Kyndryl takes your personal information protection seriously and respects local data protection laws.
This privacy notice, which supplements the Kyndryl Privacy Statement, explains how Kyndryl Inc. or its affiliates (except where an affiliate presents its own statement) processes your personal information during the recruitment and/or hiring process in order to progress your application, which may culminate in an offer of employment.
1. What personal data will Kyndryl process about you?
Personal data you provide, which may include:
- your first name and last name, address, email address, phone number(s), education history, work experience, CV, resume, information about your primary country of residence and citizenship, additional countries of interest for employment, country you are applying to and the eligibility to work there, areas and communities of interest;
- whether you have ever worked for Kyndryl or a Kyndryl Business Partner, whether you have any government experience and if you signed any or accepted any agreement or are otherwise subject to any restriction with your current or former employers;
- depending on the country, criminal records information, observing the applicable laws and where an offer of employment has been made to you;
- depending on the country you are applying, your disability, ethnicity, gender, race and religion; and
- whether you require any accommodations/adjustments.
You will receive more information about the nature of the pre-employment verification checks before they begin.
Personal data processed during the recruitment process will vary by the country and nature of the role for which you will be considered, which may include:
- Any cover letter or personal statement you provide;
- Any references you provide, or Kyndryl takes up to validate the information you’ve provided;
- Any interviewer or recruiter notes from their interactions with you or with the Kyndryl employee that recommended you;
- If during the recruitment process you complete a video enabled assessment, we may store the video recordings of the assessment;
- If during the recruitment process you complete a coding assessment, we will record and store any code created in response to the given exercises. Additionally, we will store one or more webcam photos of you completing the exercises, and;
- Any other information you give us.
Personal data processed if you receive and accept a Kyndryl offer of employment, such as your email address, first name, middle name, last name and Kyndryl employee serial number may be used from the date of offer acceptance.
2. For what purposes will Kyndryl process your personal data?
In response to your application or your interest about job positions, your information will be used by Kyndryl as necessary to:
- Verify your information and conduct relevant and appropriate legally permitted pre-employment and eligibility verification checks, as well as to assess your skills, qualifications and experience, on the basis of Kyndryl’s legitimate interests of ensuring that it recruits the appropriate employees;
- Comply with local, national or international laws, obligations and legal requirements, on the basis of compliance with a legal obligation;
- Communicate with you about Kyndryl events, new jobs and career opportunities and the recruitment process including any interviews, on the basis of Kyndryl’s legitimate interests of ensuring relevant communication within Kyndryl and with you;
- Complete the selection process, on the basis of performance of the employment contract Kyndryl have with you;
- Conduct surveys and research activities with the objective of improving Kyndryl’s recruiting process, on the basis of Kyndryl’s legitimate interests of ensuring that it continually improves its recruitment process;
- Perform analysis of our applicant pool in order to better understand who is applying to positions at Kyndryl and how to attract top talent, on the basis of Kyndryl’s legitimate interests of ensuring that it recruits the appropriate employees;
- Where legally permissible, we may ask you to voluntarily disclose your disability, ethnicity, gender and nationality, to help Kyndryl with its Diversity and Inclusion programs (such as to assess the Kyndryl workforce, promote benefits and inclusive policies for the related population), on the basis of your consent;
- Enable you to access the Kyndryl On Boarding site and the Your Learning application which may help you to become familiar with the company, understand where and how you fit into the organizational structure and assist with your integration into the culture of the workplace, on the basis of the performance of contract we have with you.
By submitting your application, you authorize Kyndryl to store your personal data in Kyndryl’s Recruitment tools for the secure storage of your data whilst your application is assessed and otherwise as set out above.
3. How long will we retain your personal data?
If you are given and accept an offer of employment by Kyndryl, the personal information collected during your pre-employment period may become part of your employment record on Kyndryl’s personnel records Employment Data System, to be retained throughout and for a period of time after your employment with Kyndryl (specific periods vary by country).
If Kyndryl does not employ you, Kyndryl will retain your personal information according to the document retention policy after which your personal information will be erased from the Recruitment systems.
4. With whom and why we share your personal data?
Your information may be accessed by Kyndryl recruiters, Kyndryl Recruitment Process Outsourcing, Kyndryl Talent Acquisition focals, or hiring managers of Kyndryl, as relevant and necessary for your application for the role you are being considered for.
In some cases, Kyndryl shares your personal data with third parties if legally required or allowed, to achieve the purposes informed above. Depending on the geography, these third parties are suppliers of Human Resource Information Systems, used by Kyndryl, as well as suppliers related to occupational health and safety management services systems.
Your information may be accessed by government officials where legal reporting requirements may exist, or law enforcement agencies or private litigants in response to a valid law enforcement process (warrant, subpoena, or court order).
If your prospective management line is out of the country, we may transfer your personal information from the country to which you applied to other people within the same business line in one or more Kyndryl entities in other countries as applicable for the purpose of processing your application, ensuring that your data is processed according to local laws and Kyndryl requirements and helping us to understand your experience with Kyndryl's application process. Information on how Kyndryl ensures an adequate level of data protection in such countries can be found here.
5. Your rights
Information regarding your rights can be found in the section “Your Rights” at https://www.kyndryl.com/privacy. You may also access and correct personal information you have submitted regarding your application online by logging into the Kyndryl Careers portal.
Please be aware that depending on the circumstances, if you request us to delete or otherwise stop processing your personal information, we may not be able to proceed with your application, as it may depend on the analysis of such personal information.
6. General
More information on how Kyndryl handles your privacy, such as the Controller of your personal data, questions and complaints and how to contact us can be found at https://www.kyndryl.com/privacy.
7. Declaration and confirmation
You declare and confirm that the information you have provided as part of your application is true and complete. You should promptly update any information you have provided as and when there are changes.
We may change this privacy notice from time to time. We will post any changes to this notice on this page.
Last updated: 16 August 2024
