AT THE DEWINTER GROUP
Last Updated: June 28, 2023
DeWinter Holdings, LLC and its affiliates (collectively, “we,” “our,” “us,” or “DeWinter Group”) help company employers (“Clients”) fulfill their accounting, finance, information technology, engineering, human resources and other functional professional staffing needs on an executive search, consulting and contract basis (“Services”). Our Services include helping individuals looking for job opportunities (“Candidates”). We also directly contract and employ top talent (“External Consultants”) who work exclusively for our Clients as part of our Services.
Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, use, share and disclose, both online and offline, about you when you use our websites, including www.dewintergroup.com and www.mariscg.com, or any DeWinter Group software or mobile app(s) (each a “Site”), and/or as we endeavor to provide any of our Services described in the foregoing paragraph. This Privacy Policy also applies to our marketing and recruitment activities. There may be additional notices of our offline privacy practices that we may provide to you at or before the time we collect additional personal information. Please read any such notices so you can understand how they apply to you.
This Privacy Policy also describes your rights regarding your personal information and how you can exercise them. By visiting or otherwise using our Site or using or participating in our Services, you are consenting to our handling of your information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree or wish to consent, please discontinue use of our Site, and do not use or participate in our provision of Services.
If you have any questions relating to DeWinter Group’s privacy practices, please contact us at Privacy@dewintergroup.com.
A. CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS OF WHOM WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION.
Visitors: Individuals who visit or use our Site(s).
Candidates: Individuals who are seeking job opportunities or for whom DeWinter Group is actively looking for job opportunities, or who are otherwise a part of or relate to DeWinter Group’s efforts to provide its Services.
External Consultants: Contractors or employees of DeWinter Group who we place with, and who work for, our Clients.
Clients and vendors, service providers or other suppliers: Employees, representatives or agents of our Clients, as well as of our vendors, consultants, service providers, or other suppliers of goods and/or services, with whom we have a business relationship and/or who help us provide the Site(s) and/or the Service(s).
Not Intended for Children: DeWinter Group’s Site(s) and Services are not intended for, and DeWinter Group does not knowingly collect personal information of, children less than 16 years of age.
B. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Information you provide to us: DeWinter Group and/or our agents, vendors, consultants, service providers or other suppliers who help us provide the Site(s) and/or the Services may collect information that you provide to us directly. For example, if you create an account or use the “Contact Us” page of www.mariscg.com, or if you apply for a job posted at https://jobs.lever.co/dewintergroup, we collect all of the information in the resume or curriculum vitae (CV) you upload, your name, email address, phone number, current employer name, gender, race, veteran status, links to your social media profiles and any other website you identify, as well as any other information you choose to provide. If you use the “Contact Us” page of www.dewintergroup.com, we collect your name and email address, whether you are an employer currently hiring or a job seeker searching for employment, and any other information you choose to provide to us. We may also collect information you provide to us by completing any other online forms, in emails or during phone calls when discussing job opportunities, requirements and so forth.
Information automatically collected: DeWinter Group and its third-party service providers may also collect certain information from Visitors to our Site(s) through the use of a variety of technologies, including cookies, to help improve Visitors’ online experience, to conduct website traffic and other data analytics, and to modify, improve and enhance our Site(s) and Services. Such information includes Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses, Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as browsing history, search history, and other information regarding your interaction with an Internet website, application, or advertisement. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Notice section of this Privacy Policy.
Information we collect from other sources: We may acquire or receive information about you from vendors, consultants or service providers with whom we have a business relationship, and who we use to help us provide our Services, such as providers of background checks, professional databases, etc. We collect information you submit to your public social network profiles such as LinkedIn, and other job board-type websites such as Zoom Info, Monster, Dice, Indeed and Crunchbase. Third-party data collection, storage and sharing, or other activities, are subject to those third parties’ policies and practices. DeWinter Group makes no representations regarding, and is not responsible or liable for, the accuracy of the information provided by third parties or for those third parties’ policies or practices. We may combine such third-party data with other information we acquire or receive from or about you in order to provide our Services.
C. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND OUR BUSINESS PURPOSES FOR DOING SO
Categories of Personal Information
Our Business Purposes
Identifiers, including name, alias, postal address, email address, telephone number and other contact information, information of professional and personal references and referral sources, emergency contact information, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol (IP) address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number and other similar identifiers
Professional or employment-related information, and educational information, including information on your resume or CV, employment history, education history, certifications, languages, security clearance information, work authorization, past and expected compensation, and other work-related information
Inferences drawn from any other personal information, including assessment of aptitudes, abilities and preferences
Audio, electronic, visual or similar information, included voicemail messages, phone and/or video interviews, recorded phone calls, etc.
Characteristics of protected classes, including race, nationality, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability status, military and veteran status, and other protected classifications under California and federal law
Commercial information, including records of personal property, and purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies
Internet or other electronic network activity and geolocation data, including Internet Protocol (IP) address, browsing history, search history, interaction with websites, applications or advertisements
III. WHEN, TO WHOM AND WHY WE SHARE THIS INFORMATION
DeWinter Group does not sell your personal information, and it has not sold any personal information in the preceding 12 months.
We share or disclose your personal information as follows:
IV. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you are a resident of California, effective January 1, 2020, you have rights with respect to your personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), as follows:
If you would like to exercise your rights, please contact DeWinter Group:
DeWinter Group
Attention: PRIVACY REQUEST
1919 South Bascom Avenue, Suite 250
Campbell, California 95008
You may also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. You may make such a designation by providing the agent with your written and signed permission to act on your behalf and by directly confirming with us that you have provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request. As permitted by law, we may require you to verify your identity in response to a request even if you choose to use an agent. The authorized agent will also need to verify its own identity directly with us.
After you or your authorized agent submit a request, we require a high degree of certainty that we have verified that the requester is, in fact, the consumer whose personal information is the subject of the request. We will endeavor to do so using the personal information that we, or one of our vendors, consultants or service providers, have about the consumer. We may need to obtain additional personal information from the consumer or from other third-party sources to verify the requester’s or authorized agent’s identity, in which case, such additional personal information will be used solely for verification purposes. If we are unable to verify your identity, we reserve the right to deny your requests.
Other California Privacy Rights: California’s “Shine the Light” law (California Civil Code section 1798.83) gives customers who are California residents the right to ask, once a year, (1) what personal information was disclosed to third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year; and (2) the identities of the companies with whom the information was shared. The terms “customers” and “personal information” have the meaning given by the Shine the Light (California Civil Code Sec 1798.83).
We do not share personal information, as defined in California Code Civil Section 1798.83, with third parties for their direct marketing purposes absent your consent. If you are a California resident, you may request information about our compliance with California’s Shine the Light law by sending us a written request to privacy_inquiry@dewintergroup.com or by mailing us a letter to: DeWinter Group, 1919 South Bascom Avenue, Suite 250, Campbell, California 95008, (Attention: Privacy Inquiry). Any such written request must include “California Shine the Light Law Request” in the first line of the description and include your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. We are only required to respond to one Shine the Light law request per customer per year, and we are not required to respond to requests made by means other than through this email address and mailing address. Further note that “Shine the Light” rights and CCPA rights are provided under different statutes and must be exercised separately.
V. YOUR CHOICES
Marketing and Promotional Communications: In accord with your marketing preferences and applicable privacy and data protection laws, we may send you updates via email about opportunities or services we think may be of interest to you, such as active job postings that match your criteria, newsletters, articles, surveys, and event information. If you would like to discontinue receiving such marketing or promotional communications from us, you can unsubscribe or opt-out from receiving such marketing communications from us. Where you have consented to our processing of your information, you may withdraw that consent at any time and opt-out of further processing.
VI. COOKIES AND ONLINE TRACKING; “DO NOT TRACK”
DeWinter Group uses “cookies” and similar technologies to help us tailor our Site(s) and your online experiences, and for analytical purposes. For more information about cookies, the types of cookies we use, and how we use them, please see our Cookie Notice.
Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. DNT is a way for users to inform websites and services that they do not want certain information about their webpage visits collected over time and across websites or online services. We do not recognize or respond to browser-initiated DNT signals. For information about “do-not-track”, please visit https://allaboutdnt.com/.
VII. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our Site(s) are not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information from anyone under 13 years of age. The terms “personal information” and “child” have the same meaning given to them by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). If we learn that a user is under this age, we will not use or maintain his/her personal information. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will make reasonable efforts to delete such information from our records.
VIII. SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
We maintain reasonable safeguards to protect your information against unauthorized access, use, or disclosure or accidental loss or destruction, and we require third parties providing services on our behalf to do the same. However, no electronic data transmission or storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.
IX. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES AND THIRD-PARTY CONTENT
Our Site may contain links to other third-party websites that are not owned or operated by us. Our Privacy Policy only applies to our Site, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other third-party websites. Any information you disclose to other websites are not subject to the provisions of this Privacy Policy. You should check the privacy policies of those sites before providing your information to them.
X. DATA RETENTION
We will retain your information for as long as needed to provide our Services or as otherwise required or permitted by law. We will retain and use this information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
XI. CHANGES AND POLICY UPDATES
We may change information on the Site and/or this Privacy Policy, at any time without prior notice to you, and any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy on the Site. We may also notify you by other means, such as sending you an email. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
XII. CONTACT US
If you are disabled and would like access to this Privacy Policy in an alternative format, or if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please call us at 1-833- 394-3282, email us at Privacy@dewintergroup.com, or send us a written letter to DeWinter Group, 1919 South Bascom Avenue, Suite 250, Campbell, California 95008, (Attention: Privacy).
To download and/or print this Privacy Policy, click here.
Your Privacy Rights
At the DeWinter Group, we take your privacy very seriously, and we never sell your information; we use it to enhance your experience working with us.
When it comes to your rights as a consumer, we want to make sure you have everything you need to make informed decisions. You have the right to:
Know how your personal information is used;
Access, request and receive the personal information we have collected in a portable manner;
Object to having your data sold or shared;
And request that we delete your personal data.
To submit a request via phone, contact 1-833-DWG-DATA or 1-833- 394-3282. To submit a request by email, please email privacy@dewintergroup.com.
Last Updated: June 30, 2020
To make our Site functional, and to personalize your experience when using our Site, we use cookies. This Cookie Notice explains what cookies are, how we use them, and your ability to block or disable them.
A cookie is a small text file saved to your computer or mobile device when visiting our Site. On subsequent visits, cookies are then sent back to our Site, or to another website that recognizes them, creating a record of your online activity. Some cookies are essential for functionality of our Site and are of short duration, while others remain longer and help in understanding how you use the Site so that we can tailor or enhance your experience.
2. Analytics Cookies: We use Google Analytics and Hubspot cookies to collect information about how you use our Site and browsing activity. These cookies let us understand the use of our Site, and the performance of our marketing and content. We anonymize the IP addresses, and that anonymized information is transmitted to and stored by the particular third-party cookie source. Those third parties may also transfer this information to third parties who process the information on their behalf, or where required to do so by law.
3. Personalization Cookies
4. Marketing Cookies: We use cookies that deploy when you interact with a marketing communication, such as on our Site, an email, or online advertising content. These types of cookies collect information about your unique identifying browser and internet device information, which pages you visit, your browsing history, and whether you viewed certain content, including advertisements before you arrive at our Site, and otherwise to help us with our marketing efforts.
When using our Site, you may come across embedded content, such as videos from third-party sources, or you may be directed to other websites for such activities as surveys or job applications. Third-party websites and embedded content likely use their own cookies, and we do not have control over the placement of cookies by those other websites. Please review those third-party websites’ privacy policies and cookie practices.
When you visit our Site, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies as described in this Cookie Notice and provide you a link to this notice. We will record when you have consented to our use of cookies, and we will again ask for your consent at least once a year when we ensure that you and other users are up-to-date with our then-current Privacy Policy and Cookie Notice.
At all times, you can enable or disable many of the cookies we use on our Site by clicking on the cookie icon floating in the lower left side of any page of our Site, which will then open up a side panel, providing you on-off toggle switches next to each type of cookie we use. Simple click on a toggle switch to enable or disable the particular types of cookies (Analytics, Personalization or Marketing). Remember that essential cookies cannot be disabled.
You can also use your web browser’s method of blocking or removing cookies from all websites you visit, including our Site. For example, if you use Chrome, launch the browser, open Settings, select Privacy and security, and then select either Clear browsing data or Site Settings, which will allow you to clear cookies and other website data, your browsing history, your download history, or otherwise control what information websites can collect and use.
Remember that when you disable cookies, some features and functionalities of our Site may not work. Also remember that we cannot block or otherwise control cookies on third-party websites, even if those websites linked from our Site.