IQTalent Partners, Inc. (“we,” “our,” or “IQ Talent”) respects your privacy and is committed to providing a transparent Notice at Collection and Privacy Policy for California Residents. This Notice and Privacy Policy for California Residents applies solely to those who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”).

The purpose of this privacy notice and disclosure is to inform California residents, at or before the time we collect your personal information, and to provide consumers with a comprehensive description of our online and offline practices regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and sale of personal information and of the rights of consumers regarding their personal information:

• Notice at Collection
  • Notice at or before the point of collection, about the categories of personal information to be collected from you and the purposes for which the personal information will be used.
• Your “Right to Know” about personal information collected, disclosed or sold:
  • Categories of personal information we collected in the preceding 12 months
  • Categories of sources from which personal information is collected
  • Categories of personal information, if any, we disclosed or sold in the preceding 12 months
  • For each category identified as disclosed or sold, categories of third parties to whom the information was disclosed or sold
• Your right to opt-out of the sale of personal information and transparency about what personal information we sell
• Your right to request deletion of your personal information
• How to submit a verified consumer request for your Right to Know or Right to Delete
• How to use an authorized agent to submit a verified consumer request
• Your Right to Non-Discrimination for the exercise of your privacy rights
• Other California privacy rights
• Changes to our privacy notice
• Our contact information

Notice at Collection and Privacy Policy for California Residents

Notice at Collection

The purpose of this Notice at Collection is to provide you with timely notice, at or before the point of collection, about the categories of personal information to be collected from you and the purposes for which the personal information will be used.

Please note that 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 (CalFIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

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

• To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided, for example, to match job candidates with open positions with our partners;
• For our internal operation and business purposes;
• To source potential job candidates, to recruit professionals for positions with our partner companies, and to facilitate executive searches;
• For auditing relating to our business transactions including compliance with regulations;
• Fraud and security detection;
• Debugging to identify and repair errors;
• For servicing and maintaining accounts with our customers and partners (e.g., customer service, maintaining and servicing accounts, verification, payment processing) and providing services on behalf of business or service provider (e.g., financing, advertising or marketing, analytics);
• 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 a bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred;
• Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration;
• Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business;
• To share the personal information with service providers to carry out other business purposes.

We will not use your personal information for a purpose materially different from those disclosed in this Notice at Collection unless we directly notify you and obtain explicit consent to use it for the new purpose.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

Privacy Policy

The purpose of this privacy policy is to provide you with a comprehensive description our online and offline practices regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and sale of personal information and of your rights regarding your personal information.

Your Right to Know

You have the right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell. You can do this through a verified consumer request. That process is described below in the section, “Submitting a Verified Consumer Request.”

We collect personal information, which means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household (“personal information”). The following table includes disclosures for the preceding 12 months of: categories of personal information we have collected about consumers, the categories we have disclosed for a business purpose, and categories of third parties with whom we shared the personal information during that period.

The categories identified as collected in the table above were collected from the following categories of sources:

• You directly
• Internet service providers
• Data analytics providers
• Operating systems and platforms
• Social and professional network sites
• Data brokers

What We Sell and Right to Opt-Out

We have sold personal information to third parties in the preceding 12 months as disclosed in the table below.

The purpose of the notice of Right to Opt-out is to inform you that as a California resident, you have the right to direct us to stop selling your personal information, which is called the “Right to Opt-Out.”

You may exercise your Right to Opt-Out by clicking “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” to use the interactive form or by submitting a request via phone by calling 629-255-0709

Authorized Agent for Opt-Out: If you use an authorized agent to exercise your right to opt-out of the sale of personal information, please note that IQTalent Partners requires that the authorized agent submit proof in the form of an authorization signed by you that the authorized agent has been authorized to act on your behalf.

We do not have actual knowledge that we sell the personal information of minors under 16 years of age.

Your Right to Request Deletion of Your Personal Information

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information collected by us, subject to certain exceptions. You can do this through a verified consumer request. That process is described below in the section, “Submitting a Verified Consumer Request.”

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

• 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, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
• Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
• 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.
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
• Comply with a legal obligation.
• Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Submitting a Verified Consumer Request

You have the right to submit verified consumer requests to know information or for deletion. The request to know can be for any or all of the following:

(1) Specific pieces of personal information that we have collected about you;

(2) Categories of personal information we have collected about you;

(3) Categories of sources from which the personal information was collected;

(4) Categories of personal information that we sold or disclosed for a business purpose about you;

(5) Categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and

(6) The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.

Please note that we are not required to provide personal information to you more than twice in a 12-month period.  We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

You can submit requests using the following by calling 629-255-0709 or through our webform, found here.

Your request will be verified using the information you provide us as noted in our webform, found here. If you call 629-255-0709 you will be asked to provide the same information requested on the form for verification purposes.

Once we receive your verifiable consumer request, we will confirm receipt of the request within 10 business days which will describe our verification process. We will respond to your request within 45 calendar days, if we are able to verify your identity. Requests for deletion will require a separate confirmation that you want your information deleted.

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.

Please note that, in responding to our request, we are not permitted to disclose or provide you with your Social Security number, driver’s license number or other government-issued identification number, financial account number, any health insurance or medical identification number, an account password, security questions and answers, or unique biometric data generated from measurements or technical analysis of human characteristics.  However, we will inform you with sufficient particularity that we have collected the type of information without disclosing the actual data.

Requests to Know or Delete for Child Under the Age of 13

We do not knowingly collect information of minors under the age of 13.

Using an Authorized Agent to Submit a Request

Only you, or a natural person or a business entity registered with the Secretary of State to conduct business in California that a you have 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. If you use an authorized agent, you may provide a power of attorney executed pursuant to California Probate Code sections 4000 to 4465. If a power of attorney that meets those provisions is not submitted, you will be required to provide the authorized agent signed permission to submit a request, verify your identity directly with us, and directly confirm with us that you provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request.

Requests to Access or Delete Household Information

We will not comply with a request to know specific pieces of information or a request to delete household person information unless all consumer of the household jointly request access to specific pieces of information or deletion, we can individual verify all members of the household and we can verify the each member is currently a member of the household.  If a member of a household is a minor under 13, we must obtain verifiable consent before complying with a request for specific pieces of information for the household or deletion of household personal information.

Your Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Privacy Right

You have a right not to receive discriminatory treatment by the business for the exercise of the privacy rights conferred by the CCPA. 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.

Other California Privacy Rights

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to legal@iqtalent.com or write us at: 201 4^th Avenue North Ste. 1300

Nashville, TN 37219.

IQTalent Partners responds to Do Not Sell Opt-Out requests as disclosed in the section “What we Sell and Right to Opt-Out.”  Otherwise, IQTalent Partners does not respond to Web browser “do not track” signals or other mechanisms.

Other parties may collect personally identifiable information about your activities over time and across different Web sites when a consumer uses our Web site or service.

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 for More Information

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

Address:
201 4^th Avenue North Ste. 1300
Nashville, TN 37219

Phone:
(629) 255-0709

Email:
legal@iqtalent.com

Submit a CCPA request

Verified Consumer Request Form

We take our obligation to protect your data very seriously. To process your data request, we need some basic information from you. We will only use personal information provided in a Verifiable Consumer Request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

The information requested in this form is necessary to verify you are the person authorized to make this request, to locate you within our systems, and to determine whether we may have a lawful reason to deny your request. 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 that the personal information relates to you.

Complete the form below or email your information to legal@iqtalent.com .

For more information, please go to Privacy Notice and Disclosure for California Residents.