49ers Privacy Notice for California Employees and Job Applicants

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS

PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA EMPLOYEES AND JOB APPLICANTS

Updated December 28, 2022

The San Francisco 49ers organization (the "49ers") is committed to protecting your privacy. The information that you provide to the 49ers, (sometimes referred to as "we", "us" or "our") is utilized in order for us to (among other things) consider you for employment, retain you as an employee and to maintain employment records.

This Notice to California Employees and Job Applicants ("Notice") applies to our offline and online data collection practices, including when you submit personal data for purposes of applying for and/or becoming a valued employee with the 49ers, and in the course of your employment with the 49ers, pursuant to California law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act ("CPRA"). If you are not an employee or a job applicant who is a California resident, this Notice does not apply to you.

Please note that if you are visiting our website or offline store as a customer, any of your personal information collected in that capacity is subject to the 49ers's Privacy Policy for consumers and applicable consumer rights. For more information, we encourage you to visit and review our Privacy Policy and California Users Notice.

Your Consent

Please review this Notice periodically. You should read this entire Notice before submitting information, including personal information, to us in any form. Whenever you submit personal information to us, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure, transfer, and storage of that information in accordance with this Notice.

All personal information may be used for the purposes stated in this Notice. We may make full use of all information that is de-identified, aggregated, or otherwise not in personally identifiable form.

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal Information

We collect personal information from you when you choose to voluntarily provide it for purposes of employment with the 49ers or applying for employment with the 49ers. We collect Personal Information, such as:

· personal identifiers such as your name, mailing address, email address, social security number, phone number, bank information, tax withholding information, dependent information (name, gender, date of birth, social security number, relationship) and emergency contact information;

· professional, employment and education information, such as information contained within your resume and cover letter, your employment and education history, skills, certifications, and language proficiency;

· biometric information such as your face, photographs, and/or video; and

· certain classification characteristics such as ethnicity, race, gender, and military status, if you choose to provide it.

We collect information about you through your browser, computer hardware and software. This information can include your IP address, device ID, browser type, domain names, access times and dates, number of clicks, pages viewed, one or more cookies (as described below) that may uniquely identify your browser, and referring website addresses.

HOW WE USE YOUR EMPLOYEE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use Personal Information of employees for a wide range of purposes, including:

• to communicate with you about the employment process and employment-related issues,
• to maintain internal employment records;
• to evaluate your candidacy for employment with us for specific roles or tasks within the company, and upon hiring, to facilitate the employment relationship, including for processing of payroll and benefits (including family health benefits);
• to maintain internal financial records (including paystubs and payment methods);
• for legal purposes and to ensure compliance with legal obligations and reporting regulations, including internal Human Resources policies;
• to ensure the security and safety of our premises, guests, employees and property; and
• to maintain any other business operations.

HOW WE DISCLOSE YOUR EMPLOYEE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Service Providers and Contractors

We disclose Personal Information you provide to consultants, service providers, and contractors that we use to support our business and operations who have agreed to keep the information confidential and use it only to provide the applicable service(s) such as vendors that help us communicate with you, vendors that host our website and data, security and fraud detection vendors.

Legal Obligations

We may disclose Personal Information to outside parties (including, without limitation, governmental agencies) if required to do so by law, regulation or court order; to respond to governmental and/or law enforcement requests; to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interfering with our (or others') rights or property; to support any actual or threatened claim, defense or declaration in a case or before any jurisdictional and/or administrative authority, arbitration or mediation panel; or in connection with disciplinary actions/investigations.

Sale or Corporate Restructuring

We may disclose Personal Information to non-parties in connection with the sale, assignment or other transfer of the business of our website or the sale, assignment, merger, reorganization or other transfer of our brand or company.

To see a complete list of what we collect and how we use and disclose that information, please see our Annex 1.

RIGHTS UNDER THE CCPA AND CPRA

Under California law, as an employee or job applicant, you are afforded several rights, as discussed further below, about the personal information collected about you. However, there are several exceptions that may apply. These exceptions to the right to request to access, correct, amend, and/or delete your personal information may include our right to maintain personal information of employees for business purposes and solely internal uses reasonable aligned with the expectations of the employee, as well as to comply with any legal obligations, including maintaining proper employee records, or maintaining privilege or confidentiality of certain records, in compliance with applicable U.S. and California labor laws and legal rights.

RIGHT TO KNOW ABOUT PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED OR DISCLOSED

*Personal Information Collected *

We have collected the categories of personal information about California employees and job applicants as described in Annex 1 to this Notice. To review these categories click here: Annex 1.

Information Sold or Shared

We have not sold or shared personal information about California employees and job applicants in the past 12 months.

We have disclosed the following categories of personal information about California employees and job applicants for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding 12 months:

· personal identifiers including your name, mailing address, email address, social security number, and phone number for payroll processing; and

· personal identifiers including your name, mailing address and social security number for background screening.

For details regarding the categories of third parties with whom we have disclosed personal information, please see Annex 1.

Requests to Know

You have the right to request that we disclose personal information we collect about you.

To make a request for any of the information set forth above (a "Request to Know"), please submit a verifiable employee request pursuant to the instructions below. You may only make a Request to Know twice within a 12-month period. We will acknowledge your Request to Know within 10 days and will attempt to respond substantively within 45-90 days.

The Request to Know must provide sufficient information to allow us to verify that you are the person about whom the personal information was collected or disclosed and must contain sufficient detail to allow us to properly understand, evaluate and respond to your request. If we cannot verify your identity, we will not be able to respond to your request.

You can make a Request to Know the personal information we have about you by emailing HR@49ers.com or by calling us at (408) 986-4840.

Once we receive your Request to Know, we will begin the process to verify that you are the person that is the subject of the request (the "Verification Process"). The Verification Process consists of matching identifying information provided by you with the information we have about you in our records.

RIGHT TO KNOW SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED

We collect and use your Sensitive Personal Information as described in Annex 1.

We do not collect or process sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics.

RIGHT TO REQUEST DELETION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information collected or maintained by us ("Request to Delete"), subject to certain exceptions permitted by law.

To make a Request to Delete, please submit a verifiable employee request pursuant to the instructions below. We will acknowledge your Request to Delete within 10 days and will attempt to respond substantively within 45-90 days.

The Request to Delete must provide sufficient information to allow us to verify that you are the person about whom the personal information was collected, sold or disclosed and must contain sufficient detail to allow us to properly understand, evaluate and respond to your request. If we cannot verify your identity, we will not be able to respond to your request. Additionally, as permitted by law, if the information requested to be deleted is necessary for us to maintain, we will not be able to comply with your request. We will notify you if this is the case.

You can make a Request to Delete by emailing HR@49ers.com or by calling us at (408) 986-4840.

Once we receive your initial request to delete and your separate confirmation to delete, we will need to verify that you are the person that is the subject of the request (the "Verification Process"). The Verification Process consists of matching identifying information provided by you with the information we have about you in our records.

We will retain correspondence, documents and information related to any Request to Know, Request to Delete, or Request to Opt-Out for 24 months as required by law.

RIGHT TO CORRECT

You have the right to request that we rectify inaccurate information about you.

Requests to Correct

To make a Request to Correct, please submit a verifiable employee request pursuant to the instructions below. We will acknowledge your Request to Correct within 10 business days and we will attempt to respond substantively within 45-90 days.

You can make a Request to Correct with Human Resources by emailing HR@49ers.com or by calling us at (408) 986-4840.

Once we receive your request to correct, we will need to verify that you are the person that is the subject of the request through the Verification Process.

We will review all information provided by you to us, to determine whether the information is inaccurate. We reserve the right to delete the information instead of correcting if such deletion does not impact you or you consent to the deletion.

We will inform you of our decision to deny or grant your request.

We will retain correspondence, documents and information related to any Request to Correct for 24 months as required by law.

RIGHT TO NON-DISCRIMINATION FOR EXERCISING CONSUMER PRIVACY RIGHTS

You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your privacy rights conferred by the California Consumer Privacy Act, including by exercising the rights specified herein.

RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will retain your Personal Information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in Annex 1 and to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

AUTHORIZED AGENT INFORMATION

You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf under the California Consumer Privacy Act.

In order to allow an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, please email HR@49ers.com or call us at (408) 986-4840, and provide your written request and consent to an authorized agent.

When your authorized agent makes a request related to your personal information, we will require the agent to provide the above written permission. We may also require that you verify your own identity directly with us at the time such a request is made.

CHANGES TO THIS EMPLOYEE NOTICE

This Employee Notice may be revised from time to time for any reason. If this Employee Notice changes, the revised Notice will include a new effective date, and we will notify you of such changes by posting the revised policy on this page. Be sure to check the Notice whenever you submit personal information to us.

GOVERNING LAW

This Notice along with our privacy practices will be subject exclusively to the laws of the State of California, United States of America. We make no representation that this Notice and its practices comply with the laws of other jurisdictions.

CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION

For information and questions about the use of your personal information or this Employee Notice or your rights under California law, you may contact Human Resources at HR@49ers.com.

ANNEX 1

Notice of Collection, Use, and Disclosure

See our Privacy Policy here