Effective Date: 01/14/2026

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Welcome to Just As Planned.

This Policy describes how we process personal information about you. This Policy applies when you visit or use our website or other platforms, engage with us on social media, communicate with us via e-mail or phone, apply for employment with or are hired by us, or otherwise interact with us (collectively, the “Services”). It also applies anywhere it is linked.

 

This Policy does not apply to third-party websites, mobile applications, or services that may link to the Services or be linked to from the Services. Please review the privacy policies on those websites and applications directly to understand their privacy practices.

We may change this Policy from time to time. If we do, we will notify you by posting the updated version.

Information We Collect

We collect information from you directly, from the devices you use to interact with us, and from third parties. We may combine information that we collect through the Services with other information in our business records or that we collect automatically or receive from third parties. We may use and share information that we aggregate or de-identify at our discretion.

Information you give us

You may provide the following information to us directly:

• Registration and contact information, including name, email address, telephone number. We may also collect this information for your emergency contacts and references.

• Demographic information.

• Information you submit to inquire about or apply for a job with us, including content you include in your resume such as employment history, educational background, skills, and audiovisual information.

• Information required to be provided in connection with employment, such as your social security number, driver’s license or state identification card number, passport number, signature, I-9 documentation, and financial account and related transactional information for payroll.

• Medical information, to the extent permitted and required by applicable laws.

• Audiovisual information, such as audio, electronic, photographic, visual, or similar information, including videos, photographs, or audio recordings.

• Information contained in your communications to us.

• Information you make available to us via a social media platform.

• Any other information you submit to us.

• Inferences created from the types of personal information described in this Policy to create a profile about you that reflects your preferences, characteristics, behaviors, and attitudes.

Information we collect automatically

We and partners working on our behalf may use log files, cookies, or other digital tracking technologies to collect the following information from the device you use to interact with our Services.

• Device information, including IP address, device identifiers, and details about your web browser.

• Analytical information, including details about your interaction with our Services, website, app, and electronic newsletters.

• Diagnostic information, including web traffic logs.

• Advertising information, including special advertising and other unique identifiers that enable us or third parties working on our behalf to target advertisements to you. Please be aware that our advertising partners may collect information about you when you visit third-party websites or use third-party apps.

• They may use that information to better target advertisements to you on our behalf.

Cookies are typically assigned to one of the following categories, depending on their function and intended
purpose:

• Essential cookies: These cookies are used for the operation of our website and Services, authentication of visitors, and to help remember your preferences. These cookies may not be disabled and are required for operational purposes.

• Functional cookies: These cookies enable our website and Services to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers. If you do not allow these cookies, some services may not function properly.

• Analytics cookies: We use third-party cookies such as Google Analytics to gather information about website user activities. These analytics cookies help us analyze and improve the performance of our site.

• They also help us understand how you use our Services, and which types of devices you use to access them. Third-party analytics cookies may use IP addresses but are generally not tied to other personal information.

• Advertising cookies: We use third-party cookies from companies like Facebook, Google, and others in order to send you personalized promotions and advertisements through these platforms. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising from us.

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Information We Collect From Other Sources

We may collect the following information about you from third-party sources.

• Information that you authorize us to collect via third parties, including former employers or references.

• Information about you, including your interests, activities, and employment history, from social networks and other places where you choose to share information publicly.

• Information about your interaction with ads that we place on third party websites, from online advertising companies.

• Professional or employment information and inferences from our clients regarding your performance and conduct on a Just As Planned engagement.

• Contact information, financial information, personal characteristics or traits, audiovisual information, inferences, professional and employment information, education history, health insurance information, and inferences from other third parties including recruiters, LinkedIn, vendors, service providers, and your references.

• If you decide to invite others to the Services, we will collect your and the other person’s names, email addresses, and/or phone numbers to send an email or text message and follow up with the other person.

• You agree that you will obtain the other person’s consent before giving us his or her contact information.

• You also agree that you will not send us the contact information of a minor. We will inform any other person you invite that you gave us his or her information in the invitation email.

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How We Use Your Information

We may use any of the information we collect for the following purposes.

• Recruiting and hiring: To make informed decisions on recruitment and hiring, assess your suitability for the role, communicate with you about your application, respond to your inquiries and schedule interviews, and to reimburse for expenses incurred in the application process.

• Background checks: Where permitted by law and where we obtain your consent, to complete a background for applicants and employees to verify your identity, check your credit history, check for criminal history, and confirm the validity of your application.

• Manage your employment: To complete our contract with you, communicate with you about your employment, administer your engagement and personnel records, provide and administer benefits, track your time and attendance and absences, pay you and reimburse you for your eligible expenses, administer leave and accommodation requests.

• Service functionality: To provide our products and services to clients, including to take steps to enter a contract for sale or for services, bill or invoice for services, process payments, fulfill contracts, and conduct general business operations, such as accounting, recordkeeping, and audits.

• Service improvement: To improve and grow our Services, including to develop new products and services and understand how our Services are being used, our customer base and purchasing trends, and the effectiveness of our marketing.

• Security and fraud prevention: To protect and secure our Services, assets, network, and business operations, and to detect, investigate, and prevent theft, unauthorized use, or abuse of the Services and other activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal.

• Legal compliance: To comply with legal process, such as warrants, subpoenas, court orders, and lawful regulatory or law enforcement requests and to comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

• Other purposes: We may use information for other reasons we may describe to you.

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How We Share Your Information

We may share any of the information we collect with the following recipients.

• Affiliates: We may share information with and among our parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates, or their successor or assigns.

• Clients/companies who contract our services: We may share information about our applicants and employees with our clients and companies who contract our services.

• Service providers: We may share information with vendors who support the operation of our Services and our business and who need access to such information to carry out their work for us (including, for example, support service functionality, marketing, auditing and accounting firms, professional services consultants, analytics and marketing services, security, and IT). In some cases, such as payment processors, the vendor may directly collect information from you on our behalf. These vendors are obligated by contract to use information that they process for us only for the purpose of providing the contracted services.

• Business partners: We may share your contact information with other organizations that we partner with for business or commercial purposes.

• Online advertising partners: We partner with companies that assist us in advertising our Services, including partners that use cookies and online tracking technologies to collect information to personalize, retarget, and measure the effectiveness of advertising.

• Social media platforms: If you interact with us on social media platforms, the platform may be able to collect information about you and your interaction with us. If you interact with social media objects on our Services (for example, by clicking on a Facebook “like” button), both the platform and your connections on the platform may be able to view that activity. To control this sharing of information, please review the privacy policy of the relevant social media platform.

• Government entities/Law enforcement: We may share information when we believe in good faith that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so to respond to lawful subpoenas, warrants, court orders, or other regulatory or law enforcement requests, or where necessary to protect our property or rights or the health and safety of our employees, contractors, customers, or other individuals.

• Other businesses in the context of a commercial transaction: We may change our ownership or corporate organization while providing the Services. We may transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. We cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information as described in this policy.

• With your consent or at your direction: We may share information with third parties whenever you consent or direct such sharing.

• Other reasons: We may share information for other reasons we may describe to you.

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Security

We use a combination of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect the information we collect through the Services. While we use these precautions to safeguard your information, we cannot guarantee the security of the networks, systems, servers, devices, and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf.

Your Options Regarding Your Information

Your Account: Please contact info@just-as-planned.com to update your account information.
Email Unsubscribe: If you do not wish to receive marketing information from us or wish to opt out of future email promotions from us, please contact us. Please note that all promotional email messages you receive from us will include an option to opt out of future email communications.
Ad Choices: You have options to limit the information that we and our partners collect for online advertising purposes.

• You may disable cookies in your browser or mobile device using their settings menus. Your mobile device may give you the option to disable advertising functionality. Because we use cookies to support Service functionality, disabling cookies may also disable some elements of our online properties.

• The following industry organizations offer opt-out choices for companies that participate in them: the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Initiative.

• You may use our cookie settings menu.

 

If you exercise these options, please be aware that you may still see advertising, but it will not be personalized. Nor will exercising these options prevent other companies from displaying personalized ads to you.
If you delete your cookies, you may also delete your opt-out preferences.

Do Not Track: Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. Our information collection and disclosure practices and the choices that we provide to you will continue to operate as described in this Policy regardless of whether a Do Not Track signal is received.

Other Important Information

Data retention
We may store information about you for as long as we have a legitimate business need for it.

Cross-border data transfer
We may collect, process, and store your information in the United States and other countries. The laws in the United States regarding information may be different from the laws of your country. Any such transfers will comply with safeguards as required by relevant law.

Information about children
The Services are intended for users who are eighteen years old and older. We do not knowingly collect
information from children. If we discover that we have inadvertently collected information from anyone younger than the age of 18, we will delete that information. Please contact us with any concerns.

Sharing of Medical or Health Information
If we receive protected health information about you, that information is subject to electronic disclosure as
permitted by applicable law.

California “Shine the Light” Law
We will give you the opportunity to decide whether you allow us to share your personal information with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes before we collect your personal information.

Contact information

Contact
Please contact us if you have questions or wish to take any action with respect to information to which this Policy applies.
Email: privacy@just-as-planned.com