California Consumer Privacy Act

Notice for California Consumers

Effective date: 

January 1, 2020

Last Update: 

July 14, 2020

 

California Consumer Privacy Act

Notice for California Consumers

Effective on July 1, 2020

This notice describes the rights of Californians under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). Click here for information about the CCPA. Click here to read the CCPA law. The CCPA requires businesses like us, that receive information from California consumers, to provide certain information to them. We further describe our practices in our Privacy Policy, but use this separate notice to ensure that we meet the CCPA’s requirements. This notice contains the following four parts:

 

• We Do Not Sell Your Personal Information
• Your CCPA Rights
• The CCPA Categories of Personal Information We Collect and the Sources
• The CCPA Categories of Personal Information We Share for a “Business Purpose”

1. We Do Not Sell Your Personal Information

The CCPA requires us to disclose whether we sell your personal information. We do not sell, lease, or rent your personal information.

2. Why We May Collect Your Information

SecurTest, Inc. is a background screening provider. Employers and other end-users request a background investigation, consumer report, or investigative report as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) or other applicable law, such as the CCPA.  We required our clients to obtain your authorization for such reports, which clearly identifies SecurTest, Inc. as the provider that investigates and collects the information that is reported.

When your personal information is collected on SecurTest's publicly accessible web site, SecurTest will inform you at the point of collection of the purpose for the collection. SecurTest will use your personal information only in the way we specify when it is collected unless you consent to a different use.

For example, SecurTest may use personal information submitted in an account application to set up and maintain your account. We also may use the personal information you provide to answer your questions and inquiries, to support our own recruitment activities in response to your inquiries into SecurTest’s job postings, and to provide newsletters and other information (if any) that you have requested.

If you have provided your personal information over this web site in connection with a background check ordered by SecurTest's client, we may use your personal information to perform your background check for that client. SecurTest will not use your information to conduct a background screening investigation and create a report unless SecurTest's client has provided a certification required by the FCRA and any other applicable law or an authorization submitted by you. In this certification, SecurTest's client certifies to us that it has a legally permissible purpose for ordering the background check, and that it has, to the extent required by applicable law, obtained your informed consent to conduct the background check.

iReviewNow, LLC is not a background screening provider or consumer reporting agency. iReviewNow, LLC is a holding company for the iReviewNow patents. SecurTest is an authorized licensee and user of these patents. SecurTest, through iReviewNow, and other means allow consumers and subjects of the background reports to view their report, dispute any inaccuracies or incomplete information, and in some instances provide contextual information you may wish to append to the report. Contextual information may include explanatory information about adverse, negative, or derogatory information that is otherwise accurate and complete.  Contextual information may also include documents or information you provide related to self-improvement or corrective steps you have taken since the occurrence of adverse, negative, or derogatory event(s).

3. Your Rights Under the CCPA

The CCPA provides Californians with the following rights:

3.1 Requests for Information

You (or your authorized agent) can request a copy of your personal information. You or your authorized agent will be required to verify your identity and your authorization where you may authorize an agent. We a photocopy of a valid identification, such as a driver’s license, government issued identification, or other proof to ensure we are providing this information only to you or your authorized agent.  SecurTest, Inc. or iReviewNow, LLC, hereafter “STI/IRN”, also will require you to confirm, by email from your primary email address, that you granted the agent permission to submit the request. Under the CCPA, you can also request that we disclose how we have collected, used, and shared your personal information over the past 12 months, including the categories of personal information we collected and our purposes for doing so; the categories of sources for that information; the categories of third parties with whom we shared it for a business purpose and our purposes for doing so. Companies that sell personal information (we do not) must make additional disclosures.

 

If you have not authorized a background check, consumer, or investigative report, you can submit your request here or can submit a request via an authorized agent. The authorized agent will be required to verify their identity, and you will be asked to confirm by email that you granted the agent permission to submit the request, along with proof of your identity.

 

3.2 Your Right to Opt Out of Sales

We do not sell personal information, so we don’t have an opt out.

3.3 Your Right to Notification

Under the CCPA, a company like STI/IRN cannot collect new categories of personal information or use them for materially different purposes without first notifying you.

3.4 Nondiscrimination for exercising your CCPA Rights

The CCPA prohibits businesses from discriminating against you for exercising your rights under the law. Such discrimination may include denying services, charging different prices or rates for services, providing a different level or quality of services, or suggesting that you will receive a different level or quality of goods or services as a result of exercising your rights. 

3.5 Your Right to Delete Personal Information

Like all of our consumers, you can request that we delete your personal information. You also can request that we delete specific information. We honor such requests, unless an exception applies, such as when the information is necessary to complete the background report, consumer or investigative report, transaction or contract for which it was collected or when it is was being used to prepare such a report, comply with laws, or ensure another consumer’s ability to exercise their free speech rights or other rights provided by law.

 

4. The CCPA Categories of Personal Information We Collect and the Sources

Our Privacy Policy describes the information we collect and its sources. This notice organizes that information around the personal information categories set forth in the CCPA.

CCPA Personal Information Category	Sources of this Information
Identifiers (e.g., real name, alias, postal address, residential address, unique personal identifiers, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, dates of birth, social security numbers, driver’s license number, government identifications, gender, race, age, or other similar identifiers)	Information you provide directly or through an employer, potential employer, or other end-user of our services (as defined in our Privacy Policy.)   Vendors, courts, law enforcement agencies, and other information providers that provide information to help us prepare your background check.. Information from SecurTest customers.
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or Federal law (e.g., your gender or age) (“Characteristics of Protected Classifications”)	Information you provide to us directly and from our customers that you have authorized us to perform a background check.
Commercial information (e.g., information regarding products or services purchased, obtained, or considered)	Information you provide to us directly, such as to purchase a background report or other service. Your interactions with the use of our Services. Information from our information partners and customers.
Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interactions with our Services)	Your interactions with our Services or websites.
Geolocation Data	Information you provide to us directly or through your interactions with our Services.
Professional or Employment-Related Information	Information you provide to us directly.
Inferences	Information you provide to us directly or through your interactions with our Services.  Information from our customers and information resources.
Personal information described in Cal. Civ. Code §1798.80(e)(such as name, address, telephone number, education, employment history, credit card or debit card number.)	Information you provide directly or through your interactions with our Services. Information from our customers or information providers.
Audio, electronic, visual or similar information.	Information you provide directly or through your interactions with our Services, customers or information providers.

 

We use this personal information for the purposes for conducting a background investigation, preparation of a background, consumer, or investigative report as defined by law.  See our Privacy Policy.

 

5. The CCPA Categories of Personal Information We Share for a “Business Purpose”

While we do not sell your personal information, we may share it to support our own operational purposes in providing Services to you, such as conducting a background investigation, preparation of a background, consumer, or investigative report as defined by law. These operational purposes, known as “business purposes” under the CCPA, are described below. In addition, we may share personal information to prepare such a background report.

5.1 Security Purposes

In order to secure our Services, including to detect, prevent and investigate security incidents or violations of our policies or applicable laws, we may share the types of personal information listed in Section 3 with our partners, service providers, law enforcement and related companies.

5.2 Service Providers and Other Notified Purposes

We may share the types of personal information listed in Section 3 with Service Providers, as defined by the CCPA, in order to have them perform services specified by a written contract or with others for a notified purpose permitted by the CCPA (e.g., to respond to law enforcement requests or obtain information or records to complete the background investigation).

Children Under Age 18

SecurTest does not offer services to children under the age of 18, and this web site is not directed to children under the age of 18. SecurTest does not knowingly collect information about children under the age of 18.. Moreover, we generally do not collect information about minor children under the age of consent, as defined by federal and state laws and only for the purpose of performing a background check pursuant to employment.

 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

SecurTest may revise this policy from time to time. If there is a material change to this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised policy at this location. SecurTest will not provide less privacy protection, without your consent, to information collected under a prior policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy to be informed of how we protect your information.

How to Contact Us

If you need further assistance regarding the above rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable law.

SecurTest, Inc.
600 Grand Panama Boulevard
Suite 202
Panama City Beach, FL 32407

(800) 445-8001 - corporatecompliance@securtest.com  

Our Websites are:

www.securtest.com
www.ireviewnow.com