Privacy Policy

PRIVACY NOTICE

Joseph Gamache Professional Services, S.A. de C.V. (herein referred to as “Joseph Gamache», “Joseph Gamache International Mexico” «Joseph Gamache”, “We” or “Us”) shall be responsible for the treatment of any personal data, that you may disclose or have disclosed to Us as a consequence of your relationship or proposed relationship with Us regarding to services and solutions of executive search and of talent management consulting (hereinafter referred to as “Personal Data”). Joseph Gamache is a Mexican corporation, incorporated and existent pursuant to the laws of the Mexican Republic, with offices located at Corporativo Antara 1 Piso 5, Antara Polanco, Ejercito Nacional 843-B, México, D.F., 11250, México.

In case of any inquiry related to this Privacy Notice or in connection with any of your rights related to your Personal Data, including without limitation your rights to access, rectify, cancel or oppose to the treatment of Personal Data, or the right to limit the use your personal data, please contact our Data Privacy Manager to the following e-mail address contact@josephgamache.com

What information do we collect?

Joseph Gamache may collect such Personal Data that may be related or necessary in connection with the provision of executive search services, talent management consulting services and solutions, and the evaluation of your qualification as a potential candidate for specific job positions. The data to be collected is the following data which you provide on your résumé: (i) name, (ii) address, (iii) phone numbers (home, work and cell phone) (iv) gender; (v) marital/family status; (vi) date and place of birth; (vii) nationality; (viii) Tax Registry Number (RFC); (ix) Social Security Number; (x) Sole Code for Population Registry (CURP); (xi) places where you have lived; (xii) information related to your accomplishments and employment records, including responsibilities, skillsets, compensation packages, and (xiii) the following data related to family members and personal or professional references: name, age, address, telephone numbers and/or e-mail address, among others. If you do not wish to disclose your personal information we will not be able to provide our services or assess your employment opportunities.

Joseph Gamache will not seek or collect any financial or sensitive data unless legally required for recruitment purposes. Sensitive Personal Data includes: (i) racial or ethnic origin; (ii) current and future health; (iii) genetic information; (iv) religious, philosophical and moral beliefs; (v) union affiliation; (vi) political opinions; and, (vii) sexual preference; WE SUGGEST YOU NOT PROVIDE ANY FINANCIAL OR SENSITIVE DATA ON YOUR RÉSUMÉ OR ANY OTHER DOCUMENT PROVIDED TO US, OR IF IT IS NOT STRICTLY NECESSARY.

Considering that you provide us with your personal data for the purpose of making a search of a job position suitable to your experience and qualifications, please note that it is very important to have an accurate database for future references and employment opportunities. In such regard, we will keep your Personal Data for the period of time required to complete our search and analysis, as part of the services provided for our clients. You will be entitled to exercise any of your privacy rights, including the right to cancel or require us to refrain from using your Personal Data as described herein.

How do we obtain your Personal Data?

Joseph Gamache may collect your Personal Data directly from you, if you submit such data in this website or if you share your résumé with us electronically or personally or even if you post your resume in third-party publicly available sites or job banks including LinkedIn, Monster, Facebook, CareerBuilder, Indeed, etc.

Likewise, we inform you that Joseph Gamache websites obtain data automatically through cookies. “Cookies” are small fragments of information stored by your browser in the computer’s hard disk in order to consult your activity in our website, browsing preferences, information that may help us identify problems on our website or information which indicates and generates statistics regarding the areas of our page which are most interesting. You may avoid the use of cookies in your computer throughout the corresponding setting on your browser, but please be advised that such setting may interfere with Joseph Gamache website functionality.

Purposes for which we will use your Personal Data

Your Personal Data will be used for the following purposes, which are necessary for the existence, maintenance or compliance of your relationship with Joseph Gamache and the provisions of its services and asses your employment opportunities: (i) analysis of your qualifications and experience for a possible job position in potential employers (Joseph Gamache clients); (ii) to asses you in professional opportunities and identify yourself as a job candidate; (iii) maintain your file updated; (iv) to contact you in case of finding a position that may suit your candidacy profile; (v) to contact you for any purpose related to your actual job or professional position; (vi) to send you job offers or information; (vii) in connection with audits (either performed internally or by external auditors); (viii) to disclose information required by governmental authorities either within the Mexican United States or abroad; (ix) to respond any of your complaints or claims; and (x) to send you notices about amendments to this privacy notices.

In addition, your Personal Data may be used to: (i) send you information about Joseph Gamache, its affiliates or shareholders in Mexico and abroad; (ii) send you information, magazines, and news bulletins for our industry or subject that –we consider- may interest you, including communications or advertising related to Joseph Gamache; (iii) to share your Personal Data with third parties interested in engaging in business or financial matters with Joseph Gamache or its foreign subsidiaries or affiliates; (iv) for commercial purposes or related to market research for Joseph Gamache, affiliated or related companies, and (v) to create databases for market research or for statistical purposes, as well as to measure the quality of Joseph Gamache’ services. The purposes mentioned in this paragraph are not essential to the nature of your relationship with Joseph Gamache or its existence. You may state your refusal to the treatment of such Personal Data for the mentioned purposes by sending us an e-mail mentioning this situation or accessing to your profile in our website and unsubscribe of receiving or being contacted to receive this kind of information.

How do we protect your Personal Data?

We are committed to process your personal data in strict compliance with the administrative, physical and technical measures as set forth by the Federal Law on Protection of Personal information in Possession of Private Parties (Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Pesonales en Posesión de los Particulares) and its Regulations, avoiding therefore its damage, destruction, robbery, loss, alteration and/or unauthorized treatment. It is Joseph Gamache’s policy to use your data and to provide any related services in strict compliance with any applicable law and regulation that may apply to this type of services within Mexican Republic.

In case that Joseph Gamache stores and process any of your Personal Data through computer programs or Internet, in a highly confidential database accessible only to Joseph Gamache; we hereby inform you that, considering that electronic communications are not completely safe and any computer system is subject to affectations, Joseph Gamache is not in the position to guarantee that no damage, loss, or alterations will be made; however, Joseph Gamache will carry out all measures and actions required, to any possible in order to protect your Personal Data.

Your rights – How can you access, rectify, cancel or object the treatment of your Personal Data?

As owner of the Personal Data you provide us with, you are entitled to access the Personal Data we possess and the details of the treatment of such; rectify whenever these are incomplete or imprecise; cancel them in case you deem these are not required for the purposes set forth herein, or if such are being used for purposes not consented; or otherwise, object the treatment of the Personal Data provided for specific objectives.

Should you wish to exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and/or objection of Personal Data treatment, or if you have any doubts or inquiries in connection with such, you may contact our Data Privacy Manager in the address, email provided in our contact details.

In terms of the applicable law, any application for the exercise of the aforementioned rights must necessarily indicate and include: i) your name and domicile, ii) copy of your official ID (passport, voter’s ID, driver’s license), iii) a clear and precise description of the Personal Data you wish to access, rectify, cancel or object and any other component which facilitates the obtainment of your data, as well as, iv) any other requirement set forth in the Federal Law on Protection of Personal information in Possession of Private Parties and/or any other applicable provisions.

Joseph Gamache shall respond any complete application in a maximum term of 20 calendar days or the maximum permitted by law. Joseph Gamache’s reply shall indicate if the application for access, rectification, cancellation or objection is appropriate and, in such case, Joseph Gamache shall effect its decision within the following 15 calendar days to the date in which the answer was delivered to the owner of the Personal Data or to its representative if applicable. The terms may be extended pursuant to the applicable provisions. Joseph Gamache shall provide electronic copies of your personal information in case you exercise your right of access.

How can you limit the use or disclosure of your Personal Data?

You are entitled to, at any time, partially or completely limit the use or disclosure of your Personal Data for the purposes that are not necessary for our legal relationship, for such purposes, please send us an email or mail to our Data Privacy Manager, stating one or all of the purposes for which You wish to limit the use or disclosure of your Personal Data, in order to record you in an exclusion list, for such purposes and upon request, electronic or physical proof of the latter shall be issued to you.

How can you revoke your consent for the treatment of your personal data?

You may, at any time, revoke your consent granted for the treatment of your Personal Data by contacting our Data Privacy Manager, by cancelling your user profile in our website, sending an email or appearing personally in our offices and advising us of your situation. We inform you that in the event you revoke your consent for the treatment of your personal data (including financial and economic), we may not be able to continue our relationship with you.

Transfer of your Personal Data

As part of our talent management consulting services and solutions, we may share your personal data with our subsidiary or affiliated companies, either in Mexico or abroad (a complete list of our offices could be consulted on our Site in www.josephgamache.com , as well as with our clients or other contractors, who may or may not carry out the treatment of personal data on our behalf. Such contractors or third parties include lawyers, external auditors, personnel, insurance agents, among others. Likewise, Joseph Gamache will be entitled to share your Personal Data with any administrative, judicial or governmental authority. Finally, Joseph Gamache may transfer your personal data to any potential buyer or client. Except for the above mentioned, Joseph Gamache shall not transfer your Personal Data to third parties not included in the Federal Law on Protection of Personal Data in Possession of Private Entities or any other applicable regulation.

The mentioned transferences are authorized by the Federal Law on Protection of Personal Data in Possession of Private Entities, in case that you object to share your information and transferred on the way described above, please do not provide your Personal Data to Joseph Gamache.

Your Personal Data will only be used for the intended purposes stated on this Privacy Notice. Joseph Gamache will not sell, share or transfer to third parties your Personal Data without your prior authorization and notification.

Storage of your Personal Data

Joseph Gamache may, either by itself or through third parties, store your Personal data in databases and or servers located within Mexican Territory or abroad without any further limitation except for any statutory terms applicable to delete such data.

Social Networks

Joseph Gamache, may have a profile, whether of the company or of its services, in the main/foremost social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc. (hereinafter, the “Social Networks”)

The Social Networks, shall solely and exclusively function as an immediate communication channel with the followers of the company or its products, as well as an electronic medium of information and marketing of new products, offers and promotions carried out by the company exclusively in its profile and accessible through such by its followers. The application as a follower of Joseph Gamache in the Social Networks, as well as the interaction with us through such is merely optional. Joseph Gamache shall only share the Personal Data permitted by the Social Networks and shall never extract the Personal Data from its followers without their prior consent.

We hereby inform you that Social Networks shall be the holder of their corresponding databases, for which we recommend reading the privacy policies and conditions of such.

Links and external websites

Joseph Gamache’s website may contain external links to websites of third parties, we recommend you to read the privacy policies of third party websites. Joseph Gamache will not be responsible of such third party websites.

Amendments to Privacy Notice. Governing Law.

Joseph Gamache reviews its privacy practices from time to time, and those practices are subject to change. We ask that you bookmark and periodically review this page to ensure continuing familiarity with the most current version of this Policy Notice. You can determine when this Policy Notice was last revised by checking the “Last Update” legend at the top of the Policy. Any changes to the Policy Notice will become effective upon posting of the revised Policy Notice on the Internet, accessible through the Site. Use of the Site following such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Policy then in effect. You shall have the right to cancel and/or rectify your Personal Data, as well as to limit its use or treatment when the terms of this privacy notice have been amended.

This Privacy Notice and any related document shall be governed by the Federal Law on Protection of Personal Data in Possession of Private Entities and any other laws applicable within the United Mexican States. The acceptance of this privacy notice, or lack of refusal once this Privacy Notice has been made available, shall mean a full acceptance of its terms and the governance of the laws and courts of Mexico City, México in case of any claim arisen in connection with this Privacy Notice.