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United States Applicant
Privacy Notice
Last Updated: June 18, 2024
Chevron Corporation and its affiliates (“Chevron,” “we,” “our,” or “us) respect the privacy
of our employment applicants. This notice applies to our applicants and former
applicants who are residents of the United States (“applicants,” “you,” or “your”) and
describes the personal information we collect about you in the context of your
application and the purposes for which we collect, use and disclose your personal
information.
If you are a resident of California, you have rights under the California Consumer
Privacy Act (“CCPA”), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”).
Required California disclosures are included at the end of this notice. More information
about these rights and how to exercise them can be found in Appendix A to this notice.
We may update this notice from time to time. If we make any material changes, we’ll
prominently post the changes in this notice and change the update date above.
We have updated this notice in compliance with our annual review under the CCPA and
to clarify applicability and provide further specificity about certain data practices.
Examples used in this notice (generally prefaced by the words “such as” or “for
example”) are for illustration purposes only and are not exhaustive.
Please note that some of these data practices may not apply to you; they may vary
depending on the nature of your employment application and your current relationship
with us.
If we hire you, we will incorporate any personal information that we collected about you
prior to hiring you, such as through the application process, as part of your employment
record, subject to our employee privacy notice.
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Categories of Personal Information We Collect
We have collected the following categories of personal information about applicants in
the preceding 12 months:
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Identifiers
, such as a real name, alias, telephone number, postal address,
unique personal identifier (such as an employee ID number), online identifier,
Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number,
driver’s license number, state identification, passport number, and/or other
similar identifiers.
•
Personal Information Categories Listed in the California Customer Records
Act (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80e)
, such as: an insurance policy number;
education or employment information, including job title and history; bank
account number; debit card or credit card number; health plans, medical
information, or health insurance information.
•
Professional or Employment-related Information
, such as: current or past job
history; salary and benefits information; job performance information; job title(s);
emergency contacts; and other information related to current or previous
employment.
•
Protected Classification Characteristics under California or Federal Law
,
such as: age; race or color; national origin or citizenship; religion or creed; marital
or relationship status; medical condition, physical or mental disability; veteran or
military status; or sexual orientation or gender information.
•
Non-Public Education Information
, such as: education records directly related
to an applicant that are maintained by an educational institution or party acting on
its behalf, including, without limitation, grades, transcripts, schedules, and
student ID numbers.
•
Fitness-related Information
for employment such as drug testing or other
assessment for defined physical or fitness requirements (including, without
limitation, fitness assessment testing information, occupational health
information, and vision testing information).
•
Background Check Information
, such as criminal background information or
the results of drug tests.
•
Inferences
drawn from any of the information collected to create a profile
reflecting characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior,
attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
•
Security Camera Information
if you are present at a Chevron site where
security cameras are used - your location and activities may be viewed or
recorded. These sites display signage indicating that cameras are present and/or
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recordings may be made. Generally, these recordings are accessed and viewed
only in the event of a security or safety incident or testing.
•
Other Personal Information
, such as information regarding use of our websites,
or other information that an employment agency, website, or similar entity or you
may provide to us (whether in your resume, application, or otherwise) or that we
may collect as required or permitted by applicable law to evaluate your
application or otherwise manage the applicant relationship.
We do not knowingly collect personal information, including sensitive personal
information, of individuals who are 16 or younger.
Sources of Personal Information That We Collect
We collect your personal information, including sensitive personal information, directly
from you, for example, as part of your work for us, from devices and other personal
property, real property, or systems or applications monitoring mechanisms (as
described above, in employment policies, or separately disclosed to you), from our
service providers, your references, previous employers and schools, employment
agencies, websites, or similar entities, public records, and other third-party sources. For
example: we use service providers and other third parties to help us with our HR and
employment processes, including, without limitation to consider your application or
onboard you as an employee, investigatory, legal, and related processes.
These service providers and third parties may be identified to you prior to collection and
may deliver their own privacy notices to or obtain consents from you. Service providers
are obligated by contract to process your personal information as our service providers
for the purposes of helping us process your job application and conduct the pre-hiring
process. Third parties with whom you have a direct relationship or that otherwise
provide you with their own privacy policy may use your personal information for their
own stated purposes. Both our service providers and other third parties may send us
the categories of personal information described above, including summary reports or
analyses.
Business Purposes for Which We Collect, Use, and Disclose Your Personal
Information
Chevron collects and uses personal information, including sensitive personal
information, about you for business purposes and human resources management,
including recruitment and job applications, administration or planning of compensation
and benefit programs, meeting legal requirements, facilitating business transactions,
identifying potential efficiency issues or improving business processes, and protecting
Chevron, its employees, contractors, suppliers, third parties, or the public against injury,
theft, legal liability, fraud, abuse or other misconduct, such as through risk management
efforts or investigations.
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Chevron uses third-party partially automated decision-making tools to assist Chevron in
assessing performance, including to support employment decisions.
Business Purposes for Disclosure of Your Personal Information and Categories
of Recipients
Chevron may disclose personal information it has collected about you in the following
circumstances:
•
Service Providers and Contractors
: Chevron may disclose your personal
information to service providers and contractors (such as payroll companies,
insurance companies, information technology consultants, and others) that
provide services to Chevron, as necessary or appropriate.
•
Business Transfers
: Chevron may disclose personal information with its
subsidiaries and affiliates for internal business purposes (for example, to facilitate
payroll or performance management or training or for cybersecurity purposes).
We may also disclose and your personal information externally in connection with
a corporate merger, consolidation, restructuring, the sale of substantially all or
any Chevron affiliate’s stock and/or assets or other corporate change, including,
without limitation, during the course of any due diligence process.
•
Business Partners
: Chevron may disclose your personal information to various
business partners in connection with the operations of Chevron’s businesses or
business transactions. These entities may include, for example, joint-venture
partners, transaction counterparties, companies with whom we partner to provide
you with co-branded services, franchisees, service stations and facility operators,
benefit providers, industry and trade groups, and related entities providing
services to, or on behalf of, these business partners. Some of these disclosures
may result in opportunities to receive offers or information directly from third
parties. Please be advised that the third party’s own privacy policy may apply to
its use of your personal information. If you decide that you no longer want to
receive communications from a third party, you agree to contact that third party
directly.
•
Legal and Security Purposes
: Chevron may transfer and disclose your
information, including personal information, to third parties such as to respond to
law enforcement or other third parties in connection with legal requests or
regulatory supervision, or as otherwise necessary or appropriate to protect the
personal safety, rights, property or security of any individual or business entity
(including Chevron). This may include disclosing your information, including
personal information, to parties adverse to Chevron for the purpose of defending
against or prosecuting one or more legal claims.
•
Professional Financial and Legal Advisors
: Chevron may need to disclose
personal information with its professional advisors, which includes lawyers,
auditors, bankers, or other professional consultants for business purposes (such
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as to conduct audits of Chevron or prepare financial statements or for purposes
of litigation or investigations).
Security of Personal Information
Chevron has a written information security program designed to protect your personal
information in accordance with applicable privacy laws and Chevron’s internal policies.
While no security measure can guarantee against compromise, Chevron uses a variety
of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from
unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
Retention of Personal Information
Chevron may retain your personal information, including sensitive personal information,
for as long as needed to carry out the purposes described herein or as otherwise
required or permitted by applicable law. After that timeframe, Chevron will delete your
personal information or keep it in a form that does not permit identifying you. When
determining the retention period, Chevron takes into account various criteria, such as
the nature and length of your job applicant relationship with us, the impact on our ability
to provide employment services if Chevron deletes some personal information from or
about you, mandatory retention periods provided by law and the statute of limitations,
and Chevron’s use of your personal information for aggregated market research. If we
hire you, your applicant personal information will become part of your employment
record, subject to our employee privacy notice.
Contact Chevron
For more information regarding Chevron’s privacy practices outside of the employment
context, please visit Chevron’s Privacy documents at
https://www.chevron.com/privacy
.
If you have any questions concerning this notice or Chevron’s handling of personal
information more generally, please contact Chevron by email or by mail at:
Chevron Corporation
Attn. Global Privacy Office
5001 Executive Parkway, Suite 200
San Ramon, CA 94583
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Appendix A
California Privacy Rights
Last Updated: June 18, 2024
This notice supplements and is part of our U.S. Employee Privacy Notice, which also
includes disclosures required by California law.
If you are a resident of California, subject to certain exceptions, you have the following
rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act:
•
Right to Know
: You have the right to request access to the personal information
that Chevron has collected about you. This includes the right to request
disclosure of the categories of personal information, the categories of sources
from which the personal information is collected, the business purpose for
collecting the personal information, and the specific pieces of personal
information that Chevron has collected about you. In response to requests for the
categories, we will provide the categories of personal information we collected,
the categories of sources from which we collected the personal information, our
business or commercial purpose for collecting, disclosing the personal
information, and the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed the
categories of personal information for a business purpose.
•
Right to Delete
: You have the right to request that Chevron delete any personal
information about you that Chevron has collected, subject to certain legal
exceptions.
•
Right to Correct
: You have a right to request a correction to inaccurate personal
information that Chevron maintains about you. Chevron will process this request,
taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes for
processing such information.
•
Right to Non-Discrimination
: Chevron will not discriminate or retaliate against
you for exercising any of your privacy rights.
To exercise the privacy rights described above, you may choose to manage your data
directly through the self-service features in Chevron’s HR platforms (such as through
Workday), or you may submit a request to exercise these rights:
•
through the webform available
here
; or
•
by calling Chevron’s toll-free number +1 844 338 3905.
Under the CCPA, you may exercise these rights yourself or designate an authorized
agent to make these requests on your behalf. Please note, we will request your
authorized agent to provide signed permission from you as proof that they are
authorized to submit the request on your behalf. Chevron may also request that you
verify your own identity with Chevron directly or confirm directly with Chevron that you
provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request.
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No Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
Chevron does not “sell” or “share” your personal information, as those terms are defined
by the CCPA.
Limited Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information
We use sensitive personal information, as defined in the CCPA and described above, in
the context of your employment for the business purposes described above. In each
instance, the use of sensitive personal information is reasonably necessary and
proportionate for the purpose outlined above. For categories of sensitive personal
information that we collect, we will only use or disclose it as described in this notice or
otherwise permitted by law, including the CCPA. We do not use or disclose sensitive
personal information for purposes other than those specified in the CCPA regulations,
section 7027, subsection (m).
Contact Us
For more information regarding our privacy practices outside of the employment
context, please visit our Privacy documentation at
https://www.chevron.com/privacy
.
If you have any questions concerning this notice or our handling of personal information
more generally, please contact us by email or by mail at:
Chevron Corporation
Attn. Global Privacy Office
5001 Executive Parkway, Suite 200
San Ramon, CA 94583
