Effective Date: January 22, 2024

Galvan and Associates, LLC Website Privacy Policy

1. PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy (“Policy”) explains how Galvan and Associates collects and uses information about your visits to https://galvanassociates.com/ (“Website”), such as when you use any of the Website’s functions or features. The Policy describes what information we collect about you, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it.

In addition, the Policy explains how Galvan and Associates collects data for Marketing and Business development purposes.

Lastly, the Policy explains how Galvan and Associates collects and uses data in the performance of contractual duties in support of our clients that you work for. Please note that in general, if your information is provided to us by one of our Government Agency Clients In the performance of our contractual duties, any action you require must be submitted to that Government Agency for action, not Galvan and Associates.

We take your privacy seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using the Website or providing information to Galvan and Associates. By accessing or using the Website, or providing information to Galvan and Associates, you agree to all terms of this Privacy Policy and the collection and use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any term in this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Website, or provide your personal information to Galvan and Associates.

2. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may make changes to the Privacy Policy from time to time and we will update those changes on this site with a new effective date.

3. CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may make changes to the Privacy Policy from time to time and we will update those changes on this site with a new effective date.

We collect Personal Information as part of providing services to you and our clients. Personal Information is any information that identifies, relates to, describes, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to a particular individual or household. In the last 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of Personal Information:

Identifiers (e.g., name, internet protocol (IP) address, work or personal postal address, work, or personal email address)
Work or Telephone number
We do not collect characteristics of protected classification under California or federal law, such as information about racial or ethnic origin, sex or gender, age, or other classifications unless that is disclosed to us either by you or someone referring you for an employment opportunity with us
Professional or employment-related information
Education information

4. HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect Personal Information through the following methods:

directly from you when you provide it to us;
from third-party providers such as LinkedIn;
automatically from your browser or device as you navigate through the Website; and
From our clients in the performance of our contractual duties.

Information collected automatically may include IP addresses and other information collected through cookies and third-party analytics services.

Cookies: We currently do not use cookies.

Google Analytics: We currently do not use google analytics.

5. HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including Personal Information:

to conduct hiring-related activities, including to communicate with you about a job opening at Galvan and Associates that you may be interested in;
to provide and improve our Website;
to comply with legal obligations, exercise, or defend legal claims;
to protect our Company against fraud or other illegal activity;
in any other way we may describe when you provide us the information; or
for any other purpose with your consent.
For the contractual performance with our clients.

6. HOW WE DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information and have not done so to date. We do not generally disclose the information we collect about you to third parties. We may sometimes disclose the information we collect, including Personal Information:

to provide the Website and any services to you;
to analyze how users interact with our Website and improve it;
to identify and prevent any fraudulent or unlawful use of our Website or violations of this Policy;
to comply with legal obligations, exercise, or defend legal claims;
to protect or defend the rights or properties of Galvan and Associates, including the security and integrity of this Website, or users of the Website;
for any other disclosed purpose when you provide the information;
with your consent.
With the legal consent of our client of which you are an employee.

7. OTHER WEBSITES AND SERVICES

Our Website may contain links to third-party websites or display content presented or hosted by other parties, such as links to videos, newsworthy items on other sites, or to LinkedIn. These third-party websites and content are not under our control and are subject to the applicable terms and policies, including privacy policies, of those third parties. Galvan and Associates is not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices employed by these third parties.

8. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY NOTICE

Currently, Galvan and Associates is exempt from the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). However, we make every reasonable attempt to comply with the CCPA.
California law gives California residents certain rights to their Personal Information. These rights are described below. To exercise any of these rights, please submit a verifiable request to us at 630.789.2675 or at galvan@galvanassociates.com. You may also authorize another person (your “agent”) to submit a request on your behalf.

Within ten business days of receiving your request, we will confirm receipt and provide you with information about how we will process the request. We will then ask you to provide certain additional information about yourself to verify your identity, such as name, physical address, email address, or phone number. If you submit a request through an agent, we will also require your agent to provide sufficient information for us to verify that you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and we may contact you for confirmation.

It may take up to 45 days to fulfill your request. If we cannot complete your request within the initial 45-day period, we will notify you in writing within this period. If we deny your request, and to the extent permitted by law, we will notify you of the decision and the basis for the denial.

Note that if your information is provided to us by one of our Government Agency Clients In the performance of our contractual duties, that data is exempt from the CCPA, and any action you require must be submitted to that Government Agency for action, not Galvan and Associates.

A. Right to Know and Access

You have the right to request that we disclose to you as to the 12-month period preceding your request:

the categories of Personal Information we have collected about you;
the categories of sources from which the Personal Information is collected;
if applicable, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing, your Personal Information;
the categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed your Personal Information; and
the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.

Note that if your information is provided to us by one of our Government Agency Clients In the performance of our contractual duties, any action you require must be submitted to that Government Agency for action, not Galvan and Associates.

You may follow the methods described above to submit a verifiable consumer request for this information up to two times in each 12-month period.

B. Right to Correct

You have the right to request that we correct inaccuracies in any Personal Information about you we have collected, processed, or otherwise obtained in the last 12 months. We will consider the totality of the circumstances in determining the accuracy of the Personal Information subject to your correction request and may deny your request if we determine that the contested Personal Information is more likely than not accurate. In response to your request, we may correct the Personal Information at issue in our systems or delete the information either with your consent or if doing so would not negatively impact you.

C. Right to Delete

You have the right to request that we delete the Personal Information we have collected from you. We are not required to delete the requested information under certain circumstances, such as when the information will be retained solely for internal use consistent with our relationship with you, or if we need to retain the information to comply with a legal obligation. If we determine that we can fulfil your deletion request, we will delete the relevant information from our active records and notify you of the deletion.

D. Right to Non-Discrimination

We do not discriminate against consumers for exercising any of their rights with respect to their Personal Information. If you exercise any of your rights under this Policy, we will not deny you our services; charge you different prices or rates for our services; or provide different levels or quality of services to you.

10. DATA RETENTION

We will only retain your Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy, consistent with our record retention policy. We may retain your Personal Information for a longer period in the event of a complaint, if we are required by law to do so, or if we reasonably believe there is a likelihood of litigation. When determining the appropriate data retention period, we consider the amount and nature of Personal Information, the purposes for which we collected it and whether we can achieve those through other means, and applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, and other requirements.

This Website is not intended for children under the age of eighteen and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information relating to children.

11. RESIDENTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU)

We do not intentionally collect information from residents of the EU. If we obtain actual knowledge that we have collected information about an EU resident, we will promptly delete that information. If you are an EU resident, you may contact us to request deletion by submitting a verifiable request to us at 630.789.2675 or at galvan@galvanassociates.com.

12. CONTACT US

If you have any questions about us or this Privacy Policy, please contact us at 630.789.2675 or at galvan@galvanassociates.com.