Privacy Policy

This document sets out the privacy policy of 500 Startups Management Company, L.L.C. and its affiliates (together referred to as “500 Global”, “we” or “us“) and explains how we collect and use your personal information in connection with your relationship with us as a customer or potential customer including;

• through your use of https://500.co/ and any country top level domain name (the “Site“),
• through your use of and applications for our products and services and participation in our program(s);
• by interacting with our content and/or services such as online training; or
• by contacting our team members.

This policy also applies to information held about suppliers and possible future suppliers, contacts and all other people we hold information about.

This Privacy Policy also sets out your rights and who you can contact for more information. If you are a customer based in the EU, please see the EU Users for additional information that is relevant to you. If you are based in California, please see the CPRA section below for additional information that is relevant to you.

“Personal Information” means data that allows someone to identify or contact you (e.g. your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit/debit numbers, expiration date and other billing information; people to whom purchases have been shipped, including addresses and phone number). “Non-Personal Information” means data that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information.

Depending on the particular circumstances, we may collect and hold different Personal Information about you.  For example, this may include:

• your name;
• your education;
• your occupation and professional qualifications;
• your contact information such as your home or work address, telephone and email contact details;
• your payment details/financial information, such as your bank account or credit card details;
• your postings on any social media applications and services that we provide;
• your account security credentials, such as username and passwords;
• information about how you use our products and services;
• information in connection with communications you send us, for example to report a problem; and
• where necessary, additional information as part of our user authentication process.

Each time you use the Site, we may automatically collect the following types of information:

• Technical information: For example, the type of internet browser and the operating system. We use this information to help provide a good user experience on the Site.
• Log information: For example, the details of the use of the Site by you, the visits to the Site and traffic data. We use this information to help us understand how users use the Site and to improve user experience.

If you fail to provide us with this information, or you object to us processing such information the consequences are that we may be prevented from conducting business with you and we may be unable to provide our products and services to you.

• Information you give to us when you purchase our products and services. If you purchase one of our products you will need to provide certain information including your name, address and card number in relation to the purchase.
• Other information you give to us. We may receive and store information that you enter on the Site (e.g. when you register for a program) or give us in any other way (e.g., by telephone, email or other software platform). As a result of your use of the Site, you may supply us with such Personal Information such as your name and contact details.
• Social Media. Depending on your settings or the privacy policies for social media and messaging services such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram you might give us permission to access information from those accounts or services.

We may also collect information from you online using cookies and other analytical tools or when you visit the Site, including when you use our products and services. Like most websites, we use “cookies” to help us make our Site – and the way you use it – better. Cookies mean that a website will remember you. They’re small text files that sites transfer to your computer (or phone / tablet). They improve website use and speed – for example by automatically filling your name and address in text fields. There are more details in our section on Cookies below.

In addition, with regard to each of your visits to our Site we will automatically collect certain information e.g. your IP address used to connect your computer to the Internet.

The Site has reasonable security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and unauthorized alteration of Personal Information in 500 Globals’ possession and control. Although we endeavor to provide security for information in our possession and control, no security system can prevent against all potential security breaches, and we bear no liability for uses or disclosures of Personal Information or Non-Personal Information arising in connection with the theft thereof.

Our Site may contain links to other sites, including via our social media buttons. While we try to link only to websites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices employed by other websites and a link does not constitute an endorsement of that website. Once you link to another website from our Site you are subject to the terms and conditions of that website, including, but not limited to, its internet privacy policy and practices. Please check these policies before you submit any data to these websites.

Our primary purpose in collecting user information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customised experience and to provide the products and services that you have requested. We may also use the information that you have provided to ensure that the content on our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer. We may use and disclose your information for the following specific purposes:

• to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the products, services and information that you request from us;
• to assist you with enquiries, or to improve our customer service;
• to communicate with you;
• to send you marketing (where we have the right to do so – see marketing section below);
• for our billing and account purposes;
• to maintain our business relationships where you are a business partner, a user of our website and services, or a customer;
• to administer our Site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
• as part of our efforts to keep our Site safe and secure;
• to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
• to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our Site about services that may interest you or them;
• to develop and improve our products and services;
• to update our records;
• to allow you to participate in interactive features of the Site or our programs, when you choose to do so; and
• comply with legal and regulatory obligations.

As further described below, in limited circumstances we may disclose collected information, including Personal Information, to certain third parties in connection with providing the Services or as required by law.

We may use Non-Personal Information in a variety of ways, including, by way of example, to evaluate the performance of the Site and Services and the general preferences of users, or to generate anonymous statistics for our benefit or for our business partners. Because Non-Personal Information is entirely anonymous, and therefore can never be used by us to identify you, this policy does not limit our ability to use or disclose Non-Personal Information.

As a necessary part of providing our products and services, we may disclose information collected from you to the following categories of third parties for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy:

• We may disclose certain Personal Information about you to our affiliates, third-party service providers, agents and contractors (e.g., our third party payment processors), if this is necessary to provide you with our products and services, respond to your inquiries or for any other related purposes and so long as they are only using the Personal Information to provide services to us. We will ensure that if we share information with, or provide access to, third party service providers or affiliates, any such disclosure or access is at all times in compliance with applicable data protection legislation.
• If another company acquires our company, business, or our assets, that company will possess the Personal Information collected by it and us and will assume the rights and obligations regarding your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
• Under certain limited circumstances, we may cooperate with legal investigations and/or we may be subject to legal requirements to disclose information collected through the Site or the Services, such as, by way of example, to a court or a governmental agency, and our policy is to provide such cooperation and comply fully with all such legal requirements.
• We may also disclose Personal Information to protect or defend the rights or property of 500 Global or users of the Services and/or to investigate any violation or potential violation of the law, this Privacy Policy, or the Terms of Use. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
• We may also share your Personal Information with third parties who support our information technology or handle mailings on our behalf and our professional advisers.

The disclosures contemplated by this paragraph (“Necessary Disclosures”) are necessary if you wish to use our products and services. As mentioned above, we may use and disclose Non-Personal Information without restriction. If you do not want us to make such Necessary Disclosures, or to use Non-Personal Information without restriction, you must not use the Services. We do not sell, rent or lease e-mail addresses or other Personal Information to third parties.

We will only keep the information we collect about you for as long as required for the purposes set out above or as required to comply with any legal obligations to which we are subject. This will involve us regularly reviewing our files to check that information is accurate, up-to-date and still required.

If you close an account you have with us or you decide not to go ahead with participating in one of our programs, we may still keep your information.

If you have subscribed to one or more of our products or services, communications or mailing lists, you may unsubscribe by following the instructions which are included in any email that you receive or by contacting privacy@500.co at any time.

Cookies are small digital signature files that are stored by your web browser that allow your preferences to be recorded when visiting the Site. They may also be used to track your return visits to the Site. When using the Services, we may create “cookies” on your computer for purposes of facilitating and maintaining your current user session to help 500 Global understand your use of the Site and enable you to access, navigate and use the Services. 500 Global may collect Personal Information using those cookies in order to enable the Company to identify you in connection with the Services and to track use of the Services for purposes consistent with this policy.

To make our Site and Services more useful to you, our servers (which may be hosted by a third party service provider) collect information from you, including your browser type, operating system, IP, which may vary from session to session), domain name, and/or a date/time stamp for your visit. Third party advertising companies may also use cookies for tracking purposes.

You may be able to block cookies via your browser settings, but this may prevent you from access to certain features of the Site. For information about blocking the use of cookies, please refer to the instructions/help screen on your browser.

500 Global does not currently take steps to respond to browsers’ “Do Not Track” signals as no uniform standard to respond to such signals has been developed at this time.

If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on the Site so that users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we will disclose it. These changes will be effective immediately. In any event, changes to this Privacy Policy may affect our use of Personal Information that you provided us prior to our notification to you of the changes. Please check this Privacy Policy periodically to inform yourself of any changes. If you do not accept the changes made to this Privacy Policy you should immediately stop using the Site and our products and services.

Effective December 15, 2022. 500 Global may make changes to this policy in the future. Last updated December 15, 2022.

For any questions or comments on our privacy policy please contact privacy@500.co 

Privacy Policy: EU Users

500 Startups Management Company, L.L.C. and its affiliates (“500 Global,” “we”) value the privacy of individuals who use our websites and related services (collectively, our “Services”). This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, and share the information of users of our Services (“Users” or “you”). By using our Services, you agree to the collection, use, disclosure, and processing of your information as described by this Privacy Notice. Beyond this Privacy Notice, your use of our Services is also subject to our Terms of Use (https://500.co/terms-of-use) and any additional agreements you may enter into with us.
 

If you are a resident of California, you can view our California-specific privacy notice below. If you reside in the European Union, you can view our EU-specific privacy notice below.

We may collect a variety of information about you or your devices from various sources, as described below.

Information You Provide to Us

Registration Information. If you sign up for an account, register to use our Services, or sign up for emails or other updates, we may ask you for basic contact information, such as name, email, username, phone number, or mailing address. We may also collect certain demographic information when you register for our Services, including age or gender.
Communications. If you contact us directly, we may collect additional information from you. For example, when you reach out to our customer support team, we may ask for your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, or other contact information so that we can verify your identity and communicate with you. We may also store the contents of any message or attachments that you send to us, as well as any information you submit through any of our forms or questionnaires.
Events. If you register for an event that we host, whether in-person or online, we may collect relevant information such as your name, address, title, company, phone number, or email address, as well as specific information relevant to the event for which you are registering.
User Content. We allow Users of our Services to share their own content with others. This may include posts, comments, reviews, or other User-generated content. Unless otherwise noted when creating such content, this information may be shared publicly through our Services.
Payment Information. If you make a purchase through the Services, your payment-related information, such as credit card or other financial information, may be collected by our third-party payment processor on our behalf.
Job Applications. If you apply for a job with us, we may collect relevant information such as your name, phone number, email address, position, job history, education history, references, a cover letter, or similar information.

Information We Collect Automatically When You Use Our Services

Device Information. We may collect information about the devices and software you use to access our Services, such as your IP address, web browser type, operating system version, device identifiers, or similar information.
Usage Information. To help us understand how you use our Services and to help us improve them, we may collect data about your interactions with our Services. This includes information such as crash reports, session lengths and times, the pages or other content you view, and any searches you conduct on our site.
Cookies and Similar Technologies. We and our third-party partners may collect information using cookies, pixel tags, or similar technologies. Cookies are small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to our Services.

 

We may use the information we collect:

• To provide, maintain, improve, and enhance our Services
• To understand and analyze how you use our Services and develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• To facilitate purchases of products or services that you order
• To host events
• To allow you to share content with other Users of our Services
• To evaluate and process applications for jobs with us
• To communicate with you, provide you with updates and other information relating to our Services, provide information that you request, respond to comments and questions, and otherwise provide User support
• For marketing and advertising purposes, including developing and providing promotional and advertising materials that may be relevant, valuable or otherwise of interest to you
• To detect and prevent fraud, and respond to trust and safety issues that may arise
• For compliance purposes, including enforcing our Terms of Service or other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency
• For other purposes for which we provide specific notice at the time the information is collected
   

Service Providers. We may share any information we collect with service providers retained in connection with the provision of our Services. These companies are only permitted to use this information to help us provide our Services, not for their own purposes.
Our Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, subsidiaries, and representatives as needed to provide our Services.
Other Users. Content you post, including comments, may be displayed to other Users as appropriate.
Our Partners. We use analytics services to collect and process certain analytics data.
As Required by Law and Similar Disclosures. We may access, preserve, and disclose your information if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to: (a) comply with law enforcement requests and legal process, such as a court order or subpoena; (b) respond to your requests; or (c) protect your, our, or others’ rights, property, or safety. In particular, we may disclose relevant information to the appropriate third parties if you post any illegal, threatening, or objectionable content on or through the Services.
Events. We may share your information with event partners or co-sponsors to facilitate the events for which you register.
Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers. We may transfer your information to service providers, advisors, potential transactional partners, or other third parties in connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a corporate transaction in which we are acquired by or merged with another company or in which we sell, liquidate, or transfer all or a portion of our assets. The use of your information following any of these events will be governed by the same general provisions of this Privacy Notice.
Consent. We may also disclose your information with your permission
 

Our Communications. From time to time, you may receive marketing or other informational email messages from us. You can unsubscribe from our promotional and informational emails via the link provided in the emails. Users may continue to receive administrative messages from us necessary to service User accounts after opting out of receiving promotional messages from us.
Cookies. Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Our Partners. To inquire about your choices regarding our business partners generally, contact us at privacy@500.co.
 

Our Services may contain links to other websites, products, or services that we do not own or operate. We are not responsible for the content provided by, or the privacy practices of, these third parties. Please be aware that this Privacy Notice does not apply to your activities on these third-party services or any information you disclose to these third parties. We encourage you to read their privacy policies before providing any information to them.

We make reasonable efforts to protect your information by using administrative, technological, and physical safeguards designed to improve the security of the information we maintain and protect it from accidental loss, unauthorized access or use, or any other inappropriate or unlawful processing. However, because no information system can be 100% secure, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.

We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use information from children under 13 years of age, and no part of our Services are directed toward children. If you learn that a child has provided us with information in violation of this Privacy Notice, then you may alert us at privacy@500.co.

Our Services are hosted in the United States and intended for visitors located within the United States. If you choose to use the Services from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that you are transferring your information outside of those regions to the United States for storage and processing. Also, we may transfer your data from the U.S. to other countries or regions in connection with storage and processing of data, fulfilling your requests, and operating the Services. By using our Services, you consent to the transfer, storage, and processing of your information as described in this Privacy Notice.

We will post any adjustments to the Privacy Notice on this page, and the revised version will be effective when it is posted. If we make material changes, we may notify you via a notice posted on our website or another method. We encourage you to read this Privacy Notice periodically to stay up to date about our privacy practices.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about our processing activities, please email us at privacy@500.co.

Last updated: January 28, 2025

Privacy Policy: California Users

We collect Personal Data from Consumers and comply with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”).  This California Privacy Notice applies to California residents (“Consumers,” “you,” or “your”).

For the purposes of this California Privacy Notice, “Personal Data” means information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a particular individual or household. However, the following categories of information are not Personal Data:

• Publicly available information;
• Deidentified or aggregated data; or
• Information otherwise excluded from the scope of the CPRA.

This Privacy Notice provides the following information to California Consumers:

• Categories of Personal Data we collect;
• Purposes for which we use Personal Data;
• Categories of Personal Data we disclose to third parties;
• Categories of third parties to which we disclose Personal Data; and
• How Consumers can exercise their rights under the CPRA:
  • The rights to access, correct, or delete Personal Data;
  • The right to obtain a portable copy of Personal Data;
  • The right to limit the use of sensitive personal data in certain circumstances; and
  • The rights to opt out of the sharing of Personal Data for behavioral advertising, sales of personal data, or certain profiling.

The table below outlines the non-sensitive categories of Personal Data 500 Global collects about Consumers and whether and how they are disclosed to third parties.

We collect Non-Sensitive Personal Data from the following sources:

• Directly from our users
• Inferences from your activity
• From our affiliates

1. Identifiers
   1. Examples: Identifiers may contain the following: Portfolio company / investor / program participant / client information such as names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers or other contact information.
   2. Purpose(s): Investor / client / service provider/portfolio/program participant records and communications; anti-money laundering & know your customer (AML/KYC) purposes; to improve and provide our services; and/or marketing purposes
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or share this data for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This data may be sold to Affiliates and Business Partners
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors, Affiliates, and Business Partners. We disclose Identifiers to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this data for as long as reasonably needed to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected.
2. Personal Characteristics
   1. Examples: Personal Characteristics may contain the following: Age, gender.
   2. Purpose(s): Investor / client / service provider/portfolio/program participant records and communications; anti-money laundering & know your customer (AML/KYC) purposes; to improve and provide our services; and/or marketing purposes
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or share this data for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This data may be sold to Affiliates and Business Partners
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors, Affiliates, and Business Partners. We disclose Personal Characteristics to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this data for as long as reasonably needed to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected.
3. Commercial Information
   1. Examples: Commercial Information may contain the following: Customer information, property records.
   2. Purpose(s): Anti-money laundering & know your customer (AML/KYC) purposes; to improve our services and programs; and/or for business development & marketing purposes.
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or share this data for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This data may be sold to Affiliates and Business Partners
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors, Affiliates, and Business Partners. We disclose Commercial Information to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this data for as long as reasonably needed to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected.
4. Internet/Electronic Activity
   1. Examples: Internet/Electronic Activity may contain the following: Web information of users accessing our website.
   2. Purpose(s): To improve user experience on our website; to improve our services; and/or to generate statistics on the makeup of our website users.
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or share this data for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This data is not sold to third parties
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors and Affiliates. We disclose Internet/Electronic Activity to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this data for as long as reasonably needed to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected.
5. Imprecise Geolocational
   1. Examples: Imprecise Geolocational may contain the following: Personnel office access information.
   2. Purpose(s): To facilitate entry into 500 Global’s office; and for security purposes.
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or share this data for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This data is not sold to third parties
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors and Affiliates. We disclose Imprecise Geolocational to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this data for as long as reasonably needed to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected.
6. Sensory Information
   1. Examples: Sensory Information may contain the following: Photographs, videos, and video recordings of company related events and programs
   2. Purpose(s): For business development & marketing purposes; and/or for delivery of our services.
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or share this data for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This data may be sold to Affiliates and Business Partners
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors, Affiliates, and Business Partners. We disclose Sensory Information to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this data for as long as reasonably needed to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected.
7. Professional Information
   1. Examples: Professional Information may contain the following: Employment history, salary information, job titles
   2. Purpose(s): Anti-money laundering & know your customer (AML/KYC) purposes; to deliver and improve our services; to generate statistics on the makeup of our investors / clients / service providers / portfolio / program participants; for employment and HR-related purposes; and/or for business development & marketing purposes.
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or share this data for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This data may be sold to Affiliates and Business Partners
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors, Affiliates, and Business Partners. We disclose Professional Information to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this data for as long as reasonably needed to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected.
8. Educational Information
   1. Examples: Educational Information may contain the following: Educational history.
   2. Purpose(s): Anti-money laundering & know your customer (AML/KYC) purposes; to deliver and improve our services; to generate statistics on the makeup of our investors / clients / service providers / portfolio / program participants; for employment and HR-related purposes; and/or for business development & marketing purposes.
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or share this data for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This data may be sold to Affiliates and Business Partners
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors, Affiliates, and Business Partners. We disclose Educational Information to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this data for as long as reasonably needed to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected.
9. Inferences
   1. Examples: Inferences may contain the following: Information drawn from other pieces of information.
   2. Purpose(s): For HR-related purposes.
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or share this data for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This data is not sold to third parties
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors and Affiliates. We disclose Inferences to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this data for as long as reasonably needed to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected.

The table below outlines the categories of Sensitive Personal Data 500 Global collects about Consumers and whether they are shared with third parties. 500 Global obtains affirmative consent from Consumers to process the Sensitive Personal Data, in compliance with applicable law.

We collect Sensitive Personal Data from the following sources:

• Directly from our users
• From our affiliates

1. Government ID Data
   1. Examples: Government ID Data may contain the following: Driver’s License Number, Government-Issued Identification, and Passport Information.
   2. Purpose(s): To provide services, to improve services, and to comply with statutory or other obligations.
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or share this data for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This data is not sold to third parties
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors and Affiliates. We disclose Government ID Data to enable our our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this data for as long as reasonably needed to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected.
2. Sensitive Category Data
   1. Examples:Sensitive Category Data may contain the following: Identification Numbers, racial or ethnic origin, identifiers and other personal characteristics.
   2. Purpose(s): To provide services, to improve services, and to comply with statutory or other obligations.
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or share this data for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This data is not sold to third parties
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors and Affiliates. We disclose Sensitive Category Data to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this data for as long as reasonably needed to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected.
3. Financial Data
   1. Examples: Financial Data may contain the following: Account numbers, credit card information, or other financial information.
   2. Purpose(s): To provide services, to improve services, and to comply with statutory or other obligations.
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or share this data for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This data is not sold to third parties
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors and Affiliates. We disclose Financial Data to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this data for as long as reasonably needed to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected.

Use Of Personal Information

We use Personal Data for the purposes described above. Personal Data may also be used or disclosed as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law.

Disclosing Personal Information

We share and/or sell Personal Data with the following categories of third parties:

• Processors (also referred to as “Service Providers” or “Contractors” in California law): We use processors to securely handle Personal Information on our behalf for our business purposes and only on our instructions. California privacy laws and our contracts with these companies prevent them from using your Personal Information for their own purposes.
• Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, subsidiaries, and representatives as part of providing our services.
• Our Business Partners: We may share relevant personal data with our business partners to provide you with exclusive offers for products and services that may interest you.

See the tables above for more details about how different categories of Personal Information are disclosed.

California residents have the following rights under California privacy laws:

• The rights to know the Personal Information we have collected about them, including the categories of sources from which we collected the Personal Information, the purpose(s) for collecting, selling, or sharing your Personal Information, and the categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed your Personal Information;
• The rights to correct or delete Personal Information;
• The right to limit the use of Sensitive Personal Information in certain circumstances;
• The rights to opt out of targeted advertising, sales of Personal Information, or profiling; and
• The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising their privacy rights.
   

If you are a California resident, you can submit a request to exercise your personal data rights under California privacy laws by clicking here and submitting the form: https://500.co/ccpa. You may also make any of these requests by calling (888) 680-2293 Ext. 5. Please be aware that we do not accept or process requests through other means (e.g., via fax, social media, etc).

To protect your privacy, we may need to authenticate your identity before we respond to your rights request. We will verify your identity by using commercially reasonable methods, including but not limited to email address verification. If you do not complete the verification process, we may be unable to process your request. Any information you provide to authenticate your identity will only be used to process your rights request and not for any other purpose. Please be aware that we do not accept or process rights requests submitted through other means.

We will respond to your rights request within 45 days (or 15 days for requests to opt-out of the sale of Personal Information, requests to opt-out of targeted advertising, and requests to limit the use of Sensitive Personal information), though in certain cases we may inform you that we will need up to another 45 days to act on your request. If we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity on or from your account, we will delay taking action on your request until we can appropriately verify your identity and the request as authentic. Also note that each of the rights are subject to certain exceptions.

We reserve the right to decline to process, or charge a reasonable fee for, requests from a California resident that are manifestly unfounded, excessive, or repetitive.

California law gives California residents the right to direct a business that “sells” or “shares” their Personal Information to stop selling and/or sharing their Personal Information at any time. California law defines “selling” as exchanging Personal Information with a third party for money or anything of value, and it defines “sharing” as disclosing Personal Information to a third party for use in conducting “cross-context behavioral advertising,” also referred to as “targeted advertising.” An example of targeted advertising is displaying advertisements to a person where the advertisement is selected based on Personal Information obtained from their activities over time and across non-affiliated websites or applications to predict their preferences or interests. In certain situations and as detailed above, we sell and share for targeted advertising Personal Information with third parties. You can opt out of the sale and/or sharing of your Personal Information by You can submit a request to exercise your personal data rights under the CPRA by clicking here and submitting the form: https://500.co/ccpa. You may also make any of these requests by calling (888) 680-2293 Ext. 5. Please be aware that we do not accept or process requests through other means (e.g., via fax, social media, etc.).

You have the right to limit some uses of Sensitive Personal Information. In general, you may direct companies not to use Sensitive Personal Information except as necessary to provide goods or services you have requested or other exempt purposes. 
However, we only use Sensitive Personal Information for purposes that are exempt from this right, such as to provide you with goods or services you have requested, to detect and prevent security incidents, or verifying the quality of our goods and services. The full list of these exempt purposes are specified in California Code of Regulations, Title 11, Section 7027(m).

We do not knowingly collect or use the Personal Information of children under 16. If you believe that we have collected the Personal Information of a child under 16, please contact us at privacy@500.co.

California privacy law allows you to designate an authorized agent to make a rights request on your behalf. Your authorized agent may submit such a request by following the same method described above in the section titled Exercising Your Personal Information Rights. We may require verification of your authorized agent’s authority in addition to the information we require for verification of your identity.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this California Privacy Notice, contact us at privacy@500.co.
 

Last updated: January 28, 2025
 

Privacy Policy: California HR Privacy Notice

We collect Personal Information from current and past employees (‘Employees’), Contractors and Applicants and comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act and related laws and regulations (“California privacy laws”). This California HR Privacy Notice applies to California Employees, Contractors, and Applicants (“you” or “your”).

“Personal Information” means information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a particular individual or household. However, the following categories of information are not Personal Information:

• Publicly available information;
• Deidentified or aggregated data; or
• Information otherwise excluded from the scope of California privacy laws.

This Privacy Notice provides the following information to California Employees, Contractors, and Applicants:

• Categories of Personal Information we collect;
• Purposes for which we use Personal Information;
• Categories of Personal Information we disclose to third parties;
• Categories of third parties to which we disclose Personal Information; and
• How Employees, Contractors, and Applicants can exercise their rights under California privacy laws:
  • The rights to access, correct, or delete Personal Information;
  • The right to limit the use of sensitive Personal Information in certain circumstances; and
  • The rights to opt out of targeted advertising, sales of Personal Information, or profiling.

The content below outlines the non-sensitive categories of Personal Information 500 Global collects about Employees, Contractors, and Applicants and whether and how they are disclosed to third parties.

We collect Non-Sensitive Personal Information from the following sources:

• Directly from our Employees, Contractors, and Applicants

1. Category of Personal Information: Educational Information
   1. Examples: Educational Information may contain the following: Educational history, grades, etc.
   2. Purpose(s) for Collection: To perform HR services including assessment of candidate qualifications
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or disclose this information for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This information is not sold to third parties
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors and Affiliates. We disclose Educational Information to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected
2. Category of Personal Information: Professional Information
   1. Examples: Professional Information may contain the following: Employment history, salary, etc.
   2. Purpose(s) for Collection: To perform HR services including assessment of candidate qualifications and credentials
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or disclose this information for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This information is not sold to third parties
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors and Affiliates. We disclose Professional Information to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected
3. Category of Personal Information: Identifiers
   1. Examples: Identifiers may contain the following: Name, email address, physical address, etc.
   2. Purpose(s) for Collection: To perform HR services including assessment of candidate qualifications and credentials
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or disclose this information for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This information is not sold to third parties
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors and Affiliates. We disclose Identifiers to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected
4. Category of Personal Information: Personal Characteristics
   1. Examples: Personal Characteristics may contain the following: Age, gender, etc.
   2. Purpose(s) for Collection: To perform HR services including assessment of hiring eligibility and employee benefits eligibility and enrollment
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or disclose this information for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This information is not sold to third parties
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors and Affiliates. We disclose Personal Characteristics to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected
5. Category of Personal Information: Imprecise Geolocational
   1. Examples: Imprecise Geolocational may contain the following: Work location
   2. Purpose(s) for Collection: To perform HR services including determining candidate eligibility, applicability of benefits and policies, and to provide office access
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or disclose this information for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This information is not sold to third parties
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors and Affiliates. We disclose Imprecise Geolocational to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected

The content below outlines the categories of Sensitive Personal Information 500 Global collects about Employees, Contractors, and Applicants and whether they are disclosed to third parties.

We collect Sensitive Personal Information from the following sources:

• Directly from our Employees, Contractors, and Applicants

1. Category of Sensitive Personal Information: Government ID Data
   1. Examples: Government ID Data may contain the following: government issued ID numbers including but not limited to Social Security, driver's license, passport, and identification card numbers
   2. Purpose(s) for Collection: Providing HR services including candidate assessment and payroll; compliance with statutory obligations
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or disclose this information for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This information is not sold to third parties
   5. Other Disclosures: This information may be disclosed to Processors and Affiliates. We disclose Government ID Data to enable our processors to provide customer service on our behalf.
   6. Retention Period: We retain this information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected
2. Category of Sensitive Personal Information: Sensitive Category Data
   1. Examples: Sensitive Category Data may contain the following: Racial or ethnic origin
   2. Purpose(s) for Collection: For internal tracking and compliance purposes
   3. Targeted Advertising: We do not engage in targeted advertising or disclose this information for targeted advertising purposes
   4. Sale: This information is not sold to third parties
   5. Other Disclosures: This information is not otherwise disclosed to third parties
   6. Retention Period: We retain this information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected

We use Personal Information for the purposes described above. Other examples of how we may use your Personal Information within 500 Global include:

• Publishing Employees’ work contact information in an intra-company directory for other Employees to view.
• Disclosing applicants’ submitted Personal Information with our HR department and other employees to process applications.
• Creating profiles of contractors’ performance based on work product.

Personal Information may also be used or disclosed as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law.

We disclose Personal Information to the following categories of third parties:

• Processors (also referred to as “Service Providers” or “Contractors” in California law): We use processors to securely handle Personal Information on our behalf for our business purposes and only on our instructions. California privacy laws and our contracts with these companies prevent them from using your Personal Information for their own purposes.
• Affiliates: We may disclose your information to our affiliates, subsidiaries, and representatives as part of our relationship with you.

See the content above for more details about how different categories of Personal Information are disclosed.

We do not sell Personal Information to anyone. We do not share Personal Information for advertising purposes.

California Employees, Contractors, and Applicants have the following rights under California privacy laws:

• The right to know the Personal Information we have collected about them, including the categories of sources from which we collected the Personal Information, the purpose(s) for collecting, selling, or sharing your Personal Information, and the categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed your Personal Information;
• The rights to correct, or delete Personal Information;
• The right to limit the use of Sensitive Personal Information in certain circumstances;
• The rights to opt out of targeted advertising, sales of Personal Information, or profiling; and
• The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising their privacy rights.

If you are a California Employee, Contractor, or Applicant, you can submit a request to exercise your Personal Information rights under California privacy laws by clicking here and submitting the form: https://500.co/ccpa. You may also make any of these requests by calling (888) 680-2293 Ext. 5. Please be aware that we do not accept or process requests through other means (e.g., via fax, social media, etc).

To protect your privacy, we may need to authenticate your identity before we respond to your rights request. We will verify your identity by using commercially reasonable methods, including but not limited to email address verification.. If you do not complete the verification process, we may be unable to process your request. Any information you provide to authenticate your identity will only be used to process your rights request and not for any other purpose. Please be aware that we do not accept or process rights requests submitted through other means.

We will respond to your rights request within 45 days (or 15 days for requests to opt-out of the sale of Personal Information, requests to opt-out of targeted advertising, and requests to limit the use of Sensitive Personal information), though in certain cases we may inform you that we will need up to another 45 days to act on your request. If we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity on or from your account, we will delay taking action on your request until we can appropriately verify your identity and the request as authentic. Also note that each of the rights are subject to certain exceptions.

We reserve the right to decline to process, or charge a reasonable fee for, requests from a Employee, Contractor, or Applicant that are manifestly unfounded, excessive, or repetitive.

You have the right to limit some uses of Sensitive Personal Information. In general, you may direct companies not to use Sensitive Personal Information except as necessary to provide goods or services you have requested or other exempt purposes.

However, we only use Sensitive Personal Information for purposes that are exempt from this right, such as to provide you with goods or services you have requested, to detect and prevent security incidents, or verifying the quality of our goods and services. The full list of these exempt purposes are specified in California Code of Regulations, Title 11, Section 7027(m).

We do not knowingly collect or use the Personal Information of children under 16. If you believe that we have collected the Personal Information of a child under 16, please contact us at privacy@500.co.

California privacy law allows you to designate an authorized agent to make a rights request on your behalf. Your authorized agent may submit such a request by following the same method described above. We may require verification of your authorized agent in addition to the information for verification above for Employees, Contractors, and Applicants and households.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this California HR Privacy Notice, contact us at privacy@500.co.

Last updated: January 28, 2025

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