Legal notices

By completing the form on this website, you provide your personal information and authorise the company you applied to (Ajinomoto Foods Europe or Ajinomoto Frozen Foods, hereinafter jointly referred to as “Ajinomoto”), as data controller, to collect and process personal information about you in its database, namely, your first name and surname, home address, phone number, training, work experience, degrees, awards, interview summaries, etc., and, more broadly, any information and personal data which you communicate spontaneously as part of your application.

 

Ajinomoto informs you that it may also enhance your profile with information about you, namely information collected (i) during its interactions with you, whether written, via telephone or physical interviews and (ii) from professional social networks or from any public information source, when such information is relevant to the management of your application.

 

This information is subject to computer processing for the management of your application, the fulfilment of mandatory formalities, and the creation and updating of administrative records for selected candidates. Your data may also be included in a CV library which will enable Ajinomoto to provide you with other offers, where applicable.

 

Given its purpose, which is to process the personal data of candidates responding to job offers and including candidates’ data in Ajinomoto's CV database, the processing of your personal data is required to pursue the legitimate interests of Ajinomoto namely the management of its recruitment processes, as well as the performance of pre-contractual measures which may exist between Ajinomoto and candidates responding to job offers.

Responses for fields marked with an asterisk are obligatory and failure to enter a response is likely to compromise the follow-up of your application. In other cases, they are optional and of no consequence to your application.

Your data is hosted in France and Ajinomoto can communicate, where necessary, your personal data to other companies within the group, including companies which may be located outside the European Union, to manage your application and to enhance its CV database. Ajinomoto declares that it has taken the necessary measures to secure transfers outside the European Union and to protect your personal data. Upon request to Ajinomoto you can request comprehensive information about the data transferred, the precise recipients of the information and the means implemented to secure this transfer.

 

The personal data of external candidates who are not selected will be kept for a maximum period of 2 years after the last contact with our recruitment department, in order to offer them new job opportunities, where applicable.

 

For internal applications and candidates who are selected, personal data is kept for the duration of the employee's employment with the company.

 

Candidate data may be retained in an intermediate archiving database for evidentiary purposes, particularly to protect against potential discrimination claims, for a period of five years from the end of the recruitment process.

We inform you that your personal data is computerised and processed confidentially, with guarantees that personal data put online will be kept secure and confidential.

 

Your personal data will be shared with the individuals in charge of recruitment at Ajinomoto in order to allow them to review your application.

 

To facilitate internal and external recruitment, Ajinomoto uses the CEGID software, published by the company CEGID, to share job offers and to collect and manage applications.

 

Ajinomoto acts as the controller of the personal data communicated and CEGID acts as a processor. 

As a processor of Ajinomoto, the company CEGID is authorised to access your personal information when necessary, particularly as part of its administrative tasks and maintenance of Ajinomoto’s career website and the application management tool, but cannot communicate this data to its own processors without obtaining the prior agreement of  Ajinomoto. CEGID may be required to pass on your personal data to a judicial authority, at its request.

 

You can exercise your right to object for legitimate reasons at any time, as well as your rights to access, rectify and delete your personal data. You may also exercise your right to limit processing, portability, and to give instructions on the use of your data after your death. To exercise your rights, you can write to our Data Protection Officer (DPO) at the following address: GDPR_contact@afe-emea.eu.

In any case and if necessary, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority of your country or with the CNIL, the French data protection authority (www.cnil.fr).