This privacy policy applies to personal information collected, used, shared or otherwise processed by Flipkart Internet Private Limited and its affiliates (collectively "Flipkart, we, our, us") through the websites www.flipkartcareers.com, its mobile application, and m-site (hereinafter referred to as the "Platform"). Personal information is information that identifies you or reasonably can be linked to information that identifies you. Please note the information shared with us shall be primarily processed in India and such other country(s) where a third party engaged by us is required to process the information on our behalf for the purposes set forth in this privacy policy. If you are not located in India, you agree for the onward disclosure or transfer of your personal information to India, a jurisdiction that may not provide an equivalent level of data protection to the laws in your home country, however, we have implemented and maintain reasonable security practices and procedures to ensure the protection of your information. If you are offered and accept a position with the company, this information will become part of your personnel file and its use will be governed in accordance with our internal policies and procedures related to employment, and the terms of such policy will supersede this privacy policy.
We collect and store your personal information relating to your identity, demographics and when you use our Platform or otherwise interact with us during the course of our relationship and related information provided from time to time. We may collect the following categories of personal information. Not all categories may be collected about every individual:
Sharing these personal information with us for recruitment purposes is purely voluntary except for certain information as required by law applicable to us or our policies. Once you are shortlisted for any of the roles, we may collect additional information to process the application or to comply with our process, applicable laws, and regulations. Use of Platform is available only to persons who can form a legally binding contract under the Indian Contract Act, 1872 and is not below the age of 18 years. If you have shared any personal information of children under the age of 18 years, you represent that you have the authority to do so and permit us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.
We may collect personal information from you in a variety of ways. Some of the possible means of collection are as follows:
We may use your personal information for purposes such as:
It is important for us to maintain accuracy of personal information that we hold about you. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during your relationship with us.
Your personal information that we collect may be shared with Flipkart group entities and affiliates, for a business purpose as permitted by law.
We may share with third-parties' vendors and service providers such as background verification vendors, recruitment agents, and other service providers to carry out activities related to recruitment and hiring process and other purposes set forth in this privacy policy. We require our such third-parties to keep confidential the information that we obtain from you as an applicant. We do not allow our service providers to use or share your information for any purpose other than providing services on our behalf, without your affirmative consent.
We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process. We may disclose personal information to law enforcement agencies, third party rights owners, or others in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce our Terms of Use or privacy policy; respond to claims that an advertisement, posting or other content violates the rights of a third party; or protect the rights, property or personal safety of our users or the general public.
We have implemented industry standard security measures to protect your personal information from unlawful processing and to ensure security, confidentiality and integrity of personal information. We maintain and abide by security policies and procedures that are designed to prevent and limit loss, destruction or unlawful access of your information. We also limit access to your personal data only to authorized individuals and provide access only on a need to know basis and we use encryption technology to protect your personal information. You are responsible for ensuring the protection of login and password records for your account.
We retain your personal information for period (a) required for the purpose for which it was collected; (b) in order to comply with any legal obligation, applicable statutory or regulatory retention requirement or for other legitimate purposes; and (c) to enable us to exercise legal rights and/or defend against legal claims. We may continue to retain your data for a longer period in anonymised form solely for archiving purposes for historical research, analytical or statistical purposes subject to keeping in anonymised form by modifying the personal data into a form in which it cannot be associated with you.
When you create a profile through our hiring website or service, you have the ability at any time to access and update the profile information you have given us. Please note once you have applied for a specific job opening, that particular application cannot be edited. You have an option to withdraw your consent that you have already provided by sending us such a request in writing to us at the contact information provided below. Please mention "for withdrawal of consent" in your subject line of your communication. We will verify such a request before acting on it. Please note, we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes and/or to complete transactions that you began prior to requesting any deletion. If you withdraw the consent given to us under this privacy policy, we reserve the right to restrict or deny the provision of our services for which we consider such information to be necessary.
We may modify this privacy policy from time to time to reflect our current privacy practices. We request you to kindly review our privacy policy before sharing any personal information. We will alert you to significant changes by posting the date our policy got last updated, placing a notice on our Platform, or by sending you an email when we are required to do so by applicable law.
If you have any feedbacks, suggestions or any complaints, please contact our Grievance Officer at:
Name: Merwin James
Designation: Manager
Address: Flipkart Internet Pvt. Ltd., Embassy Tech Village, 8th floor, Block 'B', Devarabeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli, Bengaluru East Taluk, Bengaluru District, Karnataka, India, 560103.
Effective Date – 07 September 2021