SHRM MENA STAR AWARDS DECLARATION AND DATA PRIVACY CLAUSE:
                                
                                    The SHRM STAR Awards are the region’s pre-eminent awards, celebrating and
                                    showcasing the most effective and inspiring work in HR in the Middle East. We
                                    understand
                                    that sensitive commercial or other information
                                    may be essential elements to a successful award entry submission and effectiveness
                                    case-study.
                                    Protecting your data confidentiality is critically important to us and we have
                                    processes in
                                    place to keep your sensitive information
                                    safe. After the awards judging process is completed, the winners of the awards will
                                    be
                                    announced during the SHRM MENA Annual
                                    Conference. Upon submission, the entrant automatically grants SHRM the permission to
                                    share
                                    details of the winners (including:
                                    name of the organization, category for which the award is won and overview of the
                                    practice
                                    for which the award is won) with
                                    the media, on the SHRM website and other relevant platforms. No announcement
                                    regarding
                                    participant names will be shared
                                    (other than the winners).
                                    SHRM may subsequently publish case studies/highlights of the winning organization
                                    practices
                                    basis the information shared in the forms and the presentations to the jury barring
                                    any
                                    information marked as confidential
                                    by the participating organization. Your participation in the awards implicitly
                                    grants SHRM
                                    to publish such case studies and make
                                    them available to the larger HR fraternity. 
                                    SHRM is also creating a database of best practices/benchmarks around HR practices
                                    that
                                    will be used to identify insights for the HR fraternity in the Middle East. Certain
                                    data
                                    from the award entry submissions may be
                                    used for this purpose. All such data inputs will be anonymized with no reference to
                                    the
                                    organization and all identifying
                                    characteristics consolidated within a dataset operated and owned by SHRM. All data
                                    collected
                                    will remain confidential and will be aggregated so that it cannot be linked to an
                                    individual
                                    entry. By clicking here you accept the above and confirm that all information
                                    provided in
                                    the application form(s) will be true and complete to the best of your knowledge and
                                    belief
                                    and that you accept all rules of participation in the SHRM MENA STAR Awards.