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Click on the links below to jump to the different sections of our Privacy Policy:
- How We Collect Information
- Types of Information We Collect
- Information Collected by Automated Means
- How We Use Your Information
- How We Share Your Information
- Your Rights and Choices
- Your Account
- Marketing
- Cookies
- Links to Other Websites and Third Party Content
- International Data Transfers
- How We Protect Information
- Data Retention
- Children
- Changes to Our Privacy Policy
- Contacting Us
We may collect personal information from various sources, including:
- Directly from you
- From job applicants when they apply for jobs posted through our Services
- From companies that use our Services, including to hire our applicants
- From our staffing agency clients
- From our vendors and business partners
- From references you provide and direct us to contact
- Automatically, from devices that you use to interact with our Services
The types of personal information we may collect include:
- Contact information, such as name, email address, postal address, and phone number
- Resume/CV details, such as work experience, education, salary, languages spoken, academic records, qualifications and other details that you may choose to provide
- Employment information including work history, references, and other information necessary to determine an individual’s fitness for employment
- Contact information, such as name, email address, postal address, and phone number
- Demographic information, such as date of birth, gender, and zip code
- If you create an account with us, account credentials, such as username and password
- Financial information, such as account number and other information required in order to facilitate payroll
- Social Security numbers or other government or tax identification numbers
- Information about you and your dependents required to administer benefits
We, our service providers, and our business partners may also collect certain information about the use of our Services by automated means, such as cookies, web beacons and other technologies.
The information that may be collected by automated means includes:
- URLs that refer users to our Services
- Search terms used to reach our Services
- Details about the devices that are used to access our Services (such as IP address, browser type, and operating system information)
- Details about users’ interaction with our Services (such as the date, time, frequency, and length of visits, and specific pages accessed during the visits)
We may use the information we collect to:
- Provide the Services
- Process job applications and validate applicant information
- Connect applicants with potential job opportunities
- Facilitate invoicing and processing of timesheets and payments for assignments
- Prepare W-2s
- Respond to requests, questions, and comments
- Operate, evaluate and improve our Services (including to develop new products and services)
- Analyze and enhance our communications and strategies (including by identifying when emails have been received and read)
- Provide investors with reports, recent news, and event invites
- Create and maintain any account created on our Services
- Market our Services
- Offer and administer promotions, sweepstakes, or other contests
- For data security purposes and to protect against and prevent fraud, unauthorized transactions, claims and manage risk exposure
- Enforce our contractual rights
- Comply with legal requirements, judicial process, and our policies (including to verify Site users’ identity in connection with consumer requests)
We may aggregate and/or de-identify information about visitors to our Services and use it for any purpose, including product and service development and improvement activities.
We do not sell personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose.
We may share the information we collect with:
- Within our company and with affiliates
- Business partners
- Companies that hire applicants through the Services
- Service providers that perform services on our behalf or partners with whom we may collaborate, including:
- Customer service and support providers
- Partners with whom we jointly develop or offer products or services
- Entities that perform credit or background checks
- Payment processors
- Advertising partners
- Survey and market research providers
- Analytics organizations
- Technology providers (including technology support, email and web hosting providers, email communications providers, and mobile app developers)
We may also disclose personal information to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, protect and defend our rights or property, protect the safety of our partners and users or the public, or to protect against legal liability.
Unless prohibited by applicable law, we reserve the right to transfer the information we maintain in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets. If we engage in such a sale or transfer, we will – where required by applicable law – make reasonable efforts to direct the recipient to use your personal information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. After such a sale or transfer, you may contact the recipient with any inquiries concerning the processing of your personal information.
You may have certain rights and choices regarding our processing of your personal information. Depending on your jurisdiction, applicable law may entitle you to additional consumer rights, including the right to:
- Know the categories and/or specific pieces of personal information collected about you, including whether your personal information is sold or disclosed, and with whom your personal information was shared.
- Access a copy of the personal information we retain about you.
- Request deletion of your personal information.
To submit a request, please contact us via the email or toll free number provided in our “Contacting Us” section. We reserve the right to verify your identity in connection with any requests regarding personal information to help ensure that we provide the information we maintain to the individuals to whom it pertains, and allow only those individuals or their authorized representatives to exercise rights with respect to that information. If you are an authorized agent making a request on behalf of a consumer, we may require and request additional information to verify that you are authorized to make that request.
We reserve the right to deny your request if we cannot verify your identify. Where we deny your request in whole or in part, we will endeavor to inform of the denial, provide an explanation of our actions, and the reasons for the denial.
We will not restrict or deny your access to our Services because of choices and requests you make in connection with your personal information. Please note, however, certain choices may affect our ability to deliver the Services. For example, if you request that we delete your information, recruiters will not be able to connect you with available placement opportunities.
You may review, update, or modify your account information, including profile and contact information, by logging into your account. You may delete your account by contacting us via the email or toll free number provided in our “Contacting Us” section.
You may unsubscribe from receiving marketing or other commercial emails from us by following the instructions included in the email. However, even if you opt out of receiving such communications, we retain the right to send you non-marketing communications (such as information about changes to our Privacy Policy or Terms of Use).
We, our service providers, and our business partners may also collect certain information about the use of our Services by automated means, such as cookies, web beacons and other technologies. Our Services also use third-party analysis and tracking services to track the performance of our Services, understand how you use our Services, and offer you an improved and safer experience. Information on your usage of our Services may be collected and processed by us, or a third party engaged by us. This information may be collected over time and across third-party websites.
Web browsers may offer users of our Services the ability to disable receiving certain types of cookies; however, if cookies are disabled, some features or functionality of our Services may not function correctly.
Because there is not yet a consensus on how companies should respond to web browser-based do-not-track (“DNT”) mechanisms, we do not respond to web browser-based DNT signals at this time.
We may provide links to other websites, services, and applications that are not operated or controlled by us (the "Third Party Services"). This Privacy Policy does not apply to the Third Party Services. While we attempt to facilitate access only to those Third Party Services that share our respect for your privacy, we cannot take responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of those Third Party Services. We encourage you to review and understand the privacy practices of any Third Party Services before providing any information to or through them. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the Third Party Service that provides the feature.
Effective as of March 14, 2022, the Instaff light industrial staffing division of BGSF has been acquired by Sentech Engineering Services, Inc., which is a subsidiary of Job and Talent S.L. This privacy policy does not apply with respect to any personal information submitted for any staffing positions indicated as posted by "Instaff" (light industrial staffing positions). The applicable privacy policy with respect to personal data submitted related to "Instaff" (light industrial staffing positions) is the privacy policy for the Jobandtalent family of companies which is posted at https://www.jobandtalent.com/privacy-policy. Please review such privacy policy if you will submit any personal information for "Instaff" staffing positions.
We may transfer your personal information to countries other than the country in which you initially provided the information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. For example, if you are located outside of the United States, we typically transfer and process all personal information in the United States, where we are headquartered. The countries to which we transfer personal information may not guarantee the same level of protection for personal information as the one in which you reside.
We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we maintain against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use.
Despite such efforts, however, please note that no company, including ours, can fully eliminate risks or guarantee the security of personal information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of information about you at any time, and we bear no liability for uses or disclosures of personal information or other data arising in connection with theft of the information or other malicious actions.
We retain personal information for as long as is necessary for the processing purpose(s) for which the information was collected, and any other permissible, related purpose. When we no longer need the personal information we collect, we either aggregate or deidentify the information or securely destroy the information.
The Service is not directed to individuals under the age of eighteen (18), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18.
We may at any time in our sole discretion revise or update this Privacy Policy. We will post any changes on this page and indicate at the top of this page the date this Privacy Policy was last revised. You may read a current, effective copy of this Privacy Policy at any time by visiting this page. We will also notify you of any material changes through reasonable means. Your continued use of our Services constitutes your acceptance of the terms of the Privacy Policy as amended or revised by us from the Effective Date.
If you have any questions, requests or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us using the following information: