Data Protection

What personal data about you do we process for what purposes? What is the legal basis?

Usage Data

When you visit the Website, we collect the following information: e.g. web browser and operating system used, referring page, webpages accessed, downloaded files, plays of videos/audio, clicks on individual links, search words and phrases, length of visit, IP address, date and time of request.

Usage data are used to enable your access to the Website, to maintain and restore the security of the Website, and to detect malfunctions and errors in electronic communications.

All this is necessary, for technical reasons, for us to provide the Website to you. Legal basis: to the extent that personal data are affected, the relevant legal basis is point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR. We reserve the right to check these data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of unlawful use.

Moreover, these data are generated when accessing any other Internet website. Accordingly, this is not a specific function of WACKER’s website.

Processing of Personal Data

We process personal data only if you provide such data to us of your own accord (e.g. by registering, making a contact request, filling in forms or sending emails). In the context of business relationships, we process personal data required for said relationships. We will forward your personal data to third parties only when necessary for the provision of the service requested by you, or if you have given us your consent for such forwarding.

The legal basis for processing data is our legitimate interest pursuant to point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR in responding to your needs. If your contacting us is aimed at entering into a contract or if personal data are processed as part of a business relationship, the additional legal basis for the processing is point (b) of Article 6(1) GDPR.

Registration on the Website

You can register as a user on the Website. Registration is required for the use of additional services. As part of that registration, we collect and process additional data as can be seen from the respective input forms. We rely on statutory permission (point (b) of Article 6(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679) as the legal basis for processing personal data to provide personalized services. We store such data of registered users until the user account is deleted.

If you use our personalized online services, you must enter certain personal data that we process and store as a basis for aligning our service portfolio with your needs. The input masks show you the data that you will need to enter. You can delete your profile and hence your user account at any time. To do so, send a message to the email address given below.

Once you have registered and logged on with your access data, we can link your online use-related data – such as how you use our webpages and services – to other customer data that we record and process in connection with your use of our products and services, and process this use-related data to provide services and functions in our customer portal, for marketing purposes, and to evaluate, improve and refine services and functions.

Determination of Location

In order to automatically present the product portfolio valid for your country when you load our webpages, it is necessary to process your IP address. Here we rely on points (f) and (c) of Article 6(1) GDPR as the legal basis for processing. When determining your location, we do not store your IP address. You can change the automatically suggested country at any time.

Advertising Relating to Your Personal Interests

You can give us your consent for WACKER to email you marketing information based on your personal interests as regards WACKER’s products and services.

My consent means that the personal data you provided and any further information generated about your user behavior (e.g. data collected during registration on the WACKER website; articles, products and content viewed during your visits to the WACKER website, and documents downloaded in marketing emails; date and time of retrieval; confirmations to show when emails and newsletters were received and read) can be processed by WACKER in line with point (a) of Art. 6(1) GDPR for the purpose of compiling a personal user profile until you withdraw your consent. The user profile serves to align information and advertising more effectively with your personal interests and to send customized information and advertising.

In addition, this data may be used by WACKER marketing staff to send you offers and to provide you and your company with optimum support.

Information which you yourself provided on the WACKER website or which may under certain circumstances be stored in WACKER’s Customer Relationship Management System – such as contact data, company or sector – is likewise added to your profile.

Your data will be deleted from WACKER’s Customer Relationship Management System if this data is no longer required for marketing purposes or if you have withdrawn your consent.

Web Analytics

For the purposes of advertising, market research and customized design of the Website (and the newsletter, if applicable), we use web analytics software and/or JavaScript to collect and process usage data on your visit to the Website and on your use of links in the newsletter, if available. The collection of your usage data and the creation of a usage profile from these data take place pseudonymously, using a cookie ID, and audience segments to be used for targeted marketing or information campaigns are created based on data from that cookie ID. Data collected by means of web analytics will not be used to personally identify the visitor to the Website without the separately-granted consent of the person who is the data subject, and will not be combined with personal data about the holder of the pseudonym. Your IP address is either not collected or, if it is, it is anonymized as soon as it is collected.

Legal basis: here we rely on statutory permission (point (f) of Article 6(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679) as the legal basis for processing.

By using the Website, you agree to the processing of the data collected about you in the manner described above, and for the purposes mentioned.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the corresponding setting in your browser software. Please note, however, that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of the Website.

• Adobe Analytics
  The Website uses Adobe Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited (“Adobe”). Adobe Analytics uses cookies. If the information generated by the cookie about the use of the Website is transmitted to an Adobe server, the settings ensure that the IP address is anonymized prior to geolocation and replaced with a generic IP address before it is stored. Adobe will use this information on behalf of the owner of the Website to evaluate how users use the Website, to generate reports about website activity, and to provide the website owner with additional services relating to the usage of the Website and Internet usage. Data processing takes place for the purposes of advertising, market research or customized design of the Website (in accordance with Section 15, subsection 3, of the German Telemedia Act). The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Adobe Analytics will not be merged with other data held by Adobe.
  You can opt out of data collection and processing at any time by following the Adobe link below and clicking on the “Opt out” button. You can also opt out of data processing by clicking the link below.
  Opt out: to stop the collection of usage data, please use Adobe’s opt-out webpage. For information about how the Adobe Analytics cookies and opt-out option work, click on the following link: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html .
  Please note that your opt-out, which is implemented by means of an opt-out cookie, will work only if your browser is configured to allow the use of cookies. If you delete this cookie, use another browser, or change devices, you must opt out again. Please note that deleting all your cookies also deletes the aforementioned cookie, which you will have to install again to opt out.
• Google Analytics
  The Website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses “cookies,” which are text files stored on your computer, to gain analytical insights into your use of the Website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website will generally be transmitted to a server in the United States and stored there by Google. However, within the member states of the European Union and in other signatory states to the Treaty on the European Economic Area, IP anonymization on the Website ensures that Google truncates your IP address beforehand. Only in exceptional cases is the complete IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there.
  Google will use this information on behalf of the owner of the Website to evaluate your use of the Website, to generate reports about website activity, and to provide the website owner with additional services relating to the usage of the Website and Internet usage. To this end, Google uses pseudonyms. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data held by Google.
  In addition to preventing the storage of cookies by blocking them in your browser software, you can prevent the data (including your IP address) generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the Website from being transmitted to Google and prevent these data from being processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
• Matomo (Piwik)
  On the websites of the online annual and sustainability reports, the open-source web analytics tool Matomo (formerly Piwik) is used for the statistical evaluation of visitor interactions. The data collected by Matomo are stored in anonymized form to improve our web presence. In addition, cookies are used that enable the creation of pseudonymized usage profiles. The data collected with Matomo will not be used without your consent to personally identify you or to reverse the pseudonymization. By using the Website, you agree to Matomo processing the data collected about you in the manner described above, and for the aforementioned purposes.
• Google Ads
  The Website uses the Google Ads online advertising tool and its conversion tracking feature. When a user clicks an ad placed by Google, a conversion tracking cookie is set. These cookies expire after 30 days, and involve only non-identifiable information. If a user visits certain webpages of the Website and the cookie is still valid, WACKER and Google can detect that the user clicked the ad and was redirected to the ad webpage. Each Google Ads customer is assigned a unique cookie. Cookies therefore cannot be tracked by means of Ads customers’ websites. The information collected through the use of conversion tracking cookies provides conversion statistics for Ads customers who have chosen to use conversion tracking. These customers obtain statistics showing the total number of users who clicked their ad and were redirected from the ad to a webpage that has a conversion tracking tag. All the information collected is non-identifiable, meaning that no personal data about users are collected. Users who prefer to disable the conversion tracking feature can do so easily in their browser settings. These users are then excluded from the conversion tracking statistics. Learn more about Google’s privacy policy.
  The information collected by means of the conversion tracking cookie helps us generate statistics about our conversion rate. That means we learn how many users are coming from a Google ad and buying a product through the Website within 30 days.

Forwarding to Third Parties

We forward your data within the WACKER Group and to third parties, especially our distribution partners, solely for the performance of contracts or for pre-contractual steps, or when it is in your interests for us to do so.

Your data will also be partly processed in countries outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”), where the levels of data protection might generally be lower than in Europe. Where that is the case, WACKER will take measures to ensure an appropriate level of data protection by other means.

Third-Party Services

We include external services and content on the Website. If you use such a service, or if third-party content is displayed to you, communication data are exchanged, for technical reasons, between you and the respective provider.

reCAPTCHA

The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of reCAPTCHA will not be merged with other data held by Google unless you are signed into your Google Account when you use the reCAPTCHA plug-in. If you want to stop such transmission and storage by Google of data about you and your behavior on the Website, you must sign out of Google – before you visit the Website or use the reCAPTCHA plug-in.

Use of the “reCAPTCHA” service is subject to Google’s terms of service (privacy policy): https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

YouTube

The Website uses the YouTube embedding function to display and play videos of the provider YouTube, which is part of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). When you visit one of our YouTube plug-in-enabled webpages, a connection to YouTube’s servers is established. The YouTube server will be informed which of our webpages you visited. If you are signed into your YouTube account, it will be possible for YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by signing out of your YouTube account. You can find further information about the handling of user data in YouTube’s privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Google Maps

On certain individual webpages, we use the Google Maps API provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). This service lets us show you where our sites are located and makes it easier for you to get there.

When Google Maps is embedded in a webpage, your IP address is transmitted directly to Google as soon as you visit such a webpage, and a cookie is stored. You can obtain information about, and opt out of, data processing by Google anytime at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

If you do not agree to have your data transmitted to Google when using Google Maps in the future, you also have the option to disable the Google Maps web service completely by turning off JavaScript in your browser. This will fully disable Google Maps and, by extension, the display of maps on the Website.

Sharing of Content on Social Networks

Content of the Website can be shared on social networks by means of embedded social-media buttons. All social-media buttons enabling the sharing of content are embedded using simple hyperlinks, rather than directly via the plug-ins of the social network providers. This lets us ensure that your data are not automatically transferred to social network servers as soon as you visit the Website. In addition, when sharing Website content, we transmit to the social network only the data actually needed to share that content, and no personal data of any kind.

There also are links to the Website on the respective social networks. If you follow the link from the Website to a social network, or if you sign in to share content of the Website within your social network, your data will be processed by the respective social network provider. To learn about the purposes and scope of data collection, further processing and use of data by the social network provider and about related rights and settings options to protect your privacy, please refer to the data protection and privacy information of the respective provider.

Surveys

Participation in occasional user surveys conducted on the Website is voluntary. We use functional cookies to run user surveys. The technical information collected in a user survey is the information collected when the Website is loaded. Your responses in the user survey are not linked to your personal data such as, for example, your IP address.

Data Security

WACKER takes all necessary technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against misuse or loss. By way of example, your data are stored in a secure, non-public operating environment. In certain cases, your personal data will be encrypted during transmission by means of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. That is, an approved encryption method will be used for communication between your computer and WACKER’s servers, provided that your browser supports SSL.

When contacting us by email, you should keep in mind that the secrecy of the transmitted information cannot be assured. The content of your email messages can be read by third parties.

What happens if you do not provide your data?

The provision of personal data is required neither by law nor by contract. It will, however, be necessary to provide certain data in order to visit the Website or use other services we provide.

Non-provision of personal data may lead to disadvantages for you. One consequence could be that you cannot receive or use our services (e.g. access to the Website may not be possible). However, unless otherwise stated, you will not incur any legal disadvantage from non-provision.

Please note that we may transfer your personal data to third parties for the aforementioned processing purposes as follows:

• To contract data processors: certain third-party service providers such as IT support providers or hosting providers (“contract processors”) will receive your personal data in order to process these data pursuant to relevant instructions, to the extent necessary for the processing purposes outlined above. Contract processors will be subject to contractual obligations to implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect personal data and to process personal data solely as instructed.
• To certain third parties: in accordance with applicable law, we may share your personal data with third parties such as existing or potential business partners, public authorities, courts, suppliers, external consultants, other service providers, or potentially acquiring companies or those potentially to be acquired.

Any access to your personal data is limited to those individuals who must have access to the data in order to fulfill their work obligations.

Your personal data will be stored to the extent necessary to fulfill our obligations and for the period of time necessary to achieve the purposes for which the personal data are collected, in accordance with applicable data protection laws. If Wacker Chemie AG no longer needs your personal data for its use, we will remove these data from our systems and from our records and/or take steps to properly anonymize them so that you can no longer be identified by these data (unless we must retain your personal data in order to comply with legal or regulatory obligations to which Wacker Chemie AG is subject).

You can request additional information on retention periods by contacting us, using the contact details provided below.

Additional data protection rights: in accordance with applicable data protection laws, you have the right (i) to request access to your personal data, (ii) to request rectification of your personal data, (iii) to request erasure of your personal data, (iv) to request restriction of processing of your personal data, (v) to request data portability; and/or (vi) to object to the processing of your personal data. Below you will find further information about your rights – to the extent that the GDPR applies. Please note that these rights may be restricted under (local) applicable data protection laws.

(i) Right of access to your personal data: to the extent provided for by applicable data protection laws, you have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not your personal data are being processed, and, where that is the case, you have the right of access to these personal data. The access information includes, among other things, the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned, the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed. This right is not absolute, however, and the interests of other persons may restrict your right of access.

You further have the right to receive a copy of the personal data undergoing processing. Should you require any further copies, we may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs.

(ii) Right to rectification: to the extent provided for by applicable data protection laws, you have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Depending on the purposes of the processing, you have the right to have your incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

(iii) Right to erasure (right to be forgotten): to the extent provided for by applicable data protection laws, you have the right to obtain from us the erasure of personal data concerning you, and we can be required to erase such personal data.

(iv) Right to restriction of processing: to the extent provided for by applicable data protection laws, you have the right to obtain from us restriction of processing of your personal data, and we can be required to restrict the processing of your personal data. Should we be so obligated, the personal data subject to restriction will be identified as such and may be processed by us only for certain specific purposes.

(v) Right to Data Portability Right to data portability: to the extent provided for by applicable data protection laws, you have the right to receive personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit those personal data to another entity without hindrance from us, provided that the processing is carried out by automated means and is based on consent pursuant to point (a) of Article 6(1) GDPR or on a contract pursuant to point (b) of Article 6(1) GDPR.

(vi) Right to object:

Under certain circumstances, you have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to processing of your personal data by us based on point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR (balancing of interests), and we have the obligation to no longer process your personal data.

If you have a right to object and are exercising this right, your personal data will no longer be processed by us for these purposes. You can exercise this right by contacting us as indicated below.

Any right to object may be precluded if processing your personal data is necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between us and you.

To exercise your rights, please contact us as indicated below.

You have the right, moreover, to file a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority in the relevant member state (e.g. in your member state of residence or employment, or in the member state of alleged infringement of the GDPR).

Our Privacy Policy may be updated at irregular intervals in order to comply with changes in legal requirements, or to implement changes to our services such as, for example, the insertion of new offerings. The new Privacy Policy will automatically apply to your next visit.

Please take the time to inform yourself frequently about changes. By using the WACKER website, you agree to this Privacy Policy.

The Website may contain links to websites of other providers to which this Privacy Policy does not extend. Where the use of the websites of other providers involves the collection, processing or use of personal data, please take note of the privacy statements of the respective provider. WACKER takes no responsibility for such content.

We use cookies and similar technologies such as web beacons and local storage (hereinafter collectively “cookies”) to enhance your experience on the Website, to continuously improve the Website through analytics and to tailor our content to your interests. We value your privacy and take data protection very seriously.

A cookie is a small data packet that your browser stores on your device when you visit a website in order to “remember” information about you, such as your language settings or login information. Those cookies are set by us and are called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies, which originate from a domain that is not the domain of the website you are visiting. We use these cookies to support our advertising and marketing efforts.

Some of the cookies we use are deleted after the end of the browser session, i.e. after you close your browser (these are “session cookies”). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us or our partner companies to recognize your browser on your next visit (these are “persistent cookies”). Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, the length of which may vary depending on the cookie involved.

You can set your browser to inform you when a web page wants to set a cookie and let you decide whether or not to accept it, or you can allow or block cookies for specific cases or in general. Each browser differs in how it manages cookie settings. This is described in the Help menu of each browser, which explains how to change your cookie settings.

Please note that disabling or deleting cookies may cause parts of the website to stop working as expected.

In some cases, cookies are used to simplify the ordering process by storing settings (e.g. remembering the contents of a virtual shopping cart for a subsequent visit to the Website). If personal data are also processed via individual cookies set by us, such processing takes place either in accordance with point (b) of Article 6(1) GDPR for the performance of a contract or in accordance with point (f) of Article 6(1) GDPR for the protection of our legitimate interests in delivering the best possible functionality of the Website and designing a customer-friendly, effective site visit.

In particular, we use cookies for the following purposes:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies – These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its main features, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. Without these cookies, services requested through usage of our website cannot be properly provided.
  Such cookies are also used in anonymous reach measurement, which we use to continuously improve our offering for you.Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent from the user under applicable law. You can still configure your browser to block these cookies, but some areas of the website will not then work.To the extent that data processed with the aid of strictly necessary cookies should qualify as personal data in a specific case, the legal ground for the processing of these data is WACKER’s legitimate interest in operating the Website.
• Performance Cookies – These cookies collect information about the use of the website, telling us, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, how visitors move around the website and how effective our advertising is. They are intended to help us improve the website’s user-friendliness and thus your user experience.
  The data generated through the use of performance cookies is generally aggregated and cannot be attributed to a particular natural person. In some cases, however, the data collected can be attributed to you personally (provided you disclosed your identity by, for instance, opening a user account or transferring an inquiry). To the extent that data processed with the aid of performance cookies can be attributed directly to you or should otherwise qualify as personal data in a specific case, the legal ground for the processing of these data is your consent.
• Functional Cookies – These cookies let us provide you enhanced functionality and greater personalization. They may be set by us or by trusted third-party providers whose services we use on our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, these services may not function properly.
  To the extent that data processed with the aid of functional cookies should qualify as personal data in a specific case, the legal ground for the processing of these data is the consent of the user.
• Marketing Cookies – These cookies are used by us and by trusted third parties to display relevant advertising based on your activities and interests. They are also used to limit the number of ads displayed and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
  To the extent that data processed with the aid of marketing cookies should qualify as personal data in a specific case, the legal ground for the processing of these data is the consent of the user.

Status: November 2024

The security and protection of your personal data is important to WACKER. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, store, use, disclose and transfer (hereinafter referred to as "process") your personal data in the context of the WACKER job and application portal ("job and application portal").

By registering with WACKER, you create an account in the job and application portal. By doing so, you provide the company with your personal data for the purpose of finding a job and express your interest in working for WACKER. Your data will be stored and processed in the systems of our software partner, SAP SuccessFactors.

In addition to the general information, this privacy policy also includes additional information that relate exclusively to certain countries.

You have the right to refuse your consent to this privacy policy. However, in this case you will not be able to use the job and application portal.

1. Which WACKER company has access to your personal data?

The job and application portal is provided and operated by WACKER Chemie AG, Gisela-Stein-Straße 1, 81671 Munich, Germany ("WACKER AG "). WACKER AG is therefore the global controller for data processing in accordance with this privacy policy.

The job and application portal offers you various options and choices that affect how we share your data within WACKER. You can adjust the respective options at any time in your own account under "Settings":

• Option 1: With checking the box “I would also like to be considered for other positions” you create an account and choose to be considered for open positions worldwide.
• Option 2: With checking the box “I only want to be considered for jobs that I have applied for” you create an account and only apply for positions of your choice.

If you have decided for

• Option 1: WACKER AG makes your personal data available to all WACKER Group companies worldwide that may offer positions matching your profile;
• Option 2: Your personal data will only be made accessible by WACKER AG to the WACKER Group company that advertised the position in question and to the respective (technical and personnel) managers and recruiters responsible for the hiring decision.

2. Which categories of data are processed?

WACKER processes the following personal data about you:

• Information that you actively provide to us when you set up your account on the WACKER job and application portal, including your full name, email address, your country/region, phone number, login details, contact information, resume, additional documents, your professional experience, qualifications and skills ("profile data ");
• Publicly accessible professional data about you, such as data published in company and employment-oriented social networks or websites, such as LinkedIn ("professional and education-related social network data "). Professional and educational social network data is part of your profile and therefore also part of the profile data.
  To clarify: We do not collect and process data from social networks or websites that do not have a company or employment-oriented context.
• Information that you actively provide to us in the further course of the application process for a specific vacancy and related information that we have collected from you in the course of your interviews and assessments that you have provided to us during the application process ("application data ").
• Information contained in your uploaded resume to be matched with job openings ("document matching "), even without registering or logging in, if applicable.
• ·Information about your interaction with the job and application portal, including your device and user ID, information about your operating system, sub-pages accessed during your visit, the date and time of each visitor request ("usage data ").

We do not ask you to provide us with special categories of personal data (i.e. information about race or ethnicity, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health or sexual orientation) as part of your application data, unless required by law in individual cases. If you provide us with special categories of personal data, you hereby expressly consent to the processing of this data as described here.

3. For what purposes do we process your data?

WACKER processes profile data, professional and education-related social network data and application data for the following purposes:

• To process your application;
• to assess qualifications and personal suitability;
• to show you other suitable jobs as part of your personal user interface in the job and application portal; and
• to send you information, documents and invitations in connection with your profile.

WACKER processes application data for the following purposes:

• to process your application; and
• to assess qualifications and personal suitability.

WACKER processes the document matching for the following purposes:

• to enable the job and application portal to make suggestions for suitable jobs and to help you find the open position(s) that best match your skills and talents.

WACKER also processes your data for the following purposes:

• To provide job and application portal services and functions, which include the following: Creating and managing your online account, updating, securing and troubleshooting, providing support and improving and developing the job and application portal and our application processes and services.
• To the extent necessary to establish or maintain a legal claim or defense and to prevent fraud or other unlawful activity, including attacks on our information technology systems.
• To meet the applicable mandatory legal requirements under the applicable laws and regulations.

4. How long do we store your data?

The categories of personal data described under point 2 will only be stored for the duration of the application and a reasonable subsequent period permitted or required by local law (taking into account statutory limitation periods under the applicable laws and regulations).

• Successful application: If you accept a position at WACKER on the basis of your application, your personal data or, if applicable, an excerpt thereof will be included in your personnel file.
• Rejection for a specific position or unsolicited application: If you have applied for a specific position or submitted an unsolicited application but received a rejection, your data will be stored after completion of the application process in accordance with the regulations of your country and / or state in order to answer questions in connection with your application and your rejection. This is done, for example, to defend against claims in connection with the application or due to WACKER's obligation to store data as required by law. In the event of ongoing legal or disciplinary proceedings, the personal data may be stored until the conclusion of these proceedings and until any appeal periods have expired. Thereafter, the data will be deleted or archived in accordance with the applicable laws. You will not be notified of the deletion of your data.
• Talent pool: If you have submitted an unsolicited application or we were unable to consider you for the position you applied for, we reserve the right and your consent to assign your application to a group-wide talent pool.
  If you do not agree to this or are no longer interested, you can delete your data yourself at any time. If your application is assigned to a talent pool, we will only store your personal data for as long as permitted or required by applicable law. Thereafter, we will remove your data from our systems and records or ensure that the data is properly anonymized and can therefore no longer be used to identify you.

You have the right to assert your data subject rights as described in chapter 6 or in the local supplements. For example, you can request earlier deletion of the data at any time.

5. Who are the recipients of your data?

As described above, you have the choice to decide to which WACKER company your data will be forwarded. In addition, WACKER may engage service providers (so-called data processors) to support us in the processing and use of your data, particularly in the area of IT services.

In particular, if personal data is transferred by WACKER to a recipient outside the European Economic Area (EEA) (e.g. to other WACKER Group companies than the one you have applied to), WACKER will ensure that these transfers do not undermine the level of protection of your personal data. If the country of destination is not covered by an adequacy decision of the European Commission, WACKER will use a transfer tool to ensure an equivalent level of protection for your personal data, such as the standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission. In addition, WACKER will also take additional measures, such as encryption, to better protect your personal data during and after a cross-border transfer.

If you have any questions in this regard or require further information on the measures used, please contact us at privacy@wacker.com.

The application process may require your voluntary participation for evaluation or selection procedures by third parties for some job offers. In this case, WACKER AG or the WACKER company offering the position in question will inform you about the relevant procedures and recipients as part of the application process and before your data is transmitted to third parties.

6. How can you access your data? What are your rights?

Data protection laws, including the applicable laws of your country of residence, may give you certain rights in relation to your personal data. Subject to local applicable law, you may be entitled to the following rights:

• Information and Access: You can request information from WACKER as to whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed, and if this is the case, you can request access to the personal data;
• Rectification: You have the right to request the rectification and/or updating of your inaccurate or outdated personal data;
• Erasure: You have the right to have your personal data erased. This right is subject to certain restrictions;
• Restriction: You have the right to have the processing of your personal data restricted. Restriction means that your personal data will only be stored by WACKER for the duration of the processing of your complaint and will not be processed further;
• Data portability: You have the right to receive a copy of your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to request that WACKER transmit this data to another recipient of your choice;
• Objection to processing: You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to certain types of processing of personal data concerning you.

7. Who can you contact if you have questions or want to exercise your rights?

It is important to WACKER that you can easily and effectively exercise your data protection rights and ask us any questions you may have.

You can contact the WACKER company to which you have applied and/or the WACKER Data Privacy Team at any time. The WACKER data protection team can be contacted at privacy@wacker.com.

WACKER will always strive to address and remedy your inquiry or complaint. In addition to contacting WACKER, you also have the option of contacting the responsible data protection authorities at any time with your inquiry or complaint.

8. Processing in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation

This section applies in the event that your personal data is processed by one of our companies based in the European Economic Area and provides you with further information.

The General Data Protection Regulation obliges us to inform you of the legal basis for the processing of your personal data.

Unless expressly stated otherwise when collecting personal data, the legal basis for data processing is

• the performance and fulfillment of a contract with you (Article 6 (1) (b) of the General Data Protection Regulation) (“contract performance ”),
• the fulfillment of legal obligations to which we are subject (Article 6 (1) I of the General Data Protection Regulation) (“fulfillment of legal obligations ”).

9. Processing in accordance with the Brazilian Data Protection Act

This section applies and provides you with further information if the processing by our company (i) takes place in Brazil, (ii) the data subject is located in Brazilian territory or (iii) the personal data is collected in Brazilian territory. In these cases, the Brazilian Data Protection Law (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados – LGPD) will apply to the processing of your personal data and the following additions constitute deviations from the above sections of this Privacy Policy.

Your rights

In addition to the rights described above in the privacy policy, you are entitled according to to LGPD:

• In the event of processing that deviates from applicable law or is excessive, to request that your personal data be anonymized, blocked or that unnecessary or excessively collected personal data be deleted.
• to receive information on the disclosure of your personal data to public and/or private recipients

Legal basis for data processing

The Brazilian Data Protection Act obliges us to inform you of the legal basis for the processing of your personal data:

• Article 7, V LGPD (“performance of the contract”),
• Article 7; II LGPD (“Legal obligations”),
• Article 10, I and II, LGPD (“Legitimate interest in processing”)

International data transfers

In accordance with Art. 33 LGPD, we ensure that your data is protected when it is transferred outside Brazilian territory, as required by Brazilian data protection law. In doing so, we follow the applicable law and the decisions of the authorities.

Your competent contact for data protection

You can contact the WACKER company to which you have applied and/or the WACKER data protection team at any time. The WACKER data protection team can be reached at privacy@wacker.com

10. Additional Information for Processing in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China

This section concerns the processing of the personal data by one of our companies within the mainland of the People's Republic of China ("PRC") in below or the processing of personal data within the mainland of the PRC and provides you with further information.

• Wacker Chemicals (China) Co., Ltd.
• Wacker Chemicals (Nanjing) Co., Ltd.
• Wacker Chemicals (Zhangjiagang) Co., Ltd.
• Wacker Chemicals Fumed Silica (Zhangjiagang) Co., Ltd.
• Sico Performance Material (Shandong) Co., Ltd.

Personal Information we process:

Your following personal information in connection with your account and application will be processed:

• Your full name, contact (mobile/email/address), ID, location/country/region, your resume (inclusive gender, age, birth date, photos, education background (inclusive school, major, degree, achievement, certificate, language skill), work experience (inclusive position and job responsibilities, work period, key achievement, professional qualification and certificate), relevant supporting documents and other information you provide during the interview and assessment. Among these information, ID and photos are your sensitive personal information.
• Other personal information described in chapter 2.

Processing of Sensitive Personal Information:

According to PRC Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”) and other applicable laws and regulations, sensitive personal information is personal data that, if disclosed or used unlawfully, may easily violate the dignity of natural persons and seriously affect personal or material security, including information on biometric characteristics, religious beliefs, special identity, medical health , financial accounts, tracking of individual location, etc., as well as the personal data of minors under the age of 14.

You acknowledge and consent that your sensitive information of your photo (if any) and ID Number will be processed by us for the purpose of interview, background investigation and preparing offer and labor contract and other purposes as described in Chapter 3. In principle, we ask you not to provide us with any other sensitive personal information as part of your application data, unless this is required by law in individual cases. If your other sensitive personal information is processed, we will inform you about the necessity of the processing and the effects on the rights and interests of the individual and, if necessary, obtain your express consent.

Why and how we process your Personal Information

We use your personal information for the purposes as described in chapter 3 of this Privacy Policy. In addition, we will collect and process your personal information for purpose of setting up your account, communication with you and respond to your request or application, process your application, assessment on your qualification and personal suitability and completing the recruitment process, including information collection, store, screening, sharing internally from HR to hiring business team, deletion, position matching and resume filtering, interview invitation and arrangement, interview feedback, offering and background investigation etc.

Transmission and Disclosure of Personal Information

In accordance with the requirements set out in Article 23 of the PIPL and in addition to the recipients mentioned in this Privacy Policy, we will generally not disclose your personal data to third parties unless we (1) obtain your explicit consent, if applicable, or (2) to comply with legal obligations under local laws and regulations.

Storage and Cross-border Transfer of Personal Information

The personal information collected and processed within the mainland of PRC will in principle be stored within the mainland of PRC. But all your personal information processed by WACKER affiliates in the mainland of PRC will be transferred to and stored by WACKER AG in Germany due to the global system management and global human resource management. You hereby acknowledge and consent on this cross-border data transfer from Wacker affiliates in the mainland of PRC to Wacker Chemie AG (Address: Gisela-Stein-Straße 1, 81671 Munich, Germany; Contact email: privacy@wacker.com). In addition, you acknowledge and consent that your personal information will be transferred and processed outside the PRC as described in chapter 5 of this Privacy Policy and shared with other WACKER entities based on your chosen option in chapter 1. We will comply with applicable laws and decisions of the relevant authority and ensure that your personal information is protected in a manner consistent with PIPL.

Retention Period

WACKER retains the personal information as described in chapter 4 of this privacy policy.

Legal Basis of the Processing

The PIPL obliges us to inform you about the processing of your personal data. The legal basis for our processing is:

• PIPL Article 13(2) ("Performance of the Contract ");
• PIPL Article 13(3) ("Legal duties and responsibilities ")
• PIPL Article 13(6) ("Processing of publicly accessible data ");
• PIPL Article 13(1) ("Consent ")

Please aware that we may collect and use your relevant personal information without your consent if

• It is necessary to respond to a public health emergency, or to protect your life, health and property in an emergency situation;
• We process your personal information collected from lawful public disclosures (such as lawful news reports and government disclosures) to a reasonable extent;
• It falls in other circumstances provided by laws and regulations.

Use by Children

This online job and application portal is not intended for children under the age of fourteen (14). We will not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of fourteen (14) without prior parental consent where required by applicable law. We will only use or disclose personal information about a child to the extent permitted by law, to obtain parental consent, in accordance with local laws and regulations, or to protect a child.

Your Rights

You have the following rights with regard to your personal information under the applicable PIPL. Please be aware that nothing in this chapter may be interpreted to establish rights or obligations that go beyond PIPL.

• The right to information: You have the right to be informed and to ask us to explain our rules of processing.
• The right to determine: You have the right to decide on the processing of your personal information.
• The right to restrict processing: You have the right to restrict or deny another person from the processing of your personal information, unless otherwise provided by law or administrative regulations.
• The right of access: Subject to certain exceptions, you have the right to access or make copies of your personal information from us.
• The right to data portability: You have the right to request us to transfer your personal information to another personal information processor of your choice. This right can only be exercised in certain circumstances as provided by Chinese laws.
• The right to rectification: If the personal information that we process is incomplete or incorrect, you have the right to request supplementary or correction.
• The right to deletion: Subject to certain exceptions if you consider that we should stop processing some or all of your personal information, you have the right to request its deletion. However, there may be reasons why an immediate deletion may not be possible (for example where retention is required to meet legal or regulatory obligations) or deletion may be technically difficult (in which case we will stop processing the personal information, except for the storage and any necessary measure taken for security protection).
• The right to withdraw consent: We may ask for your consent to process your personal information in specific cases. When we do this, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. We will stop the further processing as soon as possible after the withdrawal of your consent. However, this does not affect the lawfulness of the processing before consent was withdrawn.
• Rights relating to automated decision-making: You have the right not to be subjected to automated decision-making, including profiling, which produces legal effect for you or has a similar significant effect. If you believe you have been subject to an automated decision and do not agree with the outcome, you can contact us via the email in below and ask us to explain, and you also have the right to refuse the decisions made only through automated decision-making methods.

You may access, correct and supplement your personal information or delete your information by login your account of the website or by contacting us via privacy@wacker.com. You may also contact us via privacy@wacker.com to exercise your other legal rights.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy including requests to exercise your legal rights under PIPL or any question about your right, you may contact us via privacy@wacker.com. To protect your rights and your privacy and to validate communications received in relation to this Privacy Policy, we may request a confirmation and proof of your identity. We will try to respond to all legitimate requests within 15 working days.

11. Additional Information for California Residents

We provide the following information to our applicants or candidates who are California residents, pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act ("CCPA"). In the event of a conflict between any other company policy, statement, or notice and this Wacker Privacy Policy- Job and Application Portal, this Privacy Policy will prevail as to California job applicants, unless stated otherwise.

Categories of Personal Information

Below, we describe the categories of Personal Information (as defined in the CCPA) that we have collected and may collect about applicants or candidates on a going-forward basis:

• Identifiers
• Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)) (e.g., name, address, email address)
• Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law
• Internet or other similar network activity
• Geolocation data (e.g., general location derived from an IP address)
• Sensory data (e.g., audio, electronic, visual or similar information including candidate assessments and presentations)
• Professional or employment-related information
• Education information
• Inferences drawn from the preceding categories of Personal Information

Within these categories of Personal Information, we may also collect the following categories of Sensitive Personal Information (as defined in the CCPA):

• Account log-in in combination with any required security or access codes, password, or credentials allowing access to the account
• Social security, driver's license, state identification card, or passport number
• Racial or ethnic origin, for diversity purposes and consistent with applicable law
• Health-related information, to the extent necessary to provide necessary accommodations

Categories of Recipients of Personal Information

For each category of Personal Information (including Sensitive Personal Information) listed above, we disclose this information as described in chapter 5 of this statement, as required or permitted by applicable law.

Sources of Personal Information

We obtain the categories of Personal Information listed above directly from you or from devices on which you use our Sites, as well as described in chapter 2 of this statement.

Purposes for Which We Use Personal Information

We use Personal Information for a variety of business and commercial purposes, as described in chapter 3 of this statement and as required or permitted by applicable law.

Retention Period Criteria

WACKER retains the personal information based on how long we have a legitimate purpose for the retention, as described in chapter 4 of this statement, and including as mandated by applicable laws.

CCPA Rights and Requests

To the extent provided by the CCPA, you may make the following types of requests under the CCPA with respect to Personal Information that we process on our own behalf.

Requests to Know, Correct, and Delete:

You may request:

• Access to a copy of the specific pieces of Personal Information that we have collected about you;
• Correction of Personal Information that we maintain about you, if it is inaccurate; and/or
• Deletion of Personal Information that we maintain about you, subject to certain exceptions

You may submit such requests by emailing us at privacy@wacker.com. We will respond to your request consistent with the CCPA, and subject to any exceptions that may apply under the CCPA. We may need to request additional Personal Information from you, such as email address, state of residency, or mailing address, in order to verify your identity and protect against fraudulent requests.

Authorized Agents

If you wish to use an authorized agent to make a CCPA request on your behalf, please direct the authorized agent to use the submission methods noted above. As part of our verification process, we may request that the authorized agent provides, as applicable, proof concerning status as an authorized agent. We may also require you to verify your own identity directly with us; or directly confirm with us that you provided permission to submit the request on your behalf.

Nondiscrimination

We will not discriminate or retaliate against you in a manner prohibited by the CCPA for your exercise of your privacy rights.

Please contact us at privacy@wacker.com if you have any additional questions.

12. Processing in accordance with Indian data protection law

This section applies to and provides you with further information if the processing by our company (i) takes place in India, (ii) the data subject is located in India or (iii) the personal data is collected in India. In these cases, the Indian Data Protection Act (DPDP Act) will apply to the processing of your personal data and the following additions are variations to the above sections of this Privacy Policy.

Data Principal rights under the DPDP Act

In addition to the rights described above in the privacy policy, you have the following rights

the DPDP Act the following rights:

• Right of grievance redressal
• Right to nominate

Your competent contact for Data Protection

If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights as a Data Principal, you can contact the WACKER company to which you have applied and/or the WACKER Data Privacy Team at any time. The WACKER Data Privacy Team can be reached at: privacy@wacker.com.

In addition to contacting WACKER, you can also contact the Data Protection Board of India at any time if you have a complaint.

13. Changes

The current version of our privacy policy is shown on this page. WACKER reserves the right to change this privacy policy at any time. If any changes to our privacy policy, we will publish the updated privacy policy on this page. If you do not agree with the updated privacy policy, you may choose to cancel your account or stopping involving in our recruiting activities. However, please be aware that your behavior, activities and our processing activities before are still subject to this privacy policy.