Privacy Policy

  1. Introduction We respect visitor privacy and understand the importance of protecting the information we collect from our visitors. We have established procedures to ensure that your personal data is processed responsibly.

This Privacy Policy explains who we are and how we collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process your personal data when you interact with the services offered on our website.

This Privacy Policy references relevant articles of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”).

  1. Who Controls Your Personal Data?

The legal entity responsible for processing your personal data. As the data controller, we determine the purpose and manner of processing your personal data.

  1. How We Process Your Personal Data

We are committed to protecting the security of your personal data when you visit our website. Depending on your use of our services, we process your personal data for different purposes. The following details the different ways we process your personal data.

3.1 How We Process Your Personal Data When You Visit Our Website

When you visit our website, we automatically collect some general information, even if you do not register or submit any information. This information (server log files) includes your IP address, access date, and time, etc.

We process this information for the following purposes:

To ensure smooth website connectivity,

To ensure the smooth operation of our website, and

To ensure and evaluate system security and stability, particularly for abuse detection,

To ensure the technical presentation and optimization of our website are error-free.

Processing is conducted in accordance with Article 6, paragraph 1(f) of the GDPR, based on our legitimate interests in improving website stability and functionality, ensuring system security, and abuse detection.

3.2 Direct Communication

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we may contact you by email with news of your choice, including but not limited to calendar events, press releases, company announcements, etc. For this purpose, we will process your data with your consent, in accordance with Article 6, paragraph 1(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You can withdraw your consent at any time via the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. For more information about your rights, such as how to withdraw your consent or change your personal information, please see Part 6.

3.3 Recruiting

When you visit our recruitment website, you can apply for job openings and choose to join our talent community. The following details how we process your personal data for these purposes.

How We Process Your Personal Data When You Join Our Talent Community

When you create an account and join our talent community, we process your personal data in accordance with your consent (see Article 6, paragraph 1(a) of the GDPR). You hereby consent that mandatory data, voluntary data, and automatically collected data may be viewed and transferred to our global affiliates for recruitment, statistical, and analytical purposes.

Some of our affiliates are located in countries outside the EU or EEA, where the level of personal data protection may be less stringent than in the EU or EEA. You can withdraw your consent at any time by changing your privacy settings on your profile page. However, if you do so, your talent community account will be deleted. You can find more information about our affiliates on the website.

Recruiting Assistant (Chatbot)

On our recruitment website, you can interact with our virtual recruiting assistant chatbot. This chatbot is provided by a third party and is designed to assist you in your recruitment process. Recruiting Assistant can help you find suitable job openings on Pandora based on your areas of interest. Depending on your country of residence and the services Recruiting Assistant provides in your country, we collect various types of personal data and process this data for pre-contract preparation work, such as entering into a potential employment contract with you, in accordance with Section 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The information we may collect includes, but is not limited to:

  • IP address
  • Location data
  • Unique identifiers and cookie data
  • Other information you voluntarily provide

If you visit our recruitment page from the United States, Recruiting Assistant can also assist you in applying for specific positions, enabling processes such as review, evaluation, information verification, screening, and interview scheduling to be completed directly through Recruiting Assistant. To learn how we process your personal data when you use Recruiting Assistant in the United States, please read the Privacy Policy and the terms you need to accept before using Recruiting Assistant.

  1. Cookies
    When you visit our website, the website asks your browser to store/access a small data file (text file) called a “cookie” on your device to remember your information, such as your language preferences or login information. These cookies are set by us and are called first-party cookies.

We also use third-party cookies, which are cookies from domains different from the domain of the website you are visiting, for advertising and marketing purposes. More specifically, the cookies and other tracking technologies we use include: essential cookies, analytics cookies, functional cookies, personalized cookies, and advertising cookies. For more information on these cookie types and their uses, please click here.

4.1 How to Control and Delete Cookies

Our website includes a cookie consent tool to manage your cookie preferences. This tool records when you consent to the use of cookies and seeks your consent every six months to ensure you are aware of changes to our cookie policy. You can use this consent tool to select or deselect all cookies, except for essential cookies, which cannot be disabled. To access this consent tool, you can click here at any time or use the link in the website footer.

You can disable many cookies used on our website through the consent tool or your browser. To disable cookies through your browser, please follow the instructions usually located in your browser’s “Help,” “Tools,” or “Edit” menu. Please note that disabling a cookie or a type of cookie through the Cookie Consent module will not delete the cookie from your browser unless you manually delete it using your browser’s features.

The following links provide guidance on how to delete or block cookies in your most popular internet browsers:

Chrome, Firefox, Hunting Trip, Windows Edge. Please note that without an IP address and cookie identifier, we cannot guarantee the proper functioning of our website’s services and features. Furthermore, some services may be unavailable or have limited functionality.

  1. With whom will your personal data be shared?

With whom will your personal data be shared?

We process your personal data on our behalf using third-party service providers. These services may include: authentication, hosting and maintenance services, analytics services, email services, and email inspection. Some of our third-party service providers are located outside the EU/EEA. Therefore, we may share your personal data with countries outside the EU/EEA. However, if your personal data is transferred to a third party outside the EU/EEA, we will safeguard such transfers through the following mechanisms:

Adequacy decisions by the European Commission

Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) of the European Commission

The relevant third party has been certified under Article 40 of the GDPR; or

The third party has a set of approved, binding corporate rules.

We may also disclose your information to relevant authorities if required to comply with legal obligations.

If we choose to participate in alternative dispute resolution through an online dispute resolution platform, we may disclose your personal data to the European Commission, which operates the platform, and any designated alternative dispute resolution provider.

  1. Your Rights

If any information you provide to us changes, such as a change in your email address or other contact information

We may request proof of identity if we have any doubts about your identity.

Generally, you have the following rights:

6.1 You have the right to request access to your personal data

You have the right to access some of the personal data you provide. You can contact us here for details about the information we hold and process about you, including the purposes for which we use that information.

6.2 You have the right to modify and/or delete your personal data

You have the right to request the correction, supplementation, deletion, or blocking of your stored personal data. To exercise this right, please click here to contact us. If we are unable to meet your request for any reason, we will contact you.

6.3 You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data

In certain circumstances, you have the right to restrict our processing of your personal data. To request a restriction, please contact us. Here.

6.4 Right to Data Portability

You have the right to receive your personal data (data relating only to you) in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format (“Data Portability”) and to transfer such data to other data controllers. To apply for Data Portability, please contact us. Here.

6.5 You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data and unsubscribe

You have the right to request that we cease processing your personal data based on legitimate interests (such as the marketing purposes described above). You can contact us at any time to exercise your right of objection. Here.

An unsubscribe option is included in the newsletter emails sent to you; you can follow the instructions in the email. If you no longer wish to receive our emails and wish to withdraw your consent (see Section 6.6 below for general guidelines on withdrawing consent), you can click the unsubscribe link, and we will stop sending you emails.

For all other types of messages you may receive from us, such as maintenance, announcements, or administrative notices, you can only cease receiving them by deleting your Talent Community profile.

6.6 You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time

You have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data at any time, provided that our processing is based on your consent. However, withdrawing consent does not affect the legality of processing based on consent prior to the withdrawal.

  1. Retention of Personal Data

Your personal data will not be retained beyond the time necessary for processing. The following lists the retention periods for personal data for each processing activity:

Recruiting and Talent Community

For information on processing activities, please see Section 3.3.

Applications

Your application will be deleted after 6 months of inactivity.

Talent Community Account

Your profile will be deleted after 12 months of inactivity.

Recruiting Assistant

For visitors outside the U.S. using the Recruiting Assistant, your data will be retained for 2 years.

Direct Marketing, including Newsletter Subscriptions

For information on processing activities, please see paragraph 3.2 above.

How do we define an inactive email subscriber?

An inactive newsletter subscriber is a user who has not opened or clicked on the emails within the past two years.

What personal data will be deleted if a newsletter subscriber is inactive?

First name, last name, email address, job title, company, investor type.

When will personal data be deleted?

If a newsletter subscriber has not subscribed for two consecutive years, their personal data will be deleted.

What personal data will be retained after the 24-month inactivity period ends?

No personal data will be retained unless required by mandatory local law. However, some information may be stored in an irrevocably anonymized form for statistical purposes.

We collect data through your interactions with us

For information on processing activities, please see paragraph 3.1 above.

Website Visitors

Web visitors are individuals who have visited websites.

When will personal data be deleted?

Please see the retention periods disclosed in the Cookie banner and Cookie Policy.

Changes to this Notice If our processing activities and methods of collecting personal data change, we may update or revise this Privacy Statement. We will post any updates to this Privacy Statement on this page and recommend that you visit this Privacy Statement from time to time to stay informed of the latest changes. Where appropriate, we may also notify you by email.