1. Personal Information We Collect

“Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked to an individual or household.

The Personal Information we collect depends on how you interact with us.

A. Identification and Contact Information

• Name;
• Email address;
• Telephone number;
• Mailing address;
• City, state, country, and ZIP code;
• Job title;
• Employer or company name;
• Online profile identifiers; and
• Preferred method of communication.

B. Candidate, Employment, and Professional Information

For candidates, applicants, contractors, consultants, referrals, and members of our talent network, we may collect:

• Résumé or curriculum vitae;
• Employment history;
• Job titles and responsibilities;
• Professional skills and experience;
• Education and training history;
• Certifications, licenses, and credentials;
• Portfolio, professional profile, or work samples;
• References and reference information;
• Job interests and career preferences;
• Preferred work location and remote-work preferences;
• Availability and anticipated start date;
• Compensation or rate expectations;
• Interview notes and recruiter assessments;
• Candidate-submission and placement history;
• Information concerning eligibility or authorization to work;
• Information concerning sponsorship requirements;
• Professional memberships;
• Languages;
• Publicly available professional information;
• Communications with AGA TECH;
• Client or interviewer feedback; and
• Other information voluntarily provided during the recruiting or staffing process.

C. Client and Business-Contact Information

For clients, prospective clients, vendors, partners, and business representatives, we may collect:

• Business contact details;
• Employer and job title;
• Hiring and staffing requirements;
• Job descriptions;
• Project and workforce needs;
• Contract, proposal, and statement-of-work information;
• Vendor-onboarding and procurement information;
• Communications, meeting notes, and relationship history;
• Billing and transaction information; and
• Information necessary to manage our business relationship.

D. Internet, Device, and Website Information

When you use our website, we or our service providers may automatically collect:

• Internet Protocol address;
• Browser type and version;
• Device type;
• Operating system;
• Device identifiers;
• Approximate location derived from IP address;
• Referring website;
• Pages viewed;
• Links selected;
• Date and time of visits;
• Time spent on pages;
• Website navigation and interaction data;
• Cookie and similar technology identifiers;
• Log and diagnostic information; and
• Information concerning website errors, security events, and performance.

E. Communications and Marketing Information

• Email and message content;
• Contact-form submissions;
• Communication preferences;
• Job-alert preferences;
• Newsletter subscriptions;
• Records of consent;
• Marketing interactions; and
• Records of requests to unsubscribe or opt out.

F. Audio, Visual, and Similar Information

When appropriate and with any notice or consent required by law, we may collect:

• Profile photographs;
• Video-interview content;
• Recorded meeting or interview information;
• Voicemail messages; and
• Security or event images.

AGA TECH does not record calls, meetings, or interviews without providing notice or obtaining consent where required by applicable law.

G. Sensitive Personal Information

During later stages of employment, onboarding, payroll, contractor engagement, compliance, accommodation, or background-screening processes, we may collect limited categories of sensitive information, such as:

• Social Security number or other government identification number;
• Driver’s-license, passport, or identity-document information;
• Work-authorization and immigration documentation;
• Financial-account information needed for payment or payroll;
• Tax information;
• Background-check or screening information;
• Drug-testing information where lawful and applicable;
• Information concerning disability or workplace accommodation;
• Medical or health information necessary for a requested accommodation, leave, benefit, or legal obligation;
• Race, ethnicity, sex, veteran status, disability status, or other demographic information provided for legally authorized equal-employment reporting; and
• Precise location information if required for a particular assignment or service.

We generally do not request this information through ordinary website contact forms. Please do not send highly sensitive information unless AGA TECH has requested it through an appropriate process.

We use sensitive information only for purposes reasonably necessary to provide requested services, administer employment or contractor relationships, comply with legal obligations, protect individuals and systems, or perform other purposes permitted by law.

2. Sources of Personal Information

We may collect Personal Information from:

• You directly;
• Forms, applications, résumés, emails, telephone calls, interviews, meetings, and other communications;
• Referring individuals;
• Current or former employers;
• Professional references;
• Clients and prospective clients;
• Public professional profiles and professional-networking websites;
• Job boards and résumé databases;
• Recruiting, staffing, and talent-sourcing platforms;
• Background-screening and credential-verification providers;
• Payroll, benefits, onboarding, or human-resources providers;
• Vendors and service providers;
• Publicly available sources;
• Government agencies or licensing organizations;
• Our website, cookies, analytics tools, and similar technologies; and
• Business partners where permitted by law.

When another person provides your information to us, we may contact you to confirm your interest and provide information about our privacy practices.

3. How We Use Personal Information

We may use Personal Information to:

Recruiting, Staffing, and Employment Purposes

• Identify and contact potential candidates;
• Evaluate qualifications, experience, availability, and suitability;
• Match candidates with job opportunities, projects, or assignments;
• Communicate about opportunities;
• Present candidates to clients or prospective employers;
• Schedule and conduct interviews;
• Verify professional information, references, credentials, and work eligibility;
• Conduct background screening when authorized and permitted by law;
• Manage offers, hiring, onboarding, assignments, payroll, benefits, and offboarding;
• Maintain candidate and talent-network records;
• Support workforce planning;
• Administer contractor and consultant relationships; and
• Comply with employment, labor, immigration, tax, payroll, and equal-opportunity obligations.

Client and Consulting Purposes

• Respond to client and prospective-client requests;
• Understand staffing, recruiting, workforce, technology, and consulting requirements;
• Prepare proposals and service recommendations;
• Provide recruiting, staffing, technology, artificial-intelligence, automation, telecommunications, and consulting services;
• Manage contracts, projects, assignments, invoices, and business relationships;
• Communicate about services and opportunities; and
• Improve our service delivery.

Website and Operational Purposes

• Operate, maintain, and improve the website;
• Respond to inquiries and requests;
• Provide requested information;
• Personalize website experiences;
• Analyze website traffic and performance;
• Diagnose technical issues;
• Maintain system and website security;
• Prevent fraud, misuse, and unauthorized access;
• Maintain internal records;
• Enforce contracts and website terms; and
• Protect AGA TECH, its candidates, employees, contractors, clients, and others.

Communications and Marketing Purposes

• Send job alerts and opportunity-related communications;
• Send newsletters, industry information, company updates, or event invitations;
• Manage communication preferences;
• Conduct surveys;
• Evaluate marketing effectiveness; and
• Develop business relationships.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time. Unsubscribing from marketing will not stop application-related, staffing-related, contractual, security, legal, or service communications.

Legal and Corporate Purposes

• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, subpoenas, court orders, and government requests;
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims;
• Investigate suspected fraud or misconduct;
• Conduct audits and compliance reviews;
• Respond to privacy or legal requests;
• Support a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar corporate transaction; and
• Protect the rights, safety, and property of AGA TECH and others.

4. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Tools

AGA TECH may use artificial-intelligence-assisted, machine-learning, analytics, matching, automation, or similar technologies to support activities such as:

• Candidate sourcing and search;
• Identification of potentially relevant skills and experience;
• Candidate-to-opportunity matching;
• Résumé organization or summarization;
• Drafting communications;
• Administrative workflows;
• Research and data organization;
• Fraud, security, or duplicate-record detection;
• Website analytics; and
• Development or delivery of consulting services.

These tools may process professional, candidate, business-contact, website, and communication information.

AGA TECH does not intentionally use artificial-intelligence tools to make final employment or placement decisions without appropriate human involvement. Recruiters, clients, hiring managers, or other authorized professionals review relevant information and remain responsible for employment and engagement decisions.

We do not intentionally input Social Security numbers, financial-account credentials, medical records, or similarly sensitive information into general-purpose public artificial-intelligence systems.

As California and other states adopt specific rules governing automated decision-making technology used in employment contexts, AGA TECH will update this section and provide any additional notices, opt-out options, or appeal rights required by applicable law before such rules take effect.

5. How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose Personal Information to the following categories of recipients for the purposes described in this Policy.

A. Clients and Prospective Employers

We may disclose candidate information to clients, prospective employers, hiring managers, interviewers, and authorized representatives to evaluate a candidate for an opportunity.

Information disclosed may include a résumé, professional history, skills, education, credentials, availability, compensation expectations, work-location preferences, work-authorization status, recruiter notes, and other relevant information.

We seek to present candidates in a manner consistent with the candidate’s interests, instructions, or reasonable expectations within the recruiting relationship.

B. Service Providers and Contractors

We may disclose information to providers that support:

• Website hosting and maintenance;
• Email and business communications;
• Cloud storage;
• Applicant tracking and customer relationship management;
• Recruiting and talent sourcing;
• Scheduling and video conferencing;
• Analytics;
• Marketing;
• Background screening;
• Credential and reference verification;
• Payroll, benefits, accounting, and tax administration;
• Electronic signatures;
• Cybersecurity;
• Legal, compliance, and professional services; and
• Other business operations.

These providers are permitted to process information only for authorized purposes and subject to applicable contractual or legal requirements.

C. Business Partners

We may disclose appropriate information to authorized recruiting partners, subcontractors, consultants, technology partners, or staffing partners when necessary to provide services, identify opportunities, or support a client engagement.

D. Government, Regulatory, and Legal Recipients

We may disclose information:

• When required by law, regulation, subpoena, warrant, court order, or legal process;
• To respond to a lawful government request;
• To comply with employment, labor, tax, immigration, payroll, or regulatory obligations;
• To protect rights, property, security, or safety;
• To investigate fraud, misuse, discrimination, harassment, or other misconduct; or
• To establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

E. Corporate-Transaction Recipients

Personal Information may be disclosed in connection with a proposed or completed merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or similar business transaction, subject to appropriate confidentiality protections.

F. At Your Direction or With Your Consent

We may disclose information when you ask us to do so or provide consent.

6. Sale and Sharing of Personal Information

AGA TECH does not sell Personal Information for monetary payment.

AGA TECH may use analytics, advertising, social-media, or similar digital technologies. Under certain state privacy laws, disclosure of online identifiers and browsing activity to advertising or analytics partners may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or use for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising, even when no money is exchanged.

Where required by applicable law, you may opt out through:

• The Cookie Settings tool available on our website;
• A Your Privacy Choices or Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information link, if displayed;
• An enabled, legally recognized browser opt-out preference signal such as Global Privacy Control; or
• A request sent to privacy@aga-tech.com.

AGA TECH does not knowingly sell or share the Personal Information of individuals under 16 years of age.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We and our service providers may use:

• Cookies;
• Pixels;
• Tags;
• Web beacons;
• Local-storage technologies;
• Analytics tools; and
• Similar technologies.

These technologies may be used to:

• Enable essential website functionality;
• Remember user preferences;
• Protect website security;
• Measure website traffic;
• Understand how visitors use the website;
• Diagnose performance issues;
• Improve website content and navigation; and
• Evaluate marketing activities.

Cookies may be classified as:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: Required for the website to operate or remain secure.
• Analytics Cookies: Used to understand website traffic and performance.
• Functional Cookies: Used to remember choices and provide enhanced features.
• Advertising or Targeting Cookies: Used to measure or personalize marketing where applicable.

You may manage nonessential cookies through our Cookie Settings tool or your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect website functionality.

Browser “Do Not Track” settings are not standardized. Where legally required, we recognize qualifying opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, as requests to opt out of covered sale or sharing activity.

8. Legal Bases for Processing in the EEA and United Kingdom

Where European Economic Area or United Kingdom data-protection law applies, we may process Personal Information based on:

• Your consent;
• Steps taken at your request before entering a contract;
• Performance of a contract;
• Compliance with a legal obligation;
• Protection of vital interests;
• Our legitimate interests or those of a third party, where those interests are not overridden by your rights; or
• Establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

Legitimate interests may include recruiting and matching candidates, responding to inquiries, operating and securing our business, maintaining business relationships, improving our services, preventing fraud, and conducting appropriate business marketing.

You may withdraw consent where processing is based on consent. Withdrawal does not affect processing lawfully conducted before withdrawal.

9. International Data Transfers

AGA TECH is based in the United States. We may also work with clients, candidates, partners, and service providers in other countries.

Personal Information may be processed in the United States and other jurisdictions whose privacy laws may differ from those in your location.

Where required, we use legally recognized safeguards for international transfers, which may include contractual protections, data-processing agreements, Standard Contractual Clauses, or other authorized mechanisms.

10. Data Retention

AGA TECH retains Personal Information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including recruiting, staffing, employment, contractor management, client service, compliance, dispute resolution, security, and legal purposes.

Retention is determined based on:

• The nature and sensitivity of the information;
• The duration of the candidate, employment, contractor, client, or business relationship;
• Whether a candidate remains interested in future opportunities;
• Applicable statutes of limitation;
• Employment, tax, payroll, accounting, immigration, and recordkeeping requirements;
• Client or contractual requirements;
• The need to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims;
• Security and fraud-prevention needs; and
• Whether deletion has been requested and an exception applies.

Candidate and recruiting information may be retained after a particular opportunity closes so that we can consider the individual for future opportunities, maintain records of submissions and communications, comply with legal obligations, and resolve potential disputes.

We may retain a minimal record of an opt-out, deletion request, suppression request, or other privacy choice to ensure that the choice continues to be honored.

When information is no longer reasonably necessary, we take steps to delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it, subject to applicable legal and operational limitations.

11. Data Security

AGA TECH uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect Personal Information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

These measures may include:

• Access controls;
• Password and authentication requirements;
• Secure business systems;
• Encryption where appropriate;
• Vendor review;
• Employee and contractor confidentiality requirements;
• Security monitoring;
• Data-minimization practices;
• Backup and recovery measures; and
• Incident-response procedures.

No website, email system, storage platform, or transmission method is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

You are responsible for using appropriate caution when sending information electronically and for protecting your devices, passwords, and accounts.

12. Background Checks and Consumer Reports

When applicable to a position or assignment, AGA TECH or a client may request a background check, employment verification, credential verification, or other screening through an authorized consumer reporting agency or investigative consumer reporting agency.

Such screening is subject to the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) and, where applicable, the California Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act (“ICRAA”), the California Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act (“CCRAA”), and other applicable state law, including state laws governing the use of criminal history in employment decisions.

Before a consumer report or investigative consumer report is obtained, you will be provided with a clear and conspicuous disclosure in a document consisting solely of that disclosure, and your written authorization will be obtained. This disclosure and authorization is separate from this Privacy Policy and from any employment application, onboarding paperwork, or other document.

13. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Request access to Personal Information held about you;
• Request information concerning how we collect, use, or disclose Personal Information;
• Request correction of inaccurate Personal Information;
• Request deletion of Personal Information;
• Request a portable copy of certain Personal Information;
• Object to or restrict certain processing;
• Withdraw consent;
• Opt out of marketing communications;
• Opt out of sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or profiling where applicable;
• Limit certain uses of sensitive Personal Information where applicable;
• Appeal a decision concerning a privacy request where applicable; and
• Not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising a legally protected privacy right.

These rights are not absolute. We may deny or limit a request where permitted by law, including when information is needed to complete a transaction, provide requested services, comply with law, protect security, maintain privileged information, establish or defend legal claims, or exercise another lawful exception.

14. Other U.S. State Privacy Rights

Residents of certain other U.S. states may have rights under their state’s consumer privacy law. Many of these laws ; including Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act, Colorado’s Privacy Act, and comparable statutes in a number of other states ; generally exclude personal information collected about an individual acting in a commercial or employment context, including as a job applicant, employee, or independent contractor performing services in that capacity. As a result, most of the candidate, employment, and business-contact information AGA TECH processes falls outside the scope of these laws in the majority of states.

Where a state’s law does apply to our processing of your Personal Information ; for example, if your state’s law does not include an employment-context exclusion, or if you interact with us other than as a job applicant, employee, contractor, or business contact ; you may have rights similar to those described in this Policy. Depending on the applicable law, these rights may include the right to access, correct, delete, or obtain a portable copy of your Personal Information, and the right to opt out of certain processing, including targeted advertising or the sale or sharing of Personal Information.

Where required by applicable law, AGA TECH will honor a recognized universal opt-out preference signal, such as Global Privacy Control, as a valid request to opt out of covered sale, sharing, or targeted-advertising activity for the browser or device transmitting the signal.

To submit a request under an applicable state law, use the contact methods described in Section 15 (How to Submit a Privacy Request) below. We will evaluate and respond to requests in accordance with the law that applies to you.

State privacy laws are changing rapidly, and new states continue to enact or amend comprehensive privacy statutes. AGA TECH reviews this section periodically and will update it as applicable law or our processing activities change.

15. How to Submit a Privacy Request

You may submit a privacy request by:

Email: privacy@aga-tech.com

Website: Through any privacy-request form or privacy link made available on www.aga-tech.com

Please describe your request clearly and provide enough information for us to locate relevant records.

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Verification may require matching information you provide with information already maintained by AGA TECH. We will not request more information than reasonably necessary for verification.

Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by law. We may require proof of the agent’s authority and may ask the individual to verify their identity directly.

We will respond within the time required by applicable law.

16. Third-Party Websites and Platforms

Our website may link to client websites, job boards, professional networks, social-media platforms, scheduling tools, application platforms, or other third-party services.

AGA TECH does not control the privacy, security, or data practices of third parties. This Policy does not apply to information collected independently by those parties.

You should review the privacy policy of each third-party website or service before providing Personal Information.

17. Children’s Privacy

AGA TECH’s website and Services are intended for business professionals, clients, candidates, and adults seeking employment or business services.

Our Services are not directed to children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 16 through the website.

Certain legitimate employment, internship, apprenticeship, work-permit, or similar programs may involve individuals under 18. In those circumstances, AGA TECH will handle information in accordance with applicable employment, consent, and privacy requirements.

If you believe a child has submitted Personal Information to us improperly, contact privacy@aga-tech.com.

18. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our Services, technology, business practices, or legal obligations.

When we update the Policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of the page. We may provide additional notice when required by law or when changes are material.

We encourage you to review this Policy periodically.