Your privacy is very important to us and we take your privacy very seriously. This Privacy Policy describes how Social Expansion LLC, doing business as TalentPop (“Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects and uses the personal information you provide to us on our website and all other websites, mobile sites, applications, platforms and tools where this Privacy Policy appears or is linked, and through the use of our services, (collectively the “Site”). It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.
We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are subject to various laws in the United States, the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, and the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union, and we are responsible as “controller” of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
By creating an account, providing information to us (by any means, whether in correspondence, via our Site, or otherwise), or continuing to use our services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and consent to be bound by this Privacy Policy.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY OR OUR PRACTICES, YOU MAY NOT USE OUR SITE. THIS PRIVACY POLICY MAY CHANGE FROM TIME TO TIME AND YOUR CONTINUED USE OF OUR SITE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THOSE CHANGES. WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY PERIODICALLY.
1. Personal Information We Collect About You.
We may collect and use the following personal information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household (“personal information”):
This personal information is required to provide our services to you. If you do not provide personal information we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from providing our services to you.
2. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files of information stored by the Internet browser on your computer’s hard drive. We may use these cookies to collect browsing data to keep track of your preferences and profile information and to collect general usage and volume statistical information. Our cookies do not collect personal or confidential information and are not spyware.
There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our Site uses:
Web Beacons
Our Site contains electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) and are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyze how our Site is used and may be used in some of our emails to let us know which emails and links have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of our customer communications and marketing campaigns. We use a third party to gather information about how you and others use our Site. For example, we will know how many users access a specific page and which links they clicked on. We use this aggregated information to understand and optimize how our Site is used.
Targeted Advertising
Targeted Advertising (also known as online behavioral advertising) uses information collected on an individual’s web browsing behavior such as the pages they have visited or the searches they have made. Third parties collect this information by placing or accessing cookies in your browser when you visit this Site, or other, websites. If you would like to learn more about the third party advertisers that may be aware of the fact that you visit the Site, and to understand your choices about having such advertisers’ cookies turned off, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, http://www.youronlinechoices.com/, or http://www.networkadvertising.org/.
How to Manage Cookies.
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject certain cookies. You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above websites tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our Site features may not function as a result. Essential cookies cannot be rejected, as they are strictly necessary to provide you with our Site.
3. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities sold or shared.
At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signal.
However, we respect the GPC signal. If you have enabled the GPC setting in your browser, we will not sell or share your personal information with third parties.
4. Promotional Communications.
We may use your personal information to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone or post) about our services, including exclusive offers, promotions or new services.
We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal information for promotional purposes (see below “How and why we use your personal information”). This means we do not usually need your consent to send you promotional communications. However, where consent is needed, we will ask for this consent separately and clearly.
You have the right to opt out of receiving promotional communications at any time by:
We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you instruct us to provide further services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.
5. How Your Personal Information is Collected.
We collect most of this personal information directly from you—in person, by telephone, text or email Site. However, we may also collect information:
6. How and Why We Use Your Personal Information.
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal information if we have a proper reason for doing so, e.g.:
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.
The table below explains what we use (process) your personal information for and our reasons for doing so:
We may also anonymize, aggregate or de-identify personal information so the end-product does not identify you or any other individual. For example, we may use this information to generate norms by industry, geography, level, etc., enable us to understand where our services are being utilized, conduct ongoing validation studies, compile reports, and improve the services. Such aggregated, anonymized or de-identified information is not considered personal information for purposes of this Privacy Policy and we may use it for any purpose.
7. Who We Share Your Personal Information With.
We routinely share personal information with:
We only allow our service providers to handle your personal information if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal information. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers relating to ensure they can only use your personal information to provide services to us and to you.
We may also need to share some personal information with other parties to the extent we believe it is necessary or appropriate to (1) protect our operations and those of our affiliates and subsidiaries; (2) investigate and prevent against fraud and other illegal activity; (3) protect our rights, privacy, safety, property, and/or those of others; or (4) allow us to pursue available remedies or limit damages that we may sustain.
We may disclose your personal information for other reasons described at the time of information collection or prior to disclosing your information. Additionally, we may disclose your personal information with your consent or when you direct us to do so.
Except as set forth above, we will not share your personal information with any other third party.
8. How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept.
We will keep your personal information while you have an account with us or while we are providing our services to you. Thereafter, we will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary:
We will not retain your personal information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Different retention periods apply for different types of personal information. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of personal information; the potential risk from unauthorized use or disclosure of the personal information; the purpose(s) for which we use or may use the personal information; whether we can achieve the purpose(s) through other means; and the applicable legal requirements.
9. Children and our Site.
Our Site is not directed to children, and you may not use our Site if you are under the age of 18. If you are under 18, do not use our services, access the Site, or provide any information about yourself including, without limitation, your name, address, email address or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn that we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, we will purge such information from our database and cancel the corresponding accounts. If you believe we may have any information from or about a child under 13, please see our “How to Contact Us” Section below. Please visit the FTC's website at www.ftc.gov for tips on protecting children's privacy online.
10. Keeping Your Personal Information Secure.
We use reasonable and appropriate physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect your information from unauthorized use, access, loss, alteration, or disclosure.
However, the transmission of information via the Internet is never completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Service.
11. Where Your Personal Information is Held.
Information may be held at our offices and those of our third party agencies, service providers, representatives and agents as described above (see above: “Who We Share Your Personal Information with”).
Some of these third parties may be based outside the country where we originally collected your personal information. For more information, including on how we safeguard your personal information when this occurs, see below: “International Transfers of Personal Information”.
12. International Transfers of Personal Information.
To bring you our Site and our services, we operate globally. Therefore, it is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal information outside the country where we originally collected your personal information, e.g.:
These transfers may be subject to special rules under local data protection law.
These outside countries do not have the same data protection laws as the country where we originally collected the personal information. In particular, you are advised that the United States of America uses a sectoral model of privacy protection that relies on a mix of legislation, governmental regulation, and self-regulation. We will, however, ensure the transfer complies with data protection law and all personal information will be secure. If you are located outside the United States, we will only transfer your personal information if:
Our Company is headquartered in the United States and utilizes service providers both in the United States and throughout the world. As such, our Company and our service providers may transfer your personal information to, or access it in, jurisdictions that may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your home jurisdiction.
Where the laws of your country allow you to do so, by using the Site or our services, you consent and authorize our Company to transfer, store, and use all such information in the United States of America and any other country where we operate which may not offer an equivalent level of protection to that required in the country where you reside and to the processing of that information by us on its servers located in the United States of America as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not want your personal information transferred to the United States of America and any other country where we operate, please do not submit any information to us or use our services.
If you would like further information, please contact us (see “How To Contact Us” below).
13. Your Rights and Choices.
If you are located in the located in the European Economic Area, the UK, or you reside in Canada or the State of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia please go to our Privacy Notice Addendum to learn about additional rights you may have under applicable data protection laws.
14. Third Party Websites.
If, in your interactions with the Site, you are linked or directed to, or click on, a third party website, we cannot control what information you may provide to that party or on that website, and we are not responsible for how that party may use or disclose any information you may provide to them. This is not as an endorsement by us of any third party website, content that may be offered on such third party website, or of any products or services provided by such third party. We do not control, nor are we responsible for, such third party website, product or service offerings. As such, we urge that you exercise caution before providing them with your personal information and to review the third party’s privacy policy for information on its data processing practice.
You should contact the site administrator for such third party website if you have any complaints, claims, concerns or questions regarding such third party website or its privacy practices.
15. Changes to this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy was published on the date “Last Updated” above.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be made by updating this page. Please visit this Privacy Policy regularly to read the current version.
16. How to Contact Us.
Please contact us by post, email or telephone if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the information we hold about you.
Our contact details are shown below:
Social Expansion LLC DBA TalentPop
1954 Placentia Ave, Suite 208
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Email: team@talentpop.co, security@talentpop.co
PRIVACY NOTICE ADDENDUM
This Privacy Notice Addendum (“Notice”) supplements the information contained in the above Privacy Policy and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others located in the European Economic Area, the UK, or who reside in Australia, Canada or the State of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, ("consumers" or "you").
We adopt this Notice to comply with the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (GDPR), the UK version of the GDPR, the California Shine the Lights law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), the Colorado Privacy Act of 2021, the Connecticut Data Privacy Act of 2022, the Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act of 2023, the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act of 2024, the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act of 2024, the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act of 2024, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act of 2022, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act of 2023, and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable (collectively, the "Statutes"). Any terms defined in the Statutes will have the same meaning when used in this Notice. Any terms used in this Notice but undefined herein shall have the meaning provided in the Privacy Policy.
As further set forth in our Privacy Policy, we may collect certain information that is (i) linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual or natural person, or (ii) that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a consumer or household, or (iii) as further defined in the Statutes as “Personal Data” or “Personal Information,” as further described in our Privacy Policy.
17. Shine the Light Law.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law permits individuals who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.
18. Personal Information We Sold or Disclosed for a Business Purpose.
In the preceding 12 months, we have sold to one or more third parties the following categories of personal 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:
In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed for a business purpose to one or more third parties the following categories of personal 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:
19. Your Rights Under the CCPA.
You may have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to exercise free of charge:
20. Your Rights Under Other State Privacy Laws
Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, also provide consumers who are residents of these states with certain rights regarding their Personal Data. This section describes the rights you may have under these state privacy laws, under certain circumstances and subject to certain exceptions. Please contacts us if you have any questions about your rights under these state privacy laws.
21. Your Rights Under the GDPR and the UK GDPR.
In some regions (like the European Economic Area and the UK), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws.
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the guidance from the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) on individual rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.
The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live, or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The current list of supervisory authorities is provided here: https://www.edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en.
22. Canada’s Personal Information Protection And Electronic Documents Act
The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) provides consumers who are Canadian residents with specific rights regarding their Personal Information. This section describes your rights under PIPEDA and explains how to exercise those rights.
We maintain procedures for addressing and responding to all inquiries or complaints from you about our handling of Personal Information. We will inform individuals who make inquiries or lodge complaints of the existence of relevant complaint procedures. We may seek external advice where appropriate before providing a final response to individual complaints. We shall investigate all complaints. If a complaint is found to be justified, we will take appropriate measures, including, if necessary, amending our policies and procedures.
23. How to Exercise Your Rights.
If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Notice, please:
Please note that you may be restricted on the number of data access or data portability disclosures you may make within a 12-month period.
If you choose to contact us, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your request. In order to help protect your privacy and maintain security, you will need to provide us with:
In addition, if you ask us to provide you with specific pieces of personal information, we may require you to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose personal information is the subject of the request.
You may use a representative, called an "authorized agent," to submit a request to us.
In some states, an authorized agent must be a natural person, or a business entity registered with the appropriate Secretary of State, that you have authorized to act on your behalf.
In order to protect your privacy, Company requires you to confirm that you have provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request and you must provide the authorized agent with signed permission. "Signed" means that the written attestation, declaration, or permission has either been physically signed or provided electronically pursuant to the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. In California, an authorized agent that has power of attorney pursuant to California Probate Code section 4121 to 4130 must submit proof of statutory power of attorney, but in such cases, consumer verification will not be required.
Company may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized to act on your behalf. Requests submitted by an authorized agent will still require verification of the person who is the subject of the request in accordance with the process described above.
We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information, or is someone authorized to act on such person’s behalf.
Any personal information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with you request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.