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Application Consent and Privacy Notice under GDPR

When you apply for a job here, the personal data contained in your application will be collected by Alliance Defending Freedom International (“ADFI”) Austria (“Controller”). The protection of your personal data is of utmost concern to Alliance Defending Freedom International (“ADFI”) Austria (hereinafter referred to as “we”). We process your personal data exclusively on the basis of the applicable legal provision, in particular the Austrian Data Protection Act (“DSG”) and the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“General Data Protection Regulation”; short “GDPR”). You will find a short summary of the most important aspects of our data processing in relation to your application below.

1. Name and Contact Details of the Controller

ADF International Austria gemeinnützige GmbH
Postfach 5, 1037 Wien
email: [email protected]

2. Processing for the purpose of managing our recruitment related activities:

The activities include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results thereof, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes. The data will be used for the solicitation, evaluation, and selection of applicants for employment and eventually for consideration for future job openings in any of the ADFI entities. You are not obliged to provide us with your personal data. However, if you do not do so, we will not be able to complete the application process with you. In detail:

a. Scope of the processing activity:
The activities include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results thereof, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes.
We process the following personal data in connection with your application:


1. First Name, Last Name, Preferred First Name, Email, Phone. Country, Resume/CV, Cover Letter, Nationality and Work Permission


2. Linked-In Profile, additional information regarding your application, such as how did you learn about this opportunity, if you were referred, etc., name of the employee you were referred by, attendance to any events or training with us


3. Information regarding religious beliefs and agreement to the Statement of Faith and the Doctrinal Distinctive.

b. Legal basis for the processing of your personal data
We only process your personal data to the extent necessary for the fulfilment of the purpose described above and if there is a legal basis for the processing of your personal data. If you do not provide us with your data, we may be unable to consider your application further.
Your personal data is processed on the following legal basis:


1. personal data according to Section 2. a. i. is processed and stored based on pre-contractual measures within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.


2. personal data according to 2. a. ii. is processed and stored based on our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR and serves to optimise our application process.


3. personal data according to 2. a. iii. is processed and stored based on your explicit consent in accordance within the meaning of Art. 9(1)(a) GDPR.

3. Recipients of your personal data

If necessary for the recruitment process, your personal data can/will be shared with other ADFI entities and Alliance Defending Freedom in the United States of America (USA) and transferred thereto on the basis of our legitimate interests within the meaning of Art 6(1)(b) GDPR.
Furthermore, Greenhouse Software Inc., a cloud services provider located in the US and engaged by Controller to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on Controller’s behalf. Greenhouse Software Inc. is contractually obliged in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR to always protect your personal data, to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures with regard to data security and under no circumstances to process your data for their own purposes or to pass it on to third parties. The processing and corresponding data transfer are based on our legitimate interests to Art 6(1)(f) GDPR, namely the efficient and secure management of recruitment and hiring processes. The data transfer to the US is based on an adequacy decision pursuant to Art 45 GDPR. Greenhouse Software Inc. has self-certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework with the US Department of Commerce (DoC).

4. Further processing of your personal data

If we can offer you a suitable position, your personal data will be processed for the purpose of our employee administration and the performance of the employment contract/employment relationship.

5. Storage Periods

We retain your personal data up to 7 months after the end of the application process in accordance with § 15 (1) GlBG and § 26 (1) GlBG as well as § 7k (1) in conjunction with (2) Z 1 BEinstG, provided that we are unable to offer you a position.
If we have undertaken to reimburse you for costs incurred or likely to be incurred as a result of the application process, we will retain the data relating to your costs and reimbursement, such as the amount, type and reason for the costs, as well as the date on which they were incurred, the date of reimbursement and your bank details, for a period of three years in accordance with § 1486 (5) of the Austrian Civil Code (ABGB). If this data is relevant for tax purposes, we are obliged to retain it for at least seven years in accordance with § 132 Federal Tax Code (“BAO”) and, in addition, for as long as it is relevant to the tax authorities in pending proceedings.
If you consented to be considered for other positions, we will store your personal data for up to two years.

6. Automated Decision Making

There is no automated decision-making as part of the application process, nor do we carry out so-called ‘profiling’.

7. Your rights as a data subject

Under the GDPR, you have the right to be informed, to request access, rectification, or erasure, and to restrict processing of your personal data or object to it. You also have the right not to be subject to automated decision-making, the right to data portability and the right to withdraw consent at any time.

8. Competent Authority

If you have a concern that the processing of your data may violate your right to secrecy or otherwise infringe your data protection rights, you may complain to the competent supervisory authority. In Austria, the competent authority is the

Austrian Data Protection Authority

Barichgasse 40-42, 1030 Vienna.

Regardless of this, the possibility of filing a claim with the regional court pursuant to § 29 (2) DSG and any other legal remedies remain without prejudice.

Statement of Faith

Based on our adherence to the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess with the Christian Church throughout time and around the world the faith expressed in the Apostles’ Creed:

I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen.

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