California Employee Privacy Notice

This California Employee Privacy Notice supplements the information and disclosures contained in DroneDeploy, Inc.’s (“DroneDeploy,” “we,” or “us”) Privacy Policy. It applies to job applicants, employees, owners, directors, officers, or contractors residing in California from whom we collect Personal Information as a business under the CCPA.

1. Personal Information Collection, Disclosure, and Sale

For the purposes of this notice, Personal Information means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household, or as otherwise defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (California Civil Code §§ 1798.100 to 1798.199), and its implementing regulations, as amended or superseded from time to time (“CCPA”).

Personal Information does not include information that is:

• Lawfully made available from government records.
• Deidentified or aggregated.
• Otherwise excluded from the scope of the CCPA.

The chart below provides the categories of Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information (as defined by the CCPA) from job applicants, employees, owners, directors, officers, or contractors we have collected, disclosed, or sold or “shared” (for cross-context behavioral purposes) in the preceding twelve months since this notice was last updated. The examples of Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information provided for each category reflect each category’s statutory definition and may not reflect all of the specific types of Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information associated with each category.

2. Use of Personal Information

We collect your Personal Information for the following specific business and commercial purposes

• Recruitment: To receive, evaluate, and process job applications, verify your information and conduct background checks, as permitted by law, communicate with you about the recruitment process and your application, schedule interviews, and improve the recruitment process.
• HR Operations: To fulfill your employment agreement, manage employee onboarding, promotions, transfers, and secondments, manage HR related claims and litigation, provide training, performance reviews, and evaluations, manage business and travel expenses, and create reports for workforce planning, such as headcount and employee turnover.
• Payroll and Benefits: To administer pay and benefits, process business and travel expense reimbursements, calculate tax and social security withholdings, comply with wage garnishment orders, and process leaves.
• IT and Security: To provide IT and security support, manage IT resources and provision of new IT applications, manage log-in credentials, monitor IT systems and networks for suspicious activity, detect intrusions, and monitor and control access to facilities to protect us, our personnel, and property.
• Legal and Compliance: To comply with legal obligations regarding HR analytics, including requests from government statistics services, process conflict of interest reporting, process employee work-related claims, such as worker compensation or insurance claims, ensure compliance with our employee policies and security requirements, gather evidence for and to support any internal investigations, litigation, disciplinary action, termination, or related activities, protect, enforce, and defend the legal rights, privacy, safety, or property of us and our employees, agents, and contractors, protect against fraud and manage risk, and comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or enforceable governmental requests.
• Acquisition or Merger: To manage acquisitions, mergers, and reorganizations or sale of some or all of a company.
• Other Business Purposes: For other purposes that you would reasonably expect, or for which we provide specific notice at the time the information is collected.

3. Collection and Disclosure of Personal Information

We collect Personal Information from the following categories of sources:

You: You directly.

Vendors: Vendors and service providers.  For example, we collect information derived from criminal record and prior employment verifications from background check providers at the time of first employment.

In the preceding twelve months since this notice was last updated, we disclosed Personal Information to the following categories of third parties for the purposes of HR operations, payroll, and benefits:

Vendors: Vendors and service providers.

Personal Information we disclosed: 

Identifiers, Categories of Personal Information in Cal. Civ. Code Section 1798.80(e), Characteristics of Protected Classification under California or Federal Law, Sensory Information, Professional or Employment-related Information, Sensitive Personal Information (Identifiers), Sensitive Personal Information (Log-In and Financial Information), Sensitive Personal Information (Group Membership), Sensitive Personal Information (Contents of Communications), Sensitive Personal Information (Personal Information Collected and Analyzed Concerning a Consumer’s Health), Sensitive Personal Information (Personal Information Collected and Analyzed Concerning a Consumer’s Sex Life or Sexual Orientation) 

4. Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you may exercise the following rights.

Right to Know and Access. You may submit a verifiable request for information regarding the: (1) categories of Personal Information collected, sold, or disclosed by us; (2) purposes for which categories of Personal Information are collected or sold by us; (3) categories of sources from which we collect Personal Information; (4) categories of third parties to whom we disclosed or sold Personal Information; and (5) specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you during the past twelve months.

Right to Delete. Subject to certain exceptions, you may submit a verifiable request that we delete Personal Information about you that we have collected from you.

Right to Correct. You may submit a verifiable request that we correct inaccurate Personal Information that we maintain about you.

Verification. Requests for access to, deletion of, or correction of Personal Information are subject to our ability to reasonably verify your identity in light of the information requested and pursuant to relevant CCPA requirements, limitations, and regulations. To verify your access, deletion, or correction request, please follow the instructions provided in our response to your request. 

You will receive an email from our Human Resources team asking to authenticate yourself and confirm your CCPA request. Upon validating the above, the DroneDeploy team will process your request in the timeline recommended in the CCPA.

Right to Opt Out. In some circumstances, you may opt out of the sale or sharing (for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes) of your Personal Information. We do not sell or share (for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes) your Personal Information, including if you are under 16 years old.

Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. In some circumstances, you may limit our use and disclosure of your Sensitive Personal Information. We do not use or disclose your Sensitive Personal Information for purposes other than the limited purposes permitted by the CCPA.

Right of No Retaliation. You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of your CCPA privacy rights, subject to certain limitations, including if you are an employee, applicant, or independent contractor of our business. 

Submit Requests. To exercise your rights under the CCPA, please complete this form and email it to [email protected], or contact us via the information in the Contact Information section, below.

Authorizing an Agent: If you are acting as an authorized agent to make a request to know, delete, correct, or opt out on behalf of a California resident, please provide us with written authorization signed by the resident, and we will contact you and the resident with further steps required to verify the resident’s identity.

5. Contact Information

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about our processing activities, or you would like to exercise your privacy rights please email us at [email protected] or write to us at:
DroneDeploy, Inc.
548 Market St. #34583
San Francisco, California 94104

Last Reviewed and Updated: April 20, 2023