PRIVACY POLICY

The website www.paulochongsantos.com is the property of Paulo Alexandre Chong Mendes dos Santos (hereinafter referred to as "Paulo Chong", or as Paulo Chong Santos", "PCS GROUP", "PCS PROJETOS CONSULTORIA E SERVIÇOS", or as "PCS BRASIL PROJETOS CONSULTORIA E SERVIÇOS LTDA", or as "PCS BRASIL", or as "PCS PORTUGAL", ou por "PCS INTERNATIONAL"), registered under tax identification number 192279289, headquartered at Rua Bojabi, 40, Conjunto A - Vila Nova Caledonia, Sao Paulo - SP, 04648-072, Brazil.

1. Scope

Paulo Alexandre Chong Mendes dos Santos (hereinafter referred to as "Paulo Chong", or as Paulo Chong Santos", "PCS GROUP", "PCS PROJETOS CONSULTORIA E SERVIÇOS", or as "PCS BRASIL PROJETOS CONSULTORIA E SERVIÇOS LTDA", or as "PCS BRASIL", or as "PCS PORTUGAL", ou por "PCS INTERNATIONAL"), in the capacity of Controller, respects your privacy and undertakes to protect it. For such purpose, this Privacy Policy aims to inform all users of the website www.paulochongsantos.com (hereinafter referred to as “website”) about the respective collection and processing practices for personal data and information, and about your rights in relation to these data and information, protected by the Personal Data Protection Law (Law No. 67/98, of October 26) and by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council (hereinafter referred to as “GDPR”).

2. Basic information

The material contained in this website consists of general information that is not necessarily complete, accurate or updated.

 PCS GROUP does not guarantee that the services available through the  PCS GROUP website shall operate without interruption.

 PCS GROUP is not required to save the  PCS GROUP website content, including texts, images or any other information, which may be destroyed at any time, without this giving rise to any right to compensation for the users or any third parties.

There may be links to sites external to the  PCS GROUP website, which   PCS GROUP does not have any control over, and which  PCS GROUP accepts no liability for.

PCS GROUP does not accept any liability for problems that may arise when using the PCS GROUP website or any external websites linked to on the PCS GROUP website.

3. Further information

3.1 For which purposes do we process your personal data?

The personal data collected through the form available via the website shall be processed for the following purposes:

Organizing and managing the recruitment process, assessing the suitability of the candidate for the position or job in question and responding to applications from professionals;

Compliance with legal obligations on equality and non-discrimination.

3.2 Which recipients will your personal data be disclosed to?

PCS GROUP hereby informs you that your personal data will only be accessed by the company’s Administrative and Financial Department.

PCS GROUP may hire third parties to provide logistical support or other administrative support. These parties may have access to personal data to the extent necessary to provide such services.

3.3 What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

Your personal data, according to the purpose, shall be processed pursuant to the following legal grounds:

Organizing and managing the recruitment process, assessing the suitability of the candidate for the position or job in question and responding to applications from professionals. Your personal data shall be processed in accordance with the:

i) need for processing to perform a contract which the data subject is a party to or for pre-contractual formalities at the request of the data subject, and the 

ii) need for processing for the purposes of the legitimate interests of the controller, specifically to check the suitability of the Candidate for the position available, which we understand shall be fully compatible with the Candidate’s interests.

For personal data processing to comply with legal obligations relating to equality and non-discrimination, the applicable legal basis will be compliance with the legal obligations that PCS GROUP is subject to.

3.4 How long do we  keep your personal data for?

The retention period for your personal data may vary in line with the applications submitted in a recruitment process or if they are unsolicited applications.

Your personal data will also be retained during the following periods:

Applications during a recruitment process:

The personal data of applicants will be retained during the recruitment process;

When selecting the candidate, their data will be retained for 5 years for the purposes of complying with the legal obligations imposed in relation to registering recruitment processes. The applicant’s data will also be retained for the purposes of the employment relationship, with the terms and periods defined for the employment relationship applying in the latter case;

If the candidate is not selected during the recruitment process:

Their personal data will be retained for a 1-year period after the recruitment process ends;

In any case, the Candidate’s personal data will be kept as strictly necessary for a 5-year period to comply with the legal obligations imposed in relation to registering recruitment processes and for the period necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

Unsolicited applications:

The applicants’ personal data shall be retained for a 1-year period and used for recruitment processes commencing in this period. In this case, the above-mentioned time periods will apply.

3.5 What rights do you have?

Pursuant to applicable data protection law, you have the right to:

I. Request access to your personal data: You have the right to receive confirmation about whether any of your personal data are processed or not, and, if this is the case, request access to your personal data. Access information includes, among other things, the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data in question and the categories of recipients or to whom your personal data were or will be disclosed.

You may have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data to be processed.

II. Request the rectification of your personal data: you have the right to ensure rectification of inaccuracies concerning your personal data. Considering the purposes of the processing, you have the right to ensure any incomplete personal data is completed, including through an additional declaration.

III. Request the deletion of your personal data: under certain circumstances, you may have the right to delete your personal data and we will be required to delete such personal data;

IV. Request the limitation of processing your personal data: in certain circumstances, you may have the right to limit the processing of your personal data. In this case, the respective data will be flagged and we can only process them with your consent or for certain purposes.

V. Request the portability of your data: in certain circumstances, you may be entitled to receive the personal data you provided us with, in a structured format for general usage and via automatic reading systems, and you may have the right to send such data to another entity and without us being able to prevent this.

VI. Oppose the processing of your personal data: you have the right to, for reasons related to your specific situation, at any time, oppose the processing of your personal data. In such case, PCS GROUP will stop processing your personal data, unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for such processing that prevail over your interests, rights and freedoms, or for the purposes of establishment, exercise or defense of legal rights in a judicial process.

If you understand that the processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR, you may submit a claim to the National Supervisory Authority.

To exercise the above-mentioned rights, or withdraw the consent given, the data subject may contact PCS GROUP through the following contact details:

PCS BRASIL PROJETOS CONSULTORIA E SERVIÇOS LTDA

1471 Paulista Avenue - Bela Vista
Barão de Christina Building, 11th floor, suite 1110
Mailbox 1768
01311-927 Sao Paulo - SP
Brazil

data.protection.officer@paulochongsantos.com

4. Security

PCS GROUP uses technical and organizational security measures to protect against the unauthorized handling, loss, destruction or access of the data you provide and processed by PCS GROUP. The security measures taken are constantly enhanced in line with the latest technology.

5. Hiperlinks

For your convenience and information, the PCS GROUP “website” may provide “links” to external “sites”. Accessing these “links” means leaving the PCS GROUP website.

PCS GROUP does not control these websites in privacy policies, which may be different to this privacy policy.

PCS GROUP does not approve or represent these websites. The PCS GROUP Privacy Policy does not cover any personal data processing carried out by these websites external to PCS GROUP.

We recommend you consult the privacy policies of any controller before submitting your personal data. Some external companies may choose to share your personal information with PCS GROUP, therefore the sharing will be governed by the privacy policy of such company.

6. Cookies

The domains and IP addresses of visitors shall be automatically registered. This information does not identify the user, only the computer used to access the website. Such data are analyzed globally to check from which part of the world the website is being accessed from, to ensure its coverage and to allow our user service to be enhanced. The personal data of each user will not be collected and analyzed in this process.

The user’s IP address is used to help diagnose problems with your server and to manage the “website” www.paulochongsantos.com. The IP address is a numerical code that identifies a computer on the network/Internet. The user’s IP address is also used to collect demographic information. We will also be able to undertake IP searches to determine from which domain the user began from, to better track the user’s demographic data.

To collect the above-mentioned data, and to enhance the user’s browsing experience and enable better website performance, temporary cookies may be used that will be stored in the user’s browser program “cookies” file until closed.

The “cookies” themselves do not identify the user. Cookies are small files positioned through the browser during navigation, on the device the user accesses a website through – whether a computer, smartphone or another device. These files also enable user recognition the next time the same website is visited.

The information collected is therefore anonymous, and does not identify the user. It is general browsing information, specifically concerning the way the user accesses the website, about the geographical region it was accessed from, or the browsing preferences.

At any time, through their browsers, users may decide to receive notifications about receiving cookies, and block them.

By choosing not to receive cookies, users may not be able to view all the website’s content.

For further information about cookies, please consult the information available at www.allaboutcookies.org.

7. Amendments

PCS GROUP reserves the right to occasionally update its Privacy Policy. Whenever we do so, we shall disclose the date it was last updated.

PCS GROUP also reserves the right to suspend access to this website without prior notice.

Date of last revision:: 22/03/2023