This verification programme allows your (future) employer or client, hereafter “Employer”, to verify important points in your candidate file in order to comply with its internal recruitment or security regulations, and to ensure that you are the person it is looking for for the role it has defined in its organisation.

Depending on your position in the organisation, your employer has defined a number of items to be checked and/or documents to be updated. In your personalised and secure web interface, the access to which is sent by Aequivalent, you will have a complete and exhaustive view of the points that will be checked.

Aequivalent is a specialised company that has been mandated by your Employer to carry out the necessary checks and to draw up an independent and objective report, as well as to help you follow this standardised process. If discrepancies are found, Aequivalent will publish them in its report and your Employer can ask you additional questions. Aequivalent is mandated to carry out checks but only your Employer will decide what actions will be taken, based on the report.

An Employer has rights, obligations and a legitimate interest in collecting information about its future employees and agents, as long as it only collects information that is relevant to ensuring their ability to perform a given role. Therefore, your consent is not legally required for information to be collected about you.

Although your Employer has the right to collect certain information about you, Aequivalent requires you to sign the Authorisation Statement before beginning the verification process. This document ensures that you have been informed by your Employer beforehand that it has mandated Aequivalent to collect and verify your information. The signature of the Authorisation Statement is also necessary to obtain information from third parties according to the verifications that your Employer has ordered from Aequivalent (competent authorities, such as the office responsible for obtaining an extract from your criminal record, prosecution office, universities, references, …) and to establish a personality profile.

Yes, your Employer has put in place a background check policy and uses the services of Aequivalent to ensure that the process is carried out according to best practices. However, if you do not want your information collected, you have the right to refuse. If you are considering refusing to participate in the verification programme, we advise you to discuss this with your Employer beforehand, who will decide how to respond to your refusal.

Your data is processed by Aequivalent on behalf of your Employer, who decides on the processing. Therefore, any questions regarding the results of the checks should be addressed to your Employer. Aequivalent is ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified and uses your data and documents only for this specific and unique verification programme. Aequivalent automatically deletes all data and documents concerning you 90 days after the report to your employer. In addition, you can request a faster deletion of your data at any time via your personalised access to the platform.