Easy to Use Legal Templates
Quickly and easily create any legal agreement for you or your team.
Affordable Plans
Straightforward pricing plans and bespoke packages built to simplify all your legal demands.
Vast Document Library
Zegal’s comprehensive collection of agreements means you always have what you need at your fingertips.
What is Zegal?
Watch to see how Zegal can help your business create, negotiate, and sign legal documents and contracts.
Why choose Zegal?
With Zegal, you can reduce legal risks and improve the efficiency of your contract workflow, allowing you to focus on your core business operations.
Our platform is flexible, scalable, and tailored to the needs of your business.
What is a Personal Information Collection Statement (Upon Offer)?
A Personal Information Collection Statement (Upon Offer) is a statement given by the user to collect his/her personal information under a Data Protection Policy.
There might be different Personal Information Collection Statement (PICS) according to the nature of business however here we are focusing on Personal Information Collection Statement (Upon Offer) which is used to collect information about job candidates who have been offered the job.
Companies collect this personal information for background verification that allows them to know more about the employee’s character and performance.
What types of personal information are collected before offering a job?
There are two types of personal information that are collected before offering a job.
- Personal contact information such as full name with photograph, parents name, phone or mobile number, email address, postal or mailing address, etc.
- Work relates information like previous employment details: name and address of the company, position worked for, skills and expertise, and reference.
When should you use a Personal Information Collection Statement (Upon Offer)?
You may use this statement to discharge your legal obligations under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance to inform a job candidate of how his/her personal data will be used, why you collect them, and what happens to his/her application if certain data is not provided.
A Personal Information Collection Statement may be for a General or Specific purpose. This PICS is for the specific purpose of Recruitment. The scope of this statement covers the recruitment process up to the stage of an offer. The document you are about to build will be consistent with your data protection policy. You may want to consult your data protection policy when building this document.
Why do companies collect personal information before hiring?
Every business that deals online collects consumer data through different means. Those data are useful to understand the pattern of their user behavior online. If a business is aware of its user’s data like demographics, interest, and user device they can improve the user experience and help their user in providing a better shopping experience. However, this specific document is used while recruitment. The sole purpose of using this document is for the background check of the employees and to verify their identity.
Conclusion
Every business that hires employees needs a Personal Information Collection Statement (Upon Offer). This will help the employer to know more about the employees and give a legal right to collect their information for the sole purpose of recruitment.
You Might Also Like
Along with this document, make sure you see these other templates in our library:
Stay compliant with the Zegal template library
Zegal legal template are meticulously crafted with the precision of AI and the expertise of seasoned human lawyers, providing a unique blend of speed and reliability.
You can trust that Zegal agreements are legally sound and fully compliant with current regulations.
Whether you're a startup, SME, or a larger enterprise, Zegal contract management will automate and speed up your legal processes.
Using Zegal will reduce risk, save money, and improve efficiency. Let us take care of the paperwork so you can focus on running your business.
Don’t compromise on speed or compliance. Stay secure, compliant, and efficient with Zegal.
Nice things people say about Zegal.
"Using Zegal allows us to take a lean and efficient approach that cuts costs while maximising results."
Alex So
Managing Partner
"Zegal is easy to use and customer service is responsive and helpful! I strongly recommend it!!"
Alan NG
CEO
"Zegal makes onboarding a new client or employee fast and simple."
Veronika Kuznetsova
Managing Director
“Zegal really works well for all our legal documentation needs, and it is also user-friendly and mobile at the same time.”
Daniel W. Ho
Managing Director & Principal Consultant
“Zegal is like my teammate, helps me draft the right template, quickly gets my work done, and also saves me money on legal needs.”
Alan Schmoll
CEO & Co-Founder
“With colleagues, partners, and clients across the globe, Zegal provides an easy-to-use tool that streamlines processes that saves costs and time.”
Tony Wines
CEO of Turnkey
“Zegal has been such a great help in my business operations.”
Amanda A Atan
Managing Director at VIBES Mastery
“With Zegal, we work smarter rather than harder. Being a business professional, a proper document management system is always a must.”
Edgar Kautzner
Managing Consultant
“Zegal, a platform for compact package of legal templates, secured e-signing, reasonable cost and high level customer service.”
Paul Falzon
Director
“Zegal is easy to use, affordable and the platform is simple to navigate which makes the process of putting together a document fast and fuss-free.”
Jonathan Wong
Founder & Managing Director
“Love the new flow/design, very quick and easy to use now. I have done 2 or 3 customer contracts in a flash over the past 2 days.”
Chris Head
General Manager and Managing Editor
“Consistently positive experiences with Zegal’s technology, and customer services teams, who ensure that our issues or questions are responded to immediately.”
Tony Wines
CEO of Turnkey