Privacy Notice and Consent Statement

Thank you for your interest in working with Westinghouse.

We recognize the importance of protecting and are committed to protecting the Personal Data of all applicants. Westinghouse will make every effort to ensure that your Personal Data is secure and protected with us and would like to provide you with the following information regarding what Personal Data we collect, how it will be processed, and how you can exercise your rights with respect to your Personal Data within our system. 

Please read the following Privacy Notice in its entirety.

Westinghouse will always handle Personal Data in accordance with the applicable laws.

For purposes of this Privacy Notice, “Westinghouse” means jointly and severally Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, having its principal place of business at 1000 Westinghouse Drive, Cranberry Township, PA 16066, Westinghouse Electric UK Holdings Limited and their affiliates that are identifiable on our website www.westinghousenuclear.com, and that (individually, as your potential employer), together with Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, are the data controllers of the Personal Data collected about you during the recruitment process.

Assistance For the Disabled

Alternative formats of this Privacy Policy are available to individuals with a disability.  Please contact dataprivacy@westinghouse.com for assistance.

California Notice at Collection

Westinghouse collects the categories of Personal Data identified in Section 1, above, for the purposes identified in Section 3, above, and retains Personal Data for the period described in Section 5.  We do not sell your Personal Data or disclose it to third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising.  We also do not collect or process sensitive personal data for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.

EEO Statement

Westinghouse is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer.  Westinghouse’s policy is not to unlawfully discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state, or local laws.  Westinghouse also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any protected category, characteristic or status. It is also Westinghouse’s policy to comply with all applicable state, federal and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

Westinghouse complies with the ADA, the ADAAA and applicable state law and considers reasonable accommodation measures that may be necessary for qualified applicants/employees to perform the essential functions of the job. Hire may be contingent upon a post-offer medical examination, and to skill and agility tests, as appropriate for the position.

This Privacy Notice explains:

Categories of Personal Data That Westinghouse Collects and Uses

Categories of Sources From Which We Collect Your Personal Data

Purposes For The Collection and Use of Your Personal Data

How We May Disclose Your Personal Data

Retention of Your Personal Data

Your Rights and Updating or Removing Your Personal Data

Region-Specific Information

Changes to this Privacy Notice

1. Categories of Personal Data That Westinghouse Collects and Uses

"Personal Data" means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Applicant.

Westinghouse collects the following Personal Data:

Identifiers

Such as first name, last name, contact information, signature, country of residence, citizenship, government identification number, immigration status, IP address that can be reasonably linked or associated with a particular resident or household, account name, online identifiers, and government-issued identifiers (e.g., Social Security number).

Internet or Network Activity Information

Such as interactions with our website, applications, or systems.

Audio/Video Data

Audio, electronic, visual, and similar information, such as call, and video recordings created in connection with the interview process.

Educational Information

Such as student transcripts, grade point average, grades, academic standing, confirmation of graduation and disciplinary records.

Employment Information

Professional or employment-related information, such as work history and prior employer, information from reference checks, work experience, qualifications, training and skills, work authorization, resume/CV, cover letter, professional and other work-related licenses, permits, and certifications held, and publicly accessible information posted on your professional social media accounts.

Inferences

Drawn from any of the Personal Data listed above to create a profile about, for example, an individual’s preferences, characteristics, aptitudes, and abilities.

Comments

Westinghouse receives any comments and messages you submit along with your job applications.

Job preference information

 Westinghouse will receive the information you submit about your job preferences (such as the posting and description of the job to which you apply, your compensation expectations, and your preferred start date).

Sensitive Personal Data

Including Special Categories of Data such as racial and ethnic origin, Social Security number, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number, citizenship, immigration status.

U.S. Applicants Only:

In addition to the above categories, Westinghouse may also collect the following Personal Data from U.S. applicants:

Protected Classifications Under California or Federal Law

Westinghouse collects information about sex, age, race, disability, national origin, and veteran status as necessary to comply with legal obligations.

Health-related information

Westinghouse may collect health-related information from you that is relevant to your application, such as when you provide information about your ability to perform certain job functions, the need for accommodations, or a disability. Please note that this notice is not intended to address any health information generated or maintained in connection with the Westinghouse group health plan(s), which is governed by the US Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) and is addressed separately in the other notices, policies, and procedures.

No Sensitive Personal Data – such as medical and/or drug screening, disability status or criminal records - is collected unless it is specifically required for compliance with applicable laws.

Note on inferring characteristics: Westinghouse does not collect or process sensitive personal data or characteristics of protected classifications for the purpose of inferring characteristics about the applicant.

2. Categories of Sources From Which We Collect Your Personal Data

You, for example, in your job application, forms you fill out for us, assessments you complete, surveys you complete, and any information you provide us during the course of your application and interview process.

Vendors and service providers, for example, recruiters.

Affiliated companies, for example, other companies within the Westinghouse family of companies.

Third parties, for example, job references.

Public internet sources, for example, social media, public profiles, and other public online sources

Public records, for example, court records, and credentialing and licensing organizations.

Automated technologies on Westinghouse’s electronic resources, for example, to track logins and activity on Westinghouse’s careers page.

Surveillance/recording technologies installed by Westinghouse, for example, video surveillance in common areas of Westinghouse facilities, voicemail technologies, webcams, and audio/video recording technologies with consent to the extent required by law.

Government or administrative agencies, for example, law enforcement or public health authorities.

3. Purposes For The Collection and Use of Your Personal Data
 

We collect and process Personal Data about you on the following legal bases:

Because you voluntarily provide this information;

Because this information is necessary to take steps at your request prior to entering into an employment or internship;

Because this information is of particular importance to us and we pursue a specific legitimate interest to process it; or

To comply with a legal obligation.

Westinghouse uses Personal Data for its global personnel recruitment, management, and planning purposes, as permitted by local law, including:

To analyze your profile in order to offer you a job that could match to your profile;

To contact you if a job could match to your profile;

To process your application;

To assess your capabilities and qualifications for a job;

To conduct reference checks;

To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you about your application, and to send you information regarding the career site and changes to our terms and policies;

To comply with or monitor compliance with any applicable law or regulation;

To conduct pre-employment background checks if we offer you a position;

To preserve our other legitimate interests, for example, for Westinghouse’s administrative purposes, aggregate management reporting, internal training, and as generally required to conduct our business within Westinghouse and its affiliates;

To create your personal account;

To communicate with you;

For identification purposes;

To create a talent pool if you wish to be considered for future job openings

To manage and operate information technology and communications systems, risk management and insurance functions, budgeting, financial management and reporting, and strategic planning;

To manage litigation involving Westinghouse, and other legal disputes and inquiries and to meet legal and regulatory requirements;

To protect the rights, property, or safety of Westinghouse, employees, customers, or others.

4. How We May Disclose Your Personal Data

 (a) Affiliates involved in evaluating profiles and personnel with a business need to know the information, including personnel in the recruiting, human resources, and information technology departments, and in the department responsible for the position for which you are applying.

(b) Service providers who provide services such as hosting and operating the career site the Talent Community, recruiting assistance, background check processing, and similar services.

            (c) Westinghouse also may share Personal Data as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (i) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (ii) to comply with legal process; (iii) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (iv) to enforce our terms and conditions; (v) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliate companies; (vi) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliate companies, you or others; and (vii) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

            (d) Westinghouse may also disclose your Personal Data to third parties at your direction.

We may also disclose the above categories of Personal Data to a third-party in the context of any reorganization, financing transaction, merger, sale, joint venture, partnership, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business or assets (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceeding).

5. Retention of Your Personal Data

For those applicants residing within the European Economic Area, your Account and all Personal Data thereto will be deleted if it is not updated for two (2) years. If you would like your Personal Data to remain in our application system, you are encouraged to update your Personal Data prior to two years of inactivity by logging into your Account. For those applicants residing elsewhere in the world the Personal Data may be retained for a longer period, in accordance with applicable local law and regulations. For example, we will retain Personal Data of California applicants who are no hired for four (4) years after the record is collected.  These records will be  retained for our internal recordkeeping and reporting purposes in compliance with California Government Code § 12946.

6. Your Rights and Updating or Removing Your Personal Data

You may edit the Personal Data you have provided by selecting the “Edit your profile” option on your homepage or by applying to a new opening.

However, you may only submit your resume/CV and Personal Data once for each requisition.

To delete your online profile, you may login and go to “Edit Profile,” then click the “Delete Profile” button.

Subject to applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your Personal Data, such as the right to access, correct, delete, and object to the processing of your Personal Data. To exercise your rights, please contact us at dataprivacy@westinghouse.com.

7. Region-Specific Information

Cross-Border Data Transfers

Your Personal Data will be hosted by SuccessFactors (that is an SAP company), with servers located in the USA (learning – Ashburn, VA and Chandler, AZ).

In general terms, Westinghouse will transfer your Personal Data, hosted by SuccessFactors, to Westinghouse employees responsible for, or specifically involved in, the recruitment process. Because Westinghouse is a global company, you can submit for employment in countries other than where you currently reside and, therefore, for recruitment purposes the Personal Data you have provided may be transferred to other Westinghouse locations around the world. Where you are resident outside the United States, by submitting your Personal Data and agreeing to this Privacy Notice you consent to your Personal Data being transferred and stored in the United States.

Your Personal Data will be disclosed only with the SuccessFactors provider and with those third-party companies with whom we conduct business throughout the recruitment process and who require access to your Personal Data to do so. All third-party vendors participating in Westinghouse’s recruitment process are required not to use your Personal Data for any unauthorized purposes and to adequately secure your Personal Data by adopting adequate technical, organizational, and legal steps.

Westinghouse takes all necessary measures to ensure that cross-border transfers of Personal Data are adequately protected as required by applicable data protection laws.  

California

This section applies only to individuals who reside in the state of California in the United States (“California applicants”). 

No Sale or Sharing of Personal Data

We do not sell or “share” your Personal Data, where “share” means disclosure to third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising. We have not engaged in such activities in the 12 months preceding the date this Privacy Notice was last updated. Without limiting foregoing, we do not have actual knowledge that we sell or “share” the Personal Data, including the Sensitive Personal Data, of minors under 16 years of age. 

Disclosures for Business Purposes

Company may disclose the categories of Personal Data listed in Section 1 above for the following “business purposes”, as that term is defined under the CPRA:

Service providers for the business purpose of enabling service providers to perform services on our behalf for the purposes described in Section 3 above.

Affiliated companies for the business purposes of auditing compliance with policies and applicable laws, helping to ensure security and integrity, debugging, short-term transient use, internal research, and activities to maintain or improve the quality or safety of a service or device.

Auditors, lawyers, consultants, and accountants for the business purpose of auditing compliance with policies and applicable laws.

Your California Privacy Rights

Subject to applicable exceptions, California applicants have the following rights under the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”):

Right to Know - You may request that we disclose to you information about Westinghouse’s collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Data.

You also have the right to submit a verifiable request for specific pieces of Personal Data we obtained from you. Personal Data that includes social security number, driver's license or other government-issued identification number, financial account number, any health insurance or medical identification number, an account password, or security question and answers, or unique biometric data generated from measurements or technical analysis of human characteristics, if applicable, will not be provided to protect the security of this type of data.

Right to Correction - You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your Personal Data.

Right to Request Deletion of your Personal Data - You may request that we delete Personal Data collected from you.

Right to Non-Discrimination - We will not discriminate against you if you choose to exercise your rights under the California Privacy Rights Act.

How to Submit a California Rights Request

To make a request, please contact us at dataprivacy@westinghouse.com or call us toll free at +1.844.238.4380. We will verify and respond to your request consistent with applicable law, considering the type and sensitivity of the Personal Data subject to the request. We may need to request additional Personal Data from you, such as full name and email address, to verify your identity and protect against fraudulent requests. If you maintain a password-protected account with us, we may verify your identity through our existing authentication practices for your account and require you to re-authenticate yourself before disclosing or deleting your Personal Data. If you make a request to delete, we may ask you to confirm your request before we delete your Personal Data.

Authorized Agents

If an authorized agent submits a request to know, correct, or delete on your behalf, the authorized agent must submit with the request a document signed by you that authorizes the authorized agent to submit the request on your behalf.  In addition, we may ask you or your authorized agent to follow the applicable process described above for verifying your identity. You can obtain the “Authorized Agent Designation” form by contacting us at dataprivacy@westinghouse.com or calling us toll free at +1.844.238.4380.

European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland

The information in this section applies to applicants in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom (UK), and Switzerland (collectively, “Europe”).

Legal Bases for Processing
 

Westinghouse processes your Personal Data with your consent as and as required by law.  Providing your Personal Data to Westinghouse for recruitment purposes and careers alerts is voluntary. By agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Notice, you consent to the processing of your Personal Data for the purposes and in the way outlined above, and you expressly consent to your Personal Data being transferred and stored in the United States.

Cross-Border Data Transfers

For transfers outside of the EEA and Switzerland, we may enter into the Standard Contractual Clauses (EU SCCs), approved by the European Commission and the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.  For transfers from the UK, we may rely on the UK’s Addendum to the EU SCCs or the UK’s own SCCS, approved by the UK’s Information Commissioner.

No Automated Decision-Making

Westinghouse will not use European applicants’ Personal Data for automated decision-making, including profiling, that produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects the European applicant.

Your Rights

Westinghouse wishes to remind you that you have a number of rights in respect of use of your Personal Data, including the right to obtain access to or copies of your Personal Data (a data subject access request); to have inaccurate or incomplete information about you corrected; and in some cases the right to request that your Personal Data be erased.  You also have the right to request that we transfer your Personal data to a third party subject to certain limitations, and the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data.  

You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Data, at any time, where you previously consented to the processing of your Personal Data. Any withdrawal shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal, and Westinghouse will continue to retain the Personal Data that you provided us before you withdrew your consent for as long as allowed or required by applicable law.

For more details we invite you to read our Online Privacy Statement.

How To Exercise Your Rights

For any questions or to exercise any of your rights, please contact us at:

Email address: dataprivacy@westinghouse.com

Phone number: +1.844.238.4380

Mailing address: Ethics and Compliance, Westinghouse, 1000 Westinghouse Drive, Cranberry Township, PA 16066, USA

Right to Lodge a Complaint:

If you believe that your Personal Data has been processed in violation of applicable data protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority in the country or state where you reside, where you work, or where the alleged violation occurred.

8. Changes to this Privacy Notice

We may change or update this Privacy Notice from time to time. When we do, we will communicate changes and updates to this Privacy Notices by posting the updated Privacy Notice on this page with a new “Last Updated” date.

Contact Us

Please contact dataprivacy@westinghouse.com or by calling us toll free at +1.844.238.4380 if you have any questions regarding this Privacy Notice.