Privacy Notice for KPMG Somekh Chaikin Job Applicants

Last Update: October 2026

1. INTRODUCTION

This Privacy Notice (the “Notice“) is intended for job applicants who apply to KPMG Somekh Chaikin, and describes the ways in which the KPMG Somekh Chaikin handles your Personal Data (as described below) for this purpose. It also describes the rights and options available to you with respect to your Personal Data that is submitted for this purpose. We collect and process Personal Data in compliance with the Israeli Privacy Protection Law, 5741-1981 (“IPPL”) and all regulations and guidance bulletins promulgated under this law, and if applicable to you, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). This Privacy Notice for KPMG Somekh Chaikin Job Applicants is an integral part of our website Terms and Conditions (collectively the "Terms"). 

If you would like to know more about how KPMG Somekh Chaikin handles Personal Data that we receive for other purposes, please see our general privacy policy here. 

We do not offer jobs to, or employ generally, and collect data for those individuals under the age of 18 (children and/or minors) and, therefore, we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from, and/or about children under the age of eighteen (18). If you are under the age of eighteen (18), do not provide any Personal Data to KPMG Somekh Chaikin. If we receive an application for any position at Somekh Chaikin where the applicant is under the age of 18, we will promptly delete the application and inform the applicant we have done so. 

2. PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED
Personal Data we collect: We will collect and process the following Personal Data when you apply for a position at KPMG Somekh Chaikin:  

• Full name
• Date of Birth (voluntary and confirmation after contract is signed to ensure KPMG complies with laws and regulations applicable to it)
• Email address
• Home Address (voluntary) 
• Personal and/or work phone number
• Educational and career information in your CV, which may include other personal information depending on the specific applicant’s CV
• Educational and career information which you have posted to LinkedIn or any other personal information contained on social media, portfolio sites
• Any other personal information you, or a third party (such as a reference) choose(s) to provide to us through e-mail or other communication mediums at any point in the application process. 

Should you be selected to progress in the applicant selection process, KPMG may also collect:

• Personal information from when we conduct correspondence and meetings with you that arises in the correspondence and/or conversations. Examples may include information about your future compensation, personal health information which you disclose directly related to the performance of your duties at KPMG, or any other personal information you disclose in correspondence that is related to the job and/or applicant selection process. 
• Personal information to perform an assessment conducted by a professional third party (please see below for a list of third parties your personal information may be disclosed to) that, as part is conducted by means intended to perform an assessment of material personality traits required for the particular job, including character traits, and intellectual competence. As part of this part of the applicant selection process, KPMG or a third party vendor conducting the assessment on behalf of KPMG may ask you to provide the following identifiers (which alone, or in conjunction with other information and/or tools can constitute and/or reveal personal information about you):
  • Teuda Zehut Number or other official photo ID approved by vendor
  • Address 
  • Institutional Affiliation 
  • Company or Framework Name
  • Test language 
  • Eligibility/reason for facilitation and extension of time on the test
  • Test results
  • Sound and Video recordings and/or Photographs of you, or your surroundings when taking the test for the purpose of documentation, investigation, handling of inquiries, external legal requirements regarding the assessment.  

The purposes of this personal information collection are:

• The production of a concluding report and its transfer to the KPMG.
• The forwarding of the concluding report of your test to another employer, subject to your consent on a separate form.
• To manage communications with you or anyone acting on your behalf, with the Employer and with any third party (including with State authorities); 
• For KPMG third party’s administrative needs, for example, for control, documentation, analytics and statistical analyses, research and development.
• To prevent fraud, and identity theft 
• To comply with the provisions of any law and assist any competent authority, or to comply with its instructions, in any instance that Til believes that cooperation with the authority is required by law or is intended to prevent damage to person or property.

Retention Period for This Data

All data pertaining performing an assessment will be kept for 7 years. All other data pertaining your candidacy will be kept for 3 years. 

Why this Personal Data is collected and for what purposes: 

We will use the Personal Data provided by you during the applicant selection process to: 

• Assess your ability to perform your duties and function at work. 
• Management of the applicant selection process, including communication with you. 

Consequences of not providing the Personal Data: 

You are not legally required to provide us your personal data, however, we will not be able ensure that you are evaluated in the candidate selection process in accordance with KPMG Somekh Chaikin internal policies and procedures as a candidate for the position you applied for, and move through the applicant selection process (where relevant) without you providing us with information which is mandatory (as indicated with a * symbol beside the field in question)

We also collect information about your use of the job applicant platform which we use to track and evaluate candidates in the candidate selection process:

• Personal Data disclosed to third parties, including our candidate Platform provider: When you use the KPMG Job Application Platform, our third-party Platform provider will also collect the following personal information:
  • IP address from which you accessed the Platform
  • time and date of access
  • type of browser used
  • language use
  • links clicked
  • actions taken while using the Platform
• For more information about the third party Platform provider’s personal data processing please click here. Our third party Application Platform will not sell your personal information. Our third party Application Platform will not use your personal information to train any artificial intelligence models. For a list of the processors who will process personal data submitted through the application process, please see the end of this document.
• Why this Personal Data is collected and for what purposes: Our third party platform provider  will use the usage information of the platform used to collect personal data for quality assurance, analytics, reporting, and benchmarking  purposes.. Finally, please note that all  third parties may also use personal data for detecting, taking steps to prevent, and prosecution of fraud or illegal activity.

For more information about third parties and processing of personal information, please see Section 10 at the end of this document. 

3.  General Note about Data Collected on the KPMG Website: 

Cookies
Cookies will typically be placed on your computer or internet-enabled device whenever you visit us online. This allows the site to remember your computer or device and serve a number of purposes. Please see our Cookie Management Center for more information about Cookies in general, and Cookies that KPMG uses which you can consent to and/or withdraw your consent from KPMG placing on your computer. 

Google Analytics 
KPMG uses Google Analytics. More information about how Google Analytics is used by KPMG can be found here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/12159447?hl=en&ref_topic=14089939&sjid=2501674674291976146-EU
To provide website visitors with more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google have developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not prevent information from being sent to the website itself or to other web analytics services.

Web beacons
A web beacon is a small image file on a web page that can be used to collect certain information from your computer, such as an IP address, the time the content was viewed, a browser type, and the existence of cookies previously set by the same server. KPMG only uses web beacons in accordance with applicable laws.

KPMG or its service providers will use web beacons to track the effectiveness of third-party websites that provide us with recruiting or marketing services or to gather aggregate visitor statistics and manage cookies.

In some of our newsletters and other communications, we will monitor recipient actions such as email open rates through embedded links within the messages. We collect this information to gauge user interest and to enhance future user experiences.

Location-based tools
KPMG will collect and use the geographical location of your computer or mobile device. This location data is collected for the purpose of providing you with information regarding services which we believe may be of interest to you based on your geographic location, and to improve our location-based products and services.

Social media widgets
The KPMG website has links to the official KPMG Somekh Chaikin Social Media pages (including TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube). These social media applications hosting the page will collect and use information regarding your use of their website. Any Personal Data that you provide via such social media applications will often be collected and used by other members of that social media application and such interactions are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide the application. KPMG does not have control over, or responsibility for, those companies or their use of your information and encourage visitors to those sites to review the respective privacy policies of those websites and the applications offered on them.

KPMG and/or third parties including the aforementioned Social Media companies may embed videos, widgets, and other features hosted by those social media websites on this website and place cookies on the user’s computer. Please see the ‘Social Media’ category and consent mechanism in the Cookie Management Center on this website for more information about these cookies and how to configure your consent options for this category of cookies.   

In addition, KPMG websites may host blogs, forums, crowd-sourcing and other applications or services (collectively “social media features”). The purpose of social media features is to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and content. Any Personal Data that you provide on any KPMG social media feature will typically be shared with other users of that social media feature (unless otherwise stated at the point of collection), over whom we often have limited or no control.

4. Transfers of Personal Information
Personal Data that you provide during the applicant selection process may need to be processed or accessed in several countries and/or territories, for example, when KPMG employees use information technology systems to store personal information in the applicant selection process which is shared or accessed by KPMG third party processors. This may include the transfer of Personal Data from and to, among others, the State of Israel, Australia, the United States, and/or European Union and/or United Kingdom. KPMG will only transfer Personal Data to another country in accordance with relevant data protection laws which we are subject to. KPMG will take appropriate measures to ensure that the Personal Data receives an adequate level of protection, including by data transfer mechanisms that are recognized and approved by applicable data protection authorities to ensure personal data is protected. For more information about data transfer locations for KPMG third parties, please see Section 10 at the end of this document. 

5. Accuracy
If you provide us with Personal Data, for example information about your work experience (including dates of your tenure working at a particular organization) and education (for example diplomas, certificate numbers and any dates of expiry of certifications),  you are representing that the information you provide is authentic, accurate and up to date. If there are updates or corrections to this Personal Data which we are not aware about, or could not reasonably be aware about, we expect you to make a request by contacting us to ensure that this information is authentic, accurate, and up to date. To the extent that you provide us with information about another individual (for example, a referee from a previous job/position that you held), you represent that you have all the necessary authorizations for the purpose of providing such information to KPMG. 

6. Your Rights 

If KPMG processes Personal Data about you, you have the following rights:

• Access and correction: you have the right to access to your Personal Data that we process and store. If we agree that we are obliged to provide Personal Data to you, we will provide it to you free of charge. Before providing Personal Data to you, we may ask for proof of identity and sufficient information about your interactions with us. If the Personal Data we process about you is incorrect, you are entitled to ask us to correct any inaccuracies in the Personal Data, and the right to amend it (by correcting, deleting or adding information).
• Object to processing: you have the right to object to the processing of your Personal Data, to the extent applicable. 
• Withdraw consent (opt-out): you have the right to withdraw your consent, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice. 
• Other Rights: in addition, you may have right to have your Personal Data deleted if we are excessing the retention period, or to have you Personal Data processing restricted in certain circumstances and to obtain copies of the Personal Data we process about you in electronic form. 

You can make a request to exercise these rights in relation to your Personal Data by contacting us at: us-islprivacy@kpmg.com. KPMG will make all reasonable and practical efforts to comply with your request, so long as it is consistent with applicable law and professional standards. Reviewing information concerning Assessment results conducted by our third party(ies) of KPMG can be arranged directly with the vendor and these details will be provided in the information provided immediately prior to taking the assessment from the third party(ies). 

7. Data Security and Integrity
KPMG has reasonable security policies and procedures in place to protect Personal Data from unauthorized loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Despite KPMG's best efforts, however, security cannot be absolutely guaranteed against all threats. To the best of our ability, access to your Personal Data is limited to those who have a need to know. Those individuals who have access to the data are required to maintain the confidentiality of such information.

We also make reasonable efforts to retain Personal Data only for so long i) as the information is necessary to comply with an individual’s request, ii) as necessary to comply with legal, regulatory, internal business or policy requirements, or iii) until that person asks that the information be deleted. The period for which data is retained will depend on the specific nature and circumstances under which the information was collected; however, subject to the requirements of i)–iii) above, Personal Data relating to the purpose of running the candidate selection process will not be retained for more than 3 years.

8. Links to Other Websites
Please be aware that KPMG websites will typically contain links to other websites, including websites maintained by other KPMG firms that are not governed by this Privacy Statement, but by other privacy statements that will often differ somewhat. We encourage users to review the privacy policy of each website visited before disclosing any Personal Data.

By registering on any KPMG website and then navigating to another KPMG website while still logged in, you agree to the use of your Personal Data in accordance with the privacy statement of the KPMG website you are visiting.

9. Policy questions and enforcement
KPMG is committed to protecting the online privacy of your Personal Data. If you have questions or comments about our administration of your Personal Data, please contact the Data Protection Officer of KPMG Somekh Chaikin by one of the communication mediums below:

Email: 
us-islprivacy@kpmg.com.

Mail: 
KPMG Somekh Chaikin
Attn: Roy Volach, Data Protection Officer
KPMG Millennium Tower - 17 Ha'arba'a Street
PO Box 609
Tel Aviv 64739
Israel

You may also use these contact details to communicate any concerns you may have regarding compliance with our Privacy Statement.

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