Global Applicant Privacy Notice

Welcome to the Chainlink Labs Careers Site (the “Site”). The Site serves as the centralized career application portal for SmartContract Inc. d/b/a Chainlink Labs and its corporate affiliates (collectively, “we”, “us”, “Chainlink Labs”, or the “Company”). The Company is the leading provider of secure and reliable Web3 services and platforms powering decentralized finance. Because we gather personal information when recruiting the outstanding talent needed to fulfill our mission, we want to help you understand our practices surrounding the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Chainlink Labs is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, or ordinances.

Assistance for Disabled Applicants

If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us via this form.

Scope of This Notice

This Privacy Notice applies only to information collected for recruitment purposes through the Site and from other sources. The other sources might include information that you provide other than through the online application page as well as information obtained, for example, from prior employers, other references, pre-employment screening providers, and educational institutions. This Notice does not apply to any other site or page that we own or operate. Our other sites have their own privacy policies.

This Privacy Notice addresses the following topics:

Personal Information We Collect About You
Sources of Your Personal Information
How We May Use Your Personal Information
How We May Disclose Your Personal Information
Retention of Your Personal Information
International Transfers of Your Personal Information
Security For Your Personal Information
How to Access, Correct, or Delete Personal Information in Your Account
Jurisdiction-Specific Information‍

Changes to this Notice
Inquiries and Concerns

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1. Personal Information We Collect About You

If you choose to apply for a position with us, the categories of personal information that we may collect about you through the online application and other sources are listed below. Please remember that you are responsible for providing information that is accurate, complete and up to date when you disclose information to us during the application process.

Identifiers: First and last name, postal address, telephone number, e-mail address, Internet Protocol (IP) address, and signature.

Professional or Employment-Related Information: We may collect your CV/resume and information about your employment history (e.g., dates of employment and last position held), educational history (e.g., degrees earned, certifications obtained), professional licenses and/or certifications, other job-related skills or experience (e.g., experience with different coding languages), and any information you disclose through your LinkedIn or GitHub profiles.

Internet or Other Similar Network Activity: We may collect information regarding your interaction with the Site, including through the use of cookies. Please review our online Privacy Policy to learn about the information we collect automatically using cookies when you visit the Site. If you visit our offices during the recruitment process and use our guest WiFi, we may collect information about that use, such as type of device used and start/stop time. We also may collect information from your publicly available social media content.

Non-Public Education Information: We may collect non-public educational information in accordance with applicable local laws, including any laws governing background checks. This does not include publicly available information, such as the institutions you attended, degrees earned, or other details commonly listed on a resume.

Other Information Submitted With Your Online Application: (a) any personal information submitted as part of your response to our question asking why you chose to apply for a position with Chainlink Labs, or during an interview; (b) your eligibility to work in the country where you reside; and (c) your salary expectations.

Information About Protected Classification

When you apply for a position in the United States, or indicate the U.S. as a preferred location when registering your profile, you will have the opportunity to provide information about your protected classification, i.e., gender, race/ethnic origin and/or veteran status in order for us to conduct equal opportunity monitoring. The provision of this information is entirely voluntary. If you decline to provide this information, your application(s) will not be affected in any way. If you do choose to provide this information, you consent to our using it for equal employment opportunity monitoring purposes. This information will be held and stored anonymously and will not be used to evaluate your application for employment and also will not be used to infer any characteristics about you.

Except as described above, we will not request or otherwise collect information about your health, race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade-union membership, or sexual orientation or your genetic information or biometric information through the on-line application or during the application process unless the law, as an exception, requires us to do so. We, or a third-party background check company under our direction, may check criminal history records for information about criminal convictions, but only if and to the extent permitted by applicable law.

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2. Sources of Your Personal Information

We may collect the categories of personal information listed above from the following sources:

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.
Third parties, for example, prior employers, job references, affiliated companies, professional employer organizations or staffing agencies.
Public internet sources, for example, job-related social media platforms, job boards, public profiles, and other public online sources
Public records, for example, court records, and credentialing and licensing organizations.
Automated technologies on the Company’s electronic resources, for example, through cookies on the Company’s careers page.
Surveillance/recording technologies installed by Company, for example, video surveillance in common areas of Company 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. ‍
Acquired company, if Chainlink Labs acquired your employer, we might collect personal information from that employer.

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3. How We May Use Your Personal Information

We will use the information that we collect about you for purposes of the application process, including:

Recruiting

To evaluate your qualifications or suitability for employment with the Company
To communicate with you
To check your references
To conduct a pre-employment or criminal history background check
For identification purposes
For diversity and inclusion purposes where permitted by applicable law
For recordkeeping purposes
To demonstrate your agreement to, or acceptance of, documents presented to you, e.g., pre-employment arbitration agreement, acknowledgment of employment application, offer letter
To evaluate and improve the recruiting process
To comply with our legal obligations and to defend against administrative charges or legal claims

You may choose to receive automated emails about job opportunities at the e-mail address you provided informing you of positions that may fit your profile. To stop receiving these emails at any time, you can unsubscribe using the link at the bottom of these emails.

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4. How We May Disclose Your Personal Information

Chainlink Labs will not sell, lease, or license your personal information to any third party. There are limited circumstances when we may disclose the personal information we collect about you to third parties, most notably:

Service Providers: With third-party service providers. We may, for example, retain a service provider to host all or portions of this Site, to help maintain and manage our databases, to assist in the recruiting process, or to conduct pre-employment screening. Service providers will be permitted to use your personal information only for the purpose(s) for which it was disclosed to them and in accordance with the Company’s instructions. Service providers generally will be located only in the United States or in the country where you are applying for a position;
Corporate Affiliates: With affiliated companies, such as grandparent, parent and/or subsidiary corporations, for their recruitment, recordkeeping and/or reporting purposes;
Required By Law: When required by law, such as when we respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, or a discovery request in civil litigation;
Legal Violations: If we believe that your actions violate applicable law, or threaten the rights, property, or safety of our Company, our users, or others;
Corporate Transactions: If we sell some or all of our business, we may disclose all of the information that we have collected about you to a purchaser or, in due diligence, to a potential purchaser, but subject to a confidentiality agreement.

The Company will make such disclosures only as permitted by applicable data protection laws.

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5. Retention Of Your Personal Information

If the Company hires you, the information that you submitted through the online application and the information that we collect during the application process will become part of your personnel file and may be used to administer the employment relationship and for related reporting and recordkeeping purposes. We will retain this information for the entire duration of your employment relationship with Chainlink Labs and for the period thereafter identified in our Global Records Retention Schedule, which is available on the Company’s corporate intranet.

Chainlink Labs will retain the information of applicants who are not hired for one year after the hiring decision has been made unless (a) the applicant indicates that we may maintain the information on file until the applicant asks to delete the information, or (b) a shorter or longer retention period is legally required. These records will be retained for our internal recordkeeping and reporting purposes. During that time, we may use your personal information to consider you for positions in addition to the position(s) for which you initially applied. If you wish to withdraw your application from consideration at any time during this retention period, you can do so by contacting us at dataprivacy@smartcontract.com.

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6. International Transfer of Your Personal Information

If you are applying for a position with us from outside the United States, the personal information that we collect about you in the recruitment process will be transferred to, and stored on, our servers, located in the United States and on servers maintained by our recruitment service provider, Ashby, Inc., in the U.S. Authorized employees of the Company and/or affiliated companies at locations outside the United States may have access to your personal information as part of the recruitment process. These employees may use and disclose your personal information only for recruitment purposes and must handle that information in accordance with this Privacy Notice and applicable data protection laws and guidance. The data protection laws where these companies are located may be less stringent than the laws of your home country. Contact details of the Chainlink Labs corporate group members (collectively, “Group Members”) that may access your personal information can be found here.

If you reside in a country that restricts cross-border data transfers, the Company relies on your consent for the transfer of your Personal Data outside your country of residence unless an alternative or additional data protection mechanism is required by applicable law.

If you reside in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, please refer to Section 9, below, for additional information applicable to you.

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7. Security For Your Personal Information

We want you to feel confident about providing your personal information through the online application page, so we have implemented a security program to keep information that is transmitted to our systems protected from unauthorized access. Your submissions of information to our secure server are protected by Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (“HTTPS”) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) technology, utilized by many popular browsers to safeguard transmissions. This technology allows us to use encryption tools to protect information transmitted between your computer and our server. After we have received your information, access to it is limited to employees with a need to know.

While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you submit through the online application, and you do so at your own risk.

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8. How to Access, Correct, or Delete Your Personal Information in Your Account

If you would like to access the information that you have submitted through the online application page; wish to request that we update, modify, or delete your information; or if you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, please contact us at dataprivacy@smartcontract.com.

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9. Jurisdiction-Specific Information

California
All locations outside of the United States
European Economic Area and the United Kingdom

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California

This section applies only to job applicants who reside in the state of California in the United States (“California Applicants”). This section applies to personal information collected through the Site and in any other way, such as when California residents visit our offices.

California Notice at Collection: Chainlink Labs collects the categories of personal information identified in Section 1, above, for the purposes identified in Section 3, above, and retains personal information for the period described in Section 5, above. We do not, and will not, sell your personal information or disclose it to third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising. We also do not collect or process sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.

Additional Information Regarding Disclosures of Personal Information

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires that we provide you with the following information about disclosures of your personal information to third parties for “business purposes”, as that term is defined in the CCPA:

Service providers: We may disclose to service providers any of the categories of personal information listed in Section 1, above, for the business purpose of performing services on the Company’s behalf.
Auditors, lawyers, consultants, and accountants engaged by Company: We may disclose the categories of personal information listed in Section 1, above, to these services providers or contractors for the business purpose of auditing compliance with policies and applicable laws, in addition to performing services on the Company’s behalf.
Affiliated companies: We may disclose any of the categories of personal information listed in Section 1, above, to other companies within the Chainlink Labs family of companies for the business purposes of (a) auditing compliance with policies and applicable laws, (b) helping to ensure security and integrity, (c) debugging, (d) short-term transient use, (e) internal research, and (f) activities to maintain or improve the quality or safety of a service or device.

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Your California Data Rights

Subject to applicable exceptions, California Applicants have the following rights under the CCPA:

Right to Know: You have the right to submit a verifiable request for specific pieces of your personal information obtained from you and for information about the Company’s collection, use, and disclosure of categories of your personal information.
Right to Delete: You have the right to submit a verifiable request to delete personal information that Chainlink Labs has collected from or about you.
Right to Correct: You have the right to submit a verifiable request to correct inaccurate personal information about you maintained by Chainlink Labs taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of processing the personal information.

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Non-Discrimination: Company will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights under the CCPA.

How to Exercise Your California Data Rights

You can exercise these rights in the following ways:

Email dataprivacy@smartcontract.com
Email: people@smartcontract.com

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How We Will Verify Your Request

We match personal information that you provide us against personal information we maintain in our files. The more risk entailed by the request (e.g., a request for specific pieces of personal information), the more items of personal information we may request to verify your identity. If we cannot verify your identity to a sufficient level of certainty to respond securely to your request, we will let you know promptly and explain why we cannot verify your identity.

Authorized Agent

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 to follow the applicable process described above for verifying your identity. You can obtain an “Authorized Agent Designation” form by contacting us at dataprivacy@smartcontract.com.

Note on Deidentified Information

At times, Chainlink Labs converts personal information into deidentified information using reasonable measures to ensure that the deidentified information cannot be associated with the individual (“Deidentified Information”). We maintain Deidentified Information in a deidentified form and does not attempt to reidentify it, except that we may attempt to reidentify the information solely for the purpose of determining whether its deidentification processes ensure that the information cannot be associated with the individual. Chainlink Labs prohibits vendors, by contract, from attempting to reidentify the Company’s Deidentified Information.

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All locations outside the United States

Identification of the Controller

The data controller of your personal information is the Group Member to which you are applying for employment. Contact details for each Group Member can be found here. ‍

Your Data Rights

To the extent provided by applicable law and subject to any relevant exceptions, you may be able to exercise the following rights:

Access: The right to request access to your personal information maintained by the Company.
- More on the right of access: European Individuals’ right to access their personal information includes their right to receive a copy of all, or a portion, of their personal information in the Company’s possession as long as the Company’s providing the personal information would not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
Deletion: The right to request that the Company delete/erase your personal information.
Rectification: The right to request that the Company update or correct your personal information that is outdated or inaccurate.
Withdraw Consent: The right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information, at any time, where you previously consented to the processing of your personal information.
- More on the right to withdraw consent: Any withdrawal shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal, and the Company will continue to retain the personal information that you provided us before you withdrew your consent for as long as allowed or required by applicable law.

How To Exercise Your Data Rights

You can contact dataprivacy@smartcontract.com .request to exercise your data rights. Chainlink Labs will respond to requests to exercise individual data rights in accordance with applicable law. The Company will recognize any additional rights you may have under applicable law, but it will not grant you more rights than applicable law provides.

Lawful Basis For Processing

Where applicable data protection law requires a lawful basis for collecting, using and otherwise processing your personal information, the Company relies on several grounds for processing your personal information, including, as applicable:

Enter An Employment Agreement: For most personal information, the processing is necessary for the Company to determine whether to enter into an employment agreement with you where applicable law requires an employment agreement.
Required By Law: In certain circumstances, for example, where an applicant requests an accommodation for a disability, the processing will be required to comply with applicable law.
Legitimate Interests: Where the grounds above do not apply and local law permits, we process your personal information as may be necessary to pursue our legitimate interests in recruiting and hiring suitable personnel, for example, to reimburse your travel expenses if you travel to our offices for a job interview.
Consent: Where none of the lawful grounds for processing listed above is applicable or where applicable law requires it, we rely on your consent to process your personal information. By submitting your personal information through this website and/or affirmatively indicating your consent, you consent to the use, disclosure, and transfer of your personal information as described in this Notice. For information about withdrawing your consent, please see above.

You are not required to submit any personal information to us by contract, by the law applicable to you, or for any other reason. However, if you choose not to submit your personal information or otherwise not to consent to the processing of your personal information, we may not be able to consider you for employment.

No Automated Decision-Making

The Company will not use applicants’ personal information for decisions based solely on automated processing, including AI-driven profiling, that produce legal effects or similarly significant effects on applicants, in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other relevant legislation. Any use of AI or automated tools in the recruitment process will involve human oversight and intervention to ensure fair and lawful decision-making.

Data Protection Officer

Singapore: You can contact the data protection officer at dataprivacy@smartcontract.com.

Germany: You can contact the data protection officer at dataprivacy@smartcontract.com.

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European Economic Area and the United Kingdom

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

International Transfers of Your Personal Data

The information below supplements the information in Section 6 of this Notice.

The Company has taken steps to ensure an adequate level of protection for your transferred personal information through Standard Contractual Clauses (the “SCCs”) to Chainlink Labs, its U.S. subsidiaries and its subsidiaries in the EU and the UK are parties. You may obtain a copy of the SCCs by submitting a request to dataprivacy@smartcontract.com.

Right to Object: You also have the right, subject to applicable limitations and exceptions, to object to the processing of your personal information, when processing of your personal information is based solely on the Company’s legitimate interests. If you do object in these circumstances, the processing of your personal information will be stopped unless there is an overriding, compelling reason to continue the processing or the processing is necessary to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.

Right to Restrict Processing: You also have the right, subject to applicable limitations and exceptions, to request restriction of processing of your personal information in certain situations, such as while a dispute concerning the accuracy of personal information is being resolved.

Data Portability: You have the right to request that the Company transfer your personal information to a third party. Subject to certain limitations, the right to information portability allows you to obtain from the Company, or to ask the Company to send to a third party, a copy of your personal information in electronic form that you provided to Chainlink Labs in connection with your interactions with us.

Right to Lodge a Complaint: If you believe that your personal information has been processed in violation of applicable information protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority in the country where you reside, where you work, or where the alleged violation occurred.

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10. Changes to This Notice

The Company may change this Privacy Notice from time to time in its sole discretion. If we make a change to this Notice, we will inform you by posting a notice on this Site. Those changes will go into effect on the effective date posted in the revised notice. The new policy will apply to all current and past users of the online application page and to all information collected before the date of the change. The new policy will replace any prior policies that are inconsistent. Please check periodically for changes to this Notice, and especially before you provide any personal information to us. If we will materially change how we use, disclose or otherwise process your personal information, we will notify you before doing so and, where required by applicable law, obtain your consent before using, disclosing or otherwise processing your personal information other than as described in this Notice.

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11. Inquiries and Concerns

Please direct any questions or concerns you may have about this Privacy Notice to dataprivacy@smartcontract.com.