California Applicant Privacy Notice

• Section 1: Sources of Personal Data
• Section 2: Types of Personal Data We Collect
• Section 3: How We Use Personal Data
• Section 4: How We Disclose Personal Data
• Section 5: Cookies and Other Tracking Technology
• Section 6: Data Retention
• Section 7: Rights Concerning Personal Data
• Section 8: Contact Information

We’re glad you have chosen to apply at Sweetwater!

Sweetwater Sound, LLC together with its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, "Company" "us," "we," or "our") is committed to protecting the privacy of Personal Data (i.e., information reasonably related to a specific individual). This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) describes how we process Personal Data of California residents who apply for a job with us. If you interact with our website, purchase our products or services, or otherwise engage with us outside of the job application context, the privacy notice provided in connection with that interaction applies instead, not this Notice.

Whenever you interact with us on behalf of another individual or entity, such as if you provide us with names of other individuals as references in your job application, you must obtain their consent (or have the legal authority without consent) to share their Personal Data with us.

Changes: We may update this Notice from time to time. Any updated Notice will be effective when posted. Please check this Notice periodically for updates.

This Notice does not form part of any contract of employment or other contract to provide services and does not give you any contractual rights.

We Collect Personal Data about you from the following sources:

• Directly from you. We may collect Personal Data you provide to us directly, such as when you complete a paper or online application (including on a dedicated online talent management platform), communicate with us in connection with your application, provide references, or participate in an interview or any aptitude test or assessment (including online). We may also collect your Personal Data when you decide to complete questionnaires, such as a satisfaction survey or a diversity and inclusion questionnaire.

• Data collected automatically. We may automatically collect information or inferences from or about you or your device.

• From third parties. We may collect Personal Data from third parties, such as companies or individuals who direct or refer you to us (including third-party staffing or recruiting firms); our own employees and other personnel, such as in the context of providing feedback following an interview; and in connection with background checks, where permitted or otherwise authorized by law. We may also collect information from publicly available sources and third-party professional social networking websites.

We may combine information that we receive from the various sources described in this Notice, including third party sources, and use or disclose the combined information for the purposes identified below.

We may collect the following types of Personal Data about you:

• Identifiers, such as your name; email address; physical address; telephone number; device identifiers (including IP address); and other contact information.

• Records about you, such as salary and wage information; background check and drug screening information (where permitted or required by law); information from employment eligibility checks; disciplinary records; signatures; results of aptitude tests or similar evaluations; and feedback or other notes about you (including following interviews you participate in).

• Protected class and demographic information, such as your age (including birthdates), military or veteran status, and your gender.

• Commercial information, such as records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained or considered; or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

• Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as your application status through the candidate portal.

• Non-precise geolocation data, such as your location as derived from your IP address.

• Audio, electronic, visual, or other sensory information, such as photographs; security camera footage in public areas of Company facilities if you participate in on-site activities such as job fairs; and recordings of events or video interviews.

• Professional or employment-related information such as your employment history, professional qualifications, membership in professional organizations, and other resume data; job preferences (including your willingness to relocate or travel); documentation required under immigration and employment laws (such as citizenship, visa data, details of residency, and work permit information).

• Education information, such as education history and academic certificates and licenses.

• Inferences drawn from any information we collect to create a profile about you regarding preferences, characteristics, or behavior.

• Sensitive Personal Data, including the following, where permissible or required under applicable laws and regulations:

  • Social Security number, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number.
  • Racial or ethnic origin, or information about your religious or philosophical beliefs, if you chose to provide it.
  • Information about your health, such as disability status and related information, vaccination status, and food intolerances (for example, if we need the information to book you a flight for your job interview).
  • Information about your sexual orientation, should you choose to provide it.

We may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• In connection with your application, such as assessing your application, interview, and test results for suitability for the position for which you have applied or other open positions; communicating with you concerning job openings (including with our affiliates) or your application; conducting pre-employment verification and screening; and dealing with any inquiry, challenge, or request for feedback received in relation to our recruitment and hiring decisions.

• For our internal business and research purposes, such as enforcing our policies and rules; managing and improving our recruitment process; operating our diversity and inclusion initiatives; and IT administration.

• For legal, safety or security reasons, such as complying with legal, reporting, and similar requirements; investigating and responding to claims against the Company, its personnel, and its customers; for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; protecting our, your, our customers’, and other third parties’ safety (including managing spread of communicable diseases), property or rights; detecting, preventing, and responding to security incidents; and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.

• In connection with a corporate transaction, such as if we acquire, or some or all of our assets are acquired by another entity; or we engage in another form of corporate change.

We only use Sensitive Personal Information for the following purposes: (i) performing services or providing goods reasonably expected by an average consumer; (ii) detecting security incidents; (iii) resisting malicious, deceptive, or illegal actions; (iv) ensuring the physical safety of individuals; (v) for short-term, transient use, including non-personalized advertising; (vi) performing or providing internal business services; (vii) verifying or maintaining the quality or safety of a service or device; or (viii) for purposes that do not infer characteristics about you. We may use anonymized, de-identified, or aggregated information for any purpose.

We may disclose Personal Data to third parties, including the categories of recipients described below. We do not “sell” or “share” for targeted advertising job applicant Personal Data (as those terms are defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act). We disclose each of the categories of Personal Data we collect to the following categories of third parties for a business purpose:

• Affiliates and subsidiaries, including parent entities; corporate affiliates, subsidiaries, and business units; and other companies that share common ownership with us.

• Service providers that work on our behalf to provide products and services, such as IT support and software service providers.

• Third parties that independently maintain information about you, such as travel agencies; recruitment firms; background check vendors; and drug screening providers. We do not control the practices of such third parties, and you should consult their privacy notices for questions about their privacy practices.

• Professional consultants, such as recruiters; accountants; lawyers; financial advisors; and audit firms.

• Law enforcement, government agencies, and other recipients for legal, security, or safety purposes, such as when we share information to comply with law or legal requirements; to enforce or apply our policies; and to protect ours, our customers’, or third parties’ safety, property or rights.

• Other entities in connection with a corporate transaction, such as if we, or some or all of our assets, are acquired by another entity, including through a sale in connection with bankruptcy, or other forms of corporate change.

• Entities to which you have consented to the disclosure, where consent is required by law.

We may disclose anonymized, de-identified, or aggregated information for any purpose permitted by law.

How We Use Cookies on this Site

This Career Site may request cookies to be set on your device. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We do not link the information we store in cookies to Personally Identifiable Information you submit while on this career site. We use cookies to let us know when you visit this career site and how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to personalize your experience with this Career Site. You can change your cookie preferences by selecting to turn certain cookies off. Please note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on this career site and the services we are able to offer.

• Essential Cookies

  These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through this career site and to use some of its features. The Career Site gathers certain information automatically when a user interacts with the site and stores that information in log files. This information includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. These IP addresses are not stored after you end your session.

  We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to: (i) analyze trends; (ii) administer the site; (iii) track users' movements around the site; and (iv) gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this automatically collected data to personally identifiable information. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver this career site, you cannot refuse them without impacting how this site functions. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings, as described under the heading "How can I control cookies?".

  We use HTML5 Local Storage, to store content information and preferences. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing Local Storage. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on the Career Site or to display advertising based upon your web browsing activity also use Local Storage to store and collect information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing Local Storage.

• Performance and Functionality Cookies

  These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of this career site but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.

  We use both session cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate this career site. A session cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by changing your browser settings, as described under the heading "How can I control cookies?".

  We set a persistent cookie to store your password, so you don’t have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on this career site.

  We collect the user’s location based information for the purpose of matching the user job search criteria. We will only share this information with our mapping provider for the sole purpose of providing the user with the location based job search Service. The user may turn off any geo-location tracking at the device level. By turning off the location tracking, any geographically based Services on this Career Site will no longer be provided to you.

• Third-Party Cookies,

  This career site, and our partners, use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer this site, track users’ movements around this site, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Third-party cookies are also used to provide certain information from partner websites at the request of the user. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, as described under the heading “How can I control cookies?”.

  Our partners and service providers may use session cookies to anonymously track page interactions, which improves your site experience. Our third-party partners employ images and scripts, that help them better manage content on our site.

  Third Parties, with whom we partner to provide certain features on this career site or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity, use Flash cookies to collect and store information. Flash cookies are different from browser cookies because of the amount of, type of, and how data is stored. Cookie management tools provided by your browser will not remove Flash cookies. You can learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies, as described under the heading "How can I control cookies?" in the Cookie Statement.

  Our third-party partners do not tie the information gathered to our user’s personally identifiable information.

  Users can control the use of the following third-party cookies as follows:

  • LinkedIn: If a user logs into this Career Site through a LinkedIn profile, or chooses to apply to a job application via a LinkedIn profile, LinkedIn will use a third-party cookie on the Career Site. LinkedIn’s policies are governed by a wholly separate privacy policy and questions related to LinkedIn’s policies should be directed to that entity. By using LinkedIn to log in to or provide information to this career site, you are consenting to the third-party cookie on this Career Site.
  • Dropbox: If a user selects to upload any documents via a DropBox account, DropBox will use a third-party cookie on this Career Site. DropBox policies are governed by a wholly separate privacy policy and questions related to DropBox’s policies should be directed to that entity. By using DropBox to provide information to this career site, you are consenting to the third-party cookie on this Career Site.
  • Google Drive: If a user selects to upload any documents via a Google Drive account, Google Drive will use a third-party cookie on the Career Site. Google Drive policies are governed by a wholly separate privacy policy and questions related to Google Drive’s policies should be directed to that entity. By using Google Drive to provide information to this career site, you are consenting to the third-party cookie on the Career Site.
  • Google Maps: The Career Site provides geographical information for job applications. You can deny the use of this permission by declining the browser prompt to access your location information. By declining consent to the Google Maps cookie, certain features such as job distance, will be unavailable. This Career Site also uses a third-party tracking service called Google Analytics that uses cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to this career site in the aggregate (browser version, geographic region, click path, and bounce rates) to improve the end user experience.
• Declining Cookies If you decline consent to cookies, you may still use this career site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, will be limited. For example, you cannot receive job recommendations on this career site based on your browsing activity and this career site will not be able to personalize your experience. You will still be able to apply for jobs through our job application forms, log in to this career site using LinkedIn, join the Talent Community or subscribe to Similar Job Alerts.
• How can I control cookies?

  Personalization and Performance cookies can be controlled by checking or unchecking your consent on this page.

  Overall, you are able to control cookies from your browser-level settings. Each browser typically allows a user to enable, disable, block, allow, or remove cookies by visiting the settings, tools, or preferences tab that can be located within the browser itself. For additional questions regarding any specific browser, please contact your browser support directly.

Your Personal Data will be retained as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we have outlined above unless we are required to do otherwise by applicable law. This includes retaining your Personal Data for purposes consistent with the applicant-related context of our interactions; to improve our application and recruiting practices over time; to ensure the ongoing legality, safety and security of our services and relationships; and for other legitimate business purposes in accordance with our internal retention procedures.

California residents may have certain rights, subject to legal limitations, concerning the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Data under the CCPA, such as:

• Right to Know. You have the right to request information about the categories of Personal Data we have collected about you, the categories of sources from which we collected the Personal Data, the purposes for collecting, selling, or sharing the Personal Data, and to whom we have disclosed Personal Data and why. You may also request the specific pieces of Personal Data we have collected about you.
• Right to Delete. You have the right to request that we delete Personal Data that we have collected from you.
• Right to Correct. You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate Personal Data that we maintain about you.

California residents may request to exercise the rights above via emailing us at privacy@sweetwater.com, or by calling us at (800) 222-4700. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

Verification: In order to process requests, we will need to obtain information to locate you in our records or verify your identity depending on the nature of the request. In most cases, we will collect some or all of the following data elements: first and last name, email address, and telephone number. You may be required to click a link in your e-mail to verify you own that e-mail address. In some cases, we may request different or additional information, including a signed declaration that you are who you say you are, and will inform you if we need such information.

Authorized Agents: Authorized agents may exercise rights on behalf of California residents by submitting a request via this webform and indicating that they are submitting the request as an agent. We will require the agent to demonstrate authority to act on behalf of the resident by providing signed permission from the resident. We may also require the resident to verify their own identity directly with us or to directly confirm with us that they provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request.

If you have questions regarding this Privacy Notice or how we use your Personal Data, please contact us at: privacy@sweetwater.com or call (800) 222-4700.