Privacy Policy & Notices /Privacy Notice for California Residents Doing Work for DIRECTV
Privacy Notice for California Residents Doing Work for DIRECTV
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DIRECTV must retain and process information about you for the purposes of our working relationship. We use your information to allow us to run the business and manage our relationship with you effectively, lawfully, and appropriately. We must do this during the application process, while you’re doing work for us, at the time when you stop doing work for us and after you have left DIRECTV. This includes using information to comply with an employment contract or work agreement, to comply with any legal requirements, to pursue DIRECTV’s legitimate business interests and to protect our legal position in the event of legal proceedings.
We have collected or may collect the following categories of personal information from you:
| Category | Examples | Collected |
|---|---|---|
A. Identifiers. | 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. | YES |
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). | A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. | YES |
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. | Age, race, national origin, citizenship, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran, or military status. | YES |
D. Commercial information. | Records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. | YES |
E. Biometric information. | Physiological and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. | YES |
F. Internet or other similar network activity. | Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. | YES |
G. Geolocation data. | Physical location or movements. | YES |
H. Professional or employment-related information. | Current or past job history or performance evaluations. | YES |
I. Inferences drawn from other personal information. | Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, behavior, or attitudes. | YES |
Much of the information we retain will have been provided by you, but some may come from other sources, such as your manager, or in some cases, external sources, such as previous employment or study references, medical professionals, or tax, judicial, or governmental authorities.
We may use or disclose the collected personal information within each of the categories outlined above for one or more of the following business purposes:
- To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, hiring and distributing paychecks, employee training, security, and background checks.
- To comply with our health and safety, and occupational health obligations.
- To administer and manage company benefits, including parental leave, health insurance, life, accident, and disability insurance.
- As described to you when collecting your personal information.
- Creation of photo IDs for security and access.
- To perform employee engagement analysis and workforce analytics.
- Information technology administration and employment evaluation and advancement.
- To administer voluntary employee programs such as employee resource group participation, health and wellness applications, self-identification programs and identity verification programs.
- To offer commercial product and service offerings which may also be subject to the privacy policy applicable to the service offering (e.g., Satellite or STREAM) available at www.directv.com/privacy.
- For service optimization and safety programs.
- For monitoring compliance with company policies, including the Code of Business Conduct and COU policy.
- As otherwise required by applicable law, court order or governmental regulations.
DIRECTV will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.
Your personal information will be stored for a period of time consistent with applicable law. After such period, the data is deleted or fully anonymized. Personal information collected about you as an employee is generally retained while we have a relationship with you plus a period of no more than 40 years after the term of your employment, except when the retention of the data is necessary to enforce or defend our rights or comply with law.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We disclose all the categories of personal information that we collect to the following categories of recipients:
- Payroll and benefit providers.
- Information technology vendors.
- Government and law enforcement.
- Affiliates.
- Charitable Donation Recipients.
Privacy Rights
Please know that the privacy rights outlined below exercised in your role as an employee are subject to significant exceptions. We will respond to every request according to applicable law and will not retaliate or discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights.
- Know/Access: You have 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 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.
- Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information we have collected from you unless such deletion is prohibited by law.
- Correct: You have the right to correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
- Opt-Out of Sale or Share: We do not sell or share information about you in your role as employee (as those terms are defined by California privacy law).
- Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: We do not use any sensitive information about you, in your role as an employee, except to facilitate the employment relationship, for business purposes addressed above, and other compatible uses. As such, the right to limit does not apply.
Authorized Agents
You may designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf. To submit a request as an authorized agent on behalf of an employee, please contact us as described above.
Changes and Submitting Requests
We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. If you have any concerns about how your information is processed or need a version of this notice in a format more readily accessible by you, you can contact us at privacypolicy@att.com.
To submit a privacy request please visit www.directv.com/privacy/employee or call (800) 597-8244.
We may need to collect additional information to verify your identity.
Last updated: March 1, 2023