Quick view of the sections in this Privacy Notice
Introduction
Purposes of Processing your Personal Information
Personal Information We Collect
Methods and Sources for Collecting your Personal Information
Data retention and Future Use
Sharing Your Personal Information
Information Security
Additional information for those in the EEA or UK
o International data transfers
o Data subject rights
Additional Information for Individuals Residing in California
o Disclosing your information to third parties
o Your rights under the CPRA if you are a resident of California
Introduction
Valens Semiconductor (the “Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”), respects the privacy and data
protection rights of our job applicants.
This privacy notice (“Notice”) describes the personal information we have about you as a job
applicant and your rights concerning that information. It also explains the policies and
procedures we use regarding your personal information during our selection and recruitment
process.
This Notice may be amended from time to time. We will post any change to this Notice on our
website a reasonable time in advance of the effective date of the change.
The company primarily responsible for your personal information is the Valens Semiconductor
group company where the position you apply for is located.
Valens Semiconductor Ltd. in Israel is the global management and headquarters of the Valens
Semiconductor group, and therefore is also a separate controller. The EU GDPR representative
of Valens Semiconductor Ltd. is Valens Semiconductor GmbH in Germany.
Location Name Address
Israel Valens Semiconductor
Ltd.
8 Hanagar St. POB 7152, Hod Hasharon 4501309,
Israel
United States Valens Semiconductor
Inc.
1 Blue Hill Plaza (7th Floor), Pearl River, NY
10965, United States
Germany Valens Semiconductor
GmbH
Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 2-6, Triwo
Technologiepark, Bldg. 5110, 76646 Bruchsal,
Germany
Japan Valens Japan Ltd. Nisso 12 Building, Office #602, Expert Office
Grand Shin-Yokohama, 3-6-12, Shin-Yokohama,
Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
China Valens Trading
(Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
Valens, A unit, 3/F Beijing Institute of Technology
Innovative Building, Yue Xin 5 Rd, Nanshan
District, Shenzhen, China 518064
We can be contacted at dataprotection@valens.com .
Purposes of Processing your Personal Information
We collect and process personal information about job applicants like you for the purpose of
conducting a proper recruitment process, assessing how suitable you are for the position,
deciding whether to hire you and, where relevant, preparing to enter into an employment
agreement with you.
In extraordinary cases, we will also use the information we collect to handle complaints and
lawsuits relating to your candidacy. For example, if you or a third-party file a complaint or a
lawsuit about our handling of your candidacy, or if we need to file a complaint or a lawsuit
relating to your candidacy to protect our legal rights.
We also process your personal information to consider you for future openings at the Company
and our corporate group affiliates, other than the specific position to which you initially apply.
For example, we may contact you later if a similar position subsequently becomes available,
which we believe may be relevant for you.
Personal Information We Collect
Your personal information as a job applicant includes your name, contact details, address,
qualifications, skills, hobbies and leisure activities, employment history, experience and
education history, information presented in your CV (Curriculum Vitae) or cover letter, your
employment preferences, your right to work in the country in question, photos and links to
webpages or websites you operate online, performance in home-assignment, and additional
information obtained in your interviews.
We also collect additional information that you choose to share with us, such as your current
and historic salary information and salary expectations. If you voluntarily provide us with
information about your gender, racial or ethnic origin, or health condition, we will also process
that information.
We also collect the names and contact details of your application references, as well as
information we receive through reference letters or in our discussions with those references. It
is your responsibility to obtain consent from those you provide as references before you give us
their contact information.
You are not under any legal obligation to provide us with your personal information. However,
we will not be able to consider your application for the position without this information (with
the exception of information you can voluntarily choose whether to provide us).
We also obtain information about you from other third parties, such as references supplied by
former employers, information from employment background check providers and information
from criminal records checks (where permitted by law).
We do not recruit or employ individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect
personal information about individuals under that age.
Methods and Sources for Collecting your Personal Information
The Company collects the information from several sources:
Directly from you as an applicant, through documents you provide us and interviews we
conduct with you.
Recruiters and recruitment or placement agencies.
References and past employers.
Publicly accessible sources, such as LinkedIn and Facebook, where information is
publicly available.
Employment background check and criminal record checks providers, if you are an
applicant in the United States.
The Company also uses applicant screening assessment tests and questionnaires that
we will ask you to complete. The information, results and assessments obtained through
these tools relate to your skills, characteristics, hobbies, and leisure activities. The
Company will use these to evaluate if you are suitable for the position and the
Company.
Data Retention and Future Use
We retain information about your candidacy for the initial period necessary for the recruitment
process. We then retain the information for an additional period of 36 months for the purpose
of considering you for other potential job opening, and in case the information is necessary to
handle legal claims related to the application.
Personal information of unsuccessful applicants will be deleted within 36 months of the
decision. We will retain the information of candidates we ultimately hire for as long as we
employ them and for an additional period of 7 years thereafter.
Sharing Your Personal Information
First and foremost, your information will be shared with our Human Resources and recruitment
team, the manager overseeing the position to which you are applying, and at times, also other
members of the team which the position you are applying to belongs.
We also will share some of your information with outside parties that we hire to provide
services relating to the purposes mentioned above, such as screening and placement agencies,
external advisors, and relevant service providers. These parties operate under our instructions,
and we require them to implement measures to safeguard your personal information.
Because we operate our business as an affiliated group of companies, we sometimes also share
your information with companies in our corporate group for the same purposes listed above.
If the operation of our business is organized within a different framework, or through another
legal structure or entity (such as due to a merger or acquisition), we will share your information
with the target entity of the merger, acquisition, or reorganization, and with legal counsels, and
advisors. We do so for the purpose of facilitating the structural change in the operation of our
business.
In the extraordinary case of complaints and lawsuits relating to your candidacy, we will also
share your information with our general counsel and outside legal counsel.
If a law or binding order requires us to, we will disclose your personal information to the parties
required under the law or order.
If a recruiting firm introduced your candidacy to the Company, and you successfully complete
the recruitment process and are hired, we will provide the recruitment firm an indication of
your successful candidacy and your expected salary. This is necessary for charging the finder’s
fee that the Company pays the recruiting firm.
In any case, we do not sell your personal information to third parties.
Information Security
We implement measures designed to secure your personal information and protect it from
unauthorized disclosure, use or copying. We also require all those who have access to your
personal information to implement such measures. However, although efforts are made to
secure the applicant personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute protection.
Additional information for job applicant in the EEA or UK
Purposes Legal Basis
Recruitment: Reviewing your
candidacy for an open position you
applied for
Our legitimate interests in properly reviewing
your candidacy and making a recruitment
decision.
Steps necessary before entering into an
employment contract with you.
Defending or asserting legal claims
relating to your candidacy
Our legitimate interests in asserting or defending
legal claims that impact the course of our business
or reputation.
Retaining your candidacy for future
positions beyond the ones you
applied for
Our legitimate interests in considering you for
other job openings we may have
Charging the finder’s fee that the
Company pays the recruiting firm
Our legitimate interests in performing the
“finder’s” agreement we have with the recruiting
firm.
International data transfers. The Company’s headquarters are based in Israel. Information we
collect from you will be processed in the country of the Valens group company where the
position you apply for is located. It will also be processed at Company’s headquarters in Israel,
and in the United States where the Company’s service providers, such as Microsoft, are located.
If we transfer your Information from within the EEA or UK to other jurisdictions outside the EEA
or UK, this will be done under either to a country with an EU and UK adequacy recognition (such
as Israel), or under the terms of a data transfer agreement which contain standard data
protection contract clauses with adequate safeguards determined by the EU Commission and
the UK ICO.
Data subject rights. If you are in the EEA or UK, you have the following rights under the GDPR:
Right to Access and receive a copy of your personal information that we process.
Right to Rectify inaccurate personal information we have concerning you and to have
incomplete personal information completed.
Right to Object to our processing of your personal information on the basis of our legitimate
interest. However, we may override the objection if we demonstrate compelling legitimate
grounds, or if we need to process such personal information for the establishment, exercise or
defense of legal claims.
Right to Restrict us from processing your personal information (except for storing it): (a) if you
contest the accuracy of the personal information (in which case the restriction applies only for a
period enabling us to determine the accuracy of the personal information); (b) if the processing
is unlawful and you prefer to restrict the processing of the personal information rather than
requiring the deletion of such data by us; (c) if we no longer need the personal information for
the purposes outlined in this Notice, but you require the personal information to establish,
exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) if you object to our processing based on our legitimate
interest (in which case the restriction applies only for the period enabling us to determine
whether our legitimate grounds for processing override yours).
Right to be Forgotten. Under certain circumstances, such as when our processing of your
personal information is no longer necessary, you have the right to ask us to erase your personal
information. However, notwithstanding such request, we may still process your personal
information if it is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or for the establishment,
exercise or defense of legal claims.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, contact us through the channels listed below.
When you contact us, we reserve the right to ask for reasonable evidence to verify your identity
before we provide you with information. Where we are not able to provide you with
information that you have asked for, we will explain the reason.
Subject to applicable law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data
protection authority. If you are in the EU, then according to Article 77 of the GDPR, you can
lodge a complaint to the supervisory authority, in the Member State of your residence, place of
work or place of alleged infringement of the GDPR. For a list of supervisory authorities in the EU,
click here.
If you are in the UK, you can lodge a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
pursuant to the instructions provided here.
Additional Information for Individuals Residing in California
If you are an individual residing in California, we provide you with the following information
pursuant to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). This is also the information we have
collected in the past 12 months.
We do not sell your personal information and have not done so in the past 12 months.
We also do not share your personal information for online behaviorally targeted ads and have
not done so in the past 12 months.
Categories of Personal
Information
Specific Types of Personal
Information Collected
Business or commercial
purposes pursuant to the
CPRA
Specific Details
on the Business
Purpose
Identifiers Name, email address,
phone number, residential
address, photograph,
contact information of
references Auditing related to a
current interaction with
you
Detecting security
incidents and protecting
against malicious,
deceptive, fraudulent or
illegal activity
Exercising or defending
our legal rights and the
rights of our employees,
customers, and agents
Administration of our
operations, including for
safety purposes
Compliance with
applicable laws and
regulations
Recruitment –
Reviewing
your
candidacy for
the open
position you
applied for
Defending or
asserting legal
claims relating
to your
candidacy
Managing the
Company’s
ongoing
business
Retaining your
candidacy for
future
positions
beyond the
ones you
applied for
compensation
and payroll
Information that
identifies, relates to,
describes, or is capable
of being associated
with, a particular
individual
Date of birth and your
LinkedIn profile
information, information
presented in your CV
(Curriculum Vitae) or cover
letter, your right to work in
the U.S, background check
(criminal record), and
information on
Professional or
employment-related
information
Details of professional
qualifications and skills,
employment history, job
preferences, current and
prior salary information
together with salary
expectations, details of
your current benefit
entitlements and other
information you provide in
connection with your job
application, in your
curriculum vitae (résumé)
and in your cover letter,
references, background
check and criminal records
information
Education information Your professional education
Characteristics of
protected
classifications under
California or federal
law
Gender, racial or ethnic
origin, health condition.
These are considered
sensitive information under
the CCPA. We do not use or
discloses this sensitive
personal information for
purposes other than those
specified in the CCPA
regulations.
Inferences drawn from Assessment of
any of the information
identified above to
create a profile about
the Candidate
characteristics, skills,
abilities and aptitudes
Disclosing your information to third parties
The chart below explains about the personal information we disclosed for a business purpose to
third parties in the preceding 12 months.
Categories of personal
information (under the CPRA)
Categories of third parties to whom we disclose your
information and the specific business or commercial
purpose for the disclosure
Identifiers of the applicant With other companies in our corporate group, for
the same purposes indicated in the chart above.
With outside legal counsels, for the purpose of
handling complaints and lawsuits relating to your
candidacy.
With third parties to which a law or binding order
requires us to disclose your information to. Our
purpose in doing so complying with our obligations
under the law or the binding order.
With the target entity of our merger, acquisition or
reorganization, and legal counsels, and advisors,
for the purpose of facilitating the structural change
in the operation of our business within a different
framework, or through another legal structure or
entity (such as due to a merger or acquisition).
Other information that identifies,
relates to, describes, or is capable
of being associated with, the
applicant
Professional or employment-
related information
Education information
Characteristics of protected
classifications under California or
federal law
Inferences drawn from any of the
information identified above to
create a profile about the
applicant
Your rights under the CPRA if you are a resident of California
Knowing the personal information, we collect about you
You have the right to know:
● The categories of personal information we have collected about you.
● The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.
● Our business or commercial purpose for collecting personal information.
● The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information, if any.
● The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
Right to deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
● Delete your personal information from our records; and
● Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.
Please note that we may not delete your personal information if it is necessary to:
● Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the
terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law,
provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the
context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract
between you and us.
● Help to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumer’s personal
information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for those purposes.
● Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
● Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of
free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
● Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
● Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research that
conforms or adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion
of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the ability to
complete such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent.
● Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on
your relationship with us and compatible with the context in which you provided the
information.
or
● Comply with an existing legal obligation.
We also will deny your request to delete if it proves impossible or involves disproportionate
effort, or if another exception to the CPRA applies. We will provide you with a detailed
explanation that includes enough facts to give you a meaningful understanding as to why we
cannot comply with the request to delete your information.
Right to correct inaccurate personal information
If we receive a verifiable request from you to correct your information and we determine the
accuracy of the corrected information you provide, we will correct inaccurate personal
information that we maintain about you.
In determining the accuracy of the personal information that is the subject of your request to
correct, we will consider the totality of the circumstances relating to the contested personal
information.
We also may require that you provide documentation if we believe it is necessary to rebut our
own documentation that the personal information is accurate.
We may deny your request to correct in the following cases:
● We have a good-faith, reasonable, and documented belief that your request to correct
is fraudulent or abusive.
● We determine that the contested personal information is more likely than not accurate
based on the totality of the circumstances.
● Conflict with federal or state law.
● Other exception to the CPRA.
● Inadequacy in the required documentation
● Compliance proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort.
We will provide you a detailed explanation that includes enough facts to give you a meaningful
understanding as to why we cannot comply with the request to correct your information
Protection against discrimination
You have the right to not be discriminated against by us because you exercised any of your
rights under the CPRA.
Exercising your CPRA rights by yourself or through an authorized agent
If you would like to exercise any of your CPRA rights as described in this Notice, please contact
us by e-mail at dataprotection@valens.com.
We will ask you for additional information to confirm your identity and for security purposes,
before disclosing the personal data requested to you, by using a two or three points of data
verification process, depending on the type of information you require and the nature of your
request.
You may also designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CPRA on your behalf.
To do so, you need to provide the authorized agent written permission to do so and the agent
will need to submit to us proof that they have been authorized by you. We will also require that
you verify your own identity, as explained above.