Joint Controllerhsip Agreement
Joint Controllerhsip Agreement
The Parties:
Podbor Kandidatov LLC., having its registered seat at 127018, Moscow, st. Suschevsky Val,
18, floor 15, office number 28 in the Russian Federation and registered with the Uniform
State Register of Legal Entities under company number 1197746447205, here duly
represented by Golubeva Varvara Igorevna, hereinafter referred to as “Pickideally”,
and
the Customer,
Whereas:
The Parties wish to collaborate on the project outlined in greater detail in Schedule 1;
The Parties concluded a Main Agreement on Service Start Date stipulated in the Main
Agreement;
This collaborative partnership shall involve the processing and exchange of Personal Data;
The Parties shall jointly determine the purpose of the Data Processing Operations and the
resources used therein, and shall therefore be Joint Controllers within the meaning of Article 26
of the GDPR, rather than serving as the Data Processors of each other’s data;
To ensure that the Personal Data are processed in a careful manner, the Parties wish to enter
into commitments on the Processing of Personal Data and the various Parties’ respective
responsibilities vis-à-vis each other.
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Clause 1. Definitions
In this Agreement, the capitalised words shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the General
Data Protection Regulation. All other capitalised words shall have the meanings ascribed to them in
this clause. All references in this Agreement to the singular shall include the plural where applicable,
and vice versa, unless explicitly stated otherwise, or unless it is obvious from the context that this
rule does not apply.
1.1 Agreement: the present Agreement, including the Schedules, within the meaning of
Article 26 of the GDPR.
1.2 Collaborative Partnership: the collaborative partnership between the Parties based on the
Main Agreement, as outlined in Schedule 1, involving the exchange of Personal Data.
1.3 Employee: the employees and other persons contracted by the Parties whose work duties
come under the relevant Party’s responsibility and who are contracted by said Party for the
performance of the Agreement.
1.4 GDPR: Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April
2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and
on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data
Protection Regulation).
1.5 In writing: on paper or electronically.
1.6 Main Agreement: Terms of Use concluded by the Parties in relation to their
Collaborative Partnership, on the basis of which the Parties are Joint Controllers.
1.7 Service Start Date: the date when the Customer subscribes to the Pickideally
service on its website according to the Main Agreement.
1.8 Schedule: an appendix to this Agreement, which constitutes an integral part of the
Agreement.
1.9 Special categories of Personal Data: Personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political
opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and genetic data,
biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning
health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation within the meaning
of Article 9 of the GDPR. This also includes personal data relating to criminal convictions and
offences within the meaning of Article 10 of the GDPR and national identification numbers.
3.10. Schedule 3 shall include a specification of the nature of the Data Processing Operation(s).
Among other things, Schedule 3 must contain information on the following aspects:
A description of the Data Processing Operation(s) to be performed;
The purposes of the Data Processing Operation(s);
The various types of Data Subjects;
The various types of Personal Data;
The retention periods;
The types of Employees who will have access to the Personal Data;
The names of the Data Processors that have been contracted by the Parties to perform
the Data Processing Operation(s);
Where relevant, whether Data will be transmitted to countries outside the EEA;
The contact details of the Parties in the event of a Data Breach in connection with
Personal Data.
3.11. Schedule 4 shall include a specification of the technical and organisational security measures
implemented by the Parties.
(ii) The Parties are required to disclose, transmit and/or transfer the Personal Data due to
mandatory legal provisions or a court order issued by a competent court or on the orders of
some other government agency having authority over the Parties, although the Parties shall
first notify the other Parties of this requirement; or
(iii) The Personal Data are disclosed and/or transmitted with the other Parties’ prior Written
consent.
Clause 6. Liability
6.1 The Parties shall only be liable vis-à-vis each other in the event that a Party is demonstrably
in breach of one or more of its obligations under this Agreement, and shall only be liable for
direct damage that will be reimbursed and paid out by the insurance company, subject to a
maximum insurance coverage amount of GBP 5000 per annum. The maximum amount for
which the Party shall be liable as referred to in the previous sentence shall apply to individual
events, with a series of interrelated events being regarded as one single event. If, for
whatever reason, the insurance company chooses not to pay out on a claim, the Party’s
liability shall be limited to GBP 5000 per event or series of interrelated events.
6.2 The exclusions and restrictions set out in this article shall lapse if and insofar as the damage
was caused by an intentional act or willful misconduct on the part of the Party/Parties
causing the damage and/or its/their managers.
6.3 A Party that is demonstrably in breach of one of its obligations under the Agreement, thus
causing the other Parties to be held liable by a third party for any damage, costs or interest
payments it has incurred, shall indemnify the other Parties against the claims brought by the
third party and reimburse any expenses the other Parties may incur, unless said Party is able
to prove that the damage was caused by an intentional act or gross negligence on the part of
the other Parties.
Pickideally is a developer and service provider of Pickideally platform. This platform is a database of
IT-specialists collected from publicly available sources by Pickideally. The database is formed by
Pickideally specifically to share access to it with the Customer allowing the Customer to find
IT-specialists who are the perfect fit for the Customer vacancies. This service is fully covered in the
Main Agreement.
SCHEDULE 2: THE PARTIES’ RESPONSIBILITIES VIS-À-VIS EACH OTHER AND THE DIVISION OF TASKS
A) Pickideally will solely ensure that Data Subjects are guaranteed the opportunity to exercise their
rights (Articles 12-23 of the GDPR). In case the Customer receives a Data Subject Request
concerning the Data specified in Schedule 3 to this Agreement it shall immediately forward such
Data Subject Request to Pickideally.
B) Pickideally is solely responsible for concluding Data Processing Agreements with Data Processors
(service providers).
Collection of Data from publicly available sources to form a database of IT-specialists by Pickideally which is
then provided to the Customer. The Customer uses the Data as a potential employer to IT-specialists (data
subjects) seeking for a job in IT.
IT-specialists
Photo (avatar)
IT-skills
Work experience information (duration, current employer and position, period of previous employment,
positions, detailed description of work
Education information (university's name and period of studying)
Retention period for the Personal Data, or the criteria used to establish the retention period
The Data is being updated at regular intervals (every 90 days) starting from February 2020.
Categories of Employees
The Parties have authorised the engagement of the following Data Processors for the Data
Processing Operations to be performed.
Transmission
The Parties have authorised the transmission of data to the third countries or international
organisations listed below.
Contact details
Pickideally Access privileges for all IT Systems is determined on the basis of employees’
levels of authority and the requirements of their job roles.
All IT Systems (and in particular mobile devices including, but not limited to,
laptops, tablets, and smartphones) are protected with a secure password or
passcode, or such other form of secure log-in system.
All employees participating in data processing are informed by their direct
supervisors.
When being hired all employees sign Non-Disclosure Agreement.
It is ensured that no copies of any personal data remain in the possession of a
departing staff member.
The Customer is required to provide this information to support@pickideal.ly
Customer