Indirect data collection and cookies

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• Purpose

• Type

• Duration

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• Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account

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• January 1, 2025

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• Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account

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• January 1, 2025

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• Persistent

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• Two weeks

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• Session

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• Remembers a logged in Scheduling client's username between visits

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• One year

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• Session

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• Two weeks

Locked

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• Session

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• One year

PHPSESSID

• Securely authenticates a visitor during their checkout in Scheduling

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• One month

RecentRedirect

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• 30 minutes

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• Remembers Scheduling client’s login details if they have an account

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• 365 days

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• Three years

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• Three years

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• Three years

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• Remembers video player selected preferences ( volume, playback speed, and quality) for videos uploaded directly to Squarespace

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• Persistent

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• 30 days

ss_sd

• Ensures that visitors on the Squarespace 5 platform remain authenticated during their sessions

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• Persistent

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• Duration

• Purpose

ss_cid

• Two years

• Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cpvisit

• Two years

• Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cvisit

• 30 minutes

• Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cvr

• Two years

• Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cvt

• 30 minutes

• Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

 How we use personal information

We may use Personal Information to respond to your inquiries and answer your questions about our Services. We may use your Personal Information in order to provide and improve the Services, such as sourcing, identifying, assessing, and retaining talent for executive or board positions and teams, sending you executive or board positions that may be of interest to you, assessing recruitment teams and organizations in efforts to improve their performance and culture, providing advisory guidance on needs and trends for our clients, sharing thought recruitment that may be of interest to you, providing support to our clients in relation to their use of our Services and maintaining, improving and training our Services.

We also may use Personal Information for the purposes of securing, improving, and maintaining our website and IT systems and other business administration purposes, including as necessary to meet our legal and compliance obligations or in connection with regulatory inquiries, audits, legal claims, subpoenas, warrants, or other government/regulator/judicial processes or requests.

Some jurisdictions require that we explain the legal bases we rely on to collect, use, and share your Personal Information. We rely on several different legal bases to use your Personal Information, including: (i) as necessary to perform a transaction (in order to respond to your request, such as for information about a specific Service); (ii) as necessary to comply with a legal obligation (such as when we use Personal Information for record keeping to substantiate tax liability); (iii) consent (such as to send marketing or certain cookies, and process sensitive Personal Information); and (iv) necessary for legitimate interests (such as providing, maintaining, securing, customizing, and improving the Services we provide to you - 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).

We also process information about you in an anonymized, pseudonymized or non-attributable form for research, statistical and development purposes, and to maintain, improve and train our Services. Our intention with this processing is to use information that does not and cannot identify you personally. However, in some cases, we may hold other information about you (either in our own right or on behalf of our clients) that would allow us to re-identify you. Merely having the ability to re-identify you (even though we do not intend to do it) means we cannot say that the information we use for these purposes is always truly anonymous.

The specific legal bases we rely on for this processing depend upon the Personal Information at issue and the context under which the information is collected. In the majority of cases, we will rely on your consent or our legitimate business interest in improving our Services. If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal bases we rely upon to process your Personal Information, please contact us as detailed below.

Disclosure of personal information

We share Personal Information with our subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide in connection with the performance of our Services in accordance with the conditions of this Privacy Policy.

We also disclose Personal Information to third party service providers, such as auditors, information technology providers or referees in order to provide the website or Services and to help support our business operations. These organizations will have access to your Personal Information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not use that data for any other purpose. We also share Personal Information with our clients as necessary in connection with an executive or board search for opportunities that we believe are of interest to you, as well as in connection with providing advice or assessments in connection with our recruitment consulting services. We reserve the right to disclose Personal Information where we believe such disclosure is required by law or is appropriate in connection with any legal claims (actual or proposed litigation), subpoenas, warrants or other government/regulatory/judicial processes or requests, as well as to protect visitors or the company (people and property) and other rights or interests, or to comply with applicable law.

If we or any part of our organization is sold, or some of its assets transferred to a third party, your Personal Information, as a valuable asset, may also be transferred to the acquirer, even if they are not in the same line of business as us. Our customer database could be sold separately from the rest of the business, in whole or in a number of parts. Potential purchasers and their advisors may have limited access to data as part of the sale process. However, use of your Personal Information will remain subject to this Privacy Policy. Similarly, your Personal Information may be passed on to a successor in interest in the unlikely event of a liquidation, bankruptcy, or administration.

Security of personal information

SO Talent Search maintains what it considers to be reasonable and appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to protect Personal Information from accidental loss, misuse and unauthorized or unlawful access or processing, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. To the extent that we disclose Personal Information to clients or third-party service providers, we require that such third parties also maintain reasonable security and confidentiality measures and use the Personal Information in accordance with our instructions and applicable law.

We have security measures in place designed to protect our user database and access to this database is restricted internally.

Cross border transfers

Your Personal Information may be stored and/or processed in countries that do not provide the same level of protection for Personal Information as the data protection laws of your home country. We take appropriate steps, where required, to provide appropriate safeguards for Personal Information to be transferred, including, among others and as applicable, standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission together with binding and enforceable commitments.

Retention

We typically retain Personal Information related to marketing activities for as long as you accept marketing communications from us. For Personal Information that we collect and process for other purposes, as described above, we typically retain such Personal Information for no longer than the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, and as otherwise needed to address tax, corporate, compliance, litigation, and other legal rights and obligations, after which we will securely delete and/or take steps to properly anonymize your Personal Information. If you opt out of receiving marketing communications, you will continue to receive communications from us about your relationship with us where permitted by law.

Choices about your personal information

SO Talent Search wishes to maintain Personal Information that is accurate, current, and complete. If Personal Information that you previously provided has changed, please submit your new information to data[at]sotalentsearch[dot]com

If you prefer not to receive any direct marketing communications from us, you can opt out at any time. To opt out of marketing communications from us, please follow the instructions detailed in our communications to you. If your objection is not to direct marketing in general, but to direct marketing by a particular channel e.g. email or telephone, please specify the channel you are objecting to.

Where required by applicable law, to the extent permitted by the laws of your country, you may have the right to obtain confirmation that we maintain certain Personal Information about you, to access the Personal Information we have about you, and to correct, port, delete (right to be forgotten), restrict, block or withdraw consent to the processing of certain Personal Information (without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal), by contacting us as detailed below. In particular, you have the right to object to our use of your Personal Information, such as receiving executive or board openings. These above-mentioned rights may be subject to some conditions and exceptions. You can find out more about these rights as applied in the EU by reading the General Data Protection Regulation here. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority in the EU. Please contact us below and send the details of your request to enquire about or exercise such rights. Please note that we need to retain certain Personal Information as required or permitted by applicable law.

If you reside in California, you have the right to request what information we collect and use. You also have the right to ask what information we disclose and sell. You also have the right to request that we delete information we have collected from you. To exercise your rights you can contact us as set out below. These rights do not apply if you are a job applicant, employee, contractor, or employee with another company that is interacting with us in your role as an employee at that company. We will require, at a minimum, the following information in order to verify your request: first and last name, personal email address and phone number. We will not discriminate against you because you have exercised any of your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act. You can designate an agent to make a request by providing the following: (1) written evidence of the agent’s authority, signed by the consumer as well as notarized; and (2) personal information of the authorized agent for verification purposes.

Links to other internet sites

The website provides links to other third-party internet sites. Despite these linkages, this Privacy Policy applies to our Services only. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those other third-party sites. Please read the privacy policy of each unrelated internet site that you visit before either agreeing to their terms or using those websites. SO Talent Search is not responsible for the privacy practices of such Internet sites. If you have asked us to share data with third party sites (such as social media sites), their servers may not be secure.

Changes to our privacy policy

SO Talent Search reserves the right to change or amend Privacy Policy from time to time in its sole discretion, as permitted by applicable law. Any new policy will automatically be effective when it is published on the website. You should therefore return here regularly to view our most up to date policy. You should also print a copy for your records. If we make a material change to this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised policy on this web page and obtain your consent if required by applicable law. Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to create an agreement or contract between SO Talent Search and any person or entity using this website or providing any Personal Information.

Contact information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, please contact us at privacy[at]SO Talent Search[dot]com.

We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law. As permitted by applicable law, you can contact your local data protection authority with any questions.