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Privacy Notice—effective as of 2 February 2026

This Privacy Notice supplements the IBM Privacy Statement and describes data privacy information related to IBM’s recruitment and/or hiring process.

IBM takes your personal information protection seriously and respects local data protection laws.

This Privacy Notice explains how IBM processes your personal information during the recruitment and/or hiring process in order to progress your application, which may culminate in the entering into a contract with you.

This privacy notice applies to IBM Corporation and IBM subsidiaries except where a subsidiary presents its own statement without reference to IBM’s.

We request that you read this Privacy Notice.

1. Personal information you provide, although the information requested may vary by the location and nature of the IBM role, which may include:

Your first name and last name, address, email address, phone number(s), education history, work experience, CV, resume, information about your primary country of residence and citizenship, additional countries of interest, country you are applying to and the eligibility to work there, areas and communities of interest;
Whether you have ever worked for IBM or an IBM Business Partner, whether you have any government experience and if you signed any or accepted any agreement or are otherwise subject to any restriction with your current or former employers;
Criminal records information, observing the applicable laws and where an offer of employment has been made to you;
Your day and month of birth, disability, ethnicity, gender, race and religion.
Whether you require any accommodations or adjustments.

You will receive more information about the nature of the pre-employment verification checks before they begin.

Personal information processed during the recruitment process, although it will vary by the country and nature of the role for which you will be considered, which may include:

Any cover letter or personal statement you provide;
Any references you provide, or IBM takes up to validate the information you’ve provided;
Any interviewer or recruiter notes from their interactions with you or with the IBM employee that recommended you;
If during the recruitment process you complete a video enabled assessment, we may store the video recordings of the assessment;
If during the recruitment process you complete a coding assessment, we will record and store any code created in response to the given exercises. Additionally, we will store one or more webcam photos of you completing the exercises and;
Any other information you give us.

Personal information processed if you receive and accept an IBM offer of employment, such as your email address, first name, middle name, last name and IBM employee Talent ID may be used from the date of offer acceptance.

In response to your application or your interest about job positions, your information will be used by IBM as necessary to:

Verify your information and conduct relevant and appropriate legally permitted pre-employment and eligibility verification checks, as well as to assess your skills, qualifications and experience;
Comply with local, national or international laws, obligations and legal requirements;
Communicate with you about IBM events, careers opportunities and the recruitment process including any interviews;
Contact you for other, future roles which may be of interest to you and aligned to your skillset.
Complete the selection process;
Conduct surveys and research activities with the objective of improving IBM’s recruiting process;
Perform analysis of our applicant pool to better understand who is applying to positions at IBM and how to attract top talent;
Where legally required or permissible, we may ask you to voluntarily disclose your disability, ethnicity, gender and nationality, to help IBM with its commitment to equal employment opportunity and inclusion programs;
Enable you to access the IBM On Boarding site and the Your Learning application which may help you to become familiar with the company, understand where and how you fit into the organizational structure and assist with your integration into the culture of the workplace.
IBM processes your personal information using tools developed by IBM and third parties. Where these processing activities involve artificial intelligence (“AI”) capabilities, supplemental notice will be provided.

By submitting your application, you authorize IBM to store your personal information in IBM’s Recruitment tools for the secure storage of your data whilst your application is assessed and otherwise as set out above.

IBM Talent Acquisition uses AI technology for the purpose of completing IBM pre-employment verification checks. The AI technology will have access to the data that you upload to our system and will use that data for the exclusive purpose of performing IBM pre-employment verification checks according to IBM policies and practices and will not be used to substantially assist or replace discretionary employment decisions.

See more information about WatsonX.

IBM is committed to use AI only according to the ethical standards, described in further detail under the following link: https://www.ibm.com/trust/responsible-ai.

If you are given and accept an offer of employment by IBM, the personal information collected during your pre-employment period may become part of your employment record on IBM’s personnel records Employment Data System, to be retained throughout and for a period of time after your employment with IBM (specific periods vary by country) and be processed in accordance with IBM policies.

If IBM does not employ you, IBM will retain your personal information according to the document retention policy after which your personal information will be erased from the Recruitment systems.

Your information may be accessed by and shared with IBM recruiters, IBM Recruitment Process Outsourcing, IBM Talent Acquisition focals, hiring managers of IBM in the relevant IBM subsidiaries, who are involved in the recruitment process on a need-to-know basis, as relevant and necessary for your application for the role you are being considered for. This includes IBM subsidiaries publishing job advertisements on a non-IBM website or on the subsidiary’s website. Where an advertisement is posted on a non-IBM website or on the subsidiary’s website, please refer to the Privacy Notice published on such website for further details regarding the processing of your personal information.

In some cases, IBM shares your personal information with third parties if legally required or allowed, to achieve the purposes informed above. Depending on the geography, these third parties are suppliers of Human Resource Information Systems, used by IBM, as well as suppliers related to occupational health and safety management services systems.

Your information may be accessed by government officials where legal reporting requirements may exist, or law enforcement agencies or private litigants in response to valid law enforcement process (warrant, subpoena, or court order).

If your prospective management line is out of the country, we may transfer your personal information from the country to which you applied to other people within the same function in one or more IBM subsidiaries in other countries as applicable for the purpose of processing your application, ensuring that your data is processed according to local laws and IBM requirements.

You declare and confirm that the information you have provided as part of your application is true and complete. You must promptly update any information you have provided as and when there are changes.

You understand that any misrepresentation or deliberate omission of fact may lead to IBM’s termination of your employment or consideration for employment.

We may change this policy from time to time. We will post any changes to this policy on this page.

Last updated: 2 February 2026.

AUSTRALIAN RESIDENTS

In carrying out the purposes listed above, the information collected may be used and disclosed to entities inside and outside Australia (to countries including New Zealand, the United States of America and the Philippines). IBM is required under the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) to inform you of the following before you can provide consent for us to transfer your personal information outside of Australia: the Australian Privacy Principle (APP) 8.1 requires the disclosing entity to take such reasonable steps to ensure that the overseas recipient does not breach the APPs. APP 8.1 would not apply to your personal information once you provide your consent. While the overseas recipient may be regulated by other data privacy legislations, it is not subject to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), and as such your rights and remedies under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) would not apply as against the overseas data recipient.

Where permitted by law, IBM may disclose the information to the relevant Australian Federal or State Government or other authorised parties at their request

CALIFORNIAN RESIDENTS

California residents, review our notice and your privacy choices.

CANADIAN RESIDENTS

AODA, AMA, and the Ontario Human Rights Code
IBM is committed to compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), Accessibility for Manitobans Act (AMA) and the Ontario Human Rights Code in the recruitment process. If you are an individual with a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation or are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our recruitment tool as a result of your disability, you can request reasonable accommodations in the recruitment process by sending an email to recrops@ca.ibm.com.

HUNGARIAN RESIDENTS

PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION PURSUANT TO HUNGARIAN LEGISLATION
We draw your attention that you can submit your claims on data handling which will be investigated and remedied as soon as possible but not later than 1 month. In case of a breach in your personal information, you can submit a claim to the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (www.naih.hu) according to section 22 of the Act CXII of 2011 on the Right of Informational Self-Determination and on Freedom of Information. Also, in case of breach you are entitled to claim reimbursement according to the Hungarian Civil Code. In case of such request we provide you detailed information about the remedy options. You are further advised that your ID and password will be deleted twelve months from the time your application process concludes or the last time you had access to this tool By applying to the specific position and/or sharing your CV with us, you are hereby confirming to be informed about and explicitly accepting the above terms.

ISRAELI PRIVACY NOTICE SUPPLEMENT

ISRAELI RESIDENTS

Under the Israeli Protection of Privacy Law, 1981 (“PPL”), you are not legally required to provide IBM with your personal information. The provision of such information is voluntary. However, choosing not to provide certain information may limit IBM’s ability to process, evaluate or proceed with your application.

Pursuant to Sections 13 and 14 of the PPL, you have the right to access personal information held about you by IBM, and to request the correction or deletion of information that is inaccurate, incomplete, unclear, or outdated.

For interactions within Israel, the controller of your personal information is IBM Israel Ltd, Ha-Psagot St 9, Petach Tikva, 4951041, Company No. 510067333, unless otherwise specified in specific context.

For questions or to exercise your rights under Israeli law, you may contact IBM Israel or email ChiefPrivacyOffice@ca.ibm.com.

MASSACHUSETTS APPLICANTS ONLY

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

NEW ZEALAND RESIDENTS

In carrying out the purposes listed above, the information collected may be used and disclosed to entities outside New Zealand (to countries including Australia, the United States of America and the Philippines).

IBM is required under the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 to inform you of the following before we can provide your consent for us to transfer your personal information outside of New Zealand: while the overseas recipient may be regulated by other data privacy legislations, it may not be subjected to the Privacy Act 2020. As such, the overseas recipient may not be required to protect your personal information in a way that, overall, provides comparable safeguards to those under the Privacy Act 2020.

Where permitted by law, IBM may disclose this information to the New Zealand Government or other authorised parties at their request.

POLISH RESIDENTS

LEGAL BASIS FOR ADDITIONAL PERSONAL INFORMATION PROVIDED ART. 22 (1) § 1 OF THE POLISH LABOUR CODE

Providing additional personal information during the application process (e.g., photo) indicates your explicit, informed and freely given consent to the processing of any additional data contained in the application documents as per the guidance provided by the Urząd Ochrony Danych Osobowych.