Applicant Privacy Notice

Last updated: November 18, 2024

At Corteva Agriscience we are committed to transparency and openness including providing clear and accurate information about our privacy practices. This Applicant Privacy Notice (“Applicant Notice”) describes our practices in connection with the personal information collected by Corteva, online and offline, to facilitate your application for employment at Corteva, if you choose to join the Corteva Talent Network, and in your interaction with the Corteva Careers Site, https://careers.corteva.com (“Careers Site”). This Applicant Notice refers to Corteva Agriscience and its parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates collectively as Corteva, “us” and “we”.

This Applicant Notice does not apply to the processing of personal information for current or former Corteva employees within the context of their employment. If we elect to make you an offer and you accept a position at Corteva, your personal information may be used to manage the new-hire process and become part of your employment record. If you become an employee, your personal information will be processed in accordance with the applicable Corteva employee privacy notice.

Nothing in this Applicant Notice is intended to reduce the rights or protections available to you under applicable law in your country or jurisdiction. If anything in this Applicant Notice is inconsistent with any such law, the rights or protection of applicable law shall prevail, and your personal information shall be processed in accordance with applicable law.

Please read this Applicant Notice.

Prior to submitting your application, using the Careers Site, or joining the Corteva Talent Network you will be asked to consent, where required by applicable law, to the collection and use of your personal information as described in this Applicant Notice. It is important that you read this Applicant Notice so that you are aware of how and why we use your personal information and what rights you have under applicable law. By agreeing to this Applicant Privacy Notice, you agree that your personal information may be transferred to the United States or any other country where Corteva may conduct business, which may have different data protection laws than the country in which you reside. To the extent the personal information you provide reveals or contains information that may qualify as sensitive information under applicable law, including information about your race, religion, ethnicity, nationality or national origin, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sex life or practices or sexual orientation, marital status or domestic partner status, medical or health information (including disability status), genetic or biometric data, political or philosophical beliefs, political party or trade union membership, background check information, judicial data such as criminal records or information on other judicial or administrative proceedings, or veteran status, you expressly authorize Corteva to collect and use such information for the purposes described in this Applicant Notice.

If you intend to provide us with details of a reference or any other third-party personal information as part of your CV/resume, it is your responsibility to obtain consent from that third party prior to providing the personal information to us.

Categories of Personal Information We May Collect

The term “personal information” can have different meanings under applicable law. We generally use the term “personal information” to mean information that identifies an individual directly or indirectly or relates to an identifiable individual. If we are required by applicable law to treat information as personal information, we will do so in accordance with this Applicant Notice.

A. Identifying Information

Name
Contact information (such as address, phone number and e-mail address)
IP address
Username and password
Social Security Number or Tax ID number
National or State ID number, Driver license number, Passport number, or other government ID number
Citizenship
Signature, including electronic signature

B. Professional Information and other Records

Any information you choose to provide in your CV, resume, or cover letter
Previous work experience and education information
Employment preferences, willingness to relocate, current salary, desired salary
Professional and other work-related licenses, permits and certifications held
Language and other relevant skills
Awards and professional memberships
Work authorization status, available start date
Reference information
Background check information (including credit checks, OFAC screening and criminal and related background information where applicable)
Any other information you elect to provide to us

C. Internet or other Electronic Network Activity

Social media information (as described further below)
IP addresses
Unique devices identifiers
Information collected through cookies and other technologies (as described further below)
General geolocation
Device type, browser type, and operating system
Online browsing data or “clickstream data” (e.g., date and time of access, pages visited, time spent on each page, links clicked, search history)

D. Video, Photo, Voice Recording or Chatbot Information

Video images (CCTV recording) or photographic images
Identifying information to access our premises including entry and visitor ID badges, including picture, number, date, and times of entry/exit
Voice recordings such as voicemail records
Telephone, video or communications services such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams recordings including the date, starting, and ending time of a call
Chat information, such as the contents of the conversations submitted via the chatbot feature on the Careers site.

E. Sensitive or Special Categories of Personal Information

We ask that you AVOID SUBMITTING the following personal information which may qualify as sensitive information under applicable law, except when such information is requested where permitted by law. Where such information is requested, we may collect:

Race
Ethnicity
National Origin
Nationality
Religion
Age
Gender identity, gender reassignment, sex life or practices or sexual orientation
Marital or domestic partner status
Medical or health information (including disability status)
Political or philosophical beliefs, political party, or trade union membership
Background check information
Judicial data such as criminal records or information on other judicial or administrative proceedings
Veteran status

F. Information From Social Media Platforms

If you interact with us through social media, you will share certain personal information from your social media account with us, for example, your name, email address, photo, list of social media contacts, and any other information that you make accessible to us when you interact with us through social media. If you choose to interact with us through your social media platform you should carefully review the privacy policies of those social media providers and your privacy settings to ensure you are comfortable with the information the social media platforms may make available to us.

G. Information From Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the device that you are using while you interact with online sites that can identify your device and can contain other information as well. We may collect information from cookies and similar tracking technologies on our Careers Site as well as in HTML-formatted e-mail messages that we send to you. Cookies and similar technologies do not directly identify who you are, but they do allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Careers Site, pages visited, language preferences, and other aggregated traffic data. Cookies can be placed on your device by us and also by our service providers, such as web analytic companies and internet advertising networks. We use the information collected for various purposes, to store and honor your preferences and settings, for security and authentication, analytics, measuring the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns, to serve you advertising that we believe will be of interest to you, and to fulfill other legitimate purposes described below.

The types of cookies we collect fall into one of three categories:

Required cookies: These cookies are necessary to enable the basic features of the site to function such as providing secure log-in or remembering how many items are in your shopping cart. This category of cookies cannot be disabled and does not require consent.
Functional cookies: These cookies are optional and allow us to analyze your use of the Careers Site and evaluate and improve our performance. They may also be used to provide a better applicant experience on the Careers Site. For example, remembering your log-in details or providing us information about how you use our site, such as preferred language.
Advertising cookies: These cookies are optional and can be used to learn about what interests you may have based on the websites you visit. They can help us serve you more relevant ads on the Careers Site or on third-party sites based on inferences about your interests.

Where required by law, we obtain your consent before placing or using functional or advertising cookies and you can always opt in or out of functional or advertising cookies through the cookie preferences tool on the Careers Site. This cookie preferences tool is enabled to process your preferences and in certain jurisdictions, to recognize and process a Universal Opt-Out signal. Some browsers have “do not track” settings. Because there is not yet a common understanding how to interpret these signals, we do not currently respond to browser “do not track” settings.

In addition, with most internet browsers or other software you can change your browser settings to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple process in most browsers that allows you to decline the use of cookies. To learn more about opt-out in web browsers please visit https://optout.aboutads.info/ and https://optout.networkadvertising.org. To learn more about cookies, please visit your local digital advertising association such as:

Canada: https://youradchoices.ca
Europe: www.youronlinechoices.eu
U.S.: https://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and https://optout.networkadvertising.org/#/

Once you have set your cookie preferences, the specific choices you made will be followed. Please remember that if you delete your preferences, or use a different browser or computer, you will need to set your cookies preferences again.

Beacons and Pixel Tags: Beacons and pixel tags are small graphics on a website page or in an e-mail message designed to track pages viewed or e-mail messages opened and can be used to deliver cookies to your computer. These technologies can also help analyze the effectiveness of websites by measuring the number of visitors or activity on a website.

How We Use Personal Information

Personal information collected through the Careers Site, or otherwise in association with your application for employment, will be collected, used, stored, disclosed, and otherwise processed for Corteva’s global recruitment purposes and for related business purposes, as permitted by applicable law, including the following purposes:

To process your application
To assess your capabilities and qualifications for a job
To inform you about job vacancies and events related to our recruiting
To conduct reference checks
To determine the diversity make-up of the applicant pool
To provide you any services available on the Careers Site
To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you about your application
To comply with or monitor compliance with any applicable law or regulation, and to respond to requests from public and governmental authorities including those outside your country of residence
To monitor and record services whether provided by Corteva or a third party
To conduct background checks where applicable
To preserve our legitimate interests, for example, for Corteva’s administrative purposes, aggregate management reporting, internal training, and as generally required to conduct our business within Corteva and its affiliates
To conduct system administration and technology management, including optimizing the Careers Site to improve design and functionality, and data analytics
To enforce our terms and conditions, protect the security and integrity of our systems, networks, applications, and data, including detecting, analyzing, and resolving security threats, communicating with law enforcement and information security consortiums, debugging services or systems, identity management including verification and authentication for systems and technology
To monitor premises security, safety and loss prevention, detection and prevention of fraud and other illegal activity
For audit and risk management and for the initiation, defense, settlement, or enforcement of our legal rights and to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain
In the event of any merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of any and all portions of Corteva’s business, assets and/or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings)

How We Disclose Personal Information

Corteva may disclose personal information with affiliates that are involved in evaluating candidates for a given position. Corteva Inc. and the local affiliate to which you submit your application will remain responsible for the personal information collected. Your personal information will be reviewed by Corteva employees or agents who have a business need to access such personal information and may include recruiters, human resources personnel, technical services (information technology) personnel, and managers or their designees.

We may share personal information about you with selected service providers or consultants acting on our behalf, such as third parties assisting Corteva with the hosting and operation of the Careers Site, recruiting assistance, background check processing, and similar services. These third parties will be required to use appropriate measures to protect the confidentiality and security of personal information.

Corteva may also disclose personal information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate for the purposes described in this Applicant Notice to Corteva employees, service providers, consultants, public and governmental authorities, and other third parties as required and permitted under applicable law.

Corteva’s Use of Artificial Intelligence

We use technology by Eightfold AI on the Careers Site. This technology employs artificial intelligence to assist in predicting the degree of match between you and our job positions. This tool is a matching model based on factors such as the skills specified in the job description for which you have applied. While this tool may be considered an automated employment decision tool under New York City law, we do not make the decision about your application solely based on the model output. All of our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. More information about this technology can be found here, and you may check the results of an independent bias audit summary of this technology here. You may e-mail [email protected] to request additional information about the Eightfold AI technology and how our recruiters make decisions about applications. If you submit your resume or any information to the Careers Site or join the Corteva Talent Network, it will be processed using the Eightfold technology. As an alternative, you may choose to apply using this link in which case your application will be solely reviewed by a person.

Retention of Personal Information

Personal information of candidates applying for jobs will be retained for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Applicant Notice and to meet our legal, regulatory, or other compliance obligations in accordance with local law and with Corteva’s data retention policy. If you apply for a job, all data retention obligations will be observed for the country to which you are applying. We may also retain your information for the purpose of considering whether your skills are suitable for other opportunities. If you do not wish us to do this, please contact us at the address listed below, under the ‘Contact Us’ section.

If there is no activity in relation to your personal information, Corteva may remove it from its database, subject to Corteva’s data retention obligations and policies and any applicable legal or regulatory obligations or for the period of time permitted by local laws, for the purpose of considering whether your skills are suitable for other opportunities. Note that Corteva may delete personal information about you at any time (including your CV/resumé), for any reason and without notice; therefore, please retain your own copy of the personal information provided to us.

Your Privacy Rights and Choices

If you would like to request to review, correct, update, suppress, restrict, or delete your personal information, object to the processing of your personal information, or if you would like to request to receive a copy of your personal information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent these rights are provided to you by applicable law), you may make such request by clicking on the appropriate link in the Privacy Rights Requests dropdown list for the country in which you reside. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.

If you do not find the link for a specific country, please submit your inquiry to [email protected] or to the address in the “Contact Us” section below.

In your request, please make clear what personal information you would like to have changed, and whether you would like to have your personal information suppressed from our database. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the personal information associated with the particular email address that you used to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request.

How We Secure Personal Information

Personal Information will generally be stored in Corteva databases or databases maintained by our service providers. We use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect personal information within our organization and require by contract that our service providers do as well. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.

Links to Other Websites

The Careers Site may contain links to other websites. This Applicant Notice does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy or security practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or services to which the Careers Site links. The operators of those other websites may collect information about you, through cookies or other technologies. If you link to another website, you will leave the Careers Site and this Applicant Notice will not apply to your use of and activity on those other sites.

If you provide personal information through any other site, your transaction will occur on that website (not the Corteva Careers Site) and the personal information you provide will be collected by and controlled by the privacy notice of that website operator. Links on the Careers Site to other websites are provided only as a convenience, and the inclusion of such links does not imply endorsement of the linked site. We encourage you to read the legal notice posted on those sites, including their privacy policies.

Use of the Careers Site by Minors

The Careers Site is not intended for minors under the age of 18 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 18.

Updates to this Applicant Notice

We will make changes to this Applicant Notice from time to time to update our privacy practices or changes in applicable laws. The “Revised” date at the top of this Applicant Notice indicates when this Applicant Notice was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Applicant Notice on the Careers Site. If you do not agree with these changes you may request to have your personal information deleted by making a Privacy Rights Request. Your use of the Careers Site following these changes means that you accept the revised Applicant Notice.

Contact Us

If you have questions about your privacy choices or about this Applicant Privacy Notice, you may contact us at [email protected] or via mail at the address below:

Attn: Talent Acquisition Department
7100 NW 62^nd Avenue
PO Box 1000
Johnston, IA 50131

Additional Jurisdictional Information

You have the right at all times to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority or regulator for your country or jurisdiction.

If you are a resident of the European Union, EEA, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom please click on this link to review additional Disclosures for European Union, EEA, Switzerland and United Kingdom Applicants.

If you are a California resident, please click on this link to review additional Disclosures for California Applicants.