WorkerSpring Privacy Policy
Introduction
1. What is Personal Information?
2. What Personal Information Do We Collect?
- Identifiers: Identifying and contact information such as name, zip code, telephone number, email address, internet protocol address (“IP Address”), unique personal device identifier, online identifier like a cookie ID, browser types, your internet service provider, operating systems, date and time you visited the Sites.
- Commercial Information: Content of texts or emails you send to us, pages you click-on on the Sites, and the amount of time spent on the Sites.
- Internet Activity: Internet or other electronic network activity information including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with our Sites or an advertisement posted on the Sites.
- Geolocation Data: Imprecise location information, like the city, state and ZIP code associated with your IP address.
- Employment Information: Professional or employment-related information, including information you provide when uploading a resume to the Sites.
- User Generated Information: Blog posts, feedback, comments, photos, videos, messages, social media, and other user generated content.
- Other information you provide to us.
- Basic Profile Information: Name, email address, and profile picture from your Google account.
- Authentication Data: Access tokens to verify your identity and enable secure login.
- Limited Contacts (if permitted): Email addresses from your Google contacts, but only if you explicitly grant permission and only to facilitate job referrals or networking features within our app. We do not import, sync, or access your entire address book; we only access the specific contact information necessary for the particular referral or networking feature you choose to use.
- Calendar Data: Event details from your Google Calendar, accessed solely via the Google Calendar API to support event scheduling and reminders related to job opportunities and networking. For more information about our Google Calendar API integration, please visit our API home page at https://app.workerspring.com/google-calendar.
- Online Accounts. When you or someone on your behalf creates a WorkerSpring account for you.
- Employment Information. When you or someone on your behalf inputs or uploads your employment information and history to the Sites.
- Communications. When you communicate with us, including by e-mail, regular mail, our webform, texting or phone.
- Offers and Promotions. When you sign up for previews, offers, discounts, promotions, and other electronic communications regarding our products
- Site Visits. When you visit and use our Sites.
- Newsletters. When you sign up to receive our newsletters and other informational materials.
- Ratings and Feedback. When you provide ratings and feedback regarding our products or the Sites.
- Other Users. We may collect Personal Data about you from Community Organizations, Groups you join, Employers, or other WorkerSpring users that you are affiliated with or interact with on the Sites.
- Service Providers. We may use third parties or service providers to deliver marketing communications to you. To learn how to opt-out from marketing messages, see Section 7 below.
- Analytics Providers. We may use third parties or service providers to help us understand the Sites’ demographics, user experiences, and to evaluate the Sites’ operations.
- Login Services. When logging into your account, you may use your Facebook, Apple, or Google account by providing your log-in information for those third-party services when prompted. If you choose to use this single sign-on feature, we may access, handle, and store any content and other information that you have provided through Facebook, Apple, or Google (as applicable), limited to the Google user data described above. We do not and cannot control any policies or terms of any third party, including Facebook, Apple, or Google. All information you have provided to Facebook, Apple, or Google is subject to the applicable privacy policy: see Facebook’s Data Policy, Apple’s Privacy Policy, and Google’s Privacy Policy.
3. How Do We Use Personal Information?
- Servicing Your Account with Us. We may use Personal Information to register and service your account with us.
- Customer Service and Customer Communications. We may use Personal Information for (1) sending you emails to provide you with alerts and updates about your engagement with the Sites; (2) sending your job applications to employers with available job opportunities on the Sites; (3) sending you and your community organization updates about your job applications; (4) those purposes in which you authorize or instruct us to use your Personal Data.
- Providing Requested Sites. We may use Personal Information to complete any of your job applications, fulfill your requests to join community networks, or other services you request.
- Perform Analytics. We may use Personal Information to (1) improve the content on the Sites; (2) enhance users’ experience when visiting our Sites; (3) customize the content and/or layout of the pages on our Sites; (4) administer the Sites; (5) generate statistical information; (6) monitor and analyze Sites traffic and usage patterns; and (7) prevent fraud, to investigate complaints and violations of our policies.
- Manage the Sites. We may use Personal Information to (1) operate and troubleshoot problems with the Sites; (2) improve the content and functionality of the Sites; (3) improve your experience when you visit the Sites or place an order from the Sites; (4) conduct statistical and other analyses of the Sites; (5) customize the Sites to you and our users; (6) develop and improve the content, materials, products, and services that we make available through the Sites; (7) evaluate user needs and improve your browsing experience; and (8) notify you of new features of our Sites.
- Improving our Products and Sites. To help us choose what products and services we offer, to offer you new products and services, and to improve our products and services.
- Business Purposes. We may use Personal Information for business purposes including but not limited to: (1) carrying out our obligations and enforcing our rights arising from any contracts we have entered into, including, without limitation, any contracts between you and us; (2) operating and improving our products and services; (3) conducting statistical or demographic analysis; (4) customizing your experience with our Sites; (5) preventing fraud; and (6) other business purposes permitted under applicable law. For clarity, we do not use Google user data for these Business Purposes except as strictly necessary to provide and improve the user-facing features of the Sites and our applications, and we do not use Google user data for advertising, cross-site tracking, or profiling unrelated to employment and networking functionality.
- Law Enforcement/Legal Purposes. We may use Personal Information to cooperate with law enforcement or other legal purposes including: (1) complying with legal and regulatory requirements; (2) satisfying contractual obligations; (3) cooperating with law enforcement or other governmental agencies for purposes of investigations, public safety or matters of public importance when we are legally required to do so or believe that disclosure of Personal Data is necessary or appropriate to protect the public interest; (4) protecting and defending against legal actions or claims.
- Authenticating your login to create a seamless user experience.
- Personalizing job recommendations based on your profile (e.g., using name and email to match with employment opportunities).
- Facilitating networking features, like connecting you with community organizations, groups or employers using limited contact data (with your consent).
- Integrating calendar events via the Google Calendar API to schedule job-related reminders and networking events.
We do not use Google user data for targeted advertising, remarketing, or creating advertising profiles, and we do not combine Google user data with third-party data sets for purposes unrelated to providing or improving our app’s user-facing features.
4. With Whom Do We Share Personal Information?
- Service Providers. We may share Personal Information in connection with the services our service providers provide to us, including, without limitation, data hosting, payment processing and fraud protection and prevention. We require these Service Providers to exercise reasonable care to protect your Personal Information and restrict their use of your Personal Information to the purposes for which we provided it to them.
- Other Users. We share your Personal Information with other users on the Sites at your direction, such as Community Organizations or Groups you are affiliated with or Employers when you apply for their open positions listed on the Sites.
- Parties to Business Transactions. In the event of an anticipated or actual merger or acquisition, bankruptcy or other sale of all or a portion of our assets, we may transfer or allow third parties to use information owned or controlled by us, including Personal Data. We reserve the right, in connection with these types of transactions, to transfer, share, assign, or sell your Personal Data and other information we have collected to third parties or to authorize such third parties to use any such information including for due diligence as part of any of the transactions described in this paragraph. Any Personal Data you submit or that is collected after this type of transfer may be subject to a new privacy policy adopted by the successor entity.
- Government and Law Enforcement. We may share your Personal Data with individuals or private parties where necessary to comply with the law or valid legal request, to protect our legal rights, for the safety of the public or any person, to protect the security and integrity of the Sites and any equipment used to make the Sites available.
- Any other third party to whom you consent and/or instruct us to provide your Personal Information.
WorkerSpring does not sell or share Personal Information, including Google user data, as the terms “sell” and “share” are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA).
- With Employers, Community Organizations or Groups: Basic profile information (e.g., name, email) when you apply for jobs or join networks, to enable matching and communication.
- With Service Providers: Authentication data shared with Google or cloud providers solely for secure login and data storage. Calendar data accessed via the Google Calendar API is used only for event integration and not shared beyond necessary service providers.
- In Business Transactions: As described above, but only with successors who agree to uphold equivalent protections.
We do not transfer or disclose Google user data to third parties for their own independent advertising or marketing purposes, and any sharing of Google user data is limited to what is necessary to provide or improve our app’s user-facing features or to comply with law, regulation, or security requirements.
5. Data Protection Mechanisms for Sensitive Data
- Encryption: All data in transit is encrypted using TLS 1.3, and data at rest is encrypted with AES-256.
- Access Controls: Role-based access limits data to authorized personnel only, with multi-factor authentication required.
- Security Audits: Regular third-party audits and compliance with standards like SOC 2.
- Anonymization: Where possible, we anonymize data for analytics to prevent re-identification.
- Breach Response: In the event of a breach, we notify affected users and authorities within 72 hours as required by law.
6. Data Retention and Deletion
- General Retention: Account data is retained while your account is active; employment information is kept for 3 years post-activity for job matching, then anonymized.
- Google User Data: Deleted immediately upon account deletion or revocation of Google permissions. Inactive data is purged after 12 months. We delete all Google user data received via Google APIs within 30 days of your disconnection of our access (for example, through Google Account Permissions) or account deletion, unless a longer retention period is required by law, and the 12-month inactive data purge described above does not extend the retention of Google user data.
- Deletion Requests: You may request deletion of your data via privacy@workerspring.com; we process within 30 days, subject to legal holds.
7. What Are Your Consumer Data Choices?
- Clicking the "unsubscribe" link in any marketing email.
- Updating your preferences in your account settings.
- Contacting us at privacy@workerspring.com.

