Effective Date: January 1, 2020

Last Reviewed on: 8/22/2024

This Privacy Notice applies to all information collected by United Staffing Associates, LLC and/or USA Staffing, Inc. (“USA,” “we, or “our”) and its subsidiaries or related entities. We adopt this notice to comply with applicable federal and state law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Notice.

As of the Effective Date, this Notice may not apply to employment-related personal information collected from California-based employees, job applicants, contractors, or similar individuals. If applicable law concerning employment-related personal information collected from California-based residents changes, we will update this Notice to comply with such changes.

Where noted in this Notice, the CCPA temporarily exempts personal information reflecting a written or verbal business-to-business communication ("B2B personal information") from some its requirements.

This Notice applies to personal information we collect online and offline. We collect information online through our website and mobile apps published and offline through USA branch offices. Our sites and apps may link to third-party sites. Our Privacy Notice does not cover information collected about you on those third-party sites. You are responsible for reviewing the privacy policy on those third-party sites.

Information We Collect

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular candidate, prospective/current employee or client, or device ("personal information"). We collect personal information about you when you visit our website, use our services, visit any of our branch offices, or when you provide it to USA in any other way. We may also collect information from third-party sources. Personal information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.
• Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
• Information excluded from the CCPA's scope, like:
  • health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data;
  • personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

We have collected the following categories of personal information from its consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

Mobile information will not be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from you. For example, personal contact information about you from employment application forms you complete or from contract agreements when you request products and services. This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, phone number, email address, work history, resume, and personal details that may be listed in resumes or cover letters. Additionally, you may choose to voluntarily submit to USA personal information concerning your age, ethnicity, and gender. Providing such information is voluntary and will only be used by USA to comply with diversity initiatives or regulatory reporting and will not be shared with hiring managers.
• Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on our Website or through your authorization to obtain such information through a third-party contract by USA (in the case of a background check or reference check for employment purposes). Use of our Website may also disclose your IP address and/or browser/operating systems.

Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to indicate your interest in registering with our employment services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. We may also save your information to facilitate new product orders or process returns. We will use contact information and data derived from job applications to reach out to and determine whether candidates are qualified for job openings we are currently filling.
• To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Website, products, and services.
• To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
• To process your requests, job orders, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
• To personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).
• To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
• For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Website, products, and services.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Sharing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

We share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

• Our clients.
• Service providers.
• Affiliated companies.
• Other third parties.

We may share user information with third parties when we believe, in our sole discretion, that such sharing is appropriate:

• to comply with applicable law, including but not limited to, in response to a legally valid subpoena;
• to enforce or apply this privacy policy or other applicable terms, rules or policies;
• to protect the rights, property or safety of USA, our users or others;
• or to prevent activity that we believe, in our sole discretion, may be or may become illegal, unethical or legally actionable (including exchanging user information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection).

Sales of Personal Information

In the preceding twelve (12) months, Company had not sold personal information.

Your Rights and Choices

The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion ), we will disclose to you:

• The categories of personal information we collected about you.
• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
• If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
  • sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
  • disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

We do not provide these access and data portability rights for B2B personal information.

Deletion Request Rights

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

1. Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
2. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
3. Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
4. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
5. Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
6. Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
7. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
8. Comply with a legal obligation.
9. Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

We do not provide these deletion rights for B2B personal information.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

• Calling us toll free at 1 (855) 330-8867.
• Emailing us at [email protected].
• Visiting www.UnitedWeStaff.com.

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative, which may include asking you to confirm the information we have previously collected about you.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us.

We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.

Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

• Deny you goods or services.
• Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
• Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Use of Cookies

We may utilize technology such as cookies to analyze, administer, track user movements, and to gather demographic information by users of our websites and mobile apps.

We may use the following types of cookies:

• Security cookies help to secure your account and protect against unauthorized access.
• Preference cookies are used to store your preferences.
• Analytics cookies are used to track traffic patterns so we can identify popular content and potential problems.
• Advertising cookies assist us in advertising to you on and off our sites.

Cookies may remain on your computer after you have left our site. You can control your cookies at the browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features on our sites and apps.

Some of our services may use cookies from Google. To opt out of the Google remarketing advertising network, visit Google's Ad Preference Manager.

Text Messaging

In an effort to improve the efficacy of our communications with candidates and/or employees, you can opt in to receive certain text messages from us. These text messages will generally communicate information to you about open positions and updates about your current assignment or benefits. You may opt out of such communications at any time by replying STOP or by contacting your local United Staffing branch office and communicating your desire to no longer receive these text messages.

Children’s Privacy

We will not solicit, collect, or maintain information from users who identify themselves as under the age of 13. If we discover a user is under the age of 13, we will delete the information from our systems without further notice to the user.

Information Security

Access to the personal information we collect about you is restricted to those who have a valid business need to know that information. We endeavor to use commercially reasonable security safeguards, practices and procedures. You are responsible for keeping your account credentials safe.

Information Security Incident Response

If we discover that your personal information has been involved in a security incident, we will take appropriate steps to respond to the incident in a timely manner and, where legally required, notify you of the incident.

Retention of Personal Information

We keep your personal information for as long as we have a business need and purpose to retain the information, including storage for auditing and archival purposes. When we believe we no longer need such information, we will destroy or otherwise dispose of your personal information in a manner intended to preserve your privacy and security.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated notice on the Website and update the notice's effective date. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which USA collects and uses your information described here, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under applicable law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Phone (toll free):1 (855) 330-8867.

Website: www.UnitedWeStaff.com

Email:[email protected]

Postal Address:

United Staffing Associates, LLC/USA Staffing, Inc.
505 Higuera Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Attn: Legal Department