1. Privacy Policy
  2. 2. Information you provide to us.

Optional information in other applications

As well as the mandatory information we require, you can also enter additional information to make as effective use as possible of the respective application.

Category

e.g.

  • Employer reviews
  • CV and job application data
  • Correspondence, conversations
  • Projects
  • Notes, comments

Visibility

Whether and to what extent your mandatory information is visible to other users depends on whether and to what extent the respective application is geared towards anonymity. Please refer to the respective application for more information.

Period saved for

If you delete the data, it will be removed from the respective application. We will erase the data in full when you delete your user account. We may also save certain information (e.g. employer reviews) in an anonymous form beyond this point.

This differs from recruiting applications for business customers (onlyfy) where multiple users at a company can work together and share information and content with one another. Such information and content shared by a business user in a business account remain there, even if the business user no longer has access to the business account. Current and future business users can continue to see this information and content.

Legal basis

The legal basis for this processing of personal data is Article 6 (1) b) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Read about 2. Information you provide to us
Cookies:

Small files that enable us to store specific information related to you, the user, on your end device. You can edit the settings of your browser to prevent cookies from being saved.

Third country:

A country outside of the European Union.

EU GDPR:

The Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council dated 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, on the free movement of such data, and on the repeal of the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC.

Newsletter:

Newsletters or status e-mails and advertising for XING’s own similar products and services, or surveys for the purpose of XING’s own market research.

Personal data:

Pursuant to Article 4 (1) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

Pixel:

Pixel: An image file or link to an image file that is added to the website code but not sent to your end device (e.g. PC, smartphone). Pixels are usually used in conjunction with cookies.

Profile:

The page on the XING Websites where the personal data made available by the user is displayed in the social network.

Profiling:

Pursuant to Article 4 (4) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or move-ments.

Social network:

The contact and communication forums belonging to the applications of the service XING.

XING:

The service XING and the applications belonging to the service XING (XING, kununu, onlyfy. etc.).

XING Websites:

All websites, subdomains, aliases, mobile applications, background applications, web services and embedding in third-party websites where the service XING is available.