California Employee Privacy Policy

Last Updated Date: June 13, 2025

Political Data Intelligence (“PDI” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects the privacy of our employees’ personal information.

Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CCPA”), we are required to provide California employees with a privacy policy that contains a comprehensive description of our online and offline practices regarding our collection, use, sale, sharing, and retention of their personal information as well as a description of the rights they have regarding their personal information. This Privacy Policy provides the information the CCPA requires as well as other useful information regarding our collection and use of personal information.

Please review this Privacy Policy carefully. From time to time, we may change this Privacy Policy. If we do, we will post an amended version on this webpage and on our intranet policy page. You also may receive a copy by contacting us as described in the “How to Contact Us” section below.

This Privacy Policy covers the following topics:

1. Scope of Privacy Policy
2. Notice at Collection of Personal Information
3. Disclosure of Personal Information
4. Retention of Personal Information
5. Your Rights
6. How to Submit a Request to Know, Delete, and/or Correct
7. Our Process for Verifying a Request to Know, Delete, and/or Correct
8. Other Relevant Policies, Including Monitoring
9. Accessibility
10. How to Contact Us

1. Scope of Privacy Policy

When This Policy Applies

This Privacy Policy is intended solely for, and is applicable only to, current and former California employees. Where relevant, it also applies to job applicants, interns, agency workers, contractors, consultants, directors, and other individuals whose information we collect in connection with providing employment. For ease of reference, this Privacy Policy generally refers to employee data, but this does not indicate in any way that an individual is our employee.

When This Policy Does Not Apply

This Privacy Policy does not apply to individuals who are not California residents.

This Privacy Policy also does not apply to our collection and use of your personal information in a consumer or business-to-business capacity. For more information on our collection and use of your personal information in that capacity, including how we process opt-out preference signals, please see our online privacy policy available here or at the following link: https://politicaldata.com/pdi-privacy-policy

2. Notice at Collection of Personal Information

Personal Information We Collect

The CCPA defines “personal information” to mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California resident or household. Personal information does not include publicly available, deidentified, or aggregated information or lawfully obtained, truthful information that is a matter of public concern. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, we will refer to this information as “Personal Information.”

We currently collect and, in the 12 months prior to the Last Updated Date of this Privacy Policy, have collected the following categories of Personal Information from employees:

• Identifiers (name, alias, account name, email address, postal address, Social Security number, driver’s license number, other types of state identification card numbers such as California or other State ID Cards, passport number, Internet Protocol address, online identifiers, other similar identifiers.)
• Unique personal identifiers (cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers, or other similar technology; employee number, unique pseudonym, or user alias; other forms of persistent or probabilistic identifiers that can be used to identify a particular employee or device)
• Personal information described in California’s Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)) (signature, physical characteristics or description, telephone number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information as well as the categories listed in “Identifiers” category above)
• Internet or other electronic network activity information (browsing history; search history; and information regarding an individual’s interaction with a website, application or advertisement)
• Geolocation data (city/regional)
• Education information
• Professional or employment-related information (including employment history)
• Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law (race; color; sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and/or related medical conditions); age (40 and older); national or ethnic origin; union membership; citizenship or immigration status; marital status; military or veteran status; political affiliations or activities; requests for family care leave, for leave for an employee’s own serious health condition, or for pregnancy disability leave.
• Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an employee
• Sensitive Personal Information (Personal Information that reveals an individual’s Social Security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number; account log-in, financial account, debit card, in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; or the contents of an employee’s mail, email, and text messages unless the business is the intended recipient of the communication.

Sources of Personal Information

We collect Personal Information directly from California residents and from staffing companies; references; former employers; educational institutions; online providers (such as through LinkedIn and similar providers); government entities; other employees; business partners; payroll providers; benefits providers; medical providers; background checks; company bankers; authentication and single sign-on providers; internet service providers; data analytics providers; operating systems, platforms, or software. We do not collect all categories of Personal Information from each source.

Purposes for Collection

We currently collect and have collected the above categories of Personal Information for all purposes of providing employment, including to:

• Process payroll;
• Enable recruiting services;
• Request you complete applications and forms associated with your employment or prospective employment;
• Consider you for potential employment;
• Perform background checks;
• Verify your ability to work in this country;
• Perform diversity and inclusion initiatives, including data analysis, development, and deployment;
• Perform company audits;
• Request you acknowledge your agreement to certain company policies;
• Administer and maintain benefits, including group health insurance, retirement accounts, employee compensation, and employee leave;
• Contact individuals for emergency purposes;
• Track time and attendance at work;
• Manage workers’ compensation claims;
• Manage your job-related performance;
• Arrange business travel;
• Investigate and handle disciplinary actions or termination;
• Establish training and/or development requirements;
• Detect lost/stolen equipment, fraud, or other types of wrongdoing;
• Grant and monitor your access to secure company facilities and files;
• Engage in corporate transactions requiring review of employee records and information, such as for evaluating potential mergers and acquisitions;
• Review web traffic and events, monitor for virus attacks and web content, and determine bandwidth consumption;
• Maintain commercial insurance policies and coverages, including for workers’ compensation and other liability insurance;
• Maintain commercial licenses for enterprise applications and platforms;
• Prevent the spread of illness and administer programs during a pandemic (e.g., COVID-19);
• Comply with federal and state law;
• Enforce our legal rights; and
• Engage in other legitimate business purposes reasonably required for our day-to-day operations such as accounting, financial reporting, and business planning.

We also use your Personal Information for the purposes described in our Acceptable Use Policy, Code of Conduct, Incident Response Plan, Logical Access Policy, Employee Handbook, etc..

3. Disclosure of Personal Information

The following table identifies the categories of Personal Information that we disclosed for a business purpose in the 12 months preceding the Last Updated Date of this Privacy Policy and, for each category, the categories of recipients to whom we disclosed Personal Information:

We disclosed Personal Information to the above categories of recipients for all the business or commercial purposes identified in the above “Purposes for Collection” section.

We have not sold or shared Personal Information in the twelve (12) months preceding the Last Updated Date of this Privacy Policy. We do not knowingly sell or share the Personal Information of individuals under 16 years of age. We do not use sensitive Personal Information for purposes other than those allowed by the CCPA and its regulations.

4. Retention of Personal Information

We retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collect it, such as to provide you with services you have requested, and for the purpose of satisfying any legal, accounting, contractual, or reporting requirements that apply to us. Please contact us as described in the “How to Contact Us” section below for more information on our employee data retention schedule.

5. Your Rights

If you are a California employee, you have the following rights with respect to your Personal Information:

1. The right to know what Personal Information we have collected about you, including the categories of Personal Information, the categories of sources from which we collected Personal Information, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing Personal Information (if applicable), the categories of third parties to whom we disclose Personal Information (if applicable), and the specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you;
2. The right to delete Personal Information that we collected from you, subject to certain exceptions;
3. The right to correct inaccurate Personal Information that we maintain about you;
4. If we sell or share Personal Information, the right to opt out of the sale or sharing;
5. If we use or disclose sensitive Personal Information for purposes other than those allowed by the CCPA and its regulations, the right to limit our use or disclosure; and
6. The right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of privacy rights conferred by the CCPA.

6. How to Submit a Request to Know, Delete, and/or Correct

You may submit a request to know, delete, and/or correct through our interactive webform available here, by emailing us at [email protected] or by calling us toll free at 1-888-733-2360.

If you are submitting a request on behalf of a California employee, please submit the request through one of the designated methods discussed above. After submitting the request, we will require additional information to verify your authority to act on behalf of the California employee.

In addition to the CCPA rights discussed above, California law provides current and former employees with the right to request certain information relating to their employment, such as the right to access their personnel file and payroll records. Because these requests are governed by laws that contain different requirements than the CCPA, we handle such requests separately from CCPA requests. If you would like to make such a request, please email [email protected].

If you would like to update your personal information, such as to notify us of a change of name or address, or if you have questions about your employment, please contact [email protected].

7. Our Process for Verifying a Request to Know, Delete, and/or Correct

We will comply with your request upon verification of your identity and, to the extent applicable, the identity of the California employee on whose behalf you are making such request. Our verification process may differ depending on whether you maintain a password-protected account with us (i.e. Rippling)

If you maintain a password-protected account, we may verify your identity through existing authentication practices available through your account. Prior to disclosing or deleting the Personal Information, we will ask you to re-authenticate yourself with respect to that account.

If you do not maintain a password-protected account, or if you are an account-holder but we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity with your account, we will verify your identity either to a “reasonable degree of certainty” or a “reasonably high degree of certainty” depending on the sensitivity of the Personal Information and the risk of harm to you by unauthorized disclosure, deletion, or correction as applicable. To do so, we will ask you to verify data points based on information we have in our records concerning you.

8. Other Relevant Policies, Including Monitoring

When we hire you, we provide you with other policies and procedures that govern your use of our offices, networks, computers, and other devices. We have the right to monitor your use of our offices and electronic resources in accordance with those policies and procedures.

For more information, please read our Acceptable Use Policy, Code of Conduct Policy, Incident Logical Access Policy, and Employee Handbook. You can find copies of these policies on the company intranet or by contacting [email protected].

9. Accessibility

We are committed to ensuring this Privacy Policy is accessible to individuals with disabilities. If you wish to access this Privacy Policy in an alternative format, please contact us as described below.

10. How to Contact Us

To contact us for questions or concerns about our privacy policies or practices, please email  [email protected] or by calling 562.406.2374.