Current or former Shell employee or contractor
Information for individuals who are or were employees, interns or individual contractors of Shell TapUp.
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What does this Privacy Notice cover?
Every individual within the Shell group of companies (‘Shell’ or ‘we’) is responsible for protecting personal data about each other as well as that of our customers, business partners and suppliers.
This Privacy Notice provides information about personal information processed by TapUp BV and its affiliates (‘TapUp’ or ’we’) in relation to individuals who are or were employees, interns or individual contractors as well as dependents of TapUp employees (‘TapUp Staff’).
For individuals who apply to work for TapUp, or who attend a recruitment event or undertake an assessment please refer to the Privacy Notice - TapUp Recruitment at https://www.shelltapup.co.uk/privacy/job-applicant-notice.html
As well as this Privacy Notice, bespoke privacy notices and supplementary privacy statements may contain further information about how we process your personal information in relation to specific HR processes. In those instances, such privacy notices will be communicated to you separately.
This Privacy Notice explains what personal information is processed about you, why we are processing your personal information and for which purposes, how long we hold your personal information for, how to access and update your personal information, as well as the options you have regarding your personal information and where to go for further information.
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What personal data do we process about you?
Collection of information
We process personal information necessary to manage the employment relationship, to engage contractors and interns.
This may include personal home contact information, date of birth, marital status, payroll and bank account information, wage and benefit information including beneficiary information, emergency contacts, work performance information, information required to ensure you have the right to work in the country/ies you are engaged in, as well as any other information necessary for managing the employment relationship, for engaging contractors.
Sensitive personal data
We also process some special categories of personal data (’sensitive personal data’) such as data relating to an individual’s health, their racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, political opinions and trade union membership. We will only process such personal data where it is necessary for the purposes of complying with employment and social security laws, for the establishment, exercise or defense of claims or where necessary for the purposes of providing occupational medical advice and support, to protect the vital interests of an individual (such as in an emergency), where necessary for reasons of public health or where the individual has provided their explicit consent.
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Why do we process your personal data?
We process your personal data:
- in order to satisfy our obligations to comply with local laws and regulations;
- for legitimate business interests (for example performance management in order to ensure we have qualified and competent personnel or for health, safety and security purposes to ensure that only authorised personnel can access certain sites or assets, litigation and defense of claims); or
- where we have your explicit consent.
Please note that as a general principle, TapUp does not seek or rely on the consent of TapUp Staff for processing personal data. However, there are limited circumstances when consent is required, such as if required by applicable local law.
Personal data requested from TapUp Staff are the minimum required in order to fulfil legal and/or contractual requirements and to provide opportunities to take part in programs or to provide a benefit. Failure to provide us with the information requested may negatively affect your ability to remain in employment, internship or engagement as a contractor or from participating in a program or receiving a benefit.
In those cases where processing is based on consent, and subject to applicable local law which provides otherwise, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This will not affect the validity of the processing prior to the withdrawal of consent. Withdrawal of consent may however impact your ability to remain employed or otherwise engaged or from participating in a program or receiving a benefit.
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For what purposes do we process your personal data?
We process personal data covered by this Privacy Notice for the following purposes:
- Human Resources, personnel management, business process execution, internal management, management reporting, organisational analysis and development - including budgetary, financial and organisational planning, administration, compensation, performance management;
- Health, safety and security - including protection of TapUp Staff’s life or health, occupational health and safety, protection of TapUp assets and authentication of TapUp Staff status and access rights; or
- Legal and/or regulatory compliance - including compliance with legal or regulatory requirements.
We may also process your personal data for a secondary purpose where it is closely related, such as:
- storing, deleting or anonymising your personal data;
- fraud prevention, audits, investigations, dispute resolution or insurance purposes, litigation and defence of claims; or
- statistical, historical or scientific research.
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Monitoring
All activities on TapUp IT equipment and/or when connected to the TapUp IT network may be monitored for legitimate business purposes.
All TapUp Staff receive an access badge which allows TapUp to record the date, time and access points made by individuals within TapUp premises and assets. The data from the access and security systems are used:
- for health, safety and security purposes,to prevent fraud and specifically the protection of TapUp assets, TapUp Staff and visitors to TapUp premises;
- to comply with legal and regulatory requirements, specifically where there is a local legal requirement to provide information to government/regulatory authorities;
- to monitor (on an aggregated basis) the number of individuals entering and working in a TapUp premise for human resources and real estate planning; and
- in the case of contractors only (not TapUp employees) the date and time of their entry and exit of TapUp premises is used for the purposes of financial management and control.
Most of our premises and assets are equipped with surveillance cameras (CCTV). Where surveillance cameras are used they will be identified. Surveillance cameras are used for health, safety and security specifically the protection of TapUp assets, TapUp staff and visitors to TapUp premises. All images are routinely deleted unless there has been a health, safety or security incident, suspected or actual criminal activity, in which case they may be viewed by internal TapUp investigation teams and externally if legally required or permitted by law enforcement or other government authority.
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Screening
In order to comply with legal and regulatory obligations, to protect TapUp’s assets and employees/contractors and specifically to ensure that TapUp can comply with trade control, anti-money laundering and/or bribery and corruption laws and other regulatory requirements, we carry out screening on all employees and contractors on a periodic basis. This screening takes place against publicly available or government issued sanctions lists and is compared with information held about you by TapUp (for example from the Conflict of Interest register - see here for more information).
Any personal data collected through the screening will not involve profiling or automated decision making regarding suitability for continued employment, internship or engagement as a contractor.
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Who is responsible for any personal data collected?
Shell TapUP B.V., (registered number 59900857) whose registered offices are at Weena 70, 5th floor, 3012CM Rotterdam, the Netherlands or one or more of the companies within the Shell group of companies, either solely or jointly with its affiliates with the Shell group of companies.
In the case of individual contractors, the company within the TapUp group that has contracted your services solely or jointly with its affiliates within the Shell group of companies and your external contracting/employing company/agency.
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Who will we share the personal data with?
Your personal data are exclusively processed for the purposes referred to above and will only be shared on a strict need to know basis with:
- Other companies within the Shell group of companies, including to those which may be located outside of your location and the Economic European Area (‘EEA’)
- Authorised third party agents, service providers, external auditors and/or subcontractors of TapUp; and
- A competent public authority, government, regulatory or fiscal agency where it is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation to which the relevant TapUp company/companies is subject to or as permitted by applicable law; or
- Any person to whom TapUp proposes to transfer any of its rights and/or duties.
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Transfers of your personal data to other countries
Where your personal data have been transferred to companies within the Shell group and/or to authorised third parties located outside of your country (including outside of the European Economic Area) we take organisational, contractual and legal measures to ensure that your personal data are exclusively processed for the purposes mentioned above and that adequate levels of protection have been implemented in order to safeguard your personal data. These measures include European Commission approved transfer mechanisms for transfers to third parties.
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Security of your personal data
We have implemented technology and policies with the objective of protecting your privacy from unauthorised access and improper use and will update these measures as new technology becomes available, as appropriate.
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How long do we hold your personal data for?
All information, including personal data, is managed in line with the Shell group standards for Information and Records Management and securely deleted once no longer required for a legitimate business purpose or for a legal/regulatory purpose.
With some exceptions required to comply with local legal requirements:
- Information contained within personnel files is held for no longer than 10 years once your employment has terminated;
- information relating to retirement benefits are held for no longer than 99 years from the commencement of employment;
- any personal data gathered as part of the screening against publicly available or government issued sanctions lists and media sources are held for no longer than 15 years after they were first gathered;
- the names, date, time and access points for all individuals entering Shell premises are held for 3 years from each access;
- where an individual has been dismissed or had their contract terminated due to serious misconduct, including breaching the Shell Life Saving Rules or breaching the Shell Code of Conduct that information is held for up to 30 years post termination.
In all cases information may be held for (a) a longer period of time where there is a legal or regulatory reason to do so (in which case it will be deleted once no longer required for the legal or regulatory purpose) or (b) a shorter period where you object to the processing of the personal data and there is no longer a legitimate business purpose to retain it.
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Your rights in relation to your personal data
We aim to keep our information about you as accurate as possible. You can request:
- access to your personal data;
- correction or deletion of your personal data (but only where they are no longer required for a legitimate business purpose);
- that the processing of your personal data is restricted; and/or
- that you receive personal data that you have provided to TapUp, in a structured, digital form to be transmitted to another party, if this is technically feasible.
For this, please contact your local HR adviser. If you are a contractor you should speak with your external contracting/employing company/agency. For former employees or dependents, please contact business@shelltapup.com or privacy-office-SI@shell.com.
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Who can you contact if you have a query, concern or compliant about your personal data?
If you have any issues, queries or complaints regarding the processing of your personal data please can contact business@shelltapup.com or Privacy-Office-SI@shell.com.
You may also contact the Shell Group Chief Privacy Officer at Shell International B.V. The Hague, The Netherlands - Trade Register, No. 27155369 Correspondence: PO Box 162, 2501 AN, The Hague.
If you are unsatisfied with the handling of your personal data by TapUp, then you have the right to lodge a complaint to your local data protection authority The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) whose address is Wycliffe House, Water Ln, Wilmslow SK9 5AF, Great Britain or the Dutch Data Protection Authority whose address is Prins Clauslaan 60, 2595 AJ The Hague, The Netherlands. Please visit https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en for more information.
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Cookies and similar technologies
TapUp may use cookies and similar technologies that aim to collect and store information when you visit a TapUp website. This is to enable TapUp to identify your internet browser and collect data on your use of our website, which pages you visit, the duration of your visits and identify these when you return so that we improve your experience when visiting our website(s). You can control and manage your cookies preferences by adjusting your browser settings or using the TapUp cookies preference tool on TapUp websites - for more information, please refer to the TapUp Cookie Policy at www.shelltapup.co.uk/cookie-policy.
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Changes to this Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice may be changed over time. You are advised to regularly review this Privacy Notice for possible changes. This Privacy Notice was last updated in April 2021.