Privacy Statement
Last Updated: February 10, 2025
This Privacy Statement (the “Statement”) explains Cariad, Inc.’s (“Cariad,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) processing of personal information, including when you use our website, send us a message, or apply for a job on our team. This Statement addresses specific disclosure requirements from various privacy laws and also serves as our ‘notice at collection.’
Please read this Statement to understand how we handle your personal information and how you can exercise your privacy rights. If you have questions about this Statement, our privacy practices, or any concerns regarding how we process your personal information, please contact us at privacy@cariad.us.
1. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND PROCESS
Cariad collects and processes personal information from various sources. The categories of personal information we collect depend on our interactions. For example, we collect personal information:
- Directly from you, such as when you reach out to us via email or through social media sites, like LinkedIn.
- Automatically from you using cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.
- From others, such as people in your network or recruiters.
We may also create information about you, such as notes about our communications or inferences about your interests. The categories of personal information Cariad processes include:
- Contact information and identifiers: such as your name, email address, postal address, unique online identifiers, IP address, and government-assigned identifiers, like your social security number or driver’s license number, if you apply for a job on our team.
- Demographic information: such as your market area (e.g., Seattle Metropolitan Area) or information about your gender.
- Professional, educational, and employment-related information: such as your current employer, job title, and your academic qualifications.
- Your preferences, interests, and affiliations: such as those you share when you apply for a job with us or communicate with us through certain settings, like your cookie choices. We may also infer your interests based on your LinkedIn profile.
- Commercial information: such as contact information, transaction data, and public information about our business partners, affiliates, vendors, and others in our industry.
- Communications: such as when you complete our surveys, send us emails, or engage with us on social media platforms.
- Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information: including a voicemail you leave us or a photograph taken at our events.
- Digital interactions: including data about your use of our website, such as your search queries and the pages you view, which we may gather using Cookies and Similar Technologies. Interaction data includes:
- Device data: such as information about the hardware or browser you use to access the Services.
- Browse history: such as the help documents you reviewed on the Services.
- Connectivity data: such as your IP address.
- Usage data: and other information we automatically collect through the use of Cookies and Similar Technologies, such as information about any technical issues you may encounter on our websites.
To learn more about information automatically collected, please see the Cookie and Similar Technologies section below.
Cariad may process de-identified personal information. Data in this state cannot be used to infer information about, or otherwise be linked to, a particular individual. In those instances, and unless allowed under applicable law, we will maintain such information in a de-identified state and will not try to re-identify the individual.
From time to time, depending on our interactions, we may collect sensitive personal information. For example, if you apply for a job, you may share government identifiers (such as your social security number) or information concerning your health, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origin, or religious or philosophical beliefs.
2. HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use the personal information we collect to operate our business. For example, we use personal information for the following purposes:
| Use | Personal Information Types Used |
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| Operate our websites. We use personal information we collect through the use of Cookies and similar technologies to detect performance issues with our websites and to understand the materials on our websites visitors interact with most. |
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| Market Cariad. We may gather information, including through surveys or LinkedIn, to understand how people hear about us and how we can improve our brand. |
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| Communicate with you. We’ll respond if you reach out to ask a question or we may notify you about changes to our business or new opportunities. |
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| Innovate. We may process personal information to gain insights to improve the work we do. |
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| Protect our rights and property, as well as those of our users or others, and prevent harm. | All categories of personal information. We may use personal information to detect and respond to security incidents on our network, respect your privacy settings, or meet our compliance requirements. |
| Enforce our agreements and policies. | All relevant categories of personal information. |
| Comply with law and regulations, or meet other legal, ethical, or professional requirements. | All relevant categories of personal information. |
In carrying out these purposes, we combine information we collect from different contexts and sources to provide you a more seamless experience, to make informed business decisions, and for other legitimate business purposes.
As described above, depending on our interactions, some of the information we collect may qualify as “sensitive” under certain applicable privacy laws. We only collect such information if you provide it or as necessary for legitimate purposes.
3. WHEN WE SHARE OR DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We share your information with others in a variety of circumstances, including to provide our websites, operate our business, and to comply with the law. See the table below for more information on the types of third parties we share all categories of personal information with and why.
| Category of Recipient | Categories of Personal Information |
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| Cariad Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates to operate our business and for other legitimate purposes, as permitted by law. | All categories of personal information |
| Service Providers. We provide personal information to vendors or agents working on our behalf for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement. This includes our IT and cloud service providers. In such cases, these companies must abide by our requirements and are not allowed to use personal information they receive from us for any other purpose beyond providing us with their respective services. | All categories of personal information |
| Analytics and advertising companies. From time to time, we may use analytics and advertising companies to assist us in our marketing efforts who collect personal information from our websites, as described in the “Cookies” section of this Privacy Statement. |
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| Security, Safety, and Protecting Rights. We will disclose personal information with others if we believe it is necessary to protect the safety, security, property, or rights of Cariad and its affiliates, users, or others; enforce our agreements, terms, and policies; prevent and detect fraud, illegal or deceptive activity, or misuse of Cariad websites; or operate and maintain the security of websites, including to prevent or stop an attack on our systems or network. | All categories of personal information |
| Legal and Law Enforcement. We will access, disclose, and preserve personal information when we believe that doing so is necessary to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other government agencies. | All relevant categories of personal information |
| Corporate Transactions. We may disclose personal information with other companies in connection with a corporate transaction. | All relevant categories of personal information |
We may disclose de-identified information in accordance with applicable law.
4. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies, like web beacons, pixels, tags, and advertising IDs, to operate our websites and collect personal information to gain insights about our business.
What are cookies and similar technologies?
Cookies are small text files placed by a website and stored by your browser on your device. A cookie can later be read when your browser connects to a web server in the same domain that placed the cookie. The text in a cookie contains a string of numbers and letters that may uniquely identify your device and can contain other information as well. This allows the web server to recognize your browser over time, each time it connects to that web server. Similar technologies, like pixels and tags, work in a similar fashion, to help us identify unique users.
How do we use cookies and similar technologies?
We use, and enable analytics and advertising companies to use, these technologies on our website to collect personal information about your interactions, such as when you access our website, for the purposes described in this Statement. The analytics and advertising companies may combine this personal information with other information about your online activities over time and across different websites or online services.
What controls are available?
You may control cookie and similar technologies using several options available to you through browsers, operating systems, and elsewhere. You may also use our cookie management tool available on our websites. See the “Your Privacy Rights and Choices” section below for details.
| Cookie Provider | Cariad’s Use of Cookie Information | To Learn About Cookie Provider’s Use of Cookie Information | How to Opt-Out |
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| Operate our website, market Cariad | Google Privacy | Opt-out | |
| Adobe | Operate our website, market Cariad | Adobe Privacy Policy | Opt-out |
| Microsoft | Operate our website, market Cariad | Microsoft Privacy Statement | Opt-out |
6. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS AND CHOICES
Privacy laws provide individuals with specific rights regarding their personal information, such as the right to know or access your information, the right to correct or delete your information, the right to port your information, and certain rights to opt-out or limit certain processing of your information. To inquire about your rights or exercise your rights, or to make an authorized privacy rights request on another individual’s behalf, please contact us at privacy@cariad.us and we will respond promptly. Note that we may require you to provide information to verify your identity or authorization.
You can exercise your rights, as well as make choices regarding Cariad’s collection and processing of your information through various methods and tools. For example, you can:
- Use our Cookie Banner: You can communicate your cookie preferences by using the cookie management tool on our websites.
- Turn on Global Privacy Control: Turn on Global Privacy Control. Our websites honor the Global Privacy Control. To learn more about this visit: https://globalprivacycontrol.org/.
- Use browser controls or device settings: Most browsers provide settings to control your interactions with cookies, which will impact the information processed by cookies on our digital properties. Please refer to your browser for information on how to access these settings. You may also have privacy settings on your device which can help you control the collection and use of your information. Your settings may impact your experience with our digital properties and the functionality available to you.
- Unsubscribe: If we sent marketing communications, you will be given the opportunity to opt-out of receiving future marketing notices. You may also opt-out of receiving future marketing notices by contacting us at privacy@cariad.us. If you request that we not contact you for marketing purposes (either by using the unsubscribe mechanism or by sending us an email), we reserve the right to contact you for non-marketing purposes.
7. SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Cariad has implemented and will maintain reasonable and appropriate steps to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, loss, destruction, or alteration. Please be aware, however, that any digital interactions cannot be completely secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the security of our network, the means by which personally information is transmitted between your computer and our network, or any personally information provided to us.
8. CHILDREN’S PERSONAL INFORMATION
We do not knowingly collect or use personal information from children or minors. If you are a parent or guardian and become aware that your child has provided personal data to us, please contact us at privacy@cariad.us.
9. RETENTION AND STORAGE
We retain personal information for as long as necessary to provide the services and fulfill the transactions you have requested, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and other legitimate and lawful business purposes. Because these needs can vary for different data types in the context of different services, actual retention periods can vary significantly based on criteria such as user expectations or consent, the sensitivity of the data, the availability of automated controls that enable users to delete data, and our legal or contractual obligations.
Cariad stores personal information in the United States and other jurisdictions where do business. We take steps to process the data that we collect in accordance with this Statement’s provisions and the requirements of applicable law, including those related to the cross-border data transfers.
10. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND SERVICES
This Statement applies only to the information Cariad collects and processes. The website, our content, or our communications could contain links to third-party websites and services that are not owned or controlled by us. We are not responsible for and have not reviewed the privacy practices of such sites or services, or the owners or operators of such sites or services. We shall not be responsible or liable in any way as a result of your use of any other sites or services.
11. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
We may revise this Privacy Statement at any time to enhance transparency. We may also update the Statement, as necessary or as useful, in response to (1) changes in applicable laws, regulations, or standards (2) changes to our processing of personal information or (3) changes to our business operations. For example, we may modify the Statement if a new applicable law requires additional notices or if we intend to collect new categories of personal information. We will post any revised Privacy Statement here and provide a “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Statement. In some cases, we might provide you with additional notice. We encourage you to review this Statement regularly to stay informed about our processing of personal information, your rights, and your choices.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Statement or the use of your information, please contact us via email at privacy@cariad.us or via mail at the address below. Thank you.
Cariad Inc.
Attn: Legal Counsel, Privacy Office
450 National Avenue
Mountain View, CA, 94043