Privacy Policy
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Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to www.careerpuck.com and CareerPuck Inc and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to CareerPuck Inc include www.careerpuck.com and CareerPuck. The CareerPuck website is a Career site. By using the CareerPuck website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
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Collection of Anonymous Information
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Puck collects personal information about people who are applying to open roles, as well as about people who are employed at our business customers, "Business Users".
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Puck is not an ATS (Applicant Tracking System). The employers who work with Puck, store applicant information in Applicant Tracking Systems, along with records on the interview process. Puck passes along all candidate information to the Applicant Tracking System used by our employer partners for applicant review by our employer partners.
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‍Collection of Anonymous Information

CareerPuck may collect anonymous demographic information, via video or text which may or may not be unique to you, such as your:• Age• Gender• Race• Religion• Political Affiliation. CareerPuck may collect demographic information, via the benefits estimator or other employment resources, such as your:• Income• Household Size and Status• Employment Status• Expected future earnings data. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through CareerPuck's public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
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Collection of Personal Information
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For candidates, or prospective candidates, we collect information from third parties. We collect your Personal Information from your public profiles (such as professional social media, and other public platforms, data brokers, data vendors and from our business customers. 

For Business Users, or employees of our business customers, we collect additional information directly from you, such as contact information, professional and employment information, your name and potentially your Puck podcast recording. We also collect passive information about your use of our employer dashboard to help us make better decisions over time.

What we do with your Personal Information

Sharing Information about Prospective Candidate Users with Third Parties

‍If you are a candidate, or prospective candidate, we may share your Personal Information, including contact information, employment information, demographic information and other inferred data from the prior categories with our business customers for employment recruiting purposes. Specifically, we enable our business customers and Business Users to help them find and connect with people who may be able to fill their open roles. By sharing your personal Information with our business customers, our goal is to help you be professionally successful and receive career opportunities from companies that may be of interest to you.

Sharing Information about Business Users with Third Parties

CareerPuck does not sell, rent or lease its business customer lists to third parties. CareerPuck may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners, prospective employers or hiring intermediaries about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party without your consent. CareerPuck may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries.All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to CareerPuck, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. CareerPuck may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on CareerPuck or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of CareerPuck; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of CareerPuck, or the public.

Tracking User Behavior

CareerPuck may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within CareerPuck, in order to determine what CareerPuck services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within CareerPuck to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. Personal behavioral tracking data may include mouse movements, eye movements and video recording data, such as what you are wearing or the lighting of your video recording.‍

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by CareerPuck. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. If you access our site through a mobile phone, this may include your location data. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the CareerPuck website.

Retention

We retain information for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it is collected, and to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations under applicable law. In determining how long to retain Information, we consider the sensitivity and type of information, the purpose that we’re using the information for, and applicable laws. The purposes for which we use information may require different retention periods for the same types of information. For example, we may retain your email address as an authentication credential as long as you have an active account with us and for some period after you close your account for compliance purposes.

However, information on candidates, or prospective candidates, will be retained as long as it would be useful to potential employers and recruiters. This could conceivably be for the duration of your career in the workforce, but we will not retain your data for longer than twenty years. Of course, you may request that we delete your data at any time, and we will comply with such a request within a calendar month. Although, we will attempt to do it more promptly than that, as soon as the request is received. 

Please note that to verify our compliance with your request to delete your data, we may need to maintain a minimum amount of data. We will not share this information for use in our service, but solely for the compliance records that we have complied with your data deletion request.

Use of Cookies

The CareerPuck website may use"cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize CareerPuck pages, or register with CareerPuck site or services, a cookie helps CareerPuck to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same CareerPuck website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the CareerPuck features that you customized. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the CareerPuck services or websites you visit. ‍

Links

This website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information. ‍

Security of your Personal Information

CareerPuck secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. CareerPuck uses the following methods for this purpose: • SSLProtocol When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed. ‍

Children Under Thirteen

CareerPuck does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website. ‍

Disconnecting your CareerPuck Account from Third Party Websites

You may be able to connect your CareerPuck account to third party accounts. BY CONNECTING YOUR CAREERPUCK ACCOUNT TO YOUR THIRD PARTY ACCOUNT, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE CONSENTING TO THE CONTINUOUS RELEASE OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOU TO OTHERS (IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS ON THOSE THIRD PARTY SITES). IF YOU DO NOT WANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU, INCLUDING PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION, TO BE SHARED IN THIS MANNER, DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE. You may disconnect your account from a third party account at any time. There are multiple ways to disconnect from 3rd party websites. These include allowing a user to delete their contact information, to delete their profiles or log onto 3rd party sites and to remove posts to those sites.

E-mail Communications

From time to time, CareerPuck may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email fromCareerPuck or click on a link therein. If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from CareerPuck, you may opt out of such communications by clicking the unsubscribe link in our emails.

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted. ‍

Changes to this Statement

CareerPuck reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy. ‍

Contact Information

CareerPuck welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that CareerPuck has not adhered to this Statement, please contact CareerPuck at:

CareerPuck Inc (Attn: Tali Rapaport)
2443 Fillmore Street, #205, San Francisco, CA 94115

Email Address: admin@careerpuck.com

Effective as of June 7. 2024

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