Applicant Privacy Notice

**Last updated March 18, 2026

Teichert, Inc. (“Teichert”, the “Company”, “we”, or “us”) and its subsidiary companies, agents and/or assigns and their respective owners, directors, officers, employees, agents and representatives are committed to protecting the privacy and security of Personal Information of all individuals, including candidates and job applicants ("Candidates" or "you") in compliance with applicable law. Teichert collects Personal Information of Candidates in connection with its recruitment and hiring activities as outlined in this Applicant Privacy Notice (the “Notice"). This Notice provides you with information regarding the categories of Personal Information Teichert collects in connection with your application, the purposes for which the Company collects the information, and other helpful information on how this information is used.

What Personal Information is Collected

“Personal Information”, as used in this Notice, means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household, including information like your name, email address, social security number, payroll records, and employment history.

In the course of your application process with Teichert and in connection with Teichert’s recruitment and hiring activities, we may collect Personal Information directly from you, indirectly from other sources including social media, third party recruiting companies and websites, advertising networks, Candidate referral agencies, and other third-party sources, as well as from publicly available sources. This includes:

  • Identifiers: Your name, date of birth, postal address, email address, phone number, driver’s license number, social security number, or other similar identifiers.
  • Employment and Education Related Information: When you complete our form or otherwise provide us with your CV or resume, we may collect information such as your educational background, employment history and experience, current and prior business contact information and addresses, your positions and titles, and any certifications, training, or other accreditations.
  • Demographic Information: If you choose to provide it as part of the application process, we may collect demographic information such as race, gender, and sexual orientation, as well as your disability or veteran status.
  • Driving Record Information: Upon extension of a conditional offer, we may collect information such as driving and vehicle history from your motor vehicle report.
  • Criminal Record Information: Upon extension of a conditional offer, with your consent, we may obtain your criminal record for the purpose of conducting a background check.
  • Drug Testing Information: Upon extension of a conditional offer, we may collect the results of your drug test, which is conducted for workplace safety purposes and to comply with our legal obligations.
  • Sensitive Personal Information: If you are onboarded or hired with Teichert, we may collect other sensitive personal information about you including your social security number, driver’s license number, race, and age. We may also collect geolocation data through your interactions with our website or recruiting platforms.

Please note we do not collect sensitive Personal Information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about our Candidates. Candidates will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on them based solely on automated decision-making.

Information Collected Automatically

As you navigate through and interact with our websites and the recruiting platform that we use, we may automatically collect certain information about your device using tracking technologies. For example, we may monitor visits to our websites or other online services and sessions of Candidates through the use of cookies. Cookies are small data files stored on your device that act as a unique tag to identify your browser. This information helps us to deliver better and more personalized content and services in connection with our recruiting efforts by enabling us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns, to recognize you when you return to our websites, and to enable us or our third-party vendors to serve recruiting ads.  

For more information on our use of cookies and other tracking technologies, please see the “Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies” section in our Privacy Notice, found here[LINK].

Why Personal Information is Collected

Candidates interact with us in different ways.  The collection and use of different types of information varies depending on the role, the stage of the hiring process, and applicability. Teichert collects this information to engage with Candidates, to hire qualified Candidates, and to comply with applicable employment law. The above information may be collected for the following purposes:

  • Review your application to determine your qualifications for employment.
  • Recruitment activities, such as for existing or potential conflicts of interest or any other restrictions which may impact your suitability for the role or work;
  • Verify and carry out background or reference checks, including motor vehicle records, where applicable and permitted by applicable law;
  • Protect workplace safety;
  • Reply to lawful requests from a public or judicial authority;
  • Assist you with obtaining the appropriate immigration or work permits (if applicable);
  • Plan, prepare for and implement any future merger, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization;
  • Communicate to you about the recruitment process;
  • Keep records related to our hiring process;
  • Make improvements to the recruitment process and support various recruitment initiatives; and
  • Comply with any legal obligations in relation to our recruitment practices, including anti-discrimination, reporting, and record retention obligations.

With Whom Personal Information is Shared

We may share Personal information with or collect Personal Information from other parties as necessary for the purposes described above. This includes:

  • Affiliates. Our affiliated entities, for purposes consistent with this Notice.
  • Vendors or service providers.Companies that provide us with services that help us manage recruiting and hiring, including background screening companies, candidate referral agencies, IT service providers, drug testing vendors, and social media platforms (e.g., LinkedIn).
  • Your references. The third-party references included in your application.
  • Government authorities, law enforcement and others. Government authorities, law enforcement, courts, and other governmental or law enforcement agencies, as required by law.
  • Business transfers.  Parties to transactions and potential transactions whereby we sell, transfer, or otherwise share some or all of our business or assets, including your Personal Information, such as a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy, liquidation, or dissolution.
  • Professional advisors.Lawyers, accountants, insurance adjusters, and other outside professional advisors, as necessary to comply with our legal obligations.

We do not sell or share, and in the past 12 months have not sold or shared, Candidates' Personal Information as defined under applicable law, including Personal Information of individuals we know to be under 16 years of age.

How Long is Personal Information Retained

We retain and process Candidates' Personal Information for the length of time needed to carry out the purposes described in this Notice, and to the extent necessary to manage our relationships with Candidates, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies and agreements, consistent with our retention policy and as permitted by applicable law.    

Your California Privacy Rights

Candidates who are residents of California may have certain rights related to Personal Information, including:

  • The right to know what Personal Information we have collected about you, including the categories of Personal Information, the categories of sources from which the Personal Information is collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing Personal Information, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose Personal Information, and the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.
  • The right to request that we delete Personal Information collected from you.
  • The right to request that we correct inaccurate Personal Information about

You may request to exercise these rights by:

  • Calling us at 916-484-3011; or
  • Submitting a request through the “Contact Us” form on our website.

We do not sell or share Personal Information for monetary or other valuable consideration or for cross-context behavioral advertising.

We will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to information or acting on your request to exercise your rights as required by applicable law. We may require you to provide your name, email, phone number, and home address you used in connection with your engagement with Teichert to verify your identity in response to exercising requests of the above type. We may limit our response to your exercise of the above rights as permitted under applicable law. When you submit a request to exercise your rights above, we will use the information you provide to process your request and to maintain a record of your request and our response, as permitted under applicable law.

You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf.  You may make such a designation by providing the agent with written permission to act on your behalf.  We will require the agent to provide proof of that written permission.  We may require you to verify your own identity in response to a request, even if you choose to use an agent, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Please note we do not respond to opt-out preference signals from Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) with respect to Candidates’ Personal Information because we do not “sell” or “share” such Personal Information for monetary or other valuable consideration or for cross-context behavioral advertising.  You may learn more about GPC by visiting https://globalprivacycontrol.org/.

You also have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment from us for the exercise of privacy rights conferred by applicable law, including the right not to be retaliated against for the exercise of your rights.

Questions and Contact

If you have any questions about this Notice or need access to this Notice in an alternative format for accessibility, please contact us by emailing [email protected] or calling 916-484-3011.

Updates to this Notice

This Notice may be updated from time to time to reflect changes in our Personal Information practices, and we will post a notice at the time of any such updates on our website.