SecurTest, Inc. is committed to the
responsible use of information and protecting individual privacy rights.
SecurTest strives to provide services to businesses, consumers, and government
agencies that help make sound hiring decisions, mitigate risk, facilitate more
informed business decisions, and make society safer.
SecurTest, Inc. (the “Company” or “we”) has
developed this California privacy policy out of respect for the privacy of our clients,
visitors to our website, job applicants, and independent contractors. This policy describes the personal
information we collect, use, and disclose about individual clients, consumers,
applicants, and contractors who visit or interact
with this website,
visit our Company headquarters, purchase,
or inquire about any of our services, contract with
us to provide services, apply for a position of employment, or otherwise
interact or do business with us.
Whenever you visit
our website, we will collect
some information from you
automatically simply by you visiting and navigating through this site, and some voluntarily when you submit information using various forms on the website, enroll in or subscribe to our newsletter or marketing communications, request information, or use any of the other
interactive portions of our website.
Through this website,
we will collect information that can identify
you and/or your activity.
Additionally,
whenever you communicate, interact, or do business with us, whether
online or at our headquarters, or whether you are
contracted to perform services for us or apply for a position of employment, we
will be collecting personal information from you or about you during our
interaction or dealings with you.
The California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA,”
as codified in Cal. Civ. Code §1798.100 et seq.)
is a data privacy law that provides California residents with
several privacy protections. It is important to note that the CCPA does not apply (or has specific exceptions) to
the types of business services provided by SecurTest that are governed by the
federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (the “FCRA”) as a consumer reporting agency,
such as employment background screening If you are a U.S. resident, and were
the subject of a background screen, and would like to exercise your rights
under the FCRA; you can do so by emailing us at privacy@securtest.com.
Outside of FCRA-type services, the following
SecurTest services may be subject to the CCPA, depending on your organization’s
use of the services:
This California Consumer Privacy Act privacy
policy is provided by SecurTest that either (1) acts as a business within the
meaning of the CCPA or (2) is controlled by SecurTest and uses the SecurTest
name. This policy refers to these companies as “we” or “us.” California law
requires us to disclose to California residents certain information regarding
the categories of Personal Information we collect. For purposes of this
section, “Personal Information” has the meaning provided by the California
Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) and may exclude certain publicly available
information, deidentified, aggregated, subject to GLBA, FCRA, HIPAA, or the
Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994, or otherwise exempt or excluded from
the CCPA.
SecurTest uses the Personal Information about
you, which is subject to the CCPA, for the following purposes:
We may use Personal Information for any of the
above purposes, but such use will be necessary and proportionate for such
purpose.
SecurTest collects Personal Information in
several different ways. We collect Personal Information from you directly when
you interact with our services (“direct data collection”). We collect Personal
Information automatically when you interact with our website or mobile
applications (“navigational data collection”). Finally, we collect Personal
Information from publicly available databases, such as public government
records or other data compilers (“third-party data collection”).
As part of our direct data collection, we
collect the following categories of Personal Information about California
consumers:
This information will be collected directly
from you.
As part of our third-party data collection, we
collect the following categories of Personal Information about California
consumers:
We will collect all this information from
public sources or third parties legally permitted to
provide such data.
For visitors
to our website or users of our mobile applications (collectively, the “Sites”),
we may also collect information using commonly used information-gathering
tools, such as cookies and web beacons (collectively “Navigational Data”).
Navigational Data includes standard information from your web browser (such as
browser type and browser language), your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, and
the actions you take on the Site (such as the web pages viewed and the links
clicked), embedded scripts, and entity tags (ETags). Where Navigational Data is
attributable to you, directly or indirectly, we will consider it Personal
Information.
Like many
companies, we may use cookies on the Site. Cookies are pieces of information
shared between your web browser and a website. The use of cookies enables a
faster and easier experience for the user. A cookie cannot read data off your
computer’s hard drive. There are different kinds of cookies with different
functions:
When you visit our Sites, we collect your IP
addresses to track and aggregate visitor behavior. For example, we use IP
addresses to monitor the regions from which users navigate the Sites.
An embedded
script is programming code designed to collect information about your
interactions with the Site, such as the links you click on. The code is
temporarily downloaded from our web server (or a third-party service provider),
is active only while you are connected to the Site and is deactivated or
deleted thereafter.
We use the
above technologies (or ones we incorporate in the future) for the purposes set
out above or as permitted by law.
Some browsers have attempted to implement the
draft “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (“W3C”).
As this standard has not been finalized and is not generally accepted in the
industry, the Sites are incompatible with DNT. Additionally, since we do not
deploy third-party cookies for purposes of cross-contextual behavioral
advertising, the Site does not respond to Global Privacy Control signals or
similar browser settings.
We do not
disclose any Personal Information about you to third parties except as stated
in this Privacy Policy, as otherwise permitted by law, or as authorized by you.
We may disclose Personal Information for any purposes stated in this Policy or
as otherwise permitted by applicable law.
Third parties
to whom we generally disclose information are required by law or a contract
with us to keep your Personal Information confidential and secure, to use and
disclose such Personal Information for purposes that a reasonable person would
consider appropriate in the circumstances, and for purposes described earlier
in this Policy.
We may
disclose Personal Information to our Service Providers for any of the purposes
stated in this Policy. Because a number of the service providers we use are in
the United States, your Personal Information may be processed and stored inside
the United States, and the U.S. government, courts, law enforcement, or
regulatory agencies may be able to obtain disclosure of your Personal
Information under US laws. We do not disclose Personal Information to service
providers outside the scope of obtaining services from them. We may disclose
your personal information to background screening providers or educational
institutions upon your consent as part of our background screening services.
Due to the
nature of your relationship with a SecurTest client, we consider your personal
information a business record of the client affiliated with you. As such, we
may disclose your Personal Information to the client affiliated with you. We
will do this for any of the purposes specified in this Policy, as well as upon
your request or the client’s request.
SecurTest
reserves the right to disclose, without your prior permission, any Personal
Information about you or your use of the Site if we have a good faith belief
that such action is necessary to: (a) protect and defend the rights, property
or safety of SecurTest, our employee, other users of the Site, or the public;
(b) enforce the terms and conditions that apply to use of the Site; (c) as
required by a legally valid request from a competent governmental authority; or
(d) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third-parties. We
may also disclose Personal Information as we deem necessary to satisfy any
applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request.
Should law
enforcement contact us with a demand for Personal Information, we will attempt
to redirect the law enforcement agency to request that data directly from you.
If compelled to disclose Personal Information to law enforcement, we will
promptly notify you and provide you a copy of the demand unless legally
prohibited from doing so. If we are compelled by law to delete Personal
Information, we will promptly comply and, if legally permitted, notify you of
such deletion.
California residents have certain rights with
respect to the Personal Information collected by businesses. As a California
resident, you may exercise the following rights regarding your Personal
Information:
This
section applies only to California
residents who are natural persons; it does not apply to any entities (whether
business, non-profit, or governmental). If you are a California resident, you
have the following rights:
(a) the
categories and specific pieces of Personal Information we collect, use, and disclose
about you; (b) the categories of sources of the Personal Information; (c) the
categories of Personal Information that we have disclosed to third parties for
a business purpose, and the categories of recipients to whom this information
was disclosed; (d) the business or commercial purposes for collecting Personal Information.
Please note
that these rights are not absolute and are subject to several exceptions.
Should we decline any request to exercise a right noted below, we will explain
the reason for our declining such request.
1.
The right to request, up to 2
times in a 12-month period, that we identify to you (1) the categories of
personal information we have collected about you going back to January 1, 2022,
unless doing so would be impossible or involve disproportionate effort, or
unless you request a specific time period, (2) the categories of sources from
which the personal information was collected, (3) the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing
this information, (4) the categories of third parties with whom we share or have shared
your personal information;
2.
Right to Access. The right to request, up to 2 times in a 12-month period, that we disclose
to you, free of charge, the
specific pieces of personal information we
have collected about you going back
to January 1, 2022, unless doing so would be impossible or involve
disproportionate effort, or unless you request a specific time period.
3.
Right to Delete. The right to request, up to 2 times in a 12-month
period, that we delete personal information that we collected from you, subject
to certain exceptions.
To exercise any of the above rights, please
contact us using the following information and submit the required verifying
information, as further described below:
By email at privacy@securtest.com
By phone at 1-800-845-6004
By mail to:
SecurTest Consumer Center
600 Grand Panama Blvd
Suite 202
Panama City Beach, FL 32407
Note that we may need to request additional
information from you to verify your identity or understand the scope of your
request, although you will not be required to create an account with us to
submit a request or have it fulfilled. To exercise your rights for a copy of
the specific pieces of Personal Information we process under the CCPA, we will
require you to provide, at a minimum, first name, last name, social security
number, and address. For requests submitted by mail, you will need to send
copies of two forms of identification that include your first name, last name,
and current address.
In certain circumstances, we may decline a
request to exercise the right to know and/or right to deletion, particularly
where we are unable to verify your identity or where the information is subject
to an exemption, as discussed above.
You may designate an authorized agent
to make a CCPA request on your behalf through the designated methods set forth
in these disclosures, where we can verify the authorized agent’s authority to
act on your behalf.
For requests to know or delete
Personal Information: (i) receiving a power of attorney valid under the laws of
California from you or your authorized agent; or (ii) receiving sufficient
evidence to show that you have: (a) provided the authorized agent signed
permission to act on your behalf; (b) verified your own identity directly with
us pursuant to the instructions set forth in these Disclosures; and (c)
directly confirmed with us that you provided the authorized agent permission to
submit the request on your behalf. This may be done by mailing two forms of
identification showing your first name, last name and current address and a
signed authorization allowing an agent to request information on your behalf.
We have reasonable safeguards appropriate to
the sensitivity of the information we maintain. Safeguards will vary depending
on the sensitivity, format, location, amount, distribution, and storage of the
Personal Information. They include physical, technical, and managerial measures
to keep Personal Information protected from unauthorized access. Note that due
to the nature of the Internet and related technology, we cannot absolutely
guarantee the security of Personal Information disclosed over the Internet, and
SecurTest expressly disclaim any such obligation.
If there is any material change to your rights under this
Policy, SecurTest will provide you with notice of such change 30 calendar days before
the changes go into effect. As part of this notice, SecurTest may post a notice
of the change on the Site in a clear and conspicuous manner for the 30-day
calendar-day notice period. SecurTest may also communicate the change via email
or postal mail if this is the way that SecurTest normally corresponds with you.
Please note that your continued use of the Site once this 30 calendar day
period is over indicating your agreement to the changes that were the subject
of the notice.
4. Right to Correct. The right to request that we correct
inaccurate personal information (to the extent
such an inaccuracy exists) that we maintain about you.
5. The right to designate an authorized agent
to submit one of the above requests
on your behalf.
See below for how you can
designate an authorized agent; and
6. The right to not be discriminated or retaliated against
for exercising any of the above rights,
including an applicant’s and independent contractor’s right not to be retaliated against for exercising the above rights.
1. Submit an online request
to privacy@securtest.com
2. Call our privacy toll-free line at 1-800-445-8001.
If you are a California resident, when you submit a Right to Know, Right to
Access, Right to Delete, or Right to
Correct request through one of the methods provided above, we will ask you to
provide some information to verify your identity and respond to your request.
Specifically, we will ask you to verify information that can be used to link your identity to particular records
in our possession, which depends
on the nature of your relationship and interaction with us. For
example, we may need you to provide your name, email, phone number, IP address,
browser ID, amount of your last purchase with the business, and/or date of your
last transaction with the business.
Upon receiving a verifiable request
from a California resident, we will confirm receipt by ten business days after
receiving it. We endeavor to respond to a verifiable request within forty-five
(45) calendar days of receipt. If we require more time (up to an additional 45
calendar days, or 90 calendar days total from the date we receive
your request), 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. Our
response will also explain why we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.
We only charge a fee to process
or respond to your verifiable request if 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 a cost estimate before completing your request.
For a request to correct inaccurate
personal information, we will accept, review, and consider any documentation you provide, and we may
require that you provide documentation to rebut our own documentation that the personal
information is accurate.
You should make a good-faith effort to provide us with all necessary
information at the time that you make the request
to correct. We may deny a
request to correct if we have a good faith, reasonable, and documented belief
that a request to correct is fraudulent or abusive. If we deny your request to correct, we shall inform you of our decision not to comply and provide an explanation as to why we
believe the request is fraudulent.
If you are a California resident, you
can authorize someone else as an authorized agent who can submit a request
on your behalf. To do so, you
must either (a) execute a valid, verifiable, and notarized power of attorney
or (b) provide other written,
signed authorization that we can then verify.
When we receive a request submitted on your behalf
by an authorized agent who does not have a power of attorney, that person will be
asked to provide
written proof that they have your permission to act on your behalf,
and we will also contact you and ask you for information to verify your own identity directly with us and not through
your authorized agent. We may deny a request from an authorized agent if the
agent does not provide your signed permission demonstrating that they have been
authorized by you to act on your behalf.
By using this website, you consent to all terms and conditions expressed in this Privacy Policy.
As our services
evolve and we perceive the need or desirability of using information collected in other ways, we may from time to time amend this Privacy
Policy. We encourage you to check our website
frequently to see the current Privacy Policy in effect and any changes that may
have been made to them. If we make material changes to this Privacy
Policy, we will post the revised Privacy
Policy and the revised
effective date on this website.
Please check back here periodically or contact us at the address listed
at the end of this Privacy
Policy.
This policy is in a form that is accessible to consumers with disabilities.
This website is owned and operated by SecurTest, Inc. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@securtest.com or call 1-800-445-8001.
**This policy was last updated
February 28, 2024.