SLB recruitment privacy statement

SLB Recruitment Policy Statement
Last updated: December 2023

Schlumberger Limited (“SLB”) values your trust and is committed to the responsible management, use and protection of personal information. This SLB Recruitment Privacy Statement (“Statement”) describes our practices in connection with all the information that we collect through the Careers section of our website (located at https://careers.slb.com/) (“Careers Site”) and offline in connection with your application for a job or internship with SLB or one of our affiliates. Personal information submitted elsewhere on SLB’s and its affiliates’ web sites will be used in accordance with our general online Privacy Statement.

If you are a California resident, please see the “California Supplement” at the end of this Statement for additional information on how we handle your personal information and how you can exercise your privacy rights.

Personal information we collect

Information You Provide

We collect personal information from you in connection with your application:

• Name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and other contact information;
• Username and password;
• Work authorization status
• CV, résumé, cover letter, previous work experience and education information
• Skills;
• Professional and other work-related licenses, permits and certifications held;
• Information relating to references;
• Background check information (where required or permitted under applicable law); and
• Any other information you elect to provide to us (e.g., employment preferences, willingness to relocate, current salary, desired salary, awards or professional memberships).

As discussed in the “Diversity” section below, in certain cases we will ask questions about race/ethnic origin, gender, and disability of our applicants, for monitoring equal opportunity. We can also inquire about criminal records. We will do so only where permitted by applicable law. Otherwise, we ask that you avoid submitting information that may qualify as sensitive information under applicable law, except where such information is legally required. Sensitive information includes race, religion, ethnicity, nationality or national origin, age, gender identity, sex life or practices or sexual orientation, marital status, medical or health information (including disability status), genetic or biometric information, biometric templates, political or philosophical beliefs, political party or trade union membership, veteran status, background check information, judicial data such as criminal records or information on other judicial or administrative proceedings.

Any information you submit through the Careers Site must be true, complete and not misleading. Submitting inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading information may lead to a rejection of your application during the application process or disciplinary action including immediate termination of employment. In addition, it is your responsibility to ensure that information you submit does not violate any third party’s rights.

If you provide us with personal information of a reference or any other individual as part of your application, it is your responsibility to obtain consent from that individual prior to providing the information to us.

Personal Information from Other Sources

For the purpose of background check reports in connection with your application, and as permitted by applicable law, SLB obtains information about you from other sources:

Other sources include:

• Your references;
• Prior employers;
• Educational institutions you attended;
• Background check providers;

Use of personal information

We collect and process information about you for one or more of the following reasons:

a) Because you voluntarily provide this information and consent for us to process it;

b) Because this information is necessary to take steps at your request prior to entering into an employment or internship;

c) Because this information is of particular importance to us and we have a specific legitimate interest under law to process it; or

d) To comply with a legal obligation.

Where the collection or processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time to the extent permitted by applicable law.

The information that you submit on the Careers Site will be used for SLB’s global personnel recruitment, management and planning purposes, as permitted by applicable law:

• To process your application. We will engage in these activities to manage our prospective contractual relationship with you, based on our legitimate interests;
• To assess your capabilities and qualifications for a job. We will engage in these activities to manage our prospective contractual relationship with you, based on our legitimate interests;
• To conduct reference checks. We will engage in these activities to comply with a legal obligation or based on our legitimate interests;
• To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you about your application, and to send you information regarding the Careers Site and changes to our terms and policies. We will engage in these activities to manage our prospective contractual relationship with you;
• To comply with or monitor compliance with any applicable law or regulation. We will engage in these activities to comply with a legal obligation or based on our legitimate interests;
• To conduct background checks if we offer you a position. We will engage in these activities to comply with a legal obligation or based on our legitimate interests; and
• To preserve our other legitimate interests, for example, for SLB’s administrative purposes, aggregate management reporting, internal training, and as generally required to conduct our business within SLB and its affiliates.

The information about you will be added to SLB’s international candidate database and can be retained and used to consider you for opportunities at SLB and its affiliates other than the one(s) for which you apply. If you do not wish us to do this, please contact us using the following link.

If we hire you, personal information we collect in connection with your application can be incorporated into our human resources system and used to manage the new-hire process; any such information can become part of your employee file and used for other employment-related purposes.

Providing personal information to us through the Careers Site is voluntary. However, if you do not provide sufficient information, SLB may be unable to consider your employment application or, if you are hired, your subsequent promotion, transfer or relocation.

Disclosure and transfer of personal information

SLB shares personal information with affiliates that are involved in evaluating candidates for a given position. You can consult the list and location of our affiliates here.

We will limit access to personal information to personnel with a business need to know the information for the purposes described in this Statement, including personnel in the recruiting, human resources and information technology departments, and in the department responsible for the position for which you are applying.

SLB also shares personal information with our third-party service providers to facilitate services they provide to us, including hosting and operating the Careers Site, recruiting assistance, and background check processing.

Disclosing your personal information can include transferring personal information to other countries, including the United States or any other country in which we or our service providers have operations.

If you are located in the European Economic Area (the “EEA”) or the UK this will involve transferring your Personal Information outside the UK and/or EEA, for which we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

Adequacy Decisions: Some non-EEA countries are recognized under the UK GDPR and by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection according to EEA standards (the full list of these countries is available here for the EEA and here for the UK). Note that “UK GDPR” has the meaning given to it in section 3(10) (as supplemented by section 205(4)) of the Data Protection Act 2018.

Binding Corporate Rules: For transfers of Personal Information from the UK and/or EEA to SLB companies in countries that are not covered by an adequacy decision under the UK GDPR and/or by the European Commission, we have put in place binding corporate rules to protect your Personal Information.

Standard Contractual Clauses: For transfers of Personal Information from the UK and/or EEA to third parties in countries that are not covered by an adequacy decision under the UK GDPR and/or by the European Commission, we have put in place standard contractual clauses adopted under the UK GDPR and/or by the European Commission. You may obtain a copy of these measures by contacting us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below.

Other uses and disclosures of personal information

We also use and disclose your personal information as necessary or appropriate, especially when we have a legal obligation or legitimate interest to do so:

• To comply with applicable law.
  • This can include laws outside your country of residence.
• To respond to requests from public and government authorities.
  • These can include authorities outside your country of residence.
• To cooperate with law enforcement.
  • For example, when we receive law enforcement requests and orders.
• For other legal reasons.
  • To enforce our terms and conditions; and
  • To protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others.
• In connection with a sale or business transaction.
  • We have a legitimate interest in disclosing or transferring your personal information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

Data retention

We will retain personal information for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Statement unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. The criteria used to determine our retention periods are: (i) the duration of the application process; (ii) as long as we have an ongoing relationship with you; (iii) as required by a legal obligation to which we are subject; (iv) as advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard of applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).

We may remove personal information for inactive accounts from our database, subject to any applicable legal or regulatory obligations. Furthermore, SLB can delete personal information about you (including your CV/résumé) from our database at any time and without providing any reason. Therefore, please retain your own copy of the personal information provided to us.

Passive information collection: cookies and similar technologies

We and our service providers use “cookies” and similar technologies on the Careers Site. Please see our Cookie Notice in our Privacy Preferences Center (located in the footer) for more information and to manage your settings.

Choices and access

If you register on the Careers Site, you may access, review, and change your personal information stored therein by logging into the Careers Site and updating your account information. The updated profile will be used as the default the next time you apply for a job using your account online. To change personal information that you have already submitted for consideration for a specific position, please update your profile and resubmit your application for that position. We encourage you to promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate.

If you would like to request to access, correct, update, suppress, restrict, or delete Personal Information, object to or opt out of the processing of Personal Information, withdraw your consent (which will not affect the lawfulness of processing prior to the withdrawal), or if you would like to request to receive a copy of your Personal Information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent these rights are provided to you by applicable law), you may contact us by using this form, where you can also find the contact details of Schlumberger Limited and our affiliates. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.

In your request, please make clear what personal information you would like to access or have changed, whether you would like to have personal information that you have provided to us suppressed from our database.

For your protection, we only implement requests with respect to the information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. Please note that certain personal information may be exempt from such requests pursuant to applicable data protection laws or other laws and regulations.

You may lodge a complaint with an EU/EEA data protection authority for your country or region where you have your habitual residence or place of work or where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection law occurs. A list of data protection authorities is available here.

Security

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.

Links to third-party websites

This Statement does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service to which the Careers Site links. The inclusion of a link on the Careers Site does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by SLB or our affiliates.

Diversity

Schlumberger is an equal opportunity employer, which means we offer equal treatment to all applicants. SLB does not discriminate, either directly or indirectly, on protected grounds: race, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, national origin, ethnic origin, religion, beliefs or creed, age, disability, marital status, veteran status or genetic information in any area of recruitment.

Law applicable to job application

The Careers Site allows you to apply for jobs world-wide, as a benefit of SLB’s centralized global recruitment function. This Careers Site is operated from the United States. Accordingly, any personal information you submit to the Careers Site will be collected in the United States and will be subject to U.S. laws.

If we share your personal information with an affiliate located in another country in its capacity as a potential employer, the affiliate will handle your personal information in accordance with this Statement. Any hiring or other employment-related decisions will be made by the hiring affiliate in accordance with the laws of the country where the job will be located.

About children

The Careers Site is not intended for minors under the age of 18.

Current personnel of SLB

If you currently work for SLB or one of our affiliates, you must be eligible to apply for a different position within SLB to use the Careers Site. If you accept such a position, your benefits programs and Human Resources policies may change. Please consult with the HR manager for the new position concerning application eligibility, benefit programs, and HR policies applicable to that position.

The Careers Site is not intended for distribution to, or use by, any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to local law or regulation.

Changes to the statement

We reserve the right to amend this Statement at any time in order to address future developments of SLB, the Careers Site or changes in industry or legal trends. The “Last Updated” legend at the top of this Statement indicates when this Statement was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Statement on the Careers Site.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this Statement, please contact using this form, where you can also find the contact details of Schlumberger Limited and the contact details of our affiliates.

Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include sensitive information in your emails to us.

California supplement

This section supplements the above Statement and provides additional disclosures for applicants residing in California.

The following chart details which categories of personal information we collect and use, as well as the categories of personal information we disclose to third parties for our operational business, hiring, and recruitment purposes, including within the preceding 12 months.

We retain each category of personal information, including sensitive personal information, as described above under “Data Retention”.

We collect, use, and disclose personal information for the purposes described above under “Use of Personal Information”.

We do not “sell” or “share” (for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising) your personal information, including your sensitive personal information, as defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act. We have not engaged in such activities in the 12 months preceding the date this Statement was last updated. Without limiting the foregoing, we do not “sell” or “share” personal information, including sensitive personal information, of minors under 16 years of age.

Purposes for the Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

We collect, use, and disclose sensitive personal information for purposes of: performing services on behalf of our business; performing services as requested by you; ensuring the quality or safety of services we control or improving those services; ensuring the security and integrity of our infrastructure and the individuals we interact with; receiving and processing your job application; evaluating your suitability for the position(s) you are applying for; making you an offer (subject to our discretion); short-term transient use; securing the access to, and use of, our facilities, equipment, systems, networks, applications, and infrastructure; preventing, detecting, and investigating security incidents; resisting and responding to fraud or illegal activities; and other collection and processing that is not for the purpose of inferring characteristics about an individual. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for additional purposes.

Individual Rights and Requests

If you are a California resident, you may:

1. Request that we disclose to you the following information:
   

   a. The categories of personal information we collected about you and the categories of sources from which we collected such personal information;

   b. The business or commercial purpose for collecting personal information about you; and

   c. The categories of personal information about you that we disclosed, and the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed such personal information; and

   d. The specific pieces of your personal information, including a copy in a portable format.

2. Request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal information.
3. Request that we delete personal information we collected from you.

To make a request, please contact us at https://www.slb.com/contact-us. We will verify and respond to your request consistent with applicable law, taking into account the type and sensitivity of the personal information subject to the request. We may need to request your full name, email address, phone number in order to verify your identity and protect against fraudulent requests. If you make a request to delete, we may ask you to confirm your request before we delete your personal information.

You have the right to be free from unlawful retaliation for exercising your privacy rights.

Authorized Agents

If an agent would like to make a request on your behalf as permitted by applicable law, the agent may use the submission methods noted above. As part of our verification process, we may request that the agent provide, as applicable, proof concerning their status as an authorized agent. In addition, we may require that you verify your identity as described above or confirm that you provided the agent permission to submit the request.