interest and for the purpose of finding suitable positions in the case of recruitment or the provision of self-employed consultants (Non-Employees) and Temporary Workers (Employees). For this, RH is using a service offered by Textkernel BV, Nieuwendammerkade 26a5, NL-1022 AB Amsterdam (“TK”), a company based in the Netherlands / EU.

In general AI describes computer systems that are able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence. RH processes your personal data in the case of recruitment or the provision of self-employed consultants based on legitimate interest regarding Article 6 (1) lit. f GDPR, which is especially in your and our concurrent interest of finding suitable positions, and as a Temporary Worker on the basis of § 26 BDSG.

The benefit of the AI search capability is that it supports our recruitment consultants to search more CVs and match personal data against clients’ job vacancies faster, ignoring irrelevant data. Our recruitment consultants are presented with a list of proposed candidates that are potentially suitable for a client’s vacancy but it does not lead to automated decision-making. Our recruitment consultants decide which candidates to shortlist for a specific client’s job, based on their expertise, knowledge of the job market, insight into the client’s business and requirements for the role, candidate discussions and other relevant criteria.

Clients’ (through their hiring personnel) decide which candidates to select for interview (if any). Our clients’ hiring personnel (not our AI tool) make the final decision on which candidate to select for their job (if any) and ultimately to proceed to hire/engage/employ the candidate.

You can object the processing with TK AI at any time by contacting [email protected]. In this case we will not use TK AI any longer regarding to your CV. This has no consequence or impact, especially not on your application or on finding suitable positions for you because we use our personal knowledge of you, the client and its business, the position, and the requirements for the role as well as the market at any time and make any decision.

If you object to the processing of your personal data by our AI tool our recruitment consultants will continue to provide work finding services using other methods to search for job opportunities for you. The personal data of candidates who are no longer available for work, not actively seeking a job, have recently commenced permanent employment or who object the processing of their personal data by AI, will be deleted by our AI service provider.

You can find more information about our AI tool here and/or if you wish to object to the processing of your personal data by our AI tool contact [email protected].

Change of Purpose

We will only use your Personal Information for the purposes for which we collected it (as described above), unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.

If we need to use your Personal Information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

We may process your Personal Information without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

Transferring your Personal Information outside of Europe

Robert Half is part of an international group of companies operating globally. We may share some of your Personal Information with our group companies, including Protiviti, a consultancy firm, our parent company Robert Half International Inc., based in the United States, and other group companies within or outside the European Economic Area (EEA), who may use and process your Personal Information for similar purposes as described in this Privacy Notice.

The data protection laws outside Europe may not provide an equivalent level of protection to those in Germany and in these circumstances we will take steps to ensure that your Personal Information is adequately protected, secure, kept confidential and that we have a lawful basis for the transfer. This means we may require the 3rd party recipient to sign the EU Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission as providing Personal Information with the same protection that your Personal Information has when it is processed within the EEA.

You can contact us if you require further information (or a copy of) on the mechanism we use when transferring your Personal Information out of the EEA.

Disclosing your Personal Information to members of the Robert Half Group of Companies

We share the Robert Half candidate database including your Personal Information with our group companies including Protiviti GmbH, a consultancy firm based in Germany which develops business solutions for its clients and provides consulting services.

From time to time we advertise Protiviti GmbH roles and if you apply, your CV and Personal Information is shared directly with Protiviti who can contact you about their role. Employees of Robert Half or Protiviti GmbH can contact you in connection with the position.

If you register as a candidate with Robert Half, you may also be contacted by Protiviti GmbH in connection with project related opportunities that Protiviti GmbH consider may be of interest to you such as the provision of independent contractors. If you are engaged for such a project-related position by Protiviti GmbH, Protiviti's customer may have access to your resume and other Personal Information.

Protiviti GmbH has implemented the same high standards of data security as Robert Half and will treat your Personal Information in accordance with the law, respecting your legal rights and as set out in the Protiviti Privacy Statement.

When Protiviti GmbH sends your data to its customers for the above-mentioned purpose, Protiviti ensures that these customers comply with the requirements described in the GDPR and / or in the applicable data protection regulations.

Disclosing your Personal Information to 3rd Parties

To the extent necessary or appropriate and without notifying you, Robert Half may disclose your Personal Information to external 3rd Parties (who are not members of the Robert Half group of companies) in the following circumstances:

  • to client to provide you with our services (temporary employment services, placement of personnel and/or the provision of independent contractors)
  • to companies and individuals we employ to perform business functions and services on our behalf. Examples of service providers include: providing payroll services to enable us to pay our employees; background screening and verification services; data storage facilities including in the US and the Cloud; hosting our Web servers; managing job posting applications via our 3rd party provider Broadbean; analyzing data and producing statistics and legal, accounting, audit and other professional services.
  • to credit bureaus and third parties carrying out sanctions and terrorism checks.
  • to government agencies including Police and other law enforcement agencies; regulatory and supervisory authorities;
  • to comply with applicable laws, the service of legal process, or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with the law requiring such disclosure; (b) protect the rights or property of Robert Half or its group companies; (c) prevent a crime, protect national security or for fraud detection or prevention; or (d) protect the personal safety of individuals using our website or members of the public.
  • to 3rd parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, we will let you know.
  • to IT consultants carrying out testing and development work on our IT systems, service providers who we may appoint as data processors and to other service providers who may be based outside the EEA

Where applicable, we will impose appropriate contractual, security, confidentiality and other obligations on to 3rd party service providers and processors we have appointed, based on the nature of the services they provide to us. We will only permit them to process your Personal Information in accordance with the law and our instructions. We do not allow them to use your Personal Information for their own purposes and when our relationship ends we will ensure your Personal Information is securely returned or destroyed (or anonymized so that you no longer can be identified).

Some of these 3rd parties are also controllers responsible for processing your Personal Information for their purposes, for example, the local tax authority is a controller for tax purposes. We may not be able to impose obligations or restrictions on these controllers in connection with how they process your Personal Information.

Due to the global activity of our customers, your Personal Information may be accessed worldwide (some recipients may be located in countries that do not have a level of data protection equivalent to the European level of data protection) by our customers' employees, including their IT administrators and possibly by contracted service providers who reasonably require knowledge of the data for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. Therefore, you should be aware that your Personal Information will be transmitted to recipients in third countries without an adequate level of data protection and that these will be collected, processed, stored and used by our customers and, if applicable, their service providers. To protect your Personal Information, our customers have assured us that they have taken appropriate security measures to protect this information.

Keeping your Personal Information Secure

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your Personal Information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your Personal Information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to do so.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected Personal Information breaches and we will notify you and the applicable supervisory authority of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

How long we Retain your Personal Information

Robert Half will retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes that we collected it for. This means we will keep your personal data throughout the period of your relationship with us and whilst we are providing you with work finding services, administering a job application and keeping in contact with clients and hiring organisations and after our relationship ends.

If you no longer wish to receive our services you can request us to delete your Personal Information from our Candidate database. When we have deleted your data, we retain your name and email address on our suppression list until you apply for another job or ask us to provide work finding services (we will check with you before removing your data from our suppression list). Subject to the services we have provided, we may continue to retain some of your personal data for legal, compliance, accounting and tax purposes and other legitimate business purposes.

Where there is no retention period stated in law, we determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information by considering the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the data, the purposes for which we process it and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances we may anonymize your Personal Information (so that it can no longer be associated with you and we cannot identify you). We do this for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this anonymized data indefinitely without further notice to you.

You can request more details of the retention periods applicable to your personal data by contacting us at: [email protected].

You have the right to:

  • Make a Data Subject Access Request to access your Personal Information at any time. This enables you to receive a copy of the Personal Information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
  • Request correction of the Personal Information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate Personal Information we hold about you corrected, although we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
  • Request erasure / deletion / removal of your Personal Information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove your Personal Information where we do not have a valid reason to continue to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your Personal Information where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing, where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your Personal Information to comply with local law. Please Note: we may not always be able to comply with your request for erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
  • Object to processing of your Personal Information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a 3rd party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
  • To object to direct marketing. You have the right to object to us processing your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes. In this case, we will no longer send you marketing communications.
  • Request restriction of processing of your Personal Information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your Personal Information in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to process it.
  • Data Portability / Request the transfer of your Personal Information to you or directly to another controller. This right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the Personal Information to perform a contract with you. We will (unless there is an exemption) assist you by securely transferring your Personal Information directly to another controller where technically feasible or by providing you with a copy in a structured commonly used machine-readable format. The data we can provide is:
Report Title Information
Personal Details
  • Full name, address, phone number, e-mail (business/personal), nationality, place of birth, birthdate, gender.
  • Name and telephone number of any emergency contact
  • Online presence URLs.
Eligibility Details
  • National ID, tax information.
  • Work visa details.
  • Full name, work phone number and company name of job references.
Skills
  • Skills and skill test results. Education certifications and qualifications with dates. Industries worked in.
Work History
  • Work history (employer, job title/function, employment dates).
Job Placement
  • Job placement (company, job title/function, start date, end date, compensation/pay rates, worksite addresses).
  • Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on your consent to process your Personal Information. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
  • The right to launch a complaint with the relevant Data Protection Authority

We want to ensure we keep your Personal Information accurate and up to date. In addition to your legal rights, you may ask us to make changes or request a copy of your Personal Information informally, by contacting your local Robert Half branch.

Additional information, Response Times and Fees

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your Personal Information (or to exercise any of your other rights or when you make an informal request). This is a security measure to ensure that Personal Information is not disclosed to any person other than the individual who has the right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to help us locate your data and to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. It may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

You will not have to pay a fee to exercise any of these rights. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We have set out a short description of main ways we will collect, store, process, share and disclose your Personal Information and the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are, where appropriate.

We will only use your Personal Information when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your Personal Information in the following circumstances:

  • To fulfil a contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you;
  • To detect criminal offences
  • Where it is in our legitimate interests;
  • When it is our legal or regulatory duty;
  • When you consent.

A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information in conducting and managing our business. We will consider and balance any potential impact on you and your legal rights when we process your Personal Information for our legitimate interests. We do not use your Personal Information for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation or permitted to by law).

Purpose/Activity Type of Personal Information Lawful basis for processing Personal Information
To register you as a candidate for our services (temporary employment services, placement of personnel and/or the provision of independent contractors) or when you make an employment application to us
  1. Identity
  2. Contact details
  3. Eligibility of work
  4. CV
  5. referees
  6. Financial data
  7. qualifications
  • fullfillment of a contract (depending on the type of services provided)
  • Legal or regulatory obligation (compliance with local law)
  • To administer your registration or employment application
To provide you with our services (temporary employment services, placement of personnel and/or the provision of independent contractors), including: sending you information about available job offers and job notification emails in accordance with your job search preferences and criteria, offering career advice, payment of your wages (when you’re a temporary employee), providing your resume to clients in Regarding their vacancies / functions
  1. Identity
  2. Contact details
  3. financial data
  4. transaction data
  5. Marketing and communication
  6. Qualifications
  7. Salary and Fee information
  • performance of a contract (depending the type of services provided);
  • legitimate interests
  • Legal or regulatory obligation
  • Your consent
Transmission of your Personal Information to our group companies (including Protiviti).
  1. Identity
  2. Contact details
  3. Eligibility to work
  4. resume
  5. credentials
  6. qualifications
  7. financial data
  • legitimate interests (we have to transfer your data due to the structure of our company and our IT systems) including work finding services
  • EU standard contractual clauses and other legal systems.
Sharing your Personal Information with government and law enforcement agencies, as well as with service providers we have contracted to provide goods and services, including providers outside the EEA and providers of cloud-based services
  1. identity
  2. Contact details
  3. Eligibility to work
  4. resume
  5. credentials
  6. references
  7. qualifications financial data
  • Legitimate interests (this transfer is necessary to run our business)
  • Legal or regulatory obligation

To manage our relationship with you including:

  1. Notifying you about changes to our Candidate Agreement or Privacy Notices
  2. Asking you to leave a review or feedback or complete a survey
  3. administration and IT services connected with representing you for roles
  4. arranging temporary jobs for our customers, processing time accounts, pay slips and other payments, tax deductions, issuing pay slips, etc.
  1. identity
  2. Contact
  3. Profile / Survey
  4. Marketing and communication
  1. Fullfillment of a contract
  2. Legal or regulatory obligation (so that we can do business and improve our services)
  3. Legitimate interests (to keep our records and investigate how applicants and potential applicants and visitors to our website use our services and website to develop and improve them and to grow our business
Keeping your Personal Information secure to prevent it from being lost, used, accessed, disclosed or altered in an authorized way
  1. Identity
  2. Contact details
  3. resume
  4. credentials
  5. qualifications
  6. financial data
  • Legal or regulatory obligation
  • Fullfillment of a contract
To investigate issues, disputes and complaints between us, and between us, you and our clients and to respond to them and to seek to resolve them
  1. identity
  2. Contact details
  3. profile usage data
  4. Marketing and communication
  5. Eligibility to work resume
  6. credentials
  7. qualifications
  8. Financial details
  • Legitimate interests (to protect our business)
  • Defense against legal claims
  • Fullfillment of a contract
To administer and protect our business and our website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)
  1. Identity
  2. Contact
  3. Technical data
  • Legitimate interests (to keep our business and website safe)
  • Legal or regulatory duty
For Marketing and communications, make suggestions and recommendations to you about other relevant services that may be of interest to you (e.g. the Robert Half Newsletter, Salary Guides, Online training
  1. Identity
  2. Contact
  3. Technical data
  4. Usage data
  5. Profile data
  • Legitimate interests (send you salary guides and other relevant information)
  • Your consent.
To deliver relevant website content and measure or understand the effectiveness of our advertising
  1. Identity
  2. Contact
  3. Profile data
  4. Usage data
  5. Marketing and Communications
  6. Technical data
  • Legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services/website, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
  • Your consent
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences
  1. Technical data
  2. Usage data
  3. Profile data
  • Legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
  • Your consent
Retaining your Personal Information for as long as necessary for the purposes of providing you with work finding services or to manage the internal hiring process for employed roles.
  1. identity
  2. Contact details
  3. profile data
  4. usage data
  5. Marketing and communication
  6. Eligibility to work resume
  7. credentials
  8. qualifications
  9. financial information
  • legitimate interests (to operate our business)
  • Legal or regulatory obligation
To help us respond to queries, complaints or for other reasons such as responding to requests from regulators, government and law enforcement agencies such as the Police
  1. Contact
  • legitimate interests (to operate our business)
  • Legal or regulatory obligation

Marketing Messages

Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Personal Information except in relation to sending direct marketing communications via email or text message.

We will ask you for consent to send your direct marketing communications via email. We have established an email preference center where you can view and make decisions about your email marketing preferences and opt out of receiving email marketing from us at any time.

You may receive marketing communications from us if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered with us at a job fair, promotional or networking event or attended a training course and you have given us consent to send you marketing. If you give us consent, we may also use your identity, contact details, technical data, usage data and profile data to form a view and decide which services may of interest or relevant for you.

You have the right to withdraw your consent for future use to marketing at any time by:

  • Visiting our website and checking or unchecking the relevant box to change your email marketing preference;
  • following the opt out links contained in our marketing email messages;
  • following the opt out process described in our text marketing messages;
  • Sending an email with "UNSUBSCRIBE ME" in the subject field to: [email protected]

Opting out of receiving marketing messages does not apply to:

  • Personal Information that you have provided to us as a result of your request for our services (temporary employment services, placement of personnel and/or the provision of independent contractors);
  • Personal Information that you have provided to us in connection with the performance of a contract between us;
  • Job alerts sent to you through the website in response to your request to receive specific job details. You can select your preferences in the Job Search section and you can stop receiving these alerts at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link within the job alert email; and
  • Job alert emails which you will receive from our recruitment consultants which match your job search criteria confirmed with you during our Candidate Registration process. If you no longer wish to receive working finding services please contact us at: [email protected]

We will never sell or disclose your Personal Information to any 3rd parties to use for marketing.

Cookies

What are cookies?

On this website we use cookies. Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device.

Cookies can’t spread viruses and cannot harm your computer.

Session Cookies. Some cookies expire once you close your browser (called session cookies).

Persistent Cookies. These cookies stay on your device until you delete them or they expire.

Robert Half and our service providers (such as functionality, analytics, and advertising providers) place cookies and other similar tracking technology on your device to ensure that our website functions correctly and to personalise, track, evaluate, and improve our website, online adverts, and the emails we send. All Cookies that are not Strictly Necessary Cookies can be disabled using the Cookies Settings.

 

Which cookies do we use?

 

How can cookies be disabled?

All cookies that are not Strictly Necessary Cookies can be disabled using the cookies settings here.

Google Plus button, Facebook I-Like button, Twitter button, linked-in button, XING button and others (social plug-ins)

Our website uses the plug-ins of the following providers

  • Google+, which is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 in the USA. The Google+ plug-in is marked with a white logo with a red g 1.
  • Facebook.com operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304 in the United States. The Facebook plug-in is marked with a blue logo with the white letter "f".
  • Twitter.com operated by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco CA 94107 in the United States ("Twitter"). The plug-in is marked with a Twitter logo or the addition "Follow Us on Twitter".
  • LinkedIn.com provided and operated by LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA& 94043 in the United States ("linkedin"). The plug-in is marked with a LinkedIn logo with the lettering "Join Our Community".
  • XING.com operated by XING AG Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg in Germany. The plug-in is marked with a white logo with the letter X in different shades of green.

We would like to point out to the users of our website that the plug-ins for Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, XING and others are installed on our website. If you click on one of the buttons mentioned, the respective plug-in establishes a direct connection to Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, XING and others. The content of the plug-in you use is transmitted directly to your browser by Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, XING and others. It is beyond our control to influence the content of the transmitted data. However, we would like to inform you about what data is transmitted to Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, XING and others according to our current knowledge.

If you use these plugins, i.e. click on the respective button, information that you have accessed certain pages of our website will be forwarded to the servers of Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, XING and others. This has the effect of accessing the usage data of your respective personal account for users who are logged in at the same time, e.g. Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, XING and others. If you use the buttons, i.e. the plug-ins of Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, XING and others, for example by submitting a comment or post, this information is transmitted from your browser directly to Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, XING and others and stored there. Even if you are not a member of the aforementioned social networks, there is still the possibility that Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, XING and others will discover and store your IP.

To find out the purpose and scope of the collection, processing and use of your data, as well as your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy, please visit the following websites with the data protection notices of the social network providers at:

If you do not agree that Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, XING and others collect data about you via our website, we ask you to log out of Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, XING and others before visiting our website. You can also block Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, XING – including plug-ins with add-ons for your browser. In addition to the plug-ins for Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and XING, there is another plug-in on the top right of the home page. This is indicated by a white cross on a red background. Clicking on this plug-in opens a window, which provides further plug-ins to choose from. At the bottom of the window to select the additional plug-ins is a link to AddThis's privacy policy. This also applies to the plug-ins which we described above. If you do not agree that one of these plug-ins collects information about you through our website, then follow the instructions described above. To find out the purpose and scope of the collection, processing and use of your data, as well as your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy with regard to these plug-ins, please visit the websites with the data protection notices of the respective providers.

Our website may include links to 3rd party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these 3rd party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

Feedback and complaints

According to Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your Personal Information violates the GDPR. The following supervisory authority is responsible for our company:

Der Hessische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit
Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 1, 65189 Wiesbaden
Postfach 31 63, 65021 Wiesbaden
Phone: 0611-1408 0
Fac: 0611-1408 611
E-Mail: [email protected]
Website: https://datenschutz.hessen.de

A list of data protection authorities can also be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de.

We kindly ask you to give us the opportunity to discuss your concerns with you before contacting the supervisory authority, so we please ask you to contact our Data Protection Officer: Lawyer Olga Stepanova, https://www.winheller.com/, [email protected], Tower 185, Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 35-37, 60327 Frankfurt am Main, Phone: +49 (0)69 76 75 77 80 or per E-Mail to [email protected].

Changes to this Privacy Notice

If we change this Privacy Notice we will post any updates here for your review. If we change material terms we will provide notice of the revised Privacy Notice for 30 days on our home page at https://www.roberthalf.de with a link back to this page.

This Privacy Notice was last updated: 05.05.2022.

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