Privacy Notice for California Consumers

Applicants, Employees, and Contractors

Effective Date: January 1, 2020

This Privacy Notice for California Consumers describes how Rocket Lab USA, Inc. and its affiliates collect, process, and use personal information during the application and recruitment process and during employment. This notice supplements the information contained in our website’s privacy policy and applies to all job applicants, employees, contractors, and others who reside in the State of California and are considered “consumers” under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). We adopt this notice to comply with the CCPA and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.

 

Information We Collect

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device (“personal information”). In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last 12 months:

 

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 or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.

Yes

C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law

Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).

Yes

D. Commercial information

Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

No

E. Biometric information

Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.

No

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. Sensory data

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

Yes

I. Professional or employment-related information

Current or past job history or performance evaluations.

Yes

J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99))

Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.

Yes

K. Inferences drawn from other personal information

Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

Yes

 

Personal information does not include publicly available information from government sources, deidentified or aggregated consumer information, or other information excluded from the CCPA’s scope.

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

  • Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete.
  • Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on our website or from information your computer or device transmits.
  • From third parties, including recruiters and service providers.

 

Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following purposes:

  • To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to apply for a job or become an employee, we will use that personal information in connection with your employment or potential employment.
  • To contact you and to inform you about benefits or information relating to your employment or potential employment.
  • To administer pay and benefits.
  • To establish an emergency contact.
  • To provide, support, personalize, and develop our website, products, and services.
  • To create, maintain, customize, and secure your information or account with us.
  • To process your requests and prevent transactional fraud.
  • To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
  • To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our website, products, services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
  • For testing, research, analysis, and business development, including to develop and improve our website, products, and services.
  • To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
  • As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
  • To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our consumers is among the assets transferred.

We 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.


Sharing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract. We share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

  • Service providers.
  • Third parties with whom you direct us to share your personal information.
  • Third parties from whom we obtain information or services related to the employment process, such as those providing information or services for background, employment, or reference checks.

 

Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose

In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

  • Category A: Identifiers.
  • Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
  • Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
  • Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
  • Category G: Geolocation data.
  • Category H: Sensory data.
  • Category I: Professional or employment-related information.
  • Category K: Inferences drawn from other personal information.

 

Sales of Personal Information

In the preceding 12 months, we have not sold personal information.

 

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated notice on the website and update the notice’s effective date.

 

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which we collect and use your information described here and in our website’s privacy policy, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please contact us by email at privacy@rocketlabusa.com or by phone at 714-465-5737.