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Employee and Applicant Privacy Notice
O’NEILL BEVERAGES CO., LLC EMPLOYEE AND APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE
Policy Last Updated: June 7, 2023
O’Neill Beverages Co. LLC, doing business as O’Neill Vintners & Distillers (“O’Neill,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. The information that you provide to us is utilized to consider you for employment, retain you as an employee or independent contractor, and maintain employment-related records.
This Employee and Applicant Privacy Notice (the “Notice”) applies to current and former employees, job applicants, and independent contractors (“you”) who submit personal data for the purposes of applying for and or becoming a valued employee at or contractor of O’Neill, and in the course of your employment with O’Neill, pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), and other applicable laws and regulations. If you are not an employee, applicant, or independent contractor who is a California resident, this Notice does not apply to you.
Please note that if you visit our website or social media applications in a non-employment context, any of your personal information collected in that capacity is subject to O’Neill’s Privacy Policy for consumers. For more information, we encourage you to visit and review our Privacy Policy and California Privacy Rights Notice.
Changes to this Notice. We may update this Notice from time to time. If we make any material changes, we will provide you with notice as required by law. We encourage you to review this Notice periodically to stay informed about our privacy practices.
Collection of Personal Information
We collect personal information from you when you provide it for the purposes of employment or applying for employment with us. We collect the following types of personal information:
- Contact information including your name, address, email address, phone number, and other relevant contact information such as emergency contact information;
- Right to work I‑9 verification and proof of identification;
- Date of birth;
- Gender, marital status, names and relationships of dependents, and beneficiary designations;
- Financial information such as a credit check and background check;
- Resume with professional, employment, and educational background;
- Garnishment notices from tax agencies;
- Doctor’s notes and other health information related to the evaluation and provision of accommodations;
- Diversity and EEO/CRD data collection information.
We collect sensitive personal information, as that term is defined by the CPRA, such as personal identification numbers, including social security, driver’s license, passport, or state ID card numbers; banking information; diversity and EEO/CRD data collection including race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, military, and disability status.
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, pages viewed, one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser, referring website addresses, what applications are run on your company-issued device, files downloaded, opened, and created using O’Neill managed equipment, geolocation of laptops and mobile devices which contain company data, and any personal information entered into any O’Neill controlled system, including company email.
To see a complete list of what information we collect and how we use it, please see Annex 1 below.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We use your personal information for a wide range of purposes, including:
- to evaluate job candidacy and communicate with you regarding your application;
- to keep you up to date about the employment process and employment-related issues;
- to ensure compliance with internal HR policies;
- to facilitate the employment relationship, including for processing of payroll and benefits (including family health benefits), and other internal business needs;
- to maintain internal employment records;
- to maintain internal financial records including paystubs and payment methods;
- to meet and monitor government reporting regulations;
- to comply with legal obligations or to assert or defend legal rights or address legal claims and proceedings; and
- to maintain any other business operations.
Retention of Personal Information
We retain your personal information for as long as needed to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Notice or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include our ongoing relationship with you and any legal obligation to which we are subject.
How We Disclose Your Personal Information
Service Providers and Contractors
We disclose personal information you provide to consultants, service providers, and contractors we use to support our business and operations. These third parties 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 and manage the employment relationship and vendors that host our website and data.
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 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 Annex 1 below.
YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE CCPA
As a current or former California employee, applicant, or independent contractor (collectively, “employee”), you are afforded several rights relating to the personal information collected about you. However, there are several exceptions that may apply. These exceptions to the right to know what information we collect about you, and to correct and/or delete your personal information may include our right to maintain personal information of employees for business purposes and solely internal uses reasonably 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
In the preceding 12 months, we have collected the categories of personal information about California employees as described in Annex 1 below.
Information Sold or Shared
We have not sold or shared, as defined by the CPRA, any personal information to third parties in the preceding 12 months.
We have disclosed the following categories of personal information about California employees for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding 12 months:
- IP address, device ID, browser type, domain names, access times and dates, pages viewed, one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser, referring website addresses, what applications are run on your company issued device, files downloaded, opened, and created using company managed equipment, geolocation of laptops and mobile devices which contain company data, and any personal information entered into any company controlled system, including company email.
- Name, job title, mailing address, email address, right to work for I‑9 verification, phone number, date of birth, gender, names and relationships of dependents, emergency contact information, credit check, background check, resume with professional, employment and educational background, language proficiency, beneficiary designations, garnishment notices from tax agencies, proof of identification, health information, diversity information and EEO data collection.
Requests to Know
You have the right to request that we disclose to you the following regarding the personal information we collect about you:
- Categories of personal information collected;
- Sources of personal information collected;
- The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information;
- The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information; and
- The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you over the last 12 months.
You also have a right to know if we have sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose over the past 12 months and, if so, the categories of personal information sold or disclosed and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or disclosed, along with the business or commercial purpose for which the personal information was sold or disclosed.
To make a request for any of the information set forth above (a “Request to Know”), please submit a request pursuant to the instructions below. You or your designated agent 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, sold or disclosed and must contain sufficient detail to allow us to properly understand, evaluate and respond to your request. You may be asked to provide additional proof of identification so that we can verify your identity and validate the request. If we cannot verify your identity, we may decline to honor your request.
You or your designated agent can make a Request to Know the personal information we have about you by filling out our online form available here or calling us at 1−800−400−6628.
We will retain correspondence, documents, and information related to any Request to Know for 24 months as required by law.
Right to Know About Sensitive Personal Information Collected
We collect and use your sensitive personal information as described in Annex 1 below.
We do not collect or process sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics.
Right to Request Deletion of Personal Information
You or your designated agent have the right to request 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 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. You may be asked to provide additional proof of identification so that we can verify your identity and validate the request. If we cannot verify your identity, we may decline to honor 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 or your designated agent can make a Request to Delete the personal information we have about you by filling out our online form available here or calling us at 1−800−400−6628.
We will retain correspondence, documents and information related to any Request to Delete for 24 months as required by law.
Right to Request Correction of Personal Information
You or your designated agent have the right to request that we correct in our records inaccurate information about you. To make a request to correct inaccurate information about you (a “Request to Correct”), please submit a request pursuant to the instructions below. We will acknowledge your Request to Correct within 10 days and will attempt to respond substantively within 45 – 90 days.
The Request to Correct 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. You may be asked to provide additional proof of identification so that we can verify your identity and validate the request. If we cannot verify your identity, we may decline to honor your request.
You or your designated agent can make a Request to Correct the personal information we have about you by filling out our online form available here or calling us at 1−800−400−6628.
We will retain correspondence, documents, and information related to any Request to Correct for 24 months as required by law.
Non-Discrimination / No Retaliation
We will not discriminate or retaliate against you in any manner prohibited by the CCPA or CPRA for exercising your privacy rights.
Annex 1
Category | Examples | Collected From | Purposes | Disclosed to | Sold or Shared |
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Personal Identifiers |
Name, job title, mailing address, right to work for I-9 verification, phone number, date of birth, gender, names and relationships of dependents, marital status, emergency contact information, credit check, background check, resume with professional, employment and educational background, beneficiary designations, garnishment notices from tax agencies, proof of identification, doctor’s notes, diversity and EEO/CRD data collection. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. |
You, when you apply for a position with our company or when you join our company as an employee. Third-party sources including third-party service providers, opt-in lists, publicly available data, consumer reporting agencies, other companies and referrals. Our third-party providers are bound by confidentiality obligations and are restricted to only using the data to provide our business with applicable services. |
To evaluate job candidacy and communicate with you regarding your application; To maintain internal business employment records; To authenticate your account credentials and identify you, as necessary to log you in and/or ensure the security of your account; and To comply with our policies, procedures, and financial and legal obligations, including complying with law enforcement or governmental authority requests, investigating fraudulent activity, resolving disputes, and enforcing our legal agreements and policies. |
Consultants, service providers, and contractors that we use to support our business and operations (e.g. processing payments to employees, and providing fraud detection services) who have agreed to keep the information confidential and use it only to provide the applicable services; Other 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; An acquirer or successor-in-interest in the event of a reorganization, merger, sale, change of control, consolidation, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any part of the company or its affiliates including any negotiation thereof. |
N |
Audio/visual information. |
Video recordings of you when you are on our premises or voicemails you may leave. |
You, when you apply for a position with our company or when you join our company as an employee. |
To maintain internal business employment records; To comply with our policies, procedures, and financial and legal obligations, including complying with law enforcement or governmental authority requests, investigating fraudulent activity, resolving disputes, and enforcing our legal agreements and policies. |
Consultants, service providers, and contractors that we use to support our business and operations (e.g. providing security or fraud detection services) who have agreed to keep the information confidential and use it only to provide the applicable services; and Other 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. |
N |
Network activity Device information Geolocation data |
IP address, your device identifier, domain name, browsers you used, webpages viewed, time spent on webpages, links clicked, search terms used, usage patterns, what applications are run on your company issued device, files downloaded, opened, and created using company managed equipment, geolocation of laptops and mobile devices which contain company data, and any personal information entered into any company controlled system, including company email. |
You, upon issue and use of company devices or personal devices using company Wi-Fi. |
To maintain IT services; To store backups of information on employee devices; To authenticate your account credentials and identify you, as necessary to log you in and/or ensure the security of your account; and To comply with our policies, procedures, and legal obligations, including complying with law enforcement or governmental authority requests, investigating fraudulent activity, resolving disputes, and enforcing our legal agreements and policies. |
Consultants, service providers, and contractors that we use to support our business and operations (e.g. processing payments to employees, and providing fraud detection services) who have agreed to keep the information confidential and use it only to provide the applicable services; Other 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. |
N |
Sensitive personal information |
Personal identification numbers, including social security, driver’s license, passport, or state ID card numbers; banking and financial account information; diversity and EEO/CRD data collection including gender, race, ethnicity; military and disability status; biometric information, such as facial imagery. We only use and disclose sensitive personal information as necessary in connection with your employment and in accordance with the law. We do not collect your sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you. |
You, when you apply for a position with our company or when you join our company as an employee. |
To maintain internal business employment records; To authenticate your account credentials and identify you, as necessary to log you in and/or ensure the security of your account; and To comply with our policies, procedures, and legal obligations, including complying with law enforcement or governmental authority requests, investigating fraudulent activity, resolving disputes, and enforcing our legal agreements and policies. |
Consultants, service providers, and contractors that we use to support our business and operations (e.g. processing payments to and timekeeping of employees, and providing security services) who have agreed to keep the information confidential and use it only to provide the applicable services; Other 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. |
N |
Health-related information |
Doctor’s notes. |
You, when applying for medical leave; You, when requesting sick leave pay; You, when you give authorization to your doctor’s office to provide us with medical paperwork to process any medically-related work claims or requests for accommodation. |
To process health-related claims. |
Consultants, service providers, and contractors that we use to support our business and operations (e.g. insurance providers, outside legal counsel) who have agreed to keep the information confidential and use it only to provide the applicable services; Other 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. |
N |