California Applicant/Employee Privacy Notice

This notice aims to give you information regarding the personal information (i.e., information that directly or indirectly identifies you) collected by True Religion and its affiliates (“we” or “us” or “our”) within the scope of your relationship with us as an Applicant or Employee residing in California. For purposes of this notice, an “Applicant” is an individual applying to become an Employee, and an “Employee” is an individual employed by True Religion, whether on a temporary or permanent, full- or part-time, basis, a director, an officer, or an independent contractor.

Last updated May 23rd, 2023

PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED, USED, OR DISCLOSED WITHIN THE PAST 12 MONTHS

Below, please find a chart showing you the personal information we collect about you, where we get it and why we collect it, to whom we disclose it and why, and how long we keep it. We do not sell any of the personal information we obtain from Applicants or Employees, nor do we use it to advertise to you, or use or disclose your sensitive information for anything except as necessary to process your application to work with us or manage and administer that relationship (e.g., to verify your eligibility to work with us, administer your benefits, pay you, and/or comply with legal requirements). In addition to the disclosures below, we also disclose each category of data to the extent required by law.

What Personal Information We Collect Where We Get It Why We Collect It Whom We Disclose It To Why We Disclose It
Identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
  • You
  • Our hiring partners
  • Entities and people you refer us to
  • Background check providers
  • Collecting or processing your employment application, including confirming your eligibility, performing background checks, and onboarding you
  • For payroll and employee benefit plan and program administration purposes, including enrollment and claims handling
  • Communicating with you and your emergency contacts and/or plan beneficiaries
  • Monitoring employee performance and policy adherence
  • Loss prevention
  • Investigating complaints, grievances, and potential policy violations
  • Maintaining employment records
  • Legal compliance
  • Service providers (such as information technology (“IT”) support, consultants, and background check providers)
  • Financial institutions
  • Employee benefit providers
  • State or federal government entities
  • Administering your benefits
  • Paying you
  • Monitoring and supporting our IT system
  • Investigating complaints
  • Legal compliance
Any personal information described in subdivision (e) of Section 1798.80.
  • You
  • Our hiring partners
  • Entities and people you refer us to or refer to us
  • Background check providers
  • Employee benefit providers
  • Our insurers
  • Collecting or processing your employment application, including confirming your eligibility, performing background checks, and onboarding you
  • For payroll and employee benefit plan and program administration purposes, including enrollment and claims handling
  • Maintaining employment records
  • Communicating with you and your emergency contacts and/or plan beneficiaries
  • Monitoring and preventing unauthorized access or use of our property and/or systems
  • Loss prevention
  • Monitoring employee performance and policy adherence
  • Investigating complaints, grievances, and potential policy violations
  • Legal compliance
  • Service providers (such as IT support, consultants, and background check providers)
  • Financial institutions
  • Insurers
  • Employee benefit providers
  • State or federal government entities
  • Administering your benefits
  • Paying you
  • Monitoring and supporting our IT system
  • Investigating complaints
  • Legal compliance
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law (e.g., gender, race, sex, age, marital status, and military or veteran status).
  • You
  • Our hiring partners
  • Legal compliance
  • Our diversity and inclusion program
  • Investigating compliance, grievances, and potential policy violations
  • State or federal government entities
  • Legal Compliance
Commercial information, including records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. Not collected. N/A N/A N/A
Biometric information Not collected. N/A N/A N/A
Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an internet website application, or advertisement.
  • You
  • Your device
  • Providing, supporting, monitoring, and protecting our information systems and property
  • Enhancing employee productivity
  • Investigating complaints, grievances, and potential policy violations
  • Ensuring policy and legal compliance
IT service providers
  • Providing, supporting, monitoring, and protecting our information systems and property
  • Enhancing employee productivity
  • Investigating complaints, grievances, and potential policy violations
  • Ensuring policy and legal compliance
Geolocation data.
  • You
  • Your Device
  • In-store cameras
  • Providing, supporting, monitoring, and protecting our information systems and property
IT service providers. Monitoring and protecting our information systems.
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
  • Employee call records
  • In-store cameras
  • Employee monitoring to ensure quality, productivity, and policy adherence
  • Employee, customer, and public safety
  • Loss prevention
  • Preventing unauthorized access, use, or loss of property
  • Improving customer service
  • Legal compliance
N/A N/A
IProfessional or employment-related information (e.g., employment history, performance and disciplinary records, salary and bonus data, and benefit plan enrollment, participation, and claims information)
  • You
  • Your prior employers
  • Others you refer us to
  • Evaluating your application and confirming your eligibility to work with us, including background checks and onboarding
  • Administering our employee benefit plan and program
  • Maintaining personnel records
  • Communicating with employees and/or their emergency contacts and beneficiaries
  • Employee monitoring to ensure productivity and policy adherence
  • Recruiting
  • Investigating complaints, grievances, and potential policy violations.
  • Complying with your request
  • Legal compliance
  • Employee benefit providers
  • Consultants
  • Entities you direct us to disclose to
  • State or federal government entities
  • Providing you with benefits
  • Considering you for promotion
  • Complying with your request
  • Legal compliance
Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1232g; 34 C.F.R. Part 99).
  • You
  • Our hiring partners
  • Evaluating your application to work with us or qualifications for a promotion
N/A N/A
Inferences drawn from any of the information identified in this subdivision to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
  • Background check providers
  • Analytics to evaluate our hiring, promoting, and employee retention
N/A N/A
Personal information collected and analyzed concerning your health
  • You
  • Health providers you refer us to
  • Benefit administration
  • Workers compensation claims management
  • Legal compliance
  • Employee benefit providers
  • Our insurance carriers
  • To provide employee benefits
  • Legal compliance

If you do not provide us with certain personal information when requested, we may not be able to perform certain functions, such as considering your application for employment, hiring you, or paying or providing a benefit to you.


HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA

We will not retain your personal information for longer than reasonably necessary for the purpose we collected it. How long we retain your personal information depends on a number of criteria, including whether we hire you, your employment status with us, how long it’s been since we employed you, the nature of our relationship with you, our legal recordkeeping obligations, and whether it is legally advisable to retain your personal information.


YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

As a California resident, you have the right to know and request access to your personal information, correct any inaccuracies in it, and delete certain personal information. We will not discriminate against you if you choose to exercise any of your privacy rights. To exercise any of these privacy rights please contact Human Resources at tr.humanresources@truereligion.com or via toll-free 1-833-878-5326. We will verify your identity using your HireRight account.


CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION OR QUESTIONS

If you have any questions about this California Applicant/Employee Privacy Notice or about exercising your privacy rights, or need this privacy notice in an alternate format, please email tr.humanresources@truereligion.com.


EFFECTIVE DATE

This California Applicant/Employee Privacy Notice was last updated May 23, 2023.