Notice at Collection and Privacy Policy for California Job Applicants
Notice at Collection and Privacy Policy for California Job Applicants
Effective: October 15, 2025
WIS International and its subsidiaries and affiliated companies “The Company” takes your privacy seriously. We want you to know how we collect, use, and disclose, your personal information.
California Notice at Collection: The Company collects the personal information identified in Section 1 for the purposes identified in Section 3 and retains it for the period described in Section 5. We do not sell your personal information or disclose it for cross-context behavioral advertising (“sharing”). We also do not collect or process sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.
EEO Statement
WIS International is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Company’s policy is not to unlawfully discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any protected category, characteristic or status. It is also company policy to comply with all applicable state, federal and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.
The Company complies with the ADA, the ADAAA and applicable state law and considers reasonable accommodation measures that may be necessary for qualified applicants/employees to perform the essential functions of the job. Hire may be contingent upon a post-offer medical examination, and to skill and agility tests, as appropriate for the position.
Assistance For The Disabled
Alternative formats of this Privacy Policy are available to individuals with a disability. Please contact HR@wisintl.com.
This Privacy Policy explains:
- The categories of personal information we collect about you
- The categories of sources from which we collect your personal information
- The purposes for which we use your personal information
- How we may disclose your personal information
- How long we keep your personal information
- Your rights and how to exercise them
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
Scope:
This Privacy Policy applies to the personal information of California residents in their role as job applicants to the Company (“Applicants”).
“Personal information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Applicant.
“Personal information” does not include:
- Information publicly available from government records or made publicly available by you or with your permission;
- Deidentified or aggregated information;
- Information excluded from the CPRA’s scope, such as:
- protected health information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) or the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (“HITECH”) or medical information covered by California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (“CMIA”); or
- personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”), or the California Financial Information Privacy Act (“FIPA”).
1) THE CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
We may collect the following categories of personal information. Not all categories may be collected about every Applicant.
- Identifiers, for example: real name, nickname, telephone number, postal address, e-mail address, Social Security number, and signature.
- Professional or Employment-Related Information, for example: educational institutions attended, degrees and certifications, licenses, work experience and previous employers, and professional memberships and affiliations.
- Commercial Information, for example: travel expense records for an
- Internet or Other Electronic Activity Information, for example: interactions with the Company’s Internet web site, job application, or job advertisement, and publicly available social media activity.
- Sensory or Surveillance Data, for example: voice-mails, audio/visual recordings of interviews, and footage from video surveillance cameras.
- Other details, for example, hobbies and leisure activities or membership in voluntary/charitable/public organizations, for example, as stated on the Applicant’s
- Characteristics of Protected Classifications Under California or Federal Law for Applicants, collected on a purely voluntary basis, except where collection is required by law, and used only in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, for diversity and inclusion reporting and related
2) THE CATEGORIES OF SOURCES FROM WHICH WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may collect the following categories of personal information. Not all categories apply to every Applicant.
- You, for example, in your job application, forms you fill out for us, assessments you complete, surveys you complete, and any information you provide us during the course of your application and interview process.
- Vendors and service providers, for example,
- Third parties, for example, job references, affiliated companies, professional employer organizations or staffing agencies.
- Automated technologies on the Company’s electronic resources, for example, to track logins and activity on the Company’s careers page.
- Surveillance/recording technologies installed by the Company, for example, video surveillance in common areas of company facilities, voicemail technologies, webcams, and audio/video recording technologies with consent to the extent required by law
- Government or administrative agencies, for example, law enforcement or public health
- Acquired Company, if the Company acquired your employer, the Company might collect personal information from that employer.
3) THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use the personal information we collect for one or more of the following purposes:
A. Generally Applicable Purposes
Unless stated otherwise in section 3.B, below, we may use Applicants’ personal information for the following purposes:
Recruiting, including:
- To evaluate Applicants’ qualifications or suitability for employment with the Company
- To communicate with Applicants
- To conduct a pre-employment or criminal history background check
- For identification purposes
- For diversity and inclusion purposes
- To arrange and manage Company-sponsored events
- To create a talent pool for future job openings
- To demonstrate Applicants’ agreement to, or acceptance of, documents presented to them, g., pre-employment arbitration agreement, acknowledgment of employment application, offer letter
- To evaluate and improve the recruiting process
- To promote the Company as a place to work
Monitoring, Security, and Compliance, including:
- To monitor and protect Company facilities and information systems
- To ensure compliance with applicable laws and Company policies
- To administer the Company’s ethics hotline
- To report suspected criminal conduct to law enforcement and cooperate in investigations
- To exercise the Company’s rights under applicable law and to support any claim, defense, or declaration in a case or before a jurisdictional and/or administrative authority, arbitration, or mediation panel
Conducting Our Business, including:
- For training purposes or quality assurance with respect to Company employees conducting the interviews or otherwise assisting with the recruiting and hiring process
- For travel and event planning
- To engage in crisis management
- To manage travel reimbursements
Miscellaneous Other Purposes:
- To manage and operate information technology and communications systems, risk management and insurance functions, budgeting, financial management and reporting, strategic planning
- To manage litigation involving the Company, and other legal disputes and inquiries and to meet legal and regulatory requirements
- In connection with a corporate transaction, sale, or assignment of assets, merger, divestiture, or other changes of control or financial status of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates; and
- To protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, Applicants, customers or
B. Purposes Specific To Certain Categories Of Personal Information
We may use the categories of Applicants’ personal information listed in this Section 3.B for the purposes stated below:
Purposes For Using Applicant Health Information:
- To the extent it is necessary to comply with the Company’s legal obligations, such as to accommodate disabilities
- To protect the health and safety of the Company’s employees and facilities, for example, to take the Applicant’s temperature
- For occupational health and safety compliance and record-keeping
- To respond to an Applicant’s medical emergency
Purposes For Using Applicants’ Protected Categories Of Information:
The Company collects information about race, age, national origin, disability, sex, and veteran status as necessary to comply with legal obligations, including the reporting requirements of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Act, The Office of Federal Contracting Compliance Programs (applicable to government contractors), and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act, and for purposes of diversity analytics.
The Company also uses this personal information for purposes including: (a) with respect to disability and/or medical condition, as necessary, to comply with federal and California law related to accommodation; and (b) with respect to age, incidentally to the use of birth date for identity verification.
The Company collects protected categories of personal information on a purely voluntary basis, except where required by law, and uses the information only in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
4) HOW WE MAY DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The Company generally maintains personal information related to Applicants as confidential. However, from time to time, the Company may have a legitimate business need to disclose Applicants’ personal information. In that event, the Company discloses your personal information listed in Section 1, above, only to the minimum extent necessary to achieve the purpose of the disclosure and only if the disclosure is permitted by the CPRA and other applicable laws.
A. Disclosures for Business Purposes
The Company may disclose each of the categories of personal information listed in Section 1, above, to the third parties listed below for the following “business purposes” as that term is defined under the CPRA.
- Service providers: The Company may disclose to service providers any of the categories of personal information listed in Section 1, above, for the business purpose of performing services on the Company’s behalf and, in particular, for the specific purposes described in Section 3, above.
- Auditors, lawyers, consultants, and accountants engaged by the Company: The Company may disclose the categories of personal information listed in Section 1, above, to these services providers or contractors for the business purpose of auditing compliance with policies and applicable laws, in addition to performing services on the Company’s
- Affiliated companies: The Company may disclose any of the categories of personal information listed in Section 1, above, to other companies within the WIS International family of companies for the business purposes of (a) auditing compliance with policies and applicable laws, (b) helping to ensure security and integrity, (c) debugging, (d) short-term transient use, (e) internal research, and (f) activities to maintain or improve the quality or safety of a service or device.
B. No Sales or Sharing
The Company does not sell or “share” (disclose for cross-context behavioral advertising) your personal information in connection with the application process. In addition, we have no actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of individuals of any age in connection with the application process, including the personal information of children under 16.
Disclosures to Others
The Company may disclose personal information to the following additional categories of third parties although these disclosures may be for purposes in Section 3, above, other than a business or commercial purpose as defined by the CPRA:
- Your direction: We may disclose your personal information to third parties at your
- Affiliated companies: Other companies within the WIS International family of companies, for example, to evaluate an applicant for a cross-enterprise team.
- Government or administrative agencies: These may include, for example, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as required for
- Required Disclosures: We may be required to disclose personal information in a court proceeding, in response to a court order, subpoena, civil discovery request, other legal process, or as otherwise required by law.
- Legal Compliance and Protections: We may disclose personal information when we believe disclosure is necessary to comply with the law or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, Applicants, or others.
- Corporate Transactions: We may disclose your personal information in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, bankruptcy, the sale of all, or substantially all, of our membership interests and/or assets or other corporate change, including to any prospective
5) HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
If the Company hires you, the information collected about you during the job application process may become part of your personnel file and may be used to administer the employment relationship and for related reporting and recordkeeping purposes. The Company will retain this application information for the entire duration of your employment relationship with the Company and for as long thereafter as permitted or required by applicable law. The Company makes its document retention schedule available to employees for review.
The Company will retain information of applicants who are not hired for four (4) years after the record is collected. These records will be retained for our internal recordkeeping and reporting purposes in compliance with California Government Code § 12946. During that time, we may use your information to consider you for positions in addition to the position(s) for which you initially applied.
The Company may retain personal information longer than described above if required by law, for example, for a litigation hold.
6) YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS AND HOW TO EXERCISE THEM
A. Your California Privacy Rights
Subject to applicable law, Applicants have the following rights:
- Right to Know: You have the right to submit a verifiable request up to twice in a 12-month period for specific pieces of your personal information and for information about the Company’s collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information.
- Right to Delete: You have the right to submit a verifiable request for the deletion of personal information that you have provided to the Company.
- Right to Correct: You have the right to submit a verifiable request for the correction of inaccurate personal information maintained by the Company, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of processing the personal
B. How to Exercise Your Rights
The Company will respond to requests to know, delete, and correct in accordance with applicable law if it can verify the identity of the individual submitting the request. You can exercise these rights in the following ways:
- Call: 800-551-9130
- Email: HR@wisintl.com
C. How We Will Verify Your Request
We match personal information that you provide us against personal information we maintain in our files. The more risk entailed by the request (e.g., a request for specific pieces of personal information), the more items of personal information we may request to verify your identity. If we cannot verify your identity to a sufficient level of certainty to respond securely to your request, we will let you know promptly and explain why we cannot verify your identity.
D. Company Non-Discrimination and Non-Retaliation Policy
The Company will not unlawfully discriminate or retaliate against you for exercising your privacy rights under the California Privacy Rights Act.
7) CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
If we change this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page and update the Privacy Policy modification date above.
For More Information
For questions or concerns about the Company’s privacy policies and practices, please contact us at HR@wisintl.com.