Effective Date: December 21, 2022
The purpose of this Applicant Privacy Notice (“ Applicant Notice ”) is to inform Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. (“Tandem,” “ we,” “us,” or “our”) California job applicants (“Applicants”) of our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of their personal information (“Applicant Personal Information”) throughout the application process, and the rights they have under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended (the “CCPA”). For more information about Tandem’s privacy practices, please review our Privacy Policy page.
As used in this Notice, the term “Applicant 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 Tandem Applicants. Applicant Personal Information does not include information that is publicly available, de-identified, or aggregated.
Unless otherwise noted, the disclosures herein cover our activities in the twelve (12) months preceding the Effective Date, as well as our current practices.
Tandem may collect, use, and disclose Applicant Personal Information for business purposes consistent with applicable laws as identified below. Where Tandem transfers applicable Applicant Personal Information to recipients, such as our service providers, it does so for the same business purposes described below. These examples may vary depending on the nature of your interactions with us.
| Category of Applicant Personal Information | Business Purposes for Collection, Use, or Disclosure | Categories of Recipients to whom Applicant Personal Information is Disclosed for a Business Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Identifiers such as personal contact details (such as name, alias, title, username and password for our careers website, telephone number, email address, mailing address); signature; professional license numbers. | We will use this information to open and maintain your application records; communicate with you regarding your application; confirm eligibility, qualification, and background checks; maintain business records to meet Tandem’s retention policy; and comply with applicable state, federal labor, employment, equal employment opportunity, and related laws. | Data analytics providers, security providers, background check vendors, information technology vendors, outside legal counsel, and state or federal governmental agencies. |
| Personal information described in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e) such as name, physical and electronic signature, address, telephone number, physical characteristics, education, employment, employment history. | We will use this information to open and maintain your application records; communicate with you regarding your application; confirm eligibility, qualification, and background checks; maintain business records to meet Tandem’s retention policy; and comply with applicable state, federal labor, employment, equal employment opportunity, and related laws. | Data analytics providers, security providers, background check vendors, information technology vendors, outside legal counsel, and state or federal governmental agencies. |
| Protected classification characteristics such as age and date of birth, marital status, race, ethnic origin, sex, gender, gender identity, military or veteran status, disability. | We will use this to conduct equal opportunity and diversity monitoring where permitted or required by law and to provide reasonable accommodations as required by law. | Data analytics providers, security providers, background check vendors, information technology vendors, outside legal counsel, and state or federal governmental agencies. |
| Internet or other electronic network activity information as browser type and language, operating system, website access time, duration of visit, referring website address, browsing and search history on our websites, webpages viewed immediately before and after our websites, information related to your interactions with our websites, social media pages, emails, online chat, and text message communications. | We will use this information to analyze usage patterns and behaviors on our website, to investigate security breaches and misuse of computer equipment and systems, and to protect the safety of employees and third parties. | Data analytics providers, security providers, information technology vendors, outside legal counsel, and state or federal governmental agencies. |
| Geolocation data, such as your geographic location inferred from your device IP address. | We will use this information to suggest career opportunities to you. | Data analytics providers, security providers, information technology vendors, outside legal counsel, and state or federal governmental agencies. |
| Sensory Data such as security camera recordings, photographs to the extent contained on documents you provide. | We will use this information to protect the safety of employees and third parties. | Security providers, information technology vendors, outside legal counsel, and state or federal governmental agencies. |
| Professional or employment-related information such as skills, qualifications, work experience, references, recommendations, and other information included in a resume, CV, application form, or cover letter. Answers to behavioral or other screening questions in an application or interview. Information contained in any websites or documents you choose to share with us. Information relating to professional licenses, training, disciplinary actions, and membership in professional organizations. Information relating to membership in civic organizations. | We will use this information to open and maintain your application records; communicate with you regarding your application; confirm eligibility, qualification, and background checks; maintain business records to meet Tandem’s retention policy; and comply with applicable state, federal labor, employment, equal employment opportunity, and related laws. | Data analytics providers, security providers, background check vendors, information technology vendors, outside legal counsel, and state or federal governmental agencies. |
| Applicant Personal Information that does not directly fall within the categories listed in the CCPA such as driving record, criminal records, background check information, vaccination status, drug and alcohol screening information. | We will use this information to determine if you would be a good fit for employment at Tandem, for security and fraud detection/prevention, and to comply with legal or regulatory requirements or as required by company policy. | Security providers, background check vendors, outside legal counsel, and state or federal governmental agencies. |
We may disclose each of the categories of Applicant Personal Information identified above to the respectively identified categories of recipients for operational or business purposes consistent with the purposes for collection or use designated, as is reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve those purposes, or for another purpose that is compatible with the context in which the Applicant Personal Information was collected including, but not limited to:
In addition to the other purposes for collection, use, and disclosure of Applicant Personal Information described in this Applicant Notice, we may collect, use, and disclose Applicant Personal Information as required by law, regulation or court order; to respond to governmental and/or law enforcement requests; to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interfering with our or others’ rights or property; to support any actual or threatened claim, defense or declaration in a case or before any jurisdictional and/or administrative authority, arbitration or mediation panel; or in connection with disciplinary actions/investigations. Likewise, we may use and disclose Applicant Personal Information to other parties in connection with the sale, assignment, merger, or reorganization.
We may collect Applicant Personal Information from the following sources:
We may also collect publicly available information about you, including information that is lawfully made available to the general public from federal, state, or local government records.
We do not sell Applicant Personal Information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. If you also interact with us as a consumer, please review our California Consumer Privacy Notice for more information about our practices in that context. We do not knowingly sell and/or share the personal information of persons under the age of sixteen (16).
We may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, including tracking technologies managed by vendors or external parties. Tracking technologies can generally be categorized as follows:
We may combine tracking technology information with other personal information about you. We, or external parties on our behalf and pursuant to contract, may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different online services when you use our website.
We may use Google Analytics or other providers for analytics services. We may also implement Google Analytics Advertising Features such as remarketing with analytics and interest-based ads. We may use first-party cookies or other first-party identifiers as well as third-party cookies or other third-party identifiers to, e.g., deliver advertisements, measure your interests, and/or personalize content. For more information on how Google Analytics uses data collected through our Services, visit Google's Privacy and Terms page. To opt out of Google Analytics cookies, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout or download the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On.
You may also opt out of certain tracking technologies by visiting the opt out services by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also visit Ad Choices (US). Opting out through these services out does not mean you will no longer receive advertising from us, or when you use the internet. Depending on your device settings, you may also opt out of certain interest-based advertising through your device’s "Limit Ad Tracking" or equivalent feature. Refer to your device for more information on what this opt out affects. For instance, you can adjust or reset the advertising identifiers on your mobile device in the device settings. iOS users can visit Settings > Privacy > Advertising > Reset Advertising Identifier. Android users can visit Google settings > Ads > Reset advertising ID.
You can set your browser to refuse cookies from websites, but if you do so, you may not be able to access or use portions of our website, and certain offerings on our website may not function as intended or as well. We are not responsible for opt out processes provided by external parties.
We will store your Applicant Personal Information for no longer than is necessary for the performance of our obligations or to achieve the purposes for which the Applicant Personal Information was collected, or as may be required or permitted under applicable law. To determine the appropriate retention period, we will consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the data; the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the data; the purposes for which we process the data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means; and the applicable legal requirements. Unless otherwise required by applicable law, at the end of the retention period we will remove Applicant Personal Information from our systems and records or take appropriate steps to properly anonymize, deidentify, or aggregate it, where legally applicable.
If you are a California resident, you are entitled to the following rights. To exercise any of these rights, please submit a request by email to hrsupport@tandemdiabetes.com or call us at (858) 366-6900. Please note that if you submit a request to know, request to delete, or request to correct, you will be asked to provide 2-3 pieces of Applicant Personal Information that we will match against our records to verify your identity. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf; however, you will still need to verify your identity directly with us before your request can be processed.
Right to Know. You have the right to know what Applicant Personal Information we have collected about you, including:
Right to Delete Your Personal Information. You have the right to request that we delete Applicant Personal Information we collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information. If you believe that Applicant Personal Information we maintain about you is inaccurate, you have the right to request that we correct that information.
Right to Opt Out of Sales and Sharing of Personal Information. We do not sell Applicant Personal Information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. We do not use or disclose sensitive Applicant Personal Information for purposes to which the right to limit use and disclosure applies under the CCPA.
Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of Your Privacy Rights. If you choose to exercise any of your privacy rights under the CCPA, you also have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us, including retaliation against you as an employee, job applicant, or independent contractor.
We use appropriate administrative, technical, physical, and organizational measures to protect the Applicant Personal Information we collect and process about you. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your Applicant Personal Information. This includes managerial measures, including establishment and implementation of internal management plan and periodic training for employees; technical measures, including controlling access rights to personal information processing systems and encryption of important data; and physical measures, including external security and management of system servers. While we implement security measures designed to be appropriate to the relevant risks, please note no data transmission over the internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed as being 100% secure.
We reserve the right to amend this Applicant Notice at any time without advance notice in order to address future developments of Tandem, our website, or changes in industry or legal trends. We will post the revised Applicant Notice on our Privacy Policy page. You can determine when the Applicant Notice was revised by referring to the “Effective Date” legend on the top of this Applicant Notice. Any changes will become effective upon the posting of the revised Applicant Notice on our website.
Please contact Human Resources with any questions:
Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
Attn: Human Resources
12400 High Bluff, Suite 100
San Diego, CA 92130
858-366-6900
hrsupport@tandemdiabetes.com