Global Job Applicant Privacy Notice

We may use certain artificial intelligence tools (“AI Tools”) for our legitimate business interests. These interests include improving the efficiency, quality, and speed of our recruitment processes. These tools use artificial intelligence services that we license from third parties, including OpenAI and Harver. Personal data may be contained within the documents (such as your CV) and information uploaded to our AI Tools to assist with our recruitment processes; however, they are not used to solely automate decision making and the AI Tools will not be relied upon without human review for accuracy and appropriateness.

We use automated means to collect information about your use of our career portal when applying for a position with
 
Blackstone, such as the time and duration of your visit, search query terms you enter through the portal, location information, services and solutions you viewed, and how you interact with content offered through our career portal.

We may also collect technical information, including device identifiers, online identifiers, IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with websites or applications, including the full URL, clickstream to, through, and from our portal (including date and time), page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

Our career portal uses cookies. You can learn more about our use of cookies and how you can control your cookie settings by visiting Blackstone’s Cookie Notice.

We may share the personal data that we collect about you with the Blackstone entity where you apply for a job, our
portfolio companies, as applicable, and any assigned recruiters who have recommended you to us. Also, we share applicant personal data with our headquarters, Blackstone Inc., located in the US, for legitimate business purposes, such as coordinating our recruitment activities and administering our job applicant databases.

In addition, we share personal data with our technology and service provider located in the US, who is hosting and managing our career portal on our behalf. From time to time, we may share your personal data with third-party service providers that assist us with recruitment tasks, conduct pre-employment background checks and social media screening (including through use of AI technology, subject to human review), conduct and interpret personality, cognitive, behavioural, and psychometric tests, make travel arrangements, and manage expense reimbursement for job applicants on our behalf. Where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent if we disclose any sensitive data about you to third parties.

We require our third-party service providers by contract to use personal data only as necessary to perform services on our behalf and to implement appropriate data security and confidentiality obligations. To obtain more information about our third-party service providers processing job applicant data, please contact us as indicated below.

We also may disclose the personal data we collect (i) if we are required or permitted to do so by law or legal process, for example, due to a court order or a request from a law enforcement agency, (ii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss, (iii) in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual fraudulent or other illegal activity, and (iv) in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets (including in the event of a reorganization, dissolution, or liquidation), including as part of the due diligence process.

We may transfer the personal data we collect about you to the United States and recipients in countries other than the country in which the information was originally collected, including to other entities of Blackstone (see Appendix A to our Blackstone Privacy Notice). Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. Where we transfer personal data outside of Switzerland, the UK, the European Economic Area, or other territories subject to data transfer restrictions, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place, including by entering into the European Commission’s EU Standard Contractual Clauses with the data recipients. To obtain more information about the safeguards we have put in place, the Blackstone data recipients and third-party data recipients, please contact us as indicated below. Further information regarding data recipients and data transfers will be provided upon request, where required by applicable law.

Blackstone will keep your personal data for the time period necessary to complete the job application process and the purposes described in this Privacy Notice, taking into account applicable statute of limitation periods and records retention requirements under applicable law. Inactive applicant accounts and records about unsuccessful job applicants are deleted in accordance with our records retention schedule.

Subject to applicable law, you have the right to request access to, and rectification of the personal data we maintain about you, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data or to object to that processing on grounds relating to your situation. In addition, you may have the right to request erasure of your personal information in certain circumstances provided by applicable law. Where provided by applicable law, technically feasible, and upon written request, we will help you export the personal data we process about you and transmit it to another company. To submit a rights request, you can use our online form or contact us as indicated below, and we will respond as required by applicable law.

You can also lodge a complaint about our processing of your personal data by contacting us as indicated below and we will respond as required by applicable law. Alternatively, you can complain to the body regulating data protection in your country if you are not satisfied with our response.
 
If you are a California resident, please see Appendix A of this Global Job Applicant Privacy Notice called “California Job Applicant Privacy Notice” for more information about your privacy rights.

We implement technical and organizational safeguards to maintain an appropriate level of security and confidentiality for your personal data, in accordance with our policies and applicable law.

Our career portal may contain links to other third-party websites that are not operated by Blackstone. These linked sites are not under our control and, as such, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any linked websites. If you choose to use any third-party sites, any personal data collected by the third-party’s site will be controlled by the privacy notice of that third party. We strongly recommend that you take the time to review the privacy policies of any third parties to which you provide information.

This Privacy Notice may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our privacy practices. We will post the updated version on our sites and indicate at the bottom of the notice when it was most recently updated. Please check for any updates regularly.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or if you would like to exercise your rights, please e-mail us at: [email protected].
 
You also may write to:
Blackstone, Inc.
Attn: Legal & Compliance 345 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10154

Job applicants for positions in the EU and the UK may write to:
Blackstone Europe LLP
Attn: Legal & Compliance 40 Berkeley Square London, W1J 5AL
United Kingdom

This California Job Applicant Privacy Notice supplements the Global Job Applicant Privacy Notice and describes the types of personal information we collect about California residents who apply for jobs with Blackstone (“Job Applicants”). Certain terms used in this Notice have the meanings given to them in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020) and its implementing regulations (collectively, the “CCPA”).

Blackstone may collect (and may have collected during the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of the Global Job Applicant Privacy Notice) the categories of personal information described in the “Personal Data We Collect” section of the Global Job Applicant Privacy Notice. This includes the following categories of personal information as defined under the CCPA: (1) Identifiers; (2) Personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e); (3) Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law; (4) Professional or employment-related information; (5) Non-public education information; and (6) Inferences drawn from any of the foregoing categories of personal information.

Blackstone may use (and may have used during the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of the Global Job Applicant Privacy Notice) personal information for the purposes described in the “How We Use The Personal Data We Collect” section of the Global Job Applicant Privacy Notice, including the following relevant “business purposes” as they are described in the CCPA:

• Performing services, including maintaining or servicing accounts, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying Job Applicants’ information, processing payments, providing analytics services, providing storage, or providing similar services.


• Auditing, including auditing compliance;


• Certain short-term, transient uses;


• Helping to ensure security and integrity;


• Providing advertising and marketing services;


• Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;


• Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration; and


• Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance them.

During the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of the Global Job Applicant Privacy Notice, Blackstone may have obtained personal information about Job Applicants from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from you;


• Your devices;


• Individuals who act as references;


• Our affiliates;


• Vendors who provide services on our behalf;


• Recruiting and talent management agencies;


• Portfolio companies or business partners;


• Government entities;


• Social networks; and


• Data brokers, such as background check services.

During the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of the Global Job Applicant Privacy Notice, Blackstone may have obtained personal information about Job Applicants from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from you;


• Your devices;


• Individuals who act as references;


• Our affiliates;


• Vendors who provide services on our behalf;


• Recruiting and talent management agencies;


• Portfolio companies or business partners;


• Government entities;


• Social networks; and


• Data brokers, such as background check services.