Privacy Policy

Effective: January 4, 2024

Employ Intelligence, Inc. (known as “TalentEI”) uses a variety of personal information to match job candidates with potential employers and employment opportunities. Without access to personal information, our service would not be possible. We take seriously our responsibility to protect your personal data and engage in fair privacy practices.

This Privacy Policy provides transparency about our privacy practices, including how we collect, process, and disclose personal information, and how you can control and manage your privacy choices. While most of our privacy features are available to all users, the actual administration of your rights may vary based on your unique circumstances.

1. Scope and Applicability

This Privacy Policy applies to TalentEi and any of our affiliates with whom we may share personal information, and encompasses all of our services (operated offline or online, or both) and includes the services made available through talentei.com and other TalentEi websites and applications.

Our relationship with you will determine how this Privacy Policy applies to you and your information. In general, if you engage with us directly and independently of a third party, this Privacy Policy most likely applies. However, if we are processing your information as a service provider to a third party, that third party is most likely responsible for your privacy. If you have any doubt as to who is responsible for your information, please contact privacy@talentei.com.

2. Information We Collect and Receive

Unregistered Users – We collect information (some of which may be identifiable to you) from users who access our website but never register by signing up or creating an account. This information includes:

  • Log Data – Information collected by our servers when you access our website through your browser, including your Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, referral URLs, browser type and settings, date and time of usage, language preferences, and cookie data
  • Device Information – Information collected about your device, including the type of device, operating system, application IDs, and unique device identifiers and crash data
  • Location Data – Approximate location information based on your IP address combined with other information, including information about your browser and device

Registered Users – In addition to the information we collect from Unregistered Users, we also collect additional information from Registered Users who sign up for an account and use our service. This information includes:

  • Account Credentials – Your username, password, and security questions and answers
  • Account Information – You name, phone number, email address, and physical address
  • Resume Data – Information associated with your own resume, which often includes job titles, employment and education history, proficiencies, credentials, and references, etc.
  • Profile Information – Your responses to questions about your employment interests, proficiencies, and preferences, such as your interest in certain tasks and work environments
  • Demographic Information – Your responses to questions about your race, gender, age, citizenship status, veteran status, military service, disabilities, and languages
  • Location Preferences – Your responses to questions about your preferred work locations
  • Education History – Your schools attended, class or degrees obtained, majors, graduation dates, and grade point averages (GPA)
  • Experience History – Your employment history, including past and current employers, positions held, and dates of employment
  • Match Data – Information about your job interests and responses to fit assessment (survey) questions about specific jobs or types of jobs
  • Opportunity Data – Employment opportunities matched to you, including the employer, position, and any recruiter and/or partner information
  • Activity Data – Information associated with your use of our service, including logs of your usage and your interactions with employers and partners through our service

Referred Candidates – If your personal information was supplied to us by a third party, such as a recruiter or employer, then we received that information subject to our relationship with them as a Service Provider or Processor. This information frequently includes:

  • Contact Information – Your name, phone number, email address, and physical address
  • Candidate Data – Information associated with your candidacy (including your resume), employment and education history, proficiencies, credentials, and references, etc.
  • Employer Data – Information concerning employment opportunities related to your candidacy, including employer, position, and any recruiter and/or partner information

3. Our Use of Personal Information

We use your personal information to provide and improve our services to you and our customers. This includes processing your information to match you with employment opportunities. We also use your data to improve our services by developing a better understanding of how our services are used and where improvements can be made.

Other uses of personal data include:

  • Administering your account and providing our service
  • Communicating with you through email and by other means
  • Promoting our services to you
  • Detecting and preventing abuse and security issues
  • Complying with legal and regulatory obligations

 

Our use of your personal information is limited to the purposes disclosed to you in this Privacy Policy (or by other means) and any other purpose that you may intend or direct through your interactions with us.

If your personal information is de-identified or anonymized through aggregation or other means to the extent that it can no longer identify you, then this information will no longer be considered “personal information” and we may use such information for any purpose without providing you with additional notice or disclosure.

4. Data Retention and Disposal

We retain and dispose of personal information in accordance with our data retention and disposal policies consistent with applicable law. Generally, this means:

  • Data associated with Unregistered Users will be retained only for as long as is necessary, which may include a reasonable time following its collection to prevent fraud and abuse, and protect the security and integrity of our service.
  • Data associated with Registered Users will be retained for as long as the user’s account is active. If a Registered User Deactivates their account, their personal information will be deleted to the extent that its retention is no longer needed for a legitimate purpose.
  • Data associated with Referred Candidates supplied to us as a processor or service provider to third parties is retained and disposed of in accordance with our agreement with such third party.

Personal information may be retained for as long as may be necessary to facilitate other legitimate interests, the criteria for such retention includes investigating and preventing the misuse of our services, audits, and to satisfy legal and regulatory requirements. As part of our backup and recovery policies, deleted data may be kept for an additional period in the form of secure backups.

5. How We Share Information

We share and disclose personal information with third parties as needed to provide our services and operate our business. However, we do not “sell” personal information as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and Nevada’s 2019 privacy amendment, or “share” personal information as defined by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). If we decide to sell or share your personal information, we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out as the law may require and will not discriminate against you for exercising your right to “Do Not Sell My Personal Information.”

We will enter into a contractual agreement with any third-party controller that ensures that any data shared may only be processed for the limited and specified purposes consistent with the consent provided by the individual and that the recipient will provide the same level of protection as the Data Privacy Framework Principles referenced in Section 7 below. Under the EU-U.S. DPF, we will remain responsible for personal information transferred to a third party acting as an agent on our behalf (an “Onward Transfer”) and for any subsequent Onward Transfers by such third parties. We will remain liable under the EU-U.S. DPF Principles if an agent acting on our behalf processes personal information in a manner inconsistent with the EU-U.S. DPF Principles, unless we prove that we are not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.

The categories of third parties with whom your information may be shared include:

Service Providers – We may share any category of personal information with our service providers as needed to operate our services, including with our virtual computing, web services, and storage service providers

Customers and Partners – We share your personal information, as directed by you (or an agent acting on your behalf), with our customers and partners, including employers, academic career services, recruiters, and managed services providers, to connect you with employment opportunities

Business Services – We may share any category of personal information with our business services providers in the operation of our business, including security vendors, developers, auditors, analytics service providers, and professional advisors

Corporate Activities – We may share any category of personal information with potential investors or lenders and as part of a transaction involving a merger, acquisition, divestiture, public offering, or similar transaction involving our business

Government and Legal – We may share any category of personal information with third parties as may be required by applicable law, regulation, or legal process

6. Cookie Notice and “Do Not Track” Requests

We use cookies throughout our websites and web applications to track user interactions and personalize your user experience. For example, we use Google Analytics to collect and process such data. You can learn how Google uses this data here: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ In such cases, the privacy policies of these third party providers, including Google, will govern how your personal information may be used.

In accordance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), we want to inform you about our “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) request policy. DNT is a feature that some web browsers offer to allow users to send signals to websites so that no information about their browser session will be shared. You may enable your web browser to send our website a DNT request, but your browsing and user experience may be degraded if our website accepts the signal. You can learn more about how DNT works here: https://www.eff.org/issues/do-not-track

7. Data Privacy Framework

TalentEI complies with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF), the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. DPF) as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce. TalentEI has certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce that it adheres to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Principles (EU-U.S. DPF Principles) with regard to the processing of personal data received from the European Union in reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF and from the United Kingdom and (Gibraltar) in reliance on the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF. TalentEI has certified to the U.S. Department that it adheres to the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Principles (Swiss-U.S. DPF Principles) with regard to the processing of personal data received from Switzerland in reliance on the Swiss-U.S. DPF. If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the EU-U.S. DPF Principles and/or the Swiss-U.S. DPF Principles, the Principles shall govern. To learn more about the eData Privacy Framework (DPF) program, and to view our certification, please visit https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/.

In compliance with the EU-U.S. DPF and the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF and the Swiss-U.S. DPF, TalentEI commits to resolve DPF Principles-related complaints about our collection and use of your personal information. EU, UK, and Swiss individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our handling of personal data received in reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF and the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. DPF should first contact TalentEI at:

Email: privacy@talentei.com or

Call: (844) 802-5103

In compliance with the EU-U.S. DPF, the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. DPF, TalentEI commits to refer unresolved complaints concerning our handling of personal data received in reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF, the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. DPF to JAMS, pursuant to the JAMS DPF Program, an alternative dispute resolution provider based in the United States. If you do not receive timely acknowledgement of your DPF Principles-related complaint from us, or if we have not addressed your DPR-Principles-related complaint to your satisfaction, please click here in order to learn more information or to file a complaint. The services of JAMS are provided at no cost to you.

The Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over TalentEI’s compliance with the EU-U.S. DPF, the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. DPF.

8. Personal Information Preferences

TalentEI may permit you to exercise certain preferences with respect to your personal information, such as accessing, updating, deleting, and exporting personal information. If you are a registered user, privacy preferences can be accessed through your account profile. Otherwise, you may make a privacy request to privacy@talentei.com.

9. Children’s Data

In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and other state laws, our website and associated services are not marketed to children under sixteen (16) years of age and we do not intentionally collect information from children. We encourage parents and guardians to take appropriate steps to ensure the safety and privacy of their children online.

10. Information Security

We work hard to protect our systems from harm and to safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your personal information. Our efforts include utilizing strong encryption and leveraging physical, technical, and administrative controls to prevent the unauthorized access to and disclosure of personal information.

However, it would be naïve to assume that any amount of diligence could prevent every conceivable risk to your personal data. We encourage all users to exercise caution when interacting with our website and services, just as they would any other website.

Good security starts with good personal security hygiene. We recommend creating a unique and difficult password, that you not share your account credentials with others or allow your credentials to be easily accessed by others, that you connect to our website over secure networks, that you log out after using our service, and that you stay alert to unusual or suspicious activities.

We will never ask you by email or phone for your password. In order to positively identify you to respond to privacy requests, we may ask you for other personal information contained in your profile to verify your identity.

11. Breach Notification

If any personal information we possess is the subject of a data breach and your personal data is implicated according to any applicable law that may apply, then we will take such action, including providing you with notice, as such law or laws may require.

12. Additional Global Policy References

Based on your location and the locations that TalentEI operates, there may be additional policies that are applicable or relevant to you:

 

For inquiries about this Privacy Policy or to make a request, please contact privacy@talentei.com or call (844) 802-5103.

Revision History:

This Privacy Notice was revised January 4, 2024 at 9:15 UTC.

This Privacy Notice was revised August 25, 2022 at 19:15 UTC.

This Privacy Notice was revised March 30, 2022 at 3:30 UTC.

This Privacy Notice was revised December 19, 2019 at 10:54 UTC.