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Last Updated: February 13, 2024
This Privacy Notice for Job Applicants, Employees, Contractors, and Their Emergency Contacts (“Privacy Notice”) applies to job applicants, employees, contractors, and their emergency contacts (“employee” or “you”). It does not apply to de-identified, aggregate, or publicly available information or to personal information covered by other specific privacy laws, such as HIPAA, the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994, or the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ("GLBA) or implementing laws or regulations.**
For purposes of this Privacy Notice, “Great American”, “we”, and “us” means the Great American property and casualty insurance companies and operations.
This Privacy Notice pertains to personal information we may have collected in the last twelve (12) months.
**For business based in Canada, Europe, UK, Singapore, and Mexico, please refer to your compliance or HR department representative for a copy of your local privacy notice.
We collect 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 (“personal information” or “PI”). We may collect the following categories of your personal information:
Category of Personal Information | Examples |
Identifiers (“Identifiers”) | Name, alias, postal address, social security number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers. |
Categories listed in the California Customer Records statue (Cal. Civ. Code 1798.80(e)) (“Other PI”) | Name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, or any other financial information or health information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. |
Sensitive (“Sensitive”) | Personal information that reveals an employee’s social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number; an employee’s account login, or corporate credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; an employee’s precise geolocation; an employee’s racial or ethnic origin or religious or philosophical beliefs; the contents of an employee’s mail, email and text messages that are sent or received using applications or equipment owned or controlled by us, unless we are the intended recipient of the communication; the processing of biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual; personal information collected and analyzed concerning an employee’s health. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. |
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law (“Characteristics”) | Age (40 years and older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, and veteran or military status. |
Commercial information (“Commercial”) | Records of personal property, products, or services purchased, obtained, or considered. |
Biometric Information (“Biometric”) | Physiological, biological, or behavioral characteristics, such as fingerprints. |
Internet or other electronic network activity information (“Internet Activity”) | Browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement. |
Geolocation data (“Geolocation”) | Physical location and/or movements. |
Sensory data (“Sensory”) | Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information. |
Professional or employment-related information (“Professional”) | Current and/or past employment history, professional licenses, or affiliations. Education records for maintaining continuing education requirements. |
Non-public education information (as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. § 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)) (“Education”) | Education records, files, documents, and other materials directly related to a student maintained by an educational agency or institution or by a person acting for such an agency or institution, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records |
Inferences drawn from other personal information (“Inferences”) | Information used to create a profile about an employee reflecting the employee’s preferences, characteristics, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, abilities, and aptitudes. |
We may use the categories of personal information for the following purposes:
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The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA) and its implementing regulations (collectively, the CCPA), provides California residents specific rights regarding the processing of their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights, subject to limitations and exceptions described in the CCPA.
You have the right to request that we disclose to you:
You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you. We may request additional information to support your request.
You have the right to request that we delete personal information we collect about you.
You should be aware, however, that California law allows us to retain your personal information under certain conditions, even if you have asked us to delete it. We, therefore, may deny your deletion request if an exception applies.
You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. You also have the right to opt-out of the sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.
We do not sell your personal information. We also do not share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes. To our knowledge, we do not sell or share the personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.
We will not use sensitive personal information for purposes other than those specified in the CCPA and its implementing regulations.
We will not discriminate or retaliate against you because you have chosen to exercise any of your privacy rights described above.
If you wish to exercise any legal rights with respect to your personal information, you or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf (“authorized agent’) can exercise your rights by:
Only you, or your authorized agent, may make a request related to your personal information. You also may make a request on behalf of your minor child.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot (i) verify your identity or authority to make the request, and (ii) confirm the personal information relates to you. To make a verifiable request, you must:
We will only use personal information you provide to verify your identity or authority to make the request. Making a verifiable request does not require you to create an account with us.
This Privacy Notice may be changed from time to time. The date noted on the Privacy Notice indicates when it was last revised.
If you have questions about this notice, please contact us at:
Phone: 800-545-4269
Email: [email protected]
If you are having difficulty accessing this notice for any reason, please call or email us at the contact information listed above so that we may provide you with the notice in an alternative format.
This Privacy Notice is not a contract for employment and does not alter the employment at-will relationship between us and any employee