Privacy Policy

Welcome and thank you for visiting our www.it-jobs.aldi-sued.de website

The following data protection notice will provide you with an initial overview of how we process your data, followed by more detailed information structured by topics.

Which data do we collect?

• In order to properly display our website, we collect access and device-specific data each time our website is accessed.
• Subject to your consent, we create user profiles under pseudonyms by means of tracking services and cookies. These user profiles contain information regarding the behaviour of the specific user during their visit to our website. Apart from this, we only collect data received as a result of the entries you make on our website.

Controller

The Controller pursuant to Article 4 para. 7 GDPR is

ALDI International Services SE & Co. oHG
Unternehmensgruppe ALDI SÜD
Mintarder Straße 36‒40
45481 Mülheim an der Ruhr

E-mail: it.recruiting(at)aldi-sued.com

The Data Protection Officer of the Controller can be reached at the following e-mail address: Datenschutz(at)aldi-sued.de

Please note that the above is a shared e-mail address and as such, e-mails may be read by people other than the DPO. If you would like to exchange confidential information, please use the above e-mail address to request direct contact first.

Purposes and legal basis

We generally only collect and use the personal data of our users if this is required to provide a functional website, our content and services, as well as for the appropriate design and improvement of these. This also constitutes our legitimate interest in data processing.

If we obtain the consent of the data subject, Article 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR forms the legal basis for the processing of personal data.

Article 6 para.1 lit. b GDPR in conjunction with Section 26 BDSG (German Federal Data Protection Act) serves as the legal basis for processing personal data that is required to initiate/fulfil contracts.

Article 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing personal data required for the fulfilment of legal obligations which our company is subject to.

Article 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing personal data required to maintain the legitimate interest of our company or of a third party, provided that the interests, fundamental rights and fundamental freedoms of the data subject do not outweigh the legitimate interest.

If the TTDSG is applicable, the collection and use of information about the equipment will also be based on Section 25 TTDSG.

Recipient

ALDI International Services SE & Co. oHG is supported by other ALDI SÜD business entities (together: ALDI SÜD) and relies on service providers to help to create the technical infrastructure, design our websites and perform our services and recruiting activities, for which they may have access to personal data. These service providers are contractually obliged to only process data as instructed by ALDI International Services SE & Co. oHG and to take all measures necessary to ensure an appropriate level of data protection and data security. Data is only processed in states outside the European Union and/or the European Economic Area if the EU Commission has decided that this country offers an appropriate level of data protection or if the processor has committed to ensuring an appropriate level of data protection by concluding Standard Contractual Clauses, among other things.

In individual cases, data is also transferred to other companies within ALDI SÜD Group, e.g. ALDI Data & Analytics Services GmbH or ALDI AHEAD GmbH, for example if a request submitted via the contact form can only be answered by this business entity.

Data processing in the USA

On our website, we also use some applications by providers located in the USA. With a ruling by the European Court of Justice dated 16 July 2020 (case C-311/18), the EU-US Privacy Shield was declared invalid on the grounds that the USA do not provide a data protection level comparable to that of the EU. If data is transferred to the USA, the legal situation in the USA entails the risk of the data being recorded and analysed by US authorities, thus preventing the implementation of data subject rights granted under EU law. To protect your rights, however, we have concluded individual contracts with the service providers (by means of standard contractual clauses pre-approved by the EU Commission) that guarantee your rights in the best possible way.

Retention period

Your personal data will be either erased or blocked once the purpose of its storage becomes obsolete and its erasure is not opposed by legally defined retention periods. Data will also be blocked or erased once the storage periods defined by the above-mentioned standards expire, unless continued storage of the data is required in order to conclude or fulfil a contract. Please refer to the following sections for information on the retention periods applicable to the individual data collected.

Data subject rights

Provided that the necessary requirements as stipulated by Article 15 et seq. GDPR are met, you are entitled to exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability at any time.

For this purpose, please contact us via e-mail:

datenschutz(at)aldi-sued.de

If you feel that the processing of your personal data infringes statutory provisions, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Log files

Each time you access or attempt to access our website, at least the following data is collected and stored in a log file:

• IP address
• Name of the file retrieved
• Date and time of retrieval
• Transferred data volume
• Notification as to whether data retrieval was successful
• Notification as to why the data retrieval failed, if applicable
• Operating system and browser software installed on your computer
• Screen resolution
• Browser language
• Colour depth
• Browser plug-ins (JavaScript, Flash Player, Java, Silverlight, Adobe Acrobat Reader, etc.)
• Website from which you visit us

The processing is based on Article 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR in order to provide our website, guarantee the stability of our systems, ensure data protection and the reliability of our systems, and implement legal provisions. The data will be erased after seven days.

Contact

There are various ways for you to get in touch with us. These include the contact form and the e-mail addresses provided. In this context, we will only process your data for the purpose of communicating with you. We will only use information provided voluntarily by you for the purposes for which it was provided. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR if the communication relates to initiating or executing a contract. For other enquiries, it is in our mutual interest to answer your enquiries. The legal basis for processing your data in these cases is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. We will ask for your consent in advance to contact you for advertising purposes, which you can revoke at any time. The data we collect through our contact form will be automatically erased once we have fully processed your request, unless we need to store your request to fulfil contractual or legal obligations (see the “Retention period” section). Please note that the contact form is not intended for submitting applications. If you wish to submit an application, please use the relevant links in our job advertisements.

Job ads

In order to ensure the smooth use of the website and its functions (e.g. display of jobs. creation of a candidate profile, implementation of online application procedures), an application management system is used. We integrate functions and content that we do not provide ourselves.
SAP SuccessFactors recruiting technologies (https://www.sap.com/germany/products/recruiting-software.html) are used. As soon as you click on a job advertisement displayed on our career websites, you will be redirected to the application management system SAP SuccessFactors.
You can recognize this by the changed URL, which then starts with either jobs.aldi-sued.de or career5.successfactors.eu.

We have concluded data protection contracts with the service provider that ensure the secure processing of your data exclusively in our name and for our purposes.

Watch list

If you’re interested in several positions, you can save them to a watch list. This information is stored on your device (in “local storage”), so we do not need to collect any personal data for this purpose.

This list is saved until you delete it. You can also delete individual jobs from your watch list at any time. To delete the watch list completely, you can also clear your browser’s cache. Your browser’s help function will explain how to do this.

Application

You have the opportunity to apply for open positions via our career website. For this purpose, you provide us with personal data, which we process exclusively for the application process. In order to be able to process your application conscientiously, your documents will be automatically forwarded to the appropriate office within the group of companies.

You can carry out your application either by registering and opening a profile or, by using a special technology, quickly and easily without your own profile.

As part of the application process, external recruiters and our processors support us.

If external recruiters are involved in the application process, your contact and applicant data will be forwarded to us by them.

If you apply for more than one position in different companies the ALDI SÜD Group, the persons involved can always view the following information in your applications:

• Job you apply for
• Status of the application
• Responsible recruiter

This applies regardless of the input channel of your application and the option you have chosen to view your data for other regional companies.

We will process the entered data based on Section 26 (1) German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG), if the data is required to establish an employment relationship. Provided that the data is used to propose job positions to you, we process your data based on Section 6 (1) lit. a German Federal Data Protection Act. You can find more information in the respective declaration of consent. You are entitled to revoke your consent with future effect at any time.

On the basis of Section 6 (1) lit. f GDPR, we evaluate which channel (e.g. which job portal) applicants used to access our careers website to improve our recruiting efforts.If you have given your consent to marketing-, personalisation- and performance cookies, we record which of our job advertisements have ultimately led to the successful filling of the position. This processing is based on your consent according to Section 6 (1)(a) GDPR in conjuction with Section 88 GDPR in combination with Section 26 (2) BDSG. You are entitled to revoke your consent with future effect at any time.

Deletion periods

You can delete your profile and the stored attachments at any time in the "Options / Settings". In addition, you have the option of asking us to delete your data. For this purpose, please contact us at: datenschutz(at)aldi-sued.de

If your application is rejected, the data processed as part of the application process will be deleted six months after the end of this process.

Upon recruitment, the application documents become part of the personnel file.

In case of inactivity, your account will be deleted six months after the last login. If you have chosen to be included in our talent network, you will receive reminder emails to inform you about the current status of your profile.

Active Sourcing via business networks

When approaching potential candidates directly on business platforms provided for this purpose (e.g. XING or LinkedIn), it is necessary to process their personal data. Only publicly accessible profile data (in particular, first name and last name) is processed. The primary purpose of processing personal data is to identify and contact suitable candidates. Data processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The data collected remains exclusively within the ALDI SÜD Group and may be shared with the relevant ALDI SÜD business entity as required.

Talent network

Following your visit to a careers trade fair, your internship, or student work placement, you can join our talent network without applying for a specific position. You can also register with our talent network by selecting the “Make your own profile visible to ALDI SÜD recruiters and supervisors in order to be able to suggest other relevant/equal positions.” option as part of your application.

If a suitable position is identified, we will contact you via e-mail and invite you to apply for the proposed position. You can then decide whether you want to apply.

If you select the “Make your own profile visible to ALDI SÜD recruiters and supervisors in order to be able to suggest other relevant/equal positions.” option, your profile will be visible to all recruiters and supervisors within the ALDI SÜD Group. This means that designated employees will have access to your application or profile and may then suggest other open positions for you. If you have selected this option, your data will be automatically added to our talent network so that you can be considered for other positions after the end of the application process.

You can revoke this option in your profile with future effect at any time. This will then apply to all completed and active applications. As a result, your application/profile will no longer be considered for other positions.

Only the data stored in your profile is processed, including the information from the uploaded data. We process your personal data in order to contact you about suitable positions and, with your consent, to transfer you to a further application process. Data processing is based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The data you provide will remain exclusively within the ALDI SÜD Group and can be viewed by recruiters and, if applicable, supervisors of all business entities. After six months of inactivity following your last login, your profile will be deleted. If you have chosen to be included in our talent network, you will receive reminder e-mails on the current status of your profile. You can delete your profile and uploaded files at any time under “Options/Settings”. In addition, you can request that we delete your data via e-mail: datenschutz(at)aldi-sued.de.

TalentConnect

In addition to the talent network, we can also create a candidate profile for you in our TalentConnect. All recruiters at the German ALDI SÜD business entities can access your application details in TalentConnect and contact you if we have vacancies that suit you. We will ask for your consent separately and contact you by e-mail to add you to TalentConnect. This consent constitutes the legal basis for the processing of data in TalentConnect in accordance with art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. We consider this consent to be valid for 18 months and will ask you to renew your consent before it expires. If you do not renew your consent, your data will be deleted from TalentConnect. You can withdraw your consent at any time. If you withdraw your consent, your data will be deleted from TalentConnect unless statutory retention obligations or our own legitimate interests prevent this. In TalentConnect, we process information about you that you yourself have provided in current or past applications. If you have been contacted by our recruiters via professional networks such as LinkedIn, we will process data about you that you have published there. We use service providers for TalentConnect who we have contractually obliged to comply with data protection in accordance with art. 28 para. 3 GDPR.

The TalentConnect system is jointly operated by ALDI SÜD Dienstleistungs-SE & Co. oHG and ALDI International Services SE & Co. oHG. You may exercise your rights as a data subject pursuant to Art. 15 et seq. GDPR with both companies. In order for us to respond to your enquiry as quickly as possible, we recommend that you contact the company whose recruiter you have been in contact with regarding your application or with whom you have applied for an open position. Further information from ALDI SÜD Dienstleistungs-SE & Co. oHG can be found here.

Event registration

On our career websites, you can register for various events organised and hosted by ALDI SÜD itself. In order to be able to process your registration, we collect and process the following data on the basis of your declaration of consent submitted during registration: salutation, first name, last name, e-mail address, apprenticeship/study subject, current role, what you are interested in, optionally: link to LinkedIn profile. After registration, we collect and store the data in the content management system (CMS) Typo3 of our career websites and, in compliance with the deletion periods (see section "Deletion period"), also locally. With your consent, you allow our event organizers to contact you by e-mail for further planning.

Your personal data will not be passed on to third parties.

Incidentally, this registration is explicitly only valid for own events hosted by ALDI SÜD (so-called in-house recruiting events). Events of third parties (e.g. career fairs) are presented on our career websites, but registration and the associated exchange of personal data does not take place. The respective organizer is responsible.

External links

In order to offer you a comprehensive service, our pages also refer you to other websites or the services offered thereon. We would like to emphasise that neither our staff nor other parties involved in the provision of this website have any influence on the design or contents of the pages linked to this website.

We do not accept responsibility for any external content that is provided via links and do not adopt the content of such sites. The provider of the website that is referred to is solely liable for any illegal, incorrect or incomplete content, as well as for any damage resulting from using or not using the information.

Our data protection notice only applies to this website. Please note the data protection provisions specified on the individual linked websites.

Social media plug-ins (social wall tiles and sharing function)

On our website, we use so-called social media plug-ins. Plug-ins are program extensions which are integrated into our website and serve as interfaces to third-party service providers. On the one hand, this applies to the integration of a social media hub, which is used to display posts from the various ALDI SÜD social media channels on the careers website. On the other hand, you can use the “Share” button to share job adverts on one of your social media profiles.

The social wall initially only displays images, texts and links of the social media posts by ALDI SÜD. A “Share” button will redirect you to the relevant social media page where you will be asked to explicitly confirm that you wish to share the relevant content.

By activating the plug-ins, you provide the operators of the online platform (third-party service providers) with at least the following information:

• the IP address of your end device
• information concerning your visit to our website

If, while being logged in with your user account to the third-party service provider’s service, you activate the plug-in, the third-party service provider will be able to allocate your visit to our website to your user account.

The legal basis for transferring your data to the social media providers in this context is your consent in accordance with Article 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can change your choice at any time in the cookie settings. Data transfer will exclusively occur between your end device and the systems of the third-party service provider. ALDI SÜD has no possibility to know or influence the contents of the data transferred between your end device and the online platform operators (third-party service providers) or the manner in which your data is processed by such third-party service providers. For detailed information concerning the purpose and scope of further data processing by the respective platform operator and your related rights and setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to the data protection notices of the respective third-party service providers, which can be accessed via the links to the respective privacy policies provided by the third-party service providers.

On our website, we use so-called sharing buttons (social media plug-ins) offered by the following social media platforms:

• Facebook (Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA)
• Xing (XING AG, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany)
• LinkedIn (LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 West Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA)
• Instagram (Instagram LLC,1601 Willow Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025, USA)
• E-mail

Links to social media platforms are partly indicated by symbols, such as

• Facebook (white letter “f”)
• Xing (white letter “X”)
• Kununu (lower case “k”)
• Glassdoor (two bright brackets)
• LinkedIn (white “in”)
• Instagram (rounded square containing a circle and a dot)
• YouTube (rounded square containing play-button)

For detailed information concerning the purpose and scope of further data processing by the respective platform operator and your related rights and setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to the data protection notices of the third-party service providers:

Technologies

Based on Article 6 para. 1 lit. a, b and f GDPR and Section 25 TTDSG, we use self-developed and third-party technologies in order to support us in improving our offers and conducting website analysis and optimisation measures, among other things by creating and assessing pseudonymised user profiles.

If the use of the technologies requires your consent (Article 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR), we will ask for your consent to their use when you visit our site for the first time or in the area of the relevant content elements. You can revoke your consent with future effect at any time by deleting the set cookies, clicking on the opt-out link or deactivating the function within the relevant content elements. For further information on the technologies used and your possibilities to subsequently object to tracking, please refer to the following sections.

Cookies

We use (third-party) cookies in order to provide you with the maximum possible level of convenience and to make our online presentation as attractive as possible for you.

Cookies are text files that the browser saves to your computer, contain information on how you use our website and can recognise users that go back to the website in the future. Via your browser settings, you can deactivate or erase set cookies. For further information, please refer to the “Help” function of your browser.

The following cookies will not be set until you have provided your consent:

• Adobe Audience Manager: aam_uuid: assignment of a user ID. Storage period: 30 days.
• Adobe: adobeujs-optin: consent management. Storage period: 390 days.
• Adobe: AMCV_95446750574EBBDF7F000101%40AdobeOrg: assignment of a visitor ID for Experience Cloud Solutions. Adobe Experience Cloud Solutions refers to all Adobe online tools in the cloud. Storage period: 2 years.
• Adobe: AMCVS_95446750574EBBDF7F000101%40AdobeOrg: shows the initialisation of a session. In web analytics, a session is a measure of a user’s actions taken within a certain period of time. The period can be, for example, between opening and closing a website or after 30 minutes of inactivity. Storage period: session.
• Adobe Target: at_check: this cookie allows us to test which content is more relevant and show personalised content based on the visitor’s behaviour. In web analytics, a session is a measure of a user’s actions taken within a certain period of time. The period can be, for example, between opening and closing a website or after 30 minutes of inactivity. Storage period: session.
• Amazon Web Services: AWSALB: this application runs on the Amazon Application Load Balancer and runs via various virtual units. This contains packaged software that an application needs to run. The cookie ensures that an assignment of the session to the target, i.e. the respective virtual unit, is possible. Storage period: 7 days.
• Amazon Web Services: AWSALBCORS: the application runs on the Amazon Application Load Balancer. The cookie is used for persistent assignment to a target. Storage period: 7 days.
• Adobe: demdex: storage of an ID for identification on various ALDI SÜD websites. Storage period: 180 days.
• Adobe Advertising Cloud: everest_g_v2: storage of a browser and surfer ID. The browser and surfer ID is an ID stored in the cookie where the user’s browser can be recognised: Storage period: 355 days.
• Adobe Advertising Cloud: ev_sync_dd: storage of the date on which a data comparison between a cookie and data in the cloud will take place. Storage period: 31 days.
• Adobe Launch: mbox: used to recognise returning visitors and ensure that Adobe Target is working correctly. Storage period: 2 years.
• Adobe: s_invisit: logs information on the first time a visitor visits the website. Storage period: session.
• Adobe: s_vnum: number of visits performed by a unique visitor. Storage period: 365 days.
• Adobe: s_nr: the cookie contains a Unix timestamp representing the current time and the current status of the visitor. Storage period: 35 days.
• com.adobe.reactor.dataElementCookiesMigrated: used in connection with the cache function on the website. The cache function facilitates the transfer of data between Adobe DTM and Adobe Launch. Storage period: persistent.
• Adobe Analytics: gpv_pn: stores information about the visitor journey (in this case identification of the current page). Storage period: 1 hour.
• Adobe Analytics: s_cc: the cookie detects whether cookies are enabled. Storage period: session.
• Adobe Analytics: s_sq: information on the visitor journey. Storage period: session.
• Adobe Analytics: s_ecid: contains a copy of the Experience Cloud ID (ECID) or MID. The MID is stored in a key-value pair that follows this syntax: s_ecid=MCMID. Storage period: 2 years.
• Adobe Analytics: s_vi: date/time stamp of unique visitor ID. Storage period: 2 years.
• Adobe Analytics: s_fid: fallback date/time stamp of unique visitor ID. Storage period: 2 years.
• TYPO3: fe_typo_user: assignment of a TYPO3 session ID to a user. Storage period: session.
• TYPO3 Announcement bar: announcement-<announcement_id>: stores the ID of the announcement bar that was clicked away by the user. Storage period: 30 days.
• 2-click solution Youtube Video, Google Map: externalSources: stores consent to load external content. Storage period: 10 days.
• OneTrust: OptanonConsent: Contains the user decisions regarding consent. Storage period: 1 Jahr.
• OneTrust: OptanonAlertBoxClosed: Stores the information whether an interaction with the OneTrust Banner/Preference Center has taken place. Storage period: 1 Jahr.