MediaMarktSaturn place a great emphasis on treating your personal data in compliance with data protection requirements.

In the privacy policy for the web site you can find further information on how we process your personal data that we collect when you visit the career site careers.mediamarktsaturn.com. 

In the application privacy policy , you can find further information on how we process your personal data that you enter when applying for a job or when creating a profile on the career platform.

MediaMarktSaturn (hereinafter referred to as "MMS", "we" or "us") attach great importance to treating your personal data in compliance with data protection regulations.

In this privacy policy, we inform you about how MMS process your personal data collected when you use the web site.

Please observe that this privacy policy applies to the web site careers.mediamarktsaturn.com and the data (technically) processed when you visit the web site.

With regard to the data processed and provided by you when making an application and creating a profile for this purpose on our career platform, please observe the MediaMarktSaturn privacy policy for applications

Party responsible for processing

The party responsible for the web site careers.mediamarktsaturn.com and therefore for processing your data in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other data protection laws that apply in the Member States of the EU and other legal provisions of data protection nature are:

MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group GmbH, Media-Saturn-Str. 1, 85053 Ingolstadt, Germany

Purposes and legal basis

As a matter of principle, we process your personal data as required to provide a functional web site as well as our content and services on this web site. In addition, individual processing operations (by means of cookies) are intended to make it more convenient for you to use the web site – provided you have given your consent - or serve marketing, analysis and evaluation purposes – likewise only if you have given your consent.

Collection of general data and information, referred to as “log files", when visiting the web site

The Internet connection data that your browser transmits to the servers are processed if you visit our web site for informational purposes. Our web site collects a series of general data and information with each call, which are temporarily stored in log files of a server. A log file is created during automatic logging of the processing computer system. The following can be recorded:

• Access to the web site (date, time)
• How you arrived at the web site (previous page, hyperlink etc.)
• Amount of data sent
• Which browser and browser version you use
• Whether the page was visited via a mobile device
• Which internet service provider you use
• Your IP address that your internet access provider assigns to your computer when you connect to the internet

The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b, f GDPR, since these data need to be processed in order to operate the web site, ensure the functionality of the web site and deliver the content of our web site correctly. The data are stored for a maximum of 90 days.

Necessary cookies

The web site is hosted on German servers of SAP in Frankfurt, Germany. The following cookies are used to improve the functionality.

They are necessary basic cookies. The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, since these data need to be processed in order to operate the web site, ensure the functionality of the web site and deliver the content of our web site correctly. 

In the following you will find an overview of the necessary cookies used. Further information on individual cookies can be found under Cookie Manager.

Convenience and marketing cookies

Further cookies are used to enhance the user experience on the web site, which are activated only with your consent (Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a GDPR). Convenience cookies enable improved functionality and personalisation. This means that our services may not work properly if they are disabled. Marketing cookies are also used for evaluation, analysis and marketing purposes.

In the following you will find an overview of the convenience and marketing cookies. Further information on individual cookies as well as the option to enable or disable them can be found under Cookie Manager.

Share functions (Facebook, XING, LinkedIn and WhatsApp)

We would like to draw your attention to our presence on various professional and non-professional networks. We have linked these platforms and messaging services on our web site with icons. These icons are not social plug-ins, which is why no (personal) data are transmitted to these networks until you have made an active decision. To use the "Share" function, you must be logged on to the respective network and actively click on the link. Only then will your data be transmitted to the respective provider.

The legal basis for data processing when using the "Share" function is Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The legitimate interest on our part lies in the fact that we want to enable our users to participate in an active exchange on the networks with the "Share" function. The user must actively log on to the network and then additionally click on the link before the data are transmitted.

The following data are transmitted when "sharing" content:

• Internet address
• Date and time when the web site was opened or the "Share" icon was clicked on
• Information about the browser and operating system used
• IP address
• The content you share

The shared content (job postings) can then also be viewed by other users on the same network, depending on the data protection settings you have made for your own account on the various networks. If you are already logged on to the network when you click on the "Share" icon, its provider will also be able to determine your user name and, if applicable, your real name from the afore-mentioned data. These data may be processed by the provider also in countries outside the European Union. We have no influence on the scope, type and purpose of the data processing by the provider. Please refer to the respective privacy policies / terms of use of the networks.

Duration of storage and routine deletion of personal data

We process and store your personal data only for the time necessary to fulfil the purpose of the processing or where provided for by law or regulation. After discontinuation or fulfilment of the purpose, your personal data will be deleted or blocked. In the event of blocking, deletion will take place as soon as legal or contractual retention periods do not conflict with this.

Recipients of personal data

We can transfer your personal data to the following recipients for the afore-mentioned purposes in compliance with the applicable laws while ensuring the highest level of security:

Affiliated companies - MMS is an internationally active group of companies. If necessary, MMS will transfer your personal data to its affiliates for the purposes set out in this data privacy policy.

Service providers - Various service providers help us to run our overall business. They may be, for example, IT service providers who host the web site careers.mediamarktsaturn.com and/or make sure that our web site runs smoothly. They may come into contact with your personal data when fulfilling their contractual obligations.

We demand that these recipients ensure the security of your personal data and process them in compliance with the applicable law. We share or transfer your personal data only to the extent necessary and permitted by a legal basis. Furthermore, we make sure that we have concluded the necessary contractual agreements to protect your personal data.

Data transfer to third countries

In individual cases, we may transfer your personal data to other countries outside the European Economic Area (referred to as third countries), where different data protection standards may apply than at your place of residence. Your data may be subject to foreign laws there and may be made available to the local governments, courts and law enforcement and regulatory authorities.

We will transfer personal data to service providers including processors or other third parties outside the European Economic Area (EEA) only if the third country has been confirmed by the EU Commission to have an appropriate level of data protection, you have consented to the transfer of your data, the transfer of your data is mandatory due to a contract with you or appropriate data protection guarantees (e.g. binding internal company data protection regulations or an agreement of the EU Commission's standard contractual clauses) are in place (Art. 44 ff GDPR).

Data security

The security of your personal data is of top priority to us. We therefore implement technical and organisational measures to protect your data to effectively prevent loss or misuse by third parties. In particular our employees who process personal data are bound by and must comply with data secrecy. To protect your personal data, they are transmitted in encrypted form; we use SSL=Secure Socket Layer, for example, to communicate in your Internet browser. You can tell it by the lock symbol that your browser displays for an SSL connection. To ensure the permanent protection of your data, the technical security measures are checked regularly and, if necessary, adapted to the state of the art. These principles also apply to companies that process and use data on our behalf and according to our instructions.

Your rights

You have a right under the law

• To information about the data processing and to be provided with a copy of the processed data (Art. 15 GDPR)
• To the correction of inaccurate data or completion of incomplete data (Art. 16 GDPR)
• To the deletion of personal data and, if the personal data have been made public, to other responsible parties being informed about the request for deletion (Art. 17 GDPR)
• To restriction of the data processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
• To data portability or to receive the provided personal data in a common and machine-readable format (Art. 20 GDPR)
• To revocation of consent, provided you have given us your consent (Art. 7 (3) GDPR)

The revocation of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation.

If you wish to exercise your rights, simply send us a message. You can use the contact details of the data protection officer in the following for this purpose.

If you do not agree with the data processing on our part, you also have the right to file a complaint to a supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). The supervisory authority responsible for us is the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision [Bayerische Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht] in Ansbach.

Contact details of the data protection officer

You will find the contact details of the data protection officer in the following:

By post:

To the Data Protection Officer

MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group GmbH

Media-Saturn-Str. 1

85053 Ingolstadt, Germany

E-mail:datenschutz@mediamarktsaturn.com

Amendment to the privacy policy

To ensure that our privacy policy always complies with the current legal requirements, we reserve the right to make changes at any time.

MediaMarktSaturn (hereinafter referred to as "MMS", "we" or "us") attach great importance to treating your personal data in compliance with data protection regulations.

In this privacy policy, we inform you about how MMS process your personal data when you apply to us and create a profile in our career platform for this purpose.

With regard to the personal data (technically) processed during your visit to the careers.mediamarktsaturn.com web site, please observe the Privacy policy – MediaMarktSaturn.

Party responsible for processing

The party responsible in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other data protection laws that apply in the Member States of the EU and other legal provisions of data protection nature is the company mentioned in the respective job advertisement:  

Categories of personal data collected

Information collected when creating a profile and applying for a job 

To apply for a specific job, you usually need to create a profile on our career platform.

To create a profile, you must provide at least the following details:

• First and last name 
• E-mail address  

At least the following information is required to prepare and send a job application:

• Address
• Country
• Telephone number

You may be required to submit additional information that is relevant only to the job you are applying for, e.g. work permit information, language skills required, etc. The information required may vary, depending on the type of vacancy. 

In addition to the data indicated as mandatory, you can also voluntarily enter further details and upload documents (e.g. certificates).

If you have activated the "AutoFill options" in your browser, you can use them when filling out the application. The necessary data that you have saved in your browser, such as last name, first name, address etc., are automatically entered in the application as a suggestion. You can of course subsequently edit or delete these data before the application is sent to us.

After sending your first application, an applicant account will be automatically created for you and you will receive confirmation of receipt at the e-mail address you provided.

To log in to your applicant account, enter your email address in the field provided. You will then receive an access link to your e-mail address, which you can use to log in to your applicant account.

Within your applicant account, you can edit your data at any time, view the status of your applications, submit further applications and use the other functions of the applicant account. Please note that once an application has been submitted, it cannot be changed. Please contact us immediately if you notice any misuse of your applicant account.

Document upload via DropBox and Google Drive

We provide you with the option of uploading your documents from your computer or mobile device or making them available via the online storage systems DropBox and Google Drive. Please observe the respective terms of use and privacy policies of the providers.

Bookmarking favourite job advertisements

When you are logged in to your profile, you can bookmark your favourite job advertisements on a favourites list in the job search. You can customise your list simply by selecting/deselecting individual job advertisements. When you delete your profile, your favourites list is also deleted.

Information collected during the recruitment process 

If we consider you suitable for the position you have applied for and we subsequently contact you to get to know you better, we may collect further information about you during the interview process. This may include information about your previous work experience, your expectations regarding salary and benefits, etc. For some advertised positions, you may be required to take part in an assessment center to test your suitability and skills for the vacant position. We attach great importance to a transparent and comprehensible data processing: All data collected in the context of an assessment center and the tests are either provided directly by you (e.g. your answers in an English test), or are the results of tests taken by you and our assessments based on it, to which you will have access. In the interests of data minimization, our recruiters and HR managers take care to collect only information that is relevant to the position for which you are applying. 

Special categories of data 

In principle, it is not necessary for MMS to collect and process special categories of data (such as religion, ethnicity, health, sexual orientation etc.) in connection with the application process.  

If you wish to share them with us, for example because you have a health condition, you can voluntarily submit this information during the recruitment process. 

Comparison with employee data (internal applicants)

In the case of internal applicants, a comparison can be made with the employee master data you have stored (form of address, first and last name, employee number, date of birth, street and house number, postcode, town, country) for identification purposes and to exclude duplicates. In addition, further information about your previous or current employment relationship may be obtained (e.g. about your length of service or the existence of a severe disability or equality), if necessary and in compliance with the legal provisions, and taken into account accordingly in the application process.

The selection of future employees is based exclusively on professional and personal qualifications, which are assessed according to the same criteria for internal and external applicants. This comparison is made regardless of the type of job advertisement and the chosen communication channel.

The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 (1) lit. b and f GDPR, i.e. our legitimate interest as well as any existing contractual rights and obligations to give appropriate consideration to the relevant facts in internal applications.

Other information we collect about you when you use our career platform 

The career platform can be found on the web site careers.mediamarktsaturn.com. For the data collected technically on the web site (e.g. by means of cookies), please refer to Privacy policy – MediaMarktSaturn.

Purposes and legal basis

Purposes

MMS collect and process your personal data for the following purposes: 

• Establishing contact, information about relevant job advertisements 
• Recruitment, selection, evaluation and employment of new employees as well as the search for potential candidates on the labour market  
• Providing our career platform and ensuring its technical security  
• Improving our application process and thus the online application process for candidates  

Legal basis

MMS process your personal data on the following legal grounds:  

• Local legal provisions, which allow us to process your personal data for employment-related purposes (including § 26 BDSG).  
• Our legitimate interest, in particular management, administration and improvement of our recruitment and HR processes, ensuring and improving the online presence of our career platform and finding the best talent on the labour market, insofar as these activities do not affect or infringe your rights and freedoms (Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR). 
• Your consent, if you have given it for the use of your personal data for a specific purpose. This may be the case, for example, if you decide to receive job-related communication from MMS. You are free to revoke this consent for the future without giving reasons (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR). 
• Compliance with laws, e.g. in cases where labour law or other laws require your personal data to be processed or in cases where we need to respond to requests from authorities in the context of investigative procedures. (Art. 6 (1) lit. c GDPR). 

Visibility settings 

We will ensure that the visibility settings you choose are respected on our career platform. If your visibility choice is: 

• "… also for additional jobs that could be a good fit to me", all recruiters of our MMS national subsidiaries have access to the information you have submitted to us. In this case, you may also be contacted by recruiters from the other MMS locations to inform you about relevant job offers. 
• "… only for the position that I have applied for. I do not want to be contacted for other career opportunities at MediaMarktSaturn", only those people involved in the recruitment process for the job you have applied for will have access to your personal data. In this case, you will only be contacted by recruiters in connection with the job you have applied for. 

Please note that you can change your visibility settings at any time within your profile. 

Communication about career opportunities 

If you consented to being notified about job advertisements or information about career opportunities when you created your profile, you will receive automatic emails about current job offers, campaigns or career events that MMS have to offer. You have the right to revoke the receipt of such messages at any time by using the appropriate "Unsubscribe" button in your candidate profile. 

Duration of storage and routine deletion of personal data

We delete your personal data as soon as they are no longer required. This depends on the purpose for which they were collected and the provisions of the applicable local laws.  

In most cases, we keep your application for six months after you have received a rejection, and your profile is deleted six months after your last login. In addition, you can delete your profile at any time before this period expires.  

As retention periods may vary depending on the local legal requirements, please contact datenschutz@mediamarktsaturn.com if you would like to know more. 

Withdrawal of your application 

You can withdraw your application at any time. This is done with the corresponding function in the applicant profile or by deleting the applicant profile itself. Your application documents will be automatically deleted after the retention periods described in the previous chapter have expired. 

Recipients of personal data

MMS can transfer your personal data to the following recipients for the afore-mentioned purposes in compliance with the applicable laws while ensuring the highest level of security: 

Affiliated companies - MMS is an internationally active group of companies. If necessary, MMS will transfer your personal data to its affiliates for the purposes set out in this data privacy policy.

Service providers - Various service providers help us to run our overall business. These may be, for example, IT service providers who host the careers.mediamarktsaturn.com web site and/or ensure that our career platform runs smoothly, recruiters who help us find the best candidates, consultants who help us improve our processes etc. They may come into contact with your personal data when fulfilling their contractual obligations.

We require these recipients to ensure the security of your personal data and to process them in accordance with applicable law. We share or transfer your personal data only to the extent necessary and permitted by a legal basis. Furthermore, we make sure that we have concluded the necessary contractual agreements to protect your personal data.

Data transfer to third countries

The data you provide us with as part of your application will be hosted in the European Union.

In individual cases, we may transfer your personal data to other countries outside the European Economic Area (referred to as third countries), where different data protection standards may apply than at your place of residence. Your data may be subject to foreign laws there and made available to the local governments, courts and law enforcement and regulatory authorities.

We will transfer personal data to service providers including processors or other third parties outside the European Economic Area (EEA) only if the third country has been confirmed by the EU Commission to have an appropriate level of data protection, you have consented to the transfer of your data, the transfer of your data is mandatory due to a contract with you or appropriate data protection guarantees (e.g. binding internal company data protection regulations or an agreement of the EU Commission's standard contractual clauses) are in place (Art. 44 ff GDPR).

Data security

The security of your personal data is of top priority to us. We therefore implement technical and organisational measures to protect your data to effectively prevent loss or misuse by third parties. In particular, our employees who process personal data are bound by and must comply with data secrecy. To protect your personal data, they are transmitted in encrypted form; for example, we use SSL=Secure Socket Layer for communication in your Internet browser. You can tell this by the lock symbol that your browser displays for an SSL connection.To ensure the permanent protection of your data, the technical security measures are checked regularly and, if necessary, adapted to the state of the art. These principles also apply to companies that process and use data on our behalf and according to our instructions.

Your rights 

You have the right under the law:

• To information about the data processing and to be provided with a copy of the processed data (Art. 15 GDPR)
• To the correction of inaccurate data or completion of incomplete data (Art.  16 GDPR)
• To the deletion of personal data and, if the personal data have been made public, to other responsible parties being informed about the request for deletion (Art. 17 GDPR):

In this respect, you can request the deletion of your profile at any time at the e-mail address given at the end of this section. You can also do this yourself at any time within your candidate profile.

If you have an open application at this time, we will assume that you no longer wish to maintain it and are withdrawing it.

Please note that your application-related personal data will be automatically deleted only after the expiry of the defined retention period referred to in the chapter Duration of storage and routine deletion of personal data

• To restriction of the data processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
• To data portability or to receive the provided personal data in a structured, common and machine-readable format (Art. 20 GDPR)
• To revocation of consent, provided you have given us your consent (Art. 7 (3) GDPR)

The revocation of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation.

If you wish to exercise your rights, simply send us a message. You can use the contact details of the data protection officer in the following for this purpose.

If you do not agree with the data processing on our part, you also have the right to file a complaint to a supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). To do so, you can contact, among others, the supervisory authority in the Member State of your residence, your workplace or the place of the alleged breach of the GDPR.

Contact details of the data protection officer

You can find the contact details of the data protection officers (in each case responsible for data protection issues in the country where the job is advertised) in the following:

Amendment to the data protection notice

To ensure that our data privacy policy always complies with the current legal requirements, we reserve the right to make changes at any time.