Privacy Policy - TALON COMPANIES

TALON EXECUTIVE SERVICES, INC. PRIVACY POLICY

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This Privacy Policy applies to Talon Executive Services, Inc. (“We”, “Our”, “Us”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share the personal information that we gather on the subdomains and websites on taloncompanies.com (the “Sites”) or through your use of our products and services. By continuing to use our Sites, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Please click the following links to learn more about our Privacy Policy:

What Types of Personal Information Do We Collect?
How Do We Use Personal Information?
How Do We Share Personal Information?
How Do We Respond to ‘Do Not Track’ Signals?
Cookies
Your Privacy Choices
Legal Bases for Processing (EEA and UK Individuals)
EEA and UK Individuals’ Rights
International Transfers of Data
Children’s Privacy
Change of Control
How Do We Protect Personal Information?
Policy Changes
Contact Information

1. What Types of Personal Information Do We Collect?

Information You Give Us. You may give us information by signing up for an account through our client portal, entering information through our online forms or surveys, or contacting us by phone or email for information or customer service.

The categories of information include:

Contact information, such as name, address, location, email, and telephone number
Online identifiers, such as IP address, cookies, username, and password
Financial information, such as credit card information or bank account information
Commercial information, such as a record of products or services purchased
Professional, employment, or education information, such as copies of your resume or CV and any other information required to verify your qualifications, for recruitment purposes

Information We Automatically Collect. Like many website operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website.

This includes Log Data, such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Sites that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics, and whether you reached our page via a social media or email campaign. This information may be collected via several technologies, including cookies, web beacons, clear GIFs, canvas fingerprinting or other means. You can control cookies in your browser to enable or disable them.

Information We Collect From Third Parties. If you access our Sites through third parties (e.g., Facebook or Google), or if you share content from our Sites to a third party social media service, the third party service will send us certain information about you if the third party service and your account settings allow such sharing. The information we receive will depend on the policies and your account settings with the third-party service.

Information Relating to Your Background for Investigative Purposes under FCRA. In addition to the categories of personal information described above, if your employer has authorized us to conduct a background check or due diligence investigation with your written consent, we or our affiliates may also collect personal information bearing on your credit worthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living from you or a consumer reporting agency as regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Some of this information may also be publicly available, such as information collected from government records. Such information is not subject to the provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

If you are an employee of one of our Customers, please contact your employer directly for information regarding how your employer uses and shares your personal information in connection with our consumer reporting services. We encourage you to review your employer’s consumer reporting authorization form and the Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act to learn more about your privacy rights with respect to consumer reports.

2. How Do We Use Personal Information?

We use your personal information as follows:

To provide you with the services on our platform, which involves security and risk management services
To respond to customer inquiries
To market our products and/or services to you
To analyze Sites usage and improve the services offered
For market research, project planning, troubleshooting problems
To provide you with employment opportunities
For detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other criminal activity

3. How Do We Share Personal Information?

Affiliates and Service Providers. We share your information with our third-party service providers and any subcontractors as required to offer you our products and services.

Third Party Advertising Cookies. Third parties (e.g. YouTube) may set cookies on our website to tailor advertising content on their platform. Learn more in our Cookie Policy.

Third Party Links and Websites. Our Sites may contain links to and from the websites of third parties. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any data to these websites.

Disclosures Required by Law. We may be required to disclose your data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet law enforcement requirements. We may be under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation, to enforce or apply our terms and conditions and other agreements, to protect our rights, property, or safety, or the protect the rights, property, or safety of others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.

4. How Do We Respond to ‘Do Not Track’ Signals?

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. DNT is a way for users to inform websites and services that they do not want certain information about their webpage visits collected over time and across websites or online services. We do not recognize or respond to browser-initiated DNT signals, as the Internet industry is currently still working toward defining exactly what DNT means, what it means to comply with DNT, and a common approach to responding to DNT.

5. Cookies

To make our Sites and services work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, shopping cart, or other preferences) over a period of time, so you do not have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this site. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy for more information. You may also choose to download the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

YouTube. We use YouTube videos on some of our sites. The YouTube videos will set certain certain third-party advertising and tracking cookies to display relevant advertisements on YouTube. We do not combine the information collected through YouTube with personally identifiable information. Please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy for more information. You may manage your YouTube ad settings and learn how to delete YouTube cookies here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/32050.

6. Your Privacy Choices

Please contact us if you would like to request access and/or make any changes to your personal information.

Marketing Opt-Out: We may use your personal information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in any email we send, or you can contact us using the contact details provided in the “Contact Information” section below. You will still continue to receive service-related messages concerning products and services you have purchased (unless we have indicated otherwise).

FCRA Summary of Rights. If you are an employee and your employer has engaged us to conduct an employment screening or investigative background check, you are entitled to certain rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Please contact your employer directly for more information regarding your rights with respect to consumer reports and see a Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act to learn more.

Exercising Your Privacy Rights. We have listed the privacy rights for several jurisdictions below, but we understand you may have additional rights in your jurisdiction. You may contact us directly at any time about exercising your data protection rights. We will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws.

California Privacy Rights

If you are a California consumer, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA):

The right to know what personal information is being collected about you.
The right to know whether your personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom.
The right to say no to the sale of personal information.
The right to access your personal information.
The right, in certain circumstances, to delete the information you have provided to us.
The right to equal service and price, even if you exercise your privacy rights.

Request for Information and Deletion (CCPA). California consumers have the right to request, up to twice in a 12-month period, that a business that collects personal information about the consumer disclose to the consumer the information listed below for the preceding 12 months. We have the right to request verification of your identity for all requests for information.

(1) The categories of personal information it has collected about that consumer.

(2) The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.

(3) The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.

(4) The categories of third parties with whom the business shares personal information.

(5) The categories of personal information that the business sold about the consumer and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, by category or categories of personal information for each third party to whom the personal information was sold.

(6) The categories of personal information that the business disclosed about the consumer for a business purpose.

(7) The specific pieces of personal information it has collected about that consumer.

To make such a request, please contact us using the contact information below. If you are an employee of one of our Customers, please contact your employer directly for more information regarding your CCPA rights with respect to employee information.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information (CCPA). California consumers have the right to opt out of the sale of the consumer’s personal information. We do not sell your personal information to third parties. However, under the CCPA, some sharing of personal information necessary to provide you with personalized ads may be considered a “sale,” even if no money is exchanged, such as our use of cookies and similar technologies. You may learn more about how to opt out of such personalized ads in the section above regarding Cookies.

Third Party Marketing. California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of your personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. We do not disclose your personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

7. Legal Bases for Processing (EEA and UK Individuals)

If you are from the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, our legal bases for collecting and using your Personal Information is as follows:

As a processor for our Customers. As part of our contract with Customers, we may conduct investigative searches of public records, records from credit reporting agencies, and other sources. Customers are responsible for the privacy and security of any personal information collected from our Services.
The performance of a Customer’s contract or to enter into the contract and to take action on the Customer’s requests. For example, the processing of your Customer registration and providing information on your purchased products or services.
Our legitimate business interests. For example, fraud prevention, maintaining the security of our network and services, direct marketing to you, and improvement of our services.
Compliance with a mandatory legal obligation. For example, accounting and tax requirements, which are subject to mandatory retention periods. We may also collect your personal information to record your requests to exercise your rights and to verify your identity for such requests.
Consent you provide where we do not rely on another legal basis. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.
In some limited cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect Personal Information from you, in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet law enforcement requirements, as described above in “How Do We Share Personal Information?”

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your Personal Information, please contact us using the contact details provided in the “Contact Information” section below.

8. EEA or UK Individuals’ Rights

If you are from the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, you have the right, under certain circumstances, to:

Access your Personal Information;
Correct inaccurate Personal Information;
Request erasure of your Personal Information without undue delay;
Request the restricted processing of your Personal Information;
Request portability of the Personal Information that you have given us; and
To object to the processing of your Personal Information.

If you are from the European Economic Area, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, under certain circumstances.

You may contact us using the contact details provided in the “Contact Information” section below for more information or to exercise your rights.

9. International Transfers of Data

Any data that you provide to us may be accessed, shared or processed by our offices, located in the United States, and service providers located in the United States, if such data transfer is necessary for the specific purpose for which you submitted your data (such as the provision of goods or services under a written contract).

This may entail a transfer of your personal information across international borders. The data protections standards may differ and be lower than the standards enforced in your jurisdiction.

We maintain appropriate safeguards as required by applicable law for any personal information transferred internationally, and as required by applicable law, will seek your consent prior to such transfers.

10. Children’s Privacy

The Sites are not directed at individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided in the “Contact Information” section below. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information.

11. Change of Control

Personal information may be transferred to a third party as a result of a sale, acquisition, merger, reorganization or other change in control. If we sell, merge or transfer any part of the business, part of the sale may include your personal information.

12. How Do We Protect Personal Information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. For example, when possible, we use encryption to transfer and store data on our Sites. We further limit access to this data using access controls and confidentiality commitments.

However, no website, application, or transmission can guarantee security. Thus, while we have established and maintain what we believe to be reasonable procedures to protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of personal information obtained through the Sites, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.

13. Policy Changes

We may change our Privacy Policy at any time. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to ensure you are familiar with the most current version.

14. Contact Information

If you wish to contact us or have any questions about or complaints in relation to this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the following contact details:

service@talonexec.com
(714) 434-7476