SecurTest Privacy Policies and Principals
For over 34 years, SecurTest, Inc. has taken great pride in the relationships that it has developed with our clients, applicants for employment, employees of our clients, and the general public. We at SecurTest are dedicated to protecting your privacy and any personal or business information we obtain from you with care and respect. The Privacy Principals described herein are designed to answer your questions regarding our privacy policies and principles. The terms of this policy apply to SecurTest’s Web site, except where noted. SecurTest is a provider of information that helps businesses, non-profit organizations, and federal, state and local governments make informed hiring and retention decisions screen their applicants and employees and consumers, reduce fraud, mitigate risk, facilitate business decisions, and make our world safer, while protecting consumer privacy. Our Privacy Principles apply to Personally Identifiable Information, (a) which includes Sensitive Personally Identifiable Information, (b) collected, maintained, used or disseminated by SecurTest in delivering information products and services through any SecurTest company or line of business. Many of our products are already subject to important privacy protections provided by federal and state laws, such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act and its state law counterparts. We give careful attention to our privacy policies which we review and change, from time to time, as necessary and appropriate. To underscore our commitment to privacy and our vision that good privacy is good business — for SecurTest, for our customers and for consumers — we have adopted the following Privacy Principles. [1]
The policy includes our corporate privacy principles and Fair Information Practice Principles of notice, choice, access, security, and accountability. This online privacy policy applies to all sites listed above. They are owned and operated by:
SecurTest, Inc. * 1720 Epps Bridge Parkway * Suite 108-380 * Athens, GA 30606
800-445-8001 compliance@securtest.com
Our Websites are:
iReviewNow – the New Protection Standard
We are the inventors of the proprietary patented iReviewNow System that helps applicants, employees, and consumers better protect themselves from inaccurate, outdated, and identity theft or fraud while providing employers or prospective employers a better picture of their background and qualifications. When a background investigation report covered under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and other federal and state laws or regulations, contains adverse information that might impact a hiring, retention, employment, credit granting, insurance issuance or other legal decision, our proprietary patent (U.S. Patent 7,979,908) becomes part of the report. Our clients give the subject a copy of the report and our iReviewNow in real-time to ensure compliance with the FCRA and other laws and rules. The subject immediately authenticates his or her information for accuracy and provides additional insight that will help the user of the report make informed decisions that mitigate claims of inaccuracy, discrimination and other types of misuse or abuse of the report. Employers using iReviewNow expand their pool of qualified applicants as they get real-time usable information authenticated from the subject. This helps mitigate risks and claims from consumers, applicants and employees who otherwise must wait to receive a notice by mail of adverse information or decisions. Consumers, subjects of our background investigationsand reports, users of the reports can opt-in or opt-out of using iReviewNow. Using iReviewNow ensures the consumer sees his or her report at the same time (contemporaneous) to the user of the report.
INFORMATION COLLECTION
I. Personally-identifiable information
These sites only collect personally-identifiable information from you based on your authorization, such as for a background investigation, with an employer, prospective employer, government entity, or contractor of a government entity. Personally-identifiable information collected with your consent may include, for example, name, e-mail address, resume information, address, telephone number, date of birth, social security number, driver’s license or government identification numbers, or any inquires you may make directly through our websites or that you authorized a SecurTest client to provide a background report.
II. Cookies
“Cookies” are messages that web servers (computers that deliver web pages) exchange with web browsers (programs that support website interaction, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer). SecurTest uses these messages in our customer web applications to simplify and enhance the user experience. SecurTest does not store any personally-identifiable information in cookies.
Cookies do not act maliciously on computer systems, nor can they be used to spread viruses or access your computer’s hard drive.
III. Non-personally-identifiable information
This site also collects non-personally-identifiable information. For example, as you browse our websites, we may collect information about your visit, but not about you personally. Via web server logs, for example, we may monitor statistics such as: the number of people that visit our site, which page(s) are visited on our site, from which domain our visitors come (e.g., aol.com, hotmail.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to visit our sites (e.g., Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.).
INFORMATION USE AND CONSUMER CHOICE
The information collected by our websites are used only for responding to your inquiries or those authorized by you and our clients.
We may contact you in response to your comments or inquiries, as part of the maintenance of your account with us (if you have one), or in order to complete a background investigation or compliance process which will assist in ensuring accuracy of our reports and compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, among other state and federal laws.
If you decide that you do not want to receive further e-mails from SecurTest, you can reply to the e-mail and place in the subject line, “OPT OUT.” You may also call 800-445-8001 with a request that we not continue to e-mail you. We do not use outside data sources to enrich marketing data obtained online. We do not use any information about you, including email addresses, except in compliance with our duties and obligations.
ACCESS AND CORRECTION
As an information company, we value having our data as accurate as possible. Accordingly, we strive to maintain the accuracy of the information collected through our websites. As the inventor of iReviewNow, we have the only consumer-firendly transparent system for you to ensure background and consumer reports are accurate and accessible to you at the same time as the employer or entity you authorized for us to investigate and prepare a report. You are our most important tool in ensuring that their data is complete and accurate. We will provide you access to your personally-identifiable information for as long as we maintain that information in an accessible format. Similarly, we permit and encourage you to correct inaccuracies in the information you submit to us through our websites, by email, telephone, or using iReviewNow. If you wish to correct any inaccurate information you have submitted to any of these sites, please go to www.securtest.com/ireviewnow.pdf or call (800)445-8001.
SECURITY
We take steps to protect against the loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration of personally-identifiable information collected through this website. We recognize the importance of security for all personally-identifiable information collected by our website. We exercise care in providing secure transmission of your information.
Once we receive personally-identifiable information, we take steps to protect its security on our systems. In the event we request or transmit sensitive information, such as Social Security Numbers, we use accepted industry standards, such encryption programs and software.
We strictly limit access to personally-identifiable information to those employees who need access in order to carry out their job responsibilities.
POLICY CHANGES
We reserve the right the revise this policy as needed. As such, in the event revisions are made, we will prominently post announcements on our websites that describe the details of the revisions.
PERSONAL INFORMATION DISCLOSURE: UNITED STATES OR OVERSEAS
In preparing a consumer report or investigative consumer report, we only send information about the subject of the report outside the United States if our client asks for information from a jurisdiction outside the United States. For example, if a prospective employee worked outside of the United States, our client might ask for a criminal history report for the country in which the prospective employee worked. When we do this kind of report, we send enough information to identify the subject of the report. We do not send your personal identifier information outside the United States except where such is required to conduct a background investigation which is authorized by the subject of the investigation.
OPT-OUT OPTION
You Can Opt Out of Receiving Further Marketing from SecurTest at any time.
We will send you information about our various products and services, or other products and services we feel may be of interest to you. If you do not want to receive such mailings, simply tell us when you give us your personal information. Or, at any time you can easily opt out of receiving further marketing from SecurTest by emailing us at optout@securtest.com. Please type “OPT OUT” in the subject line of your email.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits customers or subjects of our background reports (consumer reports) of SecurTest, Inc. who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to CaliforniaRequest@securtest.com or write us:
SecurTest, Inc. California Consumer Protection Department
1720 Epps Bridge Parkway
Suite 108-380
Athens, GA 30606Athens, GA 30606
Use of Credit Reports – California Residents
SecurTest generally does not provide credit reports where the subject of the report livesin California due to the recent law, AB 22, that became effective on January 1, 2012. Employers must adhere to this California law, as there are strict rules and restrictions on ordering andusing consumer credit reports for hiring or employment purposes. Clients with applicants or employees residing in California that require credit reports as part of the employment process, are required to submit a separate authorization and state of purpose that the subject of the investigation must sign when ordering such credit reports from SecurTest.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
For more information about our privacy practices or policies, please contact our Compliance Department:
SecurTest, Inc.
1720 Epps Bridge Parkway
Suite 108-380
Athens, GA 30606Athens, GA 30606
800-445-8001
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Revision date: January 1, 2012
1 Individually identifiable
information from or about an individual consumer including, but not limited to: (a) a first and last name or first initial and last name; (b) a home or other physical address, which includes at least street name and name of city or town; (c) an email address; (d) a telephone number; (e) a Social Security number; (f) credit and/or debit card information, including credit and/or debit card number with expiration date; (g) date of birth; (h)a driver’s license number; or (i) any other information from or about an individual consumer that is combined with (a) through (h) above.
