Applicant Privacy Notice
Effective Date: November 6, 2026
This Applicant Privacy Notice describes how Databricks, Inc., its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively, “Databricks,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process personal information during the application and recruitment process. It also contains information about your choices and privacy rights.
Information We Collect About You
We may collect, process and use the following categories of personal information during the applicant recruitment and hiring process, where applicable and permitted by law:
- Identification Information. This includes basic contact information such as your full name, email address, and phone number. We may also collect your Social Security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number for limited use in connection with your application, such as for background checks.
- Career Information. As part of the application process, we may collect a resume, CV, cover letter, and/or job application which may include information about your work experiences, and job history.
- Educational Information. This may include information such as schools attended, degrees awarded, transcripts, and other information in relation to your educational background.
- Internet or other similar network activity. When you visit our careers website, we will collect internet or other similar network activity, including the IP address of your device, which can also tell us about the general geolocation in which you are located.
- Online Resources. We may collect publicly available information from online sites, such as information contained within your LinkedIn profile, Facebook page, or other personal websites.
- Diversity, Inclusion, and Accommodation Information. Where permitted or required by law we may ask you to provide information such as race or ethnicity, gender identity, veteran status, or any disability or accommodation request during the recruitment process.
- Candidate Assessments and Presentations. For certain roles, we may collect information from an assessment of your skills. You may also be asked to perform a technical exercise or do a presentation during the recruitment process, which may be recorded.
- Information from Third Parties. We may collect information about you from recruitment agencies who presented you, recruiting sites, referrers (including those you identify and others familiar with your professional performance), companies used to verify the information you have provided during the application and recruitment process, and other similar third parties. Where required by applicable law, we will provide you notice and/or an opportunity to object to this processing.
- Background Check Information. In accordance with applicable law, we may conduct a background check, which may include verification of, or otherwise obtaining, your education, job history, references, and criminal records history.
- Interview Recordings / Transcripts. In accordance with applicable law, we, and our vendors, may record interviews or other recruiting conversations (including audio and/or video) and create transcripts, notes, and summaries from those recordings. We may also use artificial intelligence (“AI”)-enabled tools to help us transcribe, summarize, and organize information collected during the recruitment process.
- Other information. We also collect any additional information that you choose to include in your application materials or provide to us during the application and recruitment process, including information collected during phone screens, email/messaging exchanges and interviews.
We may combine any of the information listed above with the information we receive or collect directly from you.
Purposes of Collection and Use
We may process your personal information for the following legitimate business purposes:
- We collect and use your identification information to maintain your applicant profile, keep in contact with you during the recruitment process, including through our applicant tracking system, and to contact you about other open roles that may be of interest to you.
- We review your resume/CV and any information collected from online resources to assess your skills and experience against the position for which you have applied or other open roles for which you may be a good fit.
- If you are asked to complete an assessment or provide a presentation during the recruitment process, we will use that information to match your skills against the position for which you applied.
- If you are successfully moved forward in the recruitment process, we may use your identification information to perform background checks, education verification, and reference checks, as permitted by local law.
- If you are hired by Databricks, your personal information may be transferred to your employee file for human resources administrative purposes.
- If you are not successful in the recruitment process, we may retain the information collected during the recruitment process, including your personal information, so we can reach out to you if other roles become available that match your skillset. If you would prefer that we remove your information from our systems, please let us know by completing the request form here or emailing dsr@databricks.com.
- Any data you submit to a third-party service will be subject to the terms of service and privacy policy of such third-party service. We may also link to co-branded websites or products that are maintained by Databricks and one or more of our business partners. Please note that these co-branded websites and products may have their own privacy policy, which we encourage you to read and understand. When you click a link to a third-party site, you will leave our site.
- We may process personal information to comply with our legal, regulatory, or other corporate government requirements.
- We may also process your personal information to analyze and improve our application and recruitment process.
We may also use your personal information for any purpose as disclosed to you at the time of collection or with your consent.
"Use of AI Tools. We may use artificial intelligence and other automated tools to process your personal information as part of the recruitment process. For example, we may use these tools to record, transcribe, and summarize interviews, to help organize and review applications and assignments, and to help us source and assess candidates by comparing their skills, experience, and qualifications against the criteria for open roles. These tools support, but do not replace, human review. We do not make hiring decisions based solely on automated processing, and all final hiring decisions are made by Databricks recruiters and hiring managers. Depending on where you reside, you may have rights regarding our use of automated tools. For more information, please contact us at privacy@databricks.com."
How We Disclose Your Information
We may disclose your personal information to the following recipients:
- Within the Databricks group of affiliated companies. We may disclose your personal information within the Databricks group of affiliated companies to facilitate the application and recruitment process.
- Third Parties. We may disclose your personal information to third parties, such as your references, as necessary to collect and verify information about you as provided above to facilitate the application process.
- Service Providers. We may engage service providers to perform certain functions related to the application and recruitment process, including companies that help us run our internal applicant tracking system, perform background checks, or perform audits, and may disclose your personal information to these service providers to perform these functions. All such service providers are subject to confidentiality provisions and are required to only use your personal information to provide the services.
- Business Transactions. We may disclose your personal information to others to evaluate or in the event of a business transaction, such as a sale or merger of our company.
- Legal Requirements. We may disclose your personal information when authorized by law or as necessary to comply with a legal process.
- Protection of Rights. We may disclose your personal information when required to protect and defend the rights and property of Databricks and its group of affiliated companies, our third-party vendors, and other users of any websites used in the applicant and recruitment process.
Legal bases for processing
In jurisdictions that require us to have a lawful basis for our processing of your personal information, we only process your personal information if we have a legal basis for doing so. The legal basis that we rely on depends on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. Generally, we collect and process your personal information where:
- In certain cases, we ask you for your consent to process your personal information.
- We collect and use your personal information where it is necessary to take steps, at your request, prior to making a job offer, engaging in a contract of employment with you, or to perform our obligations under an agreement we have with you.
- We may process your personal information for legitimate interests including, for example, to conduct our recruitment processes efficiently or to manage applicants effectively.
- In some cases, we may have a legal obligation to process your personal information. We also may need to process your personal information to protect vital interests, or to exercise, establish, or defend legal claims.
International Transfers
Databricks may transfer your personal information to countries other than your country of residence. We may transfer your personal information to the United States and other countries where our affiliates, business partners and services providers are located. These countries may not have equivalent data protection laws to the country where you reside.
When transferring your personal information, we implement safeguards as required under applicable data protection laws. These safeguards may include implementing the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information from the EEA or Switzerland between us and our business partners and service providers, and equivalent measures for transfers of personal information from the United Kingdom.
Data Retention
We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and comply with any laws or regulations. Databricks may retain your personal information longer with your consent or for a legitimate business interest where we have assessed the business benefit and confirmed that such business benefit is not outweighed by your personal rights and freedoms.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending upon your country or state of residence, you may have certain rights in relation to your personal information. Such rights may include the right to request access to or to correct your personal information, the right to delete your personal information, or the right to object to Databricks using your personal information for certain purposes. If you wish to exercise any of your rights under applicable data protection laws, submit a request online by completing the request form here or emailing us at dsr@databricks.com. Depending on your location, you may also raise any concerns you have regarding our collection and use of your personal information with your local data protection authority. California residents, please see below under “Additional Information for California Residents” for information about rights that may be applicable to you.
Security
We use technical and organizational measures that provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information. Please be aware, however, that no method of transmitting information over the Internet or storing information is completely secure.
Changes to this Privacy Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time by posting a new version on this page. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or wish to exercise your rights in your personal information, please contact us at privacy@databricks.com or at the mailing addresses below.
Databricks Inc.
Attn: Privacy
160 Spear Street
Suite 1300
San Francisco, California 94105
United States
Additional Information for California Residents
We provide the following information to our applicants or candidates who are California residents, pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). For a description of all our data processing practices, please read this Privacy Notice in its entirety.
Categories of Personal Information
Below, we describe the categories of Personal Information (as defined in the CCPA) that we have collected within the preceding 12 months and may collect about applicants or candidates on a going-forward basis:
- Identifiers
- Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)) (e.g., name, address, email address)
- Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law
- Internet or other similar network activity
- Geolocation data (e.g., general location derived from an IP address)
- Sensory data (e.g., audio, electronic, visual or similar information, including recordings or transcripts of video or audio interviews)
- Professional or employment-related information
- Education information
- Inferences drawn from the preceding categories of Personal Information
Within these categories of Personal Information, we may also collect the following categories of Sensitive Personal Information (as defined in the CCPA):
- Account log-in in combination with any required security or access codes, password, or credentials allowing access to the account
- Social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number
- Racial or ethnic origin, for diversity purposes and consistent with applicable law
- Health-related information, such as information regarding disabilities, to the extent necessary to provide necessary accommodations
Categories of Recipients of Personal Information
For each category of Personal Information (including Sensitive Personal Information) listed above, we disclose this information as described above in the “How we disclose your information” section of the Applicant Privacy Notice.
Sources of Personal Information
We obtain the categories of Personal Information listed above directly from you or from devices on which you use our Sites, as well as described above in the “Information we Collect About You” section of the Applicant Privacy Notice.
Purposes for Which We Use Personal Information
We use Personal Information for a variety of business and commercial purposes, as described above in the “Purposes of Collection and Use” section of our Applicant Privacy Notice.
Retention Period Criteria
Databricks retains the personal information as described above in the “Data Retention” section of this Applicant Privacy Notice.
CCPA Rights and Requests
To the extent provided by the CCPA, you may make the following types of requests under the CCPA with respect to Personal Information that we process.
Requests to Know, Correct, and Delete: You may request:
- Access to a copy of the specific pieces of Personal Information that we have collected about you.
- Correction of Personal Information that we maintain about you, if it is inaccurate; and/or
- Deletion of Personal Information that we maintain about you, subject to certain exceptions
You may submit such requests by completing the request form here or emailing us at dsr@databricks.com. We will respond to your request consistent with the CCPA, and subject to any exceptions that may apply under the CCPA. We may need to request additional Personal Information from you, such as email address, state of residency, or mailing address, to verify your identity and protect against fraudulent requests.
Please note that we do not “sell” or “share” personal information of California job applicants submitted through the application process within the meaning of the CCPA, nor do we process “sensitive personal information” for purposes for which the “right to limit” applies. Note that we use standard cookies and similar tracking technologies on our career pages. You can click Your Privacy Choice link on our website footer to manage our use of these tracking technologies within the CCPA opt-out rights.
Authorized Agents
If you wish to use an authorized agent to make a CCPA request on your behalf, please direct the authorized agent to use the submission methods noted above. As part of our verification process, we may request that the authorized agent provides, as applicable, proof concerning status as an authorized agent. We may also require you to verify your own identity directly with us; or directly confirm with us that you provided permission to submit the request on your behalf.
Nondiscrimination
You have the right to be free from unlawful discriminatory treatment or retaliation for exercising any of your CCPA rights.
Please contact us at privacy@databricks.com if you have any additional questions.