Privacy policy

Personal data can be collected during the recruitment process, at the beginning of employment and on a regular basis during the employment at the company.

3.1 SEM AB may process the following personal data about the employees.
Basic personal information: Name, the personal identity number, nationality, gender, work phone number, work place address, home address, other contact details, employment number, bank and account details, operating unit, organizational position, employment date, time of employment start/end, manager role, employment rate, native country, employment time in years, worker/official which also requires other basic personal data.

Temporary/contract work:
Employer, when the company was engaged, when the company’s contract was terminated, contract type.
For the execution of work and work planning: manager, manager’ manager, job title, department, country, product line, region, location, education/skills, education level, work performance.

Personnel Management and other HR specific personal data:
Weekly working hours, daily working hours, country organization, contact information closest relatives, cost centre, job evaluation, job category, employee group, monthly salary, salary development, health information, rehabilitation, absence, manager, organizational level, staff subdivision and when necessary other relevant data for personnel management and HR-specific requirements.

Information Technology:
Personal data required to give employees access to the company’s computer systems and networks, including Internet address, work email, IP addresses and login usernames, but also other types of personal data logged while using data systems and networks.

3.2 The purposes of processing employees’ personal data
SEM AB may collect and process employees’ personal data, for example for the following purposes. The list is not exhaustive but intends to provide an overview of the company’s need to process employee personal data.
• administration and management of the company’s employment, maintenance of personnel records
• internal work management, planning and workforce management, need for and access to different resources, project staffing and resource allocation
• recruitment, skills development, career planning and development, evaluation and follow-up of work performance
• managing of benefits, payroll, remuneration, taxes and insurance
• managing of business travel, travel insurance, office transfers and other business
• provide employees with access to company internal information systems and other resources, support secure, safe and efficient use of internal information channels such as e-mail and other Internet or telephone-based services, ensuring that business critical information and the company’s other assets are secure and protected
• financial planning, reporting, creation of budget and analysis
• health and working environment
• follow up of internal policy application and other regulations, protect the company’s property, both physical and intellectual property rights, prevent fraud and other illegal activities
• manage work-related disputes and complaints, such as remuneration demands, act in accordance with other applicable legal obligations that the company may have through the employee’s employment with the company

3.3 The legal basis for processing
The legal basis for processing of personal data is justified by the employment contract. The legal basis is also justified because SEM AB is obligated by law, collective agreements or other regulations to process personal data in a certain way, e.g. in relation to the tax authority, insurance companies or the registration of working hours and so on. The legal basis may also be justified by a SEM AB interest evaluation that entitles processing to be carried out. In addition, SEM AB may process personal data based on the employee’s specific consent.

If the processing is required to fulfil an agreement or a legal obligation, the employee cannot oppose the process. If the processing occurs after an interest evaluation, an objection to the processing can be reviewed in that specific case.

3.4 How is the employees’ personal data protected and who has access to it?
SEM AB applies appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect personal data against, for instance, loss, abuse and unauthorized access.

Only people within the company who in their employment need to process personal data in accordance with the above purpose will have access to it.
SEM AB may disclose personal data to personal data Processors, other companies within the corporate group or third parties as described below in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
• To recipients within the corporate group to enable global handling of personal data for the above mentioned purposes.
• To personal data Processors. SEM AB can engage personal data Processors for business purposes as part of their normal activities, such as outsourcing management of employee wages or IT operations to an external supplier. In such cases, SEM AB will require such personal data administrators to use appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect employee personal data and that processing of employee personal data only happens in accordance with SEM AB’s instructions.
• To government authorities if SEM AB has an obligation to do so or if SEM AB needs to protect its own or third party’s rights.
• To third parties in connection with a sale or other ownership transfer as a part of SEM AB’s operations.
• To third parties in case of emergency where health and safety for an employee or other person is in danger.
• To third parties to safeguard SEM AB’s rights, such as in connection with labour dispute.
• To government and/or employer organisations for payroll statistics.
• Some recipients of employee personal data may be or have activities in a country other than where the employee’s place of employment is located. Data protection legislation may be different in such countries. SEM AB will ensure that an adequate level of protection is maintained for the processing of personal data in each transfer of personal data.

3.5 Storage and deletion times for personal data
SEM AB will process and store employee personal data for as long as necessary in relation to the purposes for which the data was collected.
Certain personal data will be deleted in connection with the termination of the employment. Other personal data will be stored for a longer period as there is a legal obligation for the company to retain personal data, e.g. in order to prepare an employment reference or to support an audit that correct tax deductions have been made, alternatively that SEM AB needs the information in order to exercise its rights. As the possibility of directing claims against SEM AB expires (statutes of limitations), the data will be deleted. SEM AB may also need to save personal data associated with specific projects and may therefore need to be retained for as long as the projects are in progress.

Some personal information may be saved for a longer time, such as employment duration until the employee has reached retirement age according to the Employment Protection Act. The data used as the basis for pension contributions may be saved for as long as the employee is alive.