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WorldLink California Consumer Privacy Act Notice
Effective Date: 03/01/2024
Last Updated: 03/01/2024
This privacy notice supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumer” or “you”). We adopt this Policy to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (collectively, the “CCPA”), and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
Categories of Information We Collect
We may collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal information”). In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
Category | Examples | Collected |
A. Identifiers: | A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, or other contact information. | YES |
B. Personal Information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). | A name, address, telephone number, banking information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. | YES |
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. | Race, ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, age, or sex (including gender). | YES |
D. Commercial information. | Records products, services or services purchased, obtained, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. | YES |
E. Biometric information. | Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as fingerprints, faceprints, voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. | NO |
F. Internet or other similar network activity. | Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, operating system and web browser information. | YES |
G. Geolocation data. | Physical location or movements. | YES |
H. Sensory data. | Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. | YES |
I. Professional or employment-related information. | Current job history or job title. | YES |
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)). | Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. | YES |
K. Inferences drawn from other Personal Information. | Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. | NO |
L. Sensitive Personal Information | Race, ethnic background, social security numbers, driver’s license, state identification card, passport number, or precise geolocation. | YES |
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 (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.
- Directly from you. For example, from information you provide us or communications you have with us.
- Third parties. For example, personal or anonymized information about you from third-party companies that provide services that are used in together with our Services. For example, we may collect information such as your name, location, email address, and publicly available information for contacts from social networking sites, including Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, and LinkedIn if you subscribe or follow our page on such social networks. We may also collect Aggregated Data (described below) via Google Analytics.
- Technical and Communication Data. For example, automatically collected information about your devices, software, and web browser to provide you with a personalized experience.
- To communicate with you regarding our services.
- To complete the payment transactions for the purchase of our services.
- To respond to your general inquiries.
- To receive your job application for an open job position and communicate with a job applicant.
- To improve our Services.
- To make our website more compatible with your devices and browsers.
- To allow you to exercise your consumer access rights when applicable.
- To maintain the security of our Services.
- To comply with laws, regulations, court orders, or other legal processes.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights.
- To process your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
- Category A: Identifiers.
- Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
- Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
- Category D: Commercial information.
- Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
- Category G: Geolocation data.
- Category H: Sensory data.
- Category I: Professional or employment-related information.
- Category J: Non-public education information.
- Category L: Sensitive Personal Information.
- Category A: Identifiers.
- Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
- Category D: Commercial information
- Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
- Category I: Professional or employment-related information.
- Affiliates: Any member of our corporate group, which means our affiliates, our ultimate holding company and its affiliates. When we do so, our affiliates will use your data in a manner consistent with this Policy and all applicable data privacy laws.
- Service Providers: Contractors, service providers, and other third parties (“Service Providers”) we use to support our business. This includes IT infrastructure providers, payment processors, service providers (e.g., job applicant background checks, HR management, and benefits providers), vendors, and consultants. These Service Providers are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information in accordance with our Policy and applicable privacy laws.
- Government, Agencies, Courts, or Litigants: We may share your personal data with third parties when we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to comply with a law, regulation, court order, or other legal processes or to detect, prevent, investigate and respond to fraud or intellectual property infringement claims, violations of our contracts or agreements, violations of law, or other misuse of our website or Products and Services.
- Driver’s license, state identification cards, or passport number (when collected).
- Social Security Number (when collected).
- Race and ethnic origin (when collected).
- The categories of personal information we collected about you.
- The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
- The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
- The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
- If we disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, a list identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
- Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide goods or services that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform services for 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.).
- 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.
- The volume, nature, and sensitivity of your information;
- The potential risk of unauthorized access, use or disclosure, or misappropriation;
- The purposes for which we process your personal information; and
- The retention obligations under applicable legal requirements.
- Emailing us at: privacy-request@worldlink-us.com
- Calling us at 1-800-673-6155
- Use the following link to submit your request: REQUEST FORM
- Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
- Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
- 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 with 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.
