HBAConnect Recruitment and Staffing Solutions — Privacy Policy
Effective Date: August 19, 2025
Last Updated: August 19, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how HBAConnect Recruitment and Staffing Solutions, operated by Our Lead Good Course LLC ("HBAConnect," "we," "us," or "our"), collects, uses, and shares personal information of individuals who apply for jobs or engage with our recruitment services. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information responsibly.
1. Personal Information We Collect
We collect personal information directly from you when you apply for a job, communicate with us, or use our services. We may also collect information from third parties, such as professional references or publicly available sources, as permitted by law.
The categories of personal information we may collect include:
• Identifiers: Name, email address, phone number, mailing address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address, Social Security number (if required for employment verification by a prospective employer, collected with your consent), driver's license number (if required for specific roles).
• Professional or Employment-Related Information: Resume/CV, cover letter, employment history, education history, professional licenses, certifications, skills, qualifications, desired salary, work authorization status, references.
• Protected Classifications (Voluntary): Gender, race, ethnicity, veteran status, disability status. This information is collected on a strictly voluntary basis, used for diversity and inclusion reporting (where permitted by law), and is not used in hiring decisions.
• Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information: Browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with our website or application (e.g., IP address, device information, browser type).
• Audio, Electronic, Visual Information: If you participate in video interviews or phone calls with us, we may collect audio or visual recordings with your consent, for quality assurance or training purposes.
• Inferences: We may draw inferences from the information collected to create a profile reflecting your preferences, characteristics, and abilities relevant to job opportunities.
2. How We Use Your Personal Information
We use your personal information for the following business purposes:
• Recruitment and Placement: To assess your qualifications, match you with potential job opportunities, submit your profile to prospective employers (with your consent), schedule interviews, and facilitate the hiring process.
• Communication: To communicate with you about your application, job opportunities, and our services.
• Compliance and Legal Obligations: To comply with legal obligations, including employment laws, anti-discrimination laws, and record-keeping requirements.
• Service Improvement: To analyze and improve our recruitment services, website, and application processes.
• Security and Fraud Prevention: To detect and prevent fraudulent activity, protect our systems, and ensure the security of our services.
• Diversity and Inclusion: To monitor and report on diversity and inclusion metrics (using voluntary demographic data), where permitted by law.
We do not use or disclose your sensitive personal information for purposes other than those specified in the CPRA, such as providing our services, ensuring security, or for short-term, transient use.
3. How We Share Your Personal Information
We may share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:
• Prospective Employers: With your consent, we share your relevant application materials and profile with potential employers for job opportunities.
• Service Providers: We engage third-party service providers to assist us with our operations, such as IT support, communication platforms, and analytics. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• Legal and Regulatory Authorities: We may disclose your information if required by law, court order, or government regulation, or if we believe it's necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others.
• Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
We do not sell your personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
4. Your California Privacy Rights (CPRA)
If you are a California resident, you have the following rights regarding your personal information:
• Right to Know: Request disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources, the purposes for collecting, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.
• Right to Delete: Request deletion of personal information that we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
• Right to Correct: Request correction of inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
• Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing: While we do not sell or share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, you have the right to opt-out if our practices change in the future.
• Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: Limit our use and disclosure of sensitive personal information to what is necessary to perform services reasonably expected by an average consumer.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any CPRA rights.
5. How to Exercise Your Rights
To exercise your California privacy rights, submit a verifiable request using one of the following methods:
• Email: ceo@hbaconnect.com
• Phone: 510-900-7093
• Mailing Address: Our Lead Good Course LLC, 105 N 1st Street, #1710, San Jose, CA 95113
To verify your request, please provide your full name, email address, and phone number associated with your application. We may require additional information to verify your identity, depending on the nature of your request. You may designate an authorized agent; we may require proof of authorization and verification of your identity.
6. Data Security
We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no data transmission over the internet or electronic storage method can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will post the updated policy on our website with a new "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.
8. Contact Us
HBAConnect Recruitment and Staffing Solutions
Our Lead Good Course LLC
105 N 1st Street, #1710
San Jose, CA 95113
Email: ceo@hbaconnect.com
Phone: 510-900-7093