Notice to Applicants/Employees
Southern Veterinary Partners is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your “personal information,” as that term is defined below. This California Employee Privacy and Fair Processing Notice (“Privacy Notice”) describes the personal information we collect about you, and how we use that information during and after your working relationship with us. This Privacy Notice applies only to teammates, applicants, and contractors residing in the State of California and from whom we collect personal information.
We will only collect and process your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice, unless otherwise required by applicable law. This Privacy Notice does not form part of any contract of employment or other contract to provide services. We may update this Privacy Notice at any time to reflect changes in our business, as well as legal or regulatory obligations. However, we will not collect additional categories of your personal information or use your personal information already collected for additional purposes without providing you with a notice of our intent to do so.
California’s California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) provide California applicants and employees with certain rights:
▪ Knowledge of information collected;
▪ Deletion of information collected;
▪ Opt-out of information collected;
▪ Opt-in of information collected;
▪ Correction of information collected;
▪ Go to court;
▪ Limit use of information collected;
▪ Not to be discriminated or retaliated against for exercising rights under the law.
Where We Get Your Information From. The Company collects information about you from the following sources: 1) you; 2) prior employers, references, recruiters, and job-related social media platforms; 3) thirdparty sources of demographic information; 4) third-party companies, such as background check companies and drug testing facilities; and 5) claim administrators and investigators. Depending on the Company’s interactions with you, we may or may not collect all of the information identified about you.
The Personal and Sensitive Personal Information That We Are Collecting. We are collecting the following categories of information from California workers. Please note that because this list is comprehensive, it may refer to types of information that we collect and share about people other than yourself. For example, while we may collect the bank account information of our current employees, SVP does not collect the bank account information of job applicants who are not yet hired.
▪ Identifiers, such as name, government-issued identifier (e.g., Social Security number), and
unique identifiers (e.g., employee ID);
▪ Personal information, such as real name, signature, address, telephone number, passport
number, driver’s license or state identification card number, federal identification
authorizing work in the United States, access and/or passcodes, insurance policy number,
education, employment, employment history, or medical information;
▪ Financial information, such as banking information for direct deposit, debit or credit card
number, tax selections, pay rate, and payroll deduction information.
▪ Benefit selection and related information such as your benefit selection, Social Security
number, date of birth, health insurance information, policy number, and other selections.
▪ Non-public education information, such as education history, grades, transcripts, class lists,
student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student
disciplinary records.
▪ Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as age,
marital status, gender, sex, race, color, disability, citizenship, primary language,
immigration status, military/veteran status, request for leave, and medical conditions;
▪ Commercial information, such as transaction information and purchase history (e.g., in
connection with travel or other reimbursements [or purchases from Company]);
▪ Internet or network activity information, such as browsing history and interactions with our
online systems and websites and any personal information that you provide while accessing
the Company’s computer systems, such as personal credit card information and passwords;
▪ Geolocation data, such as device location from usage of the Company’s devices;
▪ Biometric information related to access to the Company’s secured access points;
▪ Audio, electronic, visual, and similar information;
▪ Professional or employment-related information, such as work history, employee status and
title, job and performance evaluations, employment status, work schedule, job assignments,
hours worked, training and development, disciplinary and counseling, termination, licenses,
certifications, and prior employer;
▪ Emergency contract information of person(s) you designate as your emergency contact(s),
such as their name and contact information, and their relationship to you; and
▪ Inferences drawn from any of the Personal and Sensitive Personal Information listed above
to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and
characteristics.
How Your Personal and Sensitive Personal Information is Used. We may use Personal and Sensitive Personal Information:
▪ To operate, manage, and maintain our business;
▪ For hiring, retention, and employment purposes;
▪ To administer benefits;
▪ To pay and reimburse employees;
▪ To conduct performance-related reviews;
▪ To monitor worker-related licenses and credentials;
▪ To maintain your contact information;
▪ To otherwise accomplish our business purposes and objectives, including, for example:
California Consumer Privacy Act
o Emergency services;
o Conducting research, analytics, and data analysis;
o Maintaining our facilities and infrastructure;
o Quality and safety assurance measures;
o Conducting risk and security controls and monitoring;
o Protecting confidential and trade secret information;
o Detecting and preventing fraud;
o Performing identity verification;
o Performing accounting, audit, and other internal functions, such as internal
investigations;
o Complying with the law, legal process, and internal policies;
▪ Maintaining records;
▪ Claims processing;
▪ Responding to legal requests for information and subpoenas; and
▪ Exercising and defending legal claims.
▪ To plan for SVP’s future;
▪ Any other purposes authorized by the California Privacy Protection Agency, California or Federal law.
We may or may not have used Personal and Sensitive Personal Information about you for each of the above purposes.
Sharing of Personal Information. We only share your information with the following third-party entities to the extent necessary in order to administer employee benefits and in connection with human resource activities:
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama
MetLife
John Hancock
Flores and Associates
CNA
The Company also discloses your information when required to by local, state, or federal law.
Selling of Personal Information. The Company does not sell your personal information.
For Inquiries and/or to Submit Requests for Information, Deletion or Correction. Please contact hr@svp.vet for inquiries about the Company’s policy, or to submit your requests for information, deletion or correction. Consistent with the CCPA, SVP will provide the specific pieces of personal information collected upon request by you. Please submit a request to hr@svp.vet.